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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 139 135
Rank change year-on-year -49 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Bash 233 492 542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.95% 2.57% 2.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.97% 6.19% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 188 230 473
10th Percentile £39,550 £42,825 £53,800
25th Percentile £56,875 £59,375 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% -6.06% +3.13%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,250 £112,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -9.72% +2.86%

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 4,684 7,943 10,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.26% 41.42% 46.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,155 5,307 8,928
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £136,250 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +1.56%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Bash 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +16 42 £57,500 -14.81% 17
West London -6 1 £107,500 - 4
East London -10 1 - - 2
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.58%) nginx
2 6 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.15%) Apache
4 4 (1.72%) Confluence
4 4 (1.72%) Traefik
5 3 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.29%) JBoss
5 3 (1.29%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.86%) CICS
7 1 (0.43%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 113 (48.50%) AWS
2 84 (36.05%) Azure
3 41 (17.60%) GCP
4 28 (12.02%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (9.44%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (9.44%) GitHub
6 20 (8.58%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (8.15%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (8.15%) SaaS
8 17 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (6.87%) IaaS
10 12 (5.15%) Serverless
11 11 (4.72%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.72%) PaaS
11 11 (4.72%) Pulumi
12 10 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (4.29%) OpenShift
13 9 (3.86%) Datadog
13 9 (3.86%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 32 (13.73%) Firewall
2 17 (7.30%) VPN
3 15 (6.44%) DNS
4 12 (5.15%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.72%) BGP
5 11 (4.72%) Network Security
5 11 (4.72%) OSPF
6 9 (3.86%) MPLS
7 5 (2.15%) DHCP
7 5 (2.15%) WAN
8 4 (1.72%) ICMP
8 4 (1.72%) LAN
8 4 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (1.29%) HTTP
9 3 (1.29%) Multicast
10 2 (0.86%) NAS
10 2 (0.86%) SAN
10 2 (0.86%) SNMP
10 2 (0.86%) SSL
10 2 (0.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.73%) Relational Database
2 11 (4.72%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.43%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.58%) MySQL
7 5 (2.15%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.86%) DB2
8 2 (0.86%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.43%) Big Data
9 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.43%) KDB
9 1 (0.43%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (20.17%) Git
2 36 (15.45%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.87%) GitLab
4 18 (7.73%) JIRA
5 7 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.58%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.15%) Burp Suite
7 5 (2.15%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.72%) Maven
9 3 (1.29%) Ant
9 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.29%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.86%) CMake
10 2 (0.86%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.86%) MLflow
11 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.43%) Gradle
11 1 (0.43%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.43%) Vagrant
General
1 92 (39.48%) Finance
1 92 (39.48%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.31%) Banking
3 22 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.58%) Telecoms
5 10 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.15%) Law
10 4 (1.72%) Games
11 2 (0.86%) Electronics
11 2 (0.86%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.86%) Marketing
11 2 (0.86%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.43%) Back Office
12 1 (0.43%) Front Office
12 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (20.60%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (12.88%) Linux Engineer
3 29 (12.45%) Platform Engineer
4 25 (10.73%) Support Engineer
5 21 (9.01%) Automation Engineer
5 21 (9.01%) Senior
6 20 (8.58%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (8.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (7.30%) Analyst
8 16 (6.87%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (6.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (6.44%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (6.44%) Lead
9 15 (6.44%) Linux Support
9 15 (6.44%) Network Engineer
10 14 (6.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 12 (5.15%) Administrator
12 11 (4.72%) Security Engineer
13 10 (4.29%) Technical Engineer
13 10 (4.29%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.87%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (6.01%) .NET
3 12 (5.15%) FIX Protocol
4 11 (4.72%) YAML
5 10 (4.29%) Kafka
6 8 (3.43%) Jinja
6 8 (3.43%) Loki
7 7 (3.00%) Node.js
7 7 (3.00%) RESTful
8 4 (1.72%) React
9 3 (1.29%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.29%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.29%) LAMP
9 3 (1.29%) Middleware
9 3 (1.29%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.29%) REST
9 3 (1.29%) scikit-learn
9 3 (1.29%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.86%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.86%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.58%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.73%) Public Cloud
3 17 (7.30%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (6.44%) Management Information System
5 12 (5.15%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.43%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.58%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.72%) Mobile Banking
8 4 (1.72%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.29%) Clustering
9 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.29%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.29%) Replication
10 2 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.86%) Equities
10 2 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 123 (52.79%) Linux
2 29 (12.45%) Windows
3 23 (9.87%) Unix
4 19 (8.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.43%) CentOS
6 7 (3.00%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.58%) Windows Server
8 5 (2.15%) Solaris
8 5 (2.15%) VMS
9 3 (1.29%) Debian
10 2 (0.86%) zOS
11 1 (0.43%) AIX
11 1 (0.43%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.43%) Rocky
11 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (52.36%) DevOps
2 119 (51.07%) CI/CD
3 87 (37.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (32.19%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (18.45%) Containerisation
6 39 (16.74%) Platform Engineering
7 31 (13.30%) Software Engineering
8 30 (12.88%) High Availability
8 30 (12.88%) Mentoring
9 29 (12.45%) Agile
10 26 (11.16%) Observability
11 24 (10.30%) Infrastructure Automation
12 23 (9.87%) Configuration Management
13 22 (9.44%) Cloud Security
13 22 (9.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 21 (9.01%) Artificial Intelligence
14 21 (9.01%) Disaster Recovery
15 20 (8.58%) ITIL
15 20 (8.58%) Security Hardening
16 18 (7.73%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 201 (86.27%) Python
2 91 (39.06%) PowerShell
3 35 (15.02%) Go
4 32 (13.73%) SQL
5 19 (8.15%) Perl
6 17 (7.30%) Java
7 13 (5.58%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.86%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.43%) Bicep
9 8 (3.43%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.58%) C#
10 6 (2.58%) Groovy
11 5 (2.15%) C++
12 3 (1.29%) Ruby
13 2 (0.86%) C
13 2 (0.86%) COBOL
13 2 (0.86%) C-shell
13 2 (0.86%) PHP
14 1 (0.43%) Bourne shell
14 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (15.02%) Degree
2 17 (7.30%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.86%) CCNA
4 9 (3.86%) CCNP
4 9 (3.86%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.43%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.58%) RHCSA
7 5 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.72%) CISSP
9 3 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.29%) CCSP
9 3 (1.29%) GCIH
9 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.29%) OSCP
9 3 (1.29%) RHCE
10 2 (0.86%) CHECK Team Leader
10 2 (0.86%) CHECK Team Member
10 2 (0.86%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.73%) GDPR
2 19 (8.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (8.15%) NIST
3 16 (6.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 10 (4.29%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.15%) GRC
6 4 (1.72%) QA
7 2 (0.86%) SLA
7 2 (0.86%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (21.89%) Docker
2 17 (7.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (6.44%) Active Directory
4 10 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.15%) zsh
6 3 (1.29%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.29%) KVM
7 2 (0.86%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.86%) Xen
8 1 (0.43%) Corosync
8 1 (0.43%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.43%) Postfix
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 81 (34.76%) Terraform
2 77 (33.05%) Kubernetes
3 57 (24.46%) Ansible
4 42 (18.03%) Grafana
5 31 (13.30%) Prometheus
6 19 (8.15%) Nagios
7 15 (6.44%) Red Hat Satellite
8 8 (3.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (3.43%) Puppet
9 6 (2.58%) Argo
9 6 (2.58%) HAProxy
9 6 (2.58%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.72%) Nessus
10 4 (1.72%) Podman
10 4 (1.72%) Rancher
10 4 (1.72%) vRealize
11 3 (1.29%) Nmap
11 3 (1.29%) Packer
11 3 (1.29%) QRadar
12 2 (0.86%) Kibana
Vendors
1 40 (17.17%) Red Hat
2 34 (14.59%) Microsoft
3 21 (9.01%) VMware
4 16 (6.87%) SolarWinds
5 12 (5.15%) Google
6 11 (4.72%) Atlassian
6 11 (4.72%) Splunk
7 9 (3.86%) Tenable
8 8 (3.43%) Databricks
8 8 (3.43%) Hitachi
8 8 (3.43%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.00%) Apple
10 6 (2.58%) Oracle
11 5 (2.15%) Rapid7
12 4 (1.72%) Qualys
13 3 (1.29%) Citrix
13 3 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (1.29%) IBM
13 3 (1.29%) SAP
13 3 (1.29%) Sonatype