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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 201 147
Rank change year-on-year +7 -54 -3
Permanent jobs citing Bash 230 223 505
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.18% 1.73% 2.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.52% 4.17% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 125 171 318
10th Percentile £43,250 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +11.86% -4.84%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -14.29%

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 5,090 5,352 9,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.01% 41.56% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,582 3,933 7,618
10th Percentile £47,617 £49,028 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +2.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,375 £130,000 £127,500
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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -6 33 £52,500 -36.36% 19
West London - 14 - - 6
South London +20 4 - - 1
East London -16 2 - - 4
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 13 (5.65%) Apache
2 11 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.91%) Confluence
4 7 (3.04%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (2.17%) IIS
7 2 (0.87%) nginx
7 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) SPSS
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 125 (54.35%) AWS
2 101 (43.91%) Azure
3 69 (30.00%) GCP
4 38 (16.52%) GitHub
5 31 (13.48%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (12.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (11.74%) Entra ID
8 24 (10.43%) Google Workspace
9 22 (9.57%) Serverless
10 21 (9.13%) SaaS
10 21 (9.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (8.26%) Amazon S3
11 19 (8.26%) Datadog
12 17 (7.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (6.96%) Pulumi
14 14 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (5.22%) Google Compute Engine
16 12 (5.22%) IaaS
16 12 (5.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.65%) Broadband
1 36 (15.65%) DNS
2 27 (11.74%) Firewall
3 21 (9.13%) TCP/IP
4 10 (4.35%) Network Security
5 9 (3.91%) Wireless
6 8 (3.48%) DHCP
6 8 (3.48%) HTTPS
6 8 (3.48%) LAN
6 8 (3.48%) VPN
7 7 (3.04%) HTTP
8 4 (1.74%) IPv4
9 3 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (1.30%) VLAN
9 3 (1.30%) WAN
10 2 (0.87%) Multicast
10 2 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.43%) FTP
11 1 (0.43%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.61%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.26%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.96%) RDBMS
4 13 (5.65%) BigQuery
5 11 (4.78%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (3.91%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (3.91%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (3.91%) Metadata
7 9 (3.91%) MySQL
7 9 (3.91%) Tableau
8 7 (3.04%) Oracle Database
8 7 (3.04%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.30%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database 11g
10 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (1.30%) Oracle Exadata
11 2 (0.87%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 48 (20.87%) Jenkins
2 46 (20.00%) GitLab
3 37 (16.09%) Git
4 22 (9.57%) Bitbucket
5 16 (6.96%) Jaeger
5 16 (6.96%) JIRA
6 13 (5.65%) Metasploit
7 11 (4.78%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.91%) Burp Suite
9 6 (2.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (2.17%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.30%) Postman
12 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.87%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.87%) JMeter
12 2 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.87%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.87%) Subversion
12 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 82 (35.65%) Finance
2 53 (23.04%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.04%) Banking
4 23 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (9.13%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.91%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.04%) Electronics
8 7 (3.04%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.61%) Marketing
9 6 (2.61%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.17%) Advertising
10 5 (2.17%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.74%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.30%) Automotive
12 3 (1.30%) Retail
13 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.87%) German Language
13 2 (0.87%) Legal
13 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (18.70%) Senior
2 42 (18.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (16.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 36 (15.65%) Lead
5 27 (11.74%) Analyst
5 27 (11.74%) AWS Engineer
6 21 (9.13%) Security Engineer
7 20 (8.70%) GCP Engineer
8 18 (7.83%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (7.39%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (6.52%) Administrator
10 15 (6.52%) Linux Administrator
11 14 (6.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 14 (6.09%) Security Analyst
12 13 (5.65%) Data Engineer
13 12 (5.22%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (5.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 12 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (5.22%) Senior Security Analyst
13 12 (5.22%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.78%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (10.43%) Kafka
3 21 (9.13%) OpenID
4 20 (8.70%) REST
5 19 (8.26%) SAML
6 18 (7.83%) GraphQL
6 18 (7.83%) LDAP
6 18 (7.83%) OAuth
6 18 (7.83%) SOAP
7 17 (7.39%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.61%) Node.js
8 6 (2.61%) WebSockets
9 5 (2.17%) Middleware
10 4 (1.74%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (1.30%) 802.1X
12 2 (0.87%) .NET
12 2 (0.87%) JSON
12 2 (0.87%) Loki
12 2 (0.87%) Vue
12 2 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.04%) Cyber Threat
2 29 (12.61%) Security Posture
3 19 (8.26%) Cloud Native
4 18 (7.83%) Cyberattack
5 15 (6.52%) Management Information System
6 14 (6.09%) Cyber Defence
7 12 (5.22%) Data Centre
7 12 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (4.78%) Hedge funds
9 9 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (3.91%) Mobile App
10 8 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.17%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.17%) PKI
12 4 (1.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 3 (1.30%) Insider Threat
13 3 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 107 (46.52%) Linux
2 47 (20.43%) Windows
3 46 (20.00%) Unix
4 21 (9.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.65%) Windows Server
6 10 (4.35%) CentOS
7 8 (3.48%) Mac OS
7 8 (3.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (2.17%) Ubuntu
9 5 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.74%) Kali Linux
11 3 (1.30%) AIX
11 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.30%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (1.30%) Rocky
12 1 (0.43%) Android
12 1 (0.43%) Solaris
12 1 (0.43%) SUSE
12 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (53.91%) DevOps
2 120 (52.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 118 (51.30%) CI/CD
4 73 (31.74%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 61 (26.52%) Containerisation
7 56 (24.35%) Agile
8 52 (22.61%) High Availability
9 43 (18.70%) Roadmaps
10 41 (17.83%) Configuration Management
11 40 (17.39%) Incident Response
12 38 (16.52%) Cloud Security
13 33 (14.35%) Continuous Integration
13 33 (14.35%) Identity Access Management
14 32 (13.91%) Cybersecurity
15 30 (13.04%) AI
15 30 (13.04%) Red Team
16 27 (11.74%) Performance Optimisation
17 25 (10.87%) Computer Science
17 25 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 198 (86.09%) Python
2 102 (44.35%) PowerShell
3 61 (26.52%) SQL
4 39 (16.96%) Java
5 37 (16.09%) Go
6 27 (11.74%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.83%) T-SQL
8 12 (5.22%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.91%) C#
10 8 (3.48%) C++
11 7 (3.04%) Bicep
11 7 (3.04%) Korn
11 7 (3.04%) Perl
11 7 (3.04%) Ruby
12 6 (2.61%) PL/SQL
13 5 (2.17%) C
13 5 (2.17%) Rust
14 3 (1.30%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.30%) PHP
15 2 (0.87%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 43 (18.70%) Degree
2 28 (12.17%) AWS Certification
3 27 (11.74%) Security Cleared
4 23 (10.00%) OSCP
5 20 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (7.83%) CISSP
7 12 (5.22%) CCSAM
7 12 (5.22%) CREST Certified
7 12 (5.22%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.78%) CCSK
9 10 (4.35%) RHCSA
10 9 (3.91%) CHECK Team Leader
10 9 (3.91%) CHECK Team Member
11 7 (3.04%) Azure Certification
11 7 (3.04%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (3.04%) GCIH
12 6 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (2.61%) GCIA
12 6 (2.61%) ISTQB
12 6 (2.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 25 (10.87%) NIST
2 18 (7.83%) NCSC
3 16 (6.96%) SOC 2
4 15 (6.52%) GDPR
4 15 (6.52%) QA
5 13 (5.65%) PCI DSS
6 10 (4.35%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.30%) SLA
9 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.43%) Basel III
10 1 (0.43%) GRC
10 1 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 81 (35.22%) Docker
2 36 (15.65%) Active Directory
3 20 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.17%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.30%) Squid
5 3 (1.30%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.30%) vSphere
6 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.87%) KVM
7 1 (0.43%) Firmware
7 1 (0.43%) iptables
Systems Management
1 118 (51.30%) Terraform
2 102 (44.35%) Kubernetes
3 88 (38.26%) Ansible
4 51 (22.17%) Prometheus
5 34 (14.78%) Grafana
6 19 (8.26%) Argo
6 19 (8.26%) Nagios
7 16 (6.96%) Kustomize
8 10 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (3.91%) Nessus
10 7 (3.04%) Puppet
11 5 (2.17%) Data Guard
11 5 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (2.17%) logstash
11 5 (2.17%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.74%) Kibana
12 4 (1.74%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.74%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.74%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (20.00%) Google
2 31 (13.48%) Microsoft
3 29 (12.61%) Red Hat
4 23 (10.00%) VMware
5 19 (8.26%) Splunk
6 18 (7.83%) Oracle
7 9 (3.91%) Atlassian
8 8 (3.48%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.61%) Apple
9 6 (2.61%) SAP
10 4 (1.74%) Intel
10 4 (1.74%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.74%) TOWER Software
11 3 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.30%) IBM
11 3 (1.30%) Tenable
11 3 (1.30%) Varonis
12 2 (0.87%) Arista
12 2 (0.87%) Cisco
12 2 (0.87%) Commvault