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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 199 157
Rank change year-on-year +1 -42 -12
Permanent jobs citing Bash 228 212 482
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.09% 1.77% 2.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.33% 4.36% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 129 155 294
10th Percentile £51,000 £43,881 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.34% -9.38%
75th Percentile £92,500 £91,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -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 5,266 4,864 9,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.26% 40.51% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,729 3,518 7,556
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,313 £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 £132,500 £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 25 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 25 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 -20 29 £63,750 -15.00% 17
West London - 13 - - 5
South London +12 3 - - 1
East London -11 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 6 (2.63%) Confluence
4 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.32%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.88%) nginx
6 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.44%) IIS
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
Business Applications
1 5 (2.19%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 129 (56.58%) AWS
2 99 (43.42%) Azure
3 57 (25.00%) GCP
4 33 (14.47%) GitHub
5 25 (10.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 25 (10.96%) Entra ID
6 24 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 24 (10.53%) Serverless
7 23 (10.09%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (9.65%) Google Workspace
9 21 (9.21%) SaaS
10 19 (8.33%) Datadog
10 19 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 18 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (7.46%) Pulumi
13 14 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (4.39%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (4.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (14.47%) Broadband
2 32 (14.04%) DNS
3 25 (10.96%) 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 6 (2.63%) DHCP
10 5 (2.19%) IPv4
11 4 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (1.32%) VLAN
12 3 (1.32%) WAN
13 2 (0.88%) BGP
13 2 (0.88%) Multicast
13 2 (0.88%) OSPF
13 2 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
14 1 (0.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.96%) NoSQL
2 17 (7.46%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.58%) RDBMS
4 11 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (4.39%) MySQL
6 9 (3.95%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (3.95%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (3.95%) Metadata
6 9 (3.95%) Oracle Database
6 9 (3.95%) Tableau
7 8 (3.51%) BigQuery
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%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.88%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 49 (21.49%) GitLab
2 42 (18.42%) Jenkins
3 38 (16.67%) Git
4 20 (8.77%) Bitbucket
5 15 (6.58%) Jaeger
6 13 (5.70%) Metasploit
7 12 (5.26%) JIRA
8 11 (4.82%) CircleCI
9 9 (3.95%) Burp Suite
10 4 (1.75%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.32%) Postman
12 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.88%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.88%) Subversion
12 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.44%) Maven
13 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
General
1 79 (34.65%) Finance
2 51 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.60%) Banking
4 23 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.77%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.95%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.63%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.63%) Electronics
8 6 (2.63%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.63%) Marketing
9 4 (1.75%) Automotive
9 4 (1.75%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.32%) Advertising
11 2 (0.88%) German Language
11 2 (0.88%) Legal
11 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Retail
12 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (20.61%) Senior
2 38 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 36 (15.79%) Lead
4 35 (15.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (13.60%) AWS Engineer
6 24 (10.53%) Security Engineer
7 23 (10.09%) Analyst
7 23 (10.09%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (7.02%) Administrator
8 16 (7.02%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (7.02%) Linux Administrator
8 16 (7.02%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 16 (7.02%) Systems Administrator
9 15 (6.58%) Data Engineer
9 15 (6.58%) GCP Engineer
10 13 (5.70%) Security Analyst
11 12 (5.26%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 12 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (5.26%) Senior Security Analyst
12 10 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.16%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (8.77%) REST
2 20 (8.77%) SAML
3 19 (8.33%) Kafka
4 18 (7.89%) OAuth
4 18 (7.89%) OpenID
5 17 (7.46%) GraphQL
5 17 (7.46%) LDAP
5 17 (7.46%) SOAP
6 16 (7.02%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (3.95%) Node.js
7 9 (3.95%) WebSockets
8 3 (1.32%) .NET
8 3 (1.32%) 802.1X
8 3 (1.32%) Loki
8 3 (1.32%) Pandas
9 2 (0.88%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.88%) LEMP Stack
9 2 (0.88%) Middleware
9 2 (0.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.72%) Cyber Threat
2 28 (12.28%) Cloud Native
3 27 (11.84%) Security Posture
4 17 (7.46%) Cyberattack
5 15 (6.58%) Data Centre
6 14 (6.14%) Cyber Defence
7 13 (5.70%) Management Information System
8 10 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (3.95%) Hedge funds
9 9 (3.95%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.19%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.75%) PKI
12 4 (1.75%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 101 (44.30%) Linux
2 40 (17.54%) Unix
3 36 (15.79%) Windows
4 21 (9.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.82%) CentOS
6 9 (3.95%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.07%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.19%) AIX
8 5 (2.19%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (2.19%) Rocky
9 4 (1.75%) Kali Linux
9 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.32%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.44%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (53.51%) DevOps
2 119 (52.19%) CI/CD
3 116 (50.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (31.58%) Mentoring
5 66 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (27.19%) Containerisation
7 55 (24.12%) Agile
8 45 (19.74%) Roadmaps
9 44 (19.30%) High Availability
10 43 (18.86%) Cloud Security
11 40 (17.54%) Incident Response
12 33 (14.47%) Configuration Management
13 32 (14.04%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (12.72%) Cybersecurity
14 29 (12.72%) Identity Access Management
15 28 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
15 28 (12.28%) Red Team
16 27 (11.84%) AI
16 27 (11.84%) Performance Optimisation
17 26 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 195 (85.53%) Python
2 101 (44.30%) PowerShell
3 63 (27.63%) SQL
4 41 (17.98%) Java
5 32 (14.04%) Go
6 24 (10.53%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.46%) T-SQL
8 14 (6.14%) Shell Script
9 12 (5.26%) C#
10 9 (3.95%) Bicep
10 9 (3.95%) Korn
11 8 (3.51%) C++
11 8 (3.51%) PL/SQL
12 7 (3.07%) Perl
12 7 (3.07%) Rust
13 5 (2.19%) C
13 5 (2.19%) Ruby
14 3 (1.32%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.32%) PHP
15 2 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (15.79%) Degree
2 29 (12.72%) Security Cleared
3 25 (10.96%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.53%) OSCP
5 15 (6.58%) CISSP
5 15 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.14%) RHCSA
7 12 (5.26%) CCSAM
7 12 (5.26%) CREST Certified
7 12 (5.26%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.95%) CCSK
8 9 (3.95%) CHECK Team Leader
8 9 (3.95%) CHECK Team Member
8 9 (3.95%) SC Cleared
9 8 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (3.07%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (3.07%) ISTQB
11 6 (2.63%) Azure Certification
11 6 (2.63%) GCIH
11 6 (2.63%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.53%) NIST
2 23 (10.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.46%) NCSC
4 15 (6.58%) QA
4 15 (6.58%) SOC 2
5 12 (5.26%) GDPR
6 11 (4.82%) PCI DSS
7 10 (4.39%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.75%) SLA
9 3 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.32%) PMO
10 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 77 (33.77%) Docker
2 30 (13.16%) Active Directory
3 17 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.07%) 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%) KVM
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 120 (52.63%) Terraform
2 91 (39.91%) Kubernetes
3 83 (36.40%) Ansible
4 53 (23.25%) Prometheus
5 38 (16.67%) Grafana
6 25 (10.96%) Nagios
7 20 (8.77%) Argo
8 15 (6.58%) Kustomize
9 9 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (3.95%) Nessus
10 7 (3.07%) Data Guard
10 7 (3.07%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (2.63%) ZABBIX
12 5 (2.19%) Packer
13 4 (1.75%) Kibana
13 4 (1.75%) logstash
14 3 (1.32%) Puppet
14 3 (1.32%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (1.32%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 40 (17.54%) Google
2 32 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 26 (11.40%) Red Hat
4 24 (10.53%) Splunk
5 19 (8.33%) VMware
6 17 (7.46%) Oracle
7 12 (5.26%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.63%) Apple
9 5 (2.19%) IBM
9 5 (2.19%) Rapid7
9 5 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.75%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.75%) Intel
10 4 (1.75%) SAP
10 4 (1.75%) TOWER Software
11 3 (1.32%) Cognizant
11 3 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.32%) Tenable
11 3 (1.32%) Varonis
12 2 (0.88%) Okta