Bash Job Trends in the South East

Bash Shell
England > South East

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 140 214
Rank change year-on-year -69 +74 -18
Permanent jobs citing Bash 80 110 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.59% 1.63% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.64% 5.37% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65 61 130
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £79,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £63,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +12.00% -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 2,199 2,049 4,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.11% 30.30% 30.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,665 1,457 3,970
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Bash job vacancy trend in the South East

Bash
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in the South East over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

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 11 April 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
Thames Valley -61 25 £52,500 -5.52% 15
Surrey -26 21 £62,500 -3.85% 2
Hampshire -19 16 £71,250 +5.56% 6
West Sussex -7 15 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Berkshire +5 14 £50,000 -7.03% 8
Buckinghamshire -56 7 £70,000 - 2
Oxfordshire -24 4 £55,000 +11.11% 5
Kent -39 2 £75,000 -3.85%
East Sussex - 1 £37,500 - 1
Bash
England

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.25%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.50%) Apache
3 2 (2.50%) SAS
4 1 (1.25%) Confluence
4 1 (1.25%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) CATIA
1 3 (3.75%) Siemens NX
1 3 (3.75%) SOLIDWORKS
1 3 (3.75%) Windchill
2 1 (1.25%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (53.75%) Azure
2 38 (47.50%) AWS
3 26 (32.50%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (21.25%) SaaS
5 16 (20.00%) GitHub
5 16 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (13.75%) Datadog
8 9 (11.25%) OpenShift
9 8 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (6.25%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
12 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (3.75%) Azure Stack
12 3 (3.75%) Serverless
12 3 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (2.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (23.75%) Firewall
2 12 (15.00%) VPN
3 7 (8.75%) SAN
4 6 (7.50%) iSCSI
4 6 (7.50%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (5.00%) DNS
6 3 (3.75%) PBX
7 2 (2.50%) Broadband
7 2 (2.50%) DHCP
7 2 (2.50%) Network Security
7 2 (2.50%) VLAN
8 1 (1.25%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.25%) HTTP
8 1 (1.25%) Multicast
8 1 (1.25%) NAS
8 1 (1.25%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.25%) SMTP
8 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.50%) MySQL
3 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.50%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.25%) Big Data
5 1 (1.25%) GIS
Development Applications
1 19 (23.75%) Git
2 18 (22.50%) GitLab
3 8 (10.00%) JIRA
4 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.75%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (3.75%) Polyspace
5 3 (3.75%) VectorCAST
6 2 (2.50%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.50%) Selenium
6 2 (2.50%) TestRail
7 1 (1.25%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.25%) CMake
7 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.25%) Xcode
General
1 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.25%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Retail
5 7 (8.75%) Aerospace
6 6 (7.50%) Finance
7 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.75%) Legal
9 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.25%) Automotive
10 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.25%) Publishing
10 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (31.25%) Linux Engineer
2 24 (30.00%) Senior
3 21 (26.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) DevOps Systems Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 10 (12.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 8 (10.00%) Administrator
7 8 (10.00%) DevOps Administrator
7 8 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (10.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 8 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (7.50%) Site Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Linux Specialist
9 4 (5.00%) Linux Support
9 4 (5.00%) Linux Support Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Product Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) OAuth
1 10 (12.50%) SAML
2 8 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (6.25%) YAML
4 3 (3.75%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.75%) Loki
4 3 (3.75%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (3.75%) pytest
5 2 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.50%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.50%) Hugging Face
5 2 (2.50%) LangChain
5 2 (2.50%) LDAP
5 2 (2.50%) OpenID
5 2 (2.50%) Ray
5 2 (2.50%) REST
5 2 (2.50%) SOAP
5 2 (2.50%) vLLM
6 1 (1.25%) .NET
6 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Analytical Mindset
1 9 (11.25%) Private Cloud
2 8 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (8.75%) Data Centre
4 6 (7.50%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.00%) Clustering
5 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.00%) Video on Demand
5 4 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.75%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (3.75%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.75%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.50%) Cyberattack
7 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.50%) Robotics
7 2 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 49 (61.25%) Linux
2 21 (26.25%) Ubuntu
3 15 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (17.50%) Windows
5 10 (12.50%) CentOS
5 10 (12.50%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.50%) Unix
7 1 (1.25%) Android
7 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.25%) Debian
7 1 (1.25%) FreeBSD
7 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.25%) OpenBSD
7 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (55.00%) DevOps
2 41 (51.25%) CI/CD
3 30 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (33.75%) Observability
5 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (23.75%) Containerisation
7 15 (18.75%) Configuration Management
8 14 (17.50%) AI
8 14 (17.50%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (16.25%) Mentoring
10 12 (15.00%) Agile
10 12 (15.00%) Cloud Security
10 12 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (15.00%) High Availability
11 10 (12.50%) ITIL
11 10 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (10.00%) Batch Processing
12 8 (10.00%) Computer Science
12 8 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (10.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 47 (58.75%) Python
2 37 (46.25%) PowerShell
3 13 (16.25%) SQL
4 8 (10.00%) Go
5 7 (8.75%) Perl
6 4 (5.00%) Korn
6 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.75%) C
8 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.25%) C++
9 1 (1.25%) Java
9 1 (1.25%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) Degree
2 10 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 7 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.75%) LPIC
6 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.50%) CEH
6 2 (2.50%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.50%) GCIH
6 2 (2.50%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.50%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (2.50%) RHCE
6 2 (2.50%) RHCSA
6 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.25%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.00%) NIST
2 4 (5.00%) SOC 2
3 3 (3.75%) GDPR
3 3 (3.75%) HIPAA
3 3 (3.75%) IEC 61508
3 3 (3.75%) ISO 26262
3 3 (3.75%) QA
3 3 (3.75%) SLA
4 2 (2.50%) Def Stans
4 2 (2.50%) NCSC
5 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (45.00%) Docker
2 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (5.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.50%) Samba
6 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (1.25%) Ceph
7 1 (1.25%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (1.25%) Firmware
7 1 (1.25%) KVM
7 1 (1.25%) Lustre
7 1 (1.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (65.00%) Terraform
2 41 (51.25%) Kubernetes
3 39 (48.75%) Ansible
4 23 (28.75%) Grafana
4 23 (28.75%) Prometheus
5 9 (11.25%) Proxmox
6 6 (7.50%) Nagios
7 4 (5.00%) Puppet
8 3 (3.75%) Scalr
9 2 (2.50%) Nessus
10 1 (1.25%) AirWatch
10 1 (1.25%) Argo
10 1 (1.25%) CASB
10 1 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.25%) Functional Safety
10 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.25%) Podman
10 1 (1.25%) SCCM
10 1 (1.25%) SCOM
10 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (36.25%) Red Hat
2 13 (16.25%) VMware
3 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 8 (10.00%) Dynatrace
5 6 (7.50%) Dell
5 6 (7.50%) Splunk
6 3 (3.75%) Oracle
7 2 (2.50%) Cloudera
7 2 (2.50%) D-Link
7 2 (2.50%) Informatica
7 2 (2.50%) Talend
8 1 (1.25%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.25%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.25%) Google
8 1 (1.25%) Mapbox
8 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.25%) Pure Storage
8 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.25%) Veeam
8 1 (1.25%) Xamarin