Linux Command Line Jobs in the UK excluding London

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 654 575 472
Rank change year-on-year -79 -103 -83
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 102 183 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.31% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 0.76% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 80 116 159
10th Percentile £34,500 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,188 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £56,250 £75,000 £63,375
90th Percentile £72,500 £107,282 £67,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Linux Command Line is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,071 24,193 31,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.60% 40.89% 43.82%
Number of salaries quoted 15,209 11,146 15,793
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in the UK excluding London

Linux Command Line
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Command Line within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +4 39 £42,500 - 18
South West -2 28 £52,500 +40.00% 9
North of England -12 14 £50,000 -11.11% 6
Midlands -13 12 £50,000 -6.98% 6
West Midlands +10 10 £50,000 +17.65% 4
East of England -2 9 £43,500 -39.58% 3
Yorkshire +45 8 £61,250 -12.50% 3
North West -13 5 £50,000 -9.09% 3
East Midlands -17 2 £40,000 -23.81% 2
Wales +3 1 £50,000 +11.11% 2
North East -7 1 - -
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (9.80%) nginx
2 7 (6.86%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.90%) WordPress
4 4 (3.92%) IIS
4 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 37 (36.27%) AWS
2 26 (25.49%) OpenShift
3 14 (13.73%) Azure
3 14 (13.73%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (8.82%) Amazon S3
4 9 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (8.82%) Serverless
5 7 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 6 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (5.88%) Datadog
6 6 (5.88%) Pulumi
7 4 (3.92%) CloudFront
7 4 (3.92%) DigitalOcean
7 4 (3.92%) OneDrive
7 4 (3.92%) Route 53
7 4 (3.92%) SaaS
7 4 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (35.29%) Firewall
2 9 (8.82%) Network Security
3 8 (7.84%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.88%) DNS
5 5 (4.90%) AMQP
5 5 (4.90%) LAN
5 5 (4.90%) VPN
5 5 (4.90%) WAN
6 4 (3.92%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (3.92%) iSCSI
6 4 (3.92%) Multicast
6 4 (3.92%) NAS
6 4 (3.92%) OSPF
6 4 (3.92%) SAN
6 4 (3.92%) Wireless
7 3 (2.94%) HTTP
7 3 (2.94%) Internet
7 3 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.96%) VLAN
8 2 (1.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (30.39%) MySQL
2 19 (18.63%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (6.86%) MariaDB
4 7 (6.86%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (5.88%) Redis
6 5 (4.90%) InfluxDB
6 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.94%) Power BI
9 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.98%) ArangoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (41.18%) Git
2 25 (24.51%) Jenkins
3 17 (16.67%) JIRA
4 13 (12.75%) Robot Framework
5 10 (9.80%) GNU Toolchain
5 10 (9.80%) Subversion
6 6 (5.88%) GitLab
6 6 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (3.92%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (1.96%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.96%) Gradle
9 1 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.98%) CMake
9 1 (0.98%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.98%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.98%) TestDirector
General
1 14 (13.73%) Aerospace
2 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (6.86%) Retail
3 6 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 2 (1.96%) Finance
4 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.98%) Aviation
5 1 (0.98%) Electronics
5 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.98%) Music Industry
5 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (25.49%) Developer
2 13 (12.75%) Administrator
2 13 (12.75%) Consultant
2 13 (12.75%) Linux Administrator
2 13 (12.75%) Software Consultant
3 11 (10.78%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (10.78%) Linux Engineer
3 11 (10.78%) Support Engineer
4 10 (9.80%) Linux Developer
4 10 (9.80%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 9 (8.82%) Unix Administrator
5 9 (8.82%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
5 9 (8.82%) Unix Systems Administrator
6 8 (7.84%) Applications Support
6 8 (7.84%) Applications Support Engineer
6 8 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.84%) Network Engineer
6 8 (7.84%) Technical Engineer
6 8 (7.84%) Technical Support
6 8 (7.84%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.57%) HTML
2 16 (15.69%) Node.js
3 14 (13.73%) XML
4 10 (9.80%) POSIX
4 10 (9.80%) React
5 9 (8.82%) CSS
6 8 (7.84%) Laravel
7 6 (5.88%) ARM Templates
8 5 (4.90%) LAMP
8 5 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (4.90%) Vue
9 4 (3.92%) Akka
9 4 (3.92%) REST
9 4 (3.92%) RESTful
10 3 (2.94%) .NET
10 3 (2.94%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.96%) CodeIgniter
11 2 (1.96%) Spring
11 2 (1.96%) Spring Boot
11 2 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.78%) Embedded Systems
2 6 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.92%) Replication
4 3 (2.94%) Clustering
5 1 (0.98%) FPGA
5 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 91 (89.22%) Linux
2 26 (25.49%) Unix
3 21 (20.59%) CentOS
4 19 (18.63%) CoreOS
4 19 (18.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (14.71%) Windows
6 10 (9.80%) Windows Server
7 7 (6.86%) Ubuntu
8 5 (4.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (3.92%) VMS
9 4 (3.92%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.96%) Debian
11 1 (0.98%) Android
11 1 (0.98%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.98%) Fedora
11 1 (0.98%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.98%) openSUSE
11 1 (0.98%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (40.20%) DevOps
2 32 (31.37%) Time Management
3 28 (27.45%) Configuration Management
4 24 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (22.55%) Agile
5 23 (22.55%) CI/CD
6 20 (19.61%) Containerisation
7 19 (18.63%) ITIL
8 17 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
9 15 (14.71%) Software Testing
10 14 (13.73%) Open Source
11 13 (12.75%) Change Management
11 13 (12.75%) Customer Service
11 13 (12.75%) Requirements Analysis
11 13 (12.75%) Service Delivery
11 13 (12.75%) Systems Engineering
11 13 (12.75%) Technical Analysis
12 9 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (7.84%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 59 (57.84%) Bash
2 54 (52.94%) Python
3 28 (27.45%) SQL
4 18 (17.65%) PHP
5 16 (15.69%) Java
6 14 (13.73%) JavaScript
7 12 (11.76%) PowerShell
8 11 (10.78%) C
8 11 (10.78%) C++
8 11 (10.78%) Go
9 9 (8.82%) C#
9 9 (8.82%) TypeScript
10 8 (7.84%) PL/SQL
11 7 (6.86%) Ruby
11 7 (6.86%) Shell Script
12 6 (5.88%) Groovy
13 1 (0.98%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 17 (16.67%) Degree
2 16 (15.69%) Security Cleared
3 13 (12.75%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.86%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.92%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.92%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.92%) HNC
7 4 (3.92%) HND
8 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 23 (22.55%) Docker
2 6 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.92%) vSphere
4 3 (2.94%) VirtualBox
5 2 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.98%) Firmware
6 1 (0.98%) Samba
Systems Management
1 34 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 30 (29.41%) Ansible
3 29 (28.43%) Puppet
4 15 (14.71%) Terraform
5 14 (13.73%) Grafana
6 12 (11.76%) Prometheus
7 11 (10.78%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.90%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (3.92%) SCCM
10 2 (1.96%) Kibana
11 1 (0.98%) systemd
Vendors
1 21 (20.59%) Red Hat
2 13 (12.75%) ServiceNow
3 8 (7.84%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.88%) Cisco
4 6 (5.88%) New Relic
4 6 (5.88%) SaltStack
5 5 (4.90%) Synology
5 5 (4.90%) Veeam
6 4 (3.92%) Aruba
6 4 (3.92%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.92%) ProCurve
6 4 (3.92%) Thales
6 4 (3.92%) VMware
6 4 (3.92%) Zerto
7 2 (1.96%) Oracle
7 2 (1.96%) Progress
8 1 (0.98%) Acronis
8 1 (0.98%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.98%) WooCommerce