Bash Shell
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Bash skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Bash over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 153 171
Rank change year-on-year -61 +18 -2
Permanent jobs citing Bash 1,388 2,437 3,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.41% 2.36% 2.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.17% 5.45% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 858 1,417 1,915
10th Percentile £41,500 £42,874 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £117,236 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.28% +1.97% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
UK

Bash is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,299 44,724 84,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.71% 43.25% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 25,064 28,554 44,071
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.80% +7.00%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the UK

Bash
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bash.

Salary trend for Bash in the UK

Bash
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Bash in the UK

Bash
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England -42 1,260 £60,000 -14.29% 260
UK excluding London -85 857 £55,500 -9.28% 155
Work from Home -48 687 £62,500 -10.71% 147
London -10 494 £72,500 -9.38% 114
South West +1 300 £55,000 -18.52% 27
South East -11 226 £55,000 +10.00% 29
North of England -168 103 £60,000 -1.93% 36
Scotland -103 73 £60,000 -13.60% 13
Midlands +2 66 £52,500 -12.50% 19
East of England +12 59 £65,000 +23.81% 26
North West -74 56 £61,391 +11.86% 18
West Midlands +14 36 £60,000 -9.43% 9
Yorkshire -96 35 £53,750 -16.91% 15
East Midlands -14 30 £50,000 -4.76% 10
Northern Ireland +12 20 £80,000 +10.34% 3
North East -20 12 £45,000 -37.93% 3
Wales -31 10 £45,000 -30.77% 4

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 50 (3.60%) nginx
2 43 (3.10%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.88%) Apache
4 37 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (2.45%) Confluence
6 26 (1.87%) SharePoint
7 21 (1.51%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.94%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.43%) CMS
9 6 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.22%) Drupal
10 3 (0.22%) JBoss
10 3 (0.22%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.14%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.072%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.79%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.14%) Abaqus
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.072%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.072%) Simulink
5 1 (0.072%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.08%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.43%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 598 (43.08%) Azure
2 402 (28.96%) AWS
3 252 (18.16%) Entra ID
4 119 (8.57%) GCP
5 114 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
6 98 (7.06%) Serverless
7 92 (6.63%) OpenShift
8 91 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
9 89 (6.41%) GitHub
9 89 (6.41%) SaaS
10 83 (5.98%) Amazon S3
11 63 (4.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 49 (3.53%) IaaS
13 41 (2.95%) PaaS
14 40 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
15 37 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (2.45%) Azure AKS
17 29 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
17 29 (2.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 221 (15.92%) Broadband
2 214 (15.42%) 5G
3 188 (13.54%) Firewall
4 133 (9.58%) TCP/IP
5 128 (9.22%) DNS
6 71 (5.12%) DHCP
7 53 (3.82%) WAN
8 51 (3.67%) LAN
9 48 (3.46%) HTTP
10 38 (2.74%) VPN
11 36 (2.59%) Network Security
12 30 (2.16%) Wireless
13 29 (2.09%) Internet
14 23 (1.66%) SAN
15 20 (1.44%) NAS
16 17 (1.22%) PBX
16 17 (1.22%) VSAN
17 16 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
18 15 (1.08%) FIX Connectivity
18 15 (1.08%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (6.20%) MySQL
2 78 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 67 (4.83%) MongoDB
5 61 (4.39%) Relational Database
6 52 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
7 45 (3.24%) Big Data
8 44 (3.17%) Hadoop
8 44 (3.17%) Redis
9 40 (2.88%) RDBMS
10 39 (2.81%) Oracle Database
11 35 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
12 25 (1.80%) InfluxDB
13 23 (1.66%) Scylla
14 21 (1.51%) MariaDB
15 19 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
15 19 (1.37%) Presto
16 14 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
17 10 (0.72%) Ingres
17 10 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 229 (16.50%) Git
2 219 (15.78%) Jenkins
3 81 (5.84%) GitLab
4 73 (5.26%) JIRA
5 36 (2.59%) JDeveloper
6 28 (2.02%) TeamCity
7 25 (1.80%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.73%) Subversion
9 21 (1.51%) Visual Studio
10 20 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
11 19 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 18 (1.30%) SonarQube
13 16 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
14 11 (0.79%) Robot Framework
15 10 (0.72%) GNU Toolchain
16 9 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
17 8 (0.58%) CMake
17 8 (0.58%) Eclipse
18 7 (0.50%) Maven
18 7 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 334 (24.06%) Analytical Skills
2 274 (19.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 265 (19.09%) Social Skills
4 203 (14.63%) Finance
5 63 (4.54%) Banking
6 53 (3.82%) Aerospace
7 47 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 36 (2.59%) Manufacturing
9 31 (2.23%) Marketing
10 29 (2.09%) Electronics
10 29 (2.09%) Retail
11 24 (1.73%) Telecoms
12 23 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
13 21 (1.51%) Investment Banking
14 19 (1.37%) Games
15 17 (1.22%) Law
16 16 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.65%) Tech for Good
18 8 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
19 6 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 368 (26.51%) Senior
2 222 (15.99%) Software Engineer
3 213 (15.35%) Linux Specialist
4 211 (15.20%) Technical Specialist
5 206 (14.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 133 (9.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 129 (9.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 129 (9.29%) Senior Linux Specialist
8 127 (9.15%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 127 (9.15%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 113 (8.14%) Linux Engineer
10 85 (6.12%) Administrator
11 77 (5.55%) Cloud Engineer
12 76 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
13 74 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
14 67 (4.83%) Embedded Engineer
15 66 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
16 65 (4.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
17 64 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
18 62 (4.47%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (5.19%) Node.js
2 70 (5.04%) React
3 68 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
4 37 (2.67%) YAML
5 36 (2.59%) HTML
6 34 (2.45%) ARM Templates
7 31 (2.23%) Kafka
8 24 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
9 23 (1.66%) .NET
9 23 (1.66%) GraphQL
10 21 (1.51%) REST
11 20 (1.44%) Apache NiFi
12 18 (1.30%) ActiveMQ
13 17 (1.22%) Middleware
14 16 (1.15%) AWS CDK
14 16 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
15 14 (1.01%) XML
16 13 (0.94%) Fluent Bit
16 13 (0.94%) LDAP
17 12 (0.86%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 210 (15.13%) Social Media
2 72 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
3 53 (3.82%) Public Cloud
4 41 (2.95%) Algorithms
5 36 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 35 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (2.31%) Data Centre
7 32 (2.31%) IoT
8 31 (2.23%) PKI
9 30 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 28 (2.02%) Clustering
11 27 (1.95%) Onboarding
12 24 (1.73%) Cloud Native
13 23 (1.66%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
15 16 (1.15%) Replication
16 15 (1.08%) Eurex
17 14 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
17 14 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 937 (67.51%) Linux
2 418 (30.12%) Windows
3 279 (20.10%) Ubuntu
4 134 (9.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 108 (7.78%) CentOS
6 103 (7.42%) Windows Server
7 101 (7.28%) Unix
8 70 (5.04%) Embedded Linux
9 52 (3.75%) Debian
10 48 (3.46%) Windows Server 2016
11 46 (3.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 45 (3.24%) Mac OS
13 40 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
14 27 (1.95%) Solaris
15 20 (1.44%) CoreOS
16 19 (1.37%) Windows 10
17 13 (0.94%) SUSE
18 12 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
19 10 (0.72%) VMS
20 8 (0.58%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (37.68%) DevOps
2 425 (30.62%) Cybersecurity
3 318 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
4 314 (22.62%) CI/CD
5 284 (20.46%) Software Engineering
6 271 (19.52%) Artificial Intelligence
7 246 (17.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 227 (16.35%) Containerisation
9 221 (15.92%) IT Strategy
10 218 (15.71%) Technology Strategy
11 217 (15.63%) CRM
12 186 (13.40%) Agile
13 151 (10.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 135 (9.73%) Configuration Management
15 132 (9.51%) Continuous Integration
16 129 (9.29%) Actionable Insight
17 113 (8.14%) Open Source
18 102 (7.35%) Mentoring
19 96 (6.92%) Computer Science
20 88 (6.34%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 925 (66.64%) Python
2 520 (37.46%) PowerShell
3 181 (13.04%) Java
4 163 (11.74%) SQL
5 161 (11.60%) Perl
6 149 (10.73%) C
7 113 (8.14%) JavaScript
8 111 (8.00%) Ruby
9 110 (7.93%) Go
10 82 (5.91%) C++
11 66 (4.76%) C#
12 62 (4.47%) Shell Script
13 59 (4.25%) Embedded C
14 57 (4.11%) Rust
15 38 (2.74%) Bicep
16 29 (2.09%) PHP
17 27 (1.95%) Scala
18 20 (1.44%) Fortran
19 16 (1.15%) Korn
19 16 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 300 (21.61%) Security Cleared
2 189 (13.62%) Degree
3 124 (8.93%) DV Cleared
4 95 (6.84%) SC Cleared
5 52 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 30 (2.16%) CCNA
8 26 (1.87%) PhD
9 24 (1.73%) Master's Degree
10 21 (1.51%) Azure Certification
11 19 (1.37%) CISSP
12 17 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (0.72%) GIAC
14 10 (0.72%) OSCP
15 9 (0.65%) CEH
16 8 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (0.50%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.60%) QA
2 45 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 21 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 21 (1.51%) SLA
5 20 (1.44%) PMO
6 12 (0.86%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.58%) NIST
9 7 (0.50%) GDPR
10 6 (0.43%) JTAG
10 6 (0.43%) NCSC
11 4 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.22%) ISO 9000
13 1 (0.072%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.072%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.072%) MISRA
System Software
1 356 (25.65%) Active Directory
2 306 (22.05%) Docker
3 147 (10.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (4.54%) Hyper-V
5 62 (4.47%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (1.80%) vSphere
8 21 (1.51%) Firmware
9 10 (0.72%) NFS
10 7 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.43%) VMware Server
12 5 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.14%) KVM
15 2 (0.14%) PowerHA
15 2 (0.14%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 359 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 312 (22.48%) Ansible
3 294 (21.18%) Terraform
4 234 (16.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 220 (15.85%) Jamf Pro
6 180 (12.97%) Puppet
7 107 (7.71%) Grafana
8 82 (5.91%) Prometheus
9 63 (4.54%) Progress Chef
10 31 (2.23%) vCenter Server
11 29 (2.09%) HAProxy
12 25 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (1.44%) Nagios
14 15 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
15 14 (1.01%) logstash
16 13 (0.94%) Fluentd
16 13 (0.94%) Istio
17 12 (0.86%) Graphite
18 11 (0.79%) SCCM
19 9 (0.65%) Salt
Vendors
1 446 (32.13%) Microsoft
2 216 (15.56%) CyberArk
3 210 (15.13%) Tanium
4 202 (14.55%) VMware
5 198 (14.27%) Red Hat
6 137 (9.87%) Oracle
7 70 (5.04%) Cisco
8 63 (4.54%) Google
9 33 (2.38%) Atlassian
10 32 (2.31%) Palo Alto
10 32 (2.31%) Splunk
11 28 (2.02%) Dell
12 17 (1.22%) Apple
13 16 (1.15%) Bloomberg
13 16 (1.15%) New Relic
14 15 (1.08%) CQG
14 15 (1.08%) Fortinet
14 15 (1.08%) ION Trading
14 15 (1.08%) Reuters
14 15 (1.08%) Trayport