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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 173 130
Rank change year-on-year -6 -43 -12
Permanent jobs citing Bash 225 325 493
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.76% 1.87% 2.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.92% 4.44% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 177 206 423
10th Percentile £42,150 £43,750 £52,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,688 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.03% +8.32%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,000 £115,000 £107,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £69,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% -1.43% -

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 4,569 7,316 8,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.65% 42.08% 45.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,998 4,831 7,565
10th Percentile £47,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,500 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% - +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 16 November 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 16 November 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 37 £57,500 -28.13% 97
West London - 2 £107,500 - 6
South London +27 1 - - 3
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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.67%) Confluence
2 6 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.22%) nginx
4 4 (1.78%) Traefik
5 3 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.33%) IIS
5 3 (1.33%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.89%) Apache
6 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.89%) JBoss
6 2 (0.89%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 100 (44.44%) AWS
2 69 (30.67%) Azure
3 40 (17.78%) GCP
4 31 (13.78%) GitHub
5 30 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (12.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (8.89%) SaaS
8 19 (8.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (7.56%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (7.56%) Slack
10 15 (6.67%) IaaS
10 15 (6.67%) Serverless
11 13 (5.78%) Datadog
12 12 (5.33%) OpenShift
13 10 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.44%) Amazon S3
13 10 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (4.00%) Google Compute Engine
14 9 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (15.56%) Firewall
2 17 (7.56%) DNS
3 14 (6.22%) Network Security
4 12 (5.33%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.44%) VPN
6 5 (2.22%) BGP
6 5 (2.22%) DHCP
6 5 (2.22%) OSPF
7 4 (1.78%) ICMP
7 4 (1.78%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.78%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.78%) WAN
8 3 (1.33%) Broadband
8 3 (1.33%) MPLS
8 3 (1.33%) Multicast
9 2 (0.89%) IGMP
9 2 (0.89%) LAN
9 2 (0.89%) SSL
9 2 (0.89%) VLAN
9 2 (0.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.56%) Relational Database
2 13 (5.78%) NoSQL
3 12 (5.33%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.00%) BigQuery
5 7 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.22%) MySQL
7 4 (1.78%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.89%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.44%) Big Data
9 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.44%) KDB
9 1 (0.44%) Kdb+
9 1 (0.44%) Looker
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.44%) Parquet
9 1 (0.44%) Power BI
9 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 42 (18.67%) Jenkins
2 34 (15.11%) Git
3 27 (12.00%) GitLab
3 27 (12.00%) JIRA
4 6 (2.67%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (2.22%) Burp Suite
5 5 (2.22%) Metasploit
6 4 (1.78%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.78%) Maven
6 4 (1.78%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.89%) Ant
8 2 (0.89%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.89%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.89%) Gradle
8 2 (0.89%) JMeter
8 2 (0.89%) MLflow
8 2 (0.89%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
General
1 102 (45.33%) Social Skills
2 86 (38.22%) Finance
3 28 (12.44%) Banking
4 24 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.11%) Presentation Skills
5 16 (7.11%) Telecoms
6 15 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.22%) Back Office
8 5 (2.22%) Electronics
8 5 (2.22%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.22%) Law
8 5 (2.22%) Retail
9 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.78%) Games
10 3 (1.33%) Advertising
10 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.33%) Marketing
10 3 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 46 (20.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (12.89%) Platform Engineer
3 25 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 22 (9.78%) Automation Engineer
5 21 (9.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (8.44%) Linux Engineer
6 19 (8.44%) Security Engineer
7 17 (7.56%) Analyst
7 17 (7.56%) Graduate
8 16 (7.11%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (7.11%) Technical Engineer
8 16 (7.11%) Technical Support
8 16 (7.11%) Technical Support Engineer
9 15 (6.67%) Graduate Support Engineer
9 15 (6.67%) Graduate Technical Engineer
9 15 (6.67%) Graduate Technical Support
10 14 (6.22%) Lead
11 13 (5.78%) Senior
12 12 (5.33%) Administrator
13 10 (4.44%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.33%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (5.78%) Kafka
2 13 (5.78%) YAML
3 11 (4.89%) .NET
3 11 (4.89%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (3.56%) Jinja
5 6 (2.67%) Node.js
5 6 (2.67%) RESTful
6 5 (2.22%) Middleware
7 4 (1.78%) REST
8 3 (1.33%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.33%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.33%) Loki
8 3 (1.33%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.33%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.89%) Google JAX
9 2 (0.89%) Hugging Face
9 2 (0.89%) JAX
9 2 (0.89%) OpenID
9 2 (0.89%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.78%) Management Information System
2 21 (9.33%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.22%) Public Cloud
3 14 (6.22%) Security Posture
4 10 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.11%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.78%) Blog
9 4 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.78%) Mobile Banking
9 4 (1.78%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.33%) Clustering
10 3 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.89%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 109 (48.44%) Linux
2 33 (14.67%) Windows
3 26 (11.56%) Unix
4 18 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.89%) CentOS
6 8 (3.56%) Ubuntu
6 8 (3.56%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.22%) Solaris
8 4 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.33%) Debian
9 3 (1.33%) VMS
9 3 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.44%) AIX
11 1 (0.44%) Android
11 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (54.67%) DevOps
2 122 (54.22%) CI/CD
3 99 (44.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (20.44%) Containerisation
6 32 (14.22%) Platform Engineering
7 29 (12.89%) Cloud Security
8 28 (12.44%) Agile
9 26 (11.56%) Configuration Management
9 26 (11.56%) Machine Learning
9 26 (11.56%) Mentoring
9 26 (11.56%) Vulnerability Management
10 25 (11.11%) High Availability
10 25 (11.11%) Software Engineering
11 23 (10.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 22 (9.78%) Security Hardening
13 21 (9.33%) Infrastructure Automation
13 21 (9.33%) Observability
13 21 (9.33%) Task Automation
14 20 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 203 (90.22%) Python
2 97 (43.11%) PowerShell
3 42 (18.67%) Go
4 34 (15.11%) SQL
5 13 (5.78%) Perl
6 10 (4.44%) Java
7 8 (3.56%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.11%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.67%) C#
10 5 (2.22%) Bicep
10 5 (2.22%) Groovy
11 4 (1.78%) C++
11 4 (1.78%) Ruby
12 2 (0.89%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (0.89%) Tcl
13 1 (0.44%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.44%) C-shell
13 1 (0.44%) PHP
13 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (24.44%) Degree
2 21 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.22%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.78%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.44%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.22%) CISSP
8 3 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.33%) CCNA
8 3 (1.33%) CCNP
8 3 (1.33%) CCSP
8 3 (1.33%) GCIH
8 3 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.33%) OSCP
8 3 (1.33%) RHCE
9 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.89%) CHECK Team Leader
9 2 (0.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (12.89%) GDPR
3 24 (10.67%) NIST
4 17 (7.56%) Accessibility
5 12 (5.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (4.00%) GRC
7 7 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.67%) Data Quality
8 6 (2.67%) SOC 2
9 5 (2.22%) PCI DSS
9 5 (2.22%) QA
10 2 (0.89%) SLA
11 1 (0.44%) Basel III
11 1 (0.44%) MiFID
11 1 (0.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 57 (25.33%) Docker
2 18 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 16 (7.11%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (6.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.22%) zsh
6 2 (0.89%) KVM
6 2 (0.89%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.44%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.44%) Postfix
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 88 (39.11%) Terraform
2 78 (34.67%) Kubernetes
3 67 (29.78%) Ansible
4 37 (16.44%) Grafana
5 33 (14.67%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.78%) Red Hat Satellite
7 7 (3.11%) Nagios
8 6 (2.67%) Puppet
9 5 (2.22%) Argo
9 5 (2.22%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.78%) Cilium
10 4 (1.78%) Nessus
10 4 (1.78%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.78%) Rancher
10 4 (1.78%) vRealize
11 3 (1.33%) Nmap
11 3 (1.33%) Podman
11 3 (1.33%) QRadar
12 2 (0.89%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (16.00%) Red Hat
2 27 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.44%) VMware
4 17 (7.56%) Atlassian
5 16 (7.11%) Google
6 15 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 15 (6.67%) Splunk
6 15 (6.67%) Tenable
7 8 (3.56%) Databricks
7 8 (3.56%) Oracle
8 5 (2.22%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.78%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.33%) Citrix
10 3 (1.33%) Cribl.io
10 3 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.33%) Hitachi
10 3 (1.33%) Qualys
10 3 (1.33%) SAP
10 3 (1.33%) Sonatype
11 2 (0.89%) Bloomberg