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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 548 523
Rank change year-on-year +38 -25 -62
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 74 92 405
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.24% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.60% 0.63% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 57 70 191
10th Percentile £38,500 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £74,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 12,313 14,649 35,766
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.90% 38.82% 47.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,290 10,927 17,359
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £49,263 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £109,865 £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 9 June 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 (1.35%) Confluence
1 1 (1.35%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (6.76%) GNU Octave
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (14.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (4.05%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.05%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (4.05%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (41.89%) AWS
2 26 (35.14%) Azure
3 20 (27.03%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (18.92%) OpenShift
5 12 (16.22%) Entra ID
5 12 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (14.86%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (14.86%) Azure Storage
7 10 (13.51%) Serverless
8 9 (12.16%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (12.16%) Amazon S3
8 9 (12.16%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (10.81%) Azure AKS
10 7 (9.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (9.46%) Datadog
10 7 (9.46%) Pulumi
11 5 (6.76%) GitHub
12 4 (5.41%) CloudFront
12 4 (5.41%) Route 53
12 4 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.16%) Network Security
2 5 (6.76%) AMQP
3 3 (4.05%) DHCP
3 3 (4.05%) DNS
3 3 (4.05%) IPsec
3 3 (4.05%) VPN
4 2 (2.70%) Firewall
4 2 (2.70%) SSH
5 1 (1.35%) HTTP
5 1 (1.35%) Internet
5 1 (1.35%) LAN
5 1 (1.35%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.35%) SNMP
5 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.35%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.35%) Wireless
5 1 (1.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (9.46%) MariaDB
3 7 (9.46%) MongoDB
3 7 (9.46%) MySQL
3 7 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.46%) Redis
4 5 (6.76%) InfluxDB
4 5 (6.76%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.05%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (2.70%) Power BI
6 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (22.97%) Git
2 14 (18.92%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.46%) GitLab
3 7 (9.46%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (6.76%) DTrace
4 5 (6.76%) GDB
5 3 (4.05%) JIRA
6 2 (2.70%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.70%) Gradle
7 1 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 19 (25.68%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.57%) Law
4 7 (9.46%) Finance
4 7 (9.46%) Retail
5 5 (6.76%) Aerospace
5 5 (6.76%) Aviation
5 5 (6.76%) Legal
6 4 (5.41%) Banking
7 3 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.35%) Advertising
9 1 (1.35%) Back Office
9 1 (1.35%) Games
9 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (32.43%) Azure Engineer
2 16 (21.62%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (20.27%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (18.92%) Linux Engineer
5 12 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (13.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 10 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (9.46%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (9.46%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (9.46%) Developer
8 6 (8.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Python Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) Consultant
11 3 (4.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) Technologist
11 3 (4.05%) Unix Engineer
11 3 (4.05%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.51%) ARM Templates
2 5 (6.76%) NumPy
2 5 (6.76%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (4.05%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.70%) CSS
4 2 (2.70%) HTML
4 2 (2.70%) Node.js
4 2 (2.70%) React
4 2 (2.70%) RESTful
4 2 (2.70%) Spring
4 2 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.70%) Vue
4 2 (2.70%) YAML
5 1 (1.35%) .NET
5 1 (1.35%) ADO
5 1 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.35%) gRPC
5 1 (1.35%) JSON
5 1 (1.35%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.35%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Public Cloud
2 8 (10.81%) Client/Server
3 7 (9.46%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.35%) Clustering
7 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.35%) PKI
7 1 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 56 (75.68%) Linux
2 20 (27.03%) Windows
3 13 (17.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (14.86%) Unix
5 9 (12.16%) CentOS
6 7 (9.46%) CoreOS
7 3 (4.05%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.70%) Debian
8 2 (2.70%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.35%) Fedora
9 1 (1.35%) openSUSE
9 1 (1.35%) VMS
9 1 (1.35%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
9 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (52.70%) DevOps
2 29 (39.19%) CI/CD
3 27 (36.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (31.08%) Analytics
5 22 (29.73%) Configuration Management
6 20 (27.03%) Log Analytics
7 19 (25.68%) Agile
7 19 (25.68%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (21.62%) Deployment Automation
8 16 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (20.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (17.57%) ITIL
10 13 (17.57%) ITSM
10 13 (17.57%) Service Management
11 11 (14.86%) Availability Management
11 11 (14.86%) Capacity Planning
11 11 (14.86%) Change Management
11 11 (14.86%) Incident Management
11 11 (14.86%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 42 (56.76%) Python
2 35 (47.30%) Bash
3 24 (32.43%) PowerShell
4 19 (25.68%) SQL
5 18 (24.32%) Java
6 12 (16.22%) Go
6 12 (16.22%) Shell Script
7 9 (12.16%) JavaScript
7 9 (12.16%) PHP
7 9 (12.16%) TypeScript
8 8 (10.81%) Ruby
9 7 (9.46%) C#
9 7 (9.46%) Groovy
10 5 (6.76%) C
10 5 (6.76%) MATLAB
10 5 (6.76%) OCaml
10 5 (6.76%) SystemTap
11 4 (5.41%) Perl
12 1 (1.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 22 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 21 (28.38%) Azure Certification
3 14 (18.92%) Degree
4 8 (10.81%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.76%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.05%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (1.35%) CCNA
9 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.35%) MCSA
9 1 (1.35%) MCSE
9 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Architect
9 1 (1.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.70%) GDPR
1 2 (2.70%) HIPAA
1 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.70%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.35%) NIST
2 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (43.24%) Docker
2 13 (17.57%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.35%) Firmware
4 1 (1.35%) Samba
4 1 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (35.14%) Kubernetes
1 26 (35.14%) Terraform
2 24 (32.43%) Ansible
3 19 (25.68%) Puppet
4 16 (21.62%) Progress Chef
5 14 (18.92%) Grafana
6 12 (16.22%) Prometheus
7 5 (6.76%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (5.41%) Salt
9 3 (4.05%) Kibana
10 1 (1.35%) logstash
10 1 (1.35%) Nmap
10 1 (1.35%) OpenNMS
10 1 (1.35%) SCOM
10 1 (1.35%) SCOrch
10 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.86%) BMC
2 11 (14.86%) Remedy
3 9 (12.16%) Red Hat
4 7 (9.46%) New Relic
4 7 (9.46%) SaltStack
5 6 (8.11%) Oracle
6 4 (5.41%) Salesforce
7 3 (4.05%) Hyperion
7 3 (4.05%) JD Edwards
7 3 (4.05%) PeopleSoft
8 2 (2.70%) Alteryx
8 2 (2.70%) Blue Prism
8 2 (2.70%) SAP
9 1 (1.35%) Cisco
9 1 (1.35%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.35%) Qualys
9 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.35%) VMware