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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 179 158
Rank change year-on-year -34 -21 -17
Permanent jobs citing Bash 239 237 492
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.08% 1.90% 2.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.48% 4.56% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 138 181 289
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,076 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,563 £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 £90,000 £95,000 £92,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 5,338 5,195 9,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.02% 41.72% 40.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,775 3,617 7,109
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,750
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 £131,250
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 16 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 16 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 -24 25 £87,500 +16.67% 12
West London - 9 - - 2
South London +7 2 - - 2
East London -3 1 - - 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 6 (2.51%) Apache
1 6 (2.51%) Confluence
2 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.09%) SAS
3 4 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.26%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.84%) nginx
5 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.26%) SPSS
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (5.02%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (1.26%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 142 (59.41%) AWS
2 109 (45.61%) Azure
3 47 (19.67%) GCP
4 41 (17.15%) Serverless
5 40 (16.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (13.39%) GitHub
7 31 (12.97%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (12.13%) Amazon ECS
9 26 (10.88%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (10.46%) Datadog
11 22 (9.21%) Amazon S3
12 21 (8.79%) Entra ID
12 21 (8.79%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (7.95%) Amazon EventBridge
14 18 (7.53%) Cloud Computing
15 15 (6.28%) AWS Control Tower
15 15 (6.28%) Google Workspace
15 15 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (6.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.72%) Firewall
1 28 (11.72%) Network Security
2 27 (11.30%) DNS
3 21 (8.79%) TCP/IP
4 17 (7.11%) Broadband
5 10 (4.18%) VPN
6 9 (3.77%) LAN
7 8 (3.35%) HTTP
7 8 (3.35%) HTTPS
8 6 (2.51%) Wireless
9 5 (2.09%) BGP
9 5 (2.09%) DHCP
9 5 (2.09%) IPv4
9 5 (2.09%) NAS
9 5 (2.09%) VLAN
10 4 (1.67%) Kerberos
10 4 (1.67%) OSPF
10 4 (1.67%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.67%) SSH
11 3 (1.26%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.69%) NoSQL
1 16 (6.69%) Oracle Database
2 10 (4.18%) MySQL
3 8 (3.35%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.51%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (1.67%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.26%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.84%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.84%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (0.84%) Metadata
9 2 (0.84%) Tableau
10 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 48 (20.08%) GitLab
2 43 (17.99%) Jenkins
3 32 (13.39%) Git
4 18 (7.53%) Bitbucket
5 15 (6.28%) JIRA
6 11 (4.60%) CircleCI
7 9 (3.77%) Metasploit
8 7 (2.93%) Jaeger
9 6 (2.51%) TeamCity
10 5 (2.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (2.09%) Burp Suite
10 5 (2.09%) Postman
11 3 (1.26%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.26%) JMeter
11 3 (1.26%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (1.26%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.26%) Subversion
12 2 (0.84%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 100 (41.84%) Finance
2 62 (25.94%) Social Skills
3 37 (15.48%) Banking
4 27 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.28%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.77%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.93%) Automotive
10 4 (1.67%) Electronics
10 4 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.67%) Marketing
11 3 (1.26%) Advertising
11 3 (1.26%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.26%) Public Speaking
12 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Law
12 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (28.45%) Senior
2 37 (15.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (14.23%) Platform Engineer
4 30 (12.55%) AWS Engineer
5 28 (11.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (9.62%) Security Engineer
7 19 (7.95%) Administrator
8 18 (7.53%) Lead
9 17 (7.11%) Linux Administrator
9 17 (7.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 17 (7.11%) Systems Administrator
10 15 (6.28%) Analyst
11 14 (5.86%) Consultant
11 14 (5.86%) Security Consultant
11 14 (5.86%) Senior Consultant
11 14 (5.86%) Senior Security Consultant
12 13 (5.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 13 (5.44%) DBA
13 12 (5.02%) Senior DBA
13 12 (5.02%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.88%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (7.53%) SAML
3 17 (7.11%) AWS CDK
4 13 (5.44%) Kafka
4 13 (5.44%) OAuth
4 13 (5.44%) REST
5 12 (5.02%) GraphQL
5 12 (5.02%) LDAP
5 12 (5.02%) OpenID
5 12 (5.02%) SOAP
6 9 (3.77%) Node.js
6 9 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (3.35%) WebSockets
8 6 (2.51%) YAML
9 5 (2.09%) Middleware
10 4 (1.67%) .NET
11 3 (1.26%) 802.1X
11 3 (1.26%) JSON
11 3 (1.26%) OpenMP
11 3 (1.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.48%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.88%) Onboarding
3 21 (8.79%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (7.95%) Security Posture
5 16 (6.69%) Data Centre
6 14 (5.86%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (4.18%) Cyberattack
8 10 (4.18%) Management Information System
9 9 (3.77%) Cyber Defence
9 9 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (2.09%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (1.67%) Hedge funds
13 4 (1.67%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
14 3 (1.26%) CUDA
14 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 105 (43.93%) Linux
2 38 (15.90%) Unix
2 38 (15.90%) Windows
3 25 (10.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (5.44%) Windows Server
5 12 (5.02%) AIX
5 12 (5.02%) CentOS
5 12 (5.02%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (3.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.93%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.67%) Kali Linux
8 4 (1.67%) Rocky
9 3 (1.26%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.26%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.84%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.84%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.42%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.42%) SUSE
11 1 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (53.97%) Infrastructure as Code
2 116 (48.54%) CI/CD
3 114 (47.70%) DevOps
4 66 (27.62%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (24.27%) Mentoring
6 57 (23.85%) Containerisation
7 49 (20.50%) Cloud Security
8 47 (19.67%) Platform Engineering
9 46 (19.25%) Incident Response
10 41 (17.15%) Agile
11 40 (16.74%) Identity Access Management
12 36 (15.06%) High Availability
12 36 (15.06%) Roadmaps
13 33 (13.81%) AI
14 32 (13.39%) Configuration Management
14 32 (13.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 31 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (11.72%) Capacity Planning
16 28 (11.72%) ITIL
17 26 (10.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 202 (84.52%) Python
2 103 (43.10%) PowerShell
3 58 (24.27%) SQL
4 55 (23.01%) Java
5 25 (10.46%) Go
6 21 (8.79%) Shell Script
7 19 (7.95%) Ruby
8 18 (7.53%) JavaScript
8 18 (7.53%) Perl
9 17 (7.11%) PHP
10 16 (6.69%) Korn
10 16 (6.69%) PL/SQL
11 13 (5.44%) C#
12 12 (5.02%) Rust
12 12 (5.02%) T-SQL
13 8 (3.35%) Bicep
14 7 (2.93%) VBA
15 6 (2.51%) C++
16 3 (1.26%) C
16 3 (1.26%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 48 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.90%) Degree
3 31 (12.97%) AWS Certification
4 19 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (7.95%) OSCP
5 16 (6.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (6.28%) SC Cleared
7 13 (5.44%) DV Cleared
7 13 (5.44%) RHCSA
8 11 (4.60%) CISSP
9 10 (4.18%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (3.35%) CCSAM
11 8 (3.35%) CREST Certified
12 7 (2.93%) ISTQB
13 6 (2.51%) Azure Certification
13 6 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (2.51%) RHCE
14 5 (2.09%) CompTIA CySA+
14 5 (2.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.53%) NIST
2 17 (7.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (6.69%) QA
4 13 (5.44%) SOC 2
5 11 (4.60%) GDPR
5 11 (4.60%) PCI DSS
6 10 (4.18%) NCSC
7 6 (2.51%) PMO
8 4 (1.67%) SLA
9 3 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.26%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
System Software
1 72 (30.13%) Docker
2 29 (12.13%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (5.86%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.51%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.67%) Squid
6 4 (1.67%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.67%) vSphere
7 3 (1.26%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.42%) KVM
Systems Management
1 126 (52.72%) Terraform
2 85 (35.56%) Ansible
3 77 (32.22%) Kubernetes
4 51 (21.34%) Grafana
5 50 (20.92%) Prometheus
6 33 (13.81%) Nagios
7 18 (7.53%) Argo
8 15 (6.28%) Data Guard
8 15 (6.28%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (3.77%) Packer
11 8 (3.35%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (2.51%) Kustomize
12 6 (2.51%) Rundeck
12 6 (2.51%) ZABBIX
13 5 (2.09%) Kibana
13 5 (2.09%) Nessus
14 4 (1.67%) Puppet
14 4 (1.67%) Rancher
15 3 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 37 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.23%) Splunk
3 28 (11.72%) Oracle
4 24 (10.04%) Red Hat
5 20 (8.37%) Google
6 19 (7.95%) VMware
7 12 (5.02%) IBM
8 11 (4.60%) ServiceNow
8 11 (4.60%) SolarWinds
9 7 (2.93%) Apple
9 7 (2.93%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.51%) Cognizant
10 6 (2.51%) New Relic
10 6 (2.51%) Rapid7
11 4 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.67%) Tenable
11 4 (1.67%) TOWER Software
12 3 (1.26%) Commvault
12 3 (1.26%) Intel
12 3 (1.26%) Varonis