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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 194 168
Rank change year-on-year +7 -26 -33
Permanent jobs citing Bash 235 225 389
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.37% 1.71% 1.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.93% 4.11% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 129 167 349
10th Percentile £42,750 £48,550 £51,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £117,000 £105,000
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 4,766 5,479 8,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.74% 41.53% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,343 3,913 7,656
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 20 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 20 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 +10 36 £56,250 -31.82% 24
West London - 14 - - 2
South London +32 4 - -
East London -16 2 - - 2
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 (5.11%) Apache
2 11 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.98%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.55%) Confluence
4 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.13%) IIS
6 2 (0.85%) nginx
6 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 120 (51.06%) AWS
2 100 (42.55%) Azure
3 74 (31.49%) GCP
4 43 (18.30%) GitHub
5 36 (15.32%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (14.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (11.06%) Entra ID
8 25 (10.64%) SaaS
9 23 (9.79%) Datadog
9 23 (9.79%) Google Workspace
9 23 (9.79%) Serverless
10 20 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 18 (7.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (7.23%) Amazon S3
13 16 (6.81%) Pulumi
14 14 (5.96%) Google Compute Engine
15 13 (5.53%) IaaS
15 13 (5.53%) PaaS
16 12 (5.11%) Cloud Functions
17 11 (4.68%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.32%) Broadband
2 35 (14.89%) DNS
3 32 (13.62%) Firewall
4 21 (8.94%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.68%) Network Security
6 9 (3.83%) Wireless
7 8 (3.40%) DHCP
7 8 (3.40%) HTTPS
7 8 (3.40%) VPN
8 7 (2.98%) LAN
9 6 (2.55%) HTTP
10 4 (1.70%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (1.28%) VLAN
11 3 (1.28%) WAN
12 2 (0.85%) Multicast
12 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.43%) NAS
13 1 (0.43%) SAN
13 1 (0.43%) Spanning Tree
13 1 (0.43%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.62%) NoSQL
2 18 (7.66%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.81%) RDBMS
4 15 (6.38%) BigQuery
5 11 (4.68%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (4.26%) MySQL
7 9 (3.83%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (3.83%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (3.83%) Metadata
7 9 (3.83%) Tableau
8 7 (2.98%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.55%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.70%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database 11g
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database 12c
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle Exadata
11 2 (0.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 48 (20.43%) Jenkins
2 39 (16.60%) GitLab
3 33 (14.04%) Git
4 20 (8.51%) JIRA
5 18 (7.66%) Bitbucket
6 16 (6.81%) Jaeger
7 13 (5.53%) Metasploit
8 11 (4.68%) CircleCI
9 9 (3.83%) Burp Suite
10 5 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (2.13%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.70%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.28%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.28%) JMeter
12 3 (1.28%) Postman
12 3 (1.28%) Robot Framework
13 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket Server
13 1 (0.43%) Browser DevTools
13 1 (0.43%) IDA Disassembler
13 1 (0.43%) MSI
General
1 83 (35.32%) Finance
2 68 (28.94%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.19%) Banking
4 28 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.94%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (7.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.53%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.55%) Electronics
9 6 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.55%) Marketing
9 6 (2.55%) Retail
10 5 (2.13%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.13%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.70%) Advertising
11 4 (1.70%) Back Office
11 4 (1.70%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.85%) Legal
13 1 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 45 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (17.87%) Cloud Engineer
3 39 (16.60%) Senior
4 32 (13.62%) Lead
5 26 (11.06%) Analyst
6 24 (10.21%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (9.79%) Security Engineer
8 22 (9.36%) GCP Engineer
9 18 (7.66%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (7.66%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (7.23%) Administrator
10 17 (7.23%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 17 (7.23%) Linux Administrator
11 16 (6.81%) Automation Engineer
12 15 (6.38%) Cloud Automation Engineer
13 13 (5.53%) Security Analyst
14 12 (5.11%) Support Engineer
15 11 (4.68%) Linux Systems Administrator
15 11 (4.68%) Senior Analyst
15 11 (4.68%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (16.60%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (10.21%) Kafka
3 21 (8.94%) OpenID
3 21 (8.94%) REST
4 19 (8.09%) SAML
5 18 (7.66%) GraphQL
5 18 (7.66%) LDAP
5 18 (7.66%) OAuth
5 18 (7.66%) SOAP
6 17 (7.23%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.55%) Node.js
8 5 (2.13%) WebSockets
9 4 (1.70%) Middleware
10 3 (1.28%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (1.28%) YAML
11 2 (0.85%) .NET
11 2 (0.85%) JSON
11 2 (0.85%) LEMP Stack
11 2 (0.85%) Loki
11 2 (0.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.91%) Cyber Threat
2 27 (11.49%) Security Posture
3 19 (8.09%) Management Information System
4 18 (7.66%) Cloud Native
4 18 (7.66%) Cyberattack
5 14 (5.96%) Cyber Defence
5 14 (5.96%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.68%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.83%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.83%) Mobile App
8 8 (3.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (2.13%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.70%) Blog
11 4 (1.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.70%) PKI
12 3 (1.28%) Insider Threat
13 2 (0.85%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 106 (45.11%) Linux
2 50 (21.28%) Unix
3 45 (19.15%) Windows
4 20 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.11%) CentOS
6 9 (3.83%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.98%) Mac OS
7 7 (2.98%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.70%) Kali Linux
11 3 (1.28%) AIX
11 3 (1.28%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (1.28%) Rocky
12 2 (0.85%) Android
12 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.85%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.43%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (53.19%) DevOps
2 120 (51.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 119 (50.64%) CI/CD
4 81 (34.47%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (27.66%) Containerisation
6 64 (27.23%) Mentoring
7 55 (23.40%) Agile
8 50 (21.28%) High Availability
9 47 (20.00%) Incident Response
10 45 (19.15%) Configuration Management
11 40 (17.02%) Roadmaps
12 36 (15.32%) Cloud Security
12 36 (15.32%) Identity Access Management
13 33 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
14 31 (13.19%) AI
15 28 (11.91%) Performance Optimisation
15 28 (11.91%) Red Team
16 27 (11.49%) Computer Science
16 27 (11.49%) Cybersecurity
16 27 (11.49%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 202 (85.96%) Python
2 101 (42.98%) PowerShell
3 61 (25.96%) SQL
4 43 (18.30%) Go
5 29 (12.34%) Java
6 25 (10.64%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.66%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.68%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.40%) C#
10 7 (2.98%) Bicep
11 6 (2.55%) Korn
12 5 (2.13%) Perl
12 5 (2.13%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.13%) Ruby
13 4 (1.70%) C++
14 3 (1.28%) C
14 3 (1.28%) PHP
15 2 (0.85%) Rust
15 2 (0.85%) SystemVerilog
15 2 (0.85%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 51 (21.70%) Degree
2 25 (10.64%) AWS Certification
3 22 (9.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (9.36%) Security Cleared
4 17 (7.23%) CISSP
4 17 (7.23%) OSCP
5 13 (5.53%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.68%) CCSK
7 10 (4.26%) CCSAM
7 10 (4.26%) CREST Certified
8 9 (3.83%) CHECK Team Leader
8 9 (3.83%) CHECK Team Member
9 6 (2.55%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.55%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.55%) GCIH
9 6 (2.55%) RHCSA
10 5 (2.13%) GCIA
11 4 (1.70%) GIAC
11 4 (1.70%) PhD
11 4 (1.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (13.19%) NIST
3 18 (7.66%) NCSC
3 18 (7.66%) SOC 2
4 17 (7.23%) GDPR
5 16 (6.81%) PCI DSS
5 16 (6.81%) QA
6 10 (4.26%) Data Quality
7 7 (2.98%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.70%) GRC
10 3 (1.28%) SLA
11 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.43%) Basel III
11 1 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 79 (33.62%) Docker
2 33 (14.04%) Active Directory
3 17 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.70%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.28%) KVM
7 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.43%) Firmware
8 1 (0.43%) iptables
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 118 (50.21%) Terraform
2 106 (45.11%) Kubernetes
3 89 (37.87%) Ansible
4 57 (24.26%) Prometheus
5 37 (15.74%) Grafana
6 19 (8.09%) Argo
7 17 (7.23%) Nagios
8 16 (6.81%) Kustomize
9 9 (3.83%) Nessus
10 8 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (2.55%) Puppet
12 4 (1.70%) Cilium
12 4 (1.70%) Data Guard
12 4 (1.70%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.70%) logstash
12 4 (1.70%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.70%) Progress Chef
13 3 (1.28%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (1.28%) SCCM
14 2 (0.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 47 (20.00%) Google
2 26 (11.06%) Microsoft
3 25 (10.64%) Red Hat
4 20 (8.51%) Splunk
4 20 (8.51%) VMware
5 15 (6.38%) Oracle
6 10 (4.26%) Atlassian
7 8 (3.40%) Tenable
8 7 (2.98%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.55%) SAP
9 6 (2.55%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.70%) Apple
10 4 (1.70%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.70%) TOWER Software
11 3 (1.28%) IBM
11 3 (1.28%) Intel
12 2 (0.85%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.85%) BT
12 2 (0.85%) Cisco
12 2 (0.85%) CyberArk