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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 201 156
Rank change year-on-year +21 -45 -25
Permanent jobs citing Bash 230 255 415
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.44% 1.74% 1.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.00% 4.25% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 129 168 375
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,473 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -7.14% +11.50% -9.60%

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 4,602 6,006 8,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.76% 41.00% 42.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,236 3,969 7,669
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,563 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 35 £58,750 -30.88% 20
West London - 14 - - 1
South London +37 4 - -
East London -10 2 - - 2
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 12 (5.22%) Apache
1 12 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.61%) Confluence
3 5 (2.17%) IIS
3 5 (2.17%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 107 (46.52%) AWS
2 86 (37.39%) Azure
3 66 (28.70%) GCP
4 37 (16.09%) GitHub
5 35 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (11.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (10.43%) Entra ID
8 22 (9.57%) Google Workspace
8 22 (9.57%) SaaS
9 18 (7.83%) Datadog
9 18 (7.83%) Serverless
9 18 (7.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 16 (6.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (6.96%) Amazon S3
10 16 (6.96%) Pulumi
11 15 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (6.52%) Google Compute Engine
12 14 (6.09%) IaaS
12 14 (6.09%) PaaS
13 13 (5.65%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.65%) Broadband
2 27 (11.74%) Firewall
3 23 (10.00%) DNS
4 14 (6.09%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.91%) Network Security
5 9 (3.91%) Wireless
6 6 (2.61%) HTTP
6 6 (2.61%) LAN
7 5 (2.17%) DHCP
8 4 (1.74%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.74%) VPN
9 3 (1.30%) HTTPS
9 3 (1.30%) WAN
10 2 (0.87%) SSL
11 1 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.43%) FTP
11 1 (0.43%) SNMP
11 1 (0.43%) SSH
11 1 (0.43%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.17%) NoSQL
2 18 (7.83%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.96%) BigQuery
3 16 (6.96%) RDBMS
4 11 (4.78%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.91%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (3.91%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (3.91%) Metadata
6 9 (3.91%) Tableau
7 7 (3.04%) MySQL
7 7 (3.04%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.61%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.74%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.87%) Big Data
10 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.87%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 46 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 32 (13.91%) Git
2 32 (13.91%) GitLab
3 24 (10.43%) JIRA
4 16 (6.96%) Jaeger
5 13 (5.65%) Bitbucket
6 12 (5.22%) Metasploit
7 10 (4.35%) Burp Suite
8 7 (3.04%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (2.17%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.74%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.30%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.30%) JMeter
11 3 (1.30%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.87%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.87%) Gradle
12 2 (0.87%) Maven
13 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 76 (33.04%) Finance
2 66 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 27 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.57%) Banking
5 20 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (6.52%) Telecoms
8 13 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (5.22%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.61%) Electronics
11 5 (2.17%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.74%) Back Office
12 4 (1.74%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.74%) Marketing
12 4 (1.74%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.74%) Retail
13 3 (1.30%) Advertising
14 2 (0.87%) Games
14 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.87%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (18.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
3 34 (14.78%) Senior
4 32 (13.91%) Lead
5 23 (10.00%) Analyst
5 23 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
5 23 (10.00%) Security Engineer
6 22 (9.57%) Platform Engineer
7 20 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
7 20 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (6.52%) Administrator
9 15 (6.52%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 15 (6.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 14 (6.09%) Linux Administrator
11 12 (5.22%) GCP DevOps
11 12 (5.22%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.22%) Security Analyst
12 11 (4.78%) Python Engineer
12 11 (4.78%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.65%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (9.13%) Kafka
2 21 (9.13%) OpenID
2 21 (9.13%) REST
3 19 (8.26%) SAML
4 18 (7.83%) GraphQL
4 18 (7.83%) LDAP
4 18 (7.83%) OAuth
4 18 (7.83%) SOAP
5 17 (7.39%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (2.17%) YAML
7 4 (1.74%) Middleware
7 4 (1.74%) Node.js
7 4 (1.74%) WebSockets
8 3 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.30%) RESTful
9 2 (0.87%) .NET
9 2 (0.87%) JSON
9 2 (0.87%) Loki
9 2 (0.87%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.74%) Security Posture
2 25 (10.87%) Management Information System
3 22 (9.57%) Cyber Threat
4 18 (7.83%) Cyberattack
5 17 (7.39%) Cloud Native
6 14 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (5.22%) Cyber Defence
8 11 (4.78%) Hedge funds
9 9 (3.91%) Mobile App
10 8 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (2.61%) Data Centre
11 6 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.74%) Blog
12 4 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.74%) PKI
13 3 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.30%) Insider Threat
13 3 (1.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 106 (46.09%) Linux
2 47 (20.43%) Unix
3 37 (16.09%) Windows
4 22 (9.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.78%) CentOS
6 9 (3.91%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.48%) Ubuntu
8 7 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (1.74%) AIX
11 4 (1.74%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.30%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.87%) Android
13 2 (0.87%) Debian
13 2 (0.87%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.87%) Solaris
14 1 (0.43%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.43%) VMS
14 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (53.48%) DevOps
2 111 (48.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 110 (47.83%) CI/CD
4 74 (32.17%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (26.09%) Containerisation
6 58 (25.22%) Mentoring
7 54 (23.48%) Agile
8 46 (20.00%) High Availability
9 39 (16.96%) Configuration Management
9 39 (16.96%) Roadmaps
10 37 (16.09%) Cloud Security
11 35 (15.22%) Identity Access Management
11 35 (15.22%) Incident Response
12 30 (13.04%) AI
12 30 (13.04%) Performance Optimisation
13 29 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (11.74%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (11.74%) Task Automation
15 26 (11.30%) Computer Science
15 26 (11.30%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 196 (85.22%) Python
2 101 (43.91%) PowerShell
3 55 (23.91%) SQL
4 46 (20.00%) Go
5 28 (12.17%) Java
6 21 (9.13%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.83%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.78%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.48%) Bicep
10 7 (3.04%) C#
11 6 (2.61%) Korn
11 6 (2.61%) Perl
12 5 (2.17%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.74%) Ruby
14 3 (1.30%) C++
15 2 (0.87%) C
15 2 (0.87%) SystemVerilog
15 2 (0.87%) Tcl
16 1 (0.43%) Groovy
16 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 53 (23.04%) Degree
2 25 (10.87%) AWS Certification
3 22 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (9.13%) Security Cleared
5 17 (7.39%) CISSP
6 13 (5.65%) DV Cleared
7 12 (5.22%) OSCP
8 11 (4.78%) CCSK
9 9 (3.91%) CCSAM
9 9 (3.91%) CHECK Team Leader
9 9 (3.91%) CHECK Team Member
9 9 (3.91%) CREST Certified
10 6 (2.61%) GCIH
11 5 (2.17%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.74%) GCIA
12 4 (1.74%) GIAC
12 4 (1.74%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.74%) PhD
12 4 (1.74%) RHCSA
13 3 (1.30%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (15.65%) NIST
3 18 (7.83%) GDPR
3 18 (7.83%) NCSC
4 13 (5.65%) Accessibility
4 13 (5.65%) SOC 2
5 12 (5.22%) PCI DSS
5 12 (5.22%) QA
6 11 (4.78%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.74%) GRC
10 3 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.43%) Basel III
11 1 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 76 (33.04%) Docker
2 32 (13.91%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.74%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.87%) KVM
7 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.43%) Firmware
7 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.43%) iptables
7 1 (0.43%) Postfix
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 111 (48.26%) Terraform
2 98 (42.61%) Kubernetes
3 82 (35.65%) Ansible
4 54 (23.48%) Prometheus
5 30 (13.04%) Grafana
6 20 (8.70%) Argo
7 16 (6.96%) Kustomize
8 11 (4.78%) Nagios
9 9 (3.91%) Nessus
10 6 (2.61%) Puppet
11 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (2.17%) Progress Chef
11 5 (2.17%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.74%) Cilium
12 4 (1.74%) Data Guard
12 4 (1.74%) logstash
12 4 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (1.30%) Rancher
14 2 (0.87%) CSIRT
14 2 (0.87%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (20.87%) Google
2 26 (11.30%) Red Hat
3 20 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 19 (8.26%) VMware
5 18 (7.83%) Splunk
6 15 (6.52%) Oracle
7 13 (5.65%) Tenable
8 12 (5.22%) ServiceNow
9 10 (4.35%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.17%) SAP
11 4 (1.74%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.30%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.30%) IBM
12 3 (1.30%) Rapid7
13 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.87%) Cisco
13 2 (0.87%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.87%) Intel
14 1 (0.43%) Meraki
14 1 (0.43%) Varonis