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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 210 164
Rank change year-on-year +37 -46 -31
Permanent jobs citing Bash 230 239 418
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.39% 1.67% 1.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.88% 4.03% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 126 172 376
10th Percentile £43,375 £47,575 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £81,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,375 £103,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -7.14% +11.50% -9.60%

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 4,709 5,925 9,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.38% 41.40% 41.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,306 4,038 7,823
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +24 35 £56,250 -31.82% 24
West London - 14 - - 2
South London +37 4 - - 2
East London -4 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 12 (5.22%) Apache
1 12 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.61%) Confluence
2 6 (2.61%) Tomcat
3 5 (2.17%) IIS
4 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 107 (46.52%) AWS
2 91 (39.57%) Azure
3 68 (29.57%) GCP
4 38 (16.52%) GitHub
5 35 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (11.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (10.87%) Entra ID
7 25 (10.87%) SaaS
8 22 (9.57%) Google Workspace
9 19 (8.26%) Datadog
9 19 (8.26%) Serverless
10 18 (7.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (6.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (6.96%) Amazon S3
11 16 (6.96%) Pulumi
12 15 (6.52%) Google Compute Engine
13 14 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (5.65%) Cloud Functions
14 13 (5.65%) IaaS
14 13 (5.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.65%) Broadband
2 30 (13.04%) DNS
2 30 (13.04%) Firewall
3 20 (8.70%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.91%) Wireless
5 7 (3.04%) DHCP
5 7 (3.04%) HTTPS
5 7 (3.04%) LAN
5 7 (3.04%) Network Security
6 6 (2.61%) HTTP
7 5 (2.17%) VPN
8 4 (1.74%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.30%) WAN
10 2 (0.87%) SSL
10 2 (0.87%) VLAN
11 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.43%) FTP
11 1 (0.43%) SAN
11 1 (0.43%) SNMP
11 1 (0.43%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.61%) NoSQL
2 18 (7.83%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.96%) BigQuery
3 16 (6.96%) RDBMS
4 11 (4.78%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.91%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (3.91%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (3.91%) Metadata
6 9 (3.91%) Tableau
7 8 (3.48%) MySQL
8 7 (3.04%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.61%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.74%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.87%) Big Data
11 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database 11g
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 46 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 33 (14.35%) Git
3 31 (13.48%) GitLab
4 23 (10.00%) JIRA
5 17 (7.39%) Bitbucket
6 16 (6.96%) Jaeger
7 13 (5.65%) Metasploit
8 9 (3.91%) Burp Suite
9 8 (3.48%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (2.17%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.74%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.30%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.30%) JMeter
12 3 (1.30%) Postman
12 3 (1.30%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.87%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.87%) Gradle
13 2 (0.87%) Maven
14 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
General
1 80 (34.78%) Finance
2 66 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 28 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.43%) Banking
5 21 (9.13%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.65%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.61%) Electronics
10 6 (2.61%) Marketing
10 6 (2.61%) Retail
11 5 (2.17%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.74%) Back Office
12 4 (1.74%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.74%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.30%) Advertising
14 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.87%) Legal
15 1 (0.43%) German Language
Job Titles
1 42 (18.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (16.96%) Cloud Engineer
3 34 (14.78%) Senior
4 32 (13.91%) Lead
5 25 (10.87%) Analyst
6 23 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
7 22 (9.57%) Security Engineer
8 20 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
9 19 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (8.26%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (7.39%) Administrator
10 17 (7.39%) Automation Engineer
10 17 (7.39%) Linux Administrator
11 15 (6.52%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 15 (6.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 12 (5.22%) GCP DevOps
12 12 (5.22%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.22%) Security Analyst
12 12 (5.22%) Support Engineer
13 11 (4.78%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.09%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (9.57%) Kafka
3 21 (9.13%) OpenID
3 21 (9.13%) REST
4 19 (8.26%) SAML
5 18 (7.83%) GraphQL
5 18 (7.83%) LDAP
5 18 (7.83%) OAuth
5 18 (7.83%) SOAP
6 17 (7.39%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.17%) Node.js
7 5 (2.17%) WebSockets
7 5 (2.17%) YAML
8 4 (1.74%) Middleware
9 3 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (0.87%) .NET
10 2 (0.87%) AWS SAM
10 2 (0.87%) JSON
10 2 (0.87%) Pandas
10 2 (0.87%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.30%) Cyber Threat
1 26 (11.30%) Security Posture
2 22 (9.57%) Management Information System
3 18 (7.83%) Cyberattack
4 17 (7.39%) Cloud Native
5 14 (6.09%) Cyber Defence
5 14 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.78%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.91%) Mobile App
8 8 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (3.48%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.17%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.74%) Blog
11 4 (1.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.74%) PKI
12 3 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.30%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 106 (46.09%) Linux
2 50 (21.74%) Unix
3 41 (17.83%) Windows
4 23 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.22%) CentOS
6 9 (3.91%) Ubuntu
6 9 (3.91%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (2.17%) Mac OS
9 5 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.74%) Kali Linux
11 3 (1.30%) AIX
11 3 (1.30%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.87%) Android
12 2 (0.87%) Rocky
13 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.43%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.43%) VMS
13 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (52.61%) DevOps
2 112 (48.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 111 (48.26%) CI/CD
4 78 (33.91%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (26.09%) Containerisation
6 59 (25.65%) Mentoring
7 52 (22.61%) Agile
8 47 (20.43%) High Availability
9 41 (17.83%) Configuration Management
10 40 (17.39%) Incident Response
11 39 (16.96%) Roadmaps
12 36 (15.65%) Cloud Security
12 36 (15.65%) Identity Access Management
13 31 (13.48%) AI
14 29 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (12.61%) Performance Optimisation
15 27 (11.74%) Computer Science
15 27 (11.74%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (11.74%) Task Automation
16 26 (11.30%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 199 (86.52%) Python
2 101 (43.91%) PowerShell
3 58 (25.22%) SQL
4 43 (18.70%) Go
5 28 (12.17%) Java
6 24 (10.43%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.83%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.78%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.48%) Bicep
10 7 (3.04%) C#
11 6 (2.61%) Korn
12 5 (2.17%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.74%) Perl
13 4 (1.74%) Ruby
14 3 (1.30%) C++
14 3 (1.30%) PHP
15 2 (0.87%) C
15 2 (0.87%) SystemVerilog
15 2 (0.87%) Tcl
16 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (22.17%) Degree
2 24 (10.43%) AWS Certification
3 22 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (9.13%) Security Cleared
5 16 (6.96%) CISSP
6 14 (6.09%) OSCP
7 13 (5.65%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.78%) CCSK
9 9 (3.91%) CCSAM
9 9 (3.91%) CHECK Team Leader
9 9 (3.91%) CHECK Team Member
9 9 (3.91%) CREST Certified
10 6 (2.61%) RHCSA
11 5 (2.17%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.17%) GCIH
12 4 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.74%) GCIA
12 4 (1.74%) GIAC
12 4 (1.74%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (15.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (14.35%) NIST
3 18 (7.83%) NCSC
4 16 (6.96%) GDPR
5 14 (6.09%) SOC 2
6 13 (5.65%) PCI DSS
6 13 (5.65%) QA
7 11 (4.78%) Data Quality
8 10 (4.35%) Accessibility
9 6 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.74%) GRC
12 2 (0.87%) SLA
13 1 (0.43%) Basel III
13 1 (0.43%) MiFID
13 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 76 (33.04%) Docker
2 33 (14.35%) Active Directory
3 17 (7.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.74%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.30%) KVM
7 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.43%) Firmware
8 1 (0.43%) iptables
8 1 (0.43%) Postfix
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 110 (47.83%) Terraform
2 102 (44.35%) Kubernetes
3 84 (36.52%) Ansible
4 56 (24.35%) Prometheus
5 31 (13.48%) Grafana
6 20 (8.70%) Argo
7 16 (6.96%) Kustomize
8 14 (6.09%) Nagios
9 9 (3.91%) Nessus
10 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (2.61%) Puppet
11 4 (1.74%) Cilium
11 4 (1.74%) Data Guard
11 4 (1.74%) logstash
11 4 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.74%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.74%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.87%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.87%) Kibana
12 2 (0.87%) Rancher
Vendors
1 48 (20.87%) Google
2 24 (10.43%) Red Hat
3 23 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 21 (9.13%) VMware
5 18 (7.83%) Splunk
6 15 (6.52%) Oracle
7 10 (4.35%) Atlassian
7 10 (4.35%) Tenable
8 9 (3.91%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.61%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.17%) SAP
11 3 (1.30%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.30%) IBM
11 3 (1.30%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.87%) Apple
12 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.87%) BT
12 2 (0.87%) Cisco
12 2 (0.87%) Intel
12 2 (0.87%) Rapid7