Bash Job Trends in Kent

Bash Shell
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 - 86
Rank change year-on-year - - -11
Permanent jobs citing Bash 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.25% - 0.080%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.44% - 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - -
75th Percentile £59,375 - -
90th Percentile £68,750 - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £69,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +25.45% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 278 132 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 17.03% 17.37% 23.36%
Number of salaries quoted 183 105 228
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,550 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £30,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -27.27% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.98%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Kent

Bash
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in Kent over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Bash in Kent

Bash
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Kent region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Tunbridge Wells - 2 £42,500 -
Sheerness - 1 £75,000 -
Snodland - 1 - -
Bash
South East

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
1 2 (50.00%) Ray
1 2 (50.00%) vLLM
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) LLM
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) MLOps
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow