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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 183 132
Rank change year-on-year -67 -51 +3
Permanent jobs citing Bash 219 233 493
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.87% 1.97% 2.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.97% 5.02% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 136 189 230
10th Percentile £48,750 £39,700 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,875 £111,500 £112,600
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -9.72%

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 5,516 4,643 7,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.80% 39.20% 41.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,704 3,131 5,307
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £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 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -20 17 £90,000 +56.52% 20
West London -15 1 - - 12
North London - 1 £60,000 - 1
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 13 (5.94%) Confluence
2 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.28%) SAS
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) nginx
4 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.91%) SPSS
3 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.57%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.65%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.37%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 120 (54.79%) AWS
2 85 (38.81%) Azure
3 37 (16.89%) Serverless
4 34 (15.53%) AWS Lambda
5 33 (15.07%) Amazon EKS
6 31 (14.16%) Amazon ECS
6 31 (14.16%) GCP
6 31 (14.16%) GitHub
7 26 (11.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (11.42%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (9.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (9.13%) Amazon EventBridge
10 20 (9.13%) Entra ID
11 17 (7.76%) Amazon S3
11 17 (7.76%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (7.76%) Datadog
11 17 (7.76%) SaaS
12 16 (7.31%) Azure AKS
13 15 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.24%) Firewall
2 28 (12.79%) Network Security
3 26 (11.87%) TCP/IP
4 23 (10.50%) DNS
5 15 (6.85%) DHCP
5 15 (6.85%) VPN
6 8 (3.65%) FIX Connectivity
7 6 (2.74%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (2.28%) BGP
8 5 (2.28%) HTTP
8 5 (2.28%) IPv4
8 5 (2.28%) SSH
9 4 (1.83%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.83%) LAN
9 4 (1.83%) NAS
9 4 (1.83%) OSPF
9 4 (1.83%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (1.83%) VLAN
10 3 (1.37%) MPLS
11 2 (0.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
1 15 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.94%) Redis
3 12 (5.48%) Oracle Database
3 12 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.02%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (5.02%) MySQL
5 9 (4.11%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.37%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.91%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.46%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 46 (21.00%) Jenkins
2 38 (17.35%) GitLab
3 35 (15.98%) Git
4 18 (8.22%) JIRA
5 10 (4.57%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.20%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.83%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.37%) JMeter
9 3 (1.37%) Postman
9 3 (1.37%) Subversion
10 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.91%) Maven
10 2 (0.91%) NUnit
10 2 (0.91%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.46%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.46%) Selenium
11 1 (0.46%) Snyk
General
1 86 (39.27%) Finance
2 64 (29.22%) Social Skills
3 44 (20.09%) Banking
4 30 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.42%) Public Sector
6 17 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.65%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.65%) Law
8 7 (3.20%) Automotive
9 6 (2.74%) Retail
10 5 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.83%) Electronics
12 3 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.37%) Public Speaking
13 2 (0.91%) Danish Language
13 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.91%) Legal
13 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (24.20%) Senior
2 40 (18.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (16.89%) Platform Engineer
4 27 (12.33%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (8.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (7.76%) Analyst
6 17 (7.76%) Security Engineer
7 16 (7.31%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (6.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 14 (6.39%) Consultant
9 14 (6.39%) Security Consultant
9 14 (6.39%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (6.39%) Senior Security Consultant
10 13 (5.94%) Administrator
10 13 (5.94%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (5.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.48%) DBA
11 12 (5.48%) Lead
12 11 (5.02%) Support Analyst
12 11 (5.02%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (54.79%) Terraform
2 19 (8.68%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (7.76%) AWS CDK
4 14 (6.39%) Kafka
5 12 (5.48%) SAML
6 10 (4.57%) Keycloak
7 9 (4.11%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (3.20%) REST
9 6 (2.74%) .NET
9 6 (2.74%) Node.js
9 6 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (2.28%) Middleware
10 5 (2.28%) OpenMP
10 5 (2.28%) Pulumi
10 5 (2.28%) YAML
11 4 (1.83%) Pandas
11 4 (1.83%) RESTful
11 4 (1.83%) WebSockets
12 3 (1.37%) OpenID
12 3 (1.37%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.63%) Cloud Native
2 35 (15.98%) Onboarding
3 15 (6.85%) Enterprise Cloud
4 14 (6.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (6.39%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (4.57%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.57%) Replication
6 9 (4.11%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.65%) Eurex
7 8 (3.65%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.74%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.74%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.28%) CUDA
9 5 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.28%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.83%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.37%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 105 (47.95%) Linux
2 37 (16.89%) Windows
3 35 (15.98%) Unix
4 18 (8.22%) CentOS
4 18 (8.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (6.39%) Windows Server
6 11 (5.02%) Rocky
7 10 (4.57%) AIX
7 10 (4.57%) Mac OS
7 10 (4.57%) Oracle Linux
8 8 (3.65%) Ubuntu
9 7 (3.20%) Apple iOS
9 7 (3.20%) Windows 10
10 6 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (2.28%) Solaris
12 2 (0.91%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.91%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (55.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 110 (50.23%) CI/CD
3 101 (46.12%) DevOps
4 59 (26.94%) Platform Engineering
5 54 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (23.74%) Cloud Security
7 49 (22.37%) Containerisation
8 44 (20.09%) ITIL
9 40 (18.26%) AI
9 40 (18.26%) Observability
10 37 (16.89%) Agile
10 37 (16.89%) Mentoring
11 36 (16.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 34 (15.53%) Incident Response
13 32 (14.61%) Infrastructure Automation
14 30 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (13.24%) Roadmaps
15 29 (13.24%) Runbook
16 28 (12.79%) Identity Access Management
17 25 (11.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 192 (87.67%) Python
2 97 (44.29%) PowerShell
3 47 (21.46%) Java
4 40 (18.26%) SQL
5 25 (11.42%) Perl
6 24 (10.96%) Ruby
7 18 (8.22%) Shell Script
8 16 (7.31%) Go
8 16 (7.31%) JavaScript
9 14 (6.39%) PHP
10 13 (5.94%) C#
11 12 (5.48%) Korn
11 12 (5.48%) PL/SQL
11 12 (5.48%) Rust
12 11 (5.02%) Bicep
12 11 (5.02%) Groovy
13 8 (3.65%) C
14 7 (3.20%) VBA
15 6 (2.74%) C++
16 2 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.98%) Degree
3 25 (11.42%) SC Cleared
4 23 (10.50%) AWS Certification
5 21 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (5.94%) DV Cleared
8 9 (4.11%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.11%) OSCP
9 8 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.65%) RHCSA
10 7 (3.20%) ISTQB
10 7 (3.20%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (2.74%) A+ Certification
11 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (2.28%) CISSP
12 5 (2.28%) RHCE
13 4 (1.83%) CCNA
13 4 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.85%) QA
2 7 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.74%) NIST
3 6 (2.74%) PMO
4 2 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.91%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.46%) GDPR
5 1 (0.46%) NCSC
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (36.53%) Docker
2 27 (12.33%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.02%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.74%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (2.28%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.83%) Squid
7 4 (1.83%) vSphere
8 3 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 84 (38.36%) Kubernetes
2 58 (26.48%) Grafana
3 57 (26.03%) Ansible
4 51 (23.29%) Prometheus
5 25 (11.42%) Nagios
6 18 (8.22%) Argo
7 13 (5.94%) Data Guard
7 13 (5.94%) Rancher
8 12 (5.48%) Oracle RMAN
9 9 (4.11%) Packer
10 7 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (2.74%) Puppet
11 6 (2.74%) Rundeck
12 5 (2.28%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (2.28%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.83%) Istio
14 3 (1.37%) Cilium
14 3 (1.37%) Kibana
14 3 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 49 (22.37%) Microsoft
2 39 (17.81%) Splunk
3 34 (15.53%) Oracle
4 27 (12.33%) Red Hat
5 20 (9.13%) ServiceNow
6 16 (7.31%) Dynatrace
7 15 (6.85%) VMware
8 12 (5.48%) Google
9 10 (4.57%) IBM
10 8 (3.65%) Atlassian
10 8 (3.65%) Bloomberg
10 8 (3.65%) CQG
10 8 (3.65%) ION Trading
10 8 (3.65%) Patsystems
10 8 (3.65%) Reuters
10 8 (3.65%) Trayport
11 7 (3.20%) Rapid7
12 6 (2.74%) Cognizant
12 6 (2.74%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (2.74%) New Relic