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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 191 188
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 -25
Permanent jobs citing Bash 110 234 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.30% 1.40% 1.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.57% 4.68% 4.52%
Number of salaries quoted 61 129 158
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £34,710
25th Percentile £49,000 £42,500 £38,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £74,000 £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 2,406 4,995 5,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.43% 29.93% 40.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,786 4,034 3,935
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,000 £34,589
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 £70,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £87,500
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 1 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 1 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 +71 74 £55,000 +6.80% 31
Buckinghamshire +56 37 £77,500 +34.78% 10
Oxfordshire +50 23 £52,500 +31.25% 14
Surrey +8 17 £65,000 +8.33% 10
Hampshire +43 15 £56,250 - 8
Berkshire +33 14 £52,000 +0.97% 10
Kent +35 2 £78,000 +30.00%
West Sussex +32 1 £60,000 -14.29% 3
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 (5.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 26 (23.64%) Azure
2 10 (9.09%) AWS
2 10 (9.09%) SaaS
3 6 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (5.45%) GCP
3 6 (5.45%) PaaS
3 6 (5.45%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (3.64%) IaaS
5 3 (2.73%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.82%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.82%) GitHub
6 2 (1.82%) Serverless
6 2 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (33.64%) VPN
2 34 (30.91%) TCP/IP
3 11 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (8.18%) 5G
4 9 (8.18%) Bluetooth
4 9 (8.18%) LTE
5 8 (7.27%) Firewall
6 2 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.91%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.36%) MySQL
2 6 (5.45%) Big Data
2 6 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.45%) Power BI
2 6 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (5.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.82%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.82%) Metadata
3 2 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.82%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (30.91%) Cucumber
1 34 (30.91%) Robot Framework
2 5 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.64%) JIRA
4 3 (2.73%) Git
5 2 (1.82%) CMake
5 2 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.82%) TestRail
6 1 (0.91%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.91%) GitLab
6 1 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 57 (51.82%) Social Skills
2 48 (43.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 36 (32.73%) Telecoms
4 9 (8.18%) Electronics
5 8 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Billing
6 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Games
6 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.91%) Finance
Job Titles
1 36 (32.73%) Test Engineer
2 34 (30.91%) Test Automation Engineer
3 18 (16.36%) Administrator
4 16 (14.55%) Systems Administrator
5 15 (13.64%) Linux Administrator
5 15 (13.64%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 12 (10.91%) Software Engineer
7 11 (10.00%) Analyst
7 11 (10.00%) Lead
8 10 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (8.18%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (7.27%) Senior
11 6 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (5.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 5 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.55%) Junior
13 4 (3.64%) Junior Linux Systems Administrator
13 4 (3.64%) Junior Systems Administrator
13 4 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
14 3 (2.73%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.45%) Pandas
2 5 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (4.55%) HTML
3 3 (2.73%) CSS
4 2 (1.82%) HTML5
4 2 (1.82%) OpenCL
4 2 (1.82%) OpenGL
4 2 (1.82%) QML
4 2 (1.82%) Qt
4 2 (1.82%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (1.82%) VTK
4 2 (1.82%) Vulkan
4 2 (1.82%) WinForms
4 2 (1.82%) WPF
5 1 (0.91%) .NET
5 1 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (32.73%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (10.00%) IoT
3 9 (8.18%) NB-IoT
4 8 (7.27%) Algorithms
4 8 (7.27%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.73%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.73%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.82%) Acoustics
6 2 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.82%) Clustering
6 2 (1.82%) CUDA
6 2 (1.82%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.82%) Online Games
6 2 (1.82%) Replication
6 2 (1.82%) Self-Driving Car
6 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.91%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 82 (74.55%) Linux
2 46 (41.82%) Windows
3 12 (10.91%) Unix
3 12 (10.91%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.55%) SUSE
5 5 (4.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (1.82%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (43.64%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (39.09%) DevOps
3 36 (32.73%) System Testing
4 35 (31.82%) Mentoring
4 35 (31.82%) Test Automation
5 34 (30.91%) Coaching
5 34 (30.91%) Test Management
6 21 (19.09%) Software Testing
7 19 (17.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (12.73%) Software Engineering
9 12 (10.91%) Computer Science
10 10 (9.09%) Containerisation
10 10 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (9.09%) Mathematics
10 10 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
10 10 (9.09%) Physics
11 9 (8.18%) Asset Management
11 9 (8.18%) Project Planning
11 9 (8.18%) Strategic Thinking
12 8 (7.27%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 98 (89.09%) Python
2 74 (67.27%) PowerShell
3 36 (32.73%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.73%) C++
4 14 (12.73%) SQL
5 12 (10.91%) C
5 12 (10.91%) Fortran
6 6 (5.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.73%) C#
7 3 (2.73%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.82%) C-shell
8 2 (1.82%) Java
8 2 (1.82%) Perl
8 2 (1.82%) Ruby
8 2 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (55.45%) Degree
2 15 (13.64%) CompTIA Security+
3 14 (12.73%) Security Cleared
4 12 (10.91%) DV Cleared
5 10 (9.09%) Master's Degree
5 10 (9.09%) PhD
5 10 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 9 (8.18%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (5.45%) CEH
8 3 (2.73%) CISM
8 3 (2.73%) CISSP
8 3 (2.73%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (2.73%) GCIH
8 3 (2.73%) OSCP
9 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (30.91%) QA
2 6 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.45%) NIST
3 5 (4.55%) GDPR
4 3 (2.73%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (11.82%) Docker
3 9 (8.18%) vSphere
4 5 (4.55%) NFS
5 4 (3.64%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
7 2 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (21.82%) Terraform
2 17 (15.45%) Ansible
3 10 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 9 (8.18%) Puppet
5 3 (2.73%) QRadar
6 2 (1.82%) Kubespray
6 2 (1.82%) SCCM
7 1 (0.91%) Argo
7 1 (0.91%) Grafana
7 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (19.09%) VMware
2 16 (14.55%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.36%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.55%) Cisco
4 5 (4.55%) SAP
5 3 (2.73%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.73%) Splunk
6 2 (1.82%) Aruba
6 2 (1.82%) Citrix
6 2 (1.82%) Oracle
6 2 (1.82%) Ruckus Wireless
6 2 (1.82%) SolarWinds