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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 195 157
Rank change year-on-year -2 -38 -16
Permanent jobs citing Bash 230 217 480
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.11% 1.76% 2.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.40% 4.35% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 128 161 291
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,938 £58,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% +10.34% -9.38%
75th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,125 £110,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% -14.29%

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 5,222 4,985 9,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.29% 40.43% 40.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,695 3,706 7,564
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £130,000
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 19 May 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 19 May 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 29 £56,250 -27.42% 28
West London - 13 - - 5
South London +17 3 - - 2
East London -9 2 - - 3
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 (5.65%) Apache
2 11 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.61%) Confluence
4 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.30%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.87%) nginx
6 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.43%) IIS
7 1 (0.43%) SAS
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) SPSS
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.17%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 127 (55.22%) AWS
2 103 (44.78%) Azure
3 62 (26.96%) GCP
4 36 (15.65%) GitHub
5 26 (11.30%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (10.87%) Entra ID
7 24 (10.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (9.57%) Amazon S3
8 22 (9.57%) Google Workspace
8 22 (9.57%) Serverless
9 21 (9.13%) Datadog
9 21 (9.13%) SaaS
10 20 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (7.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (6.52%) Pulumi
13 14 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (4.35%) Google Compute Engine
15 10 (4.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (14.35%) Broadband
1 33 (14.35%) DNS
2 25 (10.87%) Firewall
3 22 (9.57%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.78%) LAN
4 11 (4.78%) Network Security
5 10 (4.35%) HTTP
6 9 (3.91%) Wireless
7 8 (3.48%) HTTPS
7 8 (3.48%) VPN
8 7 (3.04%) DHCP
9 5 (2.17%) IPv4
10 4 (1.74%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.74%) WAN
11 3 (1.30%) VLAN
12 2 (0.87%) BGP
12 2 (0.87%) Multicast
12 2 (0.87%) OSPF
12 2 (0.87%) SNMP
12 2 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.30%) NoSQL
2 17 (7.39%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.52%) RDBMS
4 11 (4.78%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (4.78%) BigQuery
5 10 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.91%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (3.91%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (3.91%) Metadata
6 9 (3.91%) MySQL
6 9 (3.91%) Oracle Database
6 9 (3.91%) Tableau
7 6 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (1.30%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.87%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (20.87%) GitLab
2 42 (18.26%) Jenkins
3 39 (16.96%) Git
4 19 (8.26%) Bitbucket
5 15 (6.52%) Jaeger
6 13 (5.65%) Metasploit
7 12 (5.22%) JIRA
8 11 (4.78%) CircleCI
9 9 (3.91%) Burp Suite
10 4 (1.74%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.30%) Postman
12 2 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.87%) Subversion
13 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.43%) JMeter
13 1 (0.43%) Maven
13 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 79 (34.35%) Finance
2 54 (23.48%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.04%) Banking
4 25 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (8.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.91%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.04%) Electronics
8 7 (3.04%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.04%) Marketing
8 7 (3.04%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.61%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.74%) Automotive
11 3 (1.30%) Advertising
11 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.87%) German Language
12 2 (0.87%) Legal
12 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Retail
13 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (20.00%) Senior
2 38 (16.52%) Cloud Engineer
2 38 (16.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (16.09%) Lead
4 29 (12.61%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (10.87%) Analyst
6 24 (10.43%) Security Engineer
7 20 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (7.83%) Azure Engineer
8 18 (7.83%) GCP Engineer
9 16 (6.96%) Administrator
9 16 (6.96%) Linux Administrator
9 16 (6.96%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 16 (6.96%) Systems Administrator
10 15 (6.52%) Data Engineer
11 14 (6.09%) Security Analyst
12 13 (5.65%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 12 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (5.22%) Senior Security Analyst
14 10 (4.35%) Cloud Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.48%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (8.26%) Kafka
2 19 (8.26%) OpenID
2 19 (8.26%) REST
2 19 (8.26%) SAML
3 18 (7.83%) OAuth
4 17 (7.39%) GraphQL
4 17 (7.39%) LDAP
4 17 (7.39%) SOAP
5 16 (6.96%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (3.91%) WebSockets
7 8 (3.48%) Node.js
8 3 (1.30%) 802.1X
8 3 (1.30%) Loki
9 2 (0.87%) .NET
9 2 (0.87%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.87%) Middleware
9 2 (0.87%) Pandas
9 2 (0.87%) Vue
9 2 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.61%) Cyber Threat
1 29 (12.61%) Security Posture
2 25 (10.87%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.39%) Cyberattack
4 16 (6.96%) Data Centre
5 14 (6.09%) Cyber Defence
5 14 (6.09%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.35%) Hedge funds
6 10 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.91%) Mobile App
8 7 (3.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.17%) PKI
10 4 (1.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.74%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.74%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.30%) Insider Threat
12 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 104 (45.22%) Linux
2 43 (18.70%) Unix
3 39 (16.96%) Windows
4 21 (9.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.78%) CentOS
6 9 (3.91%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.04%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.17%) AIX
8 5 (2.17%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (2.17%) Rocky
9 4 (1.74%) Kali Linux
9 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.30%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.87%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.43%) Android
12 1 (0.43%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (53.48%) DevOps
2 118 (51.30%) CI/CD
3 117 (50.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (30.87%) Mentoring
5 69 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (26.52%) Containerisation
7 52 (22.61%) Agile
8 48 (20.87%) High Availability
9 45 (19.57%) Roadmaps
10 43 (18.70%) Incident Response
11 42 (18.26%) Cloud Security
12 36 (15.65%) Configuration Management
13 30 (13.04%) AI
13 30 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
13 30 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
14 29 (12.61%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (12.61%) Red Team
15 28 (12.17%) Continuous Integration
16 26 (11.30%) Performance Optimisation
17 25 (10.87%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 199 (86.52%) Python
2 101 (43.91%) PowerShell
3 63 (27.39%) SQL
4 39 (16.96%) Java
5 34 (14.78%) Go
6 25 (10.87%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.39%) T-SQL
8 13 (5.65%) Shell Script
9 10 (4.35%) Bicep
9 10 (4.35%) C#
10 9 (3.91%) Korn
11 8 (3.48%) C++
11 8 (3.48%) PL/SQL
12 7 (3.04%) Perl
13 6 (2.61%) Ruby
13 6 (2.61%) Rust
14 5 (2.17%) C
15 3 (1.30%) Objective-C
15 3 (1.30%) PHP
16 2 (0.87%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 40 (17.39%) Degree
2 28 (12.17%) Security Cleared
3 25 (10.87%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.43%) OSCP
5 17 (7.39%) CISSP
5 17 (7.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.09%) RHCSA
7 12 (5.22%) CCSAM
7 12 (5.22%) CREST Certified
7 12 (5.22%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.35%) CCSK
9 9 (3.91%) CHECK Team Leader
9 9 (3.91%) CHECK Team Member
10 8 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (3.04%) Azure Certification
11 7 (3.04%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (3.04%) GCIH
11 7 (3.04%) ISTQB
11 7 (3.04%) SC Cleared
12 6 (2.61%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.43%) NIST
2 22 (9.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.39%) NCSC
4 15 (6.52%) QA
5 14 (6.09%) GDPR
5 14 (6.09%) SOC 2
6 12 (5.22%) PCI DSS
7 10 (4.35%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.74%) SLA
10 3 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (1.30%) PMO
11 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 78 (33.91%) Docker
2 30 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 17 (7.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.04%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.74%) Squid
5 4 (1.74%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.74%) vSphere
6 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.43%) Firmware
7 1 (0.43%) iptables
7 1 (0.43%) KVM
Systems Management
1 121 (52.61%) Terraform
2 95 (41.30%) Kubernetes
3 84 (36.52%) Ansible
4 52 (22.61%) Prometheus
5 37 (16.09%) Grafana
6 25 (10.87%) Nagios
7 17 (7.39%) Argo
8 15 (6.52%) Kustomize
9 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (3.91%) Nessus
10 7 (3.04%) Data Guard
10 7 (3.04%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (2.61%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (2.61%) ZABBIX
12 5 (2.17%) logstash
13 4 (1.74%) Kibana
13 4 (1.74%) Packer
14 3 (1.30%) Puppet
14 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (1.30%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 42 (18.26%) Google
2 33 (14.35%) Microsoft
3 26 (11.30%) Red Hat
4 23 (10.00%) Splunk
5 19 (8.26%) VMware
6 16 (6.96%) Oracle
7 12 (5.22%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.61%) Apple
9 5 (2.17%) IBM
9 5 (2.17%) Rapid7
9 5 (2.17%) SAP
10 4 (1.74%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.74%) Intel
10 4 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.74%) TOWER Software
11 3 (1.30%) Cognizant
11 3 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.30%) Tenable
11 3 (1.30%) Varonis
12 2 (0.87%) Arista