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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 177 126
Rank change year-on-year -5 -51 -5
Permanent jobs citing Bash 230 326 479
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.77% 1.88% 2.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.01% 4.47% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 182 206 411
10th Percentile £43,225 £46,250 £54,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,688 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £68,000 £69,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -1.45% -0.64% -0.79%

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 4,593 7,296 8,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.27% 42.02% 45.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,010 4,809 7,385
10th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £128,750 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 +37 36 £57,500 -32.35% 95
West London - 2 £107,500 - 3
South London +29 1 - - 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 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.04%) Confluence
3 6 (2.61%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.17%) nginx
5 4 (1.74%) IIS
5 4 (1.74%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.74%) Traefik
6 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.87%) Apache
7 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.87%) JBoss
7 2 (0.87%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 101 (43.91%) AWS
2 71 (30.87%) Azure
3 45 (19.57%) GCP
4 34 (14.78%) GitHub
5 33 (14.35%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (12.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (9.13%) SaaS
8 20 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (7.39%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (7.39%) Slack
11 16 (6.96%) IaaS
11 16 (6.96%) Serverless
12 15 (6.52%) Datadog
13 14 (6.09%) OpenShift
14 11 (4.78%) Cloud Functions
14 11 (4.78%) Google Compute Engine
14 11 (4.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (4.35%) Cloud Run
15 10 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (15.22%) Firewall
2 18 (7.83%) DNS
3 14 (6.09%) Network Security
4 12 (5.22%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.35%) VPN
6 5 (2.17%) BGP
6 5 (2.17%) DHCP
6 5 (2.17%) OSPF
7 4 (1.74%) ICMP
7 4 (1.74%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.74%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.74%) WAN
8 3 (1.30%) Broadband
8 3 (1.30%) MPLS
8 3 (1.30%) Multicast
9 2 (0.87%) IGMP
9 2 (0.87%) LAN
9 2 (0.87%) SSL
9 2 (0.87%) VLAN
9 2 (0.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.39%) Relational Database
2 14 (6.09%) NoSQL
3 12 (5.22%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.78%) BigQuery
5 7 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.17%) MySQL
8 4 (1.74%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.43%) Big Data
10 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.43%) KDB
10 1 (0.43%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.43%) Looker
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.43%) Parquet
10 1 (0.43%) Power BI
10 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 33 (14.35%) Git
3 29 (12.61%) GitLab
4 28 (12.17%) JIRA
5 7 (3.04%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.17%) Burp Suite
7 5 (2.17%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.74%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.74%) Maven
8 4 (1.74%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.87%) Ant
9 2 (0.87%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.87%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.87%) Gradle
9 2 (0.87%) JMeter
9 2 (0.87%) MLflow
9 2 (0.87%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
General
1 103 (44.78%) Social Skills
2 90 (39.13%) Finance
3 28 (12.17%) Banking
4 25 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.83%) Telecoms
6 16 (6.96%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.61%) Electronics
8 6 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.17%) Back Office
9 5 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.17%) Law
9 5 (2.17%) Retail
10 4 (1.74%) Games
10 4 (1.74%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.74%) Marketing
10 4 (1.74%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.30%) Advertising
11 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (21.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (13.91%) Platform Engineer
3 25 (10.87%) Support Engineer
4 23 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
5 22 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (8.26%) Linux Engineer
6 19 (8.26%) Security Engineer
7 18 (7.83%) Analyst
8 17 (7.39%) Graduate
9 16 (6.96%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (6.96%) Technical Engineer
9 16 (6.96%) Technical Support
9 16 (6.96%) Technical Support Engineer
10 15 (6.52%) Graduate Support Engineer
10 15 (6.52%) Graduate Technical Engineer
10 15 (6.52%) Graduate Technical Support
11 13 (5.65%) Lead
11 13 (5.65%) Senior
12 12 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (5.22%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.57%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (6.09%) Kafka
3 13 (5.65%) YAML
4 11 (4.78%) .NET
4 11 (4.78%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (3.48%) Jinja
6 6 (2.61%) Middleware
6 6 (2.61%) Node.js
6 6 (2.61%) RESTful
7 4 (1.74%) REST
8 3 (1.30%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.30%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.30%) OpenID
8 3 (1.30%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.30%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.87%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.87%) AWS SAM
9 2 (0.87%) Google JAX
9 2 (0.87%) Hugging Face
9 2 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 21 (9.13%) Cloud Native
3 16 (6.96%) Security Posture
4 14 (6.09%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.04%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.17%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.74%) Blog
9 4 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.74%) Mobile Banking
9 4 (1.74%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.30%) Clustering
10 3 (1.30%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.30%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.87%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 113 (49.13%) Linux
2 37 (16.09%) Windows
3 28 (12.17%) Unix
4 19 (8.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.78%) CentOS
6 9 (3.91%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.48%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.17%) Solaris
8 5 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.30%) Debian
10 3 (1.30%) VMS
11 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.43%) AIX
12 1 (0.43%) Android
12 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (55.65%) DevOps
2 126 (54.78%) CI/CD
3 103 (44.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (31.74%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (20.43%) Containerisation
6 34 (14.78%) Platform Engineering
7 31 (13.48%) Cloud Security
8 29 (12.61%) Agile
9 28 (12.17%) Configuration Management
9 28 (12.17%) Machine Learning
10 26 (11.30%) High Availability
10 26 (11.30%) Vulnerability Management
11 25 (10.87%) Mentoring
11 25 (10.87%) Software Engineering
12 23 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
12 23 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 22 (9.57%) Security Hardening
13 22 (9.57%) Task Automation
14 21 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
14 21 (9.13%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 208 (90.43%) Python
2 101 (43.91%) PowerShell
3 41 (17.83%) Go
4 34 (14.78%) SQL
5 13 (5.65%) Perl
6 10 (4.35%) Java
7 8 (3.48%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.04%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.61%) C#
10 5 (2.17%) Bicep
10 5 (2.17%) Groovy
11 4 (1.74%) C++
11 4 (1.74%) Ruby
12 2 (0.87%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (0.87%) Tcl
13 1 (0.43%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.43%) C
13 1 (0.43%) PHP
13 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (25.22%) Degree
2 21 (9.13%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.52%) DV Cleared
4 12 (5.22%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.48%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.04%) CISSP
7 6 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.74%) GCIH
9 3 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.30%) CCNA
9 3 (1.30%) CCNP
9 3 (1.30%) CCSP
9 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.30%) OSCP
9 3 (1.30%) RHCE
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.87%) CCSAM
10 2 (0.87%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.48%) GDPR
1 31 (13.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (10.87%) NIST
3 17 (7.39%) Accessibility
4 12 (5.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (3.91%) GRC
6 8 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (2.61%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.61%) SOC 2
8 5 (2.17%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.17%) QA
9 2 (0.87%) SLA
10 1 (0.43%) Basel III
10 1 (0.43%) MiFID
10 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 62 (26.96%) Docker
2 19 (8.26%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.96%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.74%) zsh
6 2 (0.87%) KVM
6 2 (0.87%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.43%) Postfix
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 92 (40.00%) Terraform
2 83 (36.09%) Kubernetes
3 69 (30.00%) Ansible
4 37 (16.09%) Grafana
5 36 (15.65%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.65%) Red Hat Satellite
7 7 (3.04%) Nagios
7 7 (3.04%) Puppet
8 5 (2.17%) Argo
8 5 (2.17%) HAProxy
8 5 (2.17%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.74%) Cilium
9 4 (1.74%) Nessus
9 4 (1.74%) Rancher
9 4 (1.74%) vRealize
10 3 (1.30%) Nmap
10 3 (1.30%) Podman
10 3 (1.30%) QRadar
11 2 (0.87%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (16.52%) Red Hat
2 27 (11.74%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.70%) VMware
4 19 (8.26%) Google
5 18 (7.83%) Atlassian
6 15 (6.52%) ServiceNow
6 15 (6.52%) Splunk
6 15 (6.52%) Tenable
7 9 (3.91%) Oracle
8 7 (3.04%) Databricks
9 5 (2.17%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.74%) SAP
10 4 (1.74%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.30%) Citrix
11 3 (1.30%) Cribl.io
11 3 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.30%) Qualys
11 3 (1.30%) Sonatype
12 2 (0.87%) Carbon Black
12 2 (0.87%) OneLogin