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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 164 130
Rank change year-on-year -16 -34 -7
Permanent jobs citing Bash 222 341 504
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.88% 1.93% 2.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.01% 4.54% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 177 220 433
10th Percentile £48,250 £42,825 £54,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,625 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -6.06% +6.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,750 £113,650 £110,000
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 4,434 7,514 9,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.53% 42.64% 45.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,954 4,981 7,929
10th Percentile £48,575 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +28 36 £57,500 -28.13% 65
East London - 1 - - 9
West London - 1 £107,500 - 8
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 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.70%) nginx
2 6 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.25%) Apache
4 4 (1.80%) Traefik
5 3 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.35%) Confluence
5 3 (1.35%) JBoss
5 3 (1.35%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.45%) CICS
7 1 (0.45%) IIS
7 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 99 (44.59%) AWS
2 68 (30.63%) Azure
3 33 (14.86%) GCP
4 26 (11.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 23 (10.36%) GitHub
6 22 (9.91%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (8.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (8.56%) SaaS
8 17 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (7.66%) Slack
9 16 (7.21%) IaaS
10 13 (5.86%) Serverless
11 11 (4.95%) PaaS
12 10 (4.50%) Amazon S3
12 10 (4.50%) Datadog
12 10 (4.50%) OpenShift
13 9 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (3.15%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 33 (14.86%) Firewall
2 15 (6.76%) DNS
3 14 (6.31%) Network Security
4 11 (4.95%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.95%) VPN
5 7 (3.15%) BGP
5 7 (3.15%) OSPF
6 5 (2.25%) MPLS
6 5 (2.25%) WAN
7 4 (1.80%) DHCP
7 4 (1.80%) ICMP
7 4 (1.80%) LAN
7 4 (1.80%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.35%) HTTP
8 3 (1.35%) Multicast
9 2 (0.90%) NAS
9 2 (0.90%) SAN
9 2 (0.90%) SNMP
9 2 (0.90%) SSL
9 2 (0.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.66%) Relational Database
2 10 (4.50%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.05%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (3.15%) BigQuery
4 7 (3.15%) MySQL
5 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.45%) Big Data
7 1 (0.45%) DB2
7 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.45%) KDB
7 1 (0.45%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.45%) Parquet
7 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (19.82%) Git
2 37 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.26%) JIRA
4 22 (9.91%) GitLab
5 7 (3.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (2.25%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.25%) Burp Suite
6 5 (2.25%) Maven
6 5 (2.25%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.35%) Ant
7 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.90%) CMake
8 2 (0.90%) Gradle
8 2 (0.90%) MLflow
8 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.45%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.45%) TestRail
General
1 97 (43.69%) Social Skills
2 86 (38.74%) Finance
3 28 (12.61%) Banking
4 25 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.21%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (6.76%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (6.31%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.25%) Law
10 4 (1.80%) Electronics
10 4 (1.80%) Games
11 3 (1.35%) Back Office
11 3 (1.35%) Retail
12 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.90%) Marketing
12 2 (0.90%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (20.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (12.61%) Platform Engineer
3 23 (10.36%) Automation Engineer
3 23 (10.36%) Linux Engineer
3 23 (10.36%) Support Engineer
4 20 (9.01%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (8.56%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (7.21%) Analyst
6 16 (7.21%) Security Engineer
7 15 (6.76%) Administrator
7 15 (6.76%) Graduate
8 14 (6.31%) AWS DevOps
8 14 (6.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 13 (5.86%) Graduate Support Engineer
9 13 (5.86%) Graduate Technical Engineer
9 13 (5.86%) Graduate Technical Support
9 13 (5.86%) Lead
9 13 (5.86%) Senior
9 13 (5.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 13 (5.86%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.56%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (6.76%) .NET
3 13 (5.86%) YAML
4 10 (4.50%) FIX Protocol
4 10 (4.50%) Kafka
5 8 (3.60%) Jinja
6 7 (3.15%) Node.js
6 7 (3.15%) RESTful
7 5 (2.25%) Loki
8 3 (1.35%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.35%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.35%) LAMP
8 3 (1.35%) Middleware
8 3 (1.35%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.35%) REST
8 3 (1.35%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.90%) LAPP Stack
9 2 (0.90%) Pandas
9 2 (0.90%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.90%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.91%) Management Information System
2 18 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.21%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.86%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.95%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (2.25%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.25%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.80%) Mobile Banking
9 4 (1.80%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.35%) Clustering
10 3 (1.35%) Replication
11 2 (0.90%) Blog
11 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.90%) Verilog
11 2 (0.90%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 111 (50.00%) Linux
2 27 (12.16%) Windows
3 25 (11.26%) Unix
4 18 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.95%) CentOS
6 5 (2.25%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.25%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.80%) Solaris
7 4 (1.80%) VMS
8 3 (1.35%) Debian
9 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.45%) AIX
10 1 (0.45%) Android
10 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.45%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (54.95%) DevOps
2 120 (54.05%) CI/CD
3 88 (39.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (18.47%) Containerisation
6 32 (14.41%) Platform Engineering
7 29 (13.06%) Software Engineering
8 27 (12.16%) Agile
9 25 (11.26%) Cloud Security
10 24 (10.81%) High Availability
10 24 (10.81%) Mentoring
11 23 (10.36%) Configuration Management
11 23 (10.36%) Vulnerability Management
12 22 (9.91%) Machine Learning
12 22 (9.91%) Observability
12 22 (9.91%) Security Hardening
12 22 (9.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (9.46%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (8.56%) Infrastructure Automation
14 19 (8.56%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 198 (89.19%) Python
2 90 (40.54%) PowerShell
3 41 (18.47%) Go
4 33 (14.86%) SQL
5 17 (7.66%) Perl
6 12 (5.41%) Java
7 8 (3.60%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.60%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.15%) C#
9 6 (2.70%) Groovy
10 5 (2.25%) Bicep
10 5 (2.25%) C++
11 3 (1.35%) Ruby
11 3 (1.35%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.90%) C
12 2 (0.90%) C-shell
12 2 (0.90%) PHP
12 2 (0.90%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (0.90%) Tcl
13 1 (0.45%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 48 (21.62%) Degree
2 18 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.95%) DV Cleared
3 11 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.05%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.25%) CCNA
7 5 (2.25%) CCNP
8 4 (1.80%) CISSP
9 3 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.35%) CCSP
9 3 (1.35%) GCIH
9 3 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.35%) OSCP
9 3 (1.35%) RHCE
9 3 (1.35%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.90%) CHECK Team Leader
10 2 (0.90%) CHECK Team Member
10 2 (0.90%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.96%) GDPR
2 26 (11.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (9.91%) NIST
4 17 (7.66%) Accessibility
5 15 (6.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (3.15%) GRC
7 6 (2.70%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.25%) QA
9 3 (1.35%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.35%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (22.52%) Docker
2 16 (7.21%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (5.86%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.25%) zsh
5 4 (1.80%) KVM
6 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.90%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.90%) Xen
7 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.45%) Corosync
7 1 (0.45%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.45%) Postfix
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 80 (36.04%) Terraform
2 72 (32.43%) Kubernetes
3 60 (27.03%) Ansible
4 39 (17.57%) Grafana
5 32 (14.41%) Prometheus
6 15 (6.76%) Red Hat Satellite
7 11 (4.95%) Nagios
8 7 (3.15%) Puppet
9 6 (2.70%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.80%) Argo
10 4 (1.80%) Nessus
10 4 (1.80%) Podman
10 4 (1.80%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.80%) Rancher
10 4 (1.80%) vRealize
11 3 (1.35%) Nmap
11 3 (1.35%) QRadar
12 2 (0.90%) CFEngine
12 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (16.22%) Red Hat
2 26 (11.71%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.66%) VMware
4 15 (6.76%) ServiceNow
4 15 (6.76%) Tenable
5 13 (5.86%) Google
5 13 (5.86%) Splunk
6 11 (4.95%) Atlassian
7 9 (4.05%) SolarWinds
8 8 (3.60%) Databricks
9 6 (2.70%) Oracle
10 5 (2.25%) Hitachi
10 5 (2.25%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.35%) Citrix
11 3 (1.35%) Cribl.io
11 3 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.35%) Qualys
11 3 (1.35%) SAP
11 3 (1.35%) Sonatype
12 2 (0.90%) IBM