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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 205 168
Rank change year-on-year +19 -37 -33
Permanent jobs citing Bash 226 227 400
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.37% 1.65% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.88% 3.97% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 123 167 358
10th Percentile £43,000 £47,950 £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 4,631 5,715 9,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.13% 41.52% 41.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,255 3,996 7,743
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 £107,729 £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 9 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 9 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 +8 35 £56,250 -31.82% 22
West London - 14 - - 2
South London +38 4 - - 2
East London -6 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
1 106 (46.90%) AWS
2 89 (39.38%) Azure
3 67 (29.65%) GCP
4 37 (16.37%) GitHub
5 34 (15.04%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (11.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (11.06%) SaaS
8 24 (10.62%) Entra ID
9 22 (9.73%) Google Workspace
10 19 (8.41%) Serverless
11 18 (7.96%) Datadog
11 18 (7.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (7.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (7.08%) Amazon S3
12 16 (7.08%) Pulumi
13 14 (6.19%) Google Compute Engine
14 13 (5.75%) IaaS
14 13 (5.75%) PaaS
15 12 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (5.31%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.93%) Broadband
2 30 (13.27%) DNS
2 30 (13.27%) Firewall
3 20 (8.85%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.98%) Wireless
5 7 (3.10%) DHCP
5 7 (3.10%) HTTPS
5 7 (3.10%) LAN
5 7 (3.10%) Network Security
6 6 (2.65%) HTTP
7 5 (2.21%) VPN
8 4 (1.77%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.33%) WAN
10 2 (0.88%) SSL
10 2 (0.88%) VLAN
11 1 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.44%) SAN
11 1 (0.44%) SSH
11 1 (0.44%) TACACS
11 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.83%) 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 44 (19.47%) Jenkins
2 32 (14.16%) Git
3 30 (13.27%) 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
9 8 (3.54%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (2.21%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.77%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.33%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.33%) JMeter
12 3 (1.33%) Postman
12 3 (1.33%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.88%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.88%) Gradle
13 2 (0.88%) Maven
14 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
General
1 80 (35.40%) Finance
2 64 (28.32%) Social Skills
3 27 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.62%) 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%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 40 (17.70%) 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%) Security Engineer
8 20 (8.85%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (7.96%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (7.96%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (7.52%) Administrator
10 17 (7.52%) Automation Engineer
10 17 (7.52%) 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 37 (16.37%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (9.73%) 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%) JSON
10 2 (0.88%) Loki
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%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 105 (46.46%) Linux
2 50 (22.12%) Unix
3 41 (18.14%) Windows
4 23 (10.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.31%) CentOS
6 9 (3.98%) Ubuntu
6 9 (3.98%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.10%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (2.21%) Mac OS
9 5 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.77%) Kali Linux
11 3 (1.33%) AIX
11 3 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.88%) Android
12 2 (0.88%) Rocky
13 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.44%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.44%) Solaris
13 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (51.77%) DevOps
2 110 (48.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 109 (48.23%) CI/CD
4 77 (34.07%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (26.11%) Containerisation
5 59 (26.11%) Mentoring
6 52 (23.01%) Agile
7 47 (20.80%) 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 28 (12.39%) Continuous Integration
14 28 (12.39%) Performance Optimisation
15 27 (11.95%) Cybersecurity
16 26 (11.50%) Computer Science
16 26 (11.50%) Red Team
16 26 (11.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 195 (86.28%) Python
2 98 (43.36%) PowerShell
3 58 (25.66%) SQL
4 41 (18.14%) 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 15 (6.64%) GDPR
5 14 (6.19%) SOC 2
6 13 (5.75%) PCI DSS
6 13 (5.75%) QA
7 11 (4.87%) Data Quality
8 9 (3.98%) Accessibility
9 5 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (1.77%) GRC
11 2 (0.88%) SLA
12 1 (0.44%) Basel III
12 1 (0.44%) MiFID
12 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 75 (33.19%) 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
1 107 (47.35%) Terraform
2 100 (44.25%) Kubernetes
3 83 (36.73%) Ansible
4 55 (24.34%) Prometheus
5 31 (13.72%) 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