Bash Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Bash Shell
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 248 224
Rank change year-on-year +15 -24 -25
Permanent jobs citing Bash 369 350 657
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.76% 1.08% 1.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.01% 3.40% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 242 223 488
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,750 £41,125
25th Percentile £46,709 £48,306 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.78%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.40%

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 7,358 10,282 17,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.23% 31.82% 35.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,349 5,668 14,106
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,925 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bash relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Bash job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Bash
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

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 18 February 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
North of England +8 96 £49,222 -31.63% 61
South West +26 90 £62,500 -8.42% 33
Scotland +24 65 £85,000 +47.83% 21
South East -4 61 £58,215 -2.98% 59
Yorkshire +2 49 £65,000 -11.26% 25
Midlands +4 37 £66,500 +20.91% 27
North West -8 27 £50,000 -28.57% 25
West Midlands +14 25 £62,500 +13.64% 18
East of England -16 21 £57,500 +4.55% 10
North East +10 20 £45,000 -28.29% 11
East Midlands -18 12 £67,500 +68.75% 9
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.90%) IIS
4 6 (1.63%) nginx
4 6 (1.63%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (1.63%) SAS
5 5 (1.36%) CMS
6 4 (1.08%) Apache
7 3 (0.81%) Confluence
8 2 (0.54%) JBoss
9 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (1.36%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.81%) CATIA
2 3 (0.81%) Siemens NX
2 3 (0.81%) SOLIDWORKS
2 3 (0.81%) Windchill
3 2 (0.54%) Weka
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Shopify
2 3 (0.81%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 194 (52.57%) Azure
2 168 (45.53%) AWS
3 79 (21.41%) GitHub
4 78 (21.14%) Entra ID
5 69 (18.70%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (18.16%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (13.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 40 (10.84%) Google Workspace
9 39 (10.57%) Serverless
10 37 (10.03%) Amazon S3
11 36 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
11 36 (9.76%) GCP
12 34 (9.21%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (8.67%) Microsoft 365
14 30 (8.13%) Amazon ECR
15 27 (7.32%) Apigee
15 27 (7.32%) AWS Step Functions
16 23 (6.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (5.42%) SaaS
18 18 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 47 (12.74%) Firewall
2 44 (11.92%) Broadband
3 32 (8.67%) DNS
4 31 (8.40%) TCP/IP
5 21 (5.69%) VPN
6 16 (4.34%) HTTP
7 12 (3.25%) DHCP
8 11 (2.98%) VLAN
8 11 (2.98%) VoIP
9 10 (2.71%) Network Security
9 10 (2.71%) WAN
10 9 (2.44%) LAN
11 6 (1.63%) Asterisk PBX
11 6 (1.63%) PSTN
11 6 (1.63%) VSAN
12 5 (1.36%) InfiniBand
13 4 (1.08%) DMZ
13 4 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (1.08%) SD-WAN
13 4 (1.08%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.59%) DynamoDB
2 18 (4.88%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.71%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.17%) MySQL
6 6 (1.63%) Pentaho
7 5 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (1.36%) Big Data
8 4 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.08%) InfluxDB
8 4 (1.08%) Power BI
9 3 (0.81%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.81%) GIS
9 3 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.54%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.54%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.27%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 112 (30.35%) Jenkins
2 59 (15.99%) GitLab
3 42 (11.38%) Git
4 36 (9.76%) Maven
5 32 (8.67%) SonarQube
6 30 (8.13%) Cypress.io
7 12 (3.25%) JIRA
8 10 (2.71%) CircleCI
9 8 (2.17%) JUnit
9 8 (2.17%) Mockito
10 6 (1.63%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.63%) Selenium
10 6 (1.63%) Subversion
10 6 (1.63%) TestRail
11 5 (1.36%) Robot Framework
11 5 (1.36%) Vite
12 4 (1.08%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.81%) Balsamiq
13 3 (0.81%) Metasploit
General
1 102 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 69 (18.70%) Finance
3 49 (13.28%) Organisational Skills
4 35 (9.49%) Games
5 29 (7.86%) Telecoms
6 23 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (5.15%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.34%) Aerospace
8 16 (4.34%) Law
9 9 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.17%) Retail
11 6 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.08%) Billing
12 4 (1.08%) Marketing
13 3 (0.81%) Advertising
13 3 (0.81%) Electronics
13 3 (0.81%) Military
14 2 (0.54%) Avionics
14 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (18.43%) Senior
2 56 (15.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (12.47%) Developer
4 33 (8.94%) Linux Engineer
5 32 (8.67%) Security Engineer
6 30 (8.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 28 (7.59%) Lead
8 24 (6.50%) Java Developer
9 23 (6.23%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (6.23%) Systems Engineer
10 20 (5.42%) Applications Engineer
11 19 (5.15%) Support Engineer
12 18 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (4.88%) Senior Developer
13 17 (4.61%) IAM Developer
13 17 (4.61%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
15 12 (3.25%) Linux Systems Engineer
15 12 (3.25%) Software Engineer
15 12 (3.25%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (15.18%) REST
2 44 (11.92%) OAuth
2 44 (11.92%) SOAP
3 43 (11.65%) GraphQL
4 42 (11.38%) SAML
5 41 (11.11%) LDAP
6 40 (10.84%) OpenID
7 33 (8.94%) Elastic Stack
8 29 (7.86%) Spring Boot
9 28 (7.59%) AngularJS
10 27 (7.32%) Gherkin
10 27 (7.32%) Jest
11 14 (3.79%) ARM Templates
12 12 (3.25%) .NET
12 12 (3.25%) Spring
12 12 (3.25%) YAML
13 11 (2.98%) Node.js
13 11 (2.98%) React
14 10 (2.71%) FreeSWITCH
15 9 (2.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.92%) Cyber Threat
2 42 (11.38%) Cyberattack
3 27 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.79%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.71%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.44%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.17%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.90%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.36%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.08%) Video on Demand
12 4 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
13 3 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 142 (38.48%) Linux
2 60 (16.26%) Windows
3 23 (6.23%) Windows Server
4 18 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (4.61%) CentOS
6 16 (4.34%) Ubuntu
7 14 (3.79%) Unix
8 8 (2.17%) Debian
9 7 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.63%) Mac OS
10 6 (1.63%) VMS
10 6 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.36%) Solaris
12 3 (0.81%) Android
12 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.81%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.27%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.27%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (46.34%) DevOps
2 140 (37.94%) CI/CD
3 118 (31.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 112 (30.35%) Agile
5 84 (22.76%) Mentoring
5 84 (22.76%) Roadmaps
6 73 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 71 (19.24%) Containerisation
7 71 (19.24%) Cybersecurity
8 68 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (13.55%) ITIL
10 45 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 43 (11.65%) Identity Access Management
12 42 (11.38%) Cloud Security
12 42 (11.38%) Programme Delivery
13 40 (10.84%) Regulatory Compliance
14 38 (10.30%) DevSecOps
15 36 (9.76%) High Availability
16 33 (8.94%) Observability
17 32 (8.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 220 (59.62%) Python
2 193 (52.30%) PowerShell
3 56 (15.18%) Java
4 41 (11.11%) SQL
5 40 (10.84%) T-SQL
6 36 (9.76%) TypeScript
7 34 (9.21%) Go
8 28 (7.59%) Groovy
9 17 (4.61%) JavaScript
10 16 (4.34%) C#
11 14 (3.79%) C++
12 12 (3.25%) C
13 10 (2.71%) Bicep
14 7 (1.90%) Perl
14 7 (1.90%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.63%) PHP
15 6 (1.63%) PL/SQL
16 4 (1.08%) R
17 3 (0.81%) Elixir
17 3 (0.81%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 63 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 38 (10.30%) AWS Certification
3 33 (8.94%) Degree
4 29 (7.86%) DV Cleared
4 29 (7.86%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.05%) CREST Certified
6 20 (5.42%) CISSP
6 20 (5.42%) SANS
7 14 (3.79%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (3.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (2.71%) CCNP
9 10 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.44%) Azure Certification
10 9 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (1.90%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.90%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.74%) NIST
2 43 (11.65%) NCSC
3 22 (5.96%) QA
4 20 (5.42%) Accessibility
5 18 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.08%) GDPR
6 4 (1.08%) SLA
7 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.27%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 110 (29.81%) Docker
2 78 (21.14%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (3.25%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.36%) Lustre
7 5 (1.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.81%) Firmware
8 3 (0.81%) iptables
8 3 (0.81%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.81%) vSphere
9 2 (0.54%) Ceph
10 1 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.27%) KVM
10 1 (0.27%) Squid
10 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 133 (36.04%) Terraform
2 96 (26.02%) Kubernetes
3 95 (25.75%) Ansible
4 61 (16.53%) Grafana
5 47 (12.74%) Prometheus
6 27 (7.32%) HP Fortify
7 19 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (3.79%) Argo
9 10 (2.71%) Puppet
10 7 (1.90%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.63%) Rancher
11 6 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.63%) yum
12 5 (1.36%) Kibana
12 5 (1.36%) McAfee ePO
12 5 (1.36%) Podman
12 5 (1.36%) SCVMM
13 4 (1.08%) logstash
14 3 (0.81%) Nagios
14 3 (0.81%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 52 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.94%) Red Hat
3 22 (5.96%) VMware
4 18 (4.88%) Cisco
5 15 (4.07%) Oracle
6 13 (3.52%) Splunk
7 9 (2.44%) Google
8 7 (1.90%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.63%) Cloudera
9 6 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (1.63%) Informatica
9 6 (1.63%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.63%) Talend
10 5 (1.36%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.36%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (1.36%) McAfee
10 5 (1.36%) NetApp
10 5 (1.36%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.08%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.08%) Veeam