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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 168 140
Rank change year-on-year -73 -28 -9
Permanent jobs citing Bash 215 242 479
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.88% 2.03% 2.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.91% 5.13% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 137 189 232
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,700 £41,375
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £113,000 £112,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -13.19%

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 5,499 4,715 7,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.47% 39.55% 41.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,755 3,186 5,438
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £81,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% -1.21% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,750 £135,000 £136,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 6 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 6 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 -26 17 £90,000 +50.00% 17
West London -21 1 - - 13
North London - 1 £60,000 -
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 11 (5.12%) Confluence
1 11 (5.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.33%) SAS
3 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.40%) SPSS
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.65%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.72%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.40%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 121 (56.28%) AWS
2 88 (40.93%) Azure
3 36 (16.74%) Serverless
4 35 (16.28%) GCP
5 32 (14.88%) Amazon ECS
6 31 (14.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (14.42%) AWS Lambda
7 30 (13.95%) GitHub
8 28 (13.02%) Amazon EKS
9 22 (10.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (9.77%) Datadog
10 21 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (9.30%) Amazon EventBridge
12 19 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (8.37%) Amazon S3
13 18 (8.37%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (7.91%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (7.44%) Entra ID
16 15 (6.98%) AWS Control Tower
17 14 (6.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 31 (14.42%) Firewall
2 30 (13.95%) Network Security
3 25 (11.63%) DNS
3 25 (11.63%) TCP/IP
4 14 (6.51%) DHCP
4 14 (6.51%) VPN
5 8 (3.72%) FIX Connectivity
6 6 (2.79%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (2.33%) BGP
7 5 (2.33%) HTTP
7 5 (2.33%) IPv4
7 5 (2.33%) SSH
7 5 (2.33%) VLAN
8 4 (1.86%) Kerberos
8 4 (1.86%) LAN
8 4 (1.86%) NAS
8 4 (1.86%) OSPF
8 4 (1.86%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (1.40%) MPLS
10 2 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.51%) MySQL
2 12 (5.58%) Oracle Database
2 12 (5.58%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.26%) Redis
7 4 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.86%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.40%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (0.93%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 44 (20.47%) GitLab
2 39 (18.14%) Jenkins
3 30 (13.95%) Git
4 16 (7.44%) JIRA
5 11 (5.12%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.79%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.40%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.40%) JMeter
7 3 (1.40%) Postman
7 3 (1.40%) Subversion
8 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.93%) NUnit
8 2 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.47%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.47%) Maven
9 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 88 (40.93%) Finance
2 63 (29.30%) Social Skills
3 45 (20.93%) Banking
4 27 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.63%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.72%) Aerospace
6 8 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.26%) Automotive
8 5 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.86%) Electronics
9 4 (1.86%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.40%) Advertising
10 3 (1.40%) Law
10 3 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.40%) Public Speaking
11 2 (0.93%) Danish Language
11 2 (0.93%) Front Office
11 2 (0.93%) Marketing
11 2 (0.93%) Retail
11 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (25.58%) Senior
2 37 (17.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (16.28%) Platform Engineer
4 24 (11.16%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (10.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (8.84%) Security Engineer
7 16 (7.44%) Administrator
8 14 (6.51%) Consultant
8 14 (6.51%) Linux Administrator
8 14 (6.51%) Linux Engineer
8 14 (6.51%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 14 (6.51%) Security Consultant
8 14 (6.51%) Senior Consultant
8 14 (6.51%) Senior Security Consultant
8 14 (6.51%) Systems Administrator
9 13 (6.05%) Analyst
9 13 (6.05%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 12 (5.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.58%) DBA
10 12 (5.58%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (54.42%) Terraform
2 17 (7.91%) AWS CDK
3 16 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (5.12%) Kafka
5 9 (4.19%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (4.19%) SAML
6 7 (3.26%) Node.js
7 6 (2.79%) .NET
7 6 (2.79%) REST
8 5 (2.33%) Middleware
8 5 (2.33%) OpenMP
8 5 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.33%) YAML
9 4 (1.86%) Keycloak
9 4 (1.86%) Pandas
9 4 (1.86%) Pulumi
9 4 (1.86%) RESTful
9 4 (1.86%) WebSockets
10 3 (1.40%) 802.1X
10 3 (1.40%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 42 (19.53%) Cloud Native
2 33 (15.35%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.51%) Enterprise Cloud
4 13 (6.05%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (5.12%) Data Centre
5 11 (5.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.19%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.19%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.72%) Eurex
8 6 (2.79%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.33%) CUDA
9 5 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.86%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.86%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.86%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.86%) Replication
10 4 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 105 (48.84%) Linux
2 35 (16.28%) Windows
3 34 (15.81%) Unix
4 20 (9.30%) CentOS
5 18 (8.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (6.05%) Windows Server
7 11 (5.12%) Rocky
8 10 (4.65%) AIX
8 10 (4.65%) Oracle Linux
9 9 (4.19%) Mac OS
10 7 (3.26%) Ubuntu
11 6 (2.79%) Windows 10
11 6 (2.79%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (2.33%) Apple iOS
12 5 (2.33%) Solaris
13 2 (0.93%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.93%) Android
14 1 (0.47%) SUSE
14 1 (0.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (56.28%) Infrastructure as Code
2 109 (50.70%) CI/CD
3 101 (46.98%) DevOps
4 52 (24.19%) Containerisation
4 52 (24.19%) Platform Engineering
5 51 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (21.86%) Cloud Security
7 37 (17.21%) Incident Response
7 37 (17.21%) ITIL
7 37 (17.21%) Mentoring
8 36 (16.74%) AI
9 33 (15.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 33 (15.35%) Observability
10 32 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (13.95%) Configuration Management
12 29 (13.49%) Agile
12 29 (13.49%) Infrastructure Automation
13 28 (13.02%) Capacity Planning
13 28 (13.02%) Runbook
14 27 (12.56%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 187 (86.98%) Python
2 95 (44.19%) PowerShell
3 46 (21.40%) Java
4 40 (18.60%) SQL
5 27 (12.56%) Perl
6 25 (11.63%) Ruby
7 19 (8.84%) Shell Script
8 16 (7.44%) Go
8 16 (7.44%) JavaScript
9 14 (6.51%) C#
9 14 (6.51%) PHP
10 13 (6.05%) Rust
11 12 (5.58%) Korn
11 12 (5.58%) PL/SQL
12 9 (4.19%) Bicep
12 9 (4.19%) C
13 7 (3.26%) C++
13 7 (3.26%) VBA
14 4 (1.86%) Groovy
15 3 (1.40%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 59 (27.44%) Security Cleared
2 38 (17.67%) Degree
3 25 (11.63%) AWS Certification
4 21 (9.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (8.84%) SC Cleared
6 16 (7.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (5.58%) DV Cleared
7 12 (5.58%) OSCP
8 9 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.72%) RHCSA
10 7 (3.26%) ISTQB
11 6 (2.79%) Azure Certification
11 6 (2.79%) CISSP
11 6 (2.79%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (2.33%) RHCE
13 4 (1.86%) A+ Certification
13 4 (1.86%) CCNA
13 4 (1.86%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.91%) QA
2 8 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.79%) NIST
3 6 (2.79%) PMO
3 6 (2.79%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.86%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.40%) GDPR
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 70 (32.56%) Docker
2 27 (12.56%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (5.12%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.79%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (2.33%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.86%) Squid
7 4 (1.86%) vSphere
8 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 74 (34.42%) Kubernetes
2 62 (28.84%) Ansible
3 54 (25.12%) Grafana
4 43 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 28 (13.02%) Nagios
6 15 (6.98%) Argo
7 13 (6.05%) Data Guard
8 12 (5.58%) Oracle RMAN
9 9 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (4.19%) Packer
10 7 (3.26%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (3.26%) Rancher
11 6 (2.79%) Rundeck
12 5 (2.33%) Puppet
12 5 (2.33%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.86%) Istio
14 3 (1.40%) Cilium
14 3 (1.40%) Kibana
14 3 (1.40%) Proxmox
14 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (23.72%) Microsoft
2 38 (17.67%) Splunk
3 34 (15.81%) Oracle
4 29 (13.49%) Red Hat
5 16 (7.44%) VMware
6 14 (6.51%) ServiceNow
7 11 (5.12%) Google
8 10 (4.65%) Dynatrace
8 10 (4.65%) IBM
9 9 (4.19%) Rapid7
10 8 (3.72%) Bloomberg
10 8 (3.72%) CQG
10 8 (3.72%) ION Trading
10 8 (3.72%) Patsystems
10 8 (3.72%) Reuters
10 8 (3.72%) Trayport
11 6 (2.79%) Atlassian
11 6 (2.79%) Cognizant
11 6 (2.79%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.33%) Apple