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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 181 146
Rank change year-on-year -56 -35 -9
Permanent jobs citing Bash 220 235 451
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.86% 1.98% 2.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.94% 5.05% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 133 191 227
10th Percentile £48,000 £40,000 £42,300
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -3.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £111,250 £112,900
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -9.72%

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 5,577 4,654 7,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.81% 39.13% 41.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,740 3,140 5,250
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,438 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.81% -3.67% -

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 September 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 September 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 -20 17 £90,000 +56.52% 25
West London -14 1 - - 12
North London - 1 £60,000 -
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 13 (5.91%) Confluence
2 9 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.27%) SAS
4 1 (0.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) nginx
4 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.45%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (4.55%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.64%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.36%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 123 (55.91%) AWS
2 86 (39.09%) Azure
3 36 (16.36%) GCP
3 36 (16.36%) Serverless
4 35 (15.91%) Amazon EKS
5 33 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (13.64%) GitHub
7 26 (11.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (10.91%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (9.55%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
10 20 (9.09%) Entra ID
10 20 (9.09%) SaaS
11 19 (8.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (7.73%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (7.27%) Amazon S3
13 16 (7.27%) Azure AKS
13 16 (7.27%) Datadog
14 14 (6.36%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.18%) Network Security
2 28 (12.73%) Firewall
2 28 (12.73%) TCP/IP
3 22 (10.00%) DNS
4 17 (7.73%) VPN
5 15 (6.82%) DHCP
6 8 (3.64%) FIX Connectivity
7 7 (3.18%) BGP
8 6 (2.73%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (2.73%) VLAN
9 5 (2.27%) HTTP
9 5 (2.27%) SSH
10 4 (1.82%) IPv4
10 4 (1.82%) Kerberos
10 4 (1.82%) LAN
10 4 (1.82%) NAS
10 4 (1.82%) OSPF
10 4 (1.82%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.36%) MPLS
12 2 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (5.91%) Redis
4 12 (5.45%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (5.00%) MySQL
5 11 (5.00%) Oracle Database
6 9 (4.09%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.36%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.91%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.45%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (20.91%) Jenkins
2 38 (17.27%) GitLab
3 33 (15.00%) Git
4 17 (7.73%) JIRA
5 10 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.55%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.82%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.36%) JMeter
8 3 (1.36%) Postman
8 3 (1.36%) Subversion
9 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.91%) Maven
9 2 (0.91%) NUnit
10 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.45%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.45%) Selenium
10 1 (0.45%) Snyk
General
1 88 (40.00%) Finance
2 66 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 49 (22.27%) Banking
4 32 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.36%) Public Sector
6 21 (9.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.91%) Law
8 11 (5.00%) Retail
9 8 (3.64%) Aerospace
10 7 (3.18%) Automotive
11 5 (2.27%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.82%) Electronics
13 3 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.36%) Public Speaking
14 2 (0.91%) Back Office
14 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.91%) Legal
14 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (24.09%) Senior
2 40 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (16.82%) Platform Engineer
4 26 (11.82%) AWS Engineer
5 20 (9.09%) Analyst
6 18 (8.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (7.73%) Security Engineer
8 16 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (6.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 14 (6.36%) Consultant
10 14 (6.36%) Security Consultant
10 14 (6.36%) Senior Consultant
10 14 (6.36%) Senior Security Consultant
11 13 (5.91%) Administrator
11 13 (5.91%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (5.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.45%) DBA
13 11 (5.00%) Developer
13 11 (5.00%) Support Analyst
13 11 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (55.45%) Terraform
2 19 (8.64%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (7.73%) AWS CDK
4 14 (6.36%) Kafka
5 12 (5.45%) SAML
6 10 (4.55%) Keycloak
7 9 (4.09%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (3.18%) REST
10 6 (2.73%) .NET
10 6 (2.73%) Node.js
10 6 (2.73%) RESTful
11 5 (2.27%) Middleware
11 5 (2.27%) OpenMP
11 5 (2.27%) Pulumi
11 5 (2.27%) YAML
12 4 (1.82%) Pandas
12 4 (1.82%) WebSockets
13 3 (1.36%) OpenID
13 3 (1.36%) React
Miscellaneous
1 46 (20.91%) Cloud Native
2 35 (15.91%) Onboarding
3 15 (6.82%) Enterprise Cloud
4 14 (6.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (6.36%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (4.55%) Replication
5 10 (4.55%) Security Posture
6 9 (4.09%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.64%) Eurex
7 8 (3.64%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.73%) Hedge funds
9 6 (2.73%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.27%) Blog
10 5 (2.27%) CUDA
10 5 (2.27%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.82%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 106 (48.18%) Linux
2 40 (18.18%) Windows
3 35 (15.91%) Unix
4 18 (8.18%) CentOS
5 17 (7.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (6.36%) Windows Server
7 11 (5.00%) Mac OS
7 11 (5.00%) Rocky
8 10 (4.55%) AIX
8 10 (4.55%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (3.64%) Apple iOS
9 8 (3.64%) Ubuntu
10 7 (3.18%) Windows 10
11 6 (2.73%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (2.27%) Solaris
13 2 (0.91%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.91%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (55.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 111 (50.45%) CI/CD
3 100 (45.45%) DevOps
4 57 (25.91%) Platform Engineering
5 56 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (24.09%) Cloud Security
7 49 (22.27%) Containerisation
8 42 (19.09%) ITIL
9 41 (18.64%) Observability
10 39 (17.73%) AI
10 39 (17.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 37 (16.82%) Agile
11 37 (16.82%) Mentoring
12 36 (16.36%) Incident Response
13 33 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
14 30 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
15 29 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (13.18%) Roadmaps
15 29 (13.18%) Runbook
16 25 (11.36%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 194 (88.18%) Python
2 97 (44.09%) PowerShell
3 50 (22.73%) Java
4 41 (18.64%) SQL
5 25 (11.36%) Perl
6 24 (10.91%) Ruby
7 20 (9.09%) Go
8 16 (7.27%) JavaScript
8 16 (7.27%) Shell Script
9 14 (6.36%) PHP
10 13 (5.91%) C#
11 12 (5.45%) Rust
12 11 (5.00%) Bicep
12 11 (5.00%) Groovy
12 11 (5.00%) Korn
12 11 (5.00%) PL/SQL
13 8 (3.64%) C
14 7 (3.18%) VBA
15 6 (2.73%) C++
16 2 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.91%) Degree
3 24 (10.91%) SC Cleared
4 22 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 21 (9.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (6.36%) DV Cleared
8 9 (4.09%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.09%) OSCP
9 8 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.64%) RHCSA
10 7 (3.18%) ISTQB
10 7 (3.18%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (2.73%) A+ Certification
11 6 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (2.27%) CISSP
12 5 (2.27%) GCFA
12 5 (2.27%) GIAC
13 4 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.82%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.82%) QA
2 9 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.18%) NIST
4 6 (2.73%) PMO
5 5 (2.27%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.82%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.45%) GDPR
8 1 (0.45%) NCSC
8 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (35.45%) Docker
2 27 (12.27%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.55%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.73%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (2.73%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (1.82%) Squid
7 4 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.82%) vSphere
8 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 88 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 58 (26.36%) Grafana
3 55 (25.00%) Ansible
4 52 (23.64%) Prometheus
5 25 (11.36%) Nagios
6 18 (8.18%) Argo
7 13 (5.91%) Rancher
8 12 (5.45%) Data Guard
9 11 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (4.09%) Packer
11 7 (3.18%) Puppet
12 6 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (2.73%) Rundeck
13 5 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (2.27%) ZABBIX
14 4 (1.82%) Istio
14 4 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (1.36%) Cilium
15 3 (1.36%) Kibana
16 2 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 49 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 40 (18.18%) Splunk
3 33 (15.00%) Oracle
4 26 (11.82%) Red Hat
5 20 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 16 (7.27%) Dynatrace
6 16 (7.27%) VMware
7 15 (6.82%) Google
8 10 (4.55%) IBM
9 8 (3.64%) Atlassian
9 8 (3.64%) Bloomberg
9 8 (3.64%) CQG
9 8 (3.64%) ION Trading
9 8 (3.64%) Patsystems
9 8 (3.64%) Reuters
9 8 (3.64%) Trayport
10 7 (3.18%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (3.18%) Rapid7
11 6 (2.73%) Cognizant
11 6 (2.73%) New Relic