Bash Job Trends in Scotland

Bash Shell
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 108 141
Rank change year-on-year +26 +33 +3
Permanent jobs citing Bash 66 31 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.24% 1.31% 1.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.95% 3.63% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 50
10th Percentile £47,125 - £40,833
25th Percentile £77,500 £42,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £65,126 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -6.96% +0.80%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £98,608
UK median annual salary £65,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.43% +7.69% -6.40%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 663 855 2,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.54% 36.00% 52.70%
Number of salaries quoted 262 466 1,025
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,148
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.27% -4.61%
75th Percentile £74,767 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bash relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Bash job vacancy trend in Scotland

Bash
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Bash in Scotland

Bash
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Edinburgh -1 29 £90,000 +5.57% 12
Stirling - 13 - - 1
Midlothian - 6 - - 7
West Lothian - 5 - - 1
Fife - 5 - -
Glasgow +4 4 £47,500 -54.76% 5
Falkirk - 2 - - 1
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
East Lothian - 1 - -
Lanarkshire - 1 - - 2
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (12.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.52%) Apache
3 1 (1.52%) JBoss
3 1 (1.52%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 57 (86.36%) Azure
2 54 (81.82%) Entra ID
3 33 (50.00%) Google Workspace
4 19 (28.79%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (15.15%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (13.64%) GitHub
6 9 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (12.12%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (12.12%) Mimecast
8 2 (3.03%) AWS
9 1 (1.52%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 35 (53.03%) Broadband
2 1 (1.52%) DHCP
2 1 (1.52%) DNS
2 1 (1.52%) Network Security
2 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.52%) VLAN
2 1 (1.52%) VPN
2 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.52%) Ant
2 1 (1.52%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.52%) Git
2 1 (1.52%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) Maven
2 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (57.58%) Social Skills
2 35 (53.03%) Games
2 35 (53.03%) Organisational Skills
3 29 (43.94%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) Senior
2 14 (21.21%) Developer
2 14 (21.21%) IAM Developer
3 10 (15.15%) Senior Developer
4 9 (13.64%) Applications Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Security Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Architect
6 4 (6.06%) Senior Architect
6 4 (6.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Systems Developer
7 2 (3.03%) CyberArk Specialist
7 2 (3.03%) Technical Specialist
8 1 (1.52%) Application Support Team Leader
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (1.52%) Lead
8 1 (1.52%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.52%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (54.55%) REST
2 35 (53.03%) GraphQL
2 35 (53.03%) SOAP
3 33 (50.00%) LDAP
3 33 (50.00%) OAuth
3 33 (50.00%) OpenID
3 33 (50.00%) SAML
4 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.52%) Kafka
4 1 (1.52%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 35 (53.03%) Cyber Threat
1 35 (53.03%) Cyberattack
2 18 (27.27%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Windows
2 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.52%) Linux
3 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (90.91%) Roadmaps
2 45 (68.18%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (54.55%) Mentoring
4 35 (53.03%) Programme Delivery
5 33 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
5 33 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 21 (31.82%) ITIL
7 20 (30.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (28.79%) DevOps
9 18 (27.27%) Agile
9 18 (27.27%) AI
9 18 (27.27%) Analytics
9 18 (27.27%) Asset Management
9 18 (27.27%) Coaching
9 18 (27.27%) FinOps
9 18 (27.27%) Information Security
9 18 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (27.27%) Machine Learning
9 18 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
10 11 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 65 (98.48%) PowerShell
2 33 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 29 (43.94%) Python
4 1 (1.52%) Groovy
4 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) CISSP
1 9 (13.64%) CREST Certified
1 9 (13.64%) SANS
2 1 (1.52%) CCNA
2 1 (1.52%) CCNP
2 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (1.52%) Degree
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (53.03%) NCSC
1 35 (53.03%) NIST
2 9 (13.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 35 (53.03%) Active Directory
2 10 (15.15%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (15.15%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (27.27%) Terraform
2 11 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.52%) Ansible
3 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.52%) Podman
3 1 (1.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.03%) CyberArk
3 1 (1.52%) Cisco
3 1 (1.52%) Datto
3 1 (1.52%) Veeam
3 1 (1.52%) VMware