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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 201 145
Rank change year-on-year +9 -56 +2
Permanent jobs citing Bash 231 221 494
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 1.73% 2.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.50% 4.19% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 126 168 305
10th Percentile £43,375 £46,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +13.79% -6.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £104,500
England median annual salary £63,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +16.67% -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 5,138 5,271 9,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.81% 41.27% 40.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,624 3,878 7,592
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,813 £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 £101,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £127,500
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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -14 32 £52,500 -36.36% 27
West London - 14 - - 4
South London +15 4 - -
East London -15 2 - - 2
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 (5.63%) Apache
2 11 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.90%) Confluence
4 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.60%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.73%) IIS
6 2 (0.87%) nginx
6 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) SPSS
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 129 (55.84%) AWS
2 103 (44.59%) Azure
3 69 (29.87%) GCP
4 38 (16.45%) GitHub
5 31 (13.42%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (12.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (11.69%) Entra ID
8 24 (10.39%) Google Workspace
9 21 (9.09%) SaaS
9 21 (9.09%) Serverless
9 21 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 19 (8.23%) Amazon S3
10 19 (8.23%) Datadog
11 18 (7.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (6.93%) Pulumi
13 14 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (5.19%) IaaS
15 12 (5.19%) PaaS
16 11 (4.76%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.58%) Broadband
2 35 (15.15%) DNS
3 27 (11.69%) Firewall
4 21 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.76%) Network Security
6 9 (3.90%) Wireless
7 8 (3.46%) DHCP
7 8 (3.46%) HTTPS
7 8 (3.46%) LAN
7 8 (3.46%) VPN
8 7 (3.03%) HTTP
9 5 (2.16%) IPv4
10 4 (1.73%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.30%) VLAN
11 3 (1.30%) WAN
12 2 (0.87%) Multicast
12 2 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.43%) NAS
13 1 (0.43%) Spanning Tree
13 1 (0.43%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.55%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.23%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.93%) RDBMS
4 12 (5.19%) BigQuery
5 11 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (4.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (4.33%) MySQL
7 9 (3.90%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (3.90%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (3.90%) Metadata
7 9 (3.90%) Tableau
8 7 (3.03%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.60%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.30%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database 11g
11 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database 12c
11 3 (1.30%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (0.87%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 48 (20.78%) Jenkins
2 47 (20.35%) GitLab
3 39 (16.88%) Git
4 22 (9.52%) Bitbucket
5 16 (6.93%) Jaeger
5 16 (6.93%) JIRA
6 13 (5.63%) Metasploit
7 11 (4.76%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.90%) Burp Suite
9 5 (2.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (2.16%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.30%) Postman
11 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.87%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.87%) JMeter
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.87%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.87%) Subversion
11 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 82 (35.50%) Finance
2 53 (22.94%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.42%) Banking
4 23 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (8.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.90%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.46%) Electronics
8 8 (3.46%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.60%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.60%) Marketing
9 6 (2.60%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.16%) Advertising
11 4 (1.73%) Automotive
11 4 (1.73%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.30%) Retail
13 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.87%) German Language
13 2 (0.87%) Legal
13 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (18.61%) DevOps Engineer
1 43 (18.61%) Senior
2 40 (17.32%) Cloud Engineer
3 37 (16.02%) Lead
4 27 (11.69%) Analyst
4 27 (11.69%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (9.52%) Security Engineer
6 20 (8.66%) GCP Engineer
7 18 (7.79%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (7.36%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (6.93%) Administrator
9 16 (6.93%) Linux Administrator
10 15 (6.49%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 14 (6.06%) Security Analyst
12 13 (5.63%) Data Engineer
12 13 (5.63%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 13 (5.63%) Systems Administrator
13 12 (5.19%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (5.19%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (5.19%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.72%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (9.96%) Kafka
3 21 (9.09%) OpenID
4 20 (8.66%) REST
4 20 (8.66%) SAML
5 19 (8.23%) OAuth
6 18 (7.79%) GraphQL
6 18 (7.79%) LDAP
6 18 (7.79%) SOAP
7 17 (7.36%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.60%) WebSockets
9 5 (2.16%) Node.js
10 4 (1.73%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.73%) Middleware
11 3 (1.30%) 802.1X
12 2 (0.87%) .NET
12 2 (0.87%) JSON
12 2 (0.87%) Loki
12 2 (0.87%) Vue
12 2 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.99%) Cyber Threat
1 30 (12.99%) Security Posture
2 20 (8.66%) Cloud Native
3 18 (7.79%) Cyberattack
4 15 (6.49%) Management Information System
5 14 (6.06%) Cyber Defence
6 12 (5.19%) Data Centre
6 12 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (4.76%) Hedge funds
8 10 (4.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (3.90%) Mobile App
10 8 (3.46%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.16%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.16%) PKI
12 4 (1.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.73%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (1.30%) Insider Threat
13 3 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 109 (47.19%) Linux
2 47 (20.35%) Windows
3 46 (19.91%) Unix
4 20 (8.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.63%) Windows Server
6 11 (4.76%) CentOS
7 8 (3.46%) Mac OS
8 7 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (2.16%) Ubuntu
9 5 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (1.73%) Kali Linux
10 4 (1.73%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.30%) AIX
11 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.30%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (1.30%) Rocky
12 1 (0.43%) Android
12 1 (0.43%) Solaris
12 1 (0.43%) SUSE
12 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (53.68%) DevOps
2 123 (53.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 120 (51.95%) CI/CD
4 72 (31.17%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (29.87%) Mentoring
6 64 (27.71%) Containerisation
7 55 (23.81%) Agile
8 51 (22.08%) High Availability
9 43 (18.61%) Roadmaps
10 42 (18.18%) Configuration Management
11 40 (17.32%) Incident Response
12 39 (16.88%) Cloud Security
13 34 (14.72%) Identity Access Management
14 32 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (13.85%) Cybersecurity
15 31 (13.42%) AI
16 30 (12.99%) Red Team
17 27 (11.69%) Performance Optimisation
18 25 (10.82%) Computer Science
18 25 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 199 (86.15%) Python
2 102 (44.16%) PowerShell
3 61 (26.41%) SQL
4 40 (17.32%) Java
5 38 (16.45%) Go
6 27 (11.69%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.79%) T-SQL
8 12 (5.19%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.90%) C#
10 8 (3.46%) C++
11 7 (3.03%) Bicep
11 7 (3.03%) Korn
11 7 (3.03%) Perl
12 6 (2.60%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.60%) Ruby
13 5 (2.16%) C
13 5 (2.16%) Rust
14 3 (1.30%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.30%) PHP
15 2 (0.87%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 42 (18.18%) Degree
2 29 (12.55%) AWS Certification
3 28 (12.12%) Security Cleared
4 24 (10.39%) OSCP
5 20 (8.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (7.79%) CISSP
7 12 (5.19%) CCSAM
7 12 (5.19%) CREST Certified
7 12 (5.19%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.76%) CCSK
8 11 (4.76%) RHCSA
9 9 (3.90%) CHECK Team Leader
9 9 (3.90%) CHECK Team Member
10 7 (3.03%) Azure Certification
10 7 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (3.03%) GCIH
10 7 (3.03%) ISTQB
11 6 (2.60%) GCIA
11 6 (2.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 25 (10.82%) NIST
2 18 (7.79%) NCSC
3 16 (6.93%) QA
3 16 (6.93%) SOC 2
4 15 (6.49%) GDPR
5 13 (5.63%) PCI DSS
6 10 (4.33%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.30%) SLA
9 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.43%) Basel III
10 1 (0.43%) GRC
10 1 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 82 (35.50%) Docker
2 36 (15.58%) Active Directory
3 20 (8.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.16%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.73%) Squid
5 4 (1.73%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.73%) vSphere
6 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.87%) KVM
7 1 (0.43%) Firmware
7 1 (0.43%) iptables
Systems Management
1 121 (52.38%) Terraform
2 104 (45.02%) Kubernetes
3 89 (38.53%) Ansible
4 51 (22.08%) Prometheus
5 35 (15.15%) Grafana
6 20 (8.66%) Nagios
7 19 (8.23%) Argo
8 16 (6.93%) Kustomize
9 10 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (3.90%) Nessus
11 6 (2.60%) Puppet
12 5 (2.16%) Data Guard
12 5 (2.16%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (2.16%) logstash
12 5 (2.16%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (2.16%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.73%) Kibana
13 4 (1.73%) Packer
13 4 (1.73%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (1.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 45 (19.48%) Google
2 32 (13.85%) Microsoft
3 30 (12.99%) Red Hat
4 23 (9.96%) VMware
5 21 (9.09%) Splunk
6 18 (7.79%) Oracle
7 8 (3.46%) Atlassian
7 8 (3.46%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.60%) Apple
8 6 (2.60%) SAP
9 5 (2.16%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.73%) Intel
10 4 (1.73%) TOWER Software
11 3 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.30%) IBM
11 3 (1.30%) Tenable
11 3 (1.30%) Varonis
12 2 (0.87%) Arista
12 2 (0.87%) Cisco
12 2 (0.87%) Veeam