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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 182 135
Rank change year-on-year -53 -47 +3
Permanent jobs citing Bash 217 233 487
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.88% 1.97% 2.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.99% 5.02% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 138 188 230
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,550 £42,825
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,875 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -4.84% -6.06%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,625 £113,250 £112,500
England median annual salary £64,635 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +1.92% -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 5,444 4,639 7,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.99% 39.16% 41.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,702 3,122 5,305
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 15 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 15 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 -31 17 £90,000 +56.52% 25
West London -15 1 - - 11
North London - 1 £60,000 -
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 (5.99%) Confluence
2 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.30%) SAS
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) nginx
4 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.38%) SPSS
3 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.61%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.69%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.38%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 122 (56.22%) AWS
2 84 (38.71%) Azure
3 36 (16.59%) Serverless
4 34 (15.67%) GCP
5 33 (15.21%) Amazon ECS
6 32 (14.75%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (12.44%) GitHub
10 22 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (9.22%) Amazon EventBridge
11 20 (9.22%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (8.29%) Datadog
14 17 (7.83%) Amazon S3
14 17 (7.83%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (7.83%) Entra ID
15 16 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (6.91%) AWS Control Tower
16 15 (6.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.36%) Network Security
2 28 (12.90%) Firewall
3 26 (11.98%) TCP/IP
4 24 (11.06%) DNS
5 15 (6.91%) DHCP
6 14 (6.45%) VPN
7 8 (3.69%) FIX Connectivity
8 6 (2.76%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (2.30%) BGP
9 5 (2.30%) HTTP
9 5 (2.30%) IPv4
9 5 (2.30%) SSH
9 5 (2.30%) VLAN
10 4 (1.84%) Kerberos
10 4 (1.84%) LAN
10 4 (1.84%) NAS
10 4 (1.84%) OSPF
10 4 (1.84%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.38%) MPLS
12 2 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.99%) MySQL
2 12 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.53%) Oracle Database
2 12 (5.53%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.61%) Redis
5 9 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.76%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.38%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.92%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.92%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (0.92%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (0.92%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.46%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 43 (19.82%) Jenkins
2 42 (19.35%) GitLab
3 32 (14.75%) Git
4 18 (8.29%) JIRA
5 10 (4.61%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.23%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.38%) JMeter
8 3 (1.38%) Postman
8 3 (1.38%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.38%) Subversion
9 2 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.92%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.92%) Maven
9 2 (0.92%) NUnit
9 2 (0.92%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.46%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.46%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 89 (41.01%) Finance
2 62 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 47 (21.66%) Banking
4 30 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (11.98%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.69%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.23%) Automotive
8 7 (3.23%) Law
9 5 (2.30%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.30%) Retail
10 4 (1.84%) Electronics
11 3 (1.38%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.38%) Public Speaking
12 2 (0.92%) Advertising
12 2 (0.92%) Danish Language
12 2 (0.92%) Front Office
12 2 (0.92%) Marketing
12 2 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (25.35%) Senior
2 38 (17.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (15.67%) Platform Engineer
4 26 (11.98%) AWS Engineer
5 20 (9.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (8.29%) Security Engineer
7 16 (7.37%) Analyst
8 15 (6.91%) Administrator
9 14 (6.45%) Consultant
9 14 (6.45%) Security Consultant
9 14 (6.45%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (6.45%) Senior Security Consultant
10 13 (5.99%) Linux Administrator
10 13 (5.99%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 13 (5.99%) Systems Administrator
11 12 (5.53%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (5.53%) DBA
11 12 (5.53%) Lead
11 12 (5.53%) Linux Engineer
11 12 (5.53%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (53.92%) Terraform
2 17 (7.83%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.83%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (5.53%) Kafka
4 9 (4.15%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (4.15%) SAML
5 7 (3.23%) Keycloak
5 7 (3.23%) Node.js
6 6 (2.76%) .NET
6 6 (2.76%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (2.76%) REST
7 5 (2.30%) Middleware
7 5 (2.30%) OpenMP
7 5 (2.30%) Pulumi
7 5 (2.30%) YAML
8 4 (1.84%) Pandas
8 4 (1.84%) RESTful
8 4 (1.84%) WebSockets
9 3 (1.38%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.38%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 44 (20.28%) Cloud Native
2 35 (16.13%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.45%) Enterprise Cloud
3 14 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.07%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.15%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.15%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.69%) Eurex
7 7 (3.23%) Replication
8 6 (2.76%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.76%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.76%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.30%) CUDA
9 5 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.84%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.84%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.38%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 106 (48.85%) Linux
2 37 (17.05%) Windows
3 35 (16.13%) Unix
4 20 (9.22%) CentOS
5 18 (8.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (6.45%) Windows Server
7 12 (5.53%) Rocky
8 10 (4.61%) AIX
8 10 (4.61%) Mac OS
8 10 (4.61%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (3.69%) Ubuntu
10 7 (3.23%) Apple iOS
10 7 (3.23%) Windows 10
11 6 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (2.30%) Solaris
13 2 (0.92%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.92%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (55.30%) Infrastructure as Code
2 107 (49.31%) CI/CD
3 98 (45.16%) DevOps
4 53 (24.42%) Platform Engineering
4 53 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (22.58%) Cloud Security
5 49 (22.58%) Containerisation
6 42 (19.35%) ITIL
7 39 (17.97%) AI
8 38 (17.51%) Mentoring
8 38 (17.51%) Observability
9 35 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 34 (15.67%) Incident Response
11 32 (14.75%) Agile
12 30 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (13.82%) Infrastructure Automation
12 30 (13.82%) Runbook
13 27 (12.44%) Capacity Planning
13 27 (12.44%) Configuration Management
13 27 (12.44%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 188 (86.64%) Python
2 95 (43.78%) PowerShell
3 48 (22.12%) Java
4 38 (17.51%) SQL
5 26 (11.98%) Perl
6 25 (11.52%) Ruby
7 19 (8.76%) Shell Script
8 17 (7.83%) Go
9 16 (7.37%) JavaScript
10 14 (6.45%) C#
10 14 (6.45%) PHP
11 13 (5.99%) Rust
12 12 (5.53%) Korn
12 12 (5.53%) PL/SQL
13 10 (4.61%) Bicep
14 9 (4.15%) C
15 8 (3.69%) Groovy
16 7 (3.23%) C++
16 7 (3.23%) VBA
17 3 (1.38%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 64 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.59%) Degree
3 24 (11.06%) AWS Certification
4 23 (10.60%) SC Cleared
5 21 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (5.99%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.61%) OSCP
9 8 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.69%) RHCSA
10 7 (3.23%) ISTQB
10 7 (3.23%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (2.76%) A+ Certification
11 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (2.30%) Azure Certification
12 5 (2.30%) CISSP
12 5 (2.30%) RHCE
13 4 (1.84%) CCNA
13 4 (1.84%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.83%) QA
2 7 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.76%) NIST
3 6 (2.76%) PMO
4 3 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.38%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.38%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.92%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 74 (34.10%) Docker
2 27 (12.44%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.07%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.76%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (2.30%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.84%) Squid
7 4 (1.84%) vSphere
8 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.92%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 77 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 56 (25.81%) Ansible
3 54 (24.88%) Grafana
4 46 (21.20%) Prometheus
5 27 (12.44%) Nagios
6 17 (7.83%) Argo
7 13 (5.99%) Data Guard
8 12 (5.53%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (4.61%) Rancher
10 9 (4.15%) Packer
11 8 (3.69%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (2.76%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (2.76%) Rundeck
13 5 (2.30%) Puppet
13 5 (2.30%) ZABBIX
14 4 (1.84%) Istio
15 3 (1.38%) Cilium
15 3 (1.38%) Kibana
15 3 (1.38%) Proxmox
15 3 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (23.04%) Microsoft
2 39 (17.97%) Splunk
3 34 (15.67%) Oracle
4 29 (13.36%) Red Hat
5 17 (7.83%) ServiceNow
6 16 (7.37%) VMware
7 13 (5.99%) Dynatrace
8 11 (5.07%) Google
9 10 (4.61%) IBM
10 8 (3.69%) Atlassian
10 8 (3.69%) Bloomberg
10 8 (3.69%) CQG
10 8 (3.69%) ION Trading
10 8 (3.69%) Patsystems
10 8 (3.69%) Rapid7
10 8 (3.69%) Reuters
10 8 (3.69%) Trayport
11 6 (2.76%) Cognizant
11 6 (2.76%) New Relic
11 6 (2.76%) SolarWinds