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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 192 163
Rank change year-on-year -10 -29 -20
Permanent jobs citing Bash 249 232 500
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.12% 1.84% 2.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.63% 4.44% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 140 176 297
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,076 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,188 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,313 £94,063 £92,125
90th Percentile £100,375 £110,000 £103,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +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 5,381 5,222 9,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.28% 41.51% 40.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,794 3,631 7,305
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £132,500
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 July 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 July 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 -22 27 £86,250 +15.00% 21
West London - 12 - - 12
South London +18 2 - - 1
East London -3 2 - - 4
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 7 (2.81%) Apache
2 6 (2.41%) Confluence
3 5 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.01%) SAS
4 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.80%) nginx
5 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.20%) SPSS
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.42%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (0.80%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 145 (58.23%) AWS
2 110 (44.18%) Azure
3 49 (19.68%) GCP
4 39 (15.66%) AWS CloudFormation
4 39 (15.66%) Serverless
5 32 (12.85%) GitHub
6 29 (11.65%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (10.84%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (10.44%) Datadog
9 25 (10.04%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (9.24%) Amazon S3
11 22 (8.84%) Entra ID
12 21 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (8.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (6.83%) Amazon EventBridge
14 17 (6.83%) Google Workspace
14 17 (6.83%) SaaS
15 15 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (6.02%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.24%) DNS
1 28 (11.24%) Firewall
2 26 (10.44%) Network Security
3 23 (9.24%) Broadband
4 20 (8.03%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.42%) VPN
6 9 (3.61%) HTTP
6 9 (3.61%) LAN
7 8 (3.21%) HTTPS
8 7 (2.81%) Wireless
9 6 (2.41%) DHCP
10 5 (2.01%) BGP
10 5 (2.01%) IPv4
10 5 (2.01%) NAS
10 5 (2.01%) VLAN
11 4 (1.61%) Kerberos
11 4 (1.61%) OSPF
11 4 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (1.20%) MPLS
12 3 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.43%) NoSQL
2 15 (6.02%) Oracle Database
3 13 (5.22%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.42%) MySQL
4 11 (4.42%) RDBMS
5 7 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.61%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.61%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (1.61%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.20%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (1.20%) Metadata
8 3 (1.20%) Tableau
9 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.40%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 48 (19.28%) GitLab
2 45 (18.07%) Jenkins
3 35 (14.06%) Git
4 20 (8.03%) Bitbucket
5 15 (6.02%) JIRA
6 12 (4.82%) Jaeger
7 11 (4.42%) CircleCI
8 10 (4.02%) Metasploit
9 6 (2.41%) Burp Suite
9 6 (2.41%) Postman
9 6 (2.41%) TeamCity
10 5 (2.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.61%) JMeter
11 4 (1.61%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (1.20%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (1.20%) Subversion
13 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
14 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
14 1 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 101 (40.56%) Finance
2 63 (25.30%) Social Skills
3 36 (14.46%) Banking
4 27 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.43%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.43%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.21%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.41%) Automotive
10 4 (1.61%) Electronics
10 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.61%) Marketing
11 3 (1.20%) Advertising
11 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.80%) German Language
12 2 (0.80%) Law
12 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.80%) Public Speaking
12 2 (0.80%) Retail
12 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (26.51%) Senior
2 39 (15.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (13.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 34 (13.65%) Platform Engineer
4 32 (12.85%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (9.64%) Lead
5 24 (9.64%) Security Engineer
6 18 (7.23%) Administrator
7 17 (6.83%) Analyst
7 17 (6.83%) Linux Administrator
7 17 (6.83%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 17 (6.83%) Systems Administrator
8 14 (5.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 13 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (4.82%) Consultant
10 12 (4.82%) Security Consultant
10 12 (4.82%) Senior Consultant
10 12 (4.82%) Senior Security Consultant
11 11 (4.42%) DBA
11 11 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.45%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (8.03%) SAML
3 15 (6.02%) REST
4 14 (5.62%) AWS CDK
4 14 (5.62%) Kafka
4 14 (5.62%) OAuth
4 14 (5.62%) OpenID
4 14 (5.62%) OpenTelemetry
5 13 (5.22%) GraphQL
5 13 (5.22%) LDAP
5 13 (5.22%) SOAP
6 9 (3.61%) Node.js
7 8 (3.21%) WebSockets
8 5 (2.01%) YAML
9 4 (1.61%) .NET
9 4 (1.61%) Middleware
10 3 (1.20%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.20%) JSON
10 3 (1.20%) Pandas
10 3 (1.20%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.26%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.84%) Cyber Threat
2 22 (8.84%) Onboarding
3 21 (8.43%) Security Posture
4 16 (6.43%) Data Centre
5 12 (4.82%) Enterprise Cloud
5 12 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.42%) Cyberattack
6 11 (4.42%) Management Information System
7 10 (4.02%) Cyber Defence
8 8 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (3.21%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.41%) Mobile App
10 5 (2.01%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.20%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 112 (44.98%) Linux
2 42 (16.87%) Unix
3 39 (15.66%) Windows
4 24 (9.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.22%) Windows Server
6 12 (4.82%) CentOS
7 11 (4.42%) AIX
7 11 (4.42%) Oracle Linux
8 8 (3.21%) Mac OS
8 8 (3.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (2.01%) Rocky
10 4 (1.61%) Kali Linux
11 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.20%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.80%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.40%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.40%) SUSE
13 1 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (54.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 123 (49.40%) CI/CD
3 121 (48.59%) DevOps
4 69 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (25.70%) Mentoring
6 63 (25.30%) Containerisation
7 50 (20.08%) Cloud Security
8 49 (19.68%) Agile
9 47 (18.88%) Platform Engineering
10 45 (18.07%) Incident Response
11 42 (16.87%) High Availability
11 42 (16.87%) Roadmaps
12 40 (16.06%) Identity Access Management
13 34 (13.65%) Configuration Management
13 34 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (13.25%) AI
15 31 (12.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 27 (10.84%) Capacity Planning
16 27 (10.84%) ITIL
17 26 (10.44%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 211 (84.74%) Python
2 107 (42.97%) PowerShell
3 59 (23.69%) SQL
4 58 (23.29%) Java
5 30 (12.05%) Go
6 23 (9.24%) JavaScript
7 20 (8.03%) Shell Script
8 17 (6.83%) Ruby
9 16 (6.43%) Perl
10 15 (6.02%) Korn
10 15 (6.02%) PHP
10 15 (6.02%) PL/SQL
11 13 (5.22%) C#
11 13 (5.22%) T-SQL
12 11 (4.42%) Rust
13 8 (3.21%) Bicep
14 6 (2.41%) C++
14 6 (2.41%) VBA
15 3 (1.20%) C
15 3 (1.20%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 49 (19.68%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.26%) Degree
3 34 (13.65%) AWS Certification
4 20 (8.03%) OSCP
5 18 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.02%) SC Cleared
7 14 (5.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (5.62%) DV Cleared
8 13 (5.22%) RHCSA
9 12 (4.82%) CISSP
10 10 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (3.61%) CCSAM
11 9 (3.61%) CompTIA Security+
11 9 (3.61%) CREST Certified
12 7 (2.81%) ISTQB
13 6 (2.41%) Azure Certification
13 6 (2.41%) CHECK Team Leader
13 6 (2.41%) CHECK Team Member
13 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (2.41%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 19 (7.63%) NIST
2 17 (6.83%) QA
3 14 (5.62%) SOC 2
4 12 (4.82%) GDPR
5 11 (4.42%) NCSC
5 11 (4.42%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.41%) PMO
7 4 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.61%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.61%) SLA
8 3 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 78 (31.33%) Docker
2 30 (12.05%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (5.22%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (2.01%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.61%) Squid
6 4 (1.61%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.61%) vSphere
7 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.40%) KVM
Systems Management
1 134 (53.82%) Terraform
2 92 (36.95%) Ansible
3 86 (34.54%) Kubernetes
4 55 (22.09%) Prometheus
5 50 (20.08%) Grafana
6 32 (12.85%) Nagios
7 23 (9.24%) Argo
8 14 (5.62%) Data Guard
8 14 (5.62%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (4.42%) Kustomize
9 11 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (3.61%) Packer
11 8 (3.21%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (2.41%) Nessus
12 6 (2.41%) Rundeck
12 6 (2.41%) ZABBIX
13 5 (2.01%) Kibana
14 4 (1.61%) Puppet
14 4 (1.61%) Rancher
15 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 37 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 34 (13.65%) Splunk
3 29 (11.65%) Google
4 27 (10.84%) Oracle
5 25 (10.04%) Red Hat
6 19 (7.63%) VMware
7 11 (4.42%) IBM
7 11 (4.42%) ServiceNow
7 11 (4.42%) SolarWinds
8 8 (3.21%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.81%) Apple
10 6 (2.41%) Cognizant
10 6 (2.41%) Rapid7
11 5 (2.01%) New Relic
12 4 (1.61%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.61%) Tenable
12 4 (1.61%) TOWER Software
13 3 (1.20%) Commvault
13 3 (1.20%) Intel
13 3 (1.20%) Varonis