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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 180 121
Rank change year-on-year -1 -59 0
Permanent jobs citing Bash 229 322 488
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.79% 1.86% 2.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.99% 4.40% 5.70%
Number of salaries quoted 180 203 419
10th Percentile £47,025 £42,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,125 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.03% +8.32%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 4,591 7,324 8,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.87% 42.22% 45.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,017 4,809 7,449
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 13 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 13 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 +36 37 £62,500 -21.88% 92
West London - 2 £107,500 - 4
South London +24 1 - - 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 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.62%) Confluence
2 6 (2.62%) nginx
2 6 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.75%) IIS
3 4 (1.75%) Traefik
4 3 (1.31%) Apache
4 3 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.31%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.87%) JBoss
5 2 (0.87%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 105 (45.85%) AWS
2 73 (31.88%) Azure
3 42 (18.34%) GCP
4 30 (13.10%) AWS CloudFormation
4 30 (13.10%) GitHub
5 29 (12.66%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (9.17%) SaaS
7 20 (8.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (7.86%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (7.42%) Slack
11 16 (6.99%) IaaS
12 14 (6.11%) Serverless
13 13 (5.68%) Datadog
14 12 (5.24%) OpenShift
15 10 (4.37%) PaaS
16 9 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (3.93%) Amazon S3
16 9 (3.93%) Google Compute Engine
16 9 (3.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (16.16%) Firewall
2 18 (7.86%) DNS
3 15 (6.55%) Network Security
4 12 (5.24%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.37%) VPN
6 6 (2.62%) BGP
6 6 (2.62%) OSPF
7 4 (1.75%) DHCP
7 4 (1.75%) ICMP
7 4 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.75%) MPLS
7 4 (1.75%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.75%) WAN
8 3 (1.31%) Broadband
8 3 (1.31%) LAN
8 3 (1.31%) Multicast
9 2 (0.87%) HTTP
9 2 (0.87%) NAS
9 2 (0.87%) SNMP
9 2 (0.87%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.42%) Relational Database
2 13 (5.68%) NoSQL
2 13 (5.68%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.93%) BigQuery
4 8 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.06%) MySQL
6 6 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.75%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.44%) Big Data
9 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.44%) KDB
9 1 (0.44%) Looker
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.44%) Parquet
9 1 (0.44%) Power BI
9 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 42 (18.34%) Jenkins
2 38 (16.59%) Git
3 27 (11.79%) GitLab
4 26 (11.35%) JIRA
5 6 (2.62%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (2.18%) Burp Suite
6 5 (2.18%) Metasploit
7 4 (1.75%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.75%) Maven
7 4 (1.75%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.87%) Ant
9 2 (0.87%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.87%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.87%) Gradle
9 2 (0.87%) JMeter
9 2 (0.87%) MLflow
9 2 (0.87%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
General
1 99 (43.23%) Social Skills
2 90 (39.30%) Finance
3 30 (13.10%) Banking
4 25 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.42%) Telecoms
6 16 (6.99%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (6.55%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.18%) Back Office
9 5 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.18%) Electronics
9 5 (2.18%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.18%) Law
9 5 (2.18%) Retail
10 4 (1.75%) Games
11 3 (1.31%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.31%) Marketing
11 3 (1.31%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (20.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (13.54%) Platform Engineer
3 24 (10.48%) Support Engineer
4 23 (10.04%) Automation Engineer
5 22 (9.61%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (8.73%) Linux Engineer
7 19 (8.30%) Security Engineer
8 18 (7.86%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (7.42%) Analyst
9 17 (7.42%) Graduate
10 15 (6.55%) Graduate Support Engineer
10 15 (6.55%) Graduate Technical Engineer
10 15 (6.55%) Graduate Technical Support
10 15 (6.55%) Technical Engineer
10 15 (6.55%) Technical Support
10 15 (6.55%) Technical Support Engineer
11 14 (6.11%) Lead
11 14 (6.11%) Senior
12 12 (5.24%) Administrator
12 12 (5.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.17%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (6.11%) .NET
3 13 (5.68%) Kafka
3 13 (5.68%) YAML
4 11 (4.80%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (3.49%) Jinja
6 7 (3.06%) Node.js
7 6 (2.62%) RESTful
8 5 (2.18%) Middleware
9 4 (1.75%) Loki
9 4 (1.75%) REST
10 3 (1.31%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.31%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.31%) PyTorch
10 3 (1.31%) TensorFlow
11 2 (0.87%) AWS CDK
11 2 (0.87%) Google JAX
11 2 (0.87%) Hugging Face
11 2 (0.87%) JAX
11 2 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.61%) Management Information System
2 21 (9.17%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.55%) Public Cloud
4 14 (6.11%) Security Posture
5 10 (4.37%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.62%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (2.18%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.75%) Blog
9 4 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.75%) Mobile Banking
9 4 (1.75%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.31%) Clustering
10 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.31%) Replication
11 2 (0.87%) Verilog
11 2 (0.87%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 110 (48.03%) Linux
2 33 (14.41%) Windows
3 27 (11.79%) Unix
4 17 (7.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.80%) CentOS
6 9 (3.93%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.49%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.18%) Solaris
9 4 (1.75%) VMS
9 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.31%) Debian
10 3 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.44%) AIX
11 1 (0.44%) Android
11 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (55.46%) CI/CD
2 126 (55.02%) DevOps
3 100 (43.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (31.44%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (20.96%) Containerisation
6 35 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
7 30 (13.10%) Agile
8 29 (12.66%) Cloud Security
9 28 (12.23%) Configuration Management
10 26 (11.35%) High Availability
10 26 (11.35%) Mentoring
10 26 (11.35%) Software Engineering
11 25 (10.92%) Machine Learning
11 25 (10.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 24 (10.48%) Vulnerability Management
13 23 (10.04%) Security Hardening
14 22 (9.61%) Disaster Recovery
14 22 (9.61%) Observability
15 21 (9.17%) Infrastructure Automation
15 21 (9.17%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 206 (89.96%) Python
2 98 (42.79%) PowerShell
3 43 (18.78%) Go
4 36 (15.72%) SQL
5 15 (6.55%) Perl
6 11 (4.80%) Java
7 8 (3.49%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.49%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.62%) C#
9 5 (2.18%) Bicep
9 5 (2.18%) Groovy
10 4 (1.75%) C++
10 4 (1.75%) Ruby
11 2 (0.87%) PHP
11 2 (0.87%) SystemVerilog
11 2 (0.87%) Tcl
11 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.44%) Bourne shell
12 1 (0.44%) C-shell
12 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (23.14%) Degree
2 20 (8.73%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.68%) AWS Certification
3 13 (5.68%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.37%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.18%) CISSP
8 4 (1.75%) CCNA
8 4 (1.75%) CCNP
9 3 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.31%) CCSP
9 3 (1.31%) GCIH
9 3 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.31%) OSCP
9 3 (1.31%) RHCE
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.87%) CCSAM
10 2 (0.87%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.10%) GDPR
1 30 (13.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (10.48%) NIST
3 17 (7.42%) Accessibility
4 13 (5.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (3.93%) GRC
6 7 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (2.62%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.18%) PCI DSS
8 5 (2.18%) QA
8 5 (2.18%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.87%) SLA
10 1 (0.44%) Basel III
10 1 (0.44%) MiFID
10 1 (0.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 58 (25.33%) Docker
2 18 (7.86%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.99%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (6.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.18%) zsh
5 4 (1.75%) KVM
6 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.87%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.44%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.44%) Corosync
7 1 (0.44%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.44%) Postfix
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 91 (39.74%) Terraform
2 82 (35.81%) Kubernetes
3 67 (29.26%) Ansible
4 39 (17.03%) Grafana
5 35 (15.28%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.68%) Red Hat Satellite
7 9 (3.93%) Nagios
8 7 (3.06%) Puppet
9 6 (2.62%) HAProxy
9 6 (2.62%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.18%) Argo
11 4 (1.75%) Cilium
11 4 (1.75%) Nessus
11 4 (1.75%) Rancher
11 4 (1.75%) vRealize
12 3 (1.31%) Nmap
12 3 (1.31%) Podman
12 3 (1.31%) QRadar
13 2 (0.87%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.87%) linkerd
Vendors
1 36 (15.72%) Red Hat
2 26 (11.35%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.73%) VMware
4 16 (6.99%) Atlassian
4 16 (6.99%) Google
4 16 (6.99%) Splunk
5 15 (6.55%) ServiceNow
5 15 (6.55%) Tenable
6 10 (4.37%) Oracle
7 8 (3.49%) Databricks
8 6 (2.62%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.18%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.75%) Hitachi
10 4 (1.75%) SAP
11 3 (1.31%) Citrix
11 3 (1.31%) Cribl.io
11 3 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.31%) Qualys
11 3 (1.31%) Sonatype
12 2 (0.87%) Carbon Black