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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 228 143
Rank change year-on-year -21 -85 +18
Permanent jobs citing Bash 460 659 971
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.88% 1.32% 2.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.48% 3.89% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 358 417 762
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £51,063 £50,000 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -3.57%

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 10,272 16,939 17,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.75% 34.03% 39.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7,735 10,080 14,868
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,238 £39,749
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,452 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,968
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.23% -3.13%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 -4 220 £75,000 -6.25% 220
North of England -8 66 £61,500 +3.36% 259
South West +8 57 £67,500 -2.17% 150
South East -11 54 £56,965 -14.02% 307
Midlands +7 29 £60,000 +6.67% 214
Yorkshire -8 29 £75,000 +52.21% 116
North West +5 26 £60,000 -14.29% 124
East of England -5 24 £55,000 - 176
West Midlands +22 21 £60,000 -6.61% 104
North East +12 11 £33,500 -33.00% 20
East Midlands -17 8 £67,750 +69.38% 98
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 10 (2.17%) Confluence
2 9 (1.96%) IIS
2 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.52%) Apache
3 7 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.09%) SAS
4 5 (1.09%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.87%) nginx
5 4 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 2 (0.43%) JBoss
7 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.65%) CATIA
3 3 (0.65%) Siemens NX
3 3 (0.65%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (0.65%) Windchill
4 2 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.43%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.43%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.43%) Shopify
3 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 218 (47.39%) AWS
2 173 (37.61%) Azure
3 79 (17.17%) GitHub
4 74 (16.09%) GCP
5 72 (15.65%) GitHub Actions
6 66 (14.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 64 (13.91%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (9.35%) Serverless
9 39 (8.48%) Amazon S3
10 35 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (7.39%) SaaS
12 33 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (6.74%) Amazon ECS
14 28 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (5.87%) OpenShift
15 27 (5.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 25 (5.43%) Datadog
17 23 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
17 23 (5.00%) Entra ID
18 22 (4.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (13.70%) Firewall
2 38 (8.26%) DNS
3 30 (6.52%) TCP/IP
4 18 (3.91%) Network Security
5 16 (3.48%) VPN
6 15 (3.26%) Broadband
6 15 (3.26%) SAN
7 14 (3.04%) WAN
8 12 (2.61%) LAN
9 10 (2.17%) DHCP
10 8 (1.74%) InfiniBand
11 7 (1.52%) Asterisk PBX
11 7 (1.52%) HTTP
11 7 (1.52%) VoIP
12 6 (1.30%) PSTN
12 6 (1.30%) VLAN
13 5 (1.09%) BGP
13 5 (1.09%) iSCSI
13 5 (1.09%) OSPF
13 5 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.57%) NoSQL
2 20 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 19 (4.13%) SQL Server
4 16 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (3.48%) BigQuery
5 15 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.83%) MySQL
7 7 (1.52%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.09%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.09%) Pentaho
8 5 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.87%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.87%) Big Data
9 4 (0.87%) Metadata
9 4 (0.87%) Power BI
9 4 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 129 (28.04%) Jenkins
2 74 (16.09%) GitLab
3 60 (13.04%) Git
4 38 (8.26%) JIRA
5 26 (5.65%) Maven
6 21 (4.57%) SonarQube
7 18 (3.91%) Cypress.io
8 12 (2.61%) Bitbucket
9 11 (2.39%) Burp Suite
9 11 (2.39%) Metasploit
10 10 (2.17%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (1.52%) Jaeger
12 6 (1.30%) JUnit
12 6 (1.30%) Mockito
12 6 (1.30%) Robot Framework
12 6 (1.30%) TestRail
13 5 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (1.09%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.87%) Selenium
General
1 139 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 106 (23.04%) Finance
3 41 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.04%) Telecoms
5 20 (4.35%) Banking
5 20 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 16 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.39%) Aerospace
9 11 (2.39%) Electronics
10 10 (2.17%) Marketing
11 8 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.52%) Law
12 7 (1.52%) Retail
13 6 (1.30%) Advertising
14 5 (1.09%) Back Office
14 5 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.87%) Games
Job Titles
1 83 (18.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (12.61%) Platform Engineer
3 49 (10.65%) Senior
4 47 (10.22%) Linux Engineer
5 44 (9.57%) Lead
6 42 (9.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (8.48%) Support Engineer
8 34 (7.39%) Security Engineer
9 26 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
10 25 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
11 22 (4.78%) Administrator
11 22 (4.78%) Automation Engineer
12 20 (4.35%) Developer
13 19 (4.13%) Analyst
14 18 (3.91%) GCP Engineer
15 17 (3.70%) Graduate
15 17 (3.70%) Technical Engineer
15 17 (3.70%) Technical Support
15 17 (3.70%) Technical Support Engineer
16 16 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (9.78%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (4.35%) REST
3 18 (3.91%) .NET
3 18 (3.91%) Spring Boot
4 17 (3.70%) ARM Templates
4 17 (3.70%) Kafka
5 16 (3.48%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.48%) Gherkin
5 16 (3.48%) Jest
6 14 (3.04%) Node.js
6 14 (3.04%) YAML
7 12 (2.61%) Spring
8 10 (2.17%) LDAP
8 10 (2.17%) Middleware
9 9 (1.96%) OAuth
9 9 (1.96%) OpenID
9 9 (1.96%) SOAP
10 8 (1.74%) GraphQL
10 8 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (1.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.26%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.74%) Management Information System
3 25 (5.43%) Security Posture
4 15 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (2.39%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.52%) Cyberattack
7 7 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.52%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.52%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.30%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.30%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.30%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.09%) Video on Demand
9 5 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 223 (48.48%) Linux
2 87 (18.91%) Windows
3 51 (11.09%) Unix
4 44 (9.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (4.78%) CentOS
5 22 (4.78%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.91%) Ubuntu
7 16 (3.48%) Debian
7 16 (3.48%) Solaris
8 11 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (2.17%) VMS
10 9 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (1.74%) Mac OS
12 5 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.65%) Android
13 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.43%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.43%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.22%) AIX
15 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (52.39%) DevOps
2 219 (47.61%) CI/CD
3 169 (36.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (22.39%) Agile
6 100 (21.74%) Containerisation
7 69 (15.00%) Cloud Security
8 62 (13.48%) Platform Engineering
9 60 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (12.17%) Task Automation
11 54 (11.74%) Mentoring
12 52 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 50 (10.87%) Observability
14 49 (10.65%) High Availability
15 44 (9.57%) Computer Science
15 44 (9.57%) Configuration Management
15 44 (9.57%) Incident Response
16 41 (8.91%) Machine Learning
17 39 (8.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 37 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 366 (79.57%) Python
2 194 (42.17%) PowerShell
3 61 (13.26%) SQL
4 55 (11.96%) Go
5 52 (11.30%) Java
6 27 (5.87%) TypeScript
7 23 (5.00%) Bicep
8 20 (4.35%) C#
8 20 (4.35%) Groovy
8 20 (4.35%) Perl
9 19 (4.13%) JavaScript
10 16 (3.48%) C++
11 14 (3.04%) Shell Script
12 13 (2.83%) C
13 11 (2.39%) Korn
14 7 (1.52%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.87%) Fortran
15 4 (0.87%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.87%) Ruby
16 3 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 100 (21.74%) Degree
2 80 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 45 (9.78%) DV Cleared
4 40 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 39 (8.48%) AWS Certification
6 26 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (4.13%) CISSP
8 16 (3.48%) CREST Certified
9 15 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (2.83%) Master's Degree
10 13 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (2.39%) CCNP
12 10 (2.17%) OSCP
13 9 (1.96%) Azure Certification
13 9 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
13 9 (1.96%) PhD
14 8 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (1.52%) GCIH
15 7 (1.52%) RHCE
16 6 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (8.26%) NIST
3 31 (6.74%) GDPR
4 23 (5.00%) Accessibility
5 21 (4.57%) QA
6 11 (2.39%) SLA
7 10 (2.17%) NCSC
7 10 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.96%) PCI DSS
9 8 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (1.30%) Data Quality
10 6 (1.30%) SOC 2
11 5 (1.09%) GRC
12 3 (0.65%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.43%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.43%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.22%) Basel III
14 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 152 (33.04%) Docker
2 50 (10.87%) Active Directory
3 34 (7.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.74%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 7 (1.52%) Lustre
7 4 (0.87%) Firmware
8 3 (0.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.65%) vSphere
9 2 (0.43%) Ceph
9 2 (0.43%) GPFS
9 2 (0.43%) iptables
9 2 (0.43%) KVM
9 2 (0.43%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.22%) Postfix
10 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.22%) zsh
Systems Management
1 184 (40.00%) Terraform
2 170 (36.96%) Kubernetes
3 137 (29.78%) Ansible
4 68 (14.78%) Prometheus
5 62 (13.48%) Grafana
6 19 (4.13%) Argo
7 16 (3.48%) HP Fortify
8 12 (2.61%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (2.39%) Puppet
10 8 (1.74%) Nessus
10 8 (1.74%) Nmap
11 7 (1.52%) Kustomize
11 7 (1.52%) Rancher
12 6 (1.30%) Podman
12 6 (1.30%) Progress Chef
13 5 (1.09%) logstash
13 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (1.09%) Nagios
14 4 (0.87%) Cilium
14 4 (0.87%) vRealize
Vendors
1 67 (14.57%) Microsoft
2 56 (12.17%) Red Hat
3 40 (8.70%) Google
3 40 (8.70%) VMware
4 38 (8.26%) Splunk
5 25 (5.43%) Oracle
6 17 (3.70%) Cisco
6 17 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 15 (3.26%) Tenable
8 13 (2.83%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.83%) NetApp
9 9 (1.96%) SAP
10 7 (1.52%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.52%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.52%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.30%) Dell
11 6 (1.30%) Rapid7
12 5 (1.09%) Cloudera
12 5 (1.09%) Informatica
12 5 (1.09%) Talend