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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 174 132
Rank change year-on-year -9 -42 -16
Permanent jobs citing Bash 220 332 454
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.66% 1.95% 2.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.05% 4.61% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 175 212 394
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £53,825
25th Percentile £61,250 £64,688 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -3.57%

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 4,357 7,200 8,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.87% 42.39% 44.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,011 4,759 7,191
10th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 +33 33 £56,250 -29.69% 14
West London - 2 £107,500 - 3
South London +35 1 - - 5
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 7 (3.18%) Confluence
1 7 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.27%) IIS
2 5 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.27%) Tomcat
3 4 (1.82%) Apache
4 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.91%) JBoss
4 2 (0.91%) nginx
4 2 (0.91%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.45%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 90 (40.91%) AWS
2 65 (29.55%) Azure
3 43 (19.55%) GCP
4 38 (17.27%) GitHub
5 37 (16.82%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (11.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (9.55%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (8.64%) SaaS
10 17 (7.73%) Serverless
10 17 (7.73%) Slack
11 15 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (6.82%) Datadog
11 15 (6.82%) IaaS
11 15 (6.82%) OpenShift
12 13 (5.91%) Amazon S3
12 13 (5.91%) Google Compute Engine
12 13 (5.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (5.45%) Cloud Functions
14 11 (5.00%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.18%) Firewall
2 16 (7.27%) DNS
3 14 (6.36%) Network Security
4 9 (4.09%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.27%) WAN
6 4 (1.82%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.82%) VPN
7 3 (1.36%) Broadband
7 3 (1.36%) DHCP
7 3 (1.36%) Multicast
8 2 (0.91%) BGP
8 2 (0.91%) IGMP
8 2 (0.91%) LAN
8 2 (0.91%) OSPF
8 2 (0.91%) SNMP
8 2 (0.91%) SSH
8 2 (0.91%) SSL
8 2 (0.91%) VLAN
8 2 (0.91%) Wireless
8 2 (0.91%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.36%) Relational Database
2 13 (5.91%) BigQuery
2 13 (5.91%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.27%) MySQL
6 4 (1.82%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.91%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.91%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.91%) Metadata
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.91%) Tableau
9 1 (0.45%) Big Data
9 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.45%) Parquet
9 1 (0.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (21.36%) Jenkins
2 36 (16.36%) Git
3 29 (13.18%) GitLab
4 28 (12.73%) JIRA
5 8 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.27%) Burp Suite
7 5 (2.27%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.82%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.82%) Maven
8 4 (1.82%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.91%) Ant
9 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.91%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.91%) Gradle
9 2 (0.91%) JMeter
9 2 (0.91%) MLflow
9 2 (0.91%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.91%) SonarQube
General
1 94 (42.73%) Social Skills
2 82 (37.27%) Finance
3 21 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.55%) Banking
4 19 (8.64%) Telecoms
5 15 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.18%) Electronics
7 5 (2.27%) Back Office
7 5 (2.27%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.27%) Marketing
7 5 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.27%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.27%) Retail
8 4 (1.82%) Games
9 3 (1.36%) Advertising
10 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.91%) Law
Job Titles
1 49 (22.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
3 25 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 24 (10.91%) Support Engineer
5 22 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
6 19 (8.64%) Linux Engineer
6 19 (8.64%) Security Engineer
7 17 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (7.73%) Graduate
8 16 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (7.27%) Technical Engineer
8 16 (7.27%) Technical Support
8 16 (7.27%) Technical Support Engineer
9 15 (6.82%) Analyst
9 15 (6.82%) Graduate Support Engineer
9 15 (6.82%) Graduate Technical Engineer
9 15 (6.82%) Graduate Technical Support
10 14 (6.36%) GCP Engineer
11 13 (5.91%) Senior
12 12 (5.45%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.55%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (6.36%) Kafka
2 14 (6.36%) YAML
3 10 (4.55%) .NET
4 9 (4.09%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (3.64%) Jinja
6 7 (3.18%) Node.js
7 6 (2.73%) Middleware
8 5 (2.27%) RESTful
9 4 (1.82%) REST
10 3 (1.36%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.36%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.36%) OpenID
10 3 (1.36%) PyTorch
10 3 (1.36%) TensorFlow
11 2 (0.91%) AWS CDK
11 2 (0.91%) AWS SAM
11 2 (0.91%) Google JAX
11 2 (0.91%) Hugging Face
11 2 (0.91%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.91%) Management Information System
2 19 (8.64%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.27%) Security Posture
4 10 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.73%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.82%) Blog
10 4 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.82%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.82%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.36%) Clustering
11 3 (1.36%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.91%) Replication
12 2 (0.91%) Verilog
12 2 (0.91%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 109 (49.55%) Linux
2 36 (16.36%) Windows
3 25 (11.36%) Unix
4 20 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.00%) CentOS
6 9 (4.09%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.64%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.27%) Solaris
8 5 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.36%) Debian
9 3 (1.36%) VMS
10 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.45%) AIX
11 1 (0.45%) Android
11 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (58.18%) DevOps
2 125 (56.82%) CI/CD
3 101 (45.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (20.45%) Containerisation
6 37 (16.82%) Cloud Security
7 31 (14.09%) Platform Engineering
8 30 (13.64%) Agile
8 30 (13.64%) Machine Learning
9 29 (13.18%) Configuration Management
10 25 (11.36%) High Availability
10 25 (11.36%) Vulnerability Management
11 24 (10.91%) Infrastructure Automation
12 22 (10.00%) Observability
13 21 (9.55%) Incident Response
13 21 (9.55%) Mentoring
13 21 (9.55%) Security Hardening
14 20 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
14 20 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 200 (90.91%) Python
2 101 (45.91%) PowerShell
3 35 (15.91%) Go
4 32 (14.55%) SQL
5 13 (5.91%) Perl
6 8 (3.64%) Bicep
7 7 (3.18%) C#
7 7 (3.18%) Java
7 7 (3.18%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.18%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.27%) Groovy
8 5 (2.27%) Ruby
9 4 (1.82%) C++
10 2 (0.91%) SystemVerilog
10 2 (0.91%) Tcl
11 1 (0.45%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.45%) C
11 1 (0.45%) PHP
11 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (26.82%) Degree
2 20 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (6.36%) DV Cleared
4 12 (5.45%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.18%) CISSP
5 7 (3.18%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.82%) GCIH
6 4 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.36%) CCSK
7 3 (1.36%) CCSP
7 3 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.36%) PhD
7 3 (1.36%) RHCE
8 2 (0.91%) CHECK Team Leader
8 2 (0.91%) CHECK Team Member
8 2 (0.91%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.91%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.18%) GDPR
1 29 (13.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (10.45%) NIST
3 17 (7.73%) Accessibility
4 11 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (3.18%) GRC
7 6 (2.73%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.73%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.73%) QA
8 5 (2.27%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.91%) SLA
10 1 (0.45%) Basel III
10 1 (0.45%) MiFID
10 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (28.64%) Docker
2 19 (8.64%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.36%) zsh
5 2 (0.91%) KVM
5 2 (0.91%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.45%) iptables
6 1 (0.45%) Postfix
6 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 92 (41.82%) Terraform
2 84 (38.18%) Kubernetes
3 70 (31.82%) Ansible
4 38 (17.27%) Prometheus
5 35 (15.91%) Grafana
6 12 (5.45%) Red Hat Satellite
7 7 (3.18%) Puppet
8 5 (2.27%) Argo
8 5 (2.27%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.82%) Cilium
9 4 (1.82%) Nessus
9 4 (1.82%) Rancher
9 4 (1.82%) vRealize
10 3 (1.36%) logstash
10 3 (1.36%) Nagios
10 3 (1.36%) Nmap
10 3 (1.36%) Podman
10 3 (1.36%) QRadar
11 2 (0.91%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.91%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 38 (17.27%) Red Hat
2 23 (10.45%) Microsoft
3 21 (9.55%) Google
4 20 (9.09%) VMware
5 15 (6.82%) Atlassian
5 15 (6.82%) ServiceNow
5 15 (6.82%) Splunk
5 15 (6.82%) Tenable
6 10 (4.55%) Oracle
7 5 (2.27%) Rapid7
7 5 (2.27%) SAP
8 4 (1.82%) Databricks
9 3 (1.36%) Citrix
9 3 (1.36%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.36%) Qualys
9 3 (1.36%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.91%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.91%) Cisco
10 2 (0.91%) Dynatrace