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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 188 152
Rank change year-on-year +7 -36 -25
Permanent jobs citing Bash 231 261 419
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.47% 1.75% 2.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.05% 4.30% 4.72%
Number of salaries quoted 131 169 381
10th Percentile £42,750 £47,350 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,875 £67,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,500 £102,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -7.14% +11.50% -9.60%

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 4,574 6,064 8,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.12% 40.72% 42.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,223 3,962 7,699
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,592
90th Percentile £130,000 £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 19 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 19 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 +24 37 £55,000 -38.89% 30
West London - 15 £107,500 - 2
South London +40 4 - -
East London - 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 11 (4.76%) Apache
1 11 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.16%) Confluence
2 5 (2.16%) IIS
2 5 (2.16%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 105 (45.45%) AWS
2 83 (35.93%) Azure
3 64 (27.71%) GCP
4 37 (16.02%) GitHub
5 36 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (11.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (10.82%) Entra ID
8 22 (9.52%) Google Workspace
9 21 (9.09%) SaaS
10 18 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (7.79%) Datadog
11 17 (7.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (6.93%) Google Compute Engine
12 16 (6.93%) Pulumi
12 16 (6.93%) Serverless
13 15 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (6.49%) Amazon S3
14 14 (6.06%) IaaS
14 14 (6.06%) OpenShift
14 14 (6.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.58%) Broadband
2 26 (11.26%) Firewall
3 20 (8.66%) DNS
4 11 (4.76%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.33%) Network Security
6 9 (3.90%) Wireless
7 5 (2.16%) DHCP
7 5 (2.16%) HTTP
7 5 (2.16%) LAN
8 4 (1.73%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.73%) VPN
9 3 (1.30%) WAN
10 2 (0.87%) SSL
11 1 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.43%) Spanning Tree
11 1 (0.43%) SSH
11 1 (0.43%) TACACS
11 1 (0.43%) VLAN
11 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.69%) NoSQL
2 18 (7.79%) Relational Database
3 17 (7.36%) BigQuery
4 16 (6.93%) RDBMS
5 10 (4.33%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (3.90%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.90%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (3.90%) Metadata
6 9 (3.90%) Tableau
7 7 (3.03%) MySQL
7 7 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.60%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.16%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.87%) Big Data
11 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database 11g
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database 12c
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 46 (19.91%) Jenkins
2 32 (13.85%) Git
3 30 (12.99%) GitLab
4 23 (9.96%) JIRA
5 16 (6.93%) Jaeger
6 11 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 11 (4.76%) Metasploit
7 10 (4.33%) Burp Suite
8 5 (2.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.16%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.16%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.73%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.30%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.30%) JMeter
10 3 (1.30%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.87%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.87%) Gradle
11 2 (0.87%) Maven
12 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
General
1 71 (30.74%) Finance
2 64 (27.71%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.66%) Banking
4 20 (8.66%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (6.49%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.60%) Electronics
10 5 (2.16%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.16%) Retail
11 4 (1.73%) Back Office
11 4 (1.73%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.73%) Marketing
11 4 (1.73%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.30%) Advertising
12 3 (1.30%) Games
13 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.87%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (17.75%) Cloud Engineer
3 33 (14.29%) Lead
3 33 (14.29%) Senior
4 24 (10.39%) GCP Engineer
5 23 (9.96%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (9.52%) Security Engineer
7 21 (9.09%) Analyst
7 21 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
8 20 (8.66%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (6.49%) Administrator
10 15 (6.49%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 15 (6.49%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 13 (5.63%) GCP DevOps
11 13 (5.63%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.63%) Linux Administrator
11 13 (5.63%) Support Engineer
12 12 (5.19%) Security Analyst
13 11 (4.76%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.72%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (9.09%) OpenID
2 21 (9.09%) REST
3 20 (8.66%) Kafka
4 19 (8.23%) SAML
5 18 (7.79%) GraphQL
5 18 (7.79%) LDAP
5 18 (7.79%) OAuth
5 18 (7.79%) SOAP
6 17 (7.36%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.16%) YAML
8 4 (1.73%) Middleware
8 4 (1.73%) Node.js
9 3 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.30%) RESTful
9 3 (1.30%) WebSockets
10 2 (0.87%) .NET
10 2 (0.87%) AWS SAM
10 2 (0.87%) JSON
10 2 (0.87%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.69%) Security Posture
2 26 (11.26%) Management Information System
3 20 (8.66%) Cyber Threat
4 18 (7.79%) Cyberattack
5 17 (7.36%) Cloud Native
6 14 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
7 11 (4.76%) Hedge funds
8 9 (3.90%) Mobile App
9 7 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.16%) Data Centre
11 5 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.73%) Blog
12 4 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.73%) PKI
13 3 (1.30%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 105 (45.45%) Linux
2 44 (19.05%) Unix
3 35 (15.15%) Windows
4 21 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.19%) CentOS
6 10 (4.33%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.46%) Ubuntu
8 7 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (1.73%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.30%) AIX
12 3 (1.30%) Debian
13 2 (0.87%) Android
13 2 (0.87%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.87%) Solaris
13 2 (0.87%) VMS
14 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.43%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.43%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (53.68%) DevOps
2 109 (47.19%) CI/CD
3 108 (46.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (31.17%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (25.11%) Containerisation
6 57 (24.68%) Mentoring
7 54 (23.38%) Agile
8 44 (19.05%) High Availability
9 39 (16.88%) Roadmaps
10 38 (16.45%) Cloud Security
11 37 (16.02%) Configuration Management
12 35 (15.15%) Identity Access Management
13 31 (13.42%) Incident Response
14 30 (12.99%) AI
14 30 (12.99%) Performance Optimisation
15 28 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
15 28 (12.12%) Task Automation
16 26 (11.26%) Cybersecurity
17 25 (10.82%) Computer Science
17 25 (10.82%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 197 (85.28%) Python
2 100 (43.29%) PowerShell
3 51 (22.08%) SQL
4 47 (20.35%) Go
5 28 (12.12%) Java
6 21 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.79%) T-SQL
8 10 (4.33%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.46%) Bicep
10 7 (3.03%) C#
10 7 (3.03%) Perl
11 5 (2.16%) Korn
12 4 (1.73%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.73%) Ruby
13 3 (1.30%) C++
14 2 (0.87%) C
14 2 (0.87%) SystemVerilog
14 2 (0.87%) Tcl
15 1 (0.43%) Groovy
15 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (22.94%) Degree
2 26 (11.26%) AWS Certification
3 23 (9.96%) Security Cleared
4 21 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.93%) CISSP
6 15 (6.49%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.76%) CCSK
7 11 (4.76%) OSCP
8 9 (3.90%) CCSAM
8 9 (3.90%) CHECK Team Leader
8 9 (3.90%) CHECK Team Member
8 9 (3.90%) CREST Certified
9 5 (2.16%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.16%) GCIH
10 4 (1.73%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.73%) PhD
10 4 (1.73%) SC Cleared
11 3 (1.30%) ISTQB
11 3 (1.30%) RHCE
11 3 (1.30%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (15.15%) NIST
3 18 (7.79%) GDPR
3 18 (7.79%) NCSC
4 13 (5.63%) Accessibility
5 12 (5.19%) SOC 2
6 11 (4.76%) Data Quality
6 11 (4.76%) QA
7 10 (4.33%) PCI DSS
8 7 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (1.73%) GRC
10 4 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.43%) Basel III
11 1 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 74 (32.03%) Docker
2 33 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.87%) KVM
7 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.43%) Firmware
7 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.43%) iptables
7 1 (0.43%) Postfix
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 114 (49.35%) Terraform
2 97 (41.99%) Kubernetes
3 81 (35.06%) Ansible
4 53 (22.94%) Prometheus
5 28 (12.12%) Grafana
6 21 (9.09%) Argo
7 16 (6.93%) Kustomize
8 10 (4.33%) Nagios
9 9 (3.90%) Nessus
10 6 (2.60%) Puppet
10 6 (2.60%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (2.16%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.73%) Cilium
12 4 (1.73%) logstash
12 4 (1.73%) Rancher
13 3 (1.30%) Data Guard
13 3 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (1.30%) vRealize
14 2 (0.87%) Kibana
Vendors
1 49 (21.21%) Google
2 27 (11.69%) Red Hat
3 20 (8.66%) Microsoft
4 19 (8.23%) VMware
5 18 (7.79%) Splunk
6 15 (6.49%) Oracle
7 13 (5.63%) Tenable
8 12 (5.19%) ServiceNow
9 10 (4.33%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.16%) SAP
11 3 (1.30%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.30%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.30%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.87%) Cisco
12 2 (0.87%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.87%) IBM
12 2 (0.87%) Intel
13 1 (0.43%) Citrix
13 1 (0.43%) Commvault