Bash Job Trends in London

Bash Shell
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 203 158
Rank change year-on-year 0 -45 -13
Permanent jobs citing Bash 243 218 505
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.11% 1.76% 2.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.53% 4.24% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 135 163 305
10th Percentile £51,750 £43,815 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £91,875 £95,000 £92,000
90th Percentile £102,250 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -10.71%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,369 5,145 9,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.47% 41.57% 40.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,798 3,587 7,577
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £132,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Bash job vacancy trend in London

Bash
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Bash in London

Bash
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the London region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Central London -26 28 £87,500 +11.11% 30
West London - 13 - - 6
South London +22 2 - - 1
East London -1 2 - - 1
Bash
England

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 8 (3.29%) Apache
2 6 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.47%) Confluence
3 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.65%) SAS
5 3 (1.23%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.82%) nginx
6 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.23%) SPSS
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (4.12%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.41%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 135 (55.56%) AWS
2 106 (43.62%) Azure
3 46 (18.93%) GCP
4 35 (14.40%) Serverless
5 34 (13.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (12.35%) GitHub
7 25 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (9.88%) Amazon S3
8 24 (9.88%) Datadog
9 23 (9.47%) Amazon ECS
9 23 (9.47%) Entra ID
10 21 (8.64%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (8.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (7.82%) Google Workspace
13 17 (7.00%) SaaS
14 15 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (6.17%) Pulumi
15 14 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.52%) DNS
1 28 (11.52%) Firewall
2 25 (10.29%) Broadband
3 22 (9.05%) Network Security
4 21 (8.64%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.12%) LAN
5 10 (4.12%) VPN
6 9 (3.70%) HTTP
6 9 (3.70%) Wireless
7 8 (3.29%) HTTPS
8 6 (2.47%) DHCP
9 5 (2.06%) BGP
9 5 (2.06%) IPv4
9 5 (2.06%) VLAN
10 4 (1.65%) NAS
10 4 (1.65%) OSPF
10 4 (1.65%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.65%) WAN
11 3 (1.23%) MPLS
11 3 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.64%) NoSQL
2 14 (5.76%) Oracle Database
3 13 (5.35%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.94%) MySQL
5 11 (4.53%) RDBMS
6 7 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.65%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.65%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (1.65%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.65%) Metadata
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (1.65%) Tableau
9 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (19.34%) GitLab
2 41 (16.87%) Jenkins
3 35 (14.40%) Git
4 20 (8.23%) Bitbucket
5 14 (5.76%) JIRA
6 12 (4.94%) Metasploit
7 11 (4.53%) CircleCI
7 11 (4.53%) Jaeger
8 8 (3.29%) Burp Suite
9 6 (2.47%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.65%) Postman
10 4 (1.65%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.23%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.23%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (1.23%) Subversion
12 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.82%) JMeter
13 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
General
1 96 (39.51%) Finance
2 59 (24.28%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.40%) Banking
4 24 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (7.00%) Public Sector
7 15 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.88%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.06%) Automotive
10 4 (1.65%) Electronics
10 4 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.65%) Marketing
11 3 (1.23%) Advertising
11 3 (1.23%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.82%) German Language
12 2 (0.82%) Law
12 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Retail
12 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (26.34%) Senior
2 36 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (13.99%) Cloud Engineer
3 34 (13.99%) Platform Engineer
4 32 (13.17%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (10.70%) Lead
6 24 (9.88%) Security Engineer
7 19 (7.82%) Analyst
8 18 (7.41%) Administrator
9 17 (7.00%) Linux Administrator
9 17 (7.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 17 (7.00%) Systems Administrator
10 14 (5.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (4.94%) Security Analyst
12 11 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
12 11 (4.53%) DBA
12 11 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.53%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (4.53%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.76%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (9.05%) SAML
3 18 (7.41%) REST
4 16 (6.58%) OAuth
4 16 (6.58%) OpenID
5 15 (6.17%) GraphQL
5 15 (6.17%) Kafka
5 15 (6.17%) LDAP
5 15 (6.17%) SOAP
6 13 (5.35%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (3.70%) AWS CDK
7 9 (3.70%) Node.js
8 8 (3.29%) WebSockets
9 4 (1.65%) .NET
9 4 (1.65%) YAML
10 3 (1.23%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.23%) JSON
10 3 (1.23%) Middleware
10 3 (1.23%) Pandas
10 3 (1.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.88%) Cyber Threat
3 23 (9.47%) Security Posture
4 17 (7.00%) Onboarding
5 16 (6.58%) Data Centre
6 13 (5.35%) Cyberattack
7 12 (4.94%) Cyber Defence
8 11 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (4.53%) Management Information System
9 8 (3.29%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (3.29%) Mobile App
9 8 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (2.06%) Hedge funds
13 4 (1.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.65%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
14 3 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 111 (45.68%) Linux
2 40 (16.46%) Unix
3 37 (15.23%) Windows
4 24 (9.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.35%) Windows Server
6 12 (4.94%) CentOS
7 10 (4.12%) AIX
7 10 (4.12%) Oracle Linux
8 8 (3.29%) Mac OS
9 7 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (2.06%) Rocky
11 4 (1.65%) Kali Linux
12 3 (1.23%) Apple iOS
12 3 (1.23%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.82%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.41%) Android
14 1 (0.41%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (52.26%) Infrastructure as Code
2 119 (48.97%) CI/CD
3 117 (48.15%) DevOps
4 68 (27.98%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (27.57%) Mentoring
6 62 (25.51%) Containerisation
7 51 (20.99%) Agile
8 46 (18.93%) Cloud Security
8 46 (18.93%) Platform Engineering
9 44 (18.11%) Roadmaps
10 43 (17.70%) Incident Response
11 42 (17.28%) High Availability
12 36 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
13 32 (13.17%) Configuration Management
14 30 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (11.93%) AI
16 28 (11.52%) Cybersecurity
17 27 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 26 (10.70%) Capacity Planning
18 26 (10.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 204 (83.95%) Python
2 107 (44.03%) PowerShell
3 62 (25.51%) SQL
4 53 (21.81%) Java
5 30 (12.35%) Go
6 22 (9.05%) JavaScript
7 20 (8.23%) Shell Script
8 15 (6.17%) Korn
8 15 (6.17%) T-SQL
9 14 (5.76%) C#
9 14 (5.76%) PL/SQL
10 13 (5.35%) Ruby
11 12 (4.94%) Perl
12 11 (4.53%) PHP
12 11 (4.53%) Rust
13 7 (2.88%) Bicep
13 7 (2.88%) C++
14 6 (2.47%) VBA
15 4 (1.65%) C
16 3 (1.23%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 44 (18.11%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.23%) Degree
3 30 (12.35%) AWS Certification
4 22 (9.05%) OSCP
5 17 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.17%) DV Cleared
7 14 (5.76%) SC Cleared
8 13 (5.35%) RHCSA
9 12 (4.94%) CISSP
10 11 (4.53%) CCSAM
10 11 (4.53%) CREST Certified
11 10 (4.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (3.29%) CHECK Team Leader
13 8 (3.29%) CHECK Team Member
14 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (2.47%) RHCE
15 5 (2.06%) GCIA
15 5 (2.06%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 21 (8.64%) NIST
2 15 (6.17%) QA
3 14 (5.76%) SOC 2
4 13 (5.35%) NCSC
5 12 (4.94%) GDPR
6 11 (4.53%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.47%) PMO
8 5 (2.06%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.65%) SLA
10 3 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 76 (31.28%) Docker
2 31 (12.76%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.94%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (2.06%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.65%) Squid
6 4 (1.65%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.65%) vSphere
7 3 (1.23%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.41%) Firmware
8 1 (0.41%) KVM
8 1 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 127 (52.26%) Terraform
2 89 (36.63%) Ansible
3 85 (34.98%) Kubernetes
4 54 (22.22%) Prometheus
5 49 (20.16%) Grafana
6 31 (12.76%) Nagios
7 23 (9.47%) Argo
8 13 (5.35%) Data Guard
8 13 (5.35%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (4.53%) Kustomize
9 11 (4.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (3.70%) Packer
11 8 (3.29%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (3.29%) Nessus
12 6 (2.47%) Rundeck
12 6 (2.47%) ZABBIX
13 5 (2.06%) Kibana
14 4 (1.65%) Puppet
14 4 (1.65%) Rancher
15 3 (1.23%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 36 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 33 (13.58%) Splunk
3 29 (11.93%) Google
4 26 (10.70%) Red Hat
5 25 (10.29%) Oracle
6 19 (7.82%) VMware
7 11 (4.53%) SolarWinds
8 10 (4.12%) IBM
8 10 (4.12%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.88%) Apple
9 7 (2.88%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.47%) Cognizant
10 6 (2.47%) Rapid7
11 4 (1.65%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.65%) Intel
11 4 (1.65%) Tenable
11 4 (1.65%) TOWER Software
12 3 (1.23%) Commvault
12 3 (1.23%) New Relic
12 3 (1.23%) Varonis