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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 195 160
Rank change year-on-year -7 -35 -16
Permanent jobs citing Bash 228 221 481
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.12% 1.79% 2.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.38% 4.41% 5.10%
Number of salaries quoted 127 164 293
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £59,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +10.34% -9.38%
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,500 £111,250 £102,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 5,201 5,009 9,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.49% 40.51% 40.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,675 3,715 7,581
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,550 £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% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,000 £130,000
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 15 May 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 15 May 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 29 £56,250 -27.42% 31
West London - 13 - - 5
South London +13 3 - - 2
East London -7 2 - - 3
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 (5.70%) Apache
2 11 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.07%) Confluence
4 5 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.75%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.88%) IIS
6 2 (0.88%) nginx
6 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.44%) SAS
7 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.32%) SPSS
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 127 (55.70%) AWS
2 101 (44.30%) Azure
3 62 (27.19%) GCP
4 35 (15.35%) GitHub
5 26 (11.40%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (10.96%) Entra ID
7 24 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (9.65%) Google Workspace
9 21 (9.21%) Amazon S3
9 21 (9.21%) SaaS
9 21 (9.21%) Serverless
10 20 (8.77%) Datadog
10 20 (8.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (6.58%) Pulumi
14 14 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (4.39%) Google Compute Engine
16 10 (4.39%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (14.91%) DNS
2 33 (14.47%) Broadband
3 24 (10.53%) Firewall
4 22 (9.65%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.82%) LAN
5 11 (4.82%) Network Security
6 10 (4.39%) HTTP
7 9 (3.95%) Wireless
8 8 (3.51%) HTTPS
8 8 (3.51%) VPN
9 7 (3.07%) DHCP
10 5 (2.19%) IPv4
11 4 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (1.75%) WAN
12 3 (1.32%) VLAN
13 2 (0.88%) BGP
13 2 (0.88%) Multicast
13 2 (0.88%) OSPF
13 2 (0.88%) SNMP
13 2 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.40%) NoSQL
2 17 (7.46%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.58%) RDBMS
4 11 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (4.82%) BigQuery
5 10 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.95%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (3.95%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (3.95%) Metadata
6 9 (3.95%) MySQL
6 9 (3.95%) Tableau
7 8 (3.51%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.32%) Oracle Database 11g
10 3 (1.32%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (1.32%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (1.32%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.88%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 49 (21.49%) GitLab
2 43 (18.86%) Jenkins
3 39 (17.11%) Git
4 20 (8.77%) Bitbucket
5 15 (6.58%) Jaeger
6 13 (5.70%) JIRA
6 13 (5.70%) Metasploit
7 11 (4.82%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.95%) Burp Suite
9 4 (1.75%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.32%) Postman
11 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.88%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.88%) Subversion
12 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 78 (34.21%) Finance
2 52 (22.81%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.72%) Banking
4 25 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.77%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.51%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.07%) Electronics
8 7 (3.07%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.07%) Marketing
8 7 (3.07%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.63%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.75%) Automotive
11 3 (1.32%) Advertising
11 3 (1.32%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.88%) German Language
12 2 (0.88%) Legal
12 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Retail
13 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (19.30%) Senior
2 38 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 38 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (15.79%) Lead
4 29 (12.72%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (10.96%) Analyst
6 23 (10.09%) Security Engineer
7 20 (8.77%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (7.89%) GCP Engineer
9 17 (7.46%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (7.02%) Administrator
10 16 (7.02%) Linux Administrator
10 16 (7.02%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 16 (7.02%) Systems Administrator
11 15 (6.58%) Data Engineer
12 14 (6.14%) Security Analyst
13 13 (5.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 12 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (5.26%) Senior Security Analyst
15 10 (4.39%) Cloud Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.60%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (8.77%) Kafka
3 19 (8.33%) OpenID
3 19 (8.33%) REST
3 19 (8.33%) SAML
4 18 (7.89%) OAuth
5 17 (7.46%) GraphQL
5 17 (7.46%) LDAP
5 17 (7.46%) SOAP
6 16 (7.02%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (3.95%) WebSockets
8 7 (3.07%) Node.js
9 3 (1.32%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.32%) Loki
9 3 (1.32%) Middleware
10 2 (0.88%) .NET
10 2 (0.88%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (0.88%) JSON
10 2 (0.88%) Pandas
10 2 (0.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.72%) Cyber Threat
1 29 (12.72%) Security Posture
2 23 (10.09%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.46%) Cyberattack
4 16 (7.02%) Data Centre
5 14 (6.14%) Cyber Defence
5 14 (6.14%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.39%) Hedge funds
6 10 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.95%) Mobile App
8 7 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.19%) PKI
10 4 (1.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.75%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.32%) Insider Threat
12 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 105 (46.05%) Linux
2 42 (18.42%) Unix
3 40 (17.54%) Windows
4 21 (9.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.82%) CentOS
6 10 (4.39%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.07%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.19%) Rocky
8 5 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.75%) AIX
9 4 (1.75%) Kali Linux
9 4 (1.75%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.32%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.44%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (53.51%) DevOps
2 117 (51.32%) CI/CD
3 116 (50.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (30.70%) Mentoring
5 69 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (26.75%) Containerisation
7 53 (23.25%) Agile
8 47 (20.61%) High Availability
9 44 (19.30%) Roadmaps
10 41 (17.98%) Cloud Security
10 41 (17.98%) Incident Response
11 36 (15.79%) Configuration Management
12 30 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
12 30 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
13 29 (12.72%) AI
13 29 (12.72%) Continuous Integration
13 29 (12.72%) Platform Engineering
13 29 (12.72%) Red Team
14 26 (11.40%) Performance Optimisation
15 24 (10.53%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 198 (86.84%) Python
2 100 (43.86%) PowerShell
3 62 (27.19%) SQL
4 39 (17.11%) Java
5 34 (14.91%) Go
6 25 (10.96%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.46%) T-SQL
8 12 (5.26%) Shell Script
9 10 (4.39%) C#
10 9 (3.95%) Bicep
11 8 (3.51%) C++
11 8 (3.51%) Korn
12 7 (3.07%) Perl
12 7 (3.07%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.63%) Ruby
13 6 (2.63%) Rust
14 5 (2.19%) C
15 3 (1.32%) Objective-C
15 3 (1.32%) PHP
16 2 (0.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 40 (17.54%) Degree
2 27 (11.84%) Security Cleared
3 25 (10.96%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.53%) OSCP
5 17 (7.46%) CISSP
5 17 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.14%) RHCSA
7 12 (5.26%) CCSAM
7 12 (5.26%) CREST Certified
8 11 (4.82%) DV Cleared
9 10 (4.39%) CCSK
10 9 (3.95%) CHECK Team Leader
10 9 (3.95%) CHECK Team Member
11 8 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (3.07%) Azure Certification
12 7 (3.07%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (3.07%) GCIH
12 7 (3.07%) ISTQB
12 7 (3.07%) SC Cleared
13 6 (2.63%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.53%) NIST
2 22 (9.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.46%) NCSC
4 15 (6.58%) QA
5 14 (6.14%) GDPR
5 14 (6.14%) SOC 2
6 12 (5.26%) PCI DSS
7 10 (4.39%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.75%) SLA
10 3 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.88%) PMO
12 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 78 (34.21%) Docker
2 31 (13.60%) Active Directory
3 18 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.63%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.75%) Squid
5 4 (1.75%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.75%) vSphere
6 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.44%) Firmware
7 1 (0.44%) iptables
7 1 (0.44%) KVM
Systems Management
1 119 (52.19%) Terraform
2 97 (42.54%) Kubernetes
3 83 (36.40%) Ansible
4 51 (22.37%) Prometheus
5 36 (15.79%) Grafana
6 24 (10.53%) Nagios
7 17 (7.46%) Argo
8 15 (6.58%) Kustomize
9 9 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (3.95%) Nessus
10 6 (2.63%) Data Guard
10 6 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (2.63%) Oracle RMAN
10 6 (2.63%) ZABBIX
11 5 (2.19%) logstash
12 4 (1.75%) Kibana
12 4 (1.75%) Packer
12 4 (1.75%) Puppet
13 3 (1.32%) Rancher
13 3 (1.32%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 42 (18.42%) Google
2 32 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 28 (12.28%) Red Hat
4 22 (9.65%) Splunk
5 20 (8.77%) VMware
6 16 (7.02%) Oracle
7 12 (5.26%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.63%) Apple
9 5 (2.19%) Rapid7
9 5 (2.19%) SAP
10 4 (1.75%) IBM
10 4 (1.75%) Intel
10 4 (1.75%) TOWER Software
11 3 (1.32%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.32%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.32%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.32%) Tenable
11 3 (1.32%) Varonis
12 2 (0.88%) Arista