Bash Jobs in the UK excluding London

Bash Shell
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 251 149
Rank change year-on-year +50 -102 +43
Permanent jobs citing Bash 642 795 1,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.49% 1.06% 2.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.18% 3.61% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 215 487 593
10th Percentile £45,850 £37,500 £38,999
25th Percentile £51,049 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £57,500 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -6.01% +5.09%
75th Percentile £74,375 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £80,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,387 22,007 19,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.10% 29.21% 37.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6,661 15,691 12,559
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
North of England +172 313 £62,500 +12.61% 70
North West +157 288 £60,000 - 33
South East -13 143 £68,750 +25.00% 96
East of England +45 83 £62,000 +3.33% 67
Midlands +82 54 £57,435 -4.28% 42
South West -48 42 £57,443 +4.44% 47
East Midlands +46 28 £57,500 +15.00% 15
West Midlands +69 25 £55,000 -15.38% 23
Yorkshire +32 20 £63,750 +29.38% 30
Scotland +59 12 £80,000 +33.33% 26
North East +28 5 £47,500 -3.60% 7
Wales +28 2 £57,500 +27.78% 10
Northern Ireland +29 1 £55,000 -21.43% 18
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (1.87%) Apache Spark
1 12 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (0.78%) Confluence
3 4 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.62%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.47%) IIS
4 3 (0.47%) SAS
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.16%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.16%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.16%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 163 (25.39%) AWS
2 109 (16.98%) Azure
3 65 (10.12%) Pulumi
4 37 (5.76%) GCP
5 31 (4.83%) GitHub
6 24 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (2.80%) Serverless
9 15 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.18%) SaaS
11 13 (2.02%) IaaS
11 13 (2.02%) Power Platform
12 12 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (1.40%) PaaS
15 8 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 348 (54.21%) VPN
2 260 (40.50%) Cisco IOS
3 79 (12.31%) TCP/IP
4 69 (10.75%) Broadband
5 57 (8.88%) Firewall
6 15 (2.34%) DNS
7 11 (1.71%) Network Security
8 10 (1.56%) iSCSI
8 10 (1.56%) SAN
9 9 (1.40%) Internet
10 8 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (1.25%) Remote Desktop
11 7 (1.09%) DHCP
11 7 (1.09%) FTP
11 7 (1.09%) HTTP
11 7 (1.09%) LAN
11 7 (1.09%) SMTP
11 7 (1.09%) WAN
12 6 (0.93%) VLAN
13 4 (0.62%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (11.68%) Relational Database
2 74 (11.53%) NoSQL
3 68 (10.59%) RDBMS
4 23 (3.58%) MySQL
5 19 (2.96%) SQL Server
6 18 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.87%) Big Data
9 12 (1.87%) Power BI
10 9 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.78%) Metadata
12 4 (0.62%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.62%) SQLite
13 3 (0.47%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.47%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.47%) QlikView
13 3 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 66 (10.28%) Jaeger
2 62 (9.66%) Cucumber
2 62 (9.66%) Robot Framework
3 38 (5.92%) Jenkins
4 31 (4.83%) GitLab
5 19 (2.96%) Git
6 14 (2.18%) JIRA
7 7 (1.09%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.78%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.78%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.62%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.31%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.31%) JUnit
10 2 (0.31%) Mockito
10 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.16%) Maven
11 1 (0.16%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.16%) Subversion
11 1 (0.16%) TestRail
General
1 395 (61.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 281 (43.77%) Analytical Skills
3 132 (20.56%) Social Skills
4 75 (11.68%) Telecoms
5 31 (4.83%) Finance
6 11 (1.71%) Banking
7 10 (1.56%) Public Sector
8 9 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (0.78%) Manufacturing
9 5 (0.78%) Retail
10 4 (0.62%) Back Office
10 4 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.62%) Electronics
10 4 (0.62%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.62%) Marketing
11 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.47%) Games
12 2 (0.31%) Billing
12 2 (0.31%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 274 (42.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 102 (15.89%) Lead
3 65 (10.12%) Team Leader
4 64 (9.97%) Test Engineer
5 62 (9.66%) Test Automation Engineer
6 45 (7.01%) Senior
7 38 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 34 (5.30%) Administrator
9 31 (4.83%) Systems Administrator
10 26 (4.05%) Linux Administrator
11 24 (3.74%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 22 (3.43%) Linux Engineer
12 22 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (2.34%) Analyst
14 15 (2.34%) Support Engineer
15 14 (2.18%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (2.18%) Software Engineer
16 11 (1.71%) Developer
17 10 (1.56%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (53.12%) Elastic Stack
2 66 (10.28%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (2.18%) LDAP
4 9 (1.40%) ARM Templates
5 6 (0.93%) Kafka
5 6 (0.93%) Pandas
6 5 (0.78%) .NET
7 4 (0.62%) ADO
7 4 (0.62%) HTML
8 3 (0.47%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.47%) CSS
8 3 (0.47%) Loki
8 3 (0.47%) Plotly
8 3 (0.47%) PySpark
8 3 (0.47%) Regular Expression
8 3 (0.47%) Shiny
8 3 (0.47%) Spring
9 2 (0.31%) Qt
9 2 (0.31%) REST
9 2 (0.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 261 (40.65%) Cyberattack
2 77 (11.99%) Linux Command Line
3 20 (3.12%) Management Information System
4 17 (2.65%) Cloud Native
5 14 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (1.87%) Security Posture
7 11 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
9 9 (1.40%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.25%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.09%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (1.09%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.78%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.78%) IoT
13 4 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.47%) Embedded Systems
14 3 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 513 (79.91%) Linux
2 379 (59.03%) Windows
3 260 (40.50%) Android
4 79 (12.31%) Unix
5 28 (4.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (2.49%) Mac OS
7 15 (2.34%) Windows Server
8 14 (2.18%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.56%) Debian
10 9 (1.40%) CentOS
10 9 (1.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 8 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.78%) SUSE
13 2 (0.31%) AIX
13 2 (0.31%) Check Point GAiA
13 2 (0.31%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.16%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.16%) Solaris
14 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (74.77%) DevOps
2 378 (58.88%) Problem-Solving
3 338 (52.65%) Task Automation
4 289 (45.02%) Platform Engineering
5 278 (43.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 267 (41.59%) Line Management
7 264 (41.12%) Mathematics
8 261 (40.65%) Storage Management
9 260 (40.50%) Risk Management
10 170 (26.48%) Mentoring
11 124 (19.31%) Containerisation
12 122 (19.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 101 (15.73%) Agile
14 85 (13.24%) High Availability
15 78 (12.15%) CI/CD
15 78 (12.15%) Continuous Integration
16 72 (11.21%) Test Automation
17 71 (11.06%) Coaching
17 71 (11.06%) Resource Management
18 69 (10.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 592 (92.21%) Python
2 446 (69.47%) PowerShell
3 133 (20.72%) JavaScript
4 89 (13.86%) Java
5 70 (10.90%) Go
6 44 (6.85%) SQL
7 19 (2.96%) C++
8 18 (2.80%) Perl
9 17 (2.65%) C#
10 14 (2.18%) Bicep
11 13 (2.02%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.71%) C
13 10 (1.56%) Korn
14 9 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (1.09%) R
17 6 (0.93%) Ruby
18 4 (0.62%) Fortran
18 4 (0.62%) TypeScript
19 3 (0.47%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 119 (18.54%) Degree
2 83 (12.93%) AWS Certification
3 38 (5.92%) Security Cleared
4 22 (3.43%) DV Cleared
4 22 (3.43%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.80%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.56%) CEH
8 10 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (1.56%) OSCP
9 8 (1.25%) CISSP
9 8 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.09%) CISM
10 7 (1.09%) RHCE
11 5 (0.78%) PhD
12 4 (0.62%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.62%) GCIH
12 4 (0.62%) Linux+ Certification
12 4 (0.62%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (11.37%) QA
2 29 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.89%) GDPR
4 17 (2.65%) NIST
5 12 (1.87%) HIPAA
6 8 (1.25%) COBIT
6 8 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.62%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.31%) JTAG
9 2 (0.31%) SLA
9 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 396 (61.68%) Docker
2 266 (41.43%) Hyper-V
3 262 (40.81%) vSphere
4 260 (40.50%) VMware NSX
5 26 (4.05%) Active Directory
6 24 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 8 (1.25%) NFS
9 5 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.62%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.62%) Postfix
11 3 (0.47%) Apache Flume
11 3 (0.47%) Firmware
11 3 (0.47%) GPFS
11 3 (0.47%) HDFS
11 3 (0.47%) Lustre
12 2 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.31%) Squid
12 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 404 (62.93%) Terraform
2 387 (60.28%) Ansible
3 130 (20.25%) Kubernetes
4 84 (13.08%) Prometheus
5 70 (10.90%) Argo
6 65 (10.12%) Kustomize
7 22 (3.43%) Grafana
8 14 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (2.18%) Puppet
8 14 (2.18%) QRadar
9 8 (1.25%) Kibana
9 8 (1.25%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.25%) SCCM
10 5 (0.78%) Nmap
10 5 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.78%) SCOM
11 3 (0.47%) logstash
11 3 (0.47%) Oozie
11 3 (0.47%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.47%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 295 (45.95%) Splunk
2 268 (41.74%) Cisco
3 261 (40.65%) Juniper
4 260 (40.50%) 3PAR
5 81 (12.62%) Microsoft
6 72 (11.21%) Google
7 36 (5.61%) VMware
8 27 (4.21%) Red Hat
9 14 (2.18%) SAP
10 9 (1.40%) Palo Alto
11 8 (1.25%) Apple
11 8 (1.25%) Dell
12 7 (1.09%) Oracle
13 5 (0.78%) IBM
14 4 (0.62%) F5
14 4 (0.62%) NetApp
14 4 (0.62%) Okta
14 4 (0.62%) Ping Identity
14 4 (0.62%) ServiceNow
15 3 (0.47%) Dynatrace