Bash Jobs in the South East

Bash Shell
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Bash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Bash over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 169 134
Rank change year-on-year -7 -35 +31
Permanent jobs citing Bash 143 260 291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.41% 1.50% 2.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.62% 5.18% 5.91%
Number of salaries quoted 72 130 181
10th Percentile £46,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £41,924 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £68,750 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% -

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,543 5,022 4,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.06% 28.97% 40.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,716 3,922 3,458
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £81,875 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the South East

Bash
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bash in the South East.

Salary trend for Bash in the South East

Bash
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in the South East over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Bash in the South East

Bash
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 July 2025. 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
Thames Valley +23 79 £70,000 +35.92% 25
Buckinghamshire +44 41 £70,000 +21.74% 10
Surrey -3 36 £65,000 +8.33% 15
Oxfordshire +56 29 £55,000 +37.50% 8
Hampshire +41 17 £68,750 +19.57% 24
Berkshire -37 9 £55,565 +1.49% 7
Kent +34 3 - - 6
Middlesex -30 3 - - 2
East Sussex - 3 £35,000 - 5
West Sussex +25 1 - - 2
Home Counties - 1 £70,000 -
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.70%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (0.70%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 49 (34.27%) AWS
2 40 (27.97%) Azure
3 25 (17.48%) Pulumi
4 13 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (7.69%) GCP
6 10 (6.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (6.99%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.90%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.20%) GitHub
8 6 (4.20%) SaaS
9 4 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.80%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.80%) Serverless
10 3 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.10%) IaaS
10 3 (2.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (30.77%) VPN
2 36 (25.17%) TCP/IP
3 25 (17.48%) Broadband
3 25 (17.48%) Firewall
4 10 (6.99%) iSCSI
4 10 (6.99%) SAN
5 8 (5.59%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (4.20%) DNS
7 3 (2.10%) DHCP
7 3 (2.10%) InfiniBand
8 2 (1.40%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (1.40%) Multicast
8 2 (1.40%) NAS
8 2 (1.40%) Network Security
8 2 (1.40%) Wireless
9 1 (0.70%) SSL
9 1 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.88%) RDBMS
1 27 (18.88%) Relational Database
2 25 (17.48%) NoSQL
3 15 (10.49%) MySQL
4 12 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.29%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (6.29%) Power BI
6 9 (6.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (6.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (4.20%) Big Data
8 3 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.40%) Metadata
10 1 (0.70%) GIS
Development Applications
1 34 (23.78%) Cucumber
1 34 (23.78%) Robot Framework
2 25 (17.48%) Jaeger
3 3 (2.10%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.10%) JIRA
4 2 (1.40%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.40%) Git
4 2 (1.40%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.70%) GitLab
5 1 (0.70%) Maven
5 1 (0.70%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.70%) TestRail
General
1 69 (48.25%) Social Skills
2 62 (43.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 36 (25.17%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.10%) Games
6 2 (1.40%) Billing
6 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (25.17%) Test Engineer
2 34 (23.78%) Test Automation Engineer
3 30 (20.98%) Lead
4 25 (17.48%) Team Leader
5 20 (13.99%) Senior
6 16 (11.19%) Administrator
7 15 (10.49%) Analyst
8 14 (9.79%) Linux Administrator
8 14 (9.79%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 14 (9.79%) Systems Administrator
9 11 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
10 9 (6.29%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.59%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 7 (4.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 7 (4.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 7 (4.90%) Security Engineer
13 5 (3.50%) Business Analyst
13 5 (3.50%) Junior
13 5 (3.50%) Software Engineer
14 4 (2.80%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.88%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (17.48%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (4.20%) Pandas
4 3 (2.10%) CSS
4 3 (2.10%) HTML
5 2 (1.40%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.40%) XML
5 2 (1.40%) XMPP
6 1 (0.70%) .NET
6 1 (0.70%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.70%) LAMP
6 1 (0.70%) Qt
6 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (25.17%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (8.39%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.99%) Security Posture
4 8 (5.59%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.10%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.10%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.10%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.40%) Acoustics
7 2 (1.40%) Clustering
7 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.40%) IoT
7 2 (1.40%) Online Games
7 2 (1.40%) Replication
7 2 (1.40%) Self-Driving Car
7 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.70%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.70%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 103 (72.03%) Linux
2 47 (32.87%) Windows
3 32 (22.38%) Unix
4 13 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (5.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.50%) SUSE
6 5 (3.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 5 (3.50%) Windows Server
7 3 (2.10%) Debian
8 2 (1.40%) Kali Linux
8 2 (1.40%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.40%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.70%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (48.25%) DevOps
1 69 (48.25%) Mentoring
2 55 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (26.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (25.87%) Containerisation
5 36 (25.17%) System Testing
6 35 (24.48%) Test Automation
7 34 (23.78%) Coaching
7 34 (23.78%) High Availability
7 34 (23.78%) Test Management
8 29 (20.28%) Resource Management
9 27 (18.88%) Task Automation
10 26 (18.18%) Agile
11 25 (17.48%) Budget Control
11 25 (17.48%) Continuous Integration
11 25 (17.48%) Cost Optimisation
11 25 (17.48%) GitOps
11 25 (17.48%) Performance Optimisation
11 25 (17.48%) Product Management
11 25 (17.48%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 121 (84.62%) Python
2 77 (53.85%) PowerShell
3 62 (43.36%) JavaScript
4 28 (19.58%) Java
5 25 (17.48%) Go
6 19 (13.29%) SQL
7 9 (6.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (5.59%) Korn
8 8 (5.59%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (4.90%) C++
10 5 (3.50%) Perl
11 4 (2.80%) C
11 4 (2.80%) Fortran
12 2 (1.40%) C#
12 2 (1.40%) Ruby
12 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (44.06%) Degree
2 25 (17.48%) AWS Certification
3 11 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.99%) CEH
4 10 (6.99%) CompTIA Security+
5 9 (6.29%) OSCP
6 7 (4.90%) CISM
6 7 (4.90%) CISSP
6 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.90%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.50%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.50%) PhD
8 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.80%) MCSE
9 3 (2.10%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (2.10%) GCIH
9 3 (2.10%) LPIC
9 3 (2.10%) RHCE
10 1 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (23.78%) QA
2 14 (9.79%) GDPR
3 12 (8.39%) NIST
4 10 (6.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (5.59%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (32.87%) Docker
2 12 (8.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.69%) Active Directory
4 8 (5.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (5.59%) NFS
5 3 (2.10%) GPFS
5 3 (2.10%) Lustre
5 3 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.40%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (32.17%) Kubernetes
2 42 (29.37%) Terraform
3 37 (25.87%) Ansible
4 25 (17.48%) Argo
4 25 (17.48%) Kustomize
4 25 (17.48%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.90%) QRadar
6 2 (1.40%) Kubespray
6 2 (1.40%) Nmap
6 2 (1.40%) SCCM
6 2 (1.40%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.70%) Podman
7 1 (0.70%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.70%) Puppet
7 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 31 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 25 (17.48%) Google
3 17 (11.89%) Splunk
4 14 (9.79%) VMware
5 13 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 8 (5.59%) Dell
7 7 (4.90%) Cisco
7 7 (4.90%) Palo Alto
8 5 (3.50%) SAP
9 3 (2.10%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (1.40%) Citrix
10 2 (1.40%) NetApp
10 2 (1.40%) Oracle
10 2 (1.40%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.70%) Perforce