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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 183 148
Rank change year-on-year -64 -35 -13
Permanent jobs citing Bash 219 228 448
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.85% 1.94% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.92% 5.00% 5.72%
Number of salaries quoted 132 184 224
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,250 £43,975
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,250 £60,625
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 £110,000 £113,200
England median annual salary £64,635 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.24% +3.85% -9.09%

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 5,591 4,556 7,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.60% 38.77% 41.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,717 3,051 5,129
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,200 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £135,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 30 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 30 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 -21 16 £90,000 +56.52% 31
West London -14 1 - - 12
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 13 (5.94%) Confluence
2 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.28%) SAS
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) nginx
4 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.46%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (4.57%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.65%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.37%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 122 (55.71%) AWS
2 84 (38.36%) Azure
3 36 (16.44%) GCP
3 36 (16.44%) Serverless
4 35 (15.98%) Amazon EKS
5 33 (15.07%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (13.70%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (13.70%) GitHub
7 26 (11.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (9.13%) Amazon EventBridge
9 20 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (9.13%) Entra ID
9 20 (9.13%) SaaS
10 19 (8.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (7.76%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (7.31%) Amazon S3
12 16 (7.31%) Azure AKS
12 16 (7.31%) Datadog
13 14 (6.39%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.79%) Firewall
1 28 (12.79%) Network Security
1 28 (12.79%) TCP/IP
2 22 (10.05%) DNS
3 17 (7.76%) VPN
4 15 (6.85%) DHCP
5 8 (3.65%) FIX Connectivity
6 7 (3.20%) BGP
7 6 (2.74%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (2.74%) VLAN
8 5 (2.28%) HTTP
8 5 (2.28%) SSH
9 4 (1.83%) IPv4
9 4 (1.83%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.83%) LAN
9 4 (1.83%) NAS
9 4 (1.83%) OSPF
9 4 (1.83%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (1.37%) MPLS
11 2 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (7.31%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (5.94%) Redis
4 12 (5.48%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.02%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (5.02%) MySQL
5 11 (5.02%) Oracle Database
6 9 (4.11%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.37%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.91%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.46%) Big Data
10 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.46%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (21.00%) Jenkins
2 37 (16.89%) GitLab
3 33 (15.07%) Git
4 17 (7.76%) JIRA
5 11 (5.02%) TeamCity
6 10 (4.57%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.83%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.37%) JMeter
9 3 (1.37%) Postman
9 3 (1.37%) Subversion
10 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.91%) Maven
10 2 (0.91%) NUnit
11 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.46%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.46%) Selenium
11 1 (0.46%) Snyk
General
1 86 (39.27%) Finance
2 65 (29.68%) Social Skills
3 49 (22.37%) Banking
4 33 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.42%) Public Sector
6 22 (10.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (6.39%) Law
8 12 (5.48%) Retail
9 8 (3.65%) Aerospace
10 7 (3.20%) Automotive
11 5 (2.28%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.83%) Electronics
13 3 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.37%) Public Speaking
14 2 (0.91%) Danish Language
14 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.91%) Marketing
14 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (24.20%) Senior
2 39 (17.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (16.89%) Platform Engineer
4 26 (11.87%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (9.59%) Analyst
6 18 (8.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (7.76%) Security Engineer
8 16 (7.31%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (6.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 14 (6.39%) Administrator
10 14 (6.39%) Consultant
10 14 (6.39%) Security Consultant
10 14 (6.39%) Senior Consultant
10 14 (6.39%) Senior Security Consultant
11 13 (5.94%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (5.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.48%) DBA
12 12 (5.48%) Linux Administrator
12 12 (5.48%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 12 (5.48%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (56.16%) Terraform
2 19 (8.68%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (7.76%) AWS CDK
4 14 (6.39%) Kafka
5 12 (5.48%) SAML
6 10 (4.57%) Keycloak
7 8 (3.65%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (3.65%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (3.20%) REST
9 6 (2.74%) .NET
9 6 (2.74%) Node.js
9 6 (2.74%) RESTful
10 5 (2.28%) Middleware
10 5 (2.28%) OpenMP
10 5 (2.28%) Pulumi
10 5 (2.28%) YAML
11 4 (1.83%) Pandas
11 4 (1.83%) WebSockets
12 3 (1.37%) OAuth
12 3 (1.37%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 47 (21.46%) Cloud Native
2 35 (15.98%) Onboarding
3 15 (6.85%) Enterprise Cloud
4 14 (6.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (6.39%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (4.57%) Replication
6 9 (4.11%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.65%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.65%) Eurex
8 7 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.20%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.74%) Hedge funds
9 6 (2.74%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.28%) Blog
10 5 (2.28%) CUDA
11 4 (1.83%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 104 (47.49%) Linux
2 39 (17.81%) Windows
3 34 (15.53%) Unix
4 18 (8.22%) CentOS
4 18 (8.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (6.39%) Windows Server
6 12 (5.48%) Rocky
7 11 (5.02%) Mac OS
8 10 (4.57%) AIX
8 10 (4.57%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (3.65%) Apple iOS
9 8 (3.65%) Ubuntu
10 7 (3.20%) Windows 10
11 5 (2.28%) Solaris
11 5 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.91%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.91%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (56.16%) Infrastructure as Code
2 111 (50.68%) CI/CD
3 100 (45.66%) DevOps
4 57 (26.03%) Platform Engineering
4 57 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (24.20%) Cloud Security
6 49 (22.37%) Containerisation
7 42 (19.18%) ITIL
8 41 (18.72%) Observability
9 39 (17.81%) AI
9 39 (17.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 37 (16.89%) Agile
10 37 (16.89%) Mentoring
11 36 (16.44%) Incident Response
12 34 (15.53%) Infrastructure Automation
13 30 (13.70%) Identity Access Management
14 29 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (13.24%) Runbook
15 28 (12.79%) Roadmaps
16 25 (11.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 192 (87.67%) Python
2 96 (43.84%) PowerShell
3 50 (22.83%) Java
4 41 (18.72%) SQL
5 24 (10.96%) Perl
6 23 (10.50%) Ruby
7 19 (8.68%) Go
8 17 (7.76%) Shell Script
9 16 (7.31%) JavaScript
10 14 (6.39%) PHP
11 12 (5.48%) C#
12 11 (5.02%) Bicep
12 11 (5.02%) Groovy
12 11 (5.02%) Korn
12 11 (5.02%) PL/SQL
12 11 (5.02%) Rust
13 7 (3.20%) C
13 7 (3.20%) VBA
14 5 (2.28%) C++
15 2 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 33 (15.07%) Degree
3 23 (10.50%) SC Cleared
4 22 (10.05%) AWS Certification
5 20 (9.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (6.39%) DV Cleared
8 9 (4.11%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.65%) OSCP
9 8 (3.65%) RHCSA
10 7 (3.20%) ISTQB
10 7 (3.20%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (2.74%) A+ Certification
11 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (2.28%) CISSP
12 5 (2.28%) GCFA
12 5 (2.28%) GIAC
13 4 (1.83%) CCNA
13 4 (1.83%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.85%) QA
2 9 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.65%) NIST
4 6 (2.74%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.74%) PMO
5 4 (1.83%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
6 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (35.16%) Docker
2 27 (12.33%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.57%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.74%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (2.74%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (2.28%) vSphere
7 4 (1.83%) Squid
8 3 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 88 (40.18%) Kubernetes
2 58 (26.48%) Grafana
3 56 (25.57%) Ansible
4 51 (23.29%) Prometheus
5 24 (10.96%) Nagios
6 18 (8.22%) Argo
7 13 (5.94%) Rancher
8 12 (5.48%) Data Guard
9 11 (5.02%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (4.11%) Packer
11 7 (3.20%) Puppet
12 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (2.74%) Rundeck
13 5 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (2.28%) ZABBIX
14 4 (1.83%) Istio
14 4 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (1.37%) Cilium
16 2 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
16 2 (0.91%) Kibana
Vendors
1 48 (21.92%) Microsoft
2 39 (17.81%) Splunk
3 33 (15.07%) Oracle
4 26 (11.87%) Red Hat
5 20 (9.13%) ServiceNow
6 16 (7.31%) Dynatrace
6 16 (7.31%) VMware
7 15 (6.85%) Google
8 10 (4.57%) IBM
9 8 (3.65%) Atlassian
9 8 (3.65%) Bloomberg
9 8 (3.65%) CQG
9 8 (3.65%) ION Trading
9 8 (3.65%) Patsystems
9 8 (3.65%) Reuters
9 8 (3.65%) Trayport
10 7 (3.20%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (3.20%) Rapid7
11 6 (2.74%) Cognizant
11 6 (2.74%) New Relic