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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 179 126
Rank change year-on-year +2 -53 -8
Permanent jobs citing Bash 226 330 457
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.72% 1.94% 2.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.15% 4.60% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 180 209 395
10th Percentile £48,625 £47,500 £53,850
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £67,750 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.21% +3.70% -3.57%

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 4,390 7,176 8,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.51% 42.21% 44.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,985 4,749 7,205
10th Percentile £46,059 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 33 £55,000 -31.25% 17
West London - 2 £107,500 - 3
South London +37 1 - - 9
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 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.10%) Confluence
3 6 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.21%) IIS
4 5 (2.21%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.33%) Apache
6 3 (1.33%) nginx
7 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.88%) JBoss
7 2 (0.88%) Traefik
7 2 (0.88%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 93 (41.15%) AWS
2 66 (29.20%) Azure
3 44 (19.47%) GCP
4 37 (16.37%) GitHub
5 36 (15.93%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (12.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (8.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (8.41%) SaaS
9 17 (7.52%) Serverless
9 17 (7.52%) Slack
10 15 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (6.64%) Datadog
10 15 (6.64%) IaaS
10 15 (6.64%) OpenShift
11 13 (5.75%) Google Compute Engine
12 12 (5.31%) Amazon S3
12 12 (5.31%) Cloud Functions
13 11 (4.87%) Cloud Run
13 11 (4.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.16%) Firewall
2 17 (7.52%) DNS
3 14 (6.19%) Network Security
4 10 (4.42%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.65%) VPN
6 5 (2.21%) WAN
7 4 (1.77%) DHCP
7 4 (1.77%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.33%) BGP
8 3 (1.33%) Broadband
8 3 (1.33%) Multicast
8 3 (1.33%) OSPF
9 2 (0.88%) ICMP
9 2 (0.88%) IGMP
9 2 (0.88%) LAN
9 2 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.88%) SNMP
9 2 (0.88%) SSH
9 2 (0.88%) SSL
9 2 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.96%) Relational Database
2 14 (6.19%) NoSQL
3 13 (5.75%) BigQuery
4 10 (4.42%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.21%) MySQL
7 4 (1.77%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.88%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.44%) Big Data
10 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.44%) Looker
10 1 (0.44%) Metadata
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (20.80%) Jenkins
2 35 (15.49%) Git
3 29 (12.83%) GitLab
4 28 (12.39%) JIRA
5 8 (3.54%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.21%) Burp Suite
7 5 (2.21%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.77%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.77%) Maven
8 4 (1.77%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.88%) Ant
9 2 (0.88%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.88%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.88%) Gradle
9 2 (0.88%) JMeter
9 2 (0.88%) MLflow
9 2 (0.88%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
General
1 99 (43.81%) Social Skills
2 88 (38.94%) Finance
3 23 (10.18%) Banking
4 22 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.41%) Telecoms
6 15 (6.64%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (6.64%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.10%) Electronics
8 5 (2.21%) Back Office
8 5 (2.21%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.21%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.21%) Marketing
8 5 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.21%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.21%) Retail
9 4 (1.77%) Games
10 3 (1.33%) Advertising
10 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.33%) Law
11 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (22.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (14.60%) Platform Engineer
3 25 (11.06%) Support Engineer
4 23 (10.18%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (9.73%) Automation Engineer
6 19 (8.41%) Linux Engineer
7 18 (7.96%) Analyst
7 18 (7.96%) Security Engineer
8 17 (7.52%) Graduate
9 16 (7.08%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (7.08%) Technical Engineer
9 16 (7.08%) Technical Support
9 16 (7.08%) Technical Support Engineer
10 15 (6.64%) Graduate Support Engineer
10 15 (6.64%) Graduate Technical Engineer
10 15 (6.64%) Graduate Technical Support
11 14 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (6.19%) Senior
12 13 (5.75%) GCP Engineer
13 12 (5.31%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.73%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (6.19%) Kafka
2 14 (6.19%) YAML
3 12 (5.31%) FIX Protocol
4 11 (4.87%) .NET
5 8 (3.54%) Jinja
6 7 (3.10%) Node.js
7 6 (2.65%) Middleware
8 5 (2.21%) RESTful
9 4 (1.77%) REST
10 3 (1.33%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.33%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.33%) OpenID
10 3 (1.33%) PyTorch
10 3 (1.33%) TensorFlow
11 2 (0.88%) AWS CDK
11 2 (0.88%) AWS SAM
11 2 (0.88%) Hugging Face
11 2 (0.88%) JAX
11 2 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.18%) Management Information System
2 20 (8.85%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.64%) Security Posture
4 12 (5.31%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.54%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.10%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.21%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.77%) Blog
9 4 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.77%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.33%) Clustering
10 3 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.33%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.88%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.88%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 113 (50.00%) Linux
2 37 (16.37%) Windows
3 28 (12.39%) Unix
4 20 (8.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.87%) CentOS
6 9 (3.98%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.54%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.21%) Solaris
8 5 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.33%) Debian
9 3 (1.33%) VMS
10 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.44%) AIX
11 1 (0.44%) Android
11 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (57.08%) DevOps
2 126 (55.75%) CI/CD
3 102 (45.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (30.09%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (20.80%) Containerisation
6 34 (15.04%) Cloud Security
7 33 (14.60%) Platform Engineering
8 30 (13.27%) Configuration Management
8 30 (13.27%) Machine Learning
9 29 (12.83%) Agile
10 26 (11.50%) High Availability
11 25 (11.06%) Vulnerability Management
12 23 (10.18%) Infrastructure Automation
13 22 (9.73%) Mentoring
13 22 (9.73%) Observability
13 22 (9.73%) Security Hardening
14 21 (9.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 21 (9.29%) Software Engineering
15 20 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 20 (8.85%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 205 (90.71%) Python
2 102 (45.13%) PowerShell
3 38 (16.81%) Go
4 34 (15.04%) SQL
5 14 (6.19%) Perl
6 8 (3.54%) Java
6 8 (3.54%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.10%) Bicep
7 7 (3.10%) C#
7 7 (3.10%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.21%) Groovy
8 5 (2.21%) Ruby
9 4 (1.77%) C++
10 2 (0.88%) SystemVerilog
10 2 (0.88%) Tcl
11 1 (0.44%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.44%) C
11 1 (0.44%) C-shell
11 1 (0.44%) PHP
11 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (26.55%) Degree
2 21 (9.29%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.19%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.31%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.54%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.65%) CISSP
8 4 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.77%) GCIH
8 4 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.33%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.33%) CCSP
9 3 (1.33%) PhD
9 3 (1.33%) RHCE
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.88%) CHECK Team Leader
10 2 (0.88%) CHECK Team Member
10 2 (0.88%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.27%) GDPR
2 29 (12.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (10.18%) NIST
4 17 (7.52%) Accessibility
5 12 (5.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (3.10%) GRC
8 6 (2.65%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.65%) QA
9 5 (2.21%) Data Quality
9 5 (2.21%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.88%) SLA
11 1 (0.44%) Basel III
11 1 (0.44%) MiFID
11 1 (0.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 65 (28.76%) Docker
2 20 (8.85%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.08%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.33%) zsh
5 2 (0.88%) KVM
5 2 (0.88%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.44%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.44%) iptables
6 1 (0.44%) Postfix
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 93 (41.15%) Terraform
2 86 (38.05%) Kubernetes
3 72 (31.86%) Ansible
4 39 (17.26%) Grafana
5 37 (16.37%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.75%) Red Hat Satellite
7 7 (3.10%) Puppet
8 5 (2.21%) Argo
8 5 (2.21%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.77%) Cilium
9 4 (1.77%) Nagios
9 4 (1.77%) Nessus
9 4 (1.77%) Rancher
9 4 (1.77%) vRealize
10 3 (1.33%) HAProxy
10 3 (1.33%) Nmap
10 3 (1.33%) Podman
10 3 (1.33%) QRadar
11 2 (0.88%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (17.26%) Red Hat
2 26 (11.50%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.85%) Google
3 20 (8.85%) VMware
4 18 (7.96%) Atlassian
5 15 (6.64%) ServiceNow
5 15 (6.64%) Splunk
5 15 (6.64%) Tenable
6 10 (4.42%) Oracle
7 5 (2.21%) Rapid7
7 5 (2.21%) SAP
8 4 (1.77%) Databricks
9 3 (1.33%) Citrix
9 3 (1.33%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.33%) Qualys
9 3 (1.33%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.88%) Cisco
10 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace