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 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 197 159
Rank change year-on-year -60 -38 +15
Permanent jobs citing Bash 534 1,274 2,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.16% 1.50% 2.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.78% 4.62% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 375 804 1,290
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £93,375 £117,236
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -

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 14,115 27,567 40,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.73% 32.45% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,351 22,492 26,016
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,013 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £108,750
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 27 April 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 27 April 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
London -61 222 £82,500 +13.79% 447
South East +12 110 £60,000 +9.09% 112
North of England +35 63 £72,500 +20.83% 96
East of England +68 55 £62,000 -4.62% 74
South West -52 46 £67,500 +22.73% 59
North West +26 43 £70,996 +15.64% 67
Midlands +47 40 £55,000 -2.22% 43
West Midlands +34 22 £55,000 -8.33% 31
Yorkshire +50 18 £72,500 +34.88% 20
East Midlands +37 17 £57,500 +15.00% 9
North East +39 2 £75,500 +67.78% 9
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 16 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.25%) nginx
3 10 (1.87%) Confluence
4 9 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.50%) Apache
6 7 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.75%) IIS
7 4 (0.75%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.56%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.37%) CICS
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.19%) CMS
Applications
1 16 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.31%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (1.31%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 209 (39.14%) Azure
2 173 (32.40%) AWS
3 90 (16.85%) GCP
4 56 (10.49%) GitHub
5 34 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (6.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (6.18%) SaaS
7 24 (4.49%) Serverless
8 22 (4.12%) IaaS
8 22 (4.12%) PaaS
9 18 (3.37%) Datadog
10 17 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (2.62%) Entra ID
14 13 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.43%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 100 (18.73%) VPN
2 97 (18.16%) TCP/IP
3 91 (17.04%) Firewall
4 35 (6.55%) Network Security
5 25 (4.68%) DNS
6 16 (3.00%) DHCP
6 16 (3.00%) WAN
7 15 (2.81%) 5G
7 15 (2.81%) HTTP
8 14 (2.62%) LAN
8 14 (2.62%) VLAN
9 13 (2.43%) BGP
9 13 (2.43%) Internet
9 13 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (2.25%) LTE
10 12 (2.25%) MPLS
11 11 (2.06%) Bluetooth
11 11 (2.06%) Intrusion Detection
11 11 (2.06%) OSPF
12 8 (1.50%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.31%) MySQL
2 21 (3.93%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.18%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.25%) Big Data
6 11 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (2.06%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.69%) Power BI
8 8 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (1.31%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (0.94%) DB2
11 4 (0.75%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.56%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.56%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 67 (12.55%) Jenkins
2 65 (12.17%) Cucumber
3 64 (11.99%) Robot Framework
4 55 (10.30%) Git
5 54 (10.11%) GitLab
6 21 (3.93%) JIRA
7 13 (2.43%) TeamCity
8 12 (2.25%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.50%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.12%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.75%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.56%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.56%) CMake
12 3 (0.56%) JUnit
12 3 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.56%) TestRail
13 2 (0.37%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.37%) Metasploit
13 2 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 173 (32.40%) Social Skills
2 124 (23.22%) Finance
3 91 (17.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 80 (14.98%) Telecoms
5 73 (13.67%) Banking
6 34 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.25%) Electronics
8 10 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.87%) Retail
9 7 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.94%) Back Office
10 5 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.94%) Games
10 5 (0.94%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.94%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.56%) Law
12 3 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 81 (15.17%) Lead
2 71 (13.30%) Senior
3 66 (12.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 66 (12.36%) Test Engineer
4 64 (11.99%) Test Automation Engineer
5 42 (7.87%) Administrator
6 41 (7.68%) Systems Administrator
7 40 (7.49%) Cloud Engineer
8 39 (7.30%) Platform Engineer
9 33 (6.18%) Analyst
9 33 (6.18%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 31 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 31 (5.81%) Linux Administrator
11 28 (5.24%) Software Engineer
12 22 (4.12%) Network Engineer
13 19 (3.56%) Linux Engineer
13 19 (3.56%) Security Engineer
13 19 (3.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 18 (3.37%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.68%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (3.37%) RESTful
3 16 (3.00%) FIX Protocol
4 13 (2.43%) REST
5 12 (2.25%) Azure Blueprints
5 12 (2.25%) LDAP
6 11 (2.06%) HTML
6 11 (2.06%) Pandas
7 9 (1.69%) ADO
7 9 (1.69%) AWS CDK
7 9 (1.69%) Loki
8 8 (1.50%) .NET
8 8 (1.50%) Middleware
8 8 (1.50%) SOAP
9 7 (1.31%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.31%) Node.js
9 7 (1.31%) React
9 7 (1.31%) Web Services
10 6 (1.12%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.12%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 85 (15.92%) Linux Command Line
2 31 (5.81%) Cloud Native
3 30 (5.62%) Data Centre
4 27 (5.06%) Management Information System
5 25 (4.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (4.49%) Security Posture
7 16 (3.00%) IoT
8 15 (2.81%) Cyber Threat
9 11 (2.06%) NB-IoT
9 11 (2.06%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.87%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.69%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.69%) Equities
11 9 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
12 8 (1.50%) Clustering
12 8 (1.50%) Replication
12 8 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.31%) Eurex
13 7 (1.31%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 302 (56.55%) Linux
2 188 (35.21%) Windows
3 53 (9.93%) Windows Server
4 50 (9.36%) Unix
5 40 (7.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (4.68%) CentOS
7 19 (3.56%) Mac OS
8 14 (2.62%) Ubuntu
9 11 (2.06%) Rocky
10 10 (1.87%) VMS
11 7 (1.31%) Solaris
12 6 (1.12%) SUSE
13 5 (0.94%) Debian
13 5 (0.94%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.56%) Android
15 3 (0.56%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.37%) zOS
17 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (45.32%) DevOps
2 183 (34.27%) Problem-Solving
3 182 (34.08%) CI/CD
4 145 (27.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 115 (21.54%) Mentoring
6 101 (18.91%) Containerisation
7 79 (14.79%) Test Automation
8 75 (14.04%) Coaching
9 69 (12.92%) System Testing
10 64 (11.99%) Test Management
11 61 (11.42%) Platform Engineering
12 60 (11.24%) Agile
13 49 (9.18%) Configuration Management
14 42 (7.87%) ITIL
15 41 (7.68%) Computer Science
15 41 (7.68%) Cybersecurity
16 38 (7.12%) High Availability
17 37 (6.93%) Artificial Intelligence
17 37 (6.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 37 (6.93%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 463 (86.70%) Python
2 278 (52.06%) PowerShell
3 96 (17.98%) JavaScript
4 83 (15.54%) SQL
5 42 (7.87%) Perl
6 41 (7.68%) Java
7 28 (5.24%) Bicep
8 27 (5.06%) C++
9 24 (4.49%) C#
10 23 (4.31%) C
11 21 (3.93%) TypeScript
12 19 (3.56%) Go
12 19 (3.56%) Ruby
13 12 (2.25%) Fortran
14 11 (2.06%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (1.12%) R
17 4 (0.75%) Jython
17 4 (0.75%) PHP
18 3 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 148 (27.72%) Degree
2 53 (9.93%) Security Cleared
3 38 (7.12%) DV Cleared
4 31 (5.81%) SC Cleared
5 28 (5.24%) AWS Certification
6 26 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 13 (2.43%) Master's Degree
10 12 (2.25%) CCNP
11 11 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
12 10 (1.87%) CCNA
12 10 (1.87%) CCSP
12 10 (1.87%) CEH
12 10 (1.87%) CISSP
12 10 (1.87%) PhD
13 9 (1.69%) Azure Certification
14 8 (1.50%) OSCP
15 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (1.12%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (14.61%) QA
2 40 (7.49%) GDPR
3 31 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (4.68%) NIST
5 21 (3.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (3.56%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.06%) COBIT
8 10 (1.87%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.75%) SLA
11 4 (0.75%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.56%) NCSC
13 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
14 1 (0.19%) JTAG
14 1 (0.19%) MISRA
System Software
1 117 (21.91%) Docker
2 57 (10.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (8.05%) Active Directory
4 20 (3.75%) vSphere
5 18 (3.37%) Hyper-V
5 18 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.94%) NFS
8 5 (0.94%) Postfix
9 3 (0.56%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.56%) Firmware
10 2 (0.37%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.19%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.19%) LXC
11 1 (0.19%) Samba
11 1 (0.19%) Squid
11 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.19%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 178 (33.33%) Terraform
2 147 (27.53%) Ansible
3 144 (26.97%) Kubernetes
4 47 (8.80%) Puppet
5 43 (8.05%) Grafana
6 41 (7.68%) Prometheus
7 29 (5.43%) Nagios
8 27 (5.06%) Progress Chef
9 16 (3.00%) CASB
9 16 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.69%) Argo
10 9 (1.69%) Istio
10 9 (1.69%) QRadar
11 8 (1.50%) SCCM
12 7 (1.31%) Red Hat Satellite
12 7 (1.31%) Rundeck
13 6 (1.12%) linkerd
13 6 (1.12%) SCOM
14 5 (0.94%) Proxmox
14 5 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 101 (18.91%) Microsoft
2 82 (15.36%) VMware
3 46 (8.61%) Red Hat
4 27 (5.06%) Splunk
5 26 (4.87%) Google
6 25 (4.68%) SolarWinds
7 20 (3.75%) Cisco
8 15 (2.81%) Oracle
9 11 (2.06%) Apple
10 10 (1.87%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.87%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.69%) NetApp
12 8 (1.50%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.50%) Reuters
13 7 (1.31%) Citrix
13 7 (1.31%) CQG
13 7 (1.31%) ION Trading
13 7 (1.31%) Patsystems
13 7 (1.31%) Trayport
14 6 (1.12%) F5