Bash Job Trends in Central London

Bash Shell
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 145 99
Rank change year-on-year +38 -46 +6
Permanent jobs citing Bash 34 40 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 1.38% 1.24% 2.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.11% 2.85% 4.97%
Number of salaries quoted 26 24 69
10th Percentile - £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £63,438 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £91,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -52.33% +17.74% +10.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £120,938 £87,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £128,125 £110,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 827 1,402 1,508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 33.63% 43.49% 49.14%
Number of salaries quoted 670 989 1,388
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £116,500 £116,625
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.23%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Central London

Bash
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in Central London over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Bash in Central London

Bash
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Central London region over the 6 months to 7 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
City of London +36 34 £43,500 -54.69% 36
City of Westminster - 1 - - 9
Bash
London

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) AWS
2 9 (26.47%) Azure
3 5 (14.71%) GCP
4 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (8.82%) Google Workspace
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.88%) Datadog
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.94%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) VPN
2 2 (5.88%) DHCP
2 2 (5.88%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.94%) Broadband
3 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Git
1 2 (5.88%) GitLab
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) Metasploit
General
1 24 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Advertising
5 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Support Engineer
2 17 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
2 17 (50.00%) Technical Support
2 17 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 15 (44.12%) Graduate
3 15 (44.12%) Graduate Support Engineer
3 15 (44.12%) Graduate Technical Engineer
3 15 (44.12%) Graduate Technical Support
4 3 (8.82%) Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Junior
5 2 (5.88%) Administrator
5 2 (5.88%) Junior Network Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Junior Network Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Junior Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Operational Support Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Operations Support Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Support Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.94%) LDAP
2 1 (2.94%) Loki
2 1 (2.94%) Next.js
2 1 (2.94%) Node.js
2 1 (2.94%) OAuth
2 1 (2.94%) OpenID
2 1 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.94%) REST
2 1 (2.94%) SAML
2 1 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.94%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Unix
2 4 (11.76%) Windows
3 3 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.88%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.94%) AIX
5 1 (2.94%) CentOS
5 1 (2.94%) Debian
5 1 (2.94%) Solaris
5 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (47.06%) Machine Learning
3 15 (44.12%) Customer Experience
4 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
4 9 (26.47%) DevOps
4 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (17.65%) High Availability
6 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
7 4 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
7 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (8.82%) AI
8 3 (8.82%) Cloud Security
8 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (8.82%) Incident Response
8 3 (8.82%) Observability
8 3 (8.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 31 (91.18%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (2.94%) Perl
4 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (64.71%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.88%) OSCP
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) CCSAM
4 1 (2.94%) CHECK Team Leader
4 1 (2.94%) CHECK Team Member
4 1 (2.94%) CISM
4 1 (2.94%) CISSP
4 1 (2.94%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.94%) GCFA
4 1 (2.94%) GCFE
4 1 (2.94%) GCIH
4 1 (2.94%) GIAC
4 1 (2.94%) GPEN
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.94%) Basel III
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) MiFID
3 1 (2.94%) NCSC
3 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Docker
2 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Terraform
2 7 (20.59%) Ansible
3 6 (17.65%) Grafana
4 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
5 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.94%) Argo
6 1 (2.94%) CSIRT
6 1 (2.94%) Nessus
6 1 (2.94%) Podman
6 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.94%) Puppet
6 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.94%) Citrix
4 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.94%) Refinitiv
4 1 (2.94%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) VMware