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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 207 160
Rank change year-on-year +6 -47 -9
Permanent jobs citing Bash 241 204 504
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.12% 1.68% 2.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.52% 4.01% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 133 151 304
10th Percentile £51,500 £43,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £92,500
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 5,332 5,081 9,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.84% 41.75% 39.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,766 3,521 7,693
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% +0.63% -
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 18 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 18 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 -24 29 £86,250 +15.00% 6
West London - 14 - - 5
South London +24 3 - - 1
East London -7 2 - - 2
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 11 (4.56%) Apache
2 9 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.49%) Confluence
4 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.83%) nginx
6 2 (0.83%) SAS
6 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.24%) SPSS
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (3.73%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 132 (54.77%) AWS
2 109 (45.23%) Azure
3 50 (20.75%) GCP
4 30 (12.45%) GitHub
5 27 (11.20%) Amazon S3
5 27 (11.20%) Entra ID
5 27 (11.20%) Serverless
6 25 (10.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (9.54%) Google Workspace
8 22 (9.13%) Datadog
9 21 (8.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (7.88%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (7.88%) Pulumi
10 19 (7.88%) SaaS
11 17 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (6.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.69%) Broadband
2 30 (12.45%) DNS
3 28 (11.62%) Firewall
4 20 (8.30%) TCP/IP
5 13 (5.39%) Network Security
6 10 (4.15%) LAN
6 10 (4.15%) Wireless
7 9 (3.73%) HTTP
7 9 (3.73%) VPN
8 8 (3.32%) HTTPS
9 6 (2.49%) DHCP
10 5 (2.07%) IPv4
10 5 (2.07%) VLAN
11 4 (1.66%) BGP
11 4 (1.66%) OSPF
11 4 (1.66%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (1.66%) WAN
12 3 (1.24%) MPLS
12 3 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.83%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.37%) NoSQL
2 17 (7.05%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.22%) RDBMS
4 12 (4.98%) Oracle Database
5 10 (4.15%) MySQL
6 8 (3.32%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.90%) Amazon QuickSight
7 7 (2.90%) Apache Iceberg
7 7 (2.90%) Metadata
7 7 (2.90%) Tableau
8 6 (2.49%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.24%) Oracle Database 11g
10 3 (1.24%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (1.24%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (19.92%) GitLab
2 43 (17.84%) Jenkins
3 35 (14.52%) Git
4 19 (7.88%) Bitbucket
5 15 (6.22%) Jaeger
6 13 (5.39%) Metasploit
7 12 (4.98%) JIRA
8 11 (4.56%) CircleCI
9 9 (3.73%) Burp Suite
10 6 (2.49%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.66%) Postman
11 4 (1.66%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
13 2 (0.83%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.83%) JMeter
13 2 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.83%) Subversion
14 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
14 1 (0.41%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 88 (36.51%) Finance
2 57 (23.65%) Social Skills
3 33 (13.69%) Banking
4 24 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.13%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.73%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.49%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.66%) Automotive
9 4 (1.66%) Electronics
9 4 (1.66%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.66%) Marketing
10 3 (1.24%) Advertising
10 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.83%) German Language
11 2 (0.83%) Law
11 2 (0.83%) Legal
11 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Retail
11 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (23.24%) Senior
2 38 (15.77%) Cloud Engineer
3 34 (14.11%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (13.69%) Lead
5 32 (13.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (13.28%) Platform Engineer
6 25 (10.37%) Security Engineer
7 22 (9.13%) Analyst
8 17 (7.05%) Administrator
9 16 (6.64%) Linux Administrator
9 16 (6.64%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 16 (6.64%) Systems Administrator
10 14 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (5.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.39%) Data Engineer
11 13 (5.39%) Security Analyst
12 12 (4.98%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (4.98%) Senior Security Analyst
13 11 (4.56%) AWS DevOps
13 11 (4.56%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.11%) Elastic Stack
2 26 (10.79%) SAML
3 22 (9.13%) REST
4 20 (8.30%) OAuth
4 20 (8.30%) OpenID
5 19 (7.88%) GraphQL
5 19 (7.88%) LDAP
5 19 (7.88%) SOAP
6 18 (7.47%) Kafka
7 17 (7.05%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (3.73%) Node.js
9 8 (3.32%) WebSockets
10 3 (1.24%) .NET
10 3 (1.24%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.24%) JSON
10 3 (1.24%) Pandas
10 3 (1.24%) RESTful
11 2 (0.83%) LEMP Stack
11 2 (0.83%) Middleware
11 2 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.94%) Cloud Native
2 28 (11.62%) Cyber Threat
3 25 (10.37%) Security Posture
4 17 (7.05%) Cyberattack
5 15 (6.22%) Data Centre
6 13 (5.39%) Cyber Defence
6 13 (5.39%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.73%) Mobile App
7 9 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.90%) Hedge funds
8 7 (2.90%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.66%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.66%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.24%) PKI
12 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 108 (44.81%) Linux
2 43 (17.84%) Unix
3 37 (15.35%) Windows
4 23 (9.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.56%) CentOS
5 11 (4.56%) Windows Server
6 9 (3.73%) AIX
6 9 (3.73%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (3.32%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.07%) Rocky
8 5 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.66%) Kali Linux
10 3 (1.24%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.24%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.41%) Android
12 1 (0.41%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.41%) SUSE
12 1 (0.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (50.62%) CI/CD
1 122 (50.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 121 (50.21%) DevOps
3 76 (31.54%) Mentoring
4 69 (28.63%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (26.14%) Containerisation
6 54 (22.41%) Agile
7 49 (20.33%) Roadmaps
8 47 (19.50%) High Availability
9 43 (17.84%) Platform Engineering
10 42 (17.43%) Incident Response
11 40 (16.60%) Cloud Security
12 32 (13.28%) Configuration Management
12 32 (13.28%) Cybersecurity
12 32 (13.28%) Identity Access Management
13 28 (11.62%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (10.79%) Observability
16 25 (10.37%) AI
16 25 (10.37%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 201 (83.40%) Python
2 111 (46.06%) PowerShell
3 66 (27.39%) SQL
4 45 (18.67%) Java
5 34 (14.11%) Go
6 24 (9.96%) JavaScript
7 19 (7.88%) T-SQL
8 18 (7.47%) Shell Script
9 13 (5.39%) C#
9 13 (5.39%) Korn
10 12 (4.98%) PL/SQL
11 10 (4.15%) Rust
12 9 (3.73%) Bicep
13 7 (2.90%) C++
14 5 (2.07%) Perl
14 5 (2.07%) Ruby
14 5 (2.07%) VBA
15 4 (1.66%) C
16 3 (1.24%) Objective-C
16 3 (1.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (15.35%) Degree
2 33 (13.69%) Security Cleared
3 26 (10.79%) AWS Certification
4 23 (9.54%) OSCP
5 17 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.22%) DV Cleared
7 14 (5.81%) CISSP
8 13 (5.39%) RHCSA
9 12 (4.98%) CCSAM
9 12 (4.98%) CREST Certified
9 12 (4.98%) SC Cleared
10 10 (4.15%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (3.73%) CHECK Team Leader
11 9 (3.73%) CHECK Team Member
11 9 (3.73%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (2.90%) CCSK
12 7 (2.90%) ISTQB
13 6 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (2.49%) RHCE
14 5 (2.07%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.37%) NIST
2 24 (9.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.05%) NCSC
4 14 (5.81%) SOC 2
5 13 (5.39%) QA
6 12 (4.98%) GDPR
7 11 (4.56%) PCI DSS
8 8 (3.32%) Data Quality
9 6 (2.49%) PMO
10 4 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.66%) SLA
11 3 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 80 (33.20%) Docker
2 32 (13.28%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.56%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.66%) Squid
5 4 (1.66%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.66%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.66%) vSphere
6 3 (1.24%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.41%) Firmware
7 1 (0.41%) KVM
Systems Management
1 127 (52.70%) Terraform
2 89 (36.93%) Kubernetes
3 88 (36.51%) Ansible
4 58 (24.07%) Prometheus
5 44 (18.26%) Grafana
6 29 (12.03%) Nagios
7 26 (10.79%) Argo
8 15 (6.22%) Kustomize
9 11 (4.56%) Data Guard
9 11 (4.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (4.56%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (3.73%) Nessus
10 9 (3.73%) Packer
11 8 (3.32%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (2.49%) Rundeck
12 6 (2.49%) ZABBIX
13 5 (2.07%) Kibana
14 3 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (1.24%) Puppet
14 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 38 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 37 (15.35%) Google
3 31 (12.86%) Splunk
4 24 (9.96%) Red Hat
5 22 (9.13%) Oracle
6 19 (7.88%) VMware
7 11 (4.56%) SolarWinds
8 9 (3.73%) IBM
8 9 (3.73%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.90%) Apple
9 7 (2.90%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.49%) Cognizant
11 5 (2.07%) Rapid7
12 4 (1.66%) Intel
12 4 (1.66%) TOWER Software
13 3 (1.24%) Commvault
13 3 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (1.24%) Tenable
13 3 (1.24%) Varonis
14 2 (0.83%) OpenAI