Bash Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Bash Shell
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 158 100
Rank change year-on-year +5 -58 -9
Permanent jobs citing Bash 55 41 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.72% 1.08% 2.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.06% 6.90% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 39 36 48
10th Percentile £35,700 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,145 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £55,754
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +25.55% -5.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +20.69% -5.31%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,087 594 1,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.33% 15.68% 28.96%
Number of salaries quoted 852 382 732
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -2.61%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Bash job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Bash
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Bash in the Thames Valley

Bash
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Berkshire +19 24 £65,000 +41.30% 18
Buckinghamshire -14 18 £60,000 -14.29% 7
Oxfordshire -32 13 £45,000 -43.75% 13
Bash
South East

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (10.91%) Confluence
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 38 (69.09%) AWS
2 27 (49.09%) Azure
3 16 (29.09%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (27.27%) Azure Sentinel
4 15 (27.27%) SaaS
5 9 (16.36%) GitHub
6 8 (14.55%) Cloudflare
7 7 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (7.27%) OpenShift
10 3 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
11 2 (3.64%) Apigee
11 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.64%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (3.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (38.18%) Firewall
2 12 (21.82%) DNS
3 10 (18.18%) VPN
4 9 (16.36%) TCP/IP
5 5 (9.09%) DHCP
6 2 (3.64%) iSCSI
6 2 (3.64%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (3.64%) SAN
7 1 (1.82%) DKIM
7 1 (1.82%) DMARC
7 1 (1.82%) DNSSEC
7 1 (1.82%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.64%) Big Data
2 2 (3.64%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.64%) MySQL
2 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) JIRA
2 5 (9.09%) GitLab
3 3 (5.45%) Cypress.io
3 3 (5.45%) Git
4 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.64%) Maven
4 2 (3.64%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.82%) Mocha
General
1 9 (16.36%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Manufacturing
3 4 (7.27%) Banking
4 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Advertising
5 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Military
5 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) Linux Engineer
4 8 (14.55%) Network Engineer
4 8 (14.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) DevOps Systems Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 7 (12.73%) Senior
5 7 (12.73%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Security Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) SOC Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Administrator
7 5 (9.09%) Junior
7 5 (9.09%) Junior DevOps
7 5 (9.09%) Junior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (7.27%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (34.55%) Terraform
2 4 (7.27%) Loki
2 4 (7.27%) Node.js
2 4 (7.27%) React
3 3 (5.45%) Jest
4 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.64%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.64%) Gherkin
4 2 (3.64%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.82%) OpenID
5 1 (1.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) PKI
2 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.91%) CSOC
2 6 (10.91%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (5.45%) Clustering
3 3 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.45%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.45%) Robotics
4 2 (3.64%) ARM Cortex
4 2 (3.64%) Hackathon
4 2 (3.64%) Life Science
4 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (83.64%) Linux
2 22 (40.00%) Windows
3 15 (27.27%) Ubuntu
4 6 (10.91%) Debian
5 5 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (7.27%) Windows Server
7 3 (5.45%) Gentoo
7 3 (5.45%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (5.45%) Rocky
8 2 (3.64%) macOS
9 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.00%) DevOps
2 17 (30.91%) CI/CD
3 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (27.27%) SIEM
4 14 (25.45%) Vulnerability Management
5 13 (23.64%) ITIL
6 12 (21.82%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 9 (16.36%) Cloud Security
9 9 (16.36%) Computer Science
9 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (14.55%) AI
10 8 (14.55%) Security Operations
10 8 (14.55%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 8 (14.55%) Zero Trust
11 7 (12.73%) Agile
11 7 (12.73%) Runbook
12 6 (10.91%) GitOps
12 6 (10.91%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 33 (60.00%) Python
2 22 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (7.27%) Ruby
4 4 (7.27%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.45%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.64%) Bicep
6 2 (3.64%) Groovy
6 2 (3.64%) Java
6 2 (3.64%) Korn
7 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.00%) Degree
3 10 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 8 (14.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (9.09%) CCNA CyberOps
5 5 (9.09%) CEH
5 5 (9.09%) CISSP
5 5 (9.09%) CompTIA CySA+
5 5 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 5 (9.09%) GCIA
5 5 (9.09%) GIAC
6 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (25.45%) Docker
2 12 (21.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (18.18%) Hyper-V
4 8 (14.55%) KVM
5 7 (12.73%) Active Directory
6 3 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (5.45%) vSphere
7 2 (3.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (40.00%) Ansible
2 9 (16.36%) Graylog
2 9 (16.36%) Kubernetes
3 8 (14.55%) Proxmox
3 8 (14.55%) ZABBIX
4 6 (10.91%) Grafana
4 6 (10.91%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.27%) Argo
5 4 (7.27%) Kustomize
6 3 (5.45%) Istio
6 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (5.45%) Podman
7 2 (3.64%) HP Fortify
7 2 (3.64%) SCCM
8 1 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (32.73%) Microsoft
1 18 (32.73%) Red Hat
2 13 (23.64%) VMware
3 8 (14.55%) Veeam
4 5 (9.09%) Cisco
4 5 (9.09%) Fortinet
5 4 (7.27%) IBM
6 3 (5.45%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (5.45%) NVIDIA
7 2 (3.64%) Dell
7 2 (3.64%) Splunk
8 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.82%) Google
8 1 (1.82%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.82%) New Relic
8 1 (1.82%) Okta