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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 213 165
Rank change year-on-year +16 -48 -15
Permanent jobs citing Bash 245 206 503
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.13% 1.69% 2.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.59% 4.06% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 133 153 303
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,000 £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 5,341 5,073 9,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.72% 41.67% 39.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,768 3,522 7,707
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £130,000
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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -29 29 £86,250 +15.00% 6
West London - 14 - - 5
South London +19 3 - - 1
East London -6 2 - - 3
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 10 (4.08%) Apache
2 8 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.45%) Confluence
4 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.82%) nginx
6 2 (0.82%) SAS
6 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.22%) SPSS
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (3.67%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.41%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 135 (55.10%) AWS
2 110 (44.90%) Azure
3 51 (20.82%) GCP
4 31 (12.65%) GitHub
5 29 (11.84%) Serverless
6 28 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (11.02%) Entra ID
8 26 (10.61%) Amazon S3
9 23 (9.39%) Datadog
9 23 (9.39%) Google Workspace
10 21 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (7.76%) Pulumi
12 19 (7.76%) SaaS
13 16 (6.53%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (6.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.47%) Broadband
2 30 (12.24%) DNS
3 28 (11.43%) Firewall
4 20 (8.16%) TCP/IP
5 15 (6.12%) Network Security
6 10 (4.08%) LAN
6 10 (4.08%) Wireless
7 9 (3.67%) HTTP
7 9 (3.67%) VPN
8 8 (3.27%) HTTPS
9 6 (2.45%) DHCP
10 5 (2.04%) IPv4
10 5 (2.04%) VLAN
11 4 (1.63%) BGP
11 4 (1.63%) OSPF
11 4 (1.63%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (1.63%) WAN
12 3 (1.22%) MPLS
12 3 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.82%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.20%) NoSQL
2 17 (6.94%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.12%) RDBMS
4 12 (4.90%) Oracle Database
5 10 (4.08%) MySQL
6 7 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.45%) Amazon QuickSight
7 6 (2.45%) Apache Iceberg
7 6 (2.45%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.45%) Metadata
7 6 (2.45%) Tableau
8 5 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.22%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (1.22%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (1.22%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (19.59%) GitLab
2 44 (17.96%) Jenkins
3 35 (14.29%) Git
4 19 (7.76%) Bitbucket
5 15 (6.12%) Jaeger
6 13 (5.31%) Metasploit
7 12 (4.90%) JIRA
8 11 (4.49%) CircleCI
9 9 (3.67%) Burp Suite
10 6 (2.45%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.63%) Postman
11 4 (1.63%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.22%) Subversion
13 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
13 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.82%) JMeter
13 2 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
14 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
14 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 91 (37.14%) Finance
2 57 (23.27%) Social Skills
3 33 (13.47%) Banking
4 24 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.98%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.49%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.86%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.04%) Automotive
10 4 (1.63%) Electronics
10 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.63%) Marketing
11 3 (1.22%) Advertising
11 3 (1.22%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.82%) German Language
12 2 (0.82%) Law
12 2 (0.82%) Legal
12 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Retail
12 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (23.67%) Senior
2 38 (15.51%) Cloud Engineer
3 34 (13.88%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (13.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (13.06%) Lead
4 32 (13.06%) Platform Engineer
5 25 (10.20%) Security Engineer
6 22 (8.98%) Analyst
7 17 (6.94%) Administrator
8 16 (6.53%) Linux Administrator
8 16 (6.53%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 16 (6.53%) Systems Administrator
9 14 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.31%) Security Analyst
11 12 (4.90%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.90%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (4.90%) Senior Security Analyst
12 11 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
12 11 (4.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.88%) Elastic Stack
2 26 (10.61%) SAML
3 22 (8.98%) REST
4 20 (8.16%) OAuth
4 20 (8.16%) OpenID
5 19 (7.76%) GraphQL
5 19 (7.76%) LDAP
5 19 (7.76%) SOAP
6 17 (6.94%) Kafka
6 17 (6.94%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (3.67%) Node.js
8 8 (3.27%) WebSockets
9 3 (1.22%) .NET
9 3 (1.22%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.22%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.22%) JSON
9 3 (1.22%) Middleware
9 3 (1.22%) Pandas
9 3 (1.22%) RESTful
9 3 (1.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.69%) Cloud Native
2 28 (11.43%) Cyber Threat
3 25 (10.20%) Security Posture
4 17 (6.94%) Cyberattack
5 15 (6.12%) Data Centre
6 13 (5.31%) Cyber Defence
6 13 (5.31%) Management Information System
7 10 (4.08%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.67%) Mobile App
9 8 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.86%) Hedge funds
11 5 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.63%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (1.22%) PKI
14 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 110 (44.90%) Linux
2 44 (17.96%) Unix
3 37 (15.10%) Windows
4 23 (9.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.49%) CentOS
5 11 (4.49%) Windows Server
6 9 (3.67%) AIX
6 9 (3.67%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (3.27%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.04%) Rocky
8 5 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.63%) Kali Linux
10 3 (1.22%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.22%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.82%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.41%) Android
12 1 (0.41%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (51.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 122 (49.80%) DevOps
3 121 (49.39%) CI/CD
4 77 (31.43%) Mentoring
5 69 (28.16%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (26.12%) Containerisation
7 54 (22.04%) Agile
8 49 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 47 (19.18%) High Availability
10 43 (17.55%) Platform Engineering
11 42 (17.14%) Cloud Security
11 42 (17.14%) Incident Response
12 34 (13.88%) Identity Access Management
13 32 (13.06%) Configuration Management
13 32 (13.06%) Cybersecurity
14 28 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
15 27 (11.02%) AI
15 27 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (10.61%) Observability
17 25 (10.20%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 205 (83.67%) Python
2 111 (45.31%) PowerShell
3 65 (26.53%) SQL
4 48 (19.59%) Java
5 34 (13.88%) Go
6 25 (10.20%) JavaScript
7 19 (7.76%) T-SQL
8 18 (7.35%) Shell Script
9 13 (5.31%) C#
9 13 (5.31%) Korn
10 12 (4.90%) PL/SQL
11 10 (4.08%) Rust
12 9 (3.67%) Bicep
13 7 (2.86%) C++
13 7 (2.86%) Perl
13 7 (2.86%) Ruby
14 5 (2.04%) PHP
14 5 (2.04%) VBA
15 4 (1.63%) C
16 3 (1.22%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 38 (15.51%) Degree
2 36 (14.69%) Security Cleared
3 28 (11.43%) AWS Certification
4 23 (9.39%) OSCP
5 18 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.12%) DV Cleared
7 14 (5.71%) CISSP
8 13 (5.31%) RHCSA
9 12 (4.90%) CCSAM
9 12 (4.90%) CREST Certified
9 12 (4.90%) SC Cleared
10 10 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (3.67%) CHECK Team Leader
11 9 (3.67%) CHECK Team Member
11 9 (3.67%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (2.86%) CCSK
12 7 (2.86%) ISTQB
13 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (2.45%) RHCE
14 5 (2.04%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.20%) NIST
2 24 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (6.94%) NCSC
4 14 (5.71%) QA
4 14 (5.71%) SOC 2
5 12 (4.90%) GDPR
6 11 (4.49%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.86%) Data Quality
8 6 (2.45%) PMO
9 4 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.63%) SLA
10 3 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 81 (33.06%) Docker
2 32 (13.06%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.49%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.63%) Squid
5 4 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.63%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.63%) vSphere
6 3 (1.22%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.41%) Firmware
7 1 (0.41%) KVM
7 1 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 129 (52.65%) Terraform
2 90 (36.73%) Kubernetes
3 88 (35.92%) Ansible
4 59 (24.08%) Prometheus
5 45 (18.37%) Grafana
6 29 (11.84%) Nagios
7 27 (11.02%) Argo
8 15 (6.12%) Kustomize
9 11 (4.49%) Data Guard
9 11 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (4.49%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (3.67%) Nessus
10 9 (3.67%) Packer
11 8 (3.27%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (2.45%) Rundeck
12 6 (2.45%) ZABBIX
13 5 (2.04%) Kibana
14 4 (1.63%) Puppet
14 4 (1.63%) Rancher
15 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 38 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 37 (15.10%) Google
3 31 (12.65%) Splunk
4 24 (9.80%) Red Hat
5 22 (8.98%) Oracle
6 19 (7.76%) VMware
7 11 (4.49%) SolarWinds
8 9 (3.67%) IBM
8 9 (3.67%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.86%) Apple
9 7 (2.86%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.45%) Cognizant
11 5 (2.04%) Rapid7
12 4 (1.63%) Intel
12 4 (1.63%) TOWER Software
13 3 (1.22%) Commvault
13 3 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (1.22%) Tenable
13 3 (1.22%) Varonis
14 2 (0.82%) OpenAI