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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 207 151
Rank change year-on-year +42 -56 +22
Permanent jobs citing Bash 977 1,226 2,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.02% 1.39% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.71% 4.39% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 340 765 1,217
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,350 £117,236
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 14,565 27,898 37,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.11% 31.55% 43.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,427 22,510 24,377
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,182 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +175 310 £67,500 +12.50% 141
North West +141 290 £67,500 +5.65% 93
London -6 270 £77,500 +6.90% 285
South East +15 135 £55,565 +5.84% 113
East of England +62 83 £62,000 -2.75% 87
Midlands +47 49 £55,000 +4.76% 48
South West -56 42 £57,443 +4.44% 59
East Midlands +37 25 £55,000 +10.00% 15
West Midlands +52 23 £55,000 -8.33% 31
Yorkshire +53 17 £68,750 +46.28% 42
North East +39 3 £61,500 +36.67% 6
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 12 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (0.92%) Apache Spark
2 9 (0.92%) Confluence
2 9 (0.92%) nginx
3 8 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.72%) Apache
5 6 (0.61%) IIS
6 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.31%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.20%) CICS
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.10%) CMS
9 1 (0.10%) JBoss
9 1 (0.10%) SAS
9 1 (0.10%) Traefik
9 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 385 (39.41%) AWS
2 226 (23.13%) Pulumi
3 182 (18.63%) Azure
4 79 (8.09%) GCP
5 44 (4.50%) GitHub
6 35 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (3.17%) SaaS
8 24 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (2.35%) Serverless
10 22 (2.25%) IaaS
10 22 (2.25%) PaaS
11 21 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (1.64%) Datadog
15 15 (1.54%) Amazon S3
15 15 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 362 (37.05%) VPN
2 264 (27.02%) Cisco IOS
3 219 (22.42%) Broadband
4 89 (9.11%) TCP/IP
5 85 (8.70%) Firewall
6 25 (2.56%) DNS
7 21 (2.15%) Network Security
8 15 (1.54%) 5G
8 15 (1.54%) VLAN
9 14 (1.43%) OSPF
10 13 (1.33%) BGP
10 13 (1.33%) HTTP
10 13 (1.33%) MPLS
10 13 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (1.23%) DHCP
11 12 (1.23%) LTE
12 11 (1.13%) Bluetooth
12 11 (1.13%) WAN
13 10 (1.02%) Internet
13 10 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (23.85%) Relational Database
2 224 (22.93%) NoSQL
3 218 (22.31%) RDBMS
4 26 (2.66%) MySQL
5 24 (2.46%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.23%) Big Data
9 11 (1.13%) Power BI
10 10 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.51%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.41%) MongoDB
14 3 (0.31%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.31%) Looker
14 3 (0.31%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 216 (22.11%) Jaeger
2 65 (6.65%) Cucumber
3 64 (6.55%) Robot Framework
4 57 (5.83%) Git
5 52 (5.32%) Jenkins
6 47 (4.81%) GitLab
7 19 (1.94%) JIRA
8 10 (1.02%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.82%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.72%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.31%) JUnit
13 2 (0.20%) CMake
13 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.20%) Metasploit
13 2 (0.20%) Mockito
13 2 (0.20%) Subversion
13 2 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 564 (57.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 288 (29.48%) Analytical Skills
3 165 (16.89%) Social Skills
4 114 (11.67%) Finance
5 83 (8.50%) Telecoms
6 66 (6.76%) Banking
7 15 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.33%) Electronics
9 9 (0.92%) Retail
10 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.51%) Back Office
11 5 (0.51%) Health Technology
11 5 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.51%) Public Sector
12 4 (0.41%) Advertising
12 4 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.41%) Law
13 3 (0.31%) Front Office
13 3 (0.31%) Games
Job Titles
1 288 (29.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 283 (28.97%) Lead
3 215 (22.01%) Team Leader
4 72 (7.37%) Senior
5 66 (6.76%) Test Engineer
6 64 (6.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 64 (6.55%) Test Automation Engineer
7 45 (4.61%) Administrator
8 43 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (4.30%) Systems Administrator
10 36 (3.68%) Linux Administrator
10 36 (3.68%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 33 (3.38%) Analyst
12 31 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
13 27 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
13 27 (2.76%) Linux Engineer
14 25 (2.56%) Software Engineer
15 21 (2.15%) Network Engineer
15 21 (2.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 19 (1.94%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 501 (51.28%) Elastic Stack
2 216 (22.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 16 (1.64%) RESTful
4 14 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
5 13 (1.33%) REST
6 12 (1.23%) LDAP
7 11 (1.13%) .NET
7 11 (1.13%) Loki
7 11 (1.13%) Pandas
8 9 (0.92%) Middleware
9 8 (0.82%) ADO
9 8 (0.82%) ARM Templates
10 7 (0.72%) Node.js
10 7 (0.72%) React
11 6 (0.61%) GraphQL
11 6 (0.61%) HTML
11 6 (0.61%) Kafka
12 5 (0.51%) AWS CDK
12 5 (0.51%) SOAP
13 4 (0.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 264 (27.02%) Cyberattack
2 88 (9.01%) Linux Command Line
3 28 (2.87%) Data Centre
4 27 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.66%) Cloud Native
6 23 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 15 (1.54%) IoT
8 13 (1.33%) Security Posture
9 12 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
9 12 (1.23%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.13%) NB-IoT
11 10 (1.02%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.02%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
12 9 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.92%) Equities
12 9 (0.92%) Replication
12 9 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.82%) Clustering
14 7 (0.72%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 771 (78.92%) Linux
2 433 (44.32%) Windows
3 263 (26.92%) Android
4 255 (26.10%) Unix
5 43 (4.40%) Windows Server
6 41 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (2.46%) Mac OS
8 23 (2.35%) CentOS
9 12 (1.23%) Ubuntu
10 10 (1.02%) Rocky
11 8 (0.82%) Debian
11 8 (0.82%) VMS
12 5 (0.51%) SUSE
12 5 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 4 (0.41%) Solaris
14 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.20%) zOS
15 1 (0.10%) CoreOS
15 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (71.85%) DevOps
2 502 (51.38%) Task Automation
3 433 (44.32%) Problem-Solving
4 348 (35.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 330 (33.78%) Mentoring
6 328 (33.57%) Platform Engineering
7 304 (31.12%) Containerisation
8 293 (29.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 274 (28.05%) Agile
10 273 (27.94%) Line Management
10 273 (27.94%) Mathematics
11 264 (27.02%) Storage Management
12 263 (26.92%) Risk Management
13 256 (26.20%) High Availability
14 233 (23.85%) Continuous Integration
15 232 (23.75%) Roadmaps
16 229 (23.44%) Cost Optimisation
17 221 (22.62%) GitOps
17 221 (22.62%) Resource Management
18 219 (22.42%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 914 (93.55%) Python
2 512 (52.41%) PowerShell
3 299 (30.60%) JavaScript
4 254 (26.00%) Java
5 238 (24.36%) Go
6 77 (7.88%) SQL
7 34 (3.48%) Perl
8 26 (2.66%) Bicep
9 25 (2.56%) C++
10 22 (2.25%) C#
11 20 (2.05%) TypeScript
12 17 (1.74%) C
13 16 (1.64%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.23%) Ruby
15 11 (1.13%) Fortran
16 9 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.72%) R
18 4 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
18 4 (0.41%) PHP
19 2 (0.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 239 (24.46%) AWS Certification
2 142 (14.53%) Degree
3 51 (5.22%) Security Cleared
4 34 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 31 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (1.84%) CompTIA Security+
9 14 (1.43%) CCNP
10 13 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.13%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.13%) CCNA
11 11 (1.13%) Network+ Certification
12 10 (1.02%) CEH
12 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.02%) PhD
13 7 (0.72%) CISSP
13 7 (0.72%) GCIH
13 7 (0.72%) OSCP
13 7 (0.72%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (8.29%) QA
2 34 (3.48%) GDPR
3 31 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.84%) NIST
5 11 (1.13%) COBIT
5 11 (1.13%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.41%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.31%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.31%) NCSC
10 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 575 (58.85%) Docker
2 279 (28.56%) vSphere
3 276 (28.25%) Hyper-V
4 262 (26.82%) VMware NSX
5 54 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 39 (3.99%) Active Directory
7 17 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.61%) NFS
10 5 (0.51%) Postfix
10 5 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.31%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.31%) Firmware
11 3 (0.31%) KVM
12 2 (0.20%) Squid
12 2 (0.20%) Xen
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Flume
13 1 (0.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.10%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.10%) Samba
Systems Management
1 639 (65.40%) Terraform
2 610 (62.44%) Ansible
3 335 (34.29%) Kubernetes
4 259 (26.51%) Prometheus
5 222 (22.72%) Argo
6 216 (22.11%) Kustomize
7 52 (5.32%) Grafana
8 42 (4.30%) Puppet
9 33 (3.38%) Nagios
10 23 (2.35%) Progress Chef
11 20 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (1.13%) QRadar
13 9 (0.92%) Kibana
13 9 (0.92%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (0.92%) SCCM
14 6 (0.61%) Proxmox
14 6 (0.61%) SCOM
15 5 (0.51%) CASB
15 5 (0.51%) Istio
15 5 (0.51%) Packer
Vendors
1 294 (30.09%) Splunk
2 276 (28.25%) Cisco
3 266 (27.23%) Juniper
4 262 (26.82%) 3PAR
5 231 (23.64%) Google
6 103 (10.54%) Microsoft
7 77 (7.88%) VMware
8 44 (4.50%) Red Hat
9 22 (2.25%) SolarWinds
10 14 (1.43%) Oracle
11 13 (1.33%) Apple
12 10 (1.02%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.92%) SAP
14 8 (0.82%) Hitachi
15 7 (0.72%) F5
15 7 (0.72%) NetApp
15 7 (0.72%) Palo Alto
16 6 (0.61%) Citrix
16 6 (0.61%) ServiceNow
17 5 (0.51%) Reuters