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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 204 158
Rank change year-on-year +16 -46 -10
Permanent jobs citing Bash 247 207 503
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.14% 1.70% 2.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.60% 4.09% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 136 154 303
10th Percentile £51,875 £43,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £91,563 £94,688 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 5,368 5,064 9,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.69% 41.59% 40.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,789 3,525 7,669
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,550 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -27 29 £86,250 +15.00% 8
West London - 13 - - 5
South London +22 2 - - 1
East London -1 2 - - 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 10 (4.05%) Apache
2 8 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.43%) Confluence
4 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.21%) SAS
5 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.81%) nginx
6 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.21%) SPSS
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (4.05%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.40%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 134 (54.25%) AWS
2 111 (44.94%) Azure
3 51 (20.65%) GCP
4 31 (12.55%) GitHub
4 31 (12.55%) Serverless
5 30 (12.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (10.93%) Entra ID
7 26 (10.53%) Amazon S3
8 23 (9.31%) Datadog
8 23 (9.31%) Google Workspace
9 21 (8.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (8.10%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (7.69%) SaaS
12 17 (6.88%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (6.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (6.07%) Pulumi
15 14 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 29 (11.74%) Broadband
1 29 (11.74%) DNS
1 29 (11.74%) Firewall
2 20 (8.10%) TCP/IP
3 17 (6.88%) Network Security
4 10 (4.05%) LAN
4 10 (4.05%) VPN
4 10 (4.05%) Wireless
5 9 (3.64%) HTTP
6 8 (3.24%) HTTPS
7 6 (2.43%) DHCP
8 5 (2.02%) BGP
8 5 (2.02%) IPv4
8 5 (2.02%) VLAN
9 4 (1.62%) OSPF
9 4 (1.62%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (1.62%) WAN
10 3 (1.21%) MPLS
10 3 (1.21%) NAS
10 3 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.50%) NoSQL
2 14 (5.67%) Oracle Database
3 13 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.45%) MySQL
4 11 (4.45%) RDBMS
5 7 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.43%) Amazon QuickSight
6 6 (2.43%) Apache Iceberg
6 6 (2.43%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.43%) Metadata
6 6 (2.43%) Tableau
7 5 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.62%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (1.62%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (1.62%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (19.43%) GitLab
2 43 (17.41%) Jenkins
3 37 (14.98%) Git
4 19 (7.69%) Bitbucket
5 13 (5.26%) JIRA
5 13 (5.26%) Metasploit
6 11 (4.45%) CircleCI
6 11 (4.45%) Jaeger
7 9 (3.64%) Burp Suite
8 6 (2.43%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.62%) Postman
9 4 (1.62%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.21%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.21%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (1.21%) Subversion
11 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.81%) JMeter
12 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 95 (38.46%) Finance
2 59 (23.89%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.17%) Banking
4 25 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.91%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.83%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.02%) Automotive
10 4 (1.62%) Electronics
10 4 (1.62%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.62%) Marketing
11 3 (1.21%) Advertising
11 3 (1.21%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.81%) German Language
12 2 (0.81%) Law
12 2 (0.81%) Legal
12 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Retail
12 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (25.10%) Senior
2 36 (14.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 36 (14.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (13.77%) AWS Engineer
4 32 (12.96%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (11.34%) Lead
6 26 (10.53%) Security Engineer
7 21 (8.50%) Analyst
8 18 (7.29%) Administrator
9 17 (6.88%) Linux Administrator
9 17 (6.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 17 (6.88%) Systems Administrator
10 14 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (5.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.26%) Security Analyst
12 12 (4.86%) Data Engineer
12 12 (4.86%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (4.86%) Senior Security Analyst
13 11 (4.45%) AWS DevOps
13 11 (4.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.15%) Elastic Stack
2 26 (10.53%) SAML
3 22 (8.91%) REST
4 20 (8.10%) OAuth
4 20 (8.10%) OpenID
5 19 (7.69%) GraphQL
5 19 (7.69%) LDAP
5 19 (7.69%) SOAP
6 17 (6.88%) Kafka
7 13 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (3.64%) Node.js
9 8 (3.24%) WebSockets
10 5 (2.02%) AWS CDK
11 3 (1.21%) .NET
11 3 (1.21%) 802.1X
11 3 (1.21%) JSON
11 3 (1.21%) Middleware
11 3 (1.21%) Pandas
11 3 (1.21%) RESTful
11 3 (1.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.98%) Cloud Native
2 28 (11.34%) Cyber Threat
3 25 (10.12%) Security Posture
4 17 (6.88%) Cyberattack
5 16 (6.48%) Data Centre
6 13 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
6 13 (5.26%) Management Information System
7 12 (4.86%) Onboarding
8 10 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (3.64%) Mobile App
9 9 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.83%) Hedge funds
11 6 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.62%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (1.21%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 109 (44.13%) Linux
2 41 (16.60%) Unix
3 37 (14.98%) Windows
4 24 (9.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.86%) CentOS
5 12 (4.86%) Windows Server
6 10 (4.05%) AIX
6 10 (4.05%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (3.24%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (2.02%) Rocky
10 4 (1.62%) Kali Linux
11 3 (1.21%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.21%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.81%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.40%) Android
13 1 (0.40%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.40%) SUSE
13 1 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (50.61%) Infrastructure as Code
2 122 (49.39%) CI/CD
3 119 (48.18%) DevOps
4 73 (29.55%) Mentoring
5 70 (28.34%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (24.70%) Containerisation
7 51 (20.65%) Agile
8 46 (18.62%) Roadmaps
9 44 (17.81%) Cloud Security
9 44 (17.81%) High Availability
9 44 (17.81%) Platform Engineering
10 43 (17.41%) Incident Response
11 37 (14.98%) Identity Access Management
12 34 (13.77%) Configuration Management
13 32 (12.96%) Cybersecurity
14 29 (11.74%) AI
15 28 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (10.53%) Capacity Planning
17 25 (10.12%) ITIL
17 25 (10.12%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 205 (83.00%) Python
2 111 (44.94%) PowerShell
3 67 (27.13%) SQL
4 47 (19.03%) Java
5 30 (12.15%) Go
6 21 (8.50%) JavaScript
7 20 (8.10%) Shell Script
8 19 (7.69%) T-SQL
9 15 (6.07%) Korn
10 14 (5.67%) PL/SQL
11 13 (5.26%) C#
12 10 (4.05%) Rust
13 9 (3.64%) Perl
13 9 (3.64%) Ruby
14 8 (3.24%) Bicep
15 7 (2.83%) C++
15 7 (2.83%) PHP
16 5 (2.02%) VBA
17 4 (1.62%) C
18 3 (1.21%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 39 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.38%) Degree
3 26 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 23 (9.31%) OSCP
5 18 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.07%) DV Cleared
7 14 (5.67%) CISSP
8 13 (5.26%) RHCSA
8 13 (5.26%) SC Cleared
9 12 (4.86%) CCSAM
9 12 (4.86%) CREST Certified
10 10 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (3.64%) CHECK Team Leader
11 9 (3.64%) CHECK Team Member
11 9 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (2.83%) CCSK
13 6 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.43%) ISTQB
13 6 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (2.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.12%) NIST
2 24 (9.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (6.88%) NCSC
4 15 (6.07%) QA
5 14 (5.67%) SOC 2
6 12 (4.86%) GDPR
7 11 (4.45%) PCI DSS
8 7 (2.83%) Data Quality
9 6 (2.43%) PMO
10 4 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.62%) SLA
11 3 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 77 (31.17%) Docker
2 33 (13.36%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.86%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.62%) Squid
5 4 (1.62%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.62%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.62%) vSphere
6 3 (1.21%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.40%) Firmware
7 1 (0.40%) KVM
7 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 127 (51.42%) Terraform
2 87 (35.22%) Ansible
3 86 (34.82%) Kubernetes
4 54 (21.86%) Prometheus
5 46 (18.62%) Grafana
6 31 (12.55%) Nagios
7 23 (9.31%) Argo
8 13 (5.26%) Data Guard
8 13 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (4.45%) Kustomize
9 11 (4.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (3.64%) Nessus
10 9 (3.64%) Packer
11 8 (3.24%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (2.43%) Rundeck
12 6 (2.43%) ZABBIX
13 5 (2.02%) Kibana
14 4 (1.62%) Puppet
14 4 (1.62%) Rancher
15 3 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 37 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 33 (13.36%) Google
3 31 (12.55%) Splunk
4 26 (10.53%) Red Hat
5 24 (9.72%) Oracle
6 19 (7.69%) VMware
7 11 (4.45%) SolarWinds
8 10 (4.05%) IBM
9 9 (3.64%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.83%) Apple
10 7 (2.83%) Dynatrace
11 6 (2.43%) Cognizant
11 6 (2.43%) Rapid7
12 4 (1.62%) Intel
12 4 (1.62%) TOWER Software
13 3 (1.21%) Commvault
13 3 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (1.21%) Tenable
13 3 (1.21%) Varonis
14 2 (0.81%) OpenAI