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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 174 125
Rank change year-on-year -15 -49 -6
Permanent jobs citing Bash 224 333 496
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.84% 1.92% 2.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.95% 4.54% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 179 214 425
10th Percentile £48,500 £46,250 £53,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,688 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.03% +6.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -

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 4,525 7,342 8,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.21% 42.41% 45.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,997 4,833 7,568
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025. 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 +15 36 £62,500 -21.88% 176
East London - 1 - - 88
West London - 1 £107,500 - 92
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 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.68%) nginx
2 6 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.23%) Confluence
4 4 (1.79%) Apache
4 4 (1.79%) Traefik
5 3 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.34%) IIS
6 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.89%) JBoss
6 2 (0.89%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.89%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 102 (45.54%) AWS
2 68 (30.36%) Azure
3 36 (16.07%) GCP
4 30 (13.39%) AWS CloudFormation
5 28 (12.50%) GitHub
6 27 (12.05%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (9.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (8.93%) SaaS
9 19 (8.48%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (7.59%) Slack
11 16 (7.14%) IaaS
12 15 (6.70%) Serverless
13 13 (5.80%) Datadog
14 11 (4.91%) OpenShift
14 11 (4.91%) PaaS
15 10 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (4.46%) Amazon S3
16 9 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
17 8 (3.57%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (15.63%) Firewall
2 16 (7.14%) DNS
3 15 (6.70%) Network Security
4 10 (4.46%) TCP/IP
4 10 (4.46%) VPN
5 6 (2.68%) BGP
5 6 (2.68%) OSPF
6 5 (2.23%) WAN
7 4 (1.79%) DHCP
7 4 (1.79%) ICMP
7 4 (1.79%) MPLS
7 4 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.34%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.34%) LAN
8 3 (1.34%) Multicast
9 2 (0.89%) HTTP
9 2 (0.89%) NAS
9 2 (0.89%) SAN
9 2 (0.89%) SNMP
9 2 (0.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.59%) Relational Database
2 12 (5.36%) NoSQL
2 12 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.57%) BigQuery
5 7 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.13%) MySQL
6 3 (1.34%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.89%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.45%) Big Data
8 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.45%) KDB
8 1 (0.45%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.45%) Looker
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.45%) Parquet
8 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 40 (17.86%) Git
2 39 (17.41%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.16%) GitLab
3 25 (11.16%) JIRA
4 6 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (2.23%) Burp Suite
5 5 (2.23%) Metasploit
6 4 (1.79%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.79%) Maven
7 3 (1.34%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.89%) Ant
8 2 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.89%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.89%) Gradle
8 2 (0.89%) MLflow
9 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.45%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.45%) JMeter
9 1 (0.45%) MSI
General
1 99 (44.20%) Social Skills
2 86 (38.39%) Finance
3 27 (12.05%) Banking
4 24 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 16 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 15 (6.70%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.23%) Law
7 5 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.79%) Back Office
8 4 (1.79%) Electronics
8 4 (1.79%) Games
8 4 (1.79%) Retail
9 3 (1.34%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.89%) Marketing
10 2 (0.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 47 (20.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (13.84%) Platform Engineer
3 24 (10.71%) Support Engineer
4 23 (10.27%) Automation Engineer
5 21 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (9.38%) Linux Engineer
6 19 (8.48%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (7.59%) Analyst
7 17 (7.59%) Graduate
8 16 (7.14%) Security Engineer
9 15 (6.70%) Graduate Support Engineer
9 15 (6.70%) Graduate Technical Engineer
9 15 (6.70%) Graduate Technical Support
9 15 (6.70%) Technical Engineer
9 15 (6.70%) Technical Support
9 15 (6.70%) Technical Support Engineer
10 14 (6.25%) Lead
11 13 (5.80%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (5.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.80%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (6.70%) .NET
3 13 (5.80%) YAML
4 11 (4.91%) FIX Protocol
4 11 (4.91%) Kafka
5 8 (3.57%) Jinja
5 8 (3.57%) Node.js
6 6 (2.68%) RESTful
7 4 (1.79%) Loki
7 4 (1.79%) Middleware
8 3 (1.34%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.34%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.34%) LAMP
8 3 (1.34%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.34%) REST
8 3 (1.34%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.89%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.89%) Google JAX
9 2 (0.89%) Hugging Face
9 2 (0.89%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.38%) Management Information System
2 19 (8.48%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.80%) Security Posture
5 10 (4.46%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.68%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (2.23%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.79%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.79%) Mobile Banking
9 4 (1.79%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.34%) Blog
10 3 (1.34%) Clustering
10 3 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.34%) Replication
11 2 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.89%) Verilog
11 2 (0.89%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 112 (50.00%) Linux
2 31 (13.84%) Windows
3 29 (12.95%) Unix
4 17 (7.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.91%) CentOS
6 8 (3.57%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.68%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.23%) Solaris
9 4 (1.79%) VMS
10 3 (1.34%) Debian
10 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.45%) AIX
12 1 (0.45%) Android
12 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.45%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (55.80%) CI/CD
1 125 (55.80%) DevOps
2 95 (42.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 72 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (20.54%) Containerisation
5 35 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
6 29 (12.95%) Agile
7 27 (12.05%) Software Engineering
8 26 (11.61%) Cloud Security
8 26 (11.61%) High Availability
9 25 (11.16%) Configuration Management
10 24 (10.71%) Machine Learning
10 24 (10.71%) Observability
10 24 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 23 (10.27%) Mentoring
11 23 (10.27%) Vulnerability Management
12 22 (9.82%) Disaster Recovery
12 22 (9.82%) Security Hardening
13 21 (9.38%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (8.93%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 204 (91.07%) Python
2 94 (41.96%) PowerShell
3 42 (18.75%) Go
4 34 (15.18%) SQL
5 16 (7.14%) Perl
6 11 (4.91%) Java
7 9 (4.02%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.68%) C#
10 5 (2.23%) Bicep
10 5 (2.23%) Groovy
11 4 (1.79%) C++
11 4 (1.79%) Ruby
12 3 (1.34%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.89%) PHP
13 2 (0.89%) SystemVerilog
13 2 (0.89%) Tcl
14 1 (0.45%) Bourne shell
14 1 (0.45%) C
14 1 (0.45%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 52 (23.21%) Degree
2 19 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.91%) AWS Certification
3 11 (4.91%) DV Cleared
3 11 (4.91%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.79%) CCNA
6 4 (1.79%) CCNP
6 4 (1.79%) CISSP
7 3 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.34%) CCSP
7 3 (1.34%) GCIH
7 3 (1.34%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.34%) OSCP
7 3 (1.34%) RHCE
8 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (0.89%) CCSAM
8 2 (0.89%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.39%) GDPR
2 28 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (10.27%) NIST
4 17 (7.59%) Accessibility
5 14 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (3.57%) GRC
7 7 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.68%) Data Quality
9 5 (2.23%) QA
10 4 (1.79%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.79%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (25.00%) Docker
2 16 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 16 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.23%) zsh
5 4 (1.79%) KVM
6 2 (0.89%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.89%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.89%) Xen
7 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.45%) Corosync
7 1 (0.45%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.45%) Postfix
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 86 (38.39%) Terraform
2 79 (35.27%) Kubernetes
3 64 (28.57%) Ansible
4 42 (18.75%) Grafana
5 35 (15.63%) Prometheus
6 14 (6.25%) Red Hat Satellite
7 8 (3.57%) Nagios
7 8 (3.57%) Puppet
8 6 (2.68%) HAProxy
8 6 (2.68%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.23%) Argo
10 4 (1.79%) Nessus
10 4 (1.79%) Rancher
10 4 (1.79%) vRealize
11 3 (1.34%) Cilium
11 3 (1.34%) Nmap
11 3 (1.34%) Podman
11 3 (1.34%) QRadar
12 2 (0.89%) Istio
12 2 (0.89%) linkerd
Vendors
1 36 (16.07%) Red Hat
2 26 (11.61%) Microsoft
3 18 (8.04%) VMware
4 15 (6.70%) ServiceNow
4 15 (6.70%) Splunk
4 15 (6.70%) Tenable
5 14 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 14 (6.25%) Google
6 9 (4.02%) Oracle
7 8 (3.57%) Databricks
8 6 (2.68%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.23%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.79%) Hitachi
11 3 (1.34%) Citrix
11 3 (1.34%) Cribl.io
11 3 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.34%) Qualys
11 3 (1.34%) SAP
11 3 (1.34%) Sonatype
12 2 (0.89%) OneLogin