Bash Jobs in England

Bash Shell
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Bash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Bash over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 210 153
Rank change year-on-year +44 -57 +18
Permanent jobs citing Bash 1,010 1,241 1,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.95% 1.33% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.67% 4.33% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 378 767 1,129
10th Percentile £43,075 £41,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,125 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £84,688 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £116,447
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -10.71% -

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,135 28,667 32,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.23% 30.61% 41.51%
Number of salaries quoted 9,726 22,451 23,127
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in England

Bash
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Bash in England

Bash
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Bash in England

Bash
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the England region over the 6 months to 4 July 2025. 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
North of England +182 314 £62,500 +4.17% 227
North West +164 289 £60,000 - 140
London -4 288 £82,500 +10.00% 943
South East -7 143 £67,500 +22.73% 348
East of England +45 83 £62,000 +3.33% 160
Midlands +87 51 £56,250 -6.25% 85
South West -53 42 £57,443 +4.44% 138
East Midlands +56 28 £57,500 +15.00% 37
West Midlands +53 22 £55,000 -15.38% 48
Yorkshire +42 20 £63,750 +34.21% 74
North East +38 5 £47,500 -5.00% 13
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 10 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (0.99%) nginx
4 9 (0.89%) Confluence
4 9 (0.89%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.50%) Apache
6 4 (0.40%) IIS
6 4 (0.40%) Traefik
7 3 (0.30%) SAS
7 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.20%) CICS
8 2 (0.20%) JBoss
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.099%) CMS
Applications
1 24 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.49%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.099%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.099%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.099%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.099%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 413 (40.89%) AWS
2 226 (22.38%) Pulumi
3 195 (19.31%) Azure
4 79 (7.82%) GCP
5 48 (4.75%) GitHub
6 37 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 37 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (2.97%) SaaS
8 27 (2.67%) IaaS
9 25 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (2.48%) Serverless
10 23 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (2.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (1.98%) PaaS
13 18 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (1.49%) Amazon S3
15 15 (1.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 370 (36.63%) VPN
2 262 (25.94%) Cisco IOS
3 219 (21.68%) Broadband
4 91 (9.01%) Firewall
4 91 (9.01%) TCP/IP
5 32 (3.17%) DNS
6 19 (1.88%) Network Security
7 16 (1.58%) DHCP
8 14 (1.39%) OSPF
9 13 (1.29%) BGP
9 13 (1.29%) VLAN
10 12 (1.19%) MPLS
11 11 (1.09%) Multicast
12 10 (0.99%) Internet
12 10 (0.99%) SAN
13 9 (0.89%) HTTP
13 9 (0.89%) LAN
13 9 (0.89%) WAN
14 8 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
15 7 (0.69%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (24.16%) Relational Database
2 230 (22.77%) NoSQL
3 218 (21.58%) RDBMS
4 30 (2.97%) MySQL
4 30 (2.97%) SQL Server
5 28 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (1.39%) Big Data
8 14 (1.39%) Power BI
9 11 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (0.59%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.50%) Metadata
12 4 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.40%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.40%) SQLite
13 3 (0.30%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 216 (21.39%) Jaeger
2 72 (7.13%) Git
3 65 (6.44%) Cucumber
4 64 (6.34%) Robot Framework
5 55 (5.45%) Jenkins
6 45 (4.46%) GitLab
7 27 (2.67%) JIRA
8 10 (0.99%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.89%) Artifactory
10 8 (0.79%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.59%) Burp Suite
12 6 (0.59%) Metasploit
12 6 (0.59%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.30%) JUnit
13 3 (0.30%) Maven
13 3 (0.30%) TestRail
14 2 (0.20%) Ant
14 2 (0.20%) CMake
14 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
General
1 555 (54.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 295 (29.21%) Analytical Skills
3 197 (19.50%) Social Skills
4 131 (12.97%) Finance
5 83 (8.22%) Telecoms
6 69 (6.83%) Banking
7 17 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (0.89%) Retail
10 8 (0.79%) Public Sector
11 7 (0.69%) Law
11 7 (0.69%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.59%) Back Office
12 6 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.40%) Advertising
13 4 (0.40%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.40%) Games
13 4 (0.40%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.40%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.30%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 277 (27.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 274 (27.13%) Lead
3 216 (21.39%) Team Leader
4 80 (7.92%) Senior
5 71 (7.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 66 (6.53%) Test Engineer
7 64 (6.34%) Test Automation Engineer
8 46 (4.55%) Administrator
8 46 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (4.16%) Linux Engineer
10 41 (4.06%) Systems Administrator
11 38 (3.76%) Analyst
11 38 (3.76%) Linux Administrator
12 35 (3.47%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 33 (3.27%) Azure Engineer
14 28 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
15 27 (2.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 27 (2.67%) Software Engineer
16 26 (2.57%) Linux Support
16 26 (2.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 502 (49.70%) Elastic Stack
2 216 (21.39%) OpenTelemetry
3 22 (2.18%) FIX Protocol
4 17 (1.68%) .NET
5 14 (1.39%) LDAP
5 14 (1.39%) RESTful
6 13 (1.29%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.09%) Kafka
7 11 (1.09%) Loki
7 11 (1.09%) Pandas
7 11 (1.09%) REST
7 11 (1.09%) YAML
8 8 (0.79%) Jinja
9 7 (0.69%) Middleware
9 7 (0.69%) Node.js
9 7 (0.69%) React
10 5 (0.50%) ADO
10 5 (0.50%) HTML
10 5 (0.50%) SOAP
11 4 (0.40%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 265 (26.24%) Cyberattack
2 96 (9.50%) Linux Command Line
3 43 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 23 (2.28%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.78%) Public Cloud
8 15 (1.49%) Security Posture
9 14 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 10 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
10 10 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (0.89%) Equities
12 8 (0.79%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (0.79%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.69%) Client/Server
13 7 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (0.69%) Fixed Income
13 7 (0.69%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.59%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 783 (77.52%) Linux
2 413 (40.89%) Windows
3 263 (26.04%) Unix
4 262 (25.94%) Android
5 47 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (2.57%) Windows Server
7 25 (2.48%) Mac OS
8 22 (2.18%) CentOS
9 16 (1.58%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.09%) Debian
11 10 (0.99%) Rocky
12 9 (0.89%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 7 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.50%) SUSE
14 5 (0.50%) VMS
15 3 (0.30%) Solaris
16 2 (0.20%) AIX
16 2 (0.20%) Check Point GAiA
16 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 732 (72.48%) DevOps
2 503 (49.80%) Task Automation
3 437 (43.27%) Problem-Solving
4 351 (34.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 346 (34.26%) Mentoring
6 334 (33.07%) Platform Engineering
7 309 (30.59%) Containerisation
8 284 (28.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 283 (28.02%) Agile
10 272 (26.93%) Mathematics
11 269 (26.63%) High Availability
11 269 (26.63%) Line Management
12 266 (26.34%) Risk Management
13 265 (26.24%) Storage Management
14 235 (23.27%) Continuous Integration
15 231 (22.87%) Cost Optimisation
16 228 (22.57%) Roadmaps
17 226 (22.38%) Resource Management
18 222 (21.98%) Performance Optimisation
19 221 (21.88%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 935 (92.57%) Python
2 526 (52.08%) PowerShell
3 296 (29.31%) JavaScript
4 262 (25.94%) Java
5 244 (24.16%) Go
6 92 (9.11%) SQL
7 38 (3.76%) Perl
8 25 (2.48%) Bicep
8 25 (2.48%) C++
9 22 (2.18%) Shell Script
10 21 (2.08%) C#
11 15 (1.49%) TypeScript
12 14 (1.39%) C
13 11 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.89%) Fortran
14 9 (0.89%) Korn
14 9 (0.89%) R
14 9 (0.89%) Ruby
15 8 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 239 (23.66%) AWS Certification
2 143 (14.16%) Degree
3 52 (5.15%) Security Cleared
4 34 (3.37%) SC Cleared
5 30 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 20 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.78%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.29%) CCNP
9 13 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.19%) CCNA
10 12 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.19%) OSCP
11 10 (0.99%) CEH
11 10 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
12 9 (0.89%) CISSP
12 9 (0.89%) PhD
13 8 (0.79%) CISM
14 7 (0.69%) RHCE
14 7 (0.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (7.92%) QA
2 40 (3.96%) GDPR
3 35 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (2.57%) NIST
5 13 (1.29%) HIPAA
6 10 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.79%) COBIT
7 8 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.50%) GRC
9 3 (0.30%) SLA
9 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.099%) NCSC
System Software
1 587 (58.12%) Docker
2 272 (26.93%) Hyper-V
3 266 (26.34%) vSphere
4 262 (25.94%) VMware NSX
5 43 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 41 (4.06%) Active Directory
7 16 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.79%) NFS
10 7 (0.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 6 (0.59%) Postfix
12 4 (0.40%) Dovecot
12 4 (0.40%) zsh
13 3 (0.30%) Apache Flume
13 3 (0.30%) GPFS
13 3 (0.30%) HDFS
13 3 (0.30%) KVM
13 3 (0.30%) Lustre
14 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 625 (61.88%) Terraform
2 599 (59.31%) Ansible
3 351 (34.75%) Kubernetes
4 263 (26.04%) Prometheus
5 222 (21.98%) Argo
6 216 (21.39%) Kustomize
7 65 (6.44%) Grafana
8 27 (2.67%) Nagios
8 27 (2.67%) Puppet
9 22 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 18 (1.78%) Progress Chef
11 15 (1.49%) QRadar
11 15 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.09%) Kibana
13 8 (0.79%) SCCM
14 7 (0.69%) HAProxy
15 6 (0.59%) Nmap
15 6 (0.59%) Proxmox
16 5 (0.50%) SCOM
16 5 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 300 (29.70%) Splunk
2 270 (26.73%) Cisco
3 263 (26.04%) Juniper
4 262 (25.94%) 3PAR
5 229 (22.67%) Google
6 112 (11.09%) Microsoft
7 61 (6.04%) Red Hat
7 61 (6.04%) VMware
8 23 (2.28%) SolarWinds
9 18 (1.78%) Atlassian
10 17 (1.68%) Apple
11 14 (1.39%) Oracle
12 13 (1.29%) SAP
13 10 (0.99%) Databricks
14 9 (0.89%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.79%) Dell
15 8 (0.79%) Hitachi
15 8 (0.79%) IBM
16 7 (0.69%) F5
16 7 (0.69%) ServiceNow