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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 181 148
Rank change year-on-year -52 -33 -8
Permanent jobs citing Bash 224 244 460
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.93% 2.01% 2.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.00% 4.95% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 144 188 240
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,853 £45,925
25th Percentile £62,188 £56,875 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £109,375 £110,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -10.71%

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 5,594 4,934 7,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.33% 40.68% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,843 3,377 5,737
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,500
25th Percentile £64,625 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%

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 August 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 August 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 -29 19 £88,750 +26.79% 8
North London - 1 £60,000 -
West London - 1 - - 7
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 10 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.57%) Confluence
3 5 (2.23%) SAS
4 3 (1.34%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.89%) Apache
5 2 (0.89%) nginx
5 2 (0.89%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.34%) SPSS
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.91%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (2.23%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.34%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 129 (57.59%) AWS
2 100 (44.64%) Azure
3 40 (17.86%) GCP
4 38 (16.96%) Serverless
5 34 (15.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 34 (15.18%) GitHub
6 32 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
7 31 (13.84%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (11.61%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (10.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 23 (10.27%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (9.82%) Datadog
11 19 (8.48%) Amazon EventBridge
11 19 (8.48%) Amazon S3
11 19 (8.48%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (7.59%) Cloud Computing
14 15 (6.70%) AWS Control Tower
15 14 (6.25%) OpenShift
15 14 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (15.18%) Firewall
2 30 (13.39%) Network Security
3 28 (12.50%) DNS
4 25 (11.16%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.91%) VPN
6 9 (4.02%) DHCP
7 7 (3.13%) HTTPS
8 6 (2.68%) HTTP
8 6 (2.68%) LAN
8 6 (2.68%) VLAN
9 5 (2.23%) BGP
9 5 (2.23%) FIX Connectivity
9 5 (2.23%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (2.23%) IPv4
9 5 (2.23%) NAS
10 4 (1.79%) Kerberos
10 4 (1.79%) OSPF
10 4 (1.79%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.79%) SSH
11 3 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.25%) MySQL
2 13 (5.80%) Oracle Database
3 10 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.02%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.23%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.34%) Redis
8 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.89%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.45%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 45 (20.09%) GitLab
2 37 (16.52%) Jenkins
3 30 (13.39%) Git
4 17 (7.59%) Bitbucket
5 16 (7.14%) JIRA
6 7 (3.13%) CircleCI
6 7 (3.13%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.23%) Postman
8 3 (1.34%) JMeter
8 3 (1.34%) Metasploit
8 3 (1.34%) Subversion
9 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.89%) NUnit
9 2 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.45%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.45%) Maven
10 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 96 (42.86%) Finance
2 69 (30.80%) Social Skills
3 44 (19.64%) Banking
4 32 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.16%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.57%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.13%) Automotive
8 5 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.23%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.79%) Electronics
9 4 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.79%) Marketing
9 4 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.79%) Retail
10 3 (1.34%) Advertising
10 3 (1.34%) Law
10 3 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.34%) Public Speaking
11 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 56 (25.00%) Senior
2 36 (16.07%) Platform Engineer
3 35 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (11.16%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (10.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (9.82%) Security Engineer
7 20 (8.93%) Administrator
8 18 (8.04%) Linux Administrator
8 18 (8.04%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 18 (8.04%) Systems Administrator
9 14 (6.25%) Consultant
9 14 (6.25%) Security Consultant
9 14 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (6.25%) Senior Security Consultant
10 13 (5.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.80%) DBA
10 13 (5.80%) Linux Engineer
11 12 (5.36%) Analyst
11 12 (5.36%) Lead
11 12 (5.36%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.59%) AWS CDK
2 15 (6.70%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (4.02%) Kafka
3 9 (4.02%) SAML
4 8 (3.57%) Node.js
5 6 (2.68%) .NET
5 6 (2.68%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (2.68%) WebSockets
5 6 (2.68%) YAML
6 5 (2.23%) Middleware
6 5 (2.23%) OpenMP
6 5 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (2.23%) REST
7 3 (1.34%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.34%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.34%) OAuth
7 3 (1.34%) OpenACC
7 3 (1.34%) OpenID
7 3 (1.34%) Pandas
7 3 (1.34%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 29 (12.95%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
4 13 (5.80%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.91%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.91%) Security Posture
6 10 (4.46%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (4.46%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.68%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.23%) CUDA
8 5 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.23%) Eurex
9 4 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 3 (1.34%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 109 (48.66%) Linux
2 39 (17.41%) Windows
3 35 (15.63%) Unix
4 22 (9.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (8.48%) CentOS
6 13 (5.80%) Windows Server
7 11 (4.91%) AIX
7 11 (4.91%) Oracle Linux
8 10 (4.46%) Mac OS
9 9 (4.02%) Rocky
10 6 (2.68%) Ubuntu
10 6 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (2.23%) Apple iOS
12 3 (1.34%) Kali Linux
12 3 (1.34%) Solaris
13 2 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.89%) Android
13 2 (0.89%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.45%) SUSE
14 1 (0.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (54.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 114 (50.89%) CI/CD
3 104 (46.43%) DevOps
4 62 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (23.66%) Containerisation
6 49 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
7 48 (21.43%) Cloud Security
8 47 (20.98%) Incident Response
9 35 (15.63%) Mentoring
10 34 (15.18%) AI
11 33 (14.73%) Configuration Management
11 33 (14.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 32 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (13.39%) Capacity Planning
14 29 (12.95%) Computer Science
14 29 (12.95%) Identity Access Management
14 29 (12.95%) Observability
15 28 (12.50%) ITIL
16 27 (12.05%) Agile
17 26 (11.61%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 195 (87.05%) Python
2 96 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 46 (20.54%) Java
4 43 (19.20%) SQL
5 24 (10.71%) Perl
6 22 (9.82%) Ruby
7 20 (8.93%) Shell Script
8 18 (8.04%) Go
9 17 (7.59%) PHP
10 16 (7.14%) JavaScript
11 14 (6.25%) C#
12 13 (5.80%) Korn
12 13 (5.80%) PL/SQL
12 13 (5.80%) Rust
13 9 (4.02%) Bicep
14 8 (3.57%) C
15 7 (3.13%) C++
15 7 (3.13%) VBA
16 3 (1.34%) Objective-C
17 2 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (24.11%) Security Cleared
2 42 (18.75%) Degree
3 24 (10.71%) AWS Certification
4 22 (9.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (6.70%) OSCP
6 15 (6.70%) SC Cleared
7 13 (5.80%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.91%) RHCSA
9 9 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (4.02%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (3.57%) CISSP
11 7 (3.13%) ISTQB
12 6 (2.68%) Azure Certification
12 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (2.68%) RHCE
13 4 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (1.79%) CompTIA CySA+
13 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.04%) QA
2 8 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.57%) SOC 2
3 7 (3.13%) NIST
3 7 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.68%) GDPR
4 6 (2.68%) PMO
5 4 (1.79%) SLA
6 3 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 68 (30.36%) Docker
2 24 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 18 (8.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.36%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.68%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (2.23%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.79%) Squid
7 4 (1.79%) vSphere
8 3 (1.34%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.45%) KVM
10 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 118 (52.68%) Terraform
2 78 (34.82%) Kubernetes
3 72 (32.14%) Ansible
4 53 (23.66%) Grafana
5 43 (19.20%) Prometheus
6 33 (14.73%) Nagios
7 15 (6.70%) Argo
8 14 (6.25%) Data Guard
9 13 (5.80%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (4.02%) Packer
12 8 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (2.68%) Rundeck
13 6 (2.68%) ZABBIX
14 5 (2.23%) Puppet
15 4 (1.79%) Istio
15 4 (1.79%) Kibana
15 4 (1.79%) Proxmox
15 4 (1.79%) Rancher
16 3 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 38 (16.96%) Splunk
3 31 (13.84%) Oracle
4 29 (12.95%) Red Hat
5 20 (8.93%) VMware
6 12 (5.36%) Google
7 11 (4.91%) IBM
7 11 (4.91%) ServiceNow
8 9 (4.02%) Rapid7
8 9 (4.02%) SolarWinds
9 7 (3.13%) Apple
9 7 (3.13%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.68%) Cognizant
10 6 (2.68%) New Relic
11 5 (2.23%) Bloomberg
11 5 (2.23%) CQG
11 5 (2.23%) ION Trading
11 5 (2.23%) Patsystems
11 5 (2.23%) Reuters
11 5 (2.23%) Trayport