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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 202 169
Rank change year-on-year +12 -33 -34
Permanent jobs citing Bash 226 225 400
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.36% 1.64% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.87% 3.95% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 123 166 358
10th Percentile £43,000 £47,875 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £104,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -10.00%

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 4,636 5,697 9,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.98% 41.57% 41.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,257 3,977 7,747
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £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 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +12 35 £56,250 -31.82% 14
West London - 14 - - 2
South London +38 4 - -
East London -11 2 - - 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 12 (5.31%) Apache
1 12 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.65%) Confluence
2 6 (2.65%) Tomcat
3 5 (2.21%) IIS
4 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.44%) nginx
5 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 107 (47.35%) AWS
2 90 (39.82%) Azure
3 68 (30.09%) GCP
4 37 (16.37%) GitHub
5 34 (15.04%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (12.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (11.06%) SaaS
8 24 (10.62%) Entra ID
9 22 (9.73%) Google Workspace
10 20 (8.85%) Serverless
11 19 (8.41%) Datadog
12 18 (7.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (7.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (7.08%) Amazon S3
13 16 (7.08%) Pulumi
14 14 (6.19%) Google Compute Engine
15 13 (5.75%) IaaS
15 13 (5.75%) PaaS
16 12 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (5.31%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.93%) Broadband
2 30 (13.27%) DNS
3 29 (12.83%) Firewall
4 20 (8.85%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.98%) Wireless
6 7 (3.10%) DHCP
6 7 (3.10%) HTTPS
6 7 (3.10%) LAN
6 7 (3.10%) Network Security
7 6 (2.65%) HTTP
8 5 (2.21%) VPN
9 4 (1.77%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.33%) WAN
11 2 (0.88%) SSL
11 2 (0.88%) VLAN
12 1 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.44%) SAN
12 1 (0.44%) SSH
12 1 (0.44%) TACACS
12 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.27%) NoSQL
2 18 (7.96%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.08%) RDBMS
4 15 (6.64%) BigQuery
5 11 (4.87%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (3.98%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (3.98%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (3.98%) Metadata
7 9 (3.98%) Tableau
8 8 (3.54%) MySQL
9 7 (3.10%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.65%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.77%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.88%) Big Data
12 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
12 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 45 (19.91%) Jenkins
2 32 (14.16%) Git
3 31 (13.72%) GitLab
4 22 (9.73%) JIRA
5 17 (7.52%) Bitbucket
6 16 (7.08%) Jaeger
7 13 (5.75%) Metasploit
8 9 (3.98%) Burp Suite
8 9 (3.98%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (2.21%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.77%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.33%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.33%) JMeter
11 3 (1.33%) Postman
11 3 (1.33%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.88%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.88%) Gradle
12 2 (0.88%) Maven
13 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
General
1 79 (34.96%) Finance
2 65 (28.76%) Social Skills
3 27 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.06%) Banking
5 21 (9.29%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.75%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.65%) Electronics
10 6 (2.65%) Marketing
10 6 (2.65%) Retail
11 5 (2.21%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.77%) Back Office
12 4 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.77%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.33%) Advertising
14 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.88%) Legal
15 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (18.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (16.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 34 (15.04%) Senior
4 32 (14.16%) Lead
5 25 (11.06%) Analyst
6 22 (9.73%) GCP Engineer
7 21 (9.29%) AWS Engineer
7 21 (9.29%) Security Engineer
8 18 (7.96%) Azure Engineer
8 18 (7.96%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (7.52%) Automation Engineer
10 16 (7.08%) Administrator
10 16 (7.08%) Linux Administrator
11 15 (6.64%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 15 (6.64%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 12 (5.31%) Security Analyst
12 12 (5.31%) Support Engineer
13 11 (4.87%) Data Engineer
13 11 (4.87%) GCP DevOps
13 11 (4.87%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.81%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (10.18%) Kafka
3 21 (9.29%) OpenID
3 21 (9.29%) REST
4 19 (8.41%) SAML
5 18 (7.96%) GraphQL
5 18 (7.96%) LDAP
5 18 (7.96%) OAuth
5 18 (7.96%) SOAP
6 17 (7.52%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.21%) Node.js
7 5 (2.21%) WebSockets
7 5 (2.21%) YAML
8 4 (1.77%) Middleware
9 3 (1.33%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (0.88%) .NET
10 2 (0.88%) AWS SAM
10 2 (0.88%) JSON
10 2 (0.88%) Pandas
10 2 (0.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.50%) Cyber Threat
2 25 (11.06%) Security Posture
3 20 (8.85%) Management Information System
4 18 (7.96%) Cyberattack
5 17 (7.52%) Cloud Native
6 14 (6.19%) Cyber Defence
6 14 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (4.87%) Hedge funds
8 9 (3.98%) Mobile App
9 8 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (3.54%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.21%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.77%) Blog
12 4 (1.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.77%) PKI
13 3 (1.33%) Insider Threat
14 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 104 (46.02%) Linux
2 50 (22.12%) Unix
3 41 (18.14%) Windows
4 22 (9.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.87%) CentOS
6 9 (3.98%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.54%) Ubuntu
8 7 (3.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (2.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (2.21%) Mac OS
10 5 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (1.77%) Kali Linux
12 3 (1.33%) AIX
12 3 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.88%) Android
13 2 (0.88%) Rocky
14 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.44%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.44%) Solaris
14 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (52.21%) DevOps
2 111 (49.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 110 (48.67%) CI/CD
4 78 (34.51%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (26.55%) Containerisation
5 60 (26.55%) Mentoring
6 52 (23.01%) Agile
7 48 (21.24%) High Availability
8 41 (18.14%) Configuration Management
9 40 (17.70%) Incident Response
10 39 (17.26%) Roadmaps
11 36 (15.93%) Identity Access Management
12 34 (15.04%) Cloud Security
13 31 (13.72%) AI
14 29 (12.83%) Continuous Integration
15 28 (12.39%) Performance Optimisation
16 27 (11.95%) Cybersecurity
17 26 (11.50%) Computer Science
17 26 (11.50%) Red Team
17 26 (11.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 195 (86.28%) Python
2 97 (42.92%) PowerShell
3 59 (26.11%) SQL
4 42 (18.58%) Go
5 28 (12.39%) Java
6 24 (10.62%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.96%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.87%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.54%) Bicep
10 7 (3.10%) C#
11 6 (2.65%) Korn
12 5 (2.21%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.77%) Perl
13 4 (1.77%) Ruby
14 3 (1.33%) C++
14 3 (1.33%) PHP
15 2 (0.88%) C
15 2 (0.88%) SystemVerilog
15 2 (0.88%) Tcl
16 1 (0.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 50 (22.12%) Degree
2 24 (10.62%) AWS Certification
3 22 (9.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (9.29%) Security Cleared
5 16 (7.08%) CISSP
6 14 (6.19%) OSCP
7 13 (5.75%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.87%) CCSK
9 9 (3.98%) CCSAM
9 9 (3.98%) CHECK Team Leader
9 9 (3.98%) CHECK Team Member
9 9 (3.98%) CREST Certified
10 6 (2.65%) RHCSA
11 5 (2.21%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.21%) GCIH
12 4 (1.77%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.77%) GCIA
12 4 (1.77%) GIAC
12 4 (1.77%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.77%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (14.16%) NIST
3 18 (7.96%) NCSC
4 16 (7.08%) GDPR
5 15 (6.64%) SOC 2
6 14 (6.19%) PCI DSS
7 13 (5.75%) QA
8 11 (4.87%) Data Quality
9 9 (3.98%) Accessibility
10 5 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.77%) GRC
12 2 (0.88%) SLA
13 1 (0.44%) Basel III
13 1 (0.44%) MiFID
13 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 76 (33.63%) Docker
2 32 (14.16%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.77%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.33%) KVM
7 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.44%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.44%) Firmware
8 1 (0.44%) iptables
8 1 (0.44%) Postfix
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 108 (47.79%) Terraform
2 101 (44.69%) Kubernetes
3 84 (37.17%) Ansible
4 56 (24.78%) Prometheus
5 32 (14.16%) Grafana
6 20 (8.85%) Argo
7 16 (7.08%) Kustomize
8 14 (6.19%) Nagios
9 9 (3.98%) Nessus
10 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (2.65%) Puppet
11 4 (1.77%) Cilium
11 4 (1.77%) Data Guard
11 4 (1.77%) logstash
11 4 (1.77%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.77%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.77%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.88%) Kibana
12 2 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (20.80%) Google
2 24 (10.62%) Red Hat
3 22 (9.73%) Microsoft
4 20 (8.85%) VMware
5 18 (7.96%) Splunk
6 15 (6.64%) Oracle
7 10 (4.42%) Atlassian
8 9 (3.98%) Tenable
9 8 (3.54%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.65%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.21%) SAP
12 3 (1.33%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.33%) IBM
12 3 (1.33%) TOWER Software
13 2 (0.88%) Apple
13 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.88%) BT
13 2 (0.88%) Cisco
13 2 (0.88%) Intel
13 2 (0.88%) Rapid7