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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 183 151
Rank change year-on-year -55 -32 -18
Permanent jobs citing Bash 220 227 420
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.85% 1.92% 2.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.02% 5.00% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 133 181 227
10th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £42,300
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -3.03%
75th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,250 £111,250 £114,100
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -3.70% +1.89% -6.03%

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 5,468 4,543 7,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.15% 38.44% 42.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,605 3,037 5,116
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £132,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -11 17 £87,500 +55.56% 35
West London -17 1 - - 9
North London - 1 £60,000 -
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 12 (5.45%) Confluence
2 9 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.27%) SAS
4 1 (0.45%) nginx
4 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.55%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.64%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.36%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 119 (54.09%) AWS
2 86 (39.09%) Azure
3 38 (17.27%) GCP
4 36 (16.36%) Amazon EKS
5 35 (15.91%) Serverless
6 32 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (14.09%) GitHub
8 29 (13.18%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (10.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (9.55%) SaaS
12 20 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
12 20 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (9.09%) Entra ID
13 19 (8.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (7.73%) Azure AKS
14 17 (7.73%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (7.27%) Datadog
16 15 (6.82%) Amazon S3
17 14 (6.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 31 (14.09%) TCP/IP
2 30 (13.64%) Network Security
3 29 (13.18%) Firewall
4 23 (10.45%) DNS
5 18 (8.18%) VPN
6 15 (6.82%) DHCP
7 8 (3.64%) BGP
7 8 (3.64%) FIX Connectivity
8 7 (3.18%) VLAN
9 6 (2.73%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (2.27%) HTTP
10 5 (2.27%) SSH
11 4 (1.82%) Kerberos
11 4 (1.82%) LAN
11 4 (1.82%) NAS
11 4 (1.82%) OSPF
12 3 (1.36%) IPv4
12 3 (1.36%) MPLS
12 3 (1.36%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.73%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (5.91%) MySQL
3 13 (5.91%) Redis
3 13 (5.91%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (5.00%) Oracle Database
5 9 (4.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.27%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.45%) Big Data
9 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.45%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 44 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 34 (15.45%) Git
2 34 (15.45%) GitLab
3 16 (7.27%) JIRA
4 12 (5.45%) TeamCity
5 8 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.36%) JMeter
7 3 (1.36%) Postman
7 3 (1.36%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.36%) Subversion
8 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.91%) NUnit
9 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.45%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.45%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.45%) Maven
9 1 (0.45%) Snyk
9 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 89 (40.45%) Finance
2 66 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 49 (22.27%) Banking
4 32 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.36%) Public Sector
6 22 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (6.82%) Law
8 13 (5.91%) Retail
9 6 (2.73%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.73%) Automotive
10 4 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.36%) Back Office
11 3 (1.36%) Electronics
11 3 (1.36%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.36%) Public Speaking
12 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.91%) Legal
12 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (24.55%) Senior
2 43 (19.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (16.36%) Platform Engineer
4 24 (10.91%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (9.55%) Analyst
6 17 (7.73%) Security Engineer
7 16 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (6.82%) Administrator
8 15 (6.82%) Consultant
8 15 (6.82%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (6.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 14 (6.36%) Security Consultant
9 14 (6.36%) Senior Security Consultant
10 13 (5.91%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (5.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.91%) Linux Administrator
10 13 (5.91%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 13 (5.91%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (55.45%) Terraform
2 19 (8.64%) Elastic Stack
3 18 (8.18%) AWS CDK
4 14 (6.36%) Kafka
5 12 (5.45%) SAML
6 10 (4.55%) Keycloak
7 9 (4.09%) OpenTelemetry
8 8 (3.64%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (3.64%) RESTful
9 7 (3.18%) REST
10 6 (2.73%) Node.js
11 5 (2.27%) .NET
11 5 (2.27%) Middleware
11 5 (2.27%) OpenMP
11 5 (2.27%) Pulumi
11 5 (2.27%) YAML
12 4 (1.82%) Pandas
12 4 (1.82%) React
12 4 (1.82%) WebSockets
13 3 (1.36%) OpenACC
Miscellaneous
1 48 (21.82%) Cloud Native
2 35 (15.91%) Onboarding
3 15 (6.82%) Enterprise Cloud
3 15 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (4.55%) Replication
6 8 (3.64%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.64%) Eurex
6 8 (3.64%) Hedge funds
6 8 (3.64%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.73%) Blog
7 6 (2.73%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.73%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.27%) CUDA
9 4 (1.82%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.36%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.36%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 108 (49.09%) Linux
2 40 (18.18%) Windows
3 34 (15.45%) Unix
4 19 (8.64%) CentOS
5 18 (8.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (5.91%) Rocky
6 13 (5.91%) Windows Server
7 10 (4.55%) AIX
7 10 (4.55%) Mac OS
7 10 (4.55%) Oracle Linux
8 9 (4.09%) Ubuntu
9 7 (3.18%) Apple iOS
9 7 (3.18%) Windows 10
10 5 (2.27%) Solaris
10 5 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.91%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.91%) Android
12 1 (0.45%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (55.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 109 (49.55%) CI/CD
3 100 (45.45%) DevOps
4 57 (25.91%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (25.45%) Platform Engineering
6 53 (24.09%) Cloud Security
7 49 (22.27%) Containerisation
8 44 (20.00%) Observability
9 43 (19.55%) AI
10 40 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 39 (17.73%) ITIL
12 38 (17.27%) Incident Response
13 36 (16.36%) Infrastructure Automation
13 36 (16.36%) Mentoring
14 33 (15.00%) Agile
15 31 (14.09%) Identity Access Management
16 30 (13.64%) Runbook
17 28 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
18 27 (12.27%) Security Architecture
18 27 (12.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 194 (88.18%) Python
2 94 (42.73%) PowerShell
3 47 (21.36%) Java
4 42 (19.09%) SQL
5 23 (10.45%) Perl
6 22 (10.00%) Ruby
7 20 (9.09%) Go
8 16 (7.27%) Shell Script
9 15 (6.82%) JavaScript
10 14 (6.36%) PHP
11 11 (5.00%) Bicep
11 11 (5.00%) Korn
11 11 (5.00%) PL/SQL
12 10 (4.55%) C#
12 10 (4.55%) Groovy
13 9 (4.09%) Rust
14 7 (3.18%) VBA
15 6 (2.73%) C
16 2 (0.91%) C++
16 2 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 31 (14.09%) Degree
3 22 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 20 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (6.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (6.82%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.64%) OSCP
7 7 (3.18%) CISSP
7 7 (3.18%) GIAC
7 7 (3.18%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (3.18%) RHCSA
8 6 (2.73%) A+ Certification
8 6 (2.73%) ISTQB
9 5 (2.27%) GCFA
9 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.82%) CCNA
10 4 (1.82%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.27%) QA
2 10 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.64%) NIST
4 7 (3.18%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.73%) PMO
6 5 (2.27%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.91%) NCSC
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.45%) GDPR
8 1 (0.45%) IASME
8 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (34.55%) Docker
2 27 (12.27%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.55%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.73%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (2.73%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.82%) vSphere
8 3 (1.36%) Squid
9 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 93 (42.27%) Kubernetes
2 58 (26.36%) Grafana
3 57 (25.91%) Ansible
4 52 (23.64%) Prometheus
5 24 (10.91%) Nagios
6 20 (9.09%) Argo
7 13 (5.91%) Rancher
8 12 (5.45%) Data Guard
9 11 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (4.09%) Packer
11 8 (3.64%) Puppet
12 6 (2.73%) Rundeck
12 6 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (2.27%) Istio
14 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (1.82%) ZABBIX
15 3 (1.36%) Cilium
15 3 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (1.36%) Proxmox
15 3 (1.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (23.18%) Microsoft
2 37 (16.82%) Splunk
3 32 (14.55%) Oracle
4 27 (12.27%) Red Hat
5 19 (8.64%) ServiceNow
6 17 (7.73%) Google
7 16 (7.27%) Dynatrace
7 16 (7.27%) VMware
8 10 (4.55%) IBM
9 8 (3.64%) Atlassian
9 8 (3.64%) Bloomberg
9 8 (3.64%) CQG
9 8 (3.64%) ION Trading
9 8 (3.64%) Patsystems
9 8 (3.64%) Reuters
9 8 (3.64%) Trayport
10 7 (3.18%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (3.18%) Rapid7
11 6 (2.73%) Cognizant
11 6 (2.73%) New Relic