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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 180 137
Rank change year-on-year -61 -43 -1
Permanent jobs citing Bash 216 236 491
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.86% 1.97% 2.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.92% 5.02% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 136 191 229
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £42,650
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £90,313 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,875 £111,250 £112,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -9.72%

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 5,517 4,704 8,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.95% 39.36% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,720 3,172 5,342
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,188 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,250 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -18 17 £90,000 +56.52% 24
West London -13 1 - - 12
North London - 1 £60,000 - 1
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 (6.02%) Confluence
2 10 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.31%) SAS
4 2 (0.93%) nginx
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.93%) SPSS
3 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.63%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.70%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.39%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 120 (55.56%) AWS
2 83 (38.43%) Azure
3 35 (16.20%) Serverless
4 33 (15.28%) Amazon ECS
4 33 (15.28%) GCP
5 32 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (14.35%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (13.43%) GitHub
8 26 (12.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (10.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (10.19%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (9.26%) Amazon EventBridge
10 20 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (7.87%) Amazon S3
11 17 (7.87%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (7.87%) Datadog
11 17 (7.87%) Entra ID
12 16 (7.41%) SaaS
13 15 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (6.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.96%) Firewall
1 28 (12.96%) Network Security
2 26 (12.04%) TCP/IP
3 24 (11.11%) DNS
4 15 (6.94%) DHCP
5 14 (6.48%) VPN
6 8 (3.70%) FIX Connectivity
7 6 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (2.31%) BGP
8 5 (2.31%) HTTP
8 5 (2.31%) IPv4
8 5 (2.31%) SSH
8 5 (2.31%) VLAN
9 4 (1.85%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.85%) LAN
9 4 (1.85%) NAS
9 4 (1.85%) OSPF
9 4 (1.85%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (1.39%) MPLS
11 2 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.02%) MySQL
2 12 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 12 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.63%) Redis
4 9 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.39%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.93%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.93%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.46%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 43 (19.91%) Jenkins
2 40 (18.52%) GitLab
3 34 (15.74%) Git
4 18 (8.33%) JIRA
5 10 (4.63%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.24%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.85%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.39%) JMeter
9 3 (1.39%) Postman
9 3 (1.39%) Subversion
10 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.93%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.93%) Maven
10 2 (0.93%) NUnit
10 2 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.46%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.46%) Selenium
11 1 (0.46%) Snyk
General
1 87 (40.28%) Finance
2 64 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 46 (21.30%) Banking
4 31 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (12.04%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.70%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.70%) Law
8 7 (3.24%) Automotive
9 6 (2.78%) Retail
10 5 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.85%) Electronics
12 3 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.39%) Public Speaking
13 2 (0.93%) Danish Language
13 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.93%) Legal
13 2 (0.93%) Marketing
13 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (25.00%) Senior
2 39 (18.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (15.74%) Platform Engineer
4 25 (11.57%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (7.87%) Analyst
6 17 (7.87%) Security Engineer
7 15 (6.94%) Administrator
8 14 (6.48%) Consultant
8 14 (6.48%) Security Consultant
8 14 (6.48%) Senior Consultant
8 14 (6.48%) Senior Security Consultant
9 13 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (6.02%) Linux Administrator
9 13 (6.02%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 13 (6.02%) Systems Administrator
10 12 (5.56%) DBA
10 12 (5.56%) Lead
10 12 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
10 12 (5.56%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (54.17%) Terraform
2 17 (7.87%) AWS CDK
3 16 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (5.09%) Kafka
5 9 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (4.17%) SAML
6 7 (3.24%) Keycloak
6 7 (3.24%) Node.js
6 7 (3.24%) REST
7 6 (2.78%) .NET
7 6 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.31%) Middleware
8 5 (2.31%) OpenMP
8 5 (2.31%) Pulumi
8 5 (2.31%) YAML
9 4 (1.85%) Pandas
9 4 (1.85%) RESTful
9 4 (1.85%) WebSockets
10 3 (1.39%) OpenID
10 3 (1.39%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.91%) Cloud Native
2 35 (16.20%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.48%) Enterprise Cloud
3 14 (6.48%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.09%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.17%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.70%) Eurex
6 8 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.24%) Replication
8 6 (2.78%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.31%) CUDA
9 5 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.31%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.85%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.39%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 107 (49.54%) Linux
2 37 (17.13%) Windows
3 35 (16.20%) Unix
4 20 (9.26%) CentOS
5 18 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (6.48%) Windows Server
7 12 (5.56%) Rocky
8 10 (4.63%) AIX
8 10 (4.63%) Mac OS
8 10 (4.63%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (3.70%) Ubuntu
10 7 (3.24%) Apple iOS
10 7 (3.24%) Windows 10
11 6 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (2.31%) Solaris
13 2 (0.93%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.93%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 107 (49.54%) CI/CD
3 98 (45.37%) DevOps
4 54 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 54 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (23.15%) Containerisation
6 49 (22.69%) Cloud Security
7 41 (18.98%) ITIL
8 40 (18.52%) AI
9 37 (17.13%) Observability
10 36 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 36 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 34 (15.74%) Incident Response
12 32 (14.81%) Agile
12 32 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
13 30 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (13.43%) Runbook
15 27 (12.50%) Configuration Management
15 27 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
16 26 (12.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 189 (87.50%) Python
2 95 (43.98%) PowerShell
3 47 (21.76%) Java
4 38 (17.59%) SQL
5 25 (11.57%) Perl
6 24 (11.11%) Ruby
7 18 (8.33%) Shell Script
8 17 (7.87%) JavaScript
9 16 (7.41%) Go
10 14 (6.48%) PHP
11 13 (6.02%) C#
12 12 (5.56%) Korn
12 12 (5.56%) PL/SQL
12 12 (5.56%) Rust
13 11 (5.09%) Bicep
14 8 (3.70%) C
14 8 (3.70%) Groovy
15 7 (3.24%) VBA
16 6 (2.78%) C++
17 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 35 (16.20%) Degree
3 24 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 23 (10.65%) SC Cleared
5 21 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (6.02%) DV Cleared
8 9 (4.17%) OSCP
9 8 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.70%) RHCSA
10 7 (3.24%) ISTQB
10 7 (3.24%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (2.78%) A+ Certification
11 6 (2.78%) Azure Certification
11 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (2.31%) CISSP
12 5 (2.31%) RHCE
13 4 (1.85%) CCNA
13 4 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.87%) QA
2 7 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.78%) NIST
3 6 (2.78%) PMO
4 2 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.46%) GDPR
5 1 (0.46%) NCSC
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 75 (34.72%) Docker
2 27 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.09%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (2.31%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.85%) Squid
7 4 (1.85%) vSphere
8 3 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 80 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 56 (25.93%) Ansible
3 53 (24.54%) Grafana
4 45 (20.83%) Prometheus
5 27 (12.50%) Nagios
6 18 (8.33%) Argo
7 13 (6.02%) Data Guard
8 12 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (4.63%) Rancher
10 9 (4.17%) Packer
11 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (2.78%) Puppet
12 6 (2.78%) Rundeck
13 5 (2.31%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (2.31%) ZABBIX
14 4 (1.85%) Istio
15 3 (1.39%) Cilium
15 3 (1.39%) Kibana
15 3 (1.39%) Proxmox
15 3 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (22.69%) Microsoft
2 40 (18.52%) Splunk
3 34 (15.74%) Oracle
4 29 (13.43%) Red Hat
5 17 (7.87%) ServiceNow
6 16 (7.41%) VMware
7 13 (6.02%) Dynatrace
8 12 (5.56%) Google
9 10 (4.63%) IBM
10 8 (3.70%) Atlassian
10 8 (3.70%) Bloomberg
10 8 (3.70%) CQG
10 8 (3.70%) ION Trading
10 8 (3.70%) Patsystems
10 8 (3.70%) Rapid7
10 8 (3.70%) Reuters
10 8 (3.70%) Trayport
11 6 (2.78%) Cognizant
11 6 (2.78%) New Relic
11 6 (2.78%) SolarWinds