Bash Job Trends in England

Bash Shell
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 250 213
Rank change year-on-year +13 -37 -43
Permanent jobs citing Bash 628 521 1,177
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.78% 1.34% 1.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.39% 4.10% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 406 360 782
10th Percentile £44,500 £44,908 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,313 £77,650
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,597 £92,463
UK median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +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 14,302 12,701 27,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.71% 32.60% 32.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,060 9,133 22,450
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Bash job vacancy trend in England

Bash
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

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 9 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
London +1 236 £80,000 - 105
North of England -6 119 £49,222 -31.63% 54
South West +3 94 £60,250 -7.31% 30
South East -35 88 £61,250 +10.23% 64
Yorkshire -11 62 £62,500 -13.79% 12
Midlands -23 53 £65,000 +18.18% 27
West Midlands -23 32 £62,500 +13.64% 13
North West -29 30 £55,000 -21.43% 33
North East -19 27 £47,500 -37.09% 9
East of England -37 24 £57,500 -7.26% 14
East Midlands -19 21 £67,500 +20.00% 14
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (3.82%) Apache
2 15 (2.39%) Confluence
2 15 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (2.23%) IIS
4 13 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.43%) SAS
6 8 (1.27%) nginx
7 7 (1.11%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.80%) CMS
8 5 (0.80%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.48%) JBoss
10 3 (0.48%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (0.80%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.48%) SPSS
3 1 (0.16%) CATIA
3 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (0.80%) Shopify
2 4 (0.64%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 364 (57.96%) AWS
2 292 (46.50%) Azure
3 114 (18.15%) GitHub
4 111 (17.68%) GCP
5 97 (15.45%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (15.13%) GitHub Actions
7 85 (13.54%) Amazon S3
8 77 (12.26%) Serverless
9 74 (11.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 66 (10.51%) AWS Lambda
11 61 (9.71%) Entra ID
12 54 (8.60%) Amazon ECS
13 52 (8.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 49 (7.80%) Amazon ECR
15 46 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 45 (7.17%) SaaS
17 44 (7.01%) Datadog
17 44 (7.01%) Microsoft 365
18 42 (6.69%) AWS Step Functions
19 40 (6.37%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 99 (15.76%) Firewall
2 74 (11.78%) DNS
3 56 (8.92%) TCP/IP
4 45 (7.17%) Broadband
5 40 (6.37%) VPN
6 34 (5.41%) HTTP
7 25 (3.98%) Network Security
8 21 (3.34%) LAN
9 19 (3.03%) DHCP
10 14 (2.23%) WAN
11 11 (1.75%) Wireless
12 10 (1.59%) VLAN
13 9 (1.43%) HTTPS
13 9 (1.43%) SAN
14 8 (1.27%) iSCSI
14 8 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
15 6 (0.96%) IPv4
15 6 (0.96%) SSL
16 5 (0.80%) BGP
16 5 (0.80%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.85%) NoSQL
2 42 (6.69%) DynamoDB
3 30 (4.78%) MySQL
4 29 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 25 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (3.66%) Relational Database
7 19 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (3.03%) RDBMS
8 13 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (1.91%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.43%) Amazon QuickSight
11 9 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
11 9 (1.43%) Metadata
11 9 (1.43%) Pentaho
11 9 (1.43%) Tableau
12 8 (1.27%) Oracle Database
13 7 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.11%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 159 (25.32%) Jenkins
2 141 (22.45%) GitLab
3 96 (15.29%) Git
4 52 (8.28%) SonarQube
5 47 (7.48%) Maven
6 46 (7.32%) Cypress.io
7 32 (5.10%) Bitbucket
8 29 (4.62%) JIRA
9 19 (3.03%) Jaeger
10 18 (2.87%) CircleCI
11 17 (2.71%) Metasploit
12 13 (2.07%) Burp Suite
13 11 (1.75%) Cucumber
13 11 (1.75%) Robot Framework
14 10 (1.59%) Selenium
15 9 (1.43%) Subversion
16 7 (1.11%) JUnit
16 7 (1.11%) Mockito
16 7 (1.11%) TestRail
17 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 125 (19.90%) Social Skills
2 121 (19.27%) Finance
3 61 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
5 39 (6.21%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.10%) Banking
7 31 (4.94%) Aerospace
8 30 (4.78%) Telecoms
9 28 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (3.82%) Law
11 16 (2.55%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.75%) Retail
14 10 (1.59%) Electronics
15 9 (1.43%) Marketing
16 7 (1.11%) Advertising
16 7 (1.11%) Legal
17 6 (0.96%) Automotive
18 4 (0.64%) Billing
18 4 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (19.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 110 (17.52%) Senior
3 67 (10.67%) Lead
4 64 (10.19%) Cloud Engineer
5 53 (8.44%) Security Engineer
6 52 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 51 (8.12%) Developer
7 51 (8.12%) Linux Engineer
8 48 (7.64%) AWS Engineer
9 41 (6.53%) Platform Engineer
10 35 (5.57%) Administrator
11 34 (5.41%) Analyst
11 34 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (5.41%) Java Developer
12 32 (5.10%) Systems Administrator
13 30 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
14 28 (4.46%) Data Engineer
14 28 (4.46%) Systems Engineer
15 24 (3.82%) Linux Administrator
16 22 (3.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (12.10%) Elastic Stack
2 42 (6.69%) AngularJS
2 42 (6.69%) Spring Boot
3 40 (6.37%) Gherkin
3 40 (6.37%) Jest
4 37 (5.89%) SAML
5 36 (5.73%) OAuth
5 36 (5.73%) REST
6 30 (4.78%) LDAP
7 29 (4.62%) OpenID
8 28 (4.46%) YAML
9 26 (4.14%) SOAP
10 25 (3.98%) GraphQL
11 24 (3.82%) Node.js
11 24 (3.82%) OpenTelemetry
12 21 (3.34%) Kafka
13 18 (2.87%) .NET
14 16 (2.55%) ARM Templates
14 16 (2.55%) React
15 15 (2.39%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.44%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.37%) Cyber Threat
3 34 (5.41%) Security Posture
4 30 (4.78%) Management Information System
5 27 (4.30%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.98%) Cyberattack
7 21 (3.34%) Data Centre
8 20 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (2.39%) Product Ownership
12 14 (2.23%) Cyber Defence
12 14 (2.23%) Mobile App
12 14 (2.23%) Private Cloud
13 13 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.75%) Hedge funds
15 9 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (1.43%) PKI
15 9 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 291 (46.34%) Linux
2 111 (17.68%) Windows
3 57 (9.08%) Unix
4 49 (7.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (5.25%) CentOS
5 33 (5.25%) Ubuntu
6 29 (4.62%) Windows Server
7 14 (2.23%) Mac OS
8 9 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (1.27%) Apple iOS
9 8 (1.27%) Debian
9 8 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (1.11%) Android
11 5 (0.80%) Rocky
11 5 (0.80%) Solaris
12 4 (0.64%) AIX
12 4 (0.64%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.64%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.48%) CoreOS
13 3 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (53.66%) DevOps
2 330 (52.55%) CI/CD
3 298 (47.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 182 (28.98%) Agile
5 158 (25.16%) Containerisation
6 157 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 141 (22.45%) Mentoring
8 104 (16.56%) High Availability
9 98 (15.61%) Cloud Security
10 92 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 87 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 83 (13.22%) Cybersecurity
13 82 (13.06%) Observability
14 75 (11.94%) Platform Engineering
15 72 (11.46%) Roadmaps
16 67 (10.67%) DevSecOps
17 66 (10.51%) Test Automation
18 65 (10.35%) Configuration Management
18 65 (10.35%) Incident Response
18 65 (10.35%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 445 (70.86%) Python
2 269 (42.83%) PowerShell
3 112 (17.83%) SQL
4 109 (17.36%) Java
5 78 (12.42%) Go
6 51 (8.12%) JavaScript
7 49 (7.80%) TypeScript
8 41 (6.53%) Groovy
9 31 (4.94%) C#
10 26 (4.14%) C++
11 25 (3.98%) T-SQL
12 22 (3.50%) Bicep
13 20 (3.18%) Shell Script
14 18 (2.87%) Perl
15 17 (2.71%) C
16 14 (2.23%) Korn
17 13 (2.07%) PHP
18 12 (1.91%) PL/SQL
19 11 (1.75%) Rust
20 7 (1.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 118 (18.79%) Security Cleared
2 77 (12.26%) AWS Certification
3 76 (12.10%) Degree
4 63 (10.03%) SC Cleared
5 41 (6.53%) DV Cleared
6 37 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (4.46%) CISSP
7 28 (4.46%) OSCP
8 27 (4.30%) CREST Certified
9 26 (4.14%) ITIL Certification
10 25 (3.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 18 (2.87%) Azure Certification
12 17 (2.71%) RHCSA
13 14 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (2.07%) RHCE
15 12 (1.91%) CCSAM
15 12 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
16 11 (1.75%) CCSK
16 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (7.32%) QA
3 38 (6.05%) NIST
4 27 (4.30%) NCSC
5 26 (4.14%) SOC 2
6 20 (3.18%) GDPR
7 14 (2.23%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.91%) Data Quality
9 8 (1.27%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.96%) SLA
11 5 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.80%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.48%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.48%) IEC 61508
12 3 (0.48%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.32%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.32%) JTAG
13 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 240 (38.22%) Docker
2 92 (14.65%) Active Directory
3 39 (6.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.39%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (1.27%) iptables
6 7 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (0.96%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.80%) Firmware
8 5 (0.80%) KVM
8 5 (0.80%) Lustre
8 5 (0.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 5 (0.80%) Squid
8 5 (0.80%) vSphere
9 2 (0.32%) GPFS
9 2 (0.32%) Samba
10 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 313 (49.84%) Terraform
2 239 (38.06%) Kubernetes
3 222 (35.35%) Ansible
4 136 (21.66%) Grafana
5 130 (20.70%) Prometheus
6 40 (6.37%) HP Fortify
7 37 (5.89%) Argo
8 30 (4.78%) Nagios
9 24 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 23 (3.66%) Kustomize
10 23 (3.66%) Puppet
11 15 (2.39%) logstash
12 14 (2.23%) Kibana
12 14 (2.23%) Proxmox
13 11 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (1.75%) Nessus
14 10 (1.59%) Rancher
14 10 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (1.43%) Progress Chef
15 9 (1.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 103 (16.40%) Microsoft
2 96 (15.29%) Red Hat
3 54 (8.60%) Google
4 53 (8.44%) VMware
5 45 (7.17%) Splunk
6 34 (5.41%) Oracle
7 15 (2.39%) Cisco
7 15 (2.39%) CrowdStrike
8 13 (2.07%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.07%) SolarWinds
9 12 (1.91%) Dell
10 11 (1.75%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.43%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.43%) Informatica
11 9 (1.43%) Talend
12 8 (1.27%) CyberArk
12 8 (1.27%) IBM
12 8 (1.27%) SAP
12 8 (1.27%) Veeam
13 7 (1.11%) Apple