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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 206 145
Rank change year-on-year +15 -61 -2
Permanent jobs citing Bash 232 218 503
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 1.69% 2.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.56% 4.07% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 126 167 316
10th Percentile £43,375 £46,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +11.86% -4.84%
75th Percentile £93,438 £93,125 £92,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -14.29%

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 5,091 5,357 9,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.10% 41.49% 40.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,581 3,938 7,575
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,925 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,813 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +2.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £130,000 £127,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -9 33 £52,500 -36.36% 27
West London - 14 - - 5
South London +22 4 - - 1
East London -12 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 13 (5.60%) Apache
2 11 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.88%) Confluence
4 7 (3.02%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (2.16%) IIS
7 2 (0.86%) nginx
7 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) SPSS
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 127 (54.74%) AWS
2 101 (43.53%) Azure
3 71 (30.60%) GCP
4 41 (17.67%) GitHub
5 34 (14.66%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (13.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (11.64%) Entra ID
8 24 (10.34%) Google Workspace
9 22 (9.48%) SaaS
9 22 (9.48%) Serverless
10 21 (9.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (8.62%) Datadog
12 18 (7.76%) Amazon S3
13 17 (7.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (6.90%) Pulumi
15 13 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (5.17%) Google Compute Engine
16 12 (5.17%) IaaS
16 12 (5.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.52%) Broadband
1 36 (15.52%) DNS
2 28 (12.07%) Firewall
3 21 (9.05%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.74%) Network Security
5 9 (3.88%) Wireless
6 8 (3.45%) DHCP
6 8 (3.45%) HTTPS
6 8 (3.45%) LAN
6 8 (3.45%) VPN
7 7 (3.02%) HTTP
8 4 (1.72%) IPv4
9 3 (1.29%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (1.29%) VLAN
9 3 (1.29%) WAN
10 2 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.86%) Multicast
10 2 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.43%) SAN
11 1 (0.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (12.93%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.19%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.90%) RDBMS
4 13 (5.60%) BigQuery
5 11 (4.74%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (4.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (3.88%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (3.88%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (3.88%) Metadata
7 9 (3.88%) MySQL
7 9 (3.88%) Tableau
8 7 (3.02%) Oracle Database
8 7 (3.02%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.29%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.29%) Oracle Database 11g
11 3 (1.29%) Oracle Database 12c
11 3 (1.29%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (0.86%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 49 (21.12%) Jenkins
2 47 (20.26%) GitLab
3 37 (15.95%) Git
4 21 (9.05%) Bitbucket
5 16 (6.90%) Jaeger
5 16 (6.90%) JIRA
6 13 (5.60%) Metasploit
7 11 (4.74%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.88%) Burp Suite
9 6 (2.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (2.16%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.29%) Postman
11 3 (1.29%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.86%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.86%) JMeter
12 2 (0.86%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.86%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.86%) Subversion
General
1 83 (35.78%) Finance
2 53 (22.84%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.36%) Banking
4 24 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (9.05%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.31%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.02%) Electronics
8 7 (3.02%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.59%) Marketing
9 6 (2.59%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.16%) Advertising
10 5 (2.16%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.72%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.72%) Retail
12 3 (1.29%) Automotive
12 3 (1.29%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.86%) Back Office
13 2 (0.86%) German Language
13 2 (0.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (18.53%) Senior
2 42 (18.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (16.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 36 (15.52%) Lead
5 28 (12.07%) AWS Engineer
6 27 (11.64%) Analyst
7 22 (9.48%) Security Engineer
8 20 (8.62%) GCP Engineer
8 20 (8.62%) Platform Engineer
9 18 (7.76%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (6.47%) Administrator
10 15 (6.47%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 15 (6.47%) Linux Administrator
11 14 (6.03%) Security Analyst
12 13 (5.60%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (5.60%) Cloud Automation Engineer
12 13 (5.60%) Data Engineer
13 12 (5.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 12 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (5.17%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.09%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (10.34%) Kafka
3 21 (9.05%) OpenID
4 20 (8.62%) REST
5 19 (8.19%) SAML
6 18 (7.76%) GraphQL
6 18 (7.76%) LDAP
6 18 (7.76%) OAuth
6 18 (7.76%) SOAP
7 17 (7.33%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.59%) Node.js
8 6 (2.59%) WebSockets
9 4 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (1.72%) Middleware
10 3 (1.29%) 802.1X
11 2 (0.86%) Apache NiFi
11 2 (0.86%) AWS SAM
11 2 (0.86%) LEMP Stack
11 2 (0.86%) Loki
11 2 (0.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.93%) Cyber Threat
2 29 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 20 (8.62%) Cloud Native
4 18 (7.76%) Cyberattack
5 15 (6.47%) Management Information System
6 14 (6.03%) Cyber Defence
7 12 (5.17%) Data Centre
7 12 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (4.74%) Hedge funds
9 9 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (3.88%) Mobile App
10 8 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.16%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.16%) PKI
12 4 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 3 (1.29%) Insider Threat
13 3 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (1.29%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 107 (46.12%) Linux
2 48 (20.69%) Windows
3 47 (20.26%) Unix
4 20 (8.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.60%) Windows Server
6 9 (3.88%) CentOS
7 8 (3.45%) Mac OS
7 8 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.72%) Kali Linux
10 4 (1.72%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.29%) AIX
11 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.29%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (1.29%) Rocky
12 1 (0.43%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.43%) Solaris
12 1 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (53.45%) DevOps
2 122 (52.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 120 (51.72%) CI/CD
4 74 (31.90%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (29.74%) Mentoring
6 63 (27.16%) Containerisation
7 56 (24.14%) Agile
8 52 (22.41%) High Availability
9 42 (18.10%) Roadmaps
10 41 (17.67%) Configuration Management
10 41 (17.67%) Incident Response
11 39 (16.81%) Cloud Security
12 34 (14.66%) Identity Access Management
13 33 (14.22%) Continuous Integration
14 31 (13.36%) Cybersecurity
15 30 (12.93%) AI
15 30 (12.93%) Red Team
16 27 (11.64%) Performance Optimisation
17 26 (11.21%) Computer Science
18 25 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 200 (86.21%) Python
2 103 (44.40%) PowerShell
3 62 (26.72%) SQL
4 39 (16.81%) Java
5 38 (16.38%) Go
6 27 (11.64%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.76%) T-SQL
8 12 (5.17%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.88%) C#
10 8 (3.45%) C++
11 7 (3.02%) Bicep
11 7 (3.02%) Korn
11 7 (3.02%) Perl
11 7 (3.02%) Ruby
12 6 (2.59%) PL/SQL
13 5 (2.16%) C
13 5 (2.16%) Rust
14 3 (1.29%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.29%) PHP
15 2 (0.86%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 44 (18.97%) Degree
2 29 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 27 (11.64%) Security Cleared
4 23 (9.91%) OSCP
5 21 (9.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (7.76%) CISSP
7 12 (5.17%) CCSAM
7 12 (5.17%) CREST Certified
7 12 (5.17%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.74%) CCSK
9 10 (4.31%) RHCSA
10 9 (3.88%) CHECK Team Leader
10 9 (3.88%) CHECK Team Member
11 7 (3.02%) Azure Certification
11 7 (3.02%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (3.02%) GCIH
12 6 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (2.59%) GCIA
12 6 (2.59%) ISTQB
12 6 (2.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (11.21%) NIST
3 18 (7.76%) NCSC
4 17 (7.33%) SOC 2
5 15 (6.47%) GDPR
5 15 (6.47%) QA
6 14 (6.03%) PCI DSS
7 10 (4.31%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.29%) SLA
10 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.86%) GRC
11 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.43%) Basel III
11 1 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 81 (34.91%) Docker
2 36 (15.52%) Active Directory
3 20 (8.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.16%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.29%) Squid
5 3 (1.29%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.29%) vSphere
6 2 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.86%) KVM
7 1 (0.43%) Firmware
7 1 (0.43%) iptables
Systems Management
1 120 (51.72%) Terraform
2 104 (44.83%) Kubernetes
3 89 (38.36%) Ansible
4 52 (22.41%) Prometheus
5 35 (15.09%) Grafana
6 19 (8.19%) Argo
6 19 (8.19%) Nagios
7 16 (6.90%) Kustomize
8 10 (4.31%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (3.88%) Nessus
10 7 (3.02%) Puppet
11 5 (2.16%) Data Guard
11 5 (2.16%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (2.16%) logstash
11 5 (2.16%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.72%) Kibana
12 4 (1.72%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.72%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (19.83%) Google
2 30 (12.93%) Microsoft
3 29 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 23 (9.91%) VMware
5 20 (8.62%) Splunk
6 18 (7.76%) Oracle
7 9 (3.88%) Atlassian
8 8 (3.45%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.59%) Apple
9 6 (2.59%) SAP
10 4 (1.72%) Intel
10 4 (1.72%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.72%) TOWER Software
11 3 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.29%) IBM
11 3 (1.29%) Tenable
11 3 (1.29%) Varonis
12 2 (0.86%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.86%) BT
12 2 (0.86%) Commvault