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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 203 157
Rank change year-on-year +11 -46 -4
Permanent jobs citing Bash 243 203 503
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.14% 1.66% 2.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.56% 3.99% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 134 150 303
10th Percentile £51,625 £43,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £92,188 £92,188 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -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 5,325 5,083 9,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.88% 41.57% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,755 3,513 7,664
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £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 £118,750 £134,100 £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 15 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 15 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 -16 31 £85,000 +13.33% 13
West London - 14 - - 8
South London +20 3 - - 2
East London -10 2 - - 2
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 (4.53%) Apache
2 9 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.47%) Confluence
4 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.23%) 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 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.23%) SPSS
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (3.29%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 134 (55.14%) AWS
2 111 (45.68%) Azure
3 52 (21.40%) GCP
4 30 (12.35%) GitHub
5 27 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 27 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 27 (11.11%) Serverless
6 25 (10.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (9.47%) Google Workspace
8 22 (9.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (9.05%) Datadog
9 20 (8.23%) SaaS
10 19 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (7.82%) Pulumi
11 17 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (6.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.58%) Broadband
2 31 (12.76%) DNS
3 28 (11.52%) Firewall
4 21 (8.64%) TCP/IP
5 13 (5.35%) Network Security
6 11 (4.53%) LAN
7 10 (4.12%) HTTP
7 10 (4.12%) Wireless
8 9 (3.70%) VPN
9 8 (3.29%) HTTPS
10 6 (2.47%) DHCP
11 5 (2.06%) IPv4
11 5 (2.06%) VLAN
12 4 (1.65%) BGP
12 4 (1.65%) OSPF
12 4 (1.65%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (1.65%) WAN
13 3 (1.23%) MPLS
13 3 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
14 2 (0.82%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.29%) NoSQL
2 17 (7.00%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.17%) RDBMS
4 11 (4.53%) MySQL
4 11 (4.53%) Oracle Database
5 8 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (3.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (2.88%) Amazon QuickSight
6 7 (2.88%) Apache Iceberg
6 7 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.88%) Metadata
6 7 (2.88%) Tableau
7 6 (2.47%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.23%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (1.23%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (1.23%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 49 (20.16%) GitLab
2 43 (17.70%) Jenkins
3 37 (15.23%) Git
4 19 (7.82%) Bitbucket
5 15 (6.17%) Jaeger
6 13 (5.35%) Metasploit
7 12 (4.94%) JIRA
8 11 (4.53%) CircleCI
9 9 (3.70%) Burp Suite
10 6 (2.47%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.65%) Postman
11 4 (1.65%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
13 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.82%) JMeter
13 2 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.82%) Subversion
14 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
14 1 (0.41%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 89 (36.63%) Finance
2 58 (23.87%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.99%) Banking
4 26 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.05%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.47%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.65%) Automotive
9 4 (1.65%) Electronics
9 4 (1.65%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.65%) Marketing
10 3 (1.23%) Advertising
10 3 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.23%) Legal
11 2 (0.82%) German Language
11 2 (0.82%) Law
11 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Retail
11 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (23.05%) Senior
2 39 (16.05%) Cloud Engineer
3 34 (13.99%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (13.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (13.99%) Lead
4 31 (12.76%) Platform Engineer
5 25 (10.29%) Security Engineer
6 22 (9.05%) Analyst
7 18 (7.41%) Administrator
8 17 (7.00%) Linux Administrator
8 17 (7.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 17 (7.00%) Systems Administrator
9 14 (5.76%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (5.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.35%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.35%) Security Analyst
11 12 (4.94%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (4.94%) Senior Security Analyst
12 11 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
12 11 (4.53%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.58%) Elastic Stack
2 26 (10.70%) SAML
3 22 (9.05%) REST
4 20 (8.23%) OAuth
4 20 (8.23%) OpenID
5 19 (7.82%) GraphQL
5 19 (7.82%) LDAP
5 19 (7.82%) SOAP
6 18 (7.41%) Kafka
7 17 (7.00%) OpenTelemetry
8 10 (4.12%) Node.js
9 9 (3.70%) WebSockets
10 3 (1.23%) .NET
10 3 (1.23%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.23%) JSON
10 3 (1.23%) Pandas
10 3 (1.23%) RESTful
11 2 (0.82%) Loki
11 2 (0.82%) Middleware
11 2 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 29 (11.93%) Cyber Threat
3 25 (10.29%) Security Posture
4 17 (7.00%) Cyberattack
5 16 (6.58%) Data Centre
6 14 (5.76%) Cyber Defence
7 13 (5.35%) Management Information System
8 9 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.70%) Mobile App
8 9 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.88%) Hedge funds
10 6 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.47%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.23%) PKI
13 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 109 (44.86%) Linux
2 42 (17.28%) Unix
3 37 (15.23%) Windows
4 23 (9.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.94%) CentOS
6 11 (4.53%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.29%) AIX
7 8 (3.29%) Mac OS
7 8 (3.29%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (2.06%) Rocky
8 5 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.65%) Kali Linux
10 3 (1.23%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.23%) 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
12 1 (0.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (51.03%) CI/CD
2 123 (50.62%) DevOps
3 122 (50.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (31.69%) Mentoring
5 70 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (25.93%) Containerisation
7 54 (22.22%) Agile
8 49 (20.16%) Roadmaps
9 47 (19.34%) High Availability
10 43 (17.70%) Incident Response
11 42 (17.28%) Platform Engineering
12 41 (16.87%) Cloud Security
13 33 (13.58%) Cybersecurity
14 32 (13.17%) Configuration Management
14 32 (13.17%) Identity Access Management
15 28 (11.52%) Continuous Integration
16 27 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (11.11%) Observability
17 26 (10.70%) AI
18 25 (10.29%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 204 (83.95%) Python
2 112 (46.09%) PowerShell
3 66 (27.16%) SQL
4 44 (18.11%) Java
5 34 (13.99%) Go
6 24 (9.88%) JavaScript
7 19 (7.82%) T-SQL
8 17 (7.00%) Shell Script
9 12 (4.94%) C#
9 12 (4.94%) Korn
10 11 (4.53%) PL/SQL
11 9 (3.70%) Bicep
11 9 (3.70%) Rust
12 7 (2.88%) C++
13 6 (2.47%) Perl
14 5 (2.06%) Ruby
15 4 (1.65%) C
15 4 (1.65%) VBA
16 3 (1.23%) Objective-C
16 3 (1.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (14.81%) Degree
2 33 (13.58%) Security Cleared
3 26 (10.70%) AWS Certification
4 24 (9.88%) OSCP
5 16 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.17%) CISSP
6 15 (6.17%) DV Cleared
7 14 (5.76%) RHCSA
8 12 (4.94%) CCSAM
8 12 (4.94%) CREST Certified
8 12 (4.94%) SC Cleared
9 10 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (3.70%) CHECK Team Leader
10 9 (3.70%) CHECK Team Member
10 9 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (2.88%) CCSK
11 7 (2.88%) ISTQB
12 6 (2.47%) GCIH
12 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (2.47%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.29%) NIST
2 24 (9.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.00%) NCSC
4 14 (5.76%) QA
4 14 (5.76%) SOC 2
5 12 (4.94%) GDPR
6 11 (4.53%) PCI DSS
7 8 (3.29%) Data Quality
8 6 (2.47%) PMO
9 4 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.65%) SLA
10 3 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 81 (33.33%) Docker
2 32 (13.17%) Active Directory
3 17 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.12%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.65%) Squid
5 4 (1.65%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.65%) vSphere
6 3 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.41%) Firmware
7 1 (0.41%) KVM
Systems Management
1 128 (52.67%) Terraform
2 90 (37.04%) Kubernetes
3 88 (36.21%) Ansible
4 57 (23.46%) Prometheus
5 44 (18.11%) Grafana
6 30 (12.35%) Nagios
7 26 (10.70%) Argo
8 15 (6.17%) Kustomize
9 11 (4.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (4.12%) Data Guard
10 10 (4.12%) Oracle RMAN
11 9 (3.70%) Nessus
11 9 (3.70%) Packer
12 8 (3.29%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (2.47%) Rundeck
13 6 (2.47%) ZABBIX
14 5 (2.06%) Kibana
15 3 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (1.23%) Puppet
15 3 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 39 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 37 (15.23%) Google
3 31 (12.76%) Splunk
4 26 (10.70%) Red Hat
5 21 (8.64%) Oracle
6 20 (8.23%) VMware
7 12 (4.94%) SolarWinds
8 9 (3.70%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.29%) IBM
10 7 (2.88%) Apple
10 7 (2.88%) Dynatrace
11 6 (2.47%) Cognizant
11 6 (2.47%) Rapid7
12 4 (1.65%) Intel
12 4 (1.65%) TOWER Software
13 3 (1.23%) Commvault
13 3 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (1.23%) Tenable
13 3 (1.23%) Varonis
14 2 (0.82%) OpenAI