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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 181 137
Rank change year-on-year -2 -44 -20
Permanent jobs citing Bash 223 282 443
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.53% 1.82% 2.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.09% 4.45% 5.17%
Number of salaries quoted 142 170 395
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,175 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,781 £57,613
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £119,875 £115,250 £102,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 4,382 6,339 8,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.08% 40.82% 43.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,084 4,071 7,425
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +29 38 £45,500 -52.11% 33
West London - 12 £107,500 - 11
South London +41 2 - - 12
East London - 2 - - 13
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 10 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.04%) Apache
3 6 (2.69%) Confluence
4 5 (2.24%) IIS
4 5 (2.24%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 97 (43.50%) AWS
2 70 (31.39%) Azure
3 54 (24.22%) GCP
4 39 (17.49%) GitHub
5 38 (17.04%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (10.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (8.07%) SaaS
9 17 (7.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (7.62%) Entra ID
9 17 (7.62%) Google Compute Engine
10 16 (7.17%) Pulumi
11 15 (6.73%) Amazon S3
11 15 (6.73%) Cloud Functions
11 15 (6.73%) Datadog
11 15 (6.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (6.28%) Cloud Run
12 14 (6.28%) Google Workspace
12 14 (6.28%) OpenShift
12 14 (6.28%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.00%) Broadband
2 26 (11.66%) Firewall
3 20 (8.97%) DNS
4 10 (4.48%) Network Security
5 9 (4.04%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.14%) Wireless
7 5 (2.24%) DHCP
8 4 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.79%) VPN
9 3 (1.35%) HTTP
9 3 (1.35%) LAN
9 3 (1.35%) WAN
10 2 (0.90%) SSL
11 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.45%) FTP
11 1 (0.45%) SNMP
11 1 (0.45%) SSH
11 1 (0.45%) TACACS
11 1 (0.45%) VLAN
11 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.21%) NoSQL
2 21 (9.42%) Relational Database
3 18 (8.07%) BigQuery
4 16 (7.17%) RDBMS
5 9 (4.04%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.59%) Amazon QuickSight
6 8 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (3.59%) Apache Iceberg
6 8 (3.59%) Metadata
6 8 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.59%) Tableau
7 7 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.69%) MySQL
9 5 (2.24%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.90%) Big Data
10 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 45 (20.18%) Jenkins
2 29 (13.00%) Git
3 24 (10.76%) GitLab
4 22 (9.87%) JIRA
5 16 (7.17%) Jaeger
6 10 (4.48%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.48%) Burp Suite
6 10 (4.48%) Metasploit
7 5 (2.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.79%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.35%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.35%) JMeter
9 3 (1.35%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.35%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.90%) Gradle
10 2 (0.90%) Maven
11 1 (0.45%) MSI
11 1 (0.45%) Postman
11 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 67 (30.04%) Social Skills
2 66 (29.60%) Finance
3 23 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.52%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.17%) Banking
5 16 (7.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (5.83%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.14%) Electronics
9 5 (2.24%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.24%) Marketing
9 5 (2.24%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.24%) Retail
10 4 (1.79%) Back Office
10 4 (1.79%) Games
11 3 (1.35%) Advertising
12 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.90%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (18.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (16.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 32 (14.35%) Lead
4 28 (12.56%) Platform Engineer
5 23 (10.31%) Senior
6 21 (9.42%) Automation Engineer
6 21 (9.42%) GCP Engineer
7 20 (8.97%) Security Engineer
8 19 (8.52%) Analyst
8 19 (8.52%) Support Engineer
9 17 (7.62%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (6.73%) Graduate
10 15 (6.73%) Technical Engineer
10 15 (6.73%) Technical Support
10 15 (6.73%) Technical Support Engineer
11 14 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (6.28%) GCP DevOps
11 14 (6.28%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 13 (5.83%) Graduate Support Engineer
12 13 (5.83%) Graduate Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.80%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (7.62%) OpenTelemetry
3 16 (7.17%) Kafka
4 14 (6.28%) OpenID
4 14 (6.28%) REST
5 12 (5.38%) SAML
6 11 (4.93%) GraphQL
6 11 (4.93%) LDAP
6 11 (4.93%) OAuth
6 11 (4.93%) SOAP
7 6 (2.69%) YAML
8 5 (2.24%) Node.js
9 4 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (1.79%) Middleware
9 4 (1.79%) RESTful
10 3 (1.35%) .NET
11 2 (0.90%) AWS CDK
11 2 (0.90%) AWS SAM
11 2 (0.90%) Loki
11 2 (0.90%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.31%) Management Information System
1 23 (10.31%) Security Posture
2 19 (8.52%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.83%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (5.38%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (4.93%) Cyberattack
6 8 (3.59%) Cyber Defence
7 7 (3.14%) Hedge funds
7 7 (3.14%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.24%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.24%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.79%) Blog
10 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.79%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 105 (47.09%) Linux
2 38 (17.04%) Unix
3 35 (15.70%) Windows
4 17 (7.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.93%) CentOS
6 10 (4.48%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.59%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (2.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.79%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.35%) Debian
11 3 (1.35%) VMS
12 2 (0.90%) Android
12 2 (0.90%) Solaris
13 1 (0.45%) AIX
13 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.45%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.45%) Rocky
13 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (56.05%) DevOps
2 109 (48.88%) CI/CD
3 104 (46.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (33.18%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (24.22%) Containerisation
6 51 (22.87%) Agile
7 46 (20.63%) Mentoring
8 42 (18.83%) Cloud Security
9 38 (17.04%) High Availability
10 32 (14.35%) Roadmaps
11 30 (13.45%) Task Automation
12 29 (13.00%) Configuration Management
12 29 (13.00%) Machine Learning
12 29 (13.00%) Performance Optimisation
13 27 (12.11%) Platform Engineering
14 25 (11.21%) AI
14 25 (11.21%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (10.76%) Computer Science
15 24 (10.76%) Identity Access Management
15 24 (10.76%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 198 (88.79%) Python
2 97 (43.50%) PowerShell
3 46 (20.63%) Go
4 37 (16.59%) SQL
5 22 (9.87%) Java
6 19 (8.52%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.93%) T-SQL
8 10 (4.48%) Bicep
8 10 (4.48%) Perl
9 7 (3.14%) C#
10 6 (2.69%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.35%) Ruby
12 2 (0.90%) C
12 2 (0.90%) C++
12 2 (0.90%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (0.90%) Tcl
13 1 (0.45%) Groovy
13 1 (0.45%) Korn
13 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (25.11%) Degree
2 27 (12.11%) AWS Certification
3 23 (10.31%) Security Cleared
4 19 (8.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (6.73%) DV Cleared
6 12 (5.38%) CISSP
7 8 (3.59%) OSCP
8 7 (3.14%) CCSAM
8 7 (3.14%) CCSK
8 7 (3.14%) CHECK Team Leader
8 7 (3.14%) CHECK Team Member
8 7 (3.14%) CREST Certified
9 5 (2.24%) GCIH
9 5 (2.24%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.24%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.79%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.79%) PhD
11 3 (1.35%) CCSP
11 3 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (12.56%) NIST
3 20 (8.97%) GDPR
4 15 (6.73%) Accessibility
5 11 (4.93%) NCSC
6 10 (4.48%) Data Quality
7 9 (4.04%) QA
8 8 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (3.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (3.14%) SOC 2
10 6 (2.69%) PCI DSS
11 4 (1.79%) GRC
12 1 (0.45%) Basel III
12 1 (0.45%) MiFID
System Software
1 74 (33.18%) Docker
2 27 (12.11%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.38%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.90%) KVM
6 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.45%) Firmware
6 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.45%) iptables
6 1 (0.45%) Postfix
6 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 110 (49.33%) Terraform
2 98 (43.95%) Kubernetes
3 75 (33.63%) Ansible
4 53 (23.77%) Prometheus
5 26 (11.66%) Grafana
6 21 (9.42%) Argo
7 16 (7.17%) Kustomize
8 9 (4.04%) Nessus
8 9 (4.04%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (2.69%) Puppet
10 5 (2.24%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.24%) Rancher
11 4 (1.79%) Cilium
11 4 (1.79%) logstash
11 4 (1.79%) Nagios
11 4 (1.79%) vRealize
12 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.35%) Nmap
13 2 (0.90%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.90%) QRadar
Vendors
1 46 (20.63%) Google
2 28 (12.56%) Red Hat
3 23 (10.31%) Microsoft
4 19 (8.52%) Splunk
5 18 (8.07%) VMware
6 12 (5.38%) Oracle
6 12 (5.38%) ServiceNow
6 12 (5.38%) Tenable
7 11 (4.93%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.69%) Rapid7
8 6 (2.69%) SAP
9 3 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.90%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.90%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.90%) Carbon Black
10 2 (0.90%) Cisco
10 2 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.90%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.90%) Qualys
10 2 (0.90%) SolarWinds