Bash Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Bash Shell
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 76 78
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +29
Permanent jobs citing Bash 12 26 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.90% 2.68% 1.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.03% 8.67% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 4
10th Percentile £45,000 - -
25th Percentile £56,500 £31,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £40,000 £82,000
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -51.22% +36.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 -
90th Percentile - £85,600 -
South East median annual salary £56,430 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.95% - +9.09%

All Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire

Bash falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 199 300 295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 14.96% 30.90% 26.20%
Number of salaries quoted 168 169 244
10th Percentile £32,850 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £56,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% -4.35%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bash relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Bash job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Bash
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Bash in Buckinghamshire

Bash
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -14 6 £45,000 +12.50% 1
Bletchley +5 3 £75,000 -
High Wycombe -4 1 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Bash
South East

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
1 7 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 6 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (50.00%) GitHub
2 6 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (8.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
1 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Lead
1 6 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) VMS
2 5 (41.67%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Windows
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Task Automation
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (50.00%) Matrix Management
3 6 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (50.00%) Observability
3 6 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) RBAC
3 6 (50.00%) Resource Management
3 6 (50.00%) Servant Leadership
3 6 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
6 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
6 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 1 (8.33%) Data Security
6 1 (8.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Korn
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
2 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (58.33%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk