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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 180 154
Rank change year-on-year -51 -26 -20
Permanent jobs citing Bash 223 245 445
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.97% 2.00% 2.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.12% 4.77% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 140 187 246
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,946 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,938 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,375 £92,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £111,250 £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 5,412 5,141 8,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.63% 41.97% 40.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,786 3,545 6,171
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £135,000
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 28 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 28 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 -30 21 £87,500 +16.67% 16
West London - 4 - - 6
South London 0 1 - - 3
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 7 (3.14%) Confluence
2 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.24%) SAS
3 3 (1.35%) Apache
3 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.90%) nginx
4 2 (0.90%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.35%) SPSS
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (5.38%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (1.35%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 133 (59.64%) AWS
2 105 (47.09%) Azure
3 43 (19.28%) GCP
4 41 (18.39%) Serverless
5 38 (17.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (14.80%) GitHub
7 32 (14.35%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (13.90%) Amazon ECS
9 26 (11.66%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (11.21%) Datadog
11 22 (9.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (9.87%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (9.42%) Amazon S3
13 19 (8.52%) Amazon EventBridge
14 17 (7.62%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (7.17%) Entra ID
15 16 (7.17%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (6.73%) AWS Control Tower
16 15 (6.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.00%) Firewall
1 29 (13.00%) Network Security
2 26 (11.66%) DNS
3 20 (8.97%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.93%) VPN
5 8 (3.59%) HTTP
5 8 (3.59%) HTTPS
5 8 (3.59%) LAN
6 6 (2.69%) VLAN
7 5 (2.24%) BGP
7 5 (2.24%) Broadband
7 5 (2.24%) IPv4
7 5 (2.24%) NAS
8 4 (1.79%) DHCP
8 4 (1.79%) Kerberos
8 4 (1.79%) OSPF
8 4 (1.79%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (1.79%) SSH
8 4 (1.79%) Wireless
9 3 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.17%) Oracle Database
2 12 (5.38%) MySQL
3 9 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (3.59%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.79%) Oracle Database 11g
6 4 (1.79%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (1.79%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.90%) Redis
8 2 (0.90%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.45%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.45%) Metadata
9 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (21.52%) GitLab
2 40 (17.94%) Jenkins
3 31 (13.90%) Git
4 18 (8.07%) Bitbucket
5 16 (7.17%) JIRA
6 10 (4.48%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.69%) Metasploit
7 6 (2.69%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.24%) Postman
9 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.35%) JMeter
9 3 (1.35%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (1.35%) Subversion
10 2 (0.90%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.45%) NUnit
11 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 96 (43.05%) Finance
2 63 (28.25%) Social Skills
3 40 (17.94%) Banking
4 29 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.31%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.59%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.14%) Automotive
9 5 (2.24%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.79%) Electronics
10 4 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.79%) Marketing
11 3 (1.35%) Advertising
11 3 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.35%) Public Speaking
11 3 (1.35%) Retail
12 2 (0.90%) Front Office
12 2 (0.90%) German Language
12 2 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 61 (27.35%) Senior
2 38 (17.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (15.25%) Platform Engineer
4 29 (13.00%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (10.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (9.87%) Security Engineer
7 21 (9.42%) Administrator
8 19 (8.52%) Linux Administrator
8 19 (8.52%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 19 (8.52%) Systems Administrator
9 14 (6.28%) Consultant
9 14 (6.28%) Security Consultant
9 14 (6.28%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (6.28%) Senior Security Consultant
10 13 (5.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) DBA
11 12 (5.38%) Oracle DBA
11 12 (5.38%) Senior DBA
11 12 (5.38%) Senior Oracle DBA
12 11 (4.93%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.07%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (7.62%) AWS CDK
3 13 (5.83%) SAML
4 11 (4.93%) Kafka
5 9 (4.04%) REST
6 8 (3.59%) Node.js
6 8 (3.59%) OAuth
6 8 (3.59%) WebSockets
7 7 (3.14%) GraphQL
7 7 (3.14%) LDAP
7 7 (3.14%) OpenID
7 7 (3.14%) SOAP
8 6 (2.69%) YAML
9 5 (2.24%) .NET
9 5 (2.24%) Middleware
10 4 (1.79%) OpenMP
10 4 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (1.35%) JSON
11 3 (1.35%) OpenACC
11 3 (1.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.70%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.66%) Onboarding
3 16 (7.17%) Cyber Threat
3 16 (7.17%) Data Centre
4 14 (6.28%) Enterprise Cloud
4 14 (6.28%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (4.48%) Management Information System
7 9 (4.04%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.69%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (2.24%) Cyberattack
10 5 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.79%) CUDA
11 4 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.79%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (1.35%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 100 (44.84%) Linux
2 37 (16.59%) Windows
3 33 (14.80%) Unix
4 24 (10.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.83%) CentOS
6 12 (5.38%) AIX
6 12 (5.38%) Oracle Linux
6 12 (5.38%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.59%) Mac OS
8 7 (3.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.79%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.79%) Kali Linux
9 4 (1.79%) Rocky
10 3 (1.35%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.45%) Android
12 1 (0.45%) SUSE
12 1 (0.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (53.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 115 (51.57%) CI/CD
3 107 (47.98%) DevOps
4 61 (27.35%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (22.42%) Containerisation
6 48 (21.52%) Cloud Security
7 46 (20.63%) Incident Response
7 46 (20.63%) Platform Engineering
8 42 (18.83%) Mentoring
9 35 (15.70%) Identity Access Management
10 34 (15.25%) Configuration Management
11 33 (14.80%) AI
12 31 (13.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (13.45%) Agile
13 30 (13.45%) Capacity Planning
14 29 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (12.11%) High Availability
16 26 (11.66%) ITIL
16 26 (11.66%) Software Engineering
17 25 (11.21%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 189 (84.75%) Python
2 94 (42.15%) PowerShell
3 51 (22.87%) SQL
4 48 (21.52%) Java
5 22 (9.87%) Shell Script
6 19 (8.52%) Perl
7 18 (8.07%) Go
8 17 (7.62%) PHP
8 17 (7.62%) Ruby
9 16 (7.17%) Korn
9 16 (7.17%) PL/SQL
10 13 (5.83%) C#
11 12 (5.38%) Rust
12 11 (4.93%) JavaScript
13 8 (3.59%) Bicep
14 7 (3.14%) T-SQL
14 7 (3.14%) VBA
15 6 (2.69%) C++
16 4 (1.79%) C
17 3 (1.35%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 47 (21.08%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.14%) Degree
3 24 (10.76%) AWS Certification
4 19 (8.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (7.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (7.17%) OSCP
6 15 (6.73%) SC Cleared
7 13 (5.83%) RHCSA
8 11 (4.93%) DV Cleared
9 10 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (4.48%) CompTIA Security+
10 9 (4.04%) CISSP
11 7 (3.14%) ISTQB
12 6 (2.69%) Azure Certification
12 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (2.69%) RHCE
13 5 (2.24%) CCSAM
13 5 (2.24%) CCSP
13 5 (2.24%) CompTIA CySA+
13 5 (2.24%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.07%) QA
2 12 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (5.38%) NIST
2 12 (5.38%) SOC 2
3 9 (4.04%) GDPR
3 9 (4.04%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.69%) PMO
5 5 (2.24%) NCSC
6 4 (1.79%) SLA
7 3 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 66 (29.60%) Docker
2 25 (11.21%) Active Directory
3 18 (8.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (6.28%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.69%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (1.79%) Squid
6 4 (1.79%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.79%) vSphere
7 3 (1.35%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.45%) KVM
Systems Management
1 117 (52.47%) Terraform
2 78 (34.98%) Ansible
3 71 (31.84%) Kubernetes
4 52 (23.32%) Grafana
5 43 (19.28%) Prometheus
6 35 (15.70%) Nagios
7 15 (6.73%) Data Guard
7 15 (6.73%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (5.38%) Argo
9 10 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (4.04%) Packer
11 8 (3.59%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (2.69%) Rundeck
12 6 (2.69%) ZABBIX
13 5 (2.24%) Kibana
14 4 (1.79%) Puppet
14 4 (1.79%) Rancher
15 3 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (1.35%) Proxmox
15 3 (1.35%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 40 (17.94%) Microsoft
2 36 (16.14%) Splunk
3 28 (12.56%) Oracle
4 25 (11.21%) Red Hat
5 21 (9.42%) VMware
6 12 (5.38%) IBM
7 11 (4.93%) ServiceNow
7 11 (4.93%) SolarWinds
8 10 (4.48%) Google
9 8 (3.59%) Rapid7
10 7 (3.14%) Apple
10 7 (3.14%) Dynatrace
11 6 (2.69%) Cognizant
11 6 (2.69%) New Relic
12 4 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.79%) Tenable
12 4 (1.79%) TOWER Software
13 3 (1.35%) Cisco
13 3 (1.35%) Commvault
13 3 (1.35%) Intel