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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 199 164
Rank change year-on-year +11 -35 -29
Permanent jobs citing Bash 228 239 414
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.41% 1.69% 1.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.94% 4.13% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 126 169 375
10th Percentile £42,750 £46,815 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -7.14% +11.50% -9.60%

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 4,618 5,781 8,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.51% 40.96% 41.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,246 3,898 7,752
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,625 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £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 3 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 3 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 +20 35 £56,250 -32.84% 24
West London - 14 - - 1
South London +35 4 - - 2
East London -8 2 - - 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 12 (5.26%) Apache
1 12 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.63%) Confluence
3 5 (2.19%) IIS
3 5 (2.19%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
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 (1.32%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 105 (46.05%) AWS
2 88 (38.60%) Azure
3 67 (29.39%) GCP
4 37 (16.23%) GitHub
5 35 (15.35%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (11.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (10.96%) Entra ID
8 23 (10.09%) SaaS
9 22 (9.65%) Google Workspace
10 19 (8.33%) Datadog
10 19 (8.33%) Serverless
11 18 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (7.02%) Amazon S3
12 16 (7.02%) Pulumi
13 15 (6.58%) Google Compute Engine
14 14 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (5.70%) Cloud Functions
15 13 (5.70%) IaaS
15 13 (5.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.79%) Broadband
2 29 (12.72%) Firewall
3 26 (11.40%) DNS
4 17 (7.46%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.95%) Wireless
6 8 (3.51%) Network Security
7 7 (3.07%) DHCP
8 6 (2.63%) LAN
9 5 (2.19%) HTTP
9 5 (2.19%) HTTPS
9 5 (2.19%) VPN
10 4 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (1.32%) WAN
12 2 (0.88%) SSL
13 1 (0.44%) Ethernet
13 1 (0.44%) FTP
13 1 (0.44%) SAN
13 1 (0.44%) SNMP
13 1 (0.44%) TACACS
13 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.72%) NoSQL
2 18 (7.89%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.02%) BigQuery
3 16 (7.02%) RDBMS
4 11 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.95%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (3.95%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (3.95%) Metadata
6 9 (3.95%) Tableau
7 7 (3.07%) MySQL
7 7 (3.07%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.63%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.75%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.88%) Big Data
10 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.88%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 46 (20.18%) Jenkins
2 31 (13.60%) Git
2 31 (13.60%) GitLab
3 23 (10.09%) JIRA
4 16 (7.02%) Jaeger
5 15 (6.58%) Bitbucket
6 12 (5.26%) Metasploit
7 9 (3.95%) Burp Suite
8 8 (3.51%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (2.19%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.75%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.32%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.32%) JMeter
11 3 (1.32%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.88%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.88%) Gradle
12 2 (0.88%) Maven
12 2 (0.88%) Postman
13 1 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
General
1 77 (33.77%) Finance
2 66 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.65%) Banking
5 20 (8.77%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.70%) Telecoms
8 11 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.63%) Electronics
11 5 (2.19%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.19%) Marketing
11 5 (2.19%) Retail
12 4 (1.75%) Back Office
12 4 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.75%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.32%) Advertising
14 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.88%) Legal
15 1 (0.44%) German Language
Job Titles
1 42 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (17.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 34 (14.91%) Senior
4 32 (14.04%) Lead
5 24 (10.53%) Analyst
6 23 (10.09%) GCP Engineer
7 21 (9.21%) Security Engineer
8 20 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
8 20 (8.77%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (7.89%) Automation Engineer
11 15 (6.58%) Administrator
11 15 (6.58%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 15 (6.58%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 15 (6.58%) Linux Administrator
12 12 (5.26%) GCP DevOps
12 12 (5.26%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.26%) Security Analyst
12 12 (5.26%) Support Engineer
13 11 (4.82%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.23%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (9.65%) Kafka
3 21 (9.21%) OpenID
3 21 (9.21%) REST
4 19 (8.33%) SAML
5 18 (7.89%) GraphQL
5 18 (7.89%) LDAP
5 18 (7.89%) OAuth
5 18 (7.89%) SOAP
6 17 (7.46%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.19%) YAML
8 4 (1.75%) Middleware
8 4 (1.75%) Node.js
8 4 (1.75%) WebSockets
9 3 (1.32%) 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 (11.40%) Security Posture
2 24 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
3 22 (9.65%) Management Information System
4 18 (7.89%) Cyberattack
5 17 (7.46%) Cloud Native
6 14 (6.14%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (5.70%) Cyber Defence
8 11 (4.82%) Hedge funds
9 9 (3.95%) Mobile App
10 8 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (2.63%) Data Centre
11 6 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.75%) Blog
12 4 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.75%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.75%) PKI
13 3 (1.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (1.32%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 104 (45.61%) Linux
2 48 (21.05%) Unix
3 39 (17.11%) Windows
4 22 (9.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.26%) CentOS
6 9 (3.95%) Ubuntu
6 9 (3.95%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.07%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (2.19%) Mac OS
9 5 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.32%) AIX
10 3 (1.32%) Kali Linux
10 3 (1.32%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.88%) Android
12 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.44%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.44%) Solaris
12 1 (0.44%) VMS
12 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (52.63%) DevOps
2 111 (48.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 110 (48.25%) CI/CD
4 76 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (26.32%) Containerisation
6 59 (25.88%) Mentoring
7 52 (22.81%) Agile
8 47 (20.61%) High Availability
9 40 (17.54%) Configuration Management
10 39 (17.11%) Roadmaps
11 38 (16.67%) Incident Response
12 36 (15.79%) Cloud Security
13 35 (15.35%) Identity Access Management
14 30 (13.16%) AI
15 29 (12.72%) Continuous Integration
15 29 (12.72%) Performance Optimisation
16 27 (11.84%) Cybersecurity
16 27 (11.84%) Task Automation
17 26 (11.40%) Computer Science
18 25 (10.96%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 196 (85.96%) Python
2 100 (43.86%) PowerShell
3 56 (24.56%) SQL
4 44 (19.30%) Go
5 28 (12.28%) Java
6 22 (9.65%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.89%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.82%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.51%) Bicep
10 7 (3.07%) C#
11 6 (2.63%) Korn
12 5 (2.19%) Perl
12 5 (2.19%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.75%) Ruby
14 3 (1.32%) C++
15 2 (0.88%) C
15 2 (0.88%) PHP
15 2 (0.88%) SystemVerilog
15 2 (0.88%) Tcl
16 1 (0.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 52 (22.81%) Degree
2 25 (10.96%) AWS Certification
3 22 (9.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (9.21%) Security Cleared
5 16 (7.02%) CISSP
6 13 (5.70%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.70%) OSCP
7 11 (4.82%) CCSK
8 9 (3.95%) CCSAM
8 9 (3.95%) CHECK Team Leader
8 9 (3.95%) CHECK Team Member
8 9 (3.95%) CREST Certified
9 5 (2.19%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.19%) GCIH
9 5 (2.19%) RHCSA
10 4 (1.75%) GCIA
10 4 (1.75%) GIAC
10 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.75%) PhD
11 3 (1.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (14.91%) NIST
3 18 (7.89%) NCSC
4 17 (7.46%) GDPR
5 14 (6.14%) SOC 2
6 13 (5.70%) PCI DSS
7 12 (5.26%) QA
8 11 (4.82%) Accessibility
8 11 (4.82%) Data Quality
9 6 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.75%) GRC
12 2 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.44%) Basel III
13 1 (0.44%) MiFID
13 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (33.33%) Docker
2 33 (14.47%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.32%) 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
1 110 (48.25%) Terraform
2 100 (43.86%) Kubernetes
3 82 (35.96%) Ansible
4 56 (24.56%) Prometheus
5 31 (13.60%) Grafana
6 20 (8.77%) Argo
7 16 (7.02%) Kustomize
8 12 (5.26%) Nagios
9 9 (3.95%) Nessus
10 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (2.63%) Puppet
11 4 (1.75%) Cilium
11 4 (1.75%) Data Guard
11 4 (1.75%) logstash
11 4 (1.75%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.75%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.88%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.88%) Rancher
12 2 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (21.05%) Google
2 24 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 22 (9.65%) Microsoft
4 19 (8.33%) VMware
5 18 (7.89%) Splunk
6 15 (6.58%) Oracle
7 11 (4.82%) Tenable
8 10 (4.39%) Atlassian
8 10 (4.39%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.19%) SAP
10 4 (1.75%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.32%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.32%) IBM
12 2 (0.88%) Apple
12 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.88%) Cisco
12 2 (0.88%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.88%) Intel
12 2 (0.88%) Rapid7
12 2 (0.88%) TOWER Software