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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 249 170
Rank change year-on-year -26 -79 +44
Permanent jobs citing Bash 276 398 607
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.66% 1.07% 1.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.16% 3.46% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 197 241 436
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -3.57%

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 6,630 11,497 11,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.77% 30.82% 37.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,987 6,286 8,947
10th Percentile £28,900 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.17% -3.08%

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 30 December 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 30 December 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 -1 66 £61,500 +3.36% 208
South West +9 56 £67,500 -2.88% 118
South East -9 56 £58,750 -11.32% 269
Scotland +22 45 £90,000 +63.64% 52
Midlands +6 29 £60,000 +6.67% 166
Yorkshire -1 29 £75,000 +52.21% 98
North West +5 26 £60,000 -14.29% 94
East of England -7 24 £55,000 - 147
West Midlands +16 21 £60,000 -6.61% 84
North East +8 11 £33,500 -33.00% 17
East Midlands -22 8 £67,750 +69.38% 75
Wales +3 1 £75,000 +25.00% 22
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 13 (4.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.81%) SAS
4 4 (1.45%) IIS
4 4 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.09%) nginx
6 2 (0.72%) Apache
6 2 (0.72%) CMS
6 2 (0.72%) Confluence
6 2 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.36%) JBoss
7 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) CATIA
1 3 (1.09%) Siemens NX
1 3 (1.09%) SOLIDWORKS
1 3 (1.09%) Windchill
2 2 (0.72%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.72%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.72%) Weka
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.72%) Shopify
3 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 137 (49.64%) Azure
2 119 (43.12%) AWS
3 51 (18.48%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 43 (15.58%) GitHub
6 39 (14.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (13.77%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (9.06%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (9.06%) Serverless
10 23 (8.33%) Amazon S3
11 22 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (7.97%) GCP
12 17 (6.16%) Amazon ECR
13 16 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (5.80%) Apigee
13 16 (5.80%) AWS Step Functions
13 16 (5.80%) Google Workspace
14 13 (4.71%) OpenShift
14 13 (4.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (12.68%) Firewall
2 20 (7.25%) Broadband
2 20 (7.25%) TCP/IP
3 18 (6.52%) DNS
4 14 (5.07%) SAN
5 12 (4.35%) VPN
6 10 (3.62%) WAN
7 9 (3.26%) LAN
8 8 (2.90%) DHCP
9 7 (2.54%) Asterisk PBX
9 7 (2.54%) VoIP
10 6 (2.17%) InfiniBand
10 6 (2.17%) Network Security
10 6 (2.17%) PSTN
10 6 (2.17%) VLAN
11 5 (1.81%) HTTP
11 5 (1.81%) iSCSI
12 4 (1.45%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (1.45%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.16%) DynamoDB
2 13 (4.71%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.54%) MySQL
3 7 (2.54%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.81%) Pentaho
4 5 (1.81%) Power BI
5 4 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (1.45%) GIS
5 4 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.09%) Big Data
6 3 (1.09%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.09%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.72%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 82 (29.71%) Jenkins
2 43 (15.58%) GitLab
3 31 (11.23%) Git
4 22 (7.97%) Maven
5 18 (6.52%) SonarQube
6 17 (6.16%) Cypress.io
7 9 (3.26%) JIRA
8 8 (2.90%) CircleCI
9 6 (2.17%) TestRail
10 5 (1.81%) JUnit
10 5 (1.81%) Mockito
11 4 (1.45%) Burp Suite
11 4 (1.45%) Metasploit
11 4 (1.45%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.09%) Balsamiq
12 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.09%) Selenium
12 3 (1.09%) Subversion
13 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.72%) Xcode
General
1 77 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.01%) Finance
3 25 (9.06%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (6.52%) Telecoms
5 16 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.80%) Games
6 12 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.62%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.17%) Law
8 6 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Marketing
10 3 (1.09%) Advertising
10 3 (1.09%) Billing
10 3 (1.09%) Electronics
10 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.09%) Military
11 2 (0.72%) Avionics
11 2 (0.72%) Publishing
11 2 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (14.86%) Senior
2 34 (12.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (11.96%) Linux Engineer
4 29 (10.51%) Lead
5 25 (9.06%) Platform Engineer
6 23 (8.33%) Developer
7 19 (6.88%) Security Engineer
8 18 (6.52%) Support Engineer
9 13 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
10 12 (4.35%) Support Specialist
11 11 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.99%) Java Developer
11 11 (3.99%) Linux Support
11 11 (3.99%) Linux Support Engineer
12 10 (3.62%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.62%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.62%) Systems Engineer
13 9 (3.26%) Administrator
13 9 (3.26%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.51%) REST
2 20 (7.25%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (7.25%) SOAP
3 19 (6.88%) GraphQL
4 18 (6.52%) LDAP
5 17 (6.16%) OAuth
5 17 (6.16%) Spring Boot
6 16 (5.80%) AngularJS
6 16 (5.80%) Gherkin
6 16 (5.80%) Jest
6 16 (5.80%) OpenID
6 16 (5.80%) SAML
7 14 (5.07%) ARM Templates
8 11 (3.99%) .NET
8 11 (3.99%) Spring
9 7 (2.54%) Node.js
9 7 (2.54%) React
9 7 (2.54%) YAML
10 6 (2.17%) FreeSWITCH
11 5 (1.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.97%) Product Ownership
2 21 (7.61%) Cyber Threat
3 19 (6.88%) Cloud Native
4 18 (6.52%) Cyberattack
5 14 (5.07%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.17%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.81%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.45%) 3D Graphics
10 4 (1.45%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.45%) Video on Demand
10 4 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.72%) e-Learning
11 2 (0.72%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 115 (41.67%) Linux
2 53 (19.20%) Windows
3 26 (9.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (7.97%) Unix
5 15 (5.43%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.71%) Debian
7 11 (3.99%) CentOS
7 11 (3.99%) Solaris
8 10 (3.62%) Ubuntu
9 7 (2.54%) VMS
10 6 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.81%) Mac OS
11 5 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.72%) Android
12 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.72%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.72%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (45.29%) DevOps
2 93 (33.70%) CI/CD
3 85 (30.80%) Agile
4 82 (29.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (21.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 52 (18.84%) Roadmaps
7 48 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 45 (16.30%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (16.30%) Mentoring
10 44 (15.94%) ITIL
11 31 (11.23%) Platform Engineering
11 31 (11.23%) Task Automation
12 27 (9.78%) Cloud Security
13 26 (9.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 25 (9.06%) Machine Learning
15 24 (8.70%) AI
16 23 (8.33%) Computer Science
16 23 (8.33%) Observability
17 22 (7.97%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 187 (67.75%) Python
2 139 (50.36%) PowerShell
3 41 (14.86%) Java
4 29 (10.51%) SQL
5 26 (9.42%) TypeScript
6 17 (6.16%) Groovy
7 16 (5.80%) Go
7 16 (5.80%) T-SQL
8 13 (4.71%) C#
9 12 (4.35%) C++
10 11 (3.99%) Bicep
10 11 (3.99%) C
10 11 (3.99%) Korn
11 9 (3.26%) JavaScript
12 8 (2.90%) Shell Script
13 7 (2.54%) Perl
14 4 (1.45%) Fortran
14 4 (1.45%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.09%) VBScript
16 2 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 57 (20.65%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.86%) Degree
3 30 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 29 (10.51%) DV Cleared
5 22 (7.97%) AWS Certification
6 18 (6.52%) CREST Certified
7 14 (5.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (4.71%) CISSP
9 12 (4.35%) CCNP
9 12 (4.35%) SANS
10 10 (3.62%) CompTIA Security+
11 9 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (3.26%) Master's Degree
12 7 (2.54%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (2.17%) PhD
14 5 (1.81%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (1.81%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.42%) NIST
2 19 (6.88%) NCSC
3 13 (4.71%) QA
4 12 (4.35%) Accessibility
5 11 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (3.26%) SLA
7 6 (2.17%) GDPR
8 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.36%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
System Software
1 81 (29.35%) Docker
2 44 (15.94%) Active Directory
3 20 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (2.90%) Hyper-V
7 6 (2.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 5 (1.81%) Lustre
9 4 (1.45%) Firmware
10 3 (1.09%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (1.09%) vSphere
11 2 (0.72%) Ceph
11 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.36%) iptables
12 1 (0.36%) KVM
12 1 (0.36%) Squid
12 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 92 (33.33%) Terraform
2 80 (28.99%) Kubernetes
3 67 (24.28%) Ansible
4 29 (10.51%) Grafana
5 23 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.80%) HP Fortify
7 13 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (3.99%) Argo
9 6 (2.17%) Puppet
10 4 (1.45%) Nmap
10 4 (1.45%) Podman
10 4 (1.45%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.09%) Kibana
11 3 (1.09%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (1.09%) Nessus
11 3 (1.09%) Rancher
11 3 (1.09%) SCVMM
11 3 (1.09%) yum
12 2 (0.72%) BMC PATROL
12 2 (0.72%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 49 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.42%) Red Hat
3 22 (7.97%) VMware
4 16 (5.80%) Cisco
5 15 (5.43%) Splunk
6 13 (4.71%) NetApp
7 11 (3.99%) Oracle
8 10 (3.62%) Google
9 7 (2.54%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.54%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.81%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.81%) Dell
10 5 (1.81%) Informatica
10 5 (1.81%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (1.81%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.81%) Talend
11 4 (1.45%) Juniper
12 3 (1.09%) EMC
12 3 (1.09%) McAfee
12 3 (1.09%) SAP