Linux Command Line Jobs with Work from Home 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 permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 516 531
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 -78
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 65 148 363
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.37% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 0.95% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 54 83 183
10th Percentile £37,375 £36,671 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -8.00% +35.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £97,328 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £117,236 £83,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,082 15,585 32,936
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.71% 38.53% 46.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9,267 11,385 16,924
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,294 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,556 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £108,080 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Linux Command Line
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Command Line trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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 1 (1.54%) Confluence
1 1 (1.54%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (7.69%) GNU Octave
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (44.62%) AWS
2 24 (36.92%) Azure
3 14 (21.54%) Azure Monitor
3 14 (21.54%) OpenShift
4 10 (15.38%) Serverless
5 9 (13.85%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (13.85%) Amazon S3
5 9 (13.85%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (12.31%) Azure AKS
6 8 (12.31%) Entra ID
6 8 (12.31%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (10.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (10.77%) Azure Storage
7 7 (10.77%) Datadog
7 7 (10.77%) Pulumi
8 5 (7.69%) GitHub
9 4 (6.15%) CloudFront
9 4 (6.15%) Route 53
9 4 (6.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.23%) Network Security
2 5 (7.69%) AMQP
3 3 (4.62%) DHCP
3 3 (4.62%) DNS
4 2 (3.08%) Firewall
4 2 (3.08%) SSH
5 1 (1.54%) Internet
5 1 (1.54%) LAN
5 1 (1.54%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.54%) SNMP
5 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.54%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.54%) Wireless
5 1 (1.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (12.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (10.77%) MariaDB
3 7 (10.77%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.77%) MySQL
3 7 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (10.77%) Redis
4 5 (7.69%) InfluxDB
4 5 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.62%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.08%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (3.08%) Power BI
6 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (26.15%) Git
2 12 (18.46%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.77%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (7.69%) DTrace
4 5 (7.69%) GDB
5 4 (6.15%) GitLab
6 3 (4.62%) JIRA
7 2 (3.08%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.08%) Gradle
8 1 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.85%) Law
4 7 (10.77%) Retail
5 5 (7.69%) Aerospace
5 5 (7.69%) Aviation
6 4 (6.15%) Finance
7 2 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.54%) Advertising
8 1 (1.54%) Back Office
8 1 (1.54%) Banking
8 1 (1.54%) Legal
8 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (33.85%) Azure Engineer
2 19 (29.23%) Platform Engineer
3 14 (21.54%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (21.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 14 (21.54%) Linux Engineer
4 11 (16.92%) Automation Engineer
4 11 (16.92%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (13.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (13.85%) Operations Engineer
6 8 (12.31%) Cloud Automation Engineer
7 7 (10.77%) Developer
8 6 (9.23%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 6 (9.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (7.69%) Python Developer
10 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (4.62%) Senior
11 3 (4.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (4.62%) Technologist
11 3 (4.62%) Unix Engineer
11 3 (4.62%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.31%) ARM Templates
2 5 (7.69%) NumPy
2 5 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.08%) CSS
3 2 (3.08%) HTML
3 2 (3.08%) Node.js
3 2 (3.08%) React
3 2 (3.08%) RESTful
3 2 (3.08%) Spring
3 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.08%) Vue
3 2 (3.08%) YAML
4 1 (1.54%) ADO
4 1 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.54%) JSON
4 1 (1.54%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (10.77%) Client/Server
2 7 (10.77%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.77%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.54%) Clustering
3 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.54%) PKI
3 1 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 50 (76.92%) Linux
2 15 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (21.54%) Windows
4 10 (15.38%) Unix
5 9 (13.85%) CentOS
6 7 (10.77%) CoreOS
7 2 (3.08%) Debian
7 2 (3.08%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.54%) Fedora
8 1 (1.54%) openSUSE
8 1 (1.54%) VMS
8 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
8 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (52.31%) DevOps
2 26 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 25 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (36.92%) CI/CD
5 21 (32.31%) Agile
6 20 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (21.54%) Analytics
7 14 (21.54%) Log Analytics
7 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (18.46%) Deployment Automation
9 11 (16.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (15.38%) Computer Science
10 10 (15.38%) ITIL
10 10 (15.38%) Software Testing
10 10 (15.38%) Test Automation
11 9 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (13.85%) ITSM
11 9 (13.85%) Service Management
12 8 (12.31%) Innovative Thinking
12 8 (12.31%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (66.15%) Python
2 28 (43.08%) Bash
3 22 (33.85%) Java
4 19 (29.23%) SQL
5 18 (27.69%) PowerShell
6 12 (18.46%) Go
6 12 (18.46%) Shell Script
7 9 (13.85%) JavaScript
7 9 (13.85%) PHP
7 9 (13.85%) TypeScript
8 8 (12.31%) Perl
8 8 (12.31%) Ruby
9 7 (10.77%) C#
9 7 (10.77%) Groovy
10 5 (7.69%) C
10 5 (7.69%) MATLAB
10 5 (7.69%) OCaml
10 5 (7.69%) SystemTap
Qualifications
1 18 (27.69%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.08%) Azure Certification
3 14 (21.54%) Degree
4 8 (12.31%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (1.54%) CCNA
9 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.54%) MCSA
9 1 (1.54%) MCSE
9 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Architect
9 1 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.54%) NIST
2 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (52.31%) Docker
2 9 (13.85%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.54%) Firmware
4 1 (1.54%) Samba
4 1 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (43.08%) Ansible
1 28 (43.08%) Kubernetes
2 25 (38.46%) Terraform
3 23 (35.38%) Puppet
4 20 (30.77%) Progress Chef
5 14 (21.54%) Grafana
6 12 (18.46%) Prometheus
7 8 (12.31%) Salt
8 5 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (4.62%) Kibana
10 1 (1.54%) logstash
10 1 (1.54%) Nmap
10 1 (1.54%) OpenNMS
10 1 (1.54%) SCOM
10 1 (1.54%) SCOrch
10 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
1 9 (13.85%) Red Hat
2 7 (10.77%) BMC
2 7 (10.77%) New Relic
2 7 (10.77%) Remedy
2 7 (10.77%) SaltStack
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.08%) Blue Prism
4 2 (3.08%) SAP
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco
5 1 (1.54%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.54%) Qualys
5 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.54%) VMware