Linux Command Line Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 525 503
Rank change year-on-year +145 -22 +24
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 33 64 173
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.19% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.56% 0.53% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 23 53 79
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.07% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £71,875 £77,500 £97,328
90th Percentile £89,500 £87,500 £117,236
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +4.35%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Linux Command Line falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,850 12,021 16,469
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.09% 35.52% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,841 9,245 11,863
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Linux Command Line
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Command Line trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Linux Command Line.

Linux Command Line salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Linux Command Line salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.06%) Apache
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
1 2 (6.06%) WordPress
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Solr
2 1 (3.03%) CMS
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (6.06%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 2 (6.06%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Azure
2 11 (33.33%) AWS
3 9 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 6 (18.18%) GCP
5 5 (15.15%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (15.15%) SaaS
6 3 (9.09%) GitHub
6 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (6.06%) DigitalOcean
7 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (6.06%) OCI
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) HTTP
2 5 (15.15%) DNS
3 3 (9.09%) HTTPS
3 3 (9.09%) IPsec
3 3 (9.09%) VPN
4 2 (6.06%) FTP
4 2 (6.06%) Network Security
4 2 (6.06%) SSH
4 2 (6.06%) SSL
4 2 (6.06%) VSAN
5 1 (3.03%) Firewall
5 1 (3.03%) GSM
5 1 (3.03%) InfiniBand
5 1 (3.03%) LTE
5 1 (3.03%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (3.03%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.03%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) Power BI
2 7 (21.21%) Tableau
3 6 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 5 (15.15%) MySQL
5 2 (6.06%) Apache Hive
5 2 (6.06%) Big Data
5 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.03%) Couchbase
6 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) JIRA
3 2 (6.06%) Artifactory
3 2 (6.06%) git-flow
4 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 21 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Public Sector
3 7 (21.21%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.12%) Finance
5 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.03%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Data Scientist
1 7 (21.21%) Technical Support
2 6 (18.18%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Support Manager
3 5 (15.15%) Technical Manager
3 5 (15.15%) Technical Support Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) PHP Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Oracle Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) Pandas
2 5 (15.15%) Hugging Face
2 5 (15.15%) JSON
2 5 (15.15%) Puppeteer
2 5 (15.15%) Scrapy
3 2 (6.06%) .NET
3 2 (6.06%) Anaconda
3 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.06%) CSS
3 2 (6.06%) EDI
3 2 (6.06%) Flutter
3 2 (6.06%) LAMP
3 2 (6.06%) Laravel
3 2 (6.06%) Loki
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (6.06%) scikit-learn
3 2 (6.06%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (6.06%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (6.06%) Vue
3 2 (6.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.06%) Life Science
3 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.06%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (6.06%) Replication
4 1 (3.03%) FPGA
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Windows
3 4 (12.12%) Oracle Linux
3 4 (12.12%) Unix
4 2 (6.06%) AIX
4 2 (6.06%) CentOS
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.06%) VMS
4 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Analytics
1 9 (27.27%) Data Science
1 9 (27.27%) Machine Learning
1 9 (27.27%) Mentoring
1 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (24.24%) Computer Science
2 8 (24.24%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
3 7 (21.21%) Data Analytics
3 7 (21.21%) Data Mapping
3 7 (21.21%) DevOps
3 7 (21.21%) Migration
3 7 (21.21%) Natural Language Processing
4 6 (18.18%) ITIL
5 5 (15.15%) API Testing
5 5 (15.15%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (15.15%) Data Extraction
5 5 (15.15%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (15.15%) ETL
5 5 (15.15%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Python
2 18 (54.55%) SQL
3 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.15%) PHP
3 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.12%) Bash
4 4 (12.12%) Java
5 3 (9.09%) C
5 3 (9.09%) C++
6 2 (6.06%) AWK
6 2 (6.06%) C#
6 2 (6.06%) Korn
6 2 (6.06%) Perl
6 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.03%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) Degree
2 10 (30.30%) SC Cleared
2 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (15.15%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.06%) CCNA
5 2 (6.06%) CCNP
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.06%) MCP
5 2 (6.06%) MCSA
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (36.36%) Docker
2 6 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.12%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (6.06%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (6.06%) Firmware
4 2 (6.06%) KVM
4 2 (6.06%) Postfix
4 2 (6.06%) Sendmail
4 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.06%) VMware NSX
4 2 (6.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Terraform
2 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (6.06%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
3 2 (6.06%) Nagios
3 2 (6.06%) Nessus
3 2 (6.06%) Packer
3 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (6.06%) vCenter Server
3 2 (6.06%) vRealize
3 2 (6.06%) VxRail
3 2 (6.06%) WSUS
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
2 4 (12.12%) Red Hat
3 3 (9.09%) Dell
3 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.06%) EMC
4 2 (6.06%) F5
4 2 (6.06%) Hyperion
4 2 (6.06%) IBM
4 2 (6.06%) Isilon
4 2 (6.06%) JD Edwards
4 2 (6.06%) McAfee
4 2 (6.06%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (6.06%) SAP
4 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
4 2 (6.06%) Tenable
4 2 (6.06%) VMware