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

6 months to
18 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 185 167
Rank change year-on-year -58 -18 -35
Permanent jobs citing Bash 229 219 342
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.88% 1.87% 1.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.09% 4.94% 4.53%
Number of salaries quoted 134 177 221
10th Percentile £48,250 £48,250 £43,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% - -6.06%
75th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £116,750 £112,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,250
% change year-on-year -3.70% +0.37% -3.93%

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.

6 months to
18 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,596 4,431 7,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.40% 37.77% 42.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,632 2,960 5,013
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -2.42% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 October 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 October 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 -9 18 £88,750 +54.35% 40
West London -20 1 - - 10
North London - 1 £60,000 -
Bash
England

Bash Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Python87.8%201
2PowerShell41.5%95
3Java21.0%48
4SQL19.7%45
5Go10.0%23
5Perl10.0%23
7Ruby9.6%22
8Shell Script8.3%19
9JavaScript7.0%16
10PHP6.1%14
11Bicep5.2%12
11Korn5.2%12
13PL/SQL4.8%11
14C#4.4%10
14Groovy4.4%10
16Rust3.9%9
17VBA3.1%7
18C2.6%6
19C++1.3%3
19TypeScript1.3%3