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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 180 138
Rank change year-on-year +9 -42 -22
Permanent jobs citing Bash 221 284 433
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.55% 1.83% 2.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.10% 4.46% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 149 171 385
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,938 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £93,125 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 4,330 6,373 8,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.36% 41.07% 43.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,048 4,089 7,216
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +33 38 £43,500 -54.21% 34
West London - 8 £107,500 - 13
South London +41 2 - - 13
East London - 1 - - 14
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 8 (3.62%) Apache
1 8 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.71%) Confluence
3 5 (2.26%) IIS
3 5 (2.26%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) JBoss
5 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 93 (42.08%) AWS
2 69 (31.22%) Azure
3 52 (23.53%) GCP
4 40 (18.10%) GitHub
5 39 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (11.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (10.41%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (9.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (8.14%) SaaS
10 16 (7.24%) Amazon S3
10 16 (7.24%) Datadog
10 16 (7.24%) Google Compute Engine
10 16 (7.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (6.79%) Cloud Functions
11 15 (6.79%) Entra ID
11 15 (6.79%) OpenShift
12 14 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (6.33%) Cloud Run
12 14 (6.33%) Serverless
12 14 (6.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.76%) Firewall
2 20 (9.05%) Broadband
3 19 (8.60%) DNS
4 10 (4.52%) Network Security
5 9 (4.07%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.17%) Wireless
7 5 (2.26%) VPN
8 4 (1.81%) DHCP
8 4 (1.81%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.36%) HTTP
9 3 (1.36%) WAN
10 2 (0.90%) LAN
10 2 (0.90%) SSL
11 1 (0.45%) BGP
11 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.45%) FTP
11 1 (0.45%) OSPF
11 1 (0.45%) SNMP
11 1 (0.45%) TACACS
11 1 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.14%) NoSQL
2 16 (7.24%) BigQuery
3 15 (6.79%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.52%) RDBMS
5 8 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.62%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.17%) Amazon QuickSight
6 7 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.17%) Apache Iceberg
6 7 (3.17%) Metadata
6 7 (3.17%) MySQL
6 7 (3.17%) Tableau
7 6 (2.71%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.45%) Parquet
9 1 (0.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 49 (22.17%) Jenkins
2 30 (13.57%) Git
3 26 (11.76%) GitLab
4 23 (10.41%) JIRA
5 10 (4.52%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.52%) Burp Suite
5 10 (4.52%) Jaeger
5 10 (4.52%) Metasploit
6 5 (2.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.81%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.36%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.36%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.36%) JMeter
8 3 (1.36%) Maven
8 3 (1.36%) Robot Framework
8 3 (1.36%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.90%) Gradle
9 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.45%) IDA Disassembler
10 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 70 (31.67%) Finance
2 69 (31.22%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.14%) Telecoms
5 17 (7.69%) Banking
6 12 (5.43%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.17%) Electronics
9 5 (2.26%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.26%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.26%) Marketing
9 5 (2.26%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.26%) Retail
10 4 (1.81%) Back Office
10 4 (1.81%) Games
11 3 (1.36%) Advertising
11 3 (1.36%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.90%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (20.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (14.93%) Cloud Engineer
3 28 (12.67%) Platform Engineer
4 25 (11.31%) Lead
5 21 (9.50%) Automation Engineer
5 21 (9.50%) GCP Engineer
6 20 (9.05%) Security Engineer
6 20 (9.05%) Senior
6 20 (9.05%) Support Engineer
7 19 (8.60%) Analyst
8 18 (8.14%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (8.14%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (7.24%) Graduate
9 16 (7.24%) Technical Engineer
9 16 (7.24%) Technical Support
9 16 (7.24%) Technical Support Engineer
10 14 (6.33%) Graduate Support Engineer
10 14 (6.33%) Graduate Technical Engineer
10 14 (6.33%) Graduate Technical Support
10 14 (6.33%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.12%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (6.79%) Kafka
3 13 (5.88%) REST
4 12 (5.43%) OpenID
5 11 (4.98%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (4.52%) SAML
7 9 (4.07%) GraphQL
7 9 (4.07%) LDAP
7 9 (4.07%) OAuth
7 9 (4.07%) SOAP
8 6 (2.71%) YAML
9 5 (2.26%) Middleware
9 5 (2.26%) Node.js
10 4 (1.81%) .NET
10 4 (1.81%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.81%) RESTful
11 2 (0.90%) ARM Templates
11 2 (0.90%) AWS CDK
11 2 (0.90%) Loki
11 2 (0.90%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.86%) Management Information System
2 23 (10.41%) Security Posture
3 18 (8.14%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.52%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (4.07%) Cyberattack
7 8 (3.62%) Cyber Defence
8 7 (3.17%) Hedge funds
8 7 (3.17%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.26%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.26%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.81%) Blog
11 4 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.81%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.36%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 103 (46.61%) Linux
2 37 (16.74%) Windows
3 33 (14.93%) Unix
4 19 (8.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (4.52%) CentOS
5 10 (4.52%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.62%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.81%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.81%) Solaris
9 3 (1.36%) Debian
9 3 (1.36%) VMS
10 2 (0.90%) Android
11 1 (0.45%) AIX
11 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.45%) Rocky
11 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (55.20%) DevOps
2 113 (51.13%) CI/CD
3 99 (44.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (33.48%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (22.17%) Containerisation
6 45 (20.36%) Agile
7 42 (19.00%) Cloud Security
8 38 (17.19%) Mentoring
9 33 (14.93%) High Availability
10 30 (13.57%) Configuration Management
10 30 (13.57%) Machine Learning
11 27 (12.22%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (12.22%) Task Automation
12 25 (11.31%) AI
13 24 (10.86%) Incident Response
13 24 (10.86%) Observability
14 22 (9.95%) Infrastructure Automation
14 22 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 22 (9.95%) Performance Optimisation
14 22 (9.95%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 197 (89.14%) Python
2 96 (43.44%) PowerShell
3 39 (17.65%) Go
4 33 (14.93%) SQL
5 17 (7.69%) Java
6 14 (6.33%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.98%) Perl
8 10 (4.52%) Bicep
9 9 (4.07%) T-SQL
10 8 (3.62%) C#
11 6 (2.71%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.36%) C++
12 3 (1.36%) Groovy
12 3 (1.36%) Ruby
13 2 (0.90%) C
13 2 (0.90%) SystemVerilog
13 2 (0.90%) Tcl
14 1 (0.45%) Korn
14 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (25.34%) Degree
2 24 (10.86%) Security Cleared
3 21 (9.50%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (7.24%) DV Cleared
6 12 (5.43%) CISSP
7 8 (3.62%) OSCP
8 7 (3.17%) CCSAM
8 7 (3.17%) CCSK
8 7 (3.17%) CHECK Team Leader
8 7 (3.17%) CHECK Team Member
8 7 (3.17%) CREST Certified
9 5 (2.26%) GCIH
9 5 (2.26%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.81%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.36%) ISTQB
11 3 (1.36%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (11.76%) NIST
3 21 (9.50%) GDPR
4 14 (6.33%) Accessibility
5 9 (4.07%) NCSC
5 9 (4.07%) QA
6 8 (3.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (3.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (3.62%) Data Quality
6 8 (3.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (3.17%) SOC 2
8 6 (2.71%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.81%) GRC
10 1 (0.45%) Basel III
10 1 (0.45%) MiFID
System Software
1 70 (31.67%) Docker
2 24 (10.86%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.43%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.90%) KVM
6 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.45%) Firmware
6 1 (0.45%) iptables
6 1 (0.45%) Postfix
6 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 105 (47.51%) Terraform
2 94 (42.53%) Kubernetes
3 70 (31.67%) Ansible
4 48 (21.72%) Prometheus
5 28 (12.67%) Grafana
6 15 (6.79%) Argo
7 10 (4.52%) Kustomize
8 9 (4.07%) Nessus
8 9 (4.07%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (3.17%) Puppet
10 5 (2.26%) Nagios
10 5 (2.26%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.26%) Rancher
11 4 (1.81%) Cilium
11 4 (1.81%) logstash
11 4 (1.81%) vRealize
12 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.36%) Nmap
13 2 (0.90%) Podman
13 2 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (17.65%) Google
2 28 (12.67%) Red Hat
3 23 (10.41%) Microsoft
4 19 (8.60%) Splunk
5 18 (8.14%) VMware
6 12 (5.43%) Oracle
6 12 (5.43%) ServiceNow
6 12 (5.43%) Tenable
7 11 (4.98%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.71%) Rapid7
8 6 (2.71%) SAP
9 3 (1.36%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.90%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.90%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.90%) Carbon Black
10 2 (0.90%) Cisco
10 2 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.90%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.90%) Qualys
10 2 (0.90%) SolarWinds