Bash Jobs in the Thames Valley

Bash Shell
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 168 118
Rank change year-on-year +62 -50 +51
Permanent jobs citing Bash 73 77 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.36% 1.15% 2.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.28% 3.96% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 30 54 79
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £34,324
25th Percentile £47,000 £38,000 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £57,783 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.06% +10.00% -9.09%

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 787 1,946 2,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.48% 28.98% 39.83%
Number of salaries quoted 527 1,586 1,420
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 £34,324
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £44,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £93,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the Thames Valley

Bash
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bash in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Bash in the Thames Valley

Bash
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

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 4 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
Buckinghamshire +45 37 £77,500 +34.78% 10
Oxfordshire +51 23 £52,500 +31.25% 16
Berkshire +25 13 £52,000 +0.97% 13
Bash
South East

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (17.81%) Azure
2 3 (4.11%) IaaS
2 3 (4.11%) PaaS
2 3 (4.11%) SaaS
3 2 (2.74%) AWS
3 2 (2.74%) GCP
3 2 (2.74%) GitHub
4 1 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 34 (46.58%) TCP/IP
1 34 (46.58%) VPN
2 9 (12.33%) 5G
2 9 (12.33%) Bluetooth
2 9 (12.33%) LTE
2 9 (12.33%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.74%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) MySQL
2 2 (2.74%) Metadata
2 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.74%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (46.58%) Cucumber
1 34 (46.58%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (64.38%) Social Skills
2 43 (58.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (46.58%) Telecoms
4 9 (12.33%) Electronics
5 2 (2.74%) Games
5 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (46.58%) Test Automation Engineer
1 34 (46.58%) Test Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Software Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Lead
3 9 (12.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) Senior
5 7 (9.59%) Administrator
6 5 (6.85%) Junior
6 5 (6.85%) Linux Administrator
6 5 (6.85%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 5 (6.85%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Junior Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.48%) Junior Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Developer
8 3 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Senior DBA
9 2 (2.74%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.11%) CSS
1 3 (4.11%) HTML
2 2 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.74%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (46.58%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (15.07%) IoT
3 9 (12.33%) NB-IoT
4 8 (10.96%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.74%) Acoustics
5 2 (2.74%) Clustering
5 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.74%) Online Games
5 2 (2.74%) Replication
5 2 (2.74%) Self-Driving Car
5 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 66 (90.41%) Linux
2 43 (58.90%) Windows
3 10 (13.70%) Unix
4 9 (12.33%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.85%) SUSE
5 5 (6.85%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (2.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (52.05%) DevOps
2 35 (47.95%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (47.95%) Test Automation
3 34 (46.58%) Coaching
3 34 (46.58%) Mentoring
3 34 (46.58%) System Testing
3 34 (46.58%) Test Management
4 19 (26.03%) Software Testing
5 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (16.44%) Software Engineering
6 10 (13.70%) Computer Science
6 10 (13.70%) Penetration Testing
7 9 (12.33%) Asset Management
7 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (12.33%) Project Planning
7 9 (12.33%) Strategic Thinking
8 8 (10.96%) Mathematics
8 8 (10.96%) Performance Analysis
8 8 (10.96%) Physics
8 8 (10.96%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 68 (93.15%) Python
2 47 (64.38%) PowerShell
3 36 (49.32%) JavaScript
4 10 (13.70%) C
4 10 (13.70%) C++
4 10 (13.70%) Fortran
5 6 (8.22%) SQL
6 2 (2.74%) Java
6 2 (2.74%) Ruby
7 1 (1.37%) C#
Qualifications
1 53 (72.60%) Degree
2 10 (13.70%) Master's Degree
2 10 (13.70%) PhD
2 10 (13.70%) SC Cleared
2 10 (13.70%) Security Cleared
3 9 (12.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 9 (12.33%) Network+ Certification
4 8 (10.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (46.58%) QA
System Software
1 16 (21.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (12.33%) vSphere
3 5 (6.85%) Docker
3 5 (6.85%) NFS
4 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.74%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (21.92%) Terraform
2 13 (17.81%) Ansible
3 9 (12.33%) Puppet
4 8 (10.96%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.74%) Kubespray
5 2 (2.74%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (21.92%) VMware
2 11 (15.07%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.85%) SAP
4 2 (2.74%) Citrix
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle
4 2 (2.74%) SolarWinds