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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 208 153
Rank change year-on-year +14 -55 -11
Permanent jobs citing Bash 235 213 456
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.25% 1.65% 2.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.67% 3.97% 4.96%
Number of salaries quoted 126 163 342
10th Percentile £42,750 £48,350 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,313 £64,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +13.79% -3.33%
75th Percentile £93,438 £93,125 £92,406
90th Percentile £103,750 £118,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £63,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +12.00% -10.71%

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 5,030 5,359 9,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.78% 41.60% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,518 3,942 7,642
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £128,625 £126,250
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 10 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 10 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 +11 35 £52,500 -36.36% 21
West London - 14 - - 2
South London +25 4 - - 1
East London -13 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 (5.53%) Apache
2 11 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.98%) Confluence
3 7 (2.98%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.13%) IIS
6 2 (0.85%) nginx
6 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) SPSS
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 127 (54.04%) AWS
2 102 (43.40%) Azure
3 75 (31.91%) GCP
4 42 (17.87%) GitHub
5 35 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (14.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (11.06%) Entra ID
8 24 (10.21%) Google Workspace
8 24 (10.21%) SaaS
9 22 (9.36%) Datadog
9 22 (9.36%) Serverless
10 21 (8.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (8.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (7.66%) Amazon S3
13 16 (6.81%) Pulumi
14 12 (5.11%) Google Compute Engine
14 12 (5.11%) IaaS
14 12 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (5.11%) OpenShift
14 12 (5.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.32%) Broadband
1 36 (15.32%) DNS
2 30 (12.77%) Firewall
3 21 (8.94%) TCP/IP
4 12 (5.11%) Network Security
5 9 (3.83%) Wireless
6 8 (3.40%) DHCP
6 8 (3.40%) HTTPS
6 8 (3.40%) VPN
7 7 (2.98%) LAN
8 6 (2.55%) HTTP
9 4 (1.70%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.28%) VLAN
10 3 (1.28%) WAN
11 2 (0.85%) IPv4
11 2 (0.85%) Multicast
11 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.43%) NAS
12 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.43%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.62%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.09%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.81%) RDBMS
4 13 (5.53%) BigQuery
5 11 (4.68%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (4.26%) MySQL
7 9 (3.83%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (3.83%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (3.83%) Metadata
7 9 (3.83%) Tableau
8 7 (2.98%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.98%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.70%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.28%) Oracle Database 11g
11 3 (1.28%) Oracle Database 12c
11 3 (1.28%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (0.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 49 (20.85%) Jenkins
2 43 (18.30%) GitLab
3 35 (14.89%) Git
4 20 (8.51%) Bitbucket
5 16 (6.81%) Jaeger
5 16 (6.81%) JIRA
6 13 (5.53%) Metasploit
7 11 (4.68%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.83%) Burp Suite
9 6 (2.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (2.55%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.13%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.28%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.28%) JMeter
11 3 (1.28%) Postman
11 3 (1.28%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.85%) Subversion
General
1 84 (35.74%) Finance
2 59 (25.11%) Social Skills
3 32 (13.62%) Banking
4 25 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.94%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.11%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.55%) Electronics
8 6 (2.55%) Marketing
8 6 (2.55%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.55%) Retail
9 5 (2.13%) Advertising
9 5 (2.13%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.70%) Back Office
10 4 (1.70%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.28%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.85%) German Language
12 2 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (18.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (17.45%) Cloud Engineer
2 41 (17.45%) Senior
3 34 (14.47%) Lead
4 26 (11.06%) Analyst
4 26 (11.06%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (9.79%) Security Engineer
6 20 (8.51%) GCP Engineer
6 20 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (7.66%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (7.23%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 15 (6.38%) Administrator
9 15 (6.38%) Automation Engineer
9 15 (6.38%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 15 (6.38%) Linux Administrator
10 13 (5.53%) Security Analyst
11 11 (4.68%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 11 (4.68%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (4.68%) Senior Security Analyst
11 11 (4.68%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.17%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (10.21%) Kafka
3 21 (8.94%) OpenID
3 21 (8.94%) REST
4 19 (8.09%) SAML
5 18 (7.66%) GraphQL
5 18 (7.66%) LDAP
5 18 (7.66%) OAuth
5 18 (7.66%) SOAP
6 17 (7.23%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.55%) Node.js
8 5 (2.13%) WebSockets
9 4 (1.70%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (1.70%) Middleware
10 3 (1.28%) 802.1X
11 2 (0.85%) .NET
11 2 (0.85%) JSON
11 2 (0.85%) Loki
11 2 (0.85%) Vue
11 2 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.77%) Cyber Threat
2 28 (11.91%) Security Posture
3 20 (8.51%) Cloud Native
4 18 (7.66%) Cyberattack
5 17 (7.23%) Management Information System
6 14 (5.96%) Cyber Defence
6 14 (5.96%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (4.68%) Data Centre
7 11 (4.68%) Hedge funds
8 9 (3.83%) Mobile App
9 8 (3.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.13%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.13%) PKI
11 4 (1.70%) Blog
11 4 (1.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.28%) Insider Threat
12 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 108 (45.96%) Linux
2 50 (21.28%) Unix
3 49 (20.85%) Windows
4 19 (8.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.68%) Windows Server
6 10 (4.26%) CentOS
7 9 (3.83%) Mac OS
8 8 (3.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (2.13%) Ubuntu
10 5 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (1.70%) Apple iOS
11 4 (1.70%) Kali Linux
12 3 (1.28%) AIX
12 3 (1.28%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (1.28%) Rocky
13 2 (0.85%) Android
14 1 (0.43%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (52.77%) DevOps
2 122 (51.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 120 (51.06%) CI/CD
4 77 (32.77%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (28.51%) Mentoring
6 65 (27.66%) Containerisation
7 55 (23.40%) Agile
8 52 (22.13%) High Availability
9 44 (18.72%) Incident Response
10 42 (17.87%) Configuration Management
10 42 (17.87%) Roadmaps
11 36 (15.32%) Cloud Security
11 36 (15.32%) Identity Access Management
12 33 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
13 31 (13.19%) AI
14 30 (12.77%) Red Team
15 29 (12.34%) Cybersecurity
16 28 (11.91%) Computer Science
17 27 (11.49%) Performance Optimisation
18 26 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 200 (85.11%) Python
2 102 (43.40%) PowerShell
3 63 (26.81%) SQL
4 42 (17.87%) Go
5 37 (15.74%) Java
6 27 (11.49%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.66%) T-SQL
8 13 (5.53%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.83%) C#
10 8 (3.40%) C++
11 7 (2.98%) Bicep
11 7 (2.98%) Korn
11 7 (2.98%) Perl
11 7 (2.98%) Ruby
12 6 (2.55%) PL/SQL
13 5 (2.13%) C
13 5 (2.13%) Rust
14 3 (1.28%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.28%) PHP
15 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (20.43%) Degree
2 29 (12.34%) AWS Certification
3 28 (11.91%) Security Cleared
4 23 (9.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (8.51%) OSCP
6 17 (7.23%) CISSP
7 14 (5.96%) DV Cleared
8 12 (5.11%) CCSAM
8 12 (5.11%) CREST Certified
9 11 (4.68%) CCSK
10 9 (3.83%) CHECK Team Leader
10 9 (3.83%) CHECK Team Member
11 7 (2.98%) Azure Certification
11 7 (2.98%) RHCSA
11 7 (2.98%) SC Cleared
12 6 (2.55%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (2.55%) GCIH
13 5 (2.13%) GCIA
14 4 (1.70%) GIAC
14 4 (1.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (11.49%) NIST
3 18 (7.66%) NCSC
3 18 (7.66%) SOC 2
4 16 (6.81%) PCI DSS
5 15 (6.38%) GDPR
5 15 (6.38%) QA
6 10 (4.26%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.70%) GRC
8 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.28%) SLA
9 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.43%) Basel III
10 1 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 82 (34.89%) Docker
2 33 (14.04%) Active Directory
3 18 (7.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.13%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.28%) KVM
6 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.43%) Firmware
7 1 (0.43%) iptables
7 1 (0.43%) Squid
7 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 119 (50.64%) Terraform
2 107 (45.53%) Kubernetes
3 90 (38.30%) Ansible
4 54 (22.98%) Prometheus
5 37 (15.74%) Grafana
6 19 (8.09%) Argo
7 18 (7.66%) Nagios
8 16 (6.81%) Kustomize
9 10 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (3.83%) Nessus
11 7 (2.98%) Puppet
12 6 (2.55%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (2.13%) Data Guard
13 5 (2.13%) logstash
13 5 (2.13%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (1.70%) Cilium
14 4 (1.70%) Kibana
14 4 (1.70%) Progress Chef
14 4 (1.70%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 46 (19.57%) Google
2 28 (11.91%) Microsoft
3 27 (11.49%) Red Hat
4 22 (9.36%) VMware
5 21 (8.94%) Splunk
6 17 (7.23%) Oracle
7 10 (4.26%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.98%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.55%) Apple
9 6 (2.55%) SAP
10 4 (1.70%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.70%) Tenable
10 4 (1.70%) TOWER Software
11 3 (1.28%) IBM
11 3 (1.28%) Intel
11 3 (1.28%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.85%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.85%) BT
12 2 (0.85%) Cisco
12 2 (0.85%) Commvault