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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 174 129
Rank change year-on-year -5 -45 -16
Permanent jobs citing Bash 218 311 433
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.59% 1.95% 2.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.08% 4.62% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 169 190 380
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.56% +6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,188 £92,500
90th Percentile £119,000 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.11% -6.64%

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 4,290 6,728 7,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.35% 42.15% 44.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,020 4,394 6,755
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £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 25 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 25 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 +33 35 £52,500 -41.67% 38
West London - 3 £107,500 - 7
South London +37 2 - - 6
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 7 (3.21%) Confluence
2 6 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.29%) Apache
3 5 (2.29%) IIS
3 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.29%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.92%) JBoss
5 2 (0.92%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.46%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 95 (43.58%) AWS
2 68 (31.19%) Azure
3 51 (23.39%) GCP
4 40 (18.35%) GitHub
5 39 (17.89%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (12.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (10.55%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (9.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (8.72%) SaaS
10 17 (7.80%) Serverless
10 17 (7.80%) Slack
11 15 (6.88%) Datadog
11 15 (6.88%) OpenShift
11 15 (6.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (6.42%) Amazon S3
12 14 (6.42%) Google Compute Engine
12 14 (6.42%) IaaS
13 13 (5.96%) Cloud Functions
14 12 (5.50%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.84%) Firewall
2 19 (8.72%) DNS
3 13 (5.96%) Network Security
4 10 (4.59%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.21%) Broadband
6 5 (2.29%) WAN
7 4 (1.83%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.83%) VPN
8 3 (1.38%) DHCP
8 3 (1.38%) LAN
8 3 (1.38%) Multicast
9 2 (0.92%) BGP
9 2 (0.92%) HTTP
9 2 (0.92%) IGMP
9 2 (0.92%) OSPF
9 2 (0.92%) SNMP
9 2 (0.92%) SSH
9 2 (0.92%) SSL
9 2 (0.92%) Wireless
9 2 (0.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.88%) NoSQL
2 14 (6.42%) BigQuery
2 14 (6.42%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.67%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.75%) MySQL
5 5 (2.29%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.83%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.38%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.38%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (1.38%) Metadata
7 3 (1.38%) Tableau
8 2 (0.92%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.46%) Big Data
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 50 (22.94%) Jenkins
2 32 (14.68%) Git
3 30 (13.76%) GitLab
4 29 (13.30%) JIRA
5 9 (4.13%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.29%) Burp Suite
6 5 (2.29%) Jaeger
6 5 (2.29%) Metasploit
7 4 (1.83%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.83%) Maven
7 4 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.83%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.92%) Ant
8 2 (0.92%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.92%) Gradle
8 2 (0.92%) JMeter
8 2 (0.92%) MLflow
8 2 (0.92%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
General
1 84 (38.53%) Social Skills
2 75 (34.40%) Finance
3 23 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.72%) Banking
4 19 (8.72%) Telecoms
5 15 (6.88%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (6.88%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.67%) Electronics
7 6 (2.75%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.75%) Marketing
7 6 (2.75%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.29%) Back Office
8 5 (2.29%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.29%) Retail
9 4 (1.83%) Games
10 3 (1.38%) Advertising
10 3 (1.38%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (22.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (14.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 31 (14.22%) Platform Engineer
3 23 (10.55%) Support Engineer
4 22 (10.09%) Automation Engineer
5 21 (9.63%) Security Engineer
6 18 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (8.26%) Linux Engineer
7 17 (7.80%) GCP Engineer
7 17 (7.80%) Graduate
7 17 (7.80%) Technical Engineer
7 17 (7.80%) Technical Support
7 17 (7.80%) Technical Support Engineer
8 15 (6.88%) Analyst
8 15 (6.88%) Graduate Support Engineer
8 15 (6.88%) Graduate Technical Engineer
8 15 (6.88%) Graduate Technical Support
9 14 (6.42%) Lead
9 14 (6.42%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.01%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (6.42%) Kafka
3 8 (3.67%) .NET
3 8 (3.67%) YAML
4 7 (3.21%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (3.21%) Node.js
5 6 (2.75%) Middleware
5 6 (2.75%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.83%) REST
6 4 (1.83%) RESTful
7 3 (1.38%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.38%) OpenID
7 3 (1.38%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.38%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.92%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.92%) AWS SAM
8 2 (0.92%) Google JAX
8 2 (0.92%) Hugging Face
8 2 (0.92%) JAX
8 2 (0.92%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.93%) Management Information System
2 18 (8.26%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.26%) Security Posture
3 8 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.21%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.75%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.29%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.29%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.83%) Blog
7 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.83%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.38%) Clustering
8 3 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 108 (49.54%) Linux
2 37 (16.97%) Windows
3 29 (13.30%) Unix
4 21 (9.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.50%) CentOS
6 9 (4.13%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.67%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.29%) Solaris
8 5 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.38%) Debian
9 3 (1.38%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.38%) VMS
10 1 (0.46%) AIX
10 1 (0.46%) Android
10 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (59.63%) DevOps
2 122 (55.96%) CI/CD
3 99 (45.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (29.36%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (22.94%) Containerisation
6 41 (18.81%) Cloud Security
7 34 (15.60%) Agile
8 31 (14.22%) Configuration Management
8 31 (14.22%) Machine Learning
9 29 (13.30%) Platform Engineering
10 27 (12.39%) High Availability
11 25 (11.47%) Incident Response
11 25 (11.47%) Task Automation
11 25 (11.47%) Vulnerability Management
12 24 (11.01%) Observability
13 22 (10.09%) AI
13 22 (10.09%) Infrastructure Automation
13 22 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 21 (9.63%) Computer Science
14 21 (9.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 199 (91.28%) Python
2 94 (43.12%) PowerShell
3 37 (16.97%) Go
4 28 (12.84%) SQL
5 14 (6.42%) Perl
6 10 (4.59%) Bicep
6 10 (4.59%) Java
6 10 (4.59%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.21%) C#
7 7 (3.21%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.83%) C++
8 4 (1.83%) Groovy
8 4 (1.83%) Ruby
9 2 (0.92%) C
9 2 (0.92%) SystemVerilog
9 2 (0.92%) Tcl
10 1 (0.46%) Bourne shell
10 1 (0.46%) PHP
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (27.52%) Degree
2 21 (9.63%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (7.34%) AWS Certification
5 14 (6.42%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.59%) CISSP
7 7 (3.21%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.29%) CCSK
8 5 (2.29%) GCIH
9 4 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.83%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.38%) CCSP
10 3 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.38%) OSCP
10 3 (1.38%) PhD
10 3 (1.38%) RHCE
11 2 (0.92%) CHECK Team Leader
11 2 (0.92%) CHECK Team Member
11 2 (0.92%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (12.39%) GDPR
3 22 (10.09%) NIST
4 17 (7.80%) Accessibility
5 11 (5.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (3.67%) QA
7 6 (2.75%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.75%) SOC 2
8 5 (2.29%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.29%) GRC
9 2 (0.92%) SLA
10 1 (0.46%) Basel III
10 1 (0.46%) MiFID
10 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 70 (32.11%) Docker
2 18 (8.26%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.34%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (7.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.92%) KVM
4 2 (0.92%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.46%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.46%) iptables
5 1 (0.46%) Postfix
5 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.46%) zsh
Systems Management
1 103 (47.25%) Terraform
2 89 (40.83%) Kubernetes
3 72 (33.03%) Ansible
4 42 (19.27%) Prometheus
5 32 (14.68%) Grafana
6 12 (5.50%) Red Hat Satellite
7 9 (4.13%) Argo
8 7 (3.21%) Puppet
9 5 (2.29%) Kustomize
9 5 (2.29%) Nagios
9 5 (2.29%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.83%) Cilium
10 4 (1.83%) logstash
10 4 (1.83%) Nessus
10 4 (1.83%) Rancher
10 4 (1.83%) vRealize
11 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.38%) Nmap
11 3 (1.38%) Podman
11 3 (1.38%) QRadar
Vendors
1 34 (15.60%) Red Hat
2 29 (13.30%) Google
3 25 (11.47%) Microsoft
4 20 (9.17%) VMware
5 19 (8.72%) Splunk
6 15 (6.88%) ServiceNow
6 15 (6.88%) Tenable
7 13 (5.96%) Atlassian
8 10 (4.59%) Oracle
9 6 (2.75%) Rapid7
9 6 (2.75%) SAP
10 3 (1.38%) Citrix
10 3 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.38%) Qualys
11 2 (0.92%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.92%) Carbon Black
11 2 (0.92%) Cisco
11 2 (0.92%) Cribl.io
11 2 (0.92%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.92%) OneLogin