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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 254 147
Rank change year-on-year +65 -107 +46
Permanent jobs citing Bash 637 808 1,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.59% 1.02% 2.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.05% 3.46% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 199 506 578
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,999
25th Percentile £49,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,500 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.28% +5.61%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 10,523 23,352 21,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.33% 29.56% 38.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6,735 16,842 12,866
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +202 309 £62,500 +4.17% 171
North West +161 288 £60,000 -6.09% 114
South East +22 141 £65,000 +23.81% 223
East of England +60 85 £61,000 +1.67% 100
Midlands +69 49 £55,000 - 47
South West -58 43 £57,443 +4.44% 58
East Midlands +51 25 £55,000 +10.00% 20
West Midlands +57 23 £55,000 -8.33% 24
Yorkshire +57 17 £68,750 +52.78% 50
Scotland +75 14 £80,000 +33.33% 59
North East +42 4 £47,500 +5.56% 7
Wales +36 2 £57,500 +27.78% 11
Northern Ireland +31 1 £55,000 -21.43% 22
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 11 (1.73%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.78%) Confluence
4 4 (0.63%) IIS
5 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.31%) Apache
6 2 (0.31%) nginx
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.31%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 139 (21.82%) AWS
2 88 (13.81%) Azure
3 65 (10.20%) Pulumi
4 30 (4.71%) GCP
5 29 (4.55%) GitHub
6 17 (2.67%) SaaS
7 15 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (2.35%) Serverless
8 14 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.88%) IaaS
10 12 (1.88%) PaaS
10 12 (1.88%) Power Platform
11 9 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 343 (53.85%) VPN
2 262 (41.13%) Cisco IOS
3 76 (11.93%) TCP/IP
4 69 (10.83%) Broadband
5 52 (8.16%) Firewall
6 15 (2.35%) 5G
7 14 (2.20%) DNS
8 13 (2.04%) Bluetooth
8 13 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (1.88%) LTE
10 10 (1.57%) HTTP
10 10 (1.57%) Intrusion Detection
11 9 (1.41%) Network Security
11 9 (1.41%) VLAN
12 8 (1.26%) DHCP
12 8 (1.26%) Internet
13 7 (1.10%) FTP
13 7 (1.10%) LAN
13 7 (1.10%) SMTP
13 7 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (11.77%) Relational Database
2 73 (11.46%) NoSQL
3 68 (10.68%) RDBMS
4 17 (2.67%) MySQL
5 16 (2.51%) SQL Server
6 15 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.73%) Big Data
8 11 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.73%) Power BI
9 8 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.63%) Metadata
11 3 (0.47%) Apache Hive
11 3 (0.47%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.47%) SQLite
11 3 (0.47%) Tableau
12 2 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 66 (10.36%) Jaeger
2 62 (9.73%) Cucumber
2 62 (9.73%) Robot Framework
3 38 (5.97%) Jenkins
4 31 (4.87%) GitLab
5 14 (2.20%) Git
6 7 (1.10%) JIRA
6 7 (1.10%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.78%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.31%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.31%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.31%) JUnit
9 2 (0.31%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.31%) Mockito
10 1 (0.16%) CMake
10 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.16%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.16%) WiX
General
1 405 (63.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 278 (43.64%) Analytical Skills
3 122 (19.15%) Social Skills
4 75 (11.77%) Telecoms
5 38 (5.97%) Finance
6 15 (2.35%) Electronics
7 13 (2.04%) Banking
8 7 (1.10%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.10%) Retail
9 4 (0.63%) Back Office
9 4 (0.63%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.63%) Marketing
10 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.47%) Games
10 3 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.31%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.31%) Billing
11 2 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 282 (44.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 115 (18.05%) Lead
3 65 (10.20%) Team Leader
4 64 (10.05%) Test Engineer
5 62 (9.73%) Test Automation Engineer
6 45 (7.06%) Senior
7 34 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
8 32 (5.02%) Administrator
9 30 (4.71%) Systems Administrator
10 24 (3.77%) Linux Administrator
10 24 (3.77%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 20 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (3.14%) Software Engineer
12 18 (2.83%) Analyst
13 15 (2.35%) Linux Engineer
14 13 (2.04%) Cloud Engineer
14 13 (2.04%) Support Engineer
15 12 (1.88%) Azure Engineer
16 11 (1.73%) Developer
16 11 (1.73%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (53.06%) Elastic Stack
2 66 (10.36%) OpenTelemetry
3 13 (2.04%) LDAP
4 7 (1.10%) ADO
5 6 (0.94%) Kafka
5 6 (0.94%) Pandas
6 5 (0.78%) HTML
7 4 (0.63%) .NET
7 4 (0.63%) CSS
8 3 (0.47%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.47%) Loki
8 3 (0.47%) Spring
9 2 (0.31%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.31%) Middleware
9 2 (0.31%) Plotly
9 2 (0.31%) PySpark
9 2 (0.31%) RESTful
9 2 (0.31%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (0.31%) Shiny
9 2 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 260 (40.82%) Cyberattack
2 75 (11.77%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 16 (2.51%) IoT
5 15 (2.35%) Data Centre
6 14 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (1.73%) NB-IoT
8 10 (1.57%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.57%) Private Cloud
8 10 (1.57%) Security Operations Centre
9 9 (1.41%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.26%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.10%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (1.10%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.47%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 525 (82.42%) Linux
2 393 (61.70%) Windows
3 260 (40.82%) Android
4 87 (13.66%) Unix
5 29 (4.55%) Windows Server
6 21 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (2.35%) Mac OS
8 10 (1.57%) Ubuntu
9 8 (1.26%) CentOS
10 7 (1.10%) Debian
11 5 (0.78%) SUSE
11 5 (0.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.31%) Solaris
14 1 (0.16%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (73.16%) DevOps
2 378 (59.34%) Problem-Solving
3 335 (52.59%) Task Automation
4 286 (44.90%) Platform Engineering
5 285 (44.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 270 (42.39%) Line Management
7 269 (42.23%) Mathematics
8 261 (40.97%) Risk Management
8 261 (40.97%) Storage Management
9 165 (25.90%) Mentoring
10 130 (20.41%) Infrastructure as Code
11 117 (18.37%) Containerisation
12 91 (14.29%) Agile
13 82 (12.87%) High Availability
14 74 (11.62%) Continuous Integration
15 73 (11.46%) Coaching
16 72 (11.30%) Roadmaps
17 71 (11.15%) Test Automation
18 70 (10.99%) CI/CD
19 69 (10.83%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 596 (93.56%) Python
2 446 (70.02%) PowerShell
3 134 (21.04%) JavaScript
4 86 (13.50%) Java
5 70 (10.99%) Go
6 48 (7.54%) SQL
7 24 (3.77%) C++
8 19 (2.98%) C#
9 18 (2.83%) C
10 17 (2.67%) Perl
11 12 (1.88%) Bicep
12 10 (1.57%) Fortran
12 10 (1.57%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.41%) Ruby
14 8 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.94%) R
16 5 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.47%) Korn
17 3 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 124 (19.47%) Degree
2 78 (12.24%) AWS Certification
3 42 (6.59%) Security Cleared
4 28 (4.40%) DV Cleared
5 27 (4.24%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 13 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.73%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.73%) Network+ Certification
9 10 (1.57%) PhD
10 9 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.10%) CEH
12 6 (0.94%) RHCE
13 5 (0.78%) CISSP
14 4 (0.63%) CISM
14 4 (0.63%) GCIH
14 4 (0.63%) OSCP
15 3 (0.47%) CompTIA CySA+
15 3 (0.47%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (11.30%) QA
2 27 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.14%) GDPR
4 10 (1.57%) COBIT
4 10 (1.57%) NIST
5 8 (1.26%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.26%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.47%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.31%) JTAG
7 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.16%) NCSC
8 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 380 (59.65%) Docker
2 273 (42.86%) vSphere
3 267 (41.92%) Hyper-V
4 260 (40.82%) VMware NSX
5 32 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (3.92%) Active Directory
7 9 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.26%) NFS
9 4 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.47%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.47%) Firmware
10 3 (0.47%) GPFS
10 3 (0.47%) Lustre
10 3 (0.47%) Postfix
10 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.31%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.31%) HDFS
11 2 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 406 (63.74%) Terraform
2 397 (62.32%) Ansible
3 115 (18.05%) Kubernetes
4 81 (12.72%) Prometheus
5 70 (10.99%) Argo
6 65 (10.20%) Kustomize
7 29 (4.55%) Puppet
8 17 (2.67%) Grafana
9 12 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (1.73%) QRadar
11 10 (1.57%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.41%) SCCM
13 6 (0.94%) Kibana
13 6 (0.94%) SCOM
14 4 (0.63%) SCOrch
15 3 (0.47%) Nagios
15 3 (0.47%) Proxmox
16 2 (0.31%) Kubespray
16 2 (0.31%) Rancher
16 2 (0.31%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 282 (44.27%) Splunk
2 269 (42.23%) Cisco
3 262 (41.13%) Juniper
4 260 (40.82%) 3PAR
5 75 (11.77%) Microsoft
6 71 (11.15%) Google
7 42 (6.59%) VMware
8 16 (2.51%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.73%) SAP
10 7 (1.10%) Oracle
11 6 (0.94%) Apple
12 4 (0.63%) Citrix
12 4 (0.63%) F5
12 4 (0.63%) NetApp
12 4 (0.63%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.47%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.47%) Okta
13 3 (0.47%) Ping Identity
13 3 (0.47%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.47%) SolarWinds