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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 168 132
Rank change year-on-year -16 -36 -18
Permanent jobs citing Bash 223 314 441
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.66% 1.94% 2.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.24% 4.58% 5.55%
Number of salaries quoted 178 194 387
10th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £93,750 £91,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -3.57%

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 4,257 6,859 7,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.78% 42.44% 44.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,007 4,518 6,919
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,875 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £106,250 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £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 16 December 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 16 December 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 +45 35 £53,750 -40.28% 22
West London - 2 £107,500 - 9
South London +38 1 - - 4
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 (3.14%) Confluence
2 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.24%) IIS
3 5 (2.24%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.79%) Apache
4 4 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.90%) JBoss
5 2 (0.90%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 92 (41.26%) AWS
2 67 (30.04%) Azure
3 48 (21.52%) GCP
4 40 (17.94%) GitHub
5 39 (17.49%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (12.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (9.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (8.97%) SaaS
10 18 (8.07%) Serverless
11 17 (7.62%) Slack
12 15 (6.73%) Datadog
12 15 (6.73%) IaaS
12 15 (6.73%) OpenShift
13 14 (6.28%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (6.28%) Google Compute Engine
13 14 (6.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (5.83%) Amazon S3
14 13 (5.83%) Cloud Functions
15 12 (5.38%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.00%) Firewall
2 18 (8.07%) DNS
3 14 (6.28%) Network Security
4 10 (4.48%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.24%) WAN
6 4 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.79%) VPN
7 3 (1.35%) Broadband
7 3 (1.35%) DHCP
7 3 (1.35%) LAN
7 3 (1.35%) Multicast
8 2 (0.90%) BGP
8 2 (0.90%) HTTP
8 2 (0.90%) IGMP
8 2 (0.90%) OSPF
8 2 (0.90%) SNMP
8 2 (0.90%) SSH
8 2 (0.90%) SSL
8 2 (0.90%) VLAN
8 2 (0.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.28%) BigQuery
2 12 (5.38%) NoSQL
2 12 (5.38%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.69%) MySQL
5 4 (1.79%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.90%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.90%) Metadata
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.90%) Tableau
8 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.45%) Big Data
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 51 (22.87%) Jenkins
2 35 (15.70%) Git
3 32 (14.35%) GitLab
4 29 (13.00%) JIRA
5 9 (4.04%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.24%) Burp Suite
7 5 (2.24%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.79%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.79%) Maven
8 4 (1.79%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.90%) Ant
9 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.90%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.90%) Gradle
9 2 (0.90%) JMeter
9 2 (0.90%) MLflow
9 2 (0.90%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
General
1 92 (41.26%) Social Skills
2 82 (36.77%) Finance
3 22 (9.87%) Banking
4 21 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.97%) Telecoms
6 15 (6.73%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (6.73%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.59%) Electronics
8 6 (2.69%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.69%) Marketing
8 6 (2.69%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.24%) Back Office
9 5 (2.24%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.24%) Retail
10 4 (1.79%) Games
10 4 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.35%) Advertising
11 3 (1.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (24.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (14.35%) Platform Engineer
3 27 (12.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 24 (10.76%) Support Engineer
5 23 (10.31%) Automation Engineer
6 20 (8.97%) Security Engineer
7 19 (8.52%) Linux Engineer
8 18 (8.07%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (8.07%) Azure Engineer
9 17 (7.62%) Graduate
9 17 (7.62%) Technical Engineer
9 17 (7.62%) Technical Support
9 17 (7.62%) Technical Support Engineer
10 16 (7.17%) GCP Engineer
11 15 (6.73%) Analyst
11 15 (6.73%) Graduate Support Engineer
11 15 (6.73%) Graduate Technical Engineer
11 15 (6.73%) Graduate Technical Support
12 14 (6.28%) Senior
13 13 (5.83%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.42%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (5.83%) Kafka
3 12 (5.38%) YAML
4 10 (4.48%) .NET
5 8 (3.59%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (3.59%) Node.js
6 6 (2.69%) Jinja
6 6 (2.69%) Middleware
7 5 (2.24%) RESTful
8 4 (1.79%) REST
9 3 (1.35%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.35%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.35%) OpenID
9 3 (1.35%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.35%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.90%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.90%) Google JAX
10 2 (0.90%) Hugging Face
10 2 (0.90%) JAX
10 2 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.21%) Management Information System
2 19 (8.52%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.62%) Security Posture
4 8 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.59%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (2.69%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.24%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (2.24%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.79%) Blog
7 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.79%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.35%) Clustering
8 3 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 110 (49.33%) Linux
2 37 (16.59%) Windows
3 25 (11.21%) Unix
4 21 (9.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.38%) CentOS
6 9 (4.04%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.59%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.24%) Solaris
8 5 (2.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.35%) Debian
9 3 (1.35%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.35%) VMS
10 1 (0.45%) AIX
10 1 (0.45%) Android
10 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (59.64%) DevOps
2 129 (57.85%) CI/CD
3 102 (45.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (29.60%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (21.97%) Containerisation
6 39 (17.49%) Cloud Security
7 32 (14.35%) Agile
7 32 (14.35%) Configuration Management
7 32 (14.35%) Machine Learning
8 30 (13.45%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (11.66%) High Availability
9 26 (11.66%) Observability
10 25 (11.21%) Infrastructure Automation
10 25 (11.21%) Vulnerability Management
11 24 (10.76%) Incident Response
12 22 (9.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 22 (9.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (9.42%) AI
13 21 (9.42%) Security Hardening
13 21 (9.42%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 203 (91.03%) Python
2 102 (45.74%) PowerShell
3 34 (15.25%) Go
4 29 (13.00%) SQL
5 13 (5.83%) Perl
6 10 (4.48%) Bicep
7 8 (3.59%) C#
8 7 (3.14%) Java
8 7 (3.14%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.14%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.24%) C++
9 5 (2.24%) Groovy
9 5 (2.24%) Ruby
10 2 (0.90%) C
10 2 (0.90%) SystemVerilog
10 2 (0.90%) Tcl
11 1 (0.45%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.45%) PHP
11 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (26.91%) Degree
2 21 (9.42%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.28%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.38%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.59%) CISSP
7 7 (3.14%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.24%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.79%) CCSK
9 4 (1.79%) GCIH
9 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.35%) CCSP
10 3 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.35%) PhD
10 3 (1.35%) RHCE
11 2 (0.90%) CHECK Team Leader
11 2 (0.90%) CHECK Team Member
11 2 (0.90%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.90%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (12.56%) GDPR
3 23 (10.31%) NIST
4 17 (7.62%) Accessibility
5 11 (4.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (4.04%) QA
7 8 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.69%) GRC
8 6 (2.69%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.69%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.90%) SLA
11 1 (0.45%) Basel III
11 1 (0.45%) MiFID
11 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (30.94%) Docker
2 19 (8.52%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.17%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (7.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.90%) KVM
4 2 (0.90%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.45%) iptables
5 1 (0.45%) Postfix
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.45%) zsh
Systems Management
1 100 (44.84%) Terraform
2 89 (39.91%) Kubernetes
3 73 (32.74%) Ansible
4 41 (18.39%) Prometheus
5 36 (16.14%) Grafana
6 12 (5.38%) Red Hat Satellite
7 7 (3.14%) Puppet
8 5 (2.24%) Argo
8 5 (2.24%) Nagios
8 5 (2.24%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.79%) Cilium
9 4 (1.79%) logstash
9 4 (1.79%) Nessus
9 4 (1.79%) Rancher
9 4 (1.79%) vRealize
10 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.35%) Nmap
10 3 (1.35%) Podman
10 3 (1.35%) QRadar
11 2 (0.90%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 38 (17.04%) Red Hat
2 24 (10.76%) Google
2 24 (10.76%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.97%) VMware
4 18 (8.07%) Splunk
5 15 (6.73%) ServiceNow
5 15 (6.73%) Tenable
6 14 (6.28%) Atlassian
7 10 (4.48%) Oracle
8 6 (2.69%) Rapid7
8 6 (2.69%) SAP
9 3 (1.35%) Citrix
9 3 (1.35%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.35%) Qualys
9 3 (1.35%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.90%) Carbon Black
10 2 (0.90%) Cisco
10 2 (0.90%) Databricks
10 2 (0.90%) OneLogin