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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 182 156
Rank change year-on-year -62 -26 -28
Permanent jobs citing Bash 228 224 399
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.87% 1.91% 2.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.08% 5.00% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 133 180 225
10th Percentile £48,000 £46,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,813 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,625 £114,400
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +0.75% -4.29%

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 5,582 4,483 7,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.35% 38.25% 42.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,640 2,991 5,080
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% -0.61% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -15 18 £88,750 +54.35% 14
West London -17 1 - -
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 11 (4.82%) Confluence
2 9 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.19%) SAS
4 1 (0.44%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.39%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.51%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.32%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 120 (52.63%) AWS
2 88 (38.60%) Azure
3 39 (17.11%) GCP
4 38 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 35 (15.35%) Serverless
6 32 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (14.04%) GitHub
7 29 (12.72%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (11.40%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (10.09%) SaaS
11 21 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (8.77%) Amazon EventBridge
12 20 (8.77%) Azure AKS
12 20 (8.77%) Entra ID
13 19 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (7.46%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (7.02%) Amazon S3
15 16 (7.02%) Datadog
15 16 (7.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 33 (14.47%) TCP/IP
2 30 (13.16%) Firewall
2 30 (13.16%) Network Security
3 25 (10.96%) DNS
4 20 (8.77%) VPN
5 15 (6.58%) DHCP
6 9 (3.95%) BGP
7 8 (3.51%) FIX Connectivity
7 8 (3.51%) VLAN
8 6 (2.63%) HTTP
8 6 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (2.19%) SSH
10 4 (1.75%) Kerberos
10 4 (1.75%) LAN
10 4 (1.75%) NAS
10 4 (1.75%) OSPF
11 3 (1.32%) MPLS
12 2 (0.88%) IPv4
12 2 (0.88%) WAN
12 2 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.65%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (6.14%) MySQL
4 13 (5.70%) Redis
4 13 (5.70%) SQL Server
5 12 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (5.26%) Oracle Database
6 9 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (3.07%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.88%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.44%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (18.42%) Jenkins
2 34 (14.91%) Git
3 32 (14.04%) GitLab
4 15 (6.58%) JIRA
5 13 (5.70%) TeamCity
6 7 (3.07%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.32%) JMeter
8 3 (1.32%) Postman
8 3 (1.32%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.88%) NUnit
9 2 (0.88%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.88%) Subversion
10 1 (0.44%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.44%) GDB
10 1 (0.44%) Maven
10 1 (0.44%) Selenium
10 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 93 (40.79%) Finance
2 67 (29.39%) Social Skills
3 52 (22.81%) Banking
4 33 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (11.40%) Public Sector
6 24 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (7.46%) Law
8 15 (6.58%) Retail
9 5 (2.19%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.19%) Automotive
10 4 (1.75%) Back Office
10 4 (1.75%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.32%) Public Speaking
12 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Electronics
12 2 (0.88%) Legal
12 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (23.68%) Senior
2 47 (20.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 23 (10.09%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (9.21%) Analyst
6 17 (7.46%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (7.02%) Administrator
7 16 (7.02%) Security Engineer
8 15 (6.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 15 (6.58%) Consultant
8 15 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (6.58%) Linux Engineer
8 15 (6.58%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (6.14%) Linux Administrator
9 14 (6.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 14 (6.14%) Security Consultant
9 14 (6.14%) Senior Security Consultant
9 14 (6.14%) Systems Administrator
10 13 (5.70%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (55.70%) Terraform
2 20 (8.77%) Elastic Stack
3 18 (7.89%) AWS CDK
4 14 (6.14%) Kafka
5 13 (5.70%) SAML
6 10 (4.39%) Keycloak
6 10 (4.39%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (3.95%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (3.95%) RESTful
8 7 (3.07%) REST
9 6 (2.63%) Node.js
10 5 (2.19%) .NET
10 5 (2.19%) Middleware
10 5 (2.19%) OpenMP
10 5 (2.19%) Pulumi
10 5 (2.19%) YAML
11 4 (1.75%) Pandas
11 4 (1.75%) React
11 4 (1.75%) WebSockets
12 3 (1.32%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 48 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 35 (15.35%) Onboarding
3 17 (7.46%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (7.02%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (4.39%) Replication
7 9 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.51%) Data Centre
8 8 (3.51%) Eurex
8 8 (3.51%) Hedge funds
8 8 (3.51%) Security Posture
9 7 (3.07%) Blog
10 6 (2.63%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.19%) CUDA
12 4 (1.75%) Equity Derivative
12 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.32%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 114 (50.00%) Linux
2 40 (17.54%) Windows
3 34 (14.91%) Unix
4 21 (9.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (8.77%) CentOS
6 14 (6.14%) Rocky
7 12 (5.26%) Windows Server
8 11 (4.82%) macOS
9 10 (4.39%) AIX
9 10 (4.39%) Oracle Linux
9 10 (4.39%) Ubuntu
10 8 (3.51%) Apple iOS
11 7 (3.07%) Windows 10
12 5 (2.19%) Solaris
12 5 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.88%) Android
14 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (54.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 111 (48.68%) CI/CD
3 103 (45.18%) DevOps
4 61 (26.75%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (25.88%) Platform Engineering
6 54 (23.68%) Cloud Security
7 51 (22.37%) Containerisation
8 48 (21.05%) Observability
9 44 (19.30%) AI
10 43 (18.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 40 (17.54%) Incident Response
11 40 (17.54%) ITIL
12 39 (17.11%) Infrastructure Automation
13 36 (15.79%) Mentoring
14 33 (14.47%) Agile
15 32 (14.04%) Identity Access Management
15 32 (14.04%) Runbook
16 29 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 28 (12.28%) Configuration Management
17 28 (12.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 200 (87.72%) Python
2 94 (41.23%) PowerShell
3 48 (21.05%) Java
4 45 (19.74%) SQL
5 23 (10.09%) Perl
6 22 (9.65%) Go
6 22 (9.65%) Ruby
7 19 (8.33%) Shell Script
8 15 (6.58%) JavaScript
9 14 (6.14%) PHP
10 12 (5.26%) Bicep
10 12 (5.26%) Korn
11 11 (4.82%) PL/SQL
12 10 (4.39%) C#
12 10 (4.39%) Groovy
13 9 (3.95%) Rust
14 7 (3.07%) VBA
15 6 (2.63%) C
16 3 (1.32%) C++
17 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (28.51%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.16%) Degree
3 23 (10.09%) SC Cleared
4 20 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (8.33%) AWS Certification
6 16 (7.02%) DV Cleared
7 15 (6.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.39%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.51%) GIAC
10 7 (3.07%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (2.63%) A+ Certification
11 6 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (2.63%) CISSP
11 6 (2.63%) GCFA
11 6 (2.63%) OSCP
11 6 (2.63%) RHCSA
12 5 (2.19%) ISTQB
13 4 (1.75%) GSEC
13 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (1.32%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.02%) QA
2 10 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.51%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.07%) NIST
5 6 (2.63%) PMO
6 5 (2.19%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.88%) NCSC
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.44%) GDPR
8 1 (0.44%) IASME
8 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 79 (34.65%) Docker
2 25 (10.96%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.82%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (2.63%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.32%) vSphere
8 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.88%) Squid
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 100 (43.86%) Kubernetes
2 63 (27.63%) Grafana
3 62 (27.19%) Ansible
4 56 (24.56%) Prometheus
5 24 (10.53%) Nagios
6 20 (8.77%) Argo
7 13 (5.70%) Data Guard
8 12 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (5.26%) Rancher
9 9 (3.95%) Packer
10 8 (3.51%) Puppet
11 7 (3.07%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (2.63%) Rundeck
13 5 (2.19%) Istio
14 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (1.75%) vCenter Server
15 3 (1.32%) Cilium
15 3 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (1.32%) Proxmox
15 3 (1.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (22.37%) Microsoft
2 37 (16.23%) Splunk
3 32 (14.04%) Oracle
4 29 (12.72%) Red Hat
5 19 (8.33%) Google
5 19 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 16 (7.02%) Dynatrace
6 16 (7.02%) VMware
7 10 (4.39%) IBM
8 8 (3.51%) Atlassian
8 8 (3.51%) Bloomberg
8 8 (3.51%) CQG
8 8 (3.51%) ION Trading
8 8 (3.51%) Patsystems
8 8 (3.51%) Reuters
8 8 (3.51%) Trayport
9 7 (3.07%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (3.07%) Rapid7
10 6 (2.63%) Cognizant
10 6 (2.63%) New Relic