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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 684 665 470
Rank change year-on-year -19 -195 -15
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 177 209 1,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.25% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.57% 0.58% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 139 159 303
10th Percentile £34,900 £31,100 £32,550
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,875 £70,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 31,117 36,215 68,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.15% 43.68% 47.55%
Number of salaries quoted 21,099 20,152 31,034
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,328 £46,906 £46,250
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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +27 61 £70,000 +12.00% 27
South East +16 42 £42,500 - 19
South West -21 29 £52,500 +61.54% 13
North of England -7 20 £38,250 -27.14% 16
Yorkshire +56 15 £35,000 -39.13% 7
Midlands -36 14 £50,000 -9.09% 5
West Midlands 0 12 £50,000 +17.65% 3
East of England -5 11 £43,500 -51.67% 10
North West -15 4 £50,000 +33.33% 8
East Midlands - 2 £40,000 - 2
North East -16 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 (6.78%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.65%) IIS
2 10 (5.65%) nginx
2 10 (5.65%) WordPress
3 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.69%) Confluence
5 2 (1.13%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.56%) Drupal
6 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.82%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.56%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 11 (6.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.69%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.69%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 56 (31.64%) AWS
2 45 (25.42%) Azure
3 26 (14.69%) OpenShift
4 22 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (11.30%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (8.47%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (7.34%) Entra ID
8 12 (6.78%) Serverless
9 11 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (6.21%) Azure Storage
10 10 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (5.65%) Amazon S3
11 9 (5.08%) OneDrive
12 8 (4.52%) Azure AKS
13 7 (3.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (3.95%) Datadog
13 7 (3.95%) Pulumi
14 6 (3.39%) SaaS
15 5 (2.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 49 (27.68%) Firewall
2 15 (8.47%) Wireless
3 14 (7.91%) Network Security
3 14 (7.91%) VPN
4 13 (7.34%) DNS
4 13 (7.34%) TCP/IP
5 11 (6.21%) SAN
6 9 (5.08%) Fibre Channel
6 9 (5.08%) iSCSI
6 9 (5.08%) NAS
7 6 (3.39%) Internet
7 6 (3.39%) LAN
7 6 (3.39%) SSH
7 6 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (2.82%) AMQP
8 5 (2.82%) Multicast
8 5 (2.82%) OSPF
8 5 (2.82%) VLAN
8 5 (2.82%) VoIP
8 5 (2.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (18.08%) MySQL
2 22 (12.43%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.78%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (5.08%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (4.52%) MariaDB
7 7 (3.95%) Redis
8 6 (3.39%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.82%) InfluxDB
9 5 (2.82%) Power BI
10 4 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.26%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.69%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (1.13%) Neo4j
12 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.56%) Big Data
13 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 47 (26.55%) Git
2 32 (18.08%) Jenkins
3 24 (13.56%) JIRA
4 13 (7.34%) Robot Framework
5 11 (6.21%) GitLab
5 11 (6.21%) Subversion
6 9 (5.08%) GNU Toolchain
7 7 (3.95%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (2.82%) DTrace
8 5 (2.82%) GDB
9 4 (2.26%) JUnit
9 4 (2.26%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.13%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.13%) Gradle
12 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.56%) CMake
12 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (19.21%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.04%) Finance
4 14 (7.91%) Aerospace
4 14 (7.91%) Law
5 12 (6.78%) Retail
6 6 (3.39%) Banking
7 5 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.82%) Legal
8 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.13%) Games
9 2 (1.13%) Music Industry
9 2 (1.13%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.56%) Aviation
10 1 (0.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.56%) Electronics
10 1 (0.56%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (19.77%) Azure Engineer
2 27 (15.25%) Developer
3 21 (11.86%) Linux Engineer
4 20 (11.30%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (9.60%) Network Engineer
6 16 (9.04%) Consultant
6 16 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (9.04%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (9.04%) Support Engineer
7 15 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (7.34%) Administrator
8 13 (7.34%) Linux Administrator
8 13 (7.34%) Software Consultant
9 11 (6.21%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (5.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.65%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 10 (5.65%) Senior
10 10 (5.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (5.08%) Applications Engineer
11 9 (5.08%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.86%) HTML
2 17 (9.60%) XML
3 16 (9.04%) Node.js
4 11 (6.21%) React
5 10 (5.65%) ARM Templates
6 9 (5.08%) LAMP
6 9 (5.08%) POSIX
7 8 (4.52%) CSS
8 7 (3.95%) REST
8 7 (3.95%) RESTful
9 6 (3.39%) JSON
9 6 (3.39%) Laravel
10 5 (2.82%) NETCONF
10 5 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.82%) Spring
11 4 (2.26%) Akka
11 4 (2.26%) RESTCONF
11 4 (2.26%) SOAP
11 4 (2.26%) Vue
11 4 (2.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.21%) Public Cloud
1 11 (6.21%) Replication
2 10 (5.65%) Embedded Systems
3 8 (4.52%) Client/Server
4 7 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.39%) Clustering
5 6 (3.39%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.13%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.13%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.56%) FPGA
8 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.56%) PKI
8 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 152 (85.88%) Linux
2 47 (26.55%) Windows
3 46 (25.99%) Unix
4 27 (15.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (12.99%) Windows Server
6 21 (11.86%) CentOS
7 19 (10.73%) CoreOS
8 14 (7.91%) Ubuntu
8 14 (7.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (6.21%) VMS
10 10 (5.65%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (3.95%) Windows 10
12 4 (2.26%) Debian
13 3 (1.69%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (1.13%) Android
14 2 (1.13%) Apple iOS
14 2 (1.13%) Rocky
15 1 (0.56%) Fedora
15 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.56%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (41.24%) DevOps
2 50 (28.25%) CI/CD
3 43 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (22.60%) Agile
5 38 (21.47%) Configuration Management
6 37 (20.90%) Time Management
7 30 (16.95%) Change Management
8 29 (16.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (15.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 26 (14.69%) Analytics
10 26 (14.69%) ITIL
11 24 (13.56%) Customer Service
12 23 (12.99%) Containerisation
13 22 (12.43%) Software Testing
14 20 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (11.30%) Deployment Automation
14 20 (11.30%) Log Analytics
14 20 (11.30%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (9.60%) Collaborative Working
15 17 (9.60%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 90 (50.85%) Python
2 85 (48.02%) Bash
3 51 (28.81%) SQL
4 43 (24.29%) PowerShell
5 28 (15.82%) Java
6 20 (11.30%) PHP
7 17 (9.60%) JavaScript
8 16 (9.04%) C
8 16 (9.04%) Go
9 14 (7.91%) Shell Script
10 13 (7.34%) C++
11 10 (5.65%) C#
11 10 (5.65%) PL/SQL
11 10 (5.65%) Ruby
11 10 (5.65%) TypeScript
12 9 (5.08%) Perl
13 7 (3.95%) Groovy
14 5 (2.82%) OCaml
14 5 (2.82%) SystemTap
15 2 (1.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (20.34%) Degree
2 29 (16.38%) Security Cleared
3 21 (11.86%) Azure Certification
4 15 (8.47%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.95%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.26%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (2.26%) HNC
8 4 (2.26%) HND
9 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (1.13%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.82%) QA
2 3 (1.69%) GDPR
3 2 (1.13%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.13%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (21.47%) Docker
2 24 (13.56%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.65%) vSphere
4 5 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.69%) VirtualBox
5 3 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.56%) Samba
Systems Management
1 49 (27.68%) Kubernetes
2 41 (23.16%) Ansible
3 37 (20.90%) Puppet
4 33 (18.64%) Terraform
5 17 (9.60%) Grafana
5 17 (9.60%) Progress Chef
6 13 (7.34%) Prometheus
7 10 (5.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (5.08%) SCCM
9 5 (2.82%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (2.26%) Salt
11 3 (1.69%) Kibana
11 3 (1.69%) vCenter Server
12 2 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.13%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.56%) logstash
13 1 (0.56%) OpenNMS
13 1 (0.56%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.56%) systemd
Vendors
1 33 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.99%) Red Hat
3 15 (8.47%) Cisco
3 15 (8.47%) Oracle
3 15 (8.47%) Remedy
4 14 (7.91%) ServiceNow
5 13 (7.34%) Palo Alto
6 12 (6.78%) VMware
7 11 (6.21%) BMC
8 9 (5.08%) Aruba
8 9 (5.08%) ProCurve
8 9 (5.08%) Synology
8 9 (5.08%) Veeam
8 9 (5.08%) Zerto
9 7 (3.95%) New Relic
9 7 (3.95%) SaltStack
10 5 (2.82%) Progress
11 4 (2.26%) Google
11 4 (2.26%) Salesforce
11 4 (2.26%) SolarWinds