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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 187 145
Rank change year-on-year +8 -42 -15
Permanent jobs citing Bash 225 274 455
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.52% 1.78% 2.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.10% 4.42% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 137 173 412
10th Percentile £41,250 £49,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,250 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £66,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.69% -6.40%

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 4,415 6,206 9,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.78% 40.39% 43.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,104 3,960 7,882
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £79,566
Median % change year-on-year - +0.55% +2.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £127,125 £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 1 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 1 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 +31 38 £47,500 -47.95% 42
West London - 12 £107,500 - 11
South London +34 3 - - 12
East London - 2 - - 13
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 (4.89%) Apache
1 11 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.22%) Confluence
2 5 (2.22%) IIS
2 5 (2.22%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.44%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 100 (44.44%) AWS
2 74 (32.89%) Azure
3 59 (26.22%) GCP
4 39 (17.33%) GitHub
5 38 (16.89%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (8.89%) Entra ID
8 18 (8.00%) Google Compute Engine
8 18 (8.00%) SaaS
9 17 (7.56%) Datadog
9 17 (7.56%) Google Workspace
10 16 (7.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (7.11%) Amazon S3
10 16 (7.11%) Cloud Functions
10 16 (7.11%) Pulumi
10 16 (7.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (6.67%) Cloud Run
11 15 (6.67%) Serverless
12 14 (6.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 31 (13.78%) Broadband
2 23 (10.22%) Firewall
3 20 (8.89%) DNS
4 10 (4.44%) Network Security
5 9 (4.00%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.11%) Wireless
7 5 (2.22%) DHCP
8 4 (1.78%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.78%) VPN
9 3 (1.33%) HTTP
9 3 (1.33%) LAN
9 3 (1.33%) WAN
10 2 (0.89%) SSL
11 1 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.56%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.44%) BigQuery
2 19 (8.44%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.11%) RDBMS
4 10 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (4.00%) Amazon QuickSight
5 9 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (4.00%) Apache Iceberg
5 9 (4.00%) Metadata
5 9 (4.00%) Tableau
6 7 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.67%) MySQL
8 5 (2.22%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.33%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.89%) Big Data
10 2 (0.89%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 47 (20.89%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.44%) Git
3 26 (11.56%) GitLab
4 21 (9.33%) JIRA
5 16 (7.11%) Jaeger
6 10 (4.44%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.44%) Burp Suite
6 10 (4.44%) Metasploit
7 5 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.78%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.78%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.33%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.33%) JMeter
9 3 (1.33%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.89%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.89%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.89%) Gradle
10 2 (0.89%) Maven
11 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 69 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 66 (29.33%) Finance
3 23 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.44%) Telecoms
5 17 (7.56%) Banking
6 16 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.11%) Electronics
10 5 (2.22%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.22%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.22%) Marketing
10 5 (2.22%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.22%) Retail
11 4 (1.78%) Back Office
12 3 (1.33%) Advertising
12 3 (1.33%) Games
13 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (19.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (17.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 33 (14.67%) Lead
4 27 (12.00%) Senior
5 26 (11.56%) Platform Engineer
6 23 (10.22%) GCP Engineer
7 21 (9.33%) Automation Engineer
7 21 (9.33%) Security Engineer
8 18 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
8 18 (8.00%) Support Engineer
9 17 (7.56%) Analyst
10 15 (6.67%) GCP DevOps
10 15 (6.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 14 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (6.22%) Graduate
11 14 (6.22%) Technical Engineer
11 14 (6.22%) Technical Support
11 14 (6.22%) Technical Support Engineer
12 12 (5.33%) Cloud Automation Engineer
12 12 (5.33%) Graduate Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.56%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (8.00%) Kafka
3 17 (7.56%) OpenTelemetry
4 16 (7.11%) OpenID
4 16 (7.11%) REST
5 14 (6.22%) SAML
6 13 (5.78%) GraphQL
6 13 (5.78%) LDAP
6 13 (5.78%) OAuth
6 13 (5.78%) SOAP
7 6 (2.67%) YAML
8 5 (2.22%) Node.js
9 4 (1.78%) Middleware
9 4 (1.78%) RESTful
10 3 (1.33%) FIX Protocol
11 2 (0.89%) .NET
11 2 (0.89%) AWS SAM
11 2 (0.89%) Loki
11 2 (0.89%) Pandas
12 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 23 (10.22%) Management Information System
3 19 (8.44%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.22%) Cyber Threat
4 14 (6.22%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (5.78%) Cyberattack
6 8 (3.56%) Cyber Defence
6 8 (3.56%) Hedge funds
7 7 (3.11%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.78%) Blog
10 4 (1.78%) PKI
11 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 103 (45.78%) Linux
2 39 (17.33%) Unix
3 35 (15.56%) Windows
4 18 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.89%) CentOS
6 10 (4.44%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.56%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.78%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.33%) Debian
11 3 (1.33%) VMS
12 2 (0.89%) AIX
12 2 (0.89%) Android
12 2 (0.89%) Solaris
13 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.44%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (56.00%) DevOps
2 111 (49.33%) CI/CD
3 108 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (34.22%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (24.89%) Containerisation
6 52 (23.11%) Agile
7 50 (22.22%) Mentoring
8 42 (18.67%) Cloud Security
8 42 (18.67%) High Availability
9 34 (15.11%) Roadmaps
10 31 (13.78%) Configuration Management
11 30 (13.33%) Task Automation
12 29 (12.89%) Machine Learning
12 29 (12.89%) Performance Optimisation
13 27 (12.00%) AI
13 27 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
13 27 (12.00%) Incident Response
14 26 (11.56%) Continuous Integration
14 26 (11.56%) Platform Engineering
15 24 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 197 (87.56%) Python
2 96 (42.67%) PowerShell
3 46 (20.44%) Go
4 41 (18.22%) SQL
5 25 (11.11%) Java
6 20 (8.89%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.78%) T-SQL
8 10 (4.44%) Bicep
9 9 (4.00%) Perl
10 7 (3.11%) C#
10 7 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.78%) Ruby
12 3 (1.33%) C++
13 2 (0.89%) C
13 2 (0.89%) Korn
13 2 (0.89%) SystemVerilog
13 2 (0.89%) Tcl
14 1 (0.44%) Groovy
14 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (24.00%) Degree
2 28 (12.44%) AWS Certification
3 25 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 18 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (7.56%) DV Cleared
6 14 (6.22%) CISSP
7 8 (3.56%) CCSK
7 8 (3.56%) OSCP
8 7 (3.11%) CCSAM
8 7 (3.11%) CHECK Team Leader
8 7 (3.11%) CHECK Team Member
8 7 (3.11%) CREST Certified
9 6 (2.67%) GCIH
10 5 (2.22%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.22%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.78%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.78%) PhD
12 3 (1.33%) CCSP
12 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (12.89%) NIST
3 22 (9.78%) GDPR
4 13 (5.78%) Accessibility
4 13 (5.78%) NCSC
5 11 (4.89%) Data Quality
6 9 (4.00%) PCI DSS
6 9 (4.00%) QA
6 9 (4.00%) SOC 2
7 8 (3.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (3.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.78%) GRC
10 1 (0.44%) Basel III
10 1 (0.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 76 (33.78%) Docker
2 28 (12.44%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.89%) KVM
6 1 (0.44%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.44%) Firmware
6 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.44%) iptables
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.44%) Postfix
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 114 (50.67%) Terraform
2 98 (43.56%) Kubernetes
3 77 (34.22%) Ansible
4 53 (23.56%) Prometheus
5 25 (11.11%) Grafana
6 21 (9.33%) Argo
7 16 (7.11%) Kustomize
8 8 (3.56%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (3.11%) Nessus
10 6 (2.67%) Puppet
11 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (2.22%) Nagios
11 5 (2.22%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.78%) Cilium
12 4 (1.78%) logstash
12 4 (1.78%) Rancher
13 3 (1.33%) Nmap
13 3 (1.33%) vRealize
14 2 (0.89%) CSIRT
14 2 (0.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (21.33%) Google
2 27 (12.00%) Red Hat
3 20 (8.89%) Microsoft
4 16 (7.11%) Splunk
4 16 (7.11%) VMware
5 12 (5.33%) Oracle
5 12 (5.33%) ServiceNow
5 12 (5.33%) Tenable
6 10 (4.44%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.67%) SAP
8 4 (1.78%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.33%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.89%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.89%) Cisco
10 2 (0.89%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.44%) CQG
11 1 (0.44%) IBM
11 1 (0.44%) Intel
11 1 (0.44%) McAfee
11 1 (0.44%) Reuters