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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 196 168
Rank change year-on-year +26 -28 -3
Permanent jobs citing Bash 133 216 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.42% 1.28% 1.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.29% 4.33% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59 123 164
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £34,875
25th Percentile £48,250 £41,375 £39,119
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,565 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,875 £63,125 £74,813
90th Percentile £78,900 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -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 2,514 4,983 5,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.76% 29.63% 40.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,814 4,019 3,808
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,688 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,525 £82,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 12 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 12 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 +76 72 £52,000 +0.97% 45
Buckinghamshire +61 37 £77,500 +34.78% 13
Surrey +6 34 £65,000 +8.33% 13
Oxfordshire +42 23 £52,500 +31.25% 20
Hampshire +42 17 £56,250 +7.14% 17
Berkshire +15 12 £52,000 +0.97% 19
Kent +35 5 £78,000 -29.09% 8
Middlesex -35 3 - - 11
West Sussex +34 1 £60,000 -14.29% 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 (4.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.32%) AWS
2 25 (18.80%) Pulumi
3 24 (18.05%) Azure
4 8 (6.02%) SaaS
5 6 (4.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (4.51%) GCP
5 6 (4.51%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.01%) PaaS
7 3 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.50%) GitHub
8 2 (1.50%) IaaS
8 2 (1.50%) Serverless
8 2 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (27.82%) VPN
2 34 (25.56%) TCP/IP
3 25 (18.80%) Broadband
4 11 (8.27%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (6.77%) 5G
5 9 (6.77%) Bluetooth
5 9 (6.77%) LTE
6 8 (6.02%) Firewall
7 2 (1.50%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.30%) RDBMS
1 27 (20.30%) Relational Database
2 25 (18.80%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.26%) MySQL
4 6 (4.51%) Big Data
4 6 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.51%) Power BI
4 6 (4.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (4.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.50%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.50%) Metadata
5 2 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (25.56%) Cucumber
1 34 (25.56%) Robot Framework
2 25 (18.80%) Jaeger
3 5 (3.76%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.01%) JIRA
5 3 (2.26%) Git
6 2 (1.50%) CMake
6 2 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.50%) TestRail
7 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.75%) GitLab
7 1 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 73 (54.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 55 (41.35%) Social Skills
3 36 (27.07%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.77%) Electronics
5 8 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.50%) Billing
6 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.50%) Games
6 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 36 (27.07%) Lead
1 36 (27.07%) Test Engineer
2 34 (25.56%) Test Automation Engineer
3 25 (18.80%) Team Leader
4 18 (13.53%) Administrator
5 16 (12.03%) Systems Administrator
6 15 (11.28%) Linux Administrator
6 15 (11.28%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 12 (9.02%) Software Engineer
8 11 (8.27%) Analyst
9 10 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Senior
12 6 (4.51%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 5 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.76%) Junior
14 4 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
14 4 (3.01%) Junior Linux Systems Administrator
14 4 (3.01%) Junior Systems Administrator
14 4 (3.01%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (22.56%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (18.80%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (4.51%) Pandas
4 5 (3.76%) HTML
5 3 (2.26%) CSS
6 2 (1.50%) HTML5
6 2 (1.50%) OpenCL
6 2 (1.50%) OpenGL
6 2 (1.50%) QML
6 2 (1.50%) Qt
6 2 (1.50%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (1.50%) VTK
6 2 (1.50%) Vulkan
6 2 (1.50%) WinForms
6 2 (1.50%) WPF
7 1 (0.75%) .NET
7 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (27.07%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (8.27%) IoT
3 9 (6.77%) NB-IoT
4 8 (6.02%) Algorithms
4 8 (6.02%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.26%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.50%) Acoustics
6 2 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.50%) Clustering
6 2 (1.50%) CUDA
6 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.50%) Online Games
6 2 (1.50%) Replication
6 2 (1.50%) Self-Driving Car
6 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.75%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 107 (80.45%) Linux
2 46 (34.59%) Windows
3 37 (27.82%) Unix
4 12 (9.02%) Windows Server
5 7 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.76%) SUSE
6 5 (3.76%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (1.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (51.13%) DevOps
2 60 (45.11%) Mentoring
3 48 (36.09%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (33.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (27.07%) System Testing
6 35 (26.32%) Containerisation
6 35 (26.32%) Test Automation
7 34 (25.56%) Coaching
7 34 (25.56%) Test Management
8 33 (24.81%) High Availability
9 27 (20.30%) Roadmaps
10 26 (19.55%) GitOps
11 25 (18.80%) Agile
11 25 (18.80%) Budget Control
11 25 (18.80%) Continuous Integration
11 25 (18.80%) Cost Optimisation
11 25 (18.80%) Performance Optimisation
11 25 (18.80%) Product Management
11 25 (18.80%) Resource Management
11 25 (18.80%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 121 (90.98%) Python
2 72 (54.14%) PowerShell
3 61 (45.86%) JavaScript
4 27 (20.30%) Java
5 25 (18.80%) Go
6 14 (10.53%) C++
6 14 (10.53%) SQL
7 12 (9.02%) C
7 12 (9.02%) Fortran
8 6 (4.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.26%) C#
9 3 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.50%) C-shell
10 2 (1.50%) Perl
10 2 (1.50%) Ruby
10 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (45.86%) Degree
2 25 (18.80%) AWS Certification
3 15 (11.28%) CompTIA Security+
4 14 (10.53%) Security Cleared
5 12 (9.02%) DV Cleared
6 10 (7.52%) Master's Degree
6 10 (7.52%) PhD
6 10 (7.52%) SC Cleared
7 9 (6.77%) Network+ Certification
8 6 (4.51%) CEH
9 3 (2.26%) CISM
9 3 (2.26%) CISSP
9 3 (2.26%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (2.26%) GCIH
9 3 (2.26%) OSCP
10 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (25.56%) QA
2 6 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.51%) NIST
3 5 (3.76%) GDPR
4 3 (2.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 38 (28.57%) Docker
2 20 (15.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.77%) vSphere
4 5 (3.76%) NFS
5 4 (3.01%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.50%) Active Directory
7 2 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (36.84%) Terraform
2 42 (31.58%) Ansible
3 35 (26.32%) Kubernetes
4 26 (19.55%) Argo
4 26 (19.55%) Prometheus
5 25 (18.80%) Kustomize
6 9 (6.77%) Puppet
7 3 (2.26%) QRadar
8 2 (1.50%) Kubespray
8 2 (1.50%) SCCM
9 1 (0.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (18.80%) Google
2 21 (15.79%) VMware
3 16 (12.03%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.76%) Cisco
5 5 (3.76%) SAP
6 3 (2.26%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.26%) Splunk
7 2 (1.50%) Aruba
7 2 (1.50%) Citrix
7 2 (1.50%) Oracle
7 2 (1.50%) Ruckus Wireless
7 2 (1.50%) SolarWinds