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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 199 153
Rank change year-on-year +6 -46 -10
Permanent jobs citing Bash 231 219 484
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.14% 1.74% 2.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.45% 4.30% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 131 164 296
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £59,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £81,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +16.07% -12.50%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,813 £90,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £116,000 £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 5,191 5,091 9,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.65% 40.56% 40.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,678 3,794 7,613
10th Percentile £49,775 £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 £120,000 £132,500 £127,500
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 12 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 12 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 -17 31 £56,250 -30.77% 29
West London - 13 - - 4
South London +15 3 - - 2
East London -9 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 13 (5.63%) Apache
2 11 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.03%) Confluence
4 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.73%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.87%) IIS
6 2 (0.87%) nginx
6 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.43%) SAS
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.30%) SPSS
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.73%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 130 (56.28%) AWS
2 101 (43.72%) Azure
3 63 (27.27%) GCP
4 36 (15.58%) GitHub
5 27 (11.69%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (11.26%) Entra ID
7 25 (10.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (9.96%) Google Workspace
9 22 (9.52%) Amazon S3
9 22 (9.52%) Serverless
10 21 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (8.23%) SaaS
12 17 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (7.36%) Datadog
13 16 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (6.49%) Pulumi
15 12 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (4.33%) Google Compute Engine
16 10 (4.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (15.15%) DNS
2 33 (14.29%) Broadband
3 25 (10.82%) Firewall
4 23 (9.96%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.76%) LAN
5 11 (4.76%) Network Security
6 10 (4.33%) HTTP
7 9 (3.90%) VPN
7 9 (3.90%) Wireless
8 8 (3.46%) DHCP
8 8 (3.46%) HTTPS
9 5 (2.16%) IPv4
10 4 (1.73%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.73%) WAN
11 2 (0.87%) Multicast
11 2 (0.87%) VLAN
11 2 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.43%) NAS
12 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.26%) NoSQL
2 18 (7.79%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.49%) RDBMS
4 11 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (4.76%) BigQuery
5 10 (4.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.90%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (3.90%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (3.90%) Metadata
6 9 (3.90%) MySQL
6 9 (3.90%) Tableau
7 8 (3.46%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (1.30%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (1.30%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.87%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 49 (21.21%) GitLab
2 43 (18.61%) Jenkins
3 39 (16.88%) Git
4 20 (8.66%) Bitbucket
5 15 (6.49%) Jaeger
6 14 (6.06%) JIRA
7 13 (5.63%) Metasploit
8 11 (4.76%) CircleCI
9 9 (3.90%) Burp Suite
10 4 (1.73%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.30%) Postman
12 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.87%) Subversion
13 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.43%) Maven
13 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 79 (34.20%) Finance
2 56 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.42%) Banking
4 25 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.66%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (8.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.46%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.03%) Electronics
8 7 (3.03%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.60%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.60%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.16%) Advertising
10 5 (2.16%) Marketing
11 4 (1.73%) Automotive
12 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.87%) German Language
13 2 (0.87%) Legal
13 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Retail
14 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (19.05%) Senior
2 39 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (16.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 37 (16.02%) Lead
5 29 (12.55%) AWS Engineer
6 26 (11.26%) Analyst
7 24 (10.39%) Security Engineer
8 20 (8.66%) Platform Engineer
9 18 (7.79%) Administrator
9 18 (7.79%) GCP Engineer
9 18 (7.79%) Linux Administrator
10 17 (7.36%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (6.93%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 16 (6.93%) Systems Administrator
12 15 (6.49%) Data Engineer
13 14 (6.06%) Security Analyst
14 13 (5.63%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 12 (5.19%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (5.19%) Senior Security Analyst
16 10 (4.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.42%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (8.66%) Kafka
2 20 (8.66%) OpenID
3 19 (8.23%) REST
3 19 (8.23%) SAML
4 18 (7.79%) OAuth
5 17 (7.36%) GraphQL
5 17 (7.36%) LDAP
5 17 (7.36%) SOAP
6 15 (6.49%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (3.90%) WebSockets
8 7 (3.03%) Node.js
9 3 (1.30%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.30%) Loki
9 3 (1.30%) Middleware
10 2 (0.87%) .NET
10 2 (0.87%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.87%) JSON
10 2 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.55%) Cyber Threat
1 29 (12.55%) Security Posture
2 22 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.36%) Cyberattack
4 16 (6.93%) Data Centre
5 14 (6.06%) Cyber Defence
5 14 (6.06%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.33%) Hedge funds
6 10 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.90%) Mobile App
8 7 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.60%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.16%) PKI
11 4 (1.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.73%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.73%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.30%) Insider Threat
13 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 107 (46.32%) Linux
2 43 (18.61%) Unix
3 42 (18.18%) Windows
4 23 (9.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.76%) CentOS
6 10 (4.33%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.46%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.16%) Rocky
8 5 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.73%) AIX
9 4 (1.73%) Kali Linux
9 4 (1.73%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.30%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.87%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.43%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (54.11%) DevOps
2 121 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 118 (51.08%) CI/CD
4 72 (31.17%) Mentoring
5 70 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (26.41%) Containerisation
7 53 (22.94%) Agile
8 49 (21.21%) High Availability
9 42 (18.18%) Cloud Security
9 42 (18.18%) Incident Response
10 41 (17.75%) Roadmaps
11 36 (15.58%) Configuration Management
12 33 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
13 30 (12.99%) AI
13 30 (12.99%) Identity Access Management
14 29 (12.55%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (12.55%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (12.55%) Red Team
15 26 (11.26%) Performance Optimisation
16 24 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 201 (87.01%) Python
2 101 (43.72%) PowerShell
3 63 (27.27%) SQL
4 39 (16.88%) Java
5 34 (14.72%) Go
6 25 (10.82%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.36%) T-SQL
8 12 (5.19%) Shell Script
9 10 (4.33%) C#
10 9 (3.90%) Bicep
11 8 (3.46%) C++
11 8 (3.46%) Korn
12 7 (3.03%) Perl
12 7 (3.03%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.60%) Ruby
13 6 (2.60%) Rust
14 5 (2.16%) C
15 3 (1.30%) Objective-C
15 3 (1.30%) PHP
16 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 41 (17.75%) Degree
2 28 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 26 (11.26%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.39%) OSCP
5 18 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (7.36%) CISSP
7 14 (6.06%) RHCSA
8 12 (5.19%) CCSAM
8 12 (5.19%) CREST Certified
8 12 (5.19%) DV Cleared
9 10 (4.33%) CCSK
10 9 (3.90%) CHECK Team Leader
10 9 (3.90%) CHECK Team Member
11 8 (3.46%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (3.03%) Azure Certification
12 7 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (3.03%) GCIH
12 7 (3.03%) ISTQB
12 7 (3.03%) SC Cleared
13 6 (2.60%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.39%) NIST
2 23 (9.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.36%) NCSC
4 15 (6.49%) GDPR
4 15 (6.49%) QA
4 15 (6.49%) SOC 2
5 12 (5.19%) PCI DSS
6 10 (4.33%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.30%) SLA
9 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.43%) Basel III
10 1 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 78 (33.77%) Docker
2 32 (13.85%) Active Directory
3 19 (8.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.60%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.73%) Squid
5 4 (1.73%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.73%) vSphere
6 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.43%) Firmware
7 1 (0.43%) iptables
7 1 (0.43%) KVM
Systems Management
1 120 (51.95%) Terraform
2 99 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 83 (35.93%) Ansible
4 50 (21.65%) Prometheus
5 36 (15.58%) Grafana
6 23 (9.96%) Nagios
7 17 (7.36%) Argo
8 15 (6.49%) Kustomize
9 10 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (3.90%) Nessus
11 6 (2.60%) Data Guard
11 6 (2.60%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (2.60%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (2.16%) logstash
12 5 (2.16%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.73%) Kibana
13 4 (1.73%) Packer
13 4 (1.73%) Puppet
13 4 (1.73%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (1.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 43 (18.61%) Google
2 34 (14.72%) Microsoft
3 30 (12.99%) Red Hat
4 22 (9.52%) VMware
5 20 (8.66%) Splunk
6 16 (6.93%) Oracle
7 11 (4.76%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.60%) Apple
9 5 (2.16%) Rapid7
9 5 (2.16%) SAP
10 4 (1.73%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.73%) IBM
10 4 (1.73%) Intel
10 4 (1.73%) TOWER Software
11 3 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.30%) Tenable
11 3 (1.30%) Varonis
12 2 (0.87%) Arista
12 2 (0.87%) BT
12 2 (0.87%) Okta