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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 202 163
Rank change year-on-year +11 -39 -16
Permanent jobs citing Bash 236 206 482
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.13% 1.70% 2.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.42% 4.14% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 132 150 291
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,938 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +10.34% -9.38%
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £91,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -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 5,334 4,976 9,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.44% 41.05% 40.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,756 3,546 7,577
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £130,000
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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -23 31 £75,000 - 12
West London - 13 - - 4
South London +7 3 - -
East London -9 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 12 (5.08%) Apache
2 10 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.54%) Confluence
4 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.85%) nginx
5 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) SAS
6 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) SPSS
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.54%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 131 (55.51%) AWS
2 106 (44.92%) Azure
3 57 (24.15%) GCP
4 32 (13.56%) GitHub
5 26 (11.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (10.59%) Entra ID
7 24 (10.17%) Amazon S3
7 24 (10.17%) Serverless
8 22 (9.32%) Google Workspace
8 22 (9.32%) SaaS
9 21 (8.90%) Datadog
9 21 (8.90%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (8.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 18 (7.63%) Pulumi
12 17 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.98%) Broadband
2 32 (13.56%) DNS
3 27 (11.44%) Firewall
4 22 (9.32%) TCP/IP
5 12 (5.08%) Network Security
6 11 (4.66%) LAN
7 10 (4.24%) HTTP
7 10 (4.24%) Wireless
8 9 (3.81%) VPN
9 8 (3.39%) HTTPS
10 6 (2.54%) DHCP
11 5 (2.12%) IPv4
12 4 (1.69%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (1.69%) VLAN
12 4 (1.69%) WAN
13 3 (1.27%) BGP
13 3 (1.27%) OSPF
14 2 (0.85%) MPLS
14 2 (0.85%) Multicast
14 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.59%) NoSQL
2 17 (7.20%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.36%) RDBMS
4 10 (4.24%) MySQL
5 9 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (3.81%) Oracle Database
6 8 (3.39%) Amazon QuickSight
6 8 (3.39%) Apache Iceberg
6 8 (3.39%) Metadata
6 8 (3.39%) Tableau
7 7 (2.97%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.27%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (1.27%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (1.27%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.85%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (20.34%) GitLab
2 41 (17.37%) Jenkins
3 38 (16.10%) Git
4 20 (8.47%) Bitbucket
5 15 (6.36%) Jaeger
6 13 (5.51%) Metasploit
7 12 (5.08%) JIRA
8 11 (4.66%) CircleCI
9 9 (3.81%) Burp Suite
10 4 (1.69%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.27%) Postman
11 3 (1.27%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.85%) Subversion
13 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
13 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 83 (35.17%) Finance
2 54 (22.88%) Social Skills
3 32 (13.56%) Banking
4 25 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.47%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.81%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.54%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.12%) Electronics
9 5 (2.12%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.12%) Marketing
10 4 (1.69%) Automotive
10 4 (1.69%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.27%) Advertising
11 3 (1.27%) Legal
11 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.85%) German Language
12 2 (0.85%) Law
12 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (20.76%) Senior
2 39 (16.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 36 (15.25%) Lead
4 33 (13.98%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (13.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (11.02%) Platform Engineer
6 25 (10.59%) Security Engineer
7 23 (9.75%) Analyst
8 17 (7.20%) Administrator
8 17 (7.20%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (6.78%) Linux Administrator
9 16 (6.78%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 16 (6.78%) Systems Administrator
10 14 (5.93%) Data Engineer
10 14 (5.93%) GCP Engineer
11 13 (5.51%) Security Analyst
12 12 (5.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (5.08%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 12 (5.08%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (5.08%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.71%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (8.90%) SAML
3 20 (8.47%) REST
4 18 (7.63%) Kafka
4 18 (7.63%) OAuth
4 18 (7.63%) OpenID
5 17 (7.20%) GraphQL
5 17 (7.20%) LDAP
5 17 (7.20%) SOAP
6 16 (6.78%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (3.81%) Node.js
7 9 (3.81%) WebSockets
8 3 (1.27%) .NET
8 3 (1.27%) 802.1X
8 3 (1.27%) Loki
8 3 (1.27%) Pandas
9 2 (0.85%) JSON
9 2 (0.85%) Middleware
9 2 (0.85%) RESTful
9 2 (0.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 29 (12.29%) Cyber Threat
3 27 (11.44%) Security Posture
4 17 (7.20%) Cyberattack
5 15 (6.36%) Data Centre
6 14 (5.93%) Cyber Defence
6 14 (5.93%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.81%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.81%) Mobile App
7 9 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.12%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.69%) PKI
10 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 104 (44.07%) Linux
2 42 (17.80%) Unix
3 36 (15.25%) Windows
4 21 (8.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.66%) CentOS
6 9 (3.81%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.39%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.54%) AIX
8 6 (2.54%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (2.12%) Rocky
10 4 (1.69%) Kali Linux
11 3 (1.27%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.27%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.85%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.42%) Android
13 1 (0.42%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.42%) SUSE
13 1 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (51.69%) CI/CD
1 122 (51.69%) DevOps
2 120 (50.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 74 (31.36%) Mentoring
4 67 (28.39%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (26.27%) Containerisation
6 54 (22.88%) Agile
7 47 (19.92%) Roadmaps
8 46 (19.49%) High Availability
9 43 (18.22%) Cloud Security
9 43 (18.22%) Incident Response
10 35 (14.83%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (13.98%) Configuration Management
12 30 (12.71%) Cybersecurity
12 30 (12.71%) Identity Access Management
13 29 (12.29%) AI
14 28 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
14 28 (11.86%) Observability
14 28 (11.86%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 202 (85.59%) Python
2 106 (44.92%) PowerShell
3 62 (26.27%) SQL
4 42 (17.80%) Java
5 33 (13.98%) Go
6 24 (10.17%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.20%) T-SQL
8 15 (6.36%) Shell Script
9 11 (4.66%) Bicep
9 11 (4.66%) C#
10 10 (4.24%) Korn
11 9 (3.81%) PL/SQL
12 8 (3.39%) C++
13 7 (2.97%) Rust
14 6 (2.54%) Perl
15 5 (2.12%) C
15 5 (2.12%) Ruby
16 3 (1.27%) Objective-C
16 3 (1.27%) PHP
17 2 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (15.68%) Degree
2 30 (12.71%) Security Cleared
3 25 (10.59%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.17%) OSCP
5 16 (6.78%) CISSP
5 16 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (5.93%) RHCSA
7 13 (5.51%) DV Cleared
8 12 (5.08%) CCSAM
8 12 (5.08%) CREST Certified
9 9 (3.81%) CCSK
9 9 (3.81%) CHECK Team Leader
9 9 (3.81%) CHECK Team Member
9 9 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (3.81%) SC Cleared
10 8 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (2.97%) ISTQB
12 6 (2.54%) Azure Certification
12 6 (2.54%) GCIH
12 6 (2.54%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.17%) NIST
2 23 (9.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.20%) NCSC
4 15 (6.36%) SOC 2
5 14 (5.93%) QA
6 12 (5.08%) GDPR
7 11 (4.66%) PCI DSS
8 9 (3.81%) Data Quality
9 5 (2.12%) PMO
10 4 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.69%) SLA
11 3 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 77 (32.63%) Docker
2 30 (12.71%) Active Directory
3 17 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.39%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.69%) Squid
5 4 (1.69%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.69%) vSphere
6 3 (1.27%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.42%) Firmware
7 1 (0.42%) KVM
7 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 126 (53.39%) Terraform
2 91 (38.56%) Kubernetes
3 85 (36.02%) Ansible
4 55 (23.31%) Prometheus
5 40 (16.95%) Grafana
6 26 (11.02%) Nagios
7 21 (8.90%) Argo
8 15 (6.36%) Kustomize
9 10 (4.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (3.81%) Nessus
11 8 (3.39%) Data Guard
11 8 (3.39%) Oracle RMAN
12 7 (2.97%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (2.54%) Packer
13 6 (2.54%) ZABBIX
14 5 (2.12%) Rundeck
15 4 (1.69%) Kibana
16 3 (1.27%) logstash
16 3 (1.27%) Puppet
16 3 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 39 (16.53%) Google
2 35 (14.83%) Microsoft
3 27 (11.44%) Splunk
4 25 (10.59%) Red Hat
5 19 (8.05%) VMware
6 18 (7.63%) Oracle
7 12 (5.08%) SolarWinds
8 8 (3.39%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.54%) Apple
9 6 (2.54%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.54%) IBM
10 5 (2.12%) Cognizant
10 5 (2.12%) Rapid7
11 4 (1.69%) Intel
11 4 (1.69%) TOWER Software
12 3 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (1.27%) SAP
12 3 (1.27%) Tenable
12 3 (1.27%) Varonis
13 2 (0.85%) Okta