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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 179 140
Rank change year-on-year +2 -39 -21
Permanent jobs citing Bash 218 284 433
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.53% 1.84% 2.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.07% 4.48% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 146 171 385
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £65,938 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,125 £92,500
90th Percentile £119,375 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 4,304 6,344 8,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.25% 41.06% 43.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,031 4,066 7,194
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 19 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 19 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 +34 37 £48,000 -49.47% 35
West London - 8 £107,500 - 12
South London +40 2 - - 16
East London - 1 - - 14
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 (3.67%) Apache
1 8 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.75%) Confluence
3 5 (2.29%) IIS
3 5 (2.29%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.46%) JBoss
5 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 92 (42.20%) AWS
2 69 (31.65%) Azure
3 52 (23.85%) GCP
4 40 (18.35%) GitHub
5 39 (17.89%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (11.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (10.55%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (8.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (8.26%) SaaS
10 16 (7.34%) Amazon S3
10 16 (7.34%) Datadog
10 16 (7.34%) Google Compute Engine
10 16 (7.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (6.88%) Cloud Functions
11 15 (6.88%) Entra ID
11 15 (6.88%) OpenShift
12 14 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (6.42%) Cloud Run
12 14 (6.42%) Serverless
12 14 (6.42%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.93%) Firewall
2 20 (9.17%) Broadband
3 19 (8.72%) DNS
4 10 (4.59%) Network Security
5 8 (3.67%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.21%) Wireless
7 5 (2.29%) VPN
8 4 (1.83%) DHCP
8 4 (1.83%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.38%) HTTP
10 2 (0.92%) LAN
10 2 (0.92%) SSL
10 2 (0.92%) WAN
11 1 (0.46%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.46%) FTP
11 1 (0.46%) SNMP
11 1 (0.46%) SSH
11 1 (0.46%) TACACS
11 1 (0.46%) VLAN
11 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.26%) NoSQL
2 16 (7.34%) BigQuery
3 15 (6.88%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.59%) RDBMS
5 8 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.67%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.21%) Amazon QuickSight
6 7 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.21%) Apache Iceberg
6 7 (3.21%) Metadata
6 7 (3.21%) MySQL
6 7 (3.21%) Tableau
7 6 (2.75%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
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
Development Applications
1 48 (22.02%) Jenkins
2 30 (13.76%) Git
3 25 (11.47%) GitLab
4 23 (10.55%) JIRA
5 10 (4.59%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.59%) Burp Suite
5 10 (4.59%) Jaeger
5 10 (4.59%) Metasploit
6 5 (2.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.83%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.38%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.38%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.38%) JMeter
8 3 (1.38%) Maven
8 3 (1.38%) Robot Framework
8 3 (1.38%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.92%) Gradle
10 1 (0.46%) Ant
10 1 (0.46%) MSI
10 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (31.65%) Finance
2 68 (31.19%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.26%) Telecoms
5 17 (7.80%) Banking
6 12 (5.50%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.21%) Electronics
9 5 (2.29%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.29%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.29%) Marketing
9 5 (2.29%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.29%) Retail
10 4 (1.83%) Back Office
10 4 (1.83%) Games
11 3 (1.38%) Advertising
11 3 (1.38%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 44 (20.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (15.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 28 (12.84%) Platform Engineer
4 25 (11.47%) Lead
5 21 (9.63%) Automation Engineer
5 21 (9.63%) GCP Engineer
6 20 (9.17%) Security Engineer
6 20 (9.17%) Senior
7 19 (8.72%) Analyst
7 19 (8.72%) Support Engineer
8 18 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
9 17 (7.80%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (6.88%) Graduate
10 15 (6.88%) Technical Engineer
10 15 (6.88%) Technical Support
10 15 (6.88%) Technical Support Engineer
11 14 (6.42%) GCP DevOps
11 14 (6.42%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 14 (6.42%) Linux Engineer
12 13 (5.96%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.30%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (6.88%) Kafka
3 13 (5.96%) REST
4 12 (5.50%) OpenID
5 11 (5.05%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (4.59%) SAML
7 9 (4.13%) GraphQL
7 9 (4.13%) LDAP
7 9 (4.13%) OAuth
7 9 (4.13%) SOAP
8 6 (2.75%) YAML
9 5 (2.29%) Middleware
10 4 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.83%) Node.js
10 4 (1.83%) RESTful
11 3 (1.38%) .NET
12 2 (0.92%) ARM Templates
12 2 (0.92%) AWS CDK
12 2 (0.92%) Loki
12 2 (0.92%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.01%) Management Information System
2 23 (10.55%) Security Posture
3 18 (8.26%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.59%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (4.13%) Cyberattack
7 8 (3.67%) Cyber Defence
8 7 (3.21%) Hedge funds
8 7 (3.21%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.29%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.29%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.83%) Blog
11 4 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.83%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 102 (46.79%) Linux
2 37 (16.97%) Windows
3 33 (15.14%) Unix
4 19 (8.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (4.59%) CentOS
5 10 (4.59%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.67%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.83%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.83%) Solaris
9 3 (1.38%) Debian
9 3 (1.38%) VMS
10 2 (0.92%) Android
11 1 (0.46%) AIX
11 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.46%) Rocky
11 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (55.50%) DevOps
2 112 (51.38%) CI/CD
3 99 (45.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (33.49%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (22.02%) Containerisation
6 45 (20.64%) Agile
7 42 (19.27%) Cloud Security
8 38 (17.43%) Mentoring
9 32 (14.68%) High Availability
10 30 (13.76%) Configuration Management
11 29 (13.30%) Machine Learning
12 27 (12.39%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (11.93%) Task Automation
14 25 (11.47%) AI
15 24 (11.01%) Incident Response
16 23 (10.55%) Observability
17 22 (10.09%) Infrastructure Automation
17 22 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 22 (10.09%) Penetration Testing
17 22 (10.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 194 (88.99%) Python
2 95 (43.58%) PowerShell
3 39 (17.89%) Go
4 33 (15.14%) SQL
5 16 (7.34%) Java
6 13 (5.96%) JavaScript
7 11 (5.05%) Perl
8 10 (4.59%) Bicep
9 9 (4.13%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.21%) C#
11 6 (2.75%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.92%) C
12 2 (0.92%) C++
12 2 (0.92%) Groovy
12 2 (0.92%) Ruby
12 2 (0.92%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (0.92%) Tcl
13 1 (0.46%) Korn
13 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (25.23%) Degree
2 24 (11.01%) Security Cleared
3 21 (9.63%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (7.34%) DV Cleared
6 12 (5.50%) CISSP
7 8 (3.67%) OSCP
8 7 (3.21%) CCSAM
8 7 (3.21%) CCSK
8 7 (3.21%) CHECK Team Leader
8 7 (3.21%) CHECK Team Member
8 7 (3.21%) CREST Certified
9 5 (2.29%) GCIH
9 5 (2.29%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.83%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.38%) CCSP
11 3 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.38%) ISTQB
11 3 (1.38%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (11.93%) NIST
3 21 (9.63%) GDPR
4 14 (6.42%) Accessibility
5 9 (4.13%) NCSC
5 9 (4.13%) QA
6 8 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (3.67%) Data Quality
6 8 (3.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (3.21%) SOC 2
8 6 (2.75%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.83%) GRC
10 1 (0.46%) Basel III
10 1 (0.46%) MiFID
System Software
1 70 (32.11%) Docker
2 24 (11.01%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.50%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.92%) KVM
6 1 (0.46%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.46%) Firmware
6 1 (0.46%) iptables
6 1 (0.46%) Postfix
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 105 (48.17%) Terraform
2 93 (42.66%) Kubernetes
3 70 (32.11%) Ansible
4 47 (21.56%) Prometheus
5 27 (12.39%) Grafana
6 15 (6.88%) Argo
7 10 (4.59%) Kustomize
8 9 (4.13%) Nessus
8 9 (4.13%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (3.21%) Puppet
10 5 (2.29%) Nagios
10 5 (2.29%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.29%) Rancher
11 4 (1.83%) Cilium
11 4 (1.83%) logstash
11 4 (1.83%) vRealize
12 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.38%) Nmap
13 2 (0.92%) QRadar
13 2 (0.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (17.89%) Google
2 28 (12.84%) Red Hat
3 23 (10.55%) Microsoft
4 19 (8.72%) Splunk
5 18 (8.26%) VMware
6 12 (5.50%) Oracle
6 12 (5.50%) ServiceNow
6 12 (5.50%) Tenable
7 11 (5.05%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.75%) Rapid7
8 6 (2.75%) SAP
9 3 (1.38%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.92%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.92%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.92%) Carbon Black
10 2 (0.92%) Cisco
10 2 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.92%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.92%) Qualys
10 2 (0.92%) SolarWinds