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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 181 135
Rank change year-on-year -54 -46 -1
Permanent jobs citing Bash 219 240 493
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.89% 2.00% 2.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.00% 5.08% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 139 189 235
10th Percentile £49,500 £39,700 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £113,000 £111,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -9.72%

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 5,475 4,728 7,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.15% 39.47% 41.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,719 3,192 5,380
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 £80,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% -2.42% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -26 17 £90,000 +50.00% 21
West London -15 1 - - 9
North London - 1 £60,000 -
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 (5.48%) Confluence
2 11 (5.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.28%) SAS
4 2 (0.91%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.37%) SPSS
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.57%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.65%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.37%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 123 (56.16%) AWS
2 87 (39.73%) Azure
3 37 (16.89%) Serverless
4 34 (15.53%) GCP
5 33 (15.07%) Amazon ECS
5 33 (15.07%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (14.16%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (13.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (12.79%) GitHub
9 21 (9.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (9.13%) Amazon EventBridge
11 19 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (8.68%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (8.22%) Amazon S3
12 18 (8.22%) Datadog
13 17 (7.76%) Cloud Computing
13 17 (7.76%) Entra ID
13 17 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (6.85%) AWS Control Tower
15 14 (6.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (13.70%) Firewall
1 30 (13.70%) Network Security
2 26 (11.87%) DNS
2 26 (11.87%) TCP/IP
3 15 (6.85%) DHCP
3 15 (6.85%) VPN
4 8 (3.65%) FIX Connectivity
5 6 (2.74%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (2.28%) BGP
6 5 (2.28%) HTTP
6 5 (2.28%) IPv4
6 5 (2.28%) SSH
6 5 (2.28%) VLAN
7 4 (1.83%) Kerberos
7 4 (1.83%) LAN
7 4 (1.83%) NAS
7 4 (1.83%) OSPF
7 4 (1.83%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (1.37%) MPLS
9 2 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.94%) MySQL
2 12 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.48%) Oracle Database
2 12 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.57%) Redis
5 9 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.37%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.91%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.91%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (0.91%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 41 (18.72%) GitLab
1 41 (18.72%) Jenkins
2 32 (14.61%) Git
3 17 (7.76%) JIRA
4 11 (5.02%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.20%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.37%) JMeter
7 3 (1.37%) Postman
7 3 (1.37%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.37%) Subversion
8 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.91%) Maven
8 2 (0.91%) NUnit
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.46%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.46%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 88 (40.18%) Finance
2 62 (28.31%) Social Skills
3 46 (21.00%) Banking
4 30 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (11.87%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.65%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.20%) Automotive
9 6 (2.74%) Law
10 5 (2.28%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.28%) Retail
11 4 (1.83%) Electronics
12 3 (1.37%) Advertising
12 3 (1.37%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.37%) Public Speaking
13 2 (0.91%) Danish Language
13 2 (0.91%) Front Office
13 2 (0.91%) Marketing
13 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (25.11%) Senior
2 37 (16.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (15.53%) Platform Engineer
4 25 (11.42%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (9.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (8.68%) Security Engineer
7 16 (7.31%) Analyst
8 15 (6.85%) Administrator
9 14 (6.39%) Consultant
9 14 (6.39%) Security Consultant
9 14 (6.39%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (6.39%) Senior Security Consultant
10 13 (5.94%) Linux Administrator
10 13 (5.94%) Linux Engineer
10 13 (5.94%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 13 (5.94%) Systems Administrator
11 12 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (5.48%) DBA
11 12 (5.48%) Lead
11 12 (5.48%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (53.42%) Terraform
2 17 (7.76%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.76%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (5.48%) Kafka
4 9 (4.11%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (4.11%) SAML
5 7 (3.20%) Keycloak
5 7 (3.20%) Node.js
6 6 (2.74%) .NET
6 6 (2.74%) REST
7 5 (2.28%) Middleware
7 5 (2.28%) OpenMP
7 5 (2.28%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.28%) YAML
8 4 (1.83%) Pandas
8 4 (1.83%) Pulumi
8 4 (1.83%) RESTful
8 4 (1.83%) WebSockets
9 3 (1.37%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.37%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 44 (20.09%) Cloud Native
2 34 (15.53%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.39%) Enterprise Cloud
3 14 (6.39%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.02%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.11%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.11%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.65%) Eurex
7 7 (3.20%) Replication
8 6 (2.74%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.28%) CUDA
9 5 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.28%) Hedge funds
9 5 (2.28%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.83%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 107 (48.86%) Linux
2 38 (17.35%) Windows
3 35 (15.98%) Unix
4 20 (9.13%) CentOS
5 18 (8.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (6.39%) Windows Server
7 12 (5.48%) Rocky
8 11 (5.02%) Mac OS
9 10 (4.57%) AIX
9 10 (4.57%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (3.65%) Ubuntu
11 7 (3.20%) Apple iOS
11 7 (3.20%) Windows 10
12 6 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (2.28%) Solaris
14 2 (0.91%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.91%) Android
15 1 (0.46%) SUSE
15 1 (0.46%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (55.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 109 (49.77%) CI/CD
3 100 (45.66%) DevOps
4 53 (24.20%) Platform Engineering
4 53 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (22.37%) Cloud Security
5 49 (22.37%) Containerisation
6 42 (19.18%) ITIL
7 38 (17.35%) Mentoring
8 37 (16.89%) AI
9 36 (16.44%) Incident Response
9 36 (16.44%) Observability
10 34 (15.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 32 (14.61%) Agile
12 31 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (13.24%) Infrastructure Automation
13 29 (13.24%) Runbook
14 28 (12.79%) Configuration Management
15 27 (12.33%) Capacity Planning
15 27 (12.33%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 189 (86.30%) Python
2 96 (43.84%) PowerShell
3 48 (21.92%) Java
4 38 (17.35%) SQL
5 27 (12.33%) Perl
6 25 (11.42%) Ruby
7 19 (8.68%) Shell Script
8 16 (7.31%) Go
8 16 (7.31%) JavaScript
9 14 (6.39%) C#
9 14 (6.39%) PHP
10 13 (5.94%) Rust
11 12 (5.48%) Korn
11 12 (5.48%) PL/SQL
12 10 (4.57%) Bicep
13 9 (4.11%) C
14 8 (3.65%) Groovy
15 7 (3.20%) C++
15 7 (3.20%) VBA
16 3 (1.37%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 63 (28.77%) Security Cleared
2 38 (17.35%) Degree
3 24 (10.96%) AWS Certification
4 22 (10.05%) SC Cleared
5 21 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (5.48%) DV Cleared
8 11 (5.02%) OSCP
9 8 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.65%) RHCSA
10 7 (3.20%) ISTQB
11 6 (2.74%) Azure Certification
11 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.74%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (2.28%) A+ Certification
12 5 (2.28%) CISSP
12 5 (2.28%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (2.28%) RHCE
13 4 (1.83%) CCNA
13 4 (1.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.76%) QA
2 7 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.74%) NIST
3 6 (2.74%) PMO
4 3 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.37%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.37%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.91%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 72 (32.88%) Docker
2 27 (12.33%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.02%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.74%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (2.28%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.83%) Squid
7 4 (1.83%) vSphere
8 3 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 76 (34.70%) Kubernetes
2 57 (26.03%) Ansible
3 53 (24.20%) Grafana
4 44 (20.09%) Prometheus
5 27 (12.33%) Nagios
6 15 (6.85%) Argo
7 13 (5.94%) Data Guard
8 12 (5.48%) Oracle RMAN
9 10 (4.57%) Rancher
10 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (4.11%) Packer
11 7 (3.20%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (2.74%) Rundeck
13 5 (2.28%) Puppet
13 5 (2.28%) ZABBIX
14 4 (1.83%) Istio
15 3 (1.37%) Cilium
15 3 (1.37%) Kibana
15 3 (1.37%) Proxmox
15 3 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 38 (17.35%) Splunk
3 34 (15.53%) Oracle
4 29 (13.24%) Red Hat
5 17 (7.76%) ServiceNow
6 16 (7.31%) VMware
7 13 (5.94%) Dynatrace
8 12 (5.48%) Google
9 10 (4.57%) IBM
10 8 (3.65%) Bloomberg
10 8 (3.65%) CQG
10 8 (3.65%) ION Trading
10 8 (3.65%) Patsystems
10 8 (3.65%) Rapid7
10 8 (3.65%) Reuters
10 8 (3.65%) Trayport
11 7 (3.20%) Atlassian
12 6 (2.74%) Cognizant
12 6 (2.74%) New Relic
12 6 (2.74%) SolarWinds