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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 122 136
Rank change year-on-year -26 +14 +25
Permanent jobs citing Bash 23 60 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.57% 1.77% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.99% 5.32% 4.72%
Number of salaries quoted 21 43 44
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,675
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,430 £56,509 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +2.74% +27.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £82,350
South East median annual salary £56,430 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.95% - +11.63%

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 577 1,127 1,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.31% 33.30% 33.75%
Number of salaries quoted 437 663 1,016
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,250 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

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 January 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 January 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
Buckinghamshire -4 12 £75,000 +87.50% 3
Berkshire -24 10 £50,000 -35.48% 22
Oxfordshire +11 1 £125,000 +146.33% 2
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 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (39.13%) AWS
4 7 (30.43%) GitHub
4 7 (30.43%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (26.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (26.09%) Entra ID
6 5 (21.74%) SaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.35%) GCP
7 1 (4.35%) IaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 4 (17.39%) DNS
3 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.35%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (4.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) MySQL
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 7 (30.43%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Lead
1 6 (26.09%) Linux Engineer
1 6 (26.09%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) DevOps Systems Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 5 (21.74%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Software Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) SOC Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.35%) LangGraph
2 1 (4.35%) ModSecurity
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (26.09%) Onboarding
2 4 (17.39%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) VMS
3 5 (21.74%) Ubuntu
3 5 (21.74%) Unix
4 4 (17.39%) Windows
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) Task Automation
3 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
4 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
4 7 (30.43%) Observability
4 7 (30.43%) RBAC
5 6 (26.09%) Matrix Management
5 6 (26.09%) Network Virtualisation
5 6 (26.09%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (26.09%) Resource Management
5 6 (26.09%) Servant Leadership
5 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
7 4 (17.39%) Mathematics
7 4 (17.39%) Open Source
7 4 (17.39%) Parallel Programming
7 4 (17.39%) Performance Analysis
7 4 (17.39%) Physics
7 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
7 4 (17.39%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
3 4 (17.39%) C
3 4 (17.39%) C++
3 4 (17.39%) Fortran
4 1 (4.35%) Go
4 1 (4.35%) Korn
4 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Master's Degree
2 4 (17.39%) PhD
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Docker
2 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) Terraform
2 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
3 7 (30.43%) Ansible
4 2 (8.70%) Argo
5 1 (4.35%) Grafana
5 1 (4.35%) Kubeflow
5 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Red Hat
2 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Dell
3 1 (4.35%) Pure Storage
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) VMware