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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 153 171
Rank change year-on-year -59 +18 -3
Permanent jobs citing Bash 1,371 2,402 3,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.38% 2.37% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.13% 5.47% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 843 1,394 1,901
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,874 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £78,225 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £117,236 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 33,235 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.51% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,988 28,012 43,733
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 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

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 8 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 8 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 -51 1,244 £60,000 -14.29% 264
UK excluding London -89 849 £55,000 -9.84% 155
Work from Home -53 675 £62,500 -10.71% 151
London -5 486 £70,000 -12.50% 116
South West +3 301 £55,000 -18.52% 30
South East -18 219 £52,500 +5.00% 29
North of England -172 102 £60,000 -1.93% 34
Scotland -92 73 £60,000 -13.60% 12
Midlands -8 66 £52,500 -12.50% 20
East of England +8 59 £65,000 +23.81% 26
North West -87 55 £62,783 +14.70% 17
West Midlands 0 36 £60,000 -9.43% 10
Yorkshire -102 35 £53,750 -16.91% 14
East Midlands -13 30 £50,000 -4.76% 10
Northern Ireland +14 19 £70,000 -3.45% 3
North East -13 12 £45,000 -37.93% 3
Wales -35 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 (3.65%) nginx
2 42 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.92%) Apache
4 33 (2.41%) Confluence
5 30 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 25 (1.82%) SharePoint
7 21 (1.53%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.95%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.36%) CMS
11 4 (0.29%) JBoss
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.15%) Drupal
12 2 (0.15%) IIS
12 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.15%) WordPress
13 1 (0.073%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.80%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.15%) Abaqus
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.073%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.073%) Simulink
5 1 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.09%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.44%) NEC Housing
2 6 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 598 (43.62%) Azure
2 398 (29.03%) AWS
3 254 (18.53%) Entra ID
4 121 (8.83%) GCP
5 114 (8.32%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (7.00%) Serverless
7 93 (6.78%) OpenShift
8 91 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
9 90 (6.56%) SaaS
10 89 (6.49%) GitHub
11 83 (6.05%) Amazon S3
12 64 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 46 (3.36%) IaaS
14 43 (3.14%) PaaS
15 42 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
16 39 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
17 37 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (2.55%) Azure AKS
19 29 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 28 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 221 (16.12%) Broadband
2 214 (15.61%) 5G
3 187 (13.64%) Firewall
4 133 (9.70%) TCP/IP
5 125 (9.12%) DNS
6 72 (5.25%) DHCP
7 52 (3.79%) WAN
8 50 (3.65%) LAN
9 49 (3.57%) HTTP
10 38 (2.77%) VPN
11 36 (2.63%) Network Security
12 29 (2.12%) Wireless
13 28 (2.04%) Internet
14 22 (1.60%) SAN
15 20 (1.46%) NAS
16 17 (1.24%) VSAN
17 16 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
17 16 (1.17%) PBX
18 15 (1.09%) FIX Connectivity
18 15 (1.09%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (6.35%) MySQL
2 78 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (5.40%) SQL Server
4 63 (4.60%) MongoDB
5 60 (4.38%) Relational Database
6 52 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
7 45 (3.28%) Redis
8 43 (3.14%) Big Data
8 43 (3.14%) Hadoop
9 40 (2.92%) RDBMS
10 39 (2.84%) Oracle Database
11 34 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
12 25 (1.82%) InfluxDB
13 23 (1.68%) Scylla
14 22 (1.60%) MariaDB
15 21 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (1.31%) Presto
17 13 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
18 10 (0.73%) Ingres
18 10 (0.73%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 227 (16.56%) Git
2 220 (16.05%) Jenkins
3 78 (5.69%) GitLab
4 72 (5.25%) JIRA
5 36 (2.63%) JDeveloper
6 28 (2.04%) TeamCity
7 25 (1.82%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.75%) Subversion
9 21 (1.53%) Visual Studio
10 20 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
11 19 (1.39%) SonarQube
12 18 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 16 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
14 14 (1.02%) Robot Framework
15 10 (0.73%) GNU Toolchain
16 9 (0.66%) Eclipse
16 9 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
17 8 (0.58%) CMake
17 8 (0.58%) Gradle
18 7 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 332 (24.22%) Analytical Skills
2 267 (19.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 266 (19.40%) Social Skills
4 199 (14.51%) Finance
5 62 (4.52%) Banking
6 57 (4.16%) Aerospace
7 46 (3.36%) Public Sector
8 36 (2.63%) Manufacturing
9 31 (2.26%) Marketing
10 29 (2.12%) Electronics
10 29 (2.12%) Retail
11 24 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.46%) Investment Banking
13 18 (1.31%) Law
14 17 (1.24%) Games
15 16 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (0.66%) Tech for Good
17 8 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 361 (26.33%) Senior
2 223 (16.27%) Software Engineer
3 213 (15.54%) Linux Specialist
4 210 (15.32%) Technical Specialist
5 202 (14.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 129 (9.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 129 (9.41%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 129 (9.41%) Senior Linux Specialist
7 127 (9.26%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 127 (9.26%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 111 (8.10%) Linux Engineer
9 86 (6.27%) Administrator
10 80 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 74 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
12 73 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
13 67 (4.89%) Embedded Engineer
14 65 (4.74%) Azure Engineer
14 65 (4.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 65 (4.74%) Systems Engineer
15 62 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (5.32%) React
2 72 (5.25%) Node.js
3 70 (5.11%) Elastic Stack
4 41 (2.99%) HTML
5 36 (2.63%) YAML
6 35 (2.55%) ARM Templates
7 30 (2.19%) Kafka
8 23 (1.68%) GraphQL
8 23 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
9 22 (1.60%) .NET
10 21 (1.53%) REST
11 19 (1.39%) Apache NiFi
12 17 (1.24%) ActiveMQ
13 16 (1.17%) AWS CDK
13 16 (1.17%) FIX Protocol
13 16 (1.17%) Middleware
14 15 (1.09%) XML
15 14 (1.02%) CSS
16 13 (0.95%) Fluent Bit
17 12 (0.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 210 (15.32%) Social Media
2 75 (5.47%) Linux Command Line
3 55 (4.01%) Public Cloud
4 41 (2.99%) Algorithms
5 35 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 34 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (2.26%) PKI
8 30 (2.19%) Data Centre
9 29 (2.12%) IoT
10 28 (2.04%) Clustering
11 27 (1.97%) Onboarding
12 24 (1.75%) Cloud Native
12 24 (1.75%) Management Information System
13 23 (1.68%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (1.17%) Replication
16 15 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
16 15 (1.09%) Eurex
17 14 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
17 14 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 934 (68.13%) Linux
2 414 (30.20%) Windows
3 280 (20.42%) Ubuntu
4 134 (9.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 109 (7.95%) CentOS
6 100 (7.29%) Unix
6 100 (7.29%) Windows Server
7 70 (5.11%) Embedded Linux
8 50 (3.65%) Debian
9 48 (3.50%) Windows Server 2016
10 46 (3.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 44 (3.21%) Mac OS
12 41 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
13 27 (1.97%) Solaris
14 20 (1.46%) CoreOS
15 18 (1.31%) Windows 10
16 13 (0.95%) SUSE
17 12 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
18 10 (0.73%) VMS
19 7 (0.51%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 513 (37.42%) DevOps
2 425 (31.00%) Cybersecurity
3 318 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
4 310 (22.61%) CI/CD
5 285 (20.79%) Software Engineering
6 272 (19.84%) Artificial Intelligence
7 247 (18.02%) Infrastructure as Code
8 227 (16.56%) Containerisation
9 221 (16.12%) IT Strategy
10 218 (15.90%) Technology Strategy
11 217 (15.83%) CRM
12 191 (13.93%) Agile
13 147 (10.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 134 (9.77%) Configuration Management
15 131 (9.56%) Continuous Integration
16 129 (9.41%) Actionable Insight
17 112 (8.17%) Open Source
18 102 (7.44%) Mentoring
19 95 (6.93%) Computer Science
20 84 (6.13%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 906 (66.08%) Python
2 509 (37.13%) PowerShell
3 179 (13.06%) Java
4 157 (11.45%) Perl
5 155 (11.31%) SQL
6 149 (10.87%) C
7 115 (8.39%) JavaScript
8 109 (7.95%) Go
8 109 (7.95%) Ruby
9 83 (6.05%) C++
10 64 (4.67%) C#
11 60 (4.38%) Shell Script
12 59 (4.30%) Embedded C
13 57 (4.16%) Rust
14 38 (2.77%) Bicep
15 28 (2.04%) PHP
16 27 (1.97%) Scala
17 20 (1.46%) Fortran
18 18 (1.31%) TypeScript
19 15 (1.09%) Korn
Qualifications
1 301 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 180 (13.13%) Degree
3 124 (9.04%) DV Cleared
4 96 (7.00%) SC Cleared
5 50 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.26%) AWS Certification
7 30 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (1.90%) PhD
9 23 (1.68%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.60%) Azure Certification
10 22 (1.60%) CCNA
11 19 (1.39%) CISSP
12 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.73%) GIAC
16 9 (0.66%) CEH
16 9 (0.66%) OSCP
17 8 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
18 7 (0.51%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.79%) QA
2 44 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.60%) SLA
4 21 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (1.46%) PMO
6 18 (1.31%) Data Quality
7 12 (0.88%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.58%) NIST
10 6 (0.44%) GDPR
10 6 (0.44%) JTAG
10 6 (0.44%) NCSC
11 5 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 9000
14 1 (0.073%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.073%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.073%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.073%) MISRA
System Software
1 345 (25.16%) Active Directory
2 307 (22.39%) Docker
3 144 (10.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (4.60%) Hyper-V
5 57 (4.16%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (1.82%) vSphere
8 21 (1.53%) Firmware
9 10 (0.73%) NFS
10 8 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.44%) VMware Server
12 5 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.15%) Ceph
15 2 (0.15%) KVM
15 2 (0.15%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 360 (26.26%) Kubernetes
2 310 (22.61%) Ansible
3 293 (21.37%) Terraform
4 234 (17.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 220 (16.05%) Jamf Pro
6 179 (13.06%) Puppet
7 106 (7.73%) Grafana
8 81 (5.91%) Prometheus
9 62 (4.52%) Progress Chef
10 31 (2.26%) vCenter Server
11 28 (2.04%) HAProxy
12 26 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (1.68%) Nagios
14 14 (1.02%) logstash
14 14 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
15 13 (0.95%) Fluentd
15 13 (0.95%) Graphite
15 13 (0.95%) Istio
16 11 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.80%) SCCM
Vendors
1 447 (32.60%) Microsoft
2 216 (15.75%) CyberArk
3 210 (15.32%) Tanium
4 196 (14.30%) Red Hat
4 196 (14.30%) VMware
5 137 (9.99%) Oracle
6 64 (4.67%) Google
7 61 (4.45%) Cisco
8 35 (2.55%) Splunk
9 34 (2.48%) Atlassian
10 31 (2.26%) Palo Alto
11 28 (2.04%) Dell
12 18 (1.31%) New Relic
13 17 (1.24%) Apple
14 16 (1.17%) Bloomberg
15 15 (1.09%) CQG
15 15 (1.09%) Fortinet
15 15 (1.09%) ION Trading
15 15 (1.09%) Patsystems
15 15 (1.09%) Trayport