Bash Job Trends in the East of England

Bash Shell
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 117 167
Rank change year-on-year -44 +50 +8
Permanent jobs citing Bash 22 55 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.35% 1.87% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.78% 7.06% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 22 36 45
10th Percentile £43,975 £33,750 £43,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £54,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £62,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% -4.62% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £79,375 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -14.29%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 792 779 1,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.60% 26.49% 28.34%
Number of salaries quoted 520 625 1,455
10th Percentile £33,175 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,274 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Bash job vacancy trend in the East of England

Bash
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Bash in the East of England

Bash
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the East of England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Cambridgeshire -35 10 £73,750 +59.46% 7
Hertfordshire -41 10 £50,000 -19.35% 2
Suffolk +17 1 £47,739 -29.28%
Essex - 1 £67,500 - 2
Bash
England

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (31.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 5 (22.73%) CloudFront
5 4 (18.18%) Azure
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (9.09%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.55%) Datadog
7 1 (4.55%) GCP
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) Firewall
2 5 (22.73%) FTP
2 5 (22.73%) HTTP
2 5 (22.73%) LAN
2 5 (22.73%) SMTP
2 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
2 5 (22.73%) VPN
2 5 (22.73%) WAN
3 3 (13.64%) Ethernet
3 3 (13.64%) InfiniBand
4 2 (9.09%) Network Security
5 1 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
1 1 (4.55%) GitLab
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Aerospace
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Advertising
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Analyst
4 5 (22.73%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) Support Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Associate Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) LDAP
1 5 (22.73%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Client/Server
1 5 (22.73%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (40.91%) DevOps
3 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (31.82%) Cloud Security
4 7 (31.82%) Observability
5 6 (27.27%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 6 (27.27%) Canary Deployment
5 6 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (27.27%) Secrets Management
5 6 (27.27%) Security Operations
5 6 (27.27%) SIEM
6 5 (22.73%) Analytical Thinking
6 5 (22.73%) Auto-Scaling
6 5 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (22.73%) High Availability
6 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (22.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
3 5 (22.73%) C++
3 5 (22.73%) Perl
4 1 (4.55%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) Degree
3 6 (27.27%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (22.73%) CEH
4 5 (22.73%) CREST Certified
5 4 (18.18%) RHCE
6 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (4.55%) CISM
7 1 (4.55%) CISSP
7 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 1 (4.55%) GSEC
7 1 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
1 1 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 3 (13.64%) Lustre
2 3 (13.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Terraform
2 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
3 6 (27.27%) Ansible
3 6 (27.27%) Grafana
4 5 (22.73%) Prometheus
4 5 (22.73%) QRadar
5 1 (4.55%) Argo
5 1 (4.55%) Istio
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Splunk
3 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
4 3 (13.64%) EMC
4 3 (13.64%) IBM
4 3 (13.64%) Mellanox
4 3 (13.64%) NetApp
5 1 (4.55%) Google