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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 176 150
Rank change year-on-year -59 -26 -13
Permanent jobs citing Bash 218 240 472
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.90% 1.99% 2.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.93% 4.93% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 140 186 240
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £42,500
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 £91,250 £94,688 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £111,875 £110,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -12.59%

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 5,552 4,865 7,997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.02% 40.28% 40.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,808 3,313 5,666
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,441
25th Percentile £64,250 £61,250 £62,000
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 £108,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £136,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%

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 27 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 27 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 -17 19 £88,750 +26.79% 17
West London -23 1 - - 20
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 11 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.13%) Confluence
3 5 (2.29%) SAS
4 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.92%) nginx
5 2 (0.92%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.46%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (4.13%) 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 (4.59%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (2.75%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.38%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 122 (55.96%) AWS
2 94 (43.12%) Azure
3 37 (16.97%) GCP
4 35 (16.06%) Serverless
5 32 (14.68%) Amazon ECS
5 32 (14.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (14.22%) GitHub
7 29 (13.30%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (11.47%) Amazon EKS
9 22 (10.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (10.09%) Datadog
10 21 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (9.17%) Amazon EventBridge
12 19 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (8.26%) Amazon S3
14 17 (7.80%) Cloud Computing
15 15 (6.88%) AWS Control Tower
15 15 (6.88%) Entra ID
16 14 (6.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (15.14%) Firewall
2 30 (13.76%) Network Security
3 27 (12.39%) DNS
4 25 (11.47%) TCP/IP
5 13 (5.96%) VPN
6 12 (5.50%) DHCP
7 6 (2.75%) FIX Connectivity
7 6 (2.75%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (2.75%) VLAN
8 5 (2.29%) BGP
8 5 (2.29%) HTTP
8 5 (2.29%) IPv4
8 5 (2.29%) LAN
8 5 (2.29%) NAS
9 4 (1.83%) HTTPS
9 4 (1.83%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.83%) OSPF
9 4 (1.83%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (1.83%) SSH
10 3 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.42%) MySQL
2 12 (5.50%) Oracle Database
3 10 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (4.59%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.83%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.38%) Redis
7 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.92%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.46%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 44 (20.18%) GitLab
2 36 (16.51%) Jenkins
3 29 (13.30%) Git
4 16 (7.34%) JIRA
5 14 (6.42%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.75%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.29%) Postman
8 4 (1.83%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.38%) JMeter
9 3 (1.38%) Subversion
10 2 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.92%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.92%) NUnit
10 2 (0.92%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.46%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.46%) Maven
General
1 90 (41.28%) Finance
2 68 (31.19%) Social Skills
3 44 (20.18%) Banking
4 29 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.47%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.67%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.21%) Automotive
8 5 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.29%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.83%) Electronics
9 4 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.83%) Marketing
9 4 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.83%) Retail
10 3 (1.38%) Advertising
10 3 (1.38%) Law
10 3 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.38%) Public Speaking
11 2 (0.92%) Danish Language
11 2 (0.92%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 54 (24.77%) Senior
2 35 (16.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (16.06%) Platform Engineer
3 22 (10.09%) AWS Engineer
3 22 (10.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (9.17%) Security Engineer
5 19 (8.72%) Administrator
6 17 (7.80%) Linux Administrator
6 17 (7.80%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 17 (7.80%) Systems Administrator
7 14 (6.42%) Consultant
7 14 (6.42%) Linux Engineer
7 14 (6.42%) Security Consultant
7 14 (6.42%) Senior Consultant
7 14 (6.42%) Senior Security Consultant
8 13 (5.96%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 12 (5.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.50%) DBA
9 12 (5.50%) Lead
10 11 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (53.21%) Terraform
2 17 (7.80%) AWS CDK
3 13 (5.96%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (4.13%) SAML
5 8 (3.67%) Kafka
5 8 (3.67%) Node.js
6 7 (3.21%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (2.75%) .NET
8 5 (2.29%) Middleware
8 5 (2.29%) OpenMP
8 5 (2.29%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.29%) REST
8 5 (2.29%) WebSockets
8 5 (2.29%) YAML
9 4 (1.83%) Pulumi
10 3 (1.38%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.38%) OAuth
10 3 (1.38%) OpenID
10 3 (1.38%) Pandas
10 3 (1.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 42 (19.27%) Cloud Native
2 31 (14.22%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.42%) Enterprise Cloud
4 13 (5.96%) Data Centre
5 11 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (5.05%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (4.59%) Management Information System
7 9 (4.13%) Security Posture
8 7 (3.21%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (2.75%) Eurex
9 6 (2.75%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.29%) CUDA
10 5 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.83%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.38%) Blog
12 3 (1.38%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.38%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 106 (48.62%) Linux
2 37 (16.97%) Windows
3 33 (15.14%) Unix
4 20 (9.17%) CentOS
4 20 (9.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.96%) Windows Server
6 10 (4.59%) AIX
6 10 (4.59%) Mac OS
6 10 (4.59%) Oracle Linux
6 10 (4.59%) Rocky
7 6 (2.75%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.29%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.83%) Windows 10
10 3 (1.38%) Solaris
11 2 (0.92%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.92%) Android
11 2 (0.92%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.46%) SUSE
12 1 (0.46%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (54.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 111 (50.92%) CI/CD
3 102 (46.79%) DevOps
4 58 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (24.31%) Containerisation
6 50 (22.94%) Platform Engineering
7 47 (21.56%) Cloud Security
8 41 (18.81%) Incident Response
9 37 (16.97%) Mentoring
10 35 (16.06%) AI
11 34 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (15.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 32 (14.68%) Configuration Management
14 30 (13.76%) ITIL
14 30 (13.76%) Observability
15 29 (13.30%) Capacity Planning
16 28 (12.84%) Identity Access Management
17 27 (12.39%) Computer Science
17 27 (12.39%) Infrastructure Automation
17 27 (12.39%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 190 (87.16%) Python
2 95 (43.58%) PowerShell
3 46 (21.10%) Java
4 40 (18.35%) SQL
5 25 (11.47%) Perl
6 23 (10.55%) Ruby
7 19 (8.72%) Shell Script
8 17 (7.80%) Go
9 16 (7.34%) JavaScript
9 16 (7.34%) PHP
10 14 (6.42%) C#
11 13 (5.96%) Rust
12 12 (5.50%) Korn
12 12 (5.50%) PL/SQL
13 9 (4.13%) Bicep
13 9 (4.13%) C
14 7 (3.21%) C++
14 7 (3.21%) VBA
15 3 (1.38%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.92%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 57 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 39 (17.89%) Degree
3 25 (11.47%) AWS Certification
4 21 (9.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (7.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (7.34%) SC Cleared
6 13 (5.96%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.96%) OSCP
7 10 (4.59%) RHCSA
8 9 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.21%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (3.21%) ISTQB
10 6 (2.75%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.75%) CISSP
10 6 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.75%) RHCE
11 4 (1.83%) CCNA
11 4 (1.83%) CCSP
11 4 (1.83%) CISM
11 4 (1.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.80%) QA
2 8 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.21%) SOC 2
4 6 (2.75%) NIST
4 6 (2.75%) PMO
5 5 (2.29%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.83%) GDPR
6 4 (1.83%) SLA
7 3 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 68 (31.19%) Docker
2 26 (11.93%) Active Directory
3 17 (7.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.05%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.75%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (2.29%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.83%) Squid
7 4 (1.83%) vSphere
8 3 (1.38%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.46%) KVM
10 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 76 (34.86%) Kubernetes
2 68 (31.19%) Ansible
3 51 (23.39%) Grafana
4 41 (18.81%) Prometheus
5 31 (14.22%) Nagios
6 15 (6.88%) Argo
7 13 (5.96%) Data Guard
8 12 (5.50%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (4.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (4.13%) Packer
11 8 (3.67%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (2.75%) Puppet
12 6 (2.75%) Rundeck
12 6 (2.75%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.83%) Istio
13 4 (1.83%) Proxmox
13 4 (1.83%) Rancher
14 3 (1.38%) Cilium
14 3 (1.38%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (23.39%) Microsoft
2 38 (17.43%) Splunk
3 32 (14.68%) Oracle
4 29 (13.30%) Red Hat
5 19 (8.72%) VMware
6 11 (5.05%) Google
6 11 (5.05%) ServiceNow
7 10 (4.59%) IBM
8 9 (4.13%) Rapid7
9 8 (3.67%) SolarWinds
10 7 (3.21%) Dynatrace
11 6 (2.75%) Apple
11 6 (2.75%) Bloomberg
11 6 (2.75%) Cognizant
11 6 (2.75%) CQG
11 6 (2.75%) ION Trading
11 6 (2.75%) Patsystems
11 6 (2.75%) Reuters
11 6 (2.75%) Trayport
12 5 (2.29%) New Relic