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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 178 148
Rank change year-on-year -58 -30 -13
Permanent jobs citing Bash 217 244 475
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.90% 2.02% 2.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.91% 5.02% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 140 189 235
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £60,938 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £113,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -13.19%

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 5,543 4,859 7,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.92% 40.26% 41.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,800 3,305 5,552
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £62,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £137,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -27 18 £90,000 +28.57% 14
West London -24 1 - - 17
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 (5.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.61%) Confluence
3 5 (2.30%) SAS
4 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.92%) nginx
5 2 (0.92%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.46%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.38%) SPSS
3 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.61%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (2.76%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.38%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 123 (56.68%) AWS
2 93 (42.86%) Azure
3 37 (17.05%) GCP
4 36 (16.59%) Serverless
5 32 (14.75%) Amazon ECS
5 32 (14.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (14.29%) GitHub
7 30 (13.82%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (11.98%) Amazon EKS
9 22 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (10.14%) Datadog
10 21 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (9.22%) Amazon EventBridge
12 19 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (8.76%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (8.29%) Amazon S3
14 17 (7.83%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (7.37%) Entra ID
16 15 (6.91%) AWS Control Tower
17 14 (6.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 31 (14.29%) Firewall
2 30 (13.82%) Network Security
3 26 (11.98%) DNS
4 24 (11.06%) TCP/IP
5 14 (6.45%) VPN
6 12 (5.53%) DHCP
7 6 (2.76%) FIX Connectivity
7 6 (2.76%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (2.76%) VLAN
8 5 (2.30%) BGP
8 5 (2.30%) HTTP
8 5 (2.30%) IPv4
8 5 (2.30%) LAN
9 4 (1.84%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.84%) NAS
9 4 (1.84%) OSPF
9 4 (1.84%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (1.84%) SSH
10 3 (1.38%) HTTPS
10 3 (1.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.45%) MySQL
2 12 (5.53%) Oracle Database
3 10 (4.61%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (4.61%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.84%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.84%) Redis
7 3 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.92%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (0.92%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.46%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 44 (20.28%) GitLab
2 37 (17.05%) Jenkins
3 29 (13.36%) Git
4 16 (7.37%) JIRA
5 13 (5.99%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.76%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.84%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.84%) Postman
8 3 (1.38%) JMeter
8 3 (1.38%) Subversion
9 2 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.92%) NUnit
9 2 (0.92%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.46%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.46%) Maven
10 1 (0.46%) Metasploit
General
1 90 (41.47%) Finance
2 66 (30.41%) Social Skills
3 45 (20.74%) Banking
4 29 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.52%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.69%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.23%) Automotive
8 6 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.84%) Electronics
10 4 (1.84%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.38%) Advertising
11 3 (1.38%) Law
11 3 (1.38%) Marketing
11 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.38%) Public Speaking
11 3 (1.38%) Retail
12 2 (0.92%) Danish Language
12 2 (0.92%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 54 (24.88%) Senior
2 36 (16.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (16.13%) Platform Engineer
4 23 (10.60%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (10.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (9.22%) Security Engineer
7 18 (8.29%) Administrator
8 16 (7.37%) Linux Administrator
8 16 (7.37%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 16 (7.37%) Systems Administrator
9 14 (6.45%) Consultant
9 14 (6.45%) Linux Engineer
9 14 (6.45%) Security Consultant
9 14 (6.45%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (6.45%) Senior Security Consultant
10 13 (5.99%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 12 (5.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.53%) DBA
11 12 (5.53%) Lead
12 11 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (53.92%) Terraform
2 17 (7.83%) AWS CDK
3 14 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (4.15%) Kafka
4 9 (4.15%) SAML
5 8 (3.69%) Node.js
6 7 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (2.76%) .NET
8 5 (2.30%) Middleware
8 5 (2.30%) OpenMP
8 5 (2.30%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.30%) REST
8 5 (2.30%) WebSockets
8 5 (2.30%) YAML
9 4 (1.84%) Pulumi
10 3 (1.38%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.38%) OAuth
10 3 (1.38%) OpenACC
10 3 (1.38%) OpenID
10 3 (1.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 42 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 31 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 13 (5.99%) Data Centre
5 12 (5.53%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (5.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (4.61%) Management Information System
8 9 (4.15%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.76%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (2.76%) Eurex
9 6 (2.76%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.30%) CUDA
10 5 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.84%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (1.84%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.38%) Blog
12 3 (1.38%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.38%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 105 (48.39%) Linux
2 37 (17.05%) Windows
3 33 (15.21%) Unix
4 19 (8.76%) CentOS
4 19 (8.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.99%) Windows Server
6 10 (4.61%) AIX
6 10 (4.61%) Mac OS
6 10 (4.61%) Oracle Linux
6 10 (4.61%) Rocky
7 6 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.30%) Apple iOS
8 5 (2.30%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.30%) Windows 10
9 3 (1.38%) Solaris
10 2 (0.92%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.92%) Android
11 1 (0.46%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.46%) SUSE
11 1 (0.46%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (55.30%) Infrastructure as Code
2 110 (50.69%) CI/CD
3 102 (47.00%) DevOps
4 56 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (24.42%) Containerisation
6 50 (23.04%) Platform Engineering
7 47 (21.66%) Cloud Security
8 39 (17.97%) Incident Response
9 37 (17.05%) Mentoring
10 36 (16.59%) AI
11 33 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (15.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 32 (14.75%) ITIL
13 31 (14.29%) Configuration Management
13 31 (14.29%) Observability
14 29 (13.36%) Capacity Planning
15 28 (12.90%) Identity Access Management
15 28 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
16 27 (12.44%) Computer Science
16 27 (12.44%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 189 (87.10%) Python
2 95 (43.78%) PowerShell
3 46 (21.20%) Java
4 40 (18.43%) SQL
5 25 (11.52%) Perl
6 23 (10.60%) Ruby
7 18 (8.29%) Shell Script
8 17 (7.83%) Go
9 15 (6.91%) JavaScript
9 15 (6.91%) PHP
10 14 (6.45%) C#
11 13 (5.99%) Rust
12 12 (5.53%) Korn
12 12 (5.53%) PL/SQL
13 9 (4.15%) Bicep
13 9 (4.15%) C
14 7 (3.23%) C++
14 7 (3.23%) VBA
15 3 (1.38%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 39 (17.97%) Degree
3 25 (11.52%) AWS Certification
4 21 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (7.83%) SC Cleared
6 16 (7.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (5.99%) OSCP
8 12 (5.53%) DV Cleared
9 9 (4.15%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (4.15%) RHCSA
10 7 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (3.23%) ISTQB
11 6 (2.76%) Azure Certification
11 6 (2.76%) CISSP
11 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (2.30%) RHCE
13 4 (1.84%) CCNA
13 4 (1.84%) CCSP
13 4 (1.84%) CISM
13 4 (1.84%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.83%) QA
2 8 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.23%) SOC 2
4 6 (2.76%) NIST
4 6 (2.76%) PMO
5 5 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.84%) GDPR
7 3 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.38%) SLA
8 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 68 (31.34%) Docker
2 27 (12.44%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.07%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.76%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (2.30%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.84%) Squid
7 4 (1.84%) vSphere
8 2 (0.92%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 75 (34.56%) Kubernetes
2 66 (30.41%) Ansible
3 52 (23.96%) Grafana
4 41 (18.89%) Prometheus
5 30 (13.82%) Nagios
6 15 (6.91%) Argo
7 13 (5.99%) Data Guard
8 12 (5.53%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (4.15%) Packer
11 8 (3.69%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (2.76%) Rundeck
13 5 (2.30%) Puppet
13 5 (2.30%) Rancher
13 5 (2.30%) ZABBIX
14 4 (1.84%) Istio
14 4 (1.84%) Proxmox
15 3 (1.38%) Cilium
15 3 (1.38%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (23.96%) Microsoft
2 38 (17.51%) Splunk
3 32 (14.75%) Oracle
4 29 (13.36%) Red Hat
5 18 (8.29%) VMware
6 12 (5.53%) ServiceNow
7 11 (5.07%) Google
8 10 (4.61%) IBM
9 9 (4.15%) Rapid7
10 8 (3.69%) Dynatrace
10 8 (3.69%) SolarWinds
11 6 (2.76%) Apple
11 6 (2.76%) Bloomberg
11 6 (2.76%) Cognizant
11 6 (2.76%) CQG
11 6 (2.76%) ION Trading
11 6 (2.76%) Patsystems
11 6 (2.76%) Reuters
11 6 (2.76%) Trayport
12 5 (2.30%) Atlassian