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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 174 125
Rank change year-on-year -20 -49 -8
Permanent jobs citing Bash 218 300 430
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.59% 1.90% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.10% 4.54% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 164 180 377
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,469 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £119,625 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,175
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.40% -6.89%

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 4,277 6,602 7,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.19% 41.80% 44.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,006 4,266 6,766
10th Percentile £44,975 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £102,500 £106,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +44 35 £43,500 -52.33% 31
West London - 3 £107,500 - 3
South London +33 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 7 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (3.21%) Confluence
2 5 (2.29%) Apache
2 5 (2.29%) IIS
2 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.29%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.46%) JBoss
4 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.46%) nginx
4 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 95 (43.58%) AWS
2 72 (33.03%) Azure
3 54 (24.77%) GCP
4 41 (18.81%) GitHub
5 40 (18.35%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (12.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (10.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (8.72%) SaaS
10 17 (7.80%) Serverless
11 16 (7.34%) Slack
11 16 (7.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (6.88%) Amazon S3
12 15 (6.88%) Datadog
12 15 (6.88%) Google Compute Engine
13 14 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (6.42%) Cloud Functions
13 14 (6.42%) IaaS
13 14 (6.42%) OpenShift
14 13 (5.96%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.84%) Firewall
2 20 (9.17%) DNS
3 13 (5.96%) Network Security
4 11 (5.05%) Broadband
5 10 (4.59%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.29%) WAN
7 4 (1.83%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.83%) VPN
8 3 (1.38%) DHCP
8 3 (1.38%) LAN
8 3 (1.38%) Multicast
8 3 (1.38%) Wireless
9 2 (0.92%) BGP
9 2 (0.92%) HTTP
9 2 (0.92%) IGMP
9 2 (0.92%) OSPF
9 2 (0.92%) SNMP
9 2 (0.92%) SSH
9 2 (0.92%) SSL
9 2 (0.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.88%) BigQuery
2 14 (6.42%) NoSQL
3 13 (5.96%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (3.67%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.75%) MySQL
6 5 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.29%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.83%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.83%) Apache Iceberg
7 4 (1.83%) Metadata
7 4 (1.83%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.83%) Tableau
8 2 (0.92%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.46%) Big Data
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 51 (23.39%) Jenkins
2 30 (13.76%) GitLab
3 29 (13.30%) Git
4 27 (12.39%) JIRA
5 9 (4.13%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.75%) Burp Suite
6 6 (2.75%) Metasploit
7 5 (2.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.29%) Jaeger
8 4 (1.83%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.38%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.38%) Maven
9 3 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.92%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.92%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.92%) Gradle
10 2 (0.92%) JMeter
10 2 (0.92%) MLflow
10 2 (0.92%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
General
1 78 (35.78%) Social Skills
2 72 (33.03%) Finance
3 25 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.72%) Telecoms
5 18 (8.26%) Banking
6 14 (6.42%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (6.42%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.67%) Electronics
8 6 (2.75%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.75%) Marketing
8 6 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.75%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.29%) Back Office
9 5 (2.29%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.29%) Retail
10 4 (1.83%) Games
11 3 (1.38%) Advertising
11 3 (1.38%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 48 (22.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (14.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 30 (13.76%) Platform Engineer
4 22 (10.09%) Automation Engineer
4 22 (10.09%) Support Engineer
5 21 (9.63%) Security Engineer
6 19 (8.72%) GCP Engineer
7 18 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (7.80%) Graduate
8 17 (7.80%) Technical Engineer
8 17 (7.80%) Technical Support
8 17 (7.80%) Technical Support Engineer
9 16 (7.34%) Analyst
9 16 (7.34%) Lead
9 16 (7.34%) Senior
10 15 (6.88%) Graduate Support Engineer
10 15 (6.88%) Graduate Technical Engineer
10 15 (6.88%) Graduate Technical Support
10 15 (6.88%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.55%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (6.42%) Kafka
3 7 (3.21%) .NET
3 7 (3.21%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (3.21%) Node.js
3 7 (3.21%) OpenID
3 7 (3.21%) REST
4 6 (2.75%) LDAP
4 6 (2.75%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (2.75%) YAML
5 5 (2.29%) GraphQL
5 5 (2.29%) Middleware
5 5 (2.29%) OAuth
5 5 (2.29%) SAML
5 5 (2.29%) SOAP
6 4 (1.83%) RESTful
7 3 (1.38%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.38%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.38%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.92%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.47%) Management Information System
2 20 (9.17%) Security Posture
3 19 (8.72%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.21%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.75%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.29%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (2.29%) Cyberattack
7 5 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.83%) Blog
8 4 (1.83%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.83%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 103 (47.25%) Linux
2 36 (16.51%) Windows
3 30 (13.76%) Unix
4 19 (8.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.05%) CentOS
6 9 (4.13%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.67%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.29%) Solaris
8 5 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.38%) Debian
9 3 (1.38%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.38%) VMS
10 1 (0.46%) AIX
10 1 (0.46%) Android
10 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (57.80%) DevOps
2 118 (54.13%) CI/CD
3 98 (44.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (30.28%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (22.48%) Containerisation
6 42 (19.27%) Cloud Security
7 34 (15.60%) Agile
8 32 (14.68%) Machine Learning
9 30 (13.76%) Configuration Management
10 28 (12.84%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (12.39%) High Availability
12 26 (11.93%) Mentoring
13 25 (11.47%) Incident Response
13 25 (11.47%) Observability
13 25 (11.47%) Task Automation
14 24 (11.01%) AI
14 24 (11.01%) Vulnerability Management
15 23 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 22 (10.09%) Computer Science
17 21 (9.63%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 196 (89.91%) Python
2 94 (43.12%) PowerShell
3 36 (16.51%) Go
4 32 (14.68%) SQL
5 14 (6.42%) Perl
6 11 (5.05%) Bicep
7 10 (4.59%) Java
7 10 (4.59%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.21%) C#
8 7 (3.21%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.29%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.83%) C++
10 4 (1.83%) Ruby
11 3 (1.38%) Groovy
12 2 (0.92%) C
12 2 (0.92%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (0.92%) Tcl
13 1 (0.46%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.46%) PHP
13 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (27.52%) Degree
2 21 (9.63%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (7.34%) AWS Certification
5 14 (6.42%) DV Cleared
6 11 (5.05%) CISSP
7 7 (3.21%) SC Cleared
8 6 (2.75%) CCSK
9 5 (2.29%) GCIH
10 4 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.83%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.83%) OSCP
11 3 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.38%) CCSAM
11 3 (1.38%) CHECK Team Leader
11 3 (1.38%) CHECK Team Member
11 3 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.38%) CREST Certified
11 3 (1.38%) ISTQB
11 3 (1.38%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (11.47%) GDPR
3 24 (11.01%) NIST
4 16 (7.34%) Accessibility
5 10 (4.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (3.67%) QA
7 6 (2.75%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.75%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.75%) SOC 2
8 5 (2.29%) NCSC
9 4 (1.83%) GRC
10 2 (0.92%) SLA
11 1 (0.46%) Basel III
11 1 (0.46%) MiFID
System Software
1 71 (32.57%) Docker
2 21 (9.63%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (6.88%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.92%) KVM
5 2 (0.92%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.46%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.46%) iptables
6 1 (0.46%) Postfix
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.46%) zsh
Systems Management
1 104 (47.71%) Terraform
2 89 (40.83%) Kubernetes
3 68 (31.19%) Ansible
4 44 (20.18%) Prometheus
5 32 (14.68%) Grafana
6 11 (5.05%) Red Hat Satellite
7 9 (4.13%) Argo
8 6 (2.75%) Puppet
9 5 (2.29%) Kustomize
9 5 (2.29%) Nagios
9 5 (2.29%) Nessus
9 5 (2.29%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.83%) Cilium
10 4 (1.83%) logstash
10 4 (1.83%) Rancher
10 4 (1.83%) vRealize
11 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.38%) Nmap
12 2 (0.92%) QRadar
12 2 (0.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (14.22%) Google
2 30 (13.76%) Red Hat
3 26 (11.93%) Microsoft
4 20 (9.17%) Splunk
4 20 (9.17%) VMware
5 14 (6.42%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.42%) Tenable
6 13 (5.96%) Atlassian
7 10 (4.59%) Oracle
8 6 (2.75%) Rapid7
8 6 (2.75%) SAP
9 3 (1.38%) Citrix
9 3 (1.38%) Qualys
10 2 (0.92%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.92%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.92%) Cisco
10 2 (0.92%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.92%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.92%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.92%) Sonatype