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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 175 155
Rank change year-on-year -30 -20 -23
Permanent jobs citing Bash 233 245 465
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.04% 1.98% 2.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.35% 4.74% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 142 188 264
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,978 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,063 £92,219
90th Percentile £103,375 £110,375 £102,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -10.71%

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 5,361 5,165 8,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.82% 41.81% 40.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,791 3,573 6,562
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £132,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -31 22 £87,500 +16.67% 15
West London - 4 - - 3
South London +9 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 7 (3.00%) Confluence
2 5 (2.15%) Apache
2 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.15%) SAS
3 3 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.29%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.86%) nginx
4 2 (0.86%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.29%) SPSS
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (5.58%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (1.29%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 138 (59.23%) AWS
2 111 (47.64%) Azure
3 48 (20.60%) GCP
4 41 (17.60%) Serverless
5 40 (17.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (13.73%) GitHub
7 31 (13.30%) Amazon ECS
7 31 (13.30%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (11.16%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (10.73%) Datadog
10 22 (9.44%) Amazon S3
11 21 (9.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (8.58%) Entra ID
13 19 (8.15%) Amazon EventBridge
14 17 (7.30%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (6.87%) SaaS
16 15 (6.44%) AWS Control Tower
16 15 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.45%) Firewall
1 29 (12.45%) Network Security
2 26 (11.16%) DNS
3 20 (8.58%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.72%) VPN
5 8 (3.43%) Broadband
5 8 (3.43%) HTTP
5 8 (3.43%) HTTPS
5 8 (3.43%) LAN
6 6 (2.58%) VLAN
7 5 (2.15%) BGP
7 5 (2.15%) IPv4
7 5 (2.15%) NAS
7 5 (2.15%) Wireless
8 4 (1.72%) DHCP
8 4 (1.72%) Kerberos
8 4 (1.72%) OSPF
8 4 (1.72%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (1.72%) SSH
9 3 (1.29%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.30%) Oracle Database
2 12 (5.15%) MySQL
3 9 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.86%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.72%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (1.72%) Oracle Database 12c
4 4 (1.72%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.86%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.86%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (0.86%) Metadata
6 2 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.86%) Tableau
7 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.43%) Redis
7 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 50 (21.46%) GitLab
2 43 (18.45%) Jenkins
3 32 (13.73%) Git
4 18 (7.73%) Bitbucket
5 16 (6.87%) JIRA
6 11 (4.72%) CircleCI
7 7 (3.00%) Metasploit
8 6 (2.58%) TeamCity
9 5 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (2.15%) Postman
10 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.29%) Burp Suite
10 3 (1.29%) JMeter
10 3 (1.29%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (1.29%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.29%) Subversion
11 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.43%) Maven
12 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 101 (43.35%) Finance
2 67 (28.76%) Social Skills
3 41 (17.60%) Banking
4 29 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.87%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.86%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.00%) Automotive
9 5 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.72%) Electronics
10 4 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.72%) Marketing
11 3 (1.29%) Advertising
11 3 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.29%) Public Speaking
11 3 (1.29%) Retail
12 2 (0.86%) Front Office
12 2 (0.86%) German Language
12 2 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 64 (27.47%) Senior
2 39 (16.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (14.59%) Platform Engineer
4 30 (12.88%) AWS Engineer
5 27 (11.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (9.87%) Security Engineer
7 21 (9.01%) Administrator
8 19 (8.15%) Linux Administrator
8 19 (8.15%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 19 (8.15%) Systems Administrator
9 14 (6.01%) Consultant
9 14 (6.01%) DBA
9 14 (6.01%) Security Consultant
9 14 (6.01%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (6.01%) Senior Security Consultant
10 13 (5.58%) Analyst
10 13 (5.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.58%) Oracle DBA
10 13 (5.58%) Senior DBA
10 13 (5.58%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.58%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (7.30%) AWS CDK
3 16 (6.87%) SAML
4 12 (5.15%) Kafka
5 11 (4.72%) OAuth
5 11 (4.72%) REST
6 10 (4.29%) GraphQL
6 10 (4.29%) LDAP
6 10 (4.29%) OpenID
6 10 (4.29%) SOAP
7 8 (3.43%) Node.js
7 8 (3.43%) WebSockets
8 6 (2.58%) YAML
9 5 (2.15%) Middleware
10 4 (1.72%) .NET
10 4 (1.72%) OpenMP
11 3 (1.29%) 802.1X
11 3 (1.29%) JSON
11 3 (1.29%) Pandas
11 3 (1.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.45%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.16%) Onboarding
3 19 (8.15%) Cyber Threat
4 17 (7.30%) Security Posture
5 16 (6.87%) Data Centre
6 14 (6.01%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (4.29%) Management Information System
9 9 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (3.43%) Cyberattack
11 7 (3.00%) Cyber Defence
12 6 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.72%) CUDA
13 4 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (1.72%) Hedge funds
13 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
14 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
14 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 103 (44.21%) Linux
2 39 (16.74%) Windows
3 35 (15.02%) Unix
4 25 (10.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.58%) AIX
5 13 (5.58%) CentOS
5 13 (5.58%) Oracle Linux
6 12 (5.15%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.43%) Mac OS
8 7 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.72%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.72%) Kali Linux
9 4 (1.72%) Rocky
10 3 (1.29%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.86%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.43%) Android
12 1 (0.43%) SUSE
12 1 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (52.79%) Infrastructure as Code
2 117 (50.21%) CI/CD
3 109 (46.78%) DevOps
4 64 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (22.75%) Containerisation
6 49 (21.03%) Cloud Security
7 47 (20.17%) Incident Response
7 47 (20.17%) Mentoring
7 47 (20.17%) Platform Engineering
8 39 (16.74%) Identity Access Management
9 36 (15.45%) Configuration Management
10 34 (14.59%) AI
10 34 (14.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 33 (14.16%) Agile
12 31 (13.30%) Capacity Planning
13 30 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (12.88%) High Availability
14 29 (12.45%) Software Engineering
15 28 (12.02%) ITIL
16 26 (11.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 196 (84.12%) Python
2 99 (42.49%) PowerShell
3 57 (24.46%) SQL
4 50 (21.46%) Java
5 23 (9.87%) Shell Script
6 19 (8.15%) Perl
7 18 (7.73%) Go
7 18 (7.73%) Ruby
8 17 (7.30%) Korn
8 17 (7.30%) PHP
8 17 (7.30%) PL/SQL
9 13 (5.58%) C#
9 13 (5.58%) Rust
10 12 (5.15%) JavaScript
11 10 (4.29%) T-SQL
12 8 (3.43%) Bicep
13 7 (3.00%) C++
13 7 (3.00%) VBA
14 4 (1.72%) C
15 3 (1.29%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 49 (21.03%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.88%) Degree
3 25 (10.73%) AWS Certification
4 19 (8.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (7.30%) OSCP
6 16 (6.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 15 (6.44%) SC Cleared
8 13 (5.58%) DV Cleared
8 13 (5.58%) RHCSA
9 11 (4.72%) CISSP
10 10 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (4.29%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (3.00%) Azure Certification
11 7 (3.00%) ISTQB
12 6 (2.58%) CCSAM
12 6 (2.58%) CREST Certified
12 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (2.58%) RHCE
13 5 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (2.15%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.73%) QA
2 16 (6.87%) NIST
3 15 (6.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (5.58%) SOC 2
5 11 (4.72%) GDPR
5 11 (4.72%) PCI DSS
6 8 (3.43%) NCSC
7 6 (2.58%) PMO
8 4 (1.72%) SLA
9 3 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 68 (29.18%) Docker
2 28 (12.02%) Active Directory
3 18 (7.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (6.44%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (2.58%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (1.72%) Squid
6 4 (1.72%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.72%) vSphere
7 3 (1.29%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.43%) KVM
Systems Management
1 120 (51.50%) Terraform
2 80 (34.33%) Ansible
3 72 (30.90%) Kubernetes
4 53 (22.75%) Grafana
5 44 (18.88%) Prometheus
6 36 (15.45%) Nagios
7 16 (6.87%) Data Guard
7 16 (6.87%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (5.15%) Argo
9 11 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (3.86%) Packer
11 8 (3.43%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (2.58%) Rundeck
12 6 (2.58%) ZABBIX
13 5 (2.15%) Kibana
14 4 (1.72%) Puppet
14 4 (1.72%) Rancher
15 3 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (1.29%) Proxmox
15 3 (1.29%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 39 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 36 (15.45%) Splunk
3 29 (12.45%) Oracle
4 25 (10.73%) Red Hat
5 21 (9.01%) VMware
6 13 (5.58%) Google
6 13 (5.58%) IBM
7 11 (4.72%) ServiceNow
7 11 (4.72%) SolarWinds
8 8 (3.43%) Rapid7
9 7 (3.00%) Apple
9 7 (3.00%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.58%) Cognizant
10 6 (2.58%) New Relic
11 4 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.72%) Tenable
11 4 (1.72%) TOWER Software
12 3 (1.29%) Cisco
12 3 (1.29%) Commvault
12 3 (1.29%) Intel