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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 195 172
Rank change year-on-year +13 -23 -11
Permanent jobs citing Bash 138 225 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.42% 1.28% 1.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.48% 4.43% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 60 121 158
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £34,875
25th Percentile £48,625 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,033 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £80,375
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% -

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 2,518 5,083 5,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.00% 28.85% 39.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,730 4,051 3,672
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,895 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -5.98% +6.36%
75th Percentile £68,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +72 80 £55,000 +6.80% 48
Buckinghamshire +59 39 £70,000 +21.74% 16
Surrey +1 32 £65,000 +8.33% 7
Oxfordshire +52 28 £55,000 +37.50% 21
Hampshire +52 16 £62,500 +13.64% 18
Berkshire +7 13 £52,000 +0.97% 15
Kent +36 3 - - 1
Middlesex -34 3 - -
East Sussex - 2 £43,750 - 5
West Sussex +31 1 - - 4
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 6 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.07%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (26.81%) AWS
2 25 (18.12%) Azure
2 25 (18.12%) Pulumi
3 8 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (5.80%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.80%) SaaS
4 6 (4.35%) GCP
5 5 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.90%) PaaS
7 3 (2.17%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.17%) Serverless
7 3 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.45%) GitHub
8 2 (1.45%) IaaS
9 1 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 41 (29.71%) VPN
2 34 (24.64%) TCP/IP
3 25 (18.12%) Broadband
4 14 (10.14%) Firewall
5 11 (7.97%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (6.52%) 5G
6 9 (6.52%) Bluetooth
6 9 (6.52%) LTE
7 5 (3.62%) DNS
8 2 (1.45%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.45%) DHCP
8 2 (1.45%) InfiniBand
8 2 (1.45%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.45%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.45%) SAN
9 1 (0.72%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.72%) Multicast
9 1 (0.72%) Network Security
9 1 (0.72%) SSL
9 1 (0.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (19.57%) RDBMS
1 27 (19.57%) Relational Database
2 25 (18.12%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.52%) MySQL
4 7 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.07%) Power BI
4 7 (5.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (5.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (4.35%) Big Data
6 5 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.90%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 34 (24.64%) Cucumber
1 34 (24.64%) Robot Framework
2 25 (18.12%) Jaeger
3 2 (1.45%) JIRA
4 1 (0.72%) GitLab
4 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
General
1 71 (51.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 63 (45.65%) Social Skills
3 36 (26.09%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.52%) Electronics
5 6 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.17%) Games
7 2 (1.45%) Billing
7 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (26.09%) Test Engineer
2 35 (25.36%) Lead
3 34 (24.64%) Test Automation Engineer
4 25 (18.12%) Team Leader
5 17 (12.32%) Administrator
6 15 (10.87%) Linux Administrator
6 15 (10.87%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 15 (10.87%) Senior
6 15 (10.87%) Systems Administrator
7 13 (9.42%) Analyst
8 10 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (7.25%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.52%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 5 (3.62%) Junior
11 5 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Developer
12 4 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (2.90%) Junior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.57%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (18.12%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (4.35%) Pandas
4 3 (2.17%) CSS
4 3 (2.17%) HTML
5 2 (1.45%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.72%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.72%) XML
6 1 (0.72%) XMPP
6 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (26.09%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (7.97%) IoT
3 9 (6.52%) NB-IoT
4 8 (5.80%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.07%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.17%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.45%) Acoustics
7 2 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.45%) Clustering
7 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.45%) Online Games
7 2 (1.45%) Replication
7 2 (1.45%) Self-Driving Car
7 2 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.72%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 111 (80.43%) Linux
2 49 (35.51%) Windows
3 38 (27.54%) Unix
4 13 (9.42%) Windows Server
5 9 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.62%) SUSE
6 5 (3.62%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (1.45%) Debian
7 2 (1.45%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.72%) CentOS
8 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (47.83%) DevOps
2 64 (46.38%) Mentoring
3 51 (36.96%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (31.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (26.09%) System Testing
6 35 (25.36%) Test Automation
7 34 (24.64%) Coaching
7 34 (24.64%) Test Management
8 33 (23.91%) Containerisation
8 33 (23.91%) High Availability
9 26 (18.84%) Task Automation
10 25 (18.12%) Agile
10 25 (18.12%) Budget Control
10 25 (18.12%) Continuous Integration
10 25 (18.12%) Cost Optimisation
10 25 (18.12%) GitOps
10 25 (18.12%) Performance Optimisation
10 25 (18.12%) Product Management
10 25 (18.12%) Resource Management
10 25 (18.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 126 (91.30%) Python
2 73 (52.90%) PowerShell
3 61 (44.20%) JavaScript
4 27 (19.57%) Java
5 25 (18.12%) Go
6 16 (11.59%) SQL
7 12 (8.70%) C++
8 10 (7.25%) C
8 10 (7.25%) Fortran
9 7 (5.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (2.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.90%) Perl
11 2 (1.45%) Korn
11 2 (1.45%) Ruby
11 2 (1.45%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.72%) C#
Qualifications
1 65 (47.10%) Degree
2 25 (18.12%) AWS Certification
3 16 (11.59%) CompTIA Security+
3 16 (11.59%) Security Cleared
4 13 (9.42%) SC Cleared
5 11 (7.97%) DV Cleared
6 10 (7.25%) Master's Degree
6 10 (7.25%) PhD
7 9 (6.52%) Network+ Certification
8 7 (5.07%) CEH
9 4 (2.90%) CISM
9 4 (2.90%) CISSP
9 4 (2.90%) OSCP
10 3 (2.17%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (2.17%) GCIH
10 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.45%) LPIC
11 2 (1.45%) MCSE
11 2 (1.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (24.64%) QA
2 8 (5.80%) GDPR
3 7 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.07%) NIST
4 4 (2.90%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (26.81%) Docker
2 19 (13.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.52%) vSphere
4 7 (5.07%) NFS
5 4 (2.90%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.90%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.45%) GPFS
7 2 (1.45%) Lustre
7 2 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (34.06%) Terraform
2 45 (32.61%) Ansible
3 35 (25.36%) Kubernetes
4 25 (18.12%) Argo
4 25 (18.12%) Kustomize
4 25 (18.12%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.25%) Puppet
6 4 (2.90%) QRadar
7 2 (1.45%) Kubespray
7 2 (1.45%) SCCM
8 1 (0.72%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (18.12%) Google
2 21 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.22%) VMware
3 8 (5.80%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.35%) Cisco
4 6 (4.35%) Splunk
5 5 (3.62%) SAP
6 4 (2.90%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.45%) Aruba
7 2 (1.45%) Citrix
7 2 (1.45%) Dell
7 2 (1.45%) Oracle
7 2 (1.45%) Ruckus Wireless
7 2 (1.45%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.72%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (0.72%) Perforce