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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 192 149
Rank change year-on-year +9 -43 -14
Permanent jobs citing Bash 229 268 442
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.51% 1.78% 2.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.10% 4.40% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 133 167 402
10th Percentile £41,550 £46,450 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £66,875 £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 £106,750 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £64,132
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.15% -7.65%

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 4,487 6,089 9,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.50% 40.52% 42.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,171 3,906 7,839
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £49,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +0.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
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 10 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 10 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 +21 38 £52,500 -42.47% 28
West London - 15 £107,500 - 1
South London +42 3 - - 1
East London - 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 11 (4.80%) Apache
1 11 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.18%) Confluence
2 5 (2.18%) IIS
2 5 (2.18%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 101 (44.10%) AWS
2 79 (34.50%) Azure
3 61 (26.64%) GCP
4 37 (16.16%) GitHub
5 36 (15.72%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (10.92%) Entra ID
7 24 (10.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (9.17%) Google Workspace
9 19 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (8.30%) SaaS
10 17 (7.42%) Datadog
10 17 (7.42%) Google Compute Engine
11 16 (6.99%) Pulumi
12 15 (6.55%) Cloud Functions
12 15 (6.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (6.11%) Amazon S3
13 14 (6.11%) Cloud Run
13 14 (6.11%) OpenShift
14 13 (5.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (15.28%) Broadband
2 25 (10.92%) Firewall
3 20 (8.73%) DNS
4 11 (4.80%) Network Security
5 10 (4.37%) TCP/IP
6 9 (3.93%) Wireless
7 5 (2.18%) DHCP
7 5 (2.18%) HTTP
7 5 (2.18%) LAN
8 4 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.31%) VPN
9 3 (1.31%) WAN
10 2 (0.87%) SSL
11 1 (0.44%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.44%) FTP
11 1 (0.44%) SNMP
11 1 (0.44%) SSH
11 1 (0.44%) TACACS
11 1 (0.44%) VLAN
11 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.35%) NoSQL
2 18 (7.86%) BigQuery
2 18 (7.86%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.99%) RDBMS
4 10 (4.37%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.93%) Amazon QuickSight
5 9 (3.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (3.93%) Apache Iceberg
5 9 (3.93%) Metadata
5 9 (3.93%) Tableau
6 7 (3.06%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.62%) MySQL
7 6 (2.62%) Oracle Database
8 5 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.18%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.87%) Big Data
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 47 (20.52%) Jenkins
2 30 (13.10%) Git
3 29 (12.66%) GitLab
4 22 (9.61%) JIRA
5 16 (6.99%) Jaeger
6 11 (4.80%) Burp Suite
6 11 (4.80%) Metasploit
7 10 (4.37%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.75%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.75%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.31%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.31%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.31%) JMeter
10 3 (1.31%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.87%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.87%) Gradle
11 2 (0.87%) Maven
12 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 69 (30.13%) Finance
2 65 (28.38%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.73%) Banking
5 19 (8.30%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (7.42%) Telecoms
7 16 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.62%) Electronics
11 5 (2.18%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.18%) Retail
12 4 (1.75%) Back Office
12 4 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.75%) Marketing
12 4 (1.75%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.31%) Advertising
13 3 (1.31%) Games
14 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.87%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (18.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (17.03%) Cloud Engineer
3 33 (14.41%) Lead
4 32 (13.97%) Senior
5 24 (10.48%) Platform Engineer
6 23 (10.04%) GCP Engineer
7 21 (9.17%) Automation Engineer
7 21 (9.17%) Security Engineer
8 20 (8.73%) Analyst
9 19 (8.30%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (6.11%) Administrator
11 14 (6.11%) GCP DevOps
11 14 (6.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 14 (6.11%) Support Engineer
12 13 (5.68%) Cloud Automation Engineer
12 13 (5.68%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 12 (5.24%) Linux Administrator
13 12 (5.24%) Security Analyst
14 11 (4.80%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.41%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (8.73%) OpenID
2 20 (8.73%) REST
3 19 (8.30%) Kafka
4 18 (7.86%) SAML
5 17 (7.42%) GraphQL
5 17 (7.42%) LDAP
5 17 (7.42%) OAuth
5 17 (7.42%) OpenTelemetry
5 17 (7.42%) SOAP
6 5 (2.18%) YAML
7 4 (1.75%) Middleware
7 4 (1.75%) Node.js
7 4 (1.75%) RESTful
8 3 (1.31%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.31%) WebSockets
9 2 (0.87%) .NET
9 2 (0.87%) AWS SAM
9 2 (0.87%) Loki
9 2 (0.87%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.79%) Security Posture
2 24 (10.48%) Management Information System
3 18 (7.86%) Cyber Threat
4 17 (7.42%) Cloud Native
4 17 (7.42%) Cyberattack
5 14 (6.11%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (4.37%) Cyber Defence
7 9 (3.93%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.93%) Mobile App
8 7 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.18%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.75%) Blog
11 4 (1.75%) PKI
12 3 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.31%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.31%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 105 (45.85%) Linux
2 41 (17.90%) Unix
3 35 (15.28%) Windows
4 21 (9.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.80%) CentOS
6 10 (4.37%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.49%) Ubuntu
8 7 (3.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (2.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (1.75%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.31%) AIX
12 3 (1.31%) Debian
12 3 (1.31%) VMS
13 2 (0.87%) Android
13 2 (0.87%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.87%) Solaris
14 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.44%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (54.59%) DevOps
2 108 (47.16%) CI/CD
3 105 (45.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (32.31%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (24.45%) Containerisation
6 55 (24.02%) Mentoring
7 53 (23.14%) Agile
8 43 (18.78%) High Availability
9 40 (17.47%) Cloud Security
10 38 (16.59%) Roadmaps
11 33 (14.41%) Configuration Management
12 32 (13.97%) Identity Access Management
13 29 (12.66%) Performance Optimisation
13 29 (12.66%) Task Automation
14 28 (12.23%) AI
14 28 (12.23%) Incident Response
15 26 (11.35%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (11.35%) Machine Learning
16 25 (10.92%) Cybersecurity
17 24 (10.48%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 196 (85.59%) Python
2 100 (43.67%) PowerShell
3 49 (21.40%) SQL
4 47 (20.52%) Go
5 27 (11.79%) Java
6 20 (8.73%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.42%) T-SQL
8 10 (4.37%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.49%) Bicep
9 8 (3.49%) Perl
10 7 (3.06%) C#
11 5 (2.18%) Korn
12 4 (1.75%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.75%) Ruby
13 3 (1.31%) C++
14 2 (0.87%) C
14 2 (0.87%) SystemVerilog
14 2 (0.87%) Tcl
15 1 (0.44%) Groovy
15 1 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (22.71%) Degree
2 27 (11.79%) AWS Certification
3 23 (10.04%) Security Cleared
4 19 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (6.55%) CISSP
5 15 (6.55%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.80%) OSCP
7 9 (3.93%) CCSAM
7 9 (3.93%) CCSK
7 9 (3.93%) CHECK Team Leader
7 9 (3.93%) CHECK Team Member
7 9 (3.93%) CREST Certified
8 6 (2.62%) GCIH
9 5 (2.18%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.75%) PhD
10 4 (1.75%) SC Cleared
11 3 (1.31%) CCSP
11 3 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (17.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (14.85%) NIST
3 20 (8.73%) GDPR
4 17 (7.42%) NCSC
5 13 (5.68%) Accessibility
6 11 (4.80%) Data Quality
6 11 (4.80%) SOC 2
7 10 (4.37%) PCI DSS
7 10 (4.37%) QA
8 8 (3.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (1.75%) GRC
12 1 (0.44%) Basel III
12 1 (0.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 74 (32.31%) Docker
2 33 (14.41%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.24%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.31%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.87%) KVM
7 1 (0.44%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.44%) Firmware
7 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.44%) iptables
7 1 (0.44%) Postfix
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 112 (48.91%) Terraform
2 96 (41.92%) Kubernetes
3 78 (34.06%) Ansible
4 53 (23.14%) Prometheus
5 25 (10.92%) Grafana
6 21 (9.17%) Argo
7 16 (6.99%) Kustomize
8 9 (3.93%) Nagios
8 9 (3.93%) Nessus
9 7 (3.06%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (2.62%) Puppet
11 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (2.18%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.75%) Cilium
12 4 (1.75%) logstash
12 4 (1.75%) Rancher
13 3 (1.31%) Data Guard
13 3 (1.31%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (1.31%) vRealize
14 2 (0.87%) Nmap
Vendors
1 48 (20.96%) Google
2 27 (11.79%) Red Hat
3 21 (9.17%) Microsoft
4 19 (8.30%) VMware
5 17 (7.42%) Splunk
6 15 (6.55%) Oracle
7 13 (5.68%) Tenable
8 12 (5.24%) ServiceNow
9 10 (4.37%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.18%) SAP
11 3 (1.31%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.31%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.31%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.87%) Cisco
12 2 (0.87%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.87%) IBM
12 2 (0.87%) Intel
13 1 (0.44%) CQG
13 1 (0.44%) McAfee