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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 198 158
Rank change year-on-year +5 -40 -17
Permanent jobs citing Bash 249 223 502
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.13% 1.79% 2.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.63% 4.31% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 139 167 301
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,946 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £92,000
90th Percentile £100,750 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -10.71%

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 5,377 5,179 9,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.32% 41.60% 40.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,802 3,609 7,484
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,850 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £131,250
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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -26 28 £87,500 +16.67% 30
West London - 13 - - 6
South London +16 2 - - 1
East London -5 2 - - 1
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 8 (3.21%) Apache
2 6 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.41%) Confluence
3 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.01%) SAS
4 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.80%) nginx
5 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.20%) SPSS
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (4.42%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.40%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 140 (56.22%) AWS
2 110 (44.18%) Azure
3 48 (19.28%) GCP
4 37 (14.86%) Serverless
5 36 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (12.85%) GitHub
7 27 (10.84%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (10.44%) Datadog
9 25 (10.04%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (9.64%) Amazon S3
10 24 (9.64%) Entra ID
11 23 (9.24%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (8.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (7.63%) Google Workspace
15 17 (6.83%) SaaS
16 15 (6.02%) Amazon EventBridge
16 15 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (6.02%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.24%) DNS
1 28 (11.24%) Firewall
2 25 (10.04%) Broadband
3 24 (9.64%) Network Security
4 21 (8.43%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.42%) VPN
6 10 (4.02%) LAN
7 9 (3.61%) HTTP
7 9 (3.61%) Wireless
8 8 (3.21%) HTTPS
9 6 (2.41%) DHCP
10 5 (2.01%) BGP
10 5 (2.01%) IPv4
10 5 (2.01%) NAS
10 5 (2.01%) VLAN
11 4 (1.61%) Kerberos
11 4 (1.61%) OSPF
11 4 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (1.61%) WAN
12 3 (1.20%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.43%) NoSQL
2 15 (6.02%) Oracle Database
3 13 (5.22%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.82%) MySQL
5 11 (4.42%) RDBMS
6 7 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.61%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (1.61%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.61%) Metadata
8 4 (1.61%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (1.61%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (1.61%) Tableau
9 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (18.88%) GitLab
2 42 (16.87%) Jenkins
3 35 (14.06%) Git
4 20 (8.03%) Bitbucket
5 15 (6.02%) JIRA
6 12 (4.82%) Jaeger
6 12 (4.82%) Metasploit
7 11 (4.42%) CircleCI
8 8 (3.21%) Burp Suite
9 6 (2.41%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.61%) Postman
10 4 (1.61%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.20%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (1.20%) Subversion
12 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.80%) JMeter
13 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 100 (40.16%) Finance
2 60 (24.10%) Social Skills
3 36 (14.46%) Banking
4 25 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 18 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.81%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.01%) Automotive
10 4 (1.61%) Electronics
10 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.61%) Marketing
11 3 (1.20%) Advertising
11 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.80%) German Language
12 2 (0.80%) Law
12 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.80%) Retail
12 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (26.91%) Senior
2 38 (15.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (13.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 34 (13.65%) Platform Engineer
4 32 (12.85%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (10.44%) Lead
6 24 (9.64%) Security Engineer
7 19 (7.63%) Analyst
8 18 (7.23%) Administrator
9 17 (6.83%) Linux Administrator
9 17 (6.83%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 17 (6.83%) Systems Administrator
10 14 (5.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (4.82%) DBA
12 12 (4.82%) Security Analyst
13 11 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (4.42%) Oracle DBA
13 11 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (4.42%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.45%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (8.84%) SAML
3 18 (7.23%) REST
4 16 (6.43%) OAuth
4 16 (6.43%) OpenID
5 15 (6.02%) GraphQL
5 15 (6.02%) Kafka
5 15 (6.02%) LDAP
5 15 (6.02%) SOAP
6 14 (5.62%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (4.42%) AWS CDK
8 9 (3.61%) Node.js
9 8 (3.21%) WebSockets
10 5 (2.01%) YAML
11 4 (1.61%) .NET
12 3 (1.20%) 802.1X
12 3 (1.20%) JSON
12 3 (1.20%) Middleware
12 3 (1.20%) Pandas
12 3 (1.20%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.64%) Cyber Threat
3 23 (9.24%) Security Posture
4 19 (7.63%) Onboarding
5 16 (6.43%) Data Centre
6 13 (5.22%) Cyberattack
7 12 (4.82%) Cyber Defence
7 12 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (4.42%) Management Information System
9 10 (4.02%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (3.21%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (3.21%) Mobile App
12 7 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (2.01%) Hedge funds
14 4 (1.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
15 3 (1.20%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 113 (45.38%) Linux
2 42 (16.87%) Unix
3 38 (15.26%) Windows
4 25 (10.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (5.62%) Windows Server
6 12 (4.82%) CentOS
7 11 (4.42%) AIX
7 11 (4.42%) Oracle Linux
8 8 (3.21%) Mac OS
8 8 (3.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (2.01%) Rocky
10 4 (1.61%) Kali Linux
11 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.20%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.80%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.40%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.40%) SUSE
13 1 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (52.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 121 (48.59%) CI/CD
3 120 (48.19%) DevOps
4 70 (28.11%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (26.91%) Mentoring
6 62 (24.90%) Containerisation
7 52 (20.88%) Agile
8 48 (19.28%) Cloud Security
9 46 (18.47%) Platform Engineering
10 45 (18.07%) Incident Response
10 45 (18.07%) Roadmaps
11 43 (17.27%) High Availability
12 40 (16.06%) Identity Access Management
13 33 (13.25%) Configuration Management
14 31 (12.45%) AI
14 31 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (11.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 28 (11.24%) Cybersecurity
17 27 (10.84%) Capacity Planning
17 27 (10.84%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 208 (83.53%) Python
2 108 (43.37%) PowerShell
3 63 (25.30%) SQL
4 54 (21.69%) Java
5 30 (12.05%) Go
6 23 (9.24%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.43%) Shell Script
8 16 (6.43%) Korn
9 15 (6.02%) PL/SQL
9 15 (6.02%) Ruby
9 15 (6.02%) T-SQL
10 14 (5.62%) Perl
11 13 (5.22%) C#
11 13 (5.22%) PHP
12 11 (4.42%) Rust
13 8 (3.21%) Bicep
14 6 (2.41%) C++
14 6 (2.41%) VBA
15 3 (1.20%) C
15 3 (1.20%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 46 (18.47%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.86%) Degree
3 32 (12.85%) AWS Certification
4 22 (8.84%) OSCP
5 17 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.02%) SC Cleared
7 14 (5.62%) DV Cleared
8 13 (5.22%) RHCSA
9 12 (4.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (4.82%) CISSP
10 11 (4.42%) CCSAM
10 11 (4.42%) CREST Certified
11 10 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (3.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (3.21%) CHECK Team Leader
13 8 (3.21%) CHECK Team Member
14 6 (2.41%) Azure Certification
14 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (2.41%) RHCE
15 5 (2.01%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 21 (8.43%) NIST
2 15 (6.02%) QA
3 14 (5.62%) SOC 2
4 13 (5.22%) NCSC
5 12 (4.82%) GDPR
6 11 (4.42%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.41%) PMO
8 5 (2.01%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.61%) SLA
10 3 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 77 (30.92%) Docker
2 32 (12.85%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (5.22%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (2.01%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.61%) Squid
6 4 (1.61%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.61%) vSphere
7 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.40%) KVM
8 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 130 (52.21%) Terraform
2 90 (36.14%) Ansible
3 86 (34.54%) Kubernetes
4 55 (22.09%) Prometheus
5 50 (20.08%) Grafana
6 32 (12.85%) Nagios
7 23 (9.24%) Argo
8 14 (5.62%) Data Guard
8 14 (5.62%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (4.42%) Kustomize
9 11 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (3.61%) Packer
11 8 (3.21%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (3.21%) Nessus
12 6 (2.41%) Rundeck
12 6 (2.41%) ZABBIX
13 5 (2.01%) Kibana
14 4 (1.61%) Puppet
14 4 (1.61%) Rancher
15 3 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 37 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 34 (13.65%) Splunk
3 29 (11.65%) Google
4 26 (10.44%) Oracle
4 26 (10.44%) Red Hat
5 19 (7.63%) VMware
6 11 (4.42%) IBM
6 11 (4.42%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.42%) SolarWinds
7 8 (3.21%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.81%) Apple
9 6 (2.41%) Cognizant
9 6 (2.41%) Rapid7
10 5 (2.01%) New Relic
11 4 (1.61%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.61%) Intel
11 4 (1.61%) Tenable
11 4 (1.61%) TOWER Software
12 3 (1.20%) Commvault
12 3 (1.20%) Varonis