Linux Command Line Jobs in England

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 670 664 481
Rank change year-on-year -6 -183 -21
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 159 266 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.30% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.53% 0.70% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 126 175 288
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,675
25th Percentile £40,250 £42,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -1.23% +10.45%
75th Percentile £72,313 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,328 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £58,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.64% +2.17% +4.55%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29,903 37,840 64,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.22% 43.20% 47.06%
Number of salaries quoted 20,873 20,765 30,398
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,749 £46,226
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
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 England

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in England.

Salary trend for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in England

Linux Command Line
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 23 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
London +65 57 £70,000 +7.69% 31
South East +20 38 £42,500 - 14
South West -9 28 £52,500 +16.67% 8
North of England -14 14 £50,000 -9.09% 9
Midlands -18 13 £50,000 -6.98% 4
West Midlands +7 11 £50,000 +17.65% 4
East of England +5 9 £43,500 -39.58% 3
Yorkshire +45 8 £61,250 -12.50% 4
North West -12 5 £50,000 -6.98% 4
East Midlands -10 2 £40,000 -23.81%
North East -10 1 - - 1
Linux Command Line
UK

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (7.55%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.92%) nginx
3 10 (6.29%) IIS
3 10 (6.29%) WordPress
4 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.89%) Confluence
6 2 (1.26%) Apache
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.63%) CMS
7 1 (0.63%) Drupal
7 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.14%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.63%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.63%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 56 (35.22%) AWS
2 43 (27.04%) Azure
3 26 (16.35%) OpenShift
4 18 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (9.43%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (9.43%) Cloud Computing
6 14 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (7.55%) Serverless
8 11 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (6.29%) Amazon S3
10 9 (5.66%) Entra ID
10 9 (5.66%) OneDrive
11 8 (5.03%) Azure AKS
12 7 (4.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (4.40%) Azure Storage
12 7 (4.40%) Datadog
12 7 (4.40%) Pulumi
13 6 (3.77%) SaaS
14 5 (3.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 47 (29.56%) Firewall
2 15 (9.43%) Wireless
3 13 (8.18%) DNS
4 12 (7.55%) Network Security
4 12 (7.55%) VPN
5 10 (6.29%) TCP/IP
6 9 (5.66%) Fibre Channel
6 9 (5.66%) iSCSI
6 9 (5.66%) NAS
6 9 (5.66%) SAN
7 6 (3.77%) LAN
7 6 (3.77%) SSH
8 5 (3.14%) AMQP
8 5 (3.14%) Multicast
8 5 (3.14%) OSPF
8 5 (3.14%) WAN
9 3 (1.89%) DHCP
9 3 (1.89%) Ethernet
9 3 (1.89%) Internet
9 3 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (20.75%) MySQL
2 23 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.55%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.29%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (5.66%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (5.03%) MariaDB
7 7 (4.40%) Redis
8 6 (3.77%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.14%) InfluxDB
9 5 (3.14%) Power BI
10 4 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.52%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.89%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.26%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (1.26%) Neo4j
12 2 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.63%) Big Data
13 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 49 (30.82%) Git
2 31 (19.50%) Jenkins
3 24 (15.09%) JIRA
4 13 (8.18%) Robot Framework
5 12 (7.55%) Subversion
6 10 (6.29%) GitLab
6 10 (6.29%) GNU Toolchain
7 7 (4.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (3.14%) DTrace
8 5 (3.14%) GDB
9 4 (2.52%) JUnit
9 4 (2.52%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (1.89%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.89%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.26%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.26%) Gradle
12 1 (0.63%) CMake
12 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.63%) Postman
12 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (19.50%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.81%) Aerospace
3 14 (8.81%) Finance
4 10 (6.29%) Law
5 8 (5.03%) Retail
6 4 (2.52%) Banking
7 3 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.26%) Legal
8 2 (1.26%) Music Industry
8 2 (1.26%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.63%) Advertising
9 1 (0.63%) Aviation
9 1 (0.63%) Back Office
9 1 (0.63%) Front Office
9 1 (0.63%) Games
9 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (20.75%) Azure Engineer
2 28 (17.61%) Developer
3 19 (11.95%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (11.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (10.69%) Network Engineer
6 16 (10.06%) Linux Engineer
7 14 (8.81%) Consultant
7 14 (8.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (8.18%) Administrator
8 13 (8.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 13 (8.18%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.18%) Linux Administrator
8 13 (8.18%) Software Consultant
8 13 (8.18%) Support Engineer
9 11 (6.92%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (6.29%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (6.29%) Linux Developer
10 10 (6.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (6.29%) Senior
11 9 (5.66%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.84%) HTML
2 17 (10.69%) Node.js
2 17 (10.69%) XML
3 11 (6.92%) React
4 10 (6.29%) POSIX
5 9 (5.66%) ARM Templates
5 9 (5.66%) CSS
5 9 (5.66%) LAMP
6 7 (4.40%) Laravel
6 7 (4.40%) REST
6 7 (4.40%) RESTful
7 6 (3.77%) JSON
8 5 (3.14%) NETCONF
8 5 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (3.14%) Spring
9 4 (2.52%) Akka
9 4 (2.52%) RESTCONF
9 4 (2.52%) SOAP
9 4 (2.52%) Vue
9 4 (2.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.92%) Embedded Systems
1 11 (6.92%) Replication
2 7 (4.40%) Client/Server
2 7 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (4.40%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.40%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.77%) Clustering
4 5 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.52%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.26%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.26%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.26%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 137 (86.16%) Linux
2 40 (25.16%) Unix
2 40 (25.16%) Windows
3 27 (16.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (13.21%) CentOS
5 20 (12.58%) Windows Server
6 19 (11.95%) CoreOS
7 14 (8.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (7.55%) Ubuntu
9 11 (6.92%) VMS
10 10 (6.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (4.40%) Windows 10
12 2 (1.26%) Android
12 2 (1.26%) Apple iOS
12 2 (1.26%) Debian
12 2 (1.26%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.63%) Fedora
13 1 (0.63%) openSUSE
13 1 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (43.40%) DevOps
2 46 (28.93%) CI/CD
3 42 (26.42%) Agile
4 41 (25.79%) Configuration Management
4 41 (25.79%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (23.27%) Time Management
6 27 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (15.09%) Change Management
7 24 (15.09%) ITIL
7 24 (15.09%) Software Testing
8 22 (13.84%) Containerisation
9 21 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
10 20 (12.58%) Customer Service
11 19 (11.95%) Analytics
12 18 (11.32%) Open Source
13 17 (10.69%) Collaborative Working
13 17 (10.69%) Test Automation
14 16 (10.06%) Deployment Automation
14 16 (10.06%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 85 (53.46%) Python
2 78 (49.06%) Bash
3 45 (28.30%) SQL
4 36 (22.64%) PowerShell
5 31 (19.50%) Java
6 21 (13.21%) PHP
7 18 (11.32%) JavaScript
8 16 (10.06%) C
8 16 (10.06%) Go
9 14 (8.81%) Shell Script
10 12 (7.55%) C++
10 12 (7.55%) Perl
11 10 (6.29%) C#
11 10 (6.29%) Ruby
11 10 (6.29%) TypeScript
12 8 (5.03%) PL/SQL
13 7 (4.40%) Groovy
14 5 (3.14%) OCaml
14 5 (3.14%) SystemTap
15 2 (1.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (18.87%) Degree
2 25 (15.72%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.06%) Azure Certification
4 15 (9.43%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.40%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.14%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.52%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (2.52%) HNC
8 4 (2.52%) HND
9 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Architect
11 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.14%) QA
2 2 (1.26%) GDPR
2 2 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.63%) NIST
3 1 (0.63%) SLA
3 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (25.16%) Docker
2 20 (12.58%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.29%) vSphere
4 4 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.89%) VirtualBox
6 2 (1.26%) Firmware
7 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.63%) Samba
7 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (30.82%) Kubernetes
2 42 (26.42%) Ansible
3 38 (23.90%) Puppet
4 31 (19.50%) Terraform
5 20 (12.58%) Progress Chef
6 17 (10.69%) Grafana
7 13 (8.18%) Prometheus
8 10 (6.29%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (5.66%) SCCM
10 7 (4.40%) Salt
11 5 (3.14%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.89%) Kibana
13 2 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (1.26%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.63%) Nmap
14 1 (0.63%) OpenNMS
14 1 (0.63%) SCOM
14 1 (0.63%) systemd
14 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.47%) Red Hat
3 14 (8.81%) ServiceNow
4 13 (8.18%) Palo Alto
5 12 (7.55%) Cisco
6 11 (6.92%) Remedy
7 10 (6.29%) VMware
8 9 (5.66%) Aruba
8 9 (5.66%) ProCurve
8 9 (5.66%) Synology
8 9 (5.66%) Veeam
8 9 (5.66%) Zerto
9 7 (4.40%) BMC
9 7 (4.40%) New Relic
9 7 (4.40%) SaltStack
10 6 (3.77%) Oracle
11 4 (2.52%) Google
11 4 (2.52%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.52%) Thales
12 2 (1.26%) Alteryx