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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 195 162
Rank change year-on-year -7 -33 -18
Permanent jobs citing Bash 224 214 477
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.08% 1.77% 2.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.25% 4.38% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 124 157 288
10th Percentile £51,250 £44,076 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.34% -9.38%
75th Percentile £92,813 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,625 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -14.29%

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 5,271 4,890 9,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.38% 40.52% 40.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,724 3,547 7,532
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £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 £120,000 £132,500 £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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -22 29 £56,250 -28.57% 24
West London - 13 - - 5
South London +13 3 - - 2
East London -11 2 - - 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 13 (5.80%) Apache
2 11 (4.91%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.68%) Confluence
4 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.34%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.89%) nginx
6 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.45%) IIS
7 1 (0.45%) SAS
7 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.34%) SPSS
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.23%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 125 (55.80%) AWS
2 98 (43.75%) Azure
3 57 (25.45%) GCP
4 32 (14.29%) GitHub
5 25 (11.16%) Entra ID
6 23 (10.27%) Amazon S3
6 23 (10.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 23 (10.27%) Serverless
7 22 (9.82%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (9.82%) Google Workspace
8 20 (8.93%) SaaS
9 19 (8.48%) Datadog
9 19 (8.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 16 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (6.70%) Pulumi
12 14 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (4.46%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 33 (14.73%) Broadband
1 33 (14.73%) DNS
2 24 (10.71%) Firewall
3 22 (9.82%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.91%) LAN
4 11 (4.91%) Network Security
5 10 (4.46%) HTTP
6 9 (4.02%) Wireless
7 8 (3.57%) HTTPS
7 8 (3.57%) VPN
8 7 (3.13%) DHCP
9 5 (2.23%) IPv4
10 4 (1.79%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.34%) VLAN
11 3 (1.34%) WAN
12 2 (0.89%) BGP
12 2 (0.89%) Multicast
12 2 (0.89%) OSPF
12 2 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.45%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.16%) NoSQL
2 18 (8.04%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.70%) RDBMS
4 11 (4.91%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (4.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (4.02%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (4.02%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (4.02%) BigQuery
6 9 (4.02%) Metadata
6 9 (4.02%) MySQL
6 9 (4.02%) Oracle Database
6 9 (4.02%) Tableau
7 6 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.34%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (1.34%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (1.34%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (1.34%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 47 (20.98%) GitLab
2 40 (17.86%) Jenkins
3 39 (17.41%) Git
4 19 (8.48%) Bitbucket
5 15 (6.70%) Jaeger
6 13 (5.80%) Metasploit
7 12 (5.36%) JIRA
8 11 (4.91%) CircleCI
9 9 (4.02%) Burp Suite
10 4 (1.79%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.34%) Postman
12 2 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (0.89%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.89%) Subversion
12 2 (0.89%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.45%) JMeter
13 1 (0.45%) Maven
General
1 78 (34.82%) Finance
2 52 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.84%) Banking
4 23 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.93%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (8.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.57%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.68%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.68%) Electronics
8 6 (2.68%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.68%) Marketing
9 4 (1.79%) Automotive
9 4 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.34%) Advertising
11 2 (0.89%) German Language
11 2 (0.89%) Legal
11 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Retail
12 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (20.54%) Senior
2 37 (16.52%) Lead
3 36 (16.07%) Cloud Engineer
4 33 (14.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (12.95%) AWS Engineer
6 24 (10.71%) Analyst
7 23 (10.27%) Security Engineer
8 20 (8.93%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (7.14%) Administrator
9 16 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
9 16 (7.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 16 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
10 15 (6.70%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (6.70%) Data Engineer
10 15 (6.70%) GCP Engineer
11 13 (5.80%) Security Analyst
12 12 (5.36%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 12 (5.36%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (5.36%) Senior Security Analyst
13 9 (4.02%) Senior Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.95%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (8.93%) REST
2 20 (8.93%) SAML
3 19 (8.48%) Kafka
4 18 (8.04%) OAuth
4 18 (8.04%) OpenID
5 17 (7.59%) GraphQL
5 17 (7.59%) LDAP
5 17 (7.59%) SOAP
6 16 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (4.02%) Node.js
7 9 (4.02%) WebSockets
8 3 (1.34%) 802.1X
8 3 (1.34%) Loki
8 3 (1.34%) Pandas
9 2 (0.89%) .NET
9 2 (0.89%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.89%) Middleware
9 2 (0.89%) Vue
9 2 (0.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.95%) Cyber Threat
2 27 (12.05%) Security Posture
3 25 (11.16%) Cloud Native
4 17 (7.59%) Cyberattack
5 16 (7.14%) Data Centre
6 14 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
7 13 (5.80%) Management Information System
8 10 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (4.02%) Hedge funds
9 9 (4.02%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.23%) PKI
12 4 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.79%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.89%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 102 (45.54%) Linux
2 41 (18.30%) Unix
3 36 (16.07%) Windows
4 21 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.91%) CentOS
6 9 (4.02%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.13%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.23%) AIX
8 5 (2.23%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (2.23%) Rocky
9 4 (1.79%) Kali Linux
9 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.34%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.34%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.45%) Android
12 1 (0.45%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (52.68%) DevOps
2 114 (50.89%) CI/CD
3 111 (49.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (31.70%) Mentoring
5 66 (29.46%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (25.89%) Containerisation
7 51 (22.77%) Agile
8 46 (20.54%) High Availability
9 45 (20.09%) Roadmaps
10 40 (17.86%) Incident Response
11 39 (17.41%) Cloud Security
12 34 (15.18%) Configuration Management
13 29 (12.95%) Cybersecurity
13 29 (12.95%) Platform Engineering
14 28 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
14 28 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
14 28 (12.50%) Red Team
15 27 (12.05%) AI
15 27 (12.05%) Performance Optimisation
16 23 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 192 (85.71%) Python
2 98 (43.75%) PowerShell
3 63 (28.13%) SQL
4 39 (17.41%) Java
5 33 (14.73%) Go
6 24 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.59%) T-SQL
8 14 (6.25%) Shell Script
9 11 (4.91%) C#
10 9 (4.02%) Bicep
10 9 (4.02%) Korn
11 8 (3.57%) C++
11 8 (3.57%) PL/SQL
12 7 (3.13%) Perl
13 6 (2.68%) Ruby
13 6 (2.68%) Rust
14 5 (2.23%) C
15 3 (1.34%) Objective-C
15 3 (1.34%) PHP
16 2 (0.89%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 37 (16.52%) Degree
2 26 (11.61%) Security Cleared
3 25 (11.16%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.71%) OSCP
5 15 (6.70%) CISSP
5 15 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.25%) RHCSA
7 12 (5.36%) CCSAM
7 12 (5.36%) CREST Certified
8 11 (4.91%) DV Cleared
9 9 (4.02%) CCSK
9 9 (4.02%) CHECK Team Leader
9 9 (4.02%) CHECK Team Member
10 8 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (3.13%) ISTQB
11 7 (3.13%) SC Cleared
12 6 (2.68%) Azure Certification
12 6 (2.68%) GCIH
12 6 (2.68%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.27%) NIST
2 22 (9.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.59%) NCSC
4 15 (6.70%) QA
5 14 (6.25%) SOC 2
6 12 (5.36%) GDPR
7 11 (4.91%) PCI DSS
8 10 (4.46%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.79%) SLA
10 3 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (1.34%) PMO
11 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 75 (33.48%) Docker
2 30 (13.39%) Active Directory
3 17 (7.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.13%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.79%) Squid
5 4 (1.79%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.79%) vSphere
6 2 (0.89%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.45%) Firmware
7 1 (0.45%) iptables
7 1 (0.45%) KVM
Systems Management
1 116 (51.79%) Terraform
2 89 (39.73%) Kubernetes
3 82 (36.61%) Ansible
4 49 (21.88%) Prometheus
5 35 (15.63%) Grafana
6 25 (11.16%) Nagios
7 18 (8.04%) Argo
8 15 (6.70%) Kustomize
9 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (4.02%) Nessus
10 7 (3.13%) Data Guard
10 7 (3.13%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (2.68%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (2.68%) ZABBIX
12 5 (2.23%) Packer
13 4 (1.79%) Kibana
13 4 (1.79%) logstash
14 3 (1.34%) Puppet
14 3 (1.34%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (1.34%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 40 (17.86%) Google
2 33 (14.73%) Microsoft
3 26 (11.61%) Red Hat
4 22 (9.82%) Splunk
5 19 (8.48%) VMware
6 16 (7.14%) Oracle
7 12 (5.36%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.68%) Apple
9 5 (2.23%) IBM
9 5 (2.23%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.79%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.79%) Intel
10 4 (1.79%) SAP
10 4 (1.79%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.79%) TOWER Software
11 3 (1.34%) Cognizant
11 3 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.34%) Tenable
11 3 (1.34%) Varonis
12 2 (0.89%) Arista