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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 247 163
Rank change year-on-year -20 -84 +53
Permanent jobs citing Bash 276 399 603
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.66% 1.07% 1.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.16% 3.47% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 195 242 432
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 £78,438 £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 6,633 11,510 11,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 30.75% 37.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,983 6,303 8,880
10th Percentile £29,000 £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 £69,579 £72,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,968
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.23% -3.13%

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 31 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 31 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 -8 66 £61,500 +3.36% 42
South West +8 57 £67,500 -2.17% 33
South East -11 54 £56,965 -14.02% 62
Scotland +15 46 £90,000 +63.64% 10
Midlands +7 29 £60,000 +6.67% 22
Yorkshire -8 29 £75,000 +52.21% 19
North West +5 26 £60,000 -14.29% 17
East of England -5 24 £55,000 - 28
West Midlands +22 21 £60,000 -6.61% 12
North East +12 11 £33,500 -33.00% 7
East Midlands -17 8 £67,750 +69.38% 10
Wales +8 1 £75,000 +25.00% 1
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%) Confluence
5 3 (1.09%) nginx
6 2 (0.72%) Apache
6 2 (0.72%) CMS
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 Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.72%) Shopify
3 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 136 (49.28%) Azure
2 119 (43.12%) AWS
3 50 (18.12%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (17.03%) Entra ID
5 43 (15.58%) GitHub
6 39 (14.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 37 (13.41%) 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
12 17 (6.16%) Google Workspace
13 16 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (5.80%) Apigee
13 16 (5.80%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (4.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (12.68%) Firewall
2 21 (7.61%) Broadband
3 20 (7.25%) TCP/IP
4 18 (6.52%) DNS
5 14 (5.07%) SAN
6 12 (4.35%) VPN
7 10 (3.62%) WAN
8 9 (3.26%) LAN
9 8 (2.90%) DHCP
10 7 (2.54%) Asterisk PBX
10 7 (2.54%) VoIP
11 6 (2.17%) InfiniBand
11 6 (2.17%) Network Security
11 6 (2.17%) PSTN
11 6 (2.17%) VLAN
12 5 (1.81%) HTTP
12 5 (1.81%) iSCSI
13 4 (1.45%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (1.45%) SD-WAN
13 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
5 4 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (1.45%) GIS
5 4 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.45%) Power BI
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%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.72%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.36%) Airbyte
8 1 (0.36%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 83 (30.07%) Jenkins
2 44 (15.94%) GitLab
3 31 (11.23%) Git
4 23 (8.33%) Maven
5 19 (6.88%) SonarQube
6 18 (6.52%) Cypress.io
7 10 (3.62%) JIRA
8 8 (2.90%) CircleCI
9 6 (2.17%) JUnit
9 6 (2.17%) Mockito
9 6 (2.17%) TestRail
10 4 (1.45%) Burp Suite
10 4 (1.45%) Metasploit
10 4 (1.45%) Robot Framework
10 4 (1.45%) Selenium
11 3 (1.09%) Balsamiq
11 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.09%) Subversion
12 2 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.72%) TestNG
General
1 77 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.01%) Finance
3 26 (9.42%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (6.52%) Telecoms
5 17 (6.16%) Games
6 16 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.62%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.17%) Law
9 6 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.45%) Marketing
11 3 (1.09%) Advertising
11 3 (1.09%) Billing
11 3 (1.09%) Electronics
11 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.09%) Military
12 2 (0.72%) Avionics
12 2 (0.72%) Publishing
12 2 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (15.22%) Senior
2 34 (12.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (11.96%) Linux Engineer
4 28 (10.14%) Lead
5 24 (8.70%) 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%) IAM Developer
13 9 (3.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.23%) REST
2 21 (7.61%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (7.61%) SOAP
3 20 (7.25%) GraphQL
4 19 (6.88%) LDAP
4 19 (6.88%) OAuth
5 18 (6.52%) Spring Boot
6 17 (6.16%) OpenID
6 17 (6.16%) SAML
7 16 (5.80%) AngularJS
7 16 (5.80%) Gherkin
7 16 (5.80%) Jest
8 14 (5.07%) ARM Templates
9 12 (4.35%) Spring
10 11 (3.99%) .NET
11 7 (2.54%) Node.js
11 7 (2.54%) React
11 7 (2.54%) YAML
12 6 (2.17%) FreeSWITCH
13 5 (1.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.97%) Cyber Threat
1 22 (7.97%) Product Ownership
2 19 (6.88%) Cyberattack
3 18 (6.52%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.71%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.81%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.45%) 3D Graphics
9 4 (1.45%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.45%) Video on Demand
9 4 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.72%) e-Learning
11 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.72%) Low-Code
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 86 (31.16%) Agile
4 81 (29.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (21.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 53 (19.20%) Roadmaps
7 48 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 46 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (16.30%) Mentoring
10 44 (15.94%) ITIL
11 32 (11.59%) Task Automation
12 30 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
13 27 (9.78%) Cloud Security
14 26 (9.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 25 (9.06%) Machine Learning
16 24 (8.70%) AI
17 23 (8.33%) Computer Science
18 22 (7.97%) Configuration Management
18 22 (7.97%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 187 (67.75%) Python
2 138 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 42 (15.22%) Java
4 29 (10.51%) SQL
5 26 (9.42%) TypeScript
6 17 (6.16%) Groovy
6 17 (6.16%) T-SQL
7 16 (5.80%) Go
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 13 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (4.71%) CISSP
7 13 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (4.35%) CCNP
8 12 (4.35%) SANS
9 10 (3.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 9 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (3.26%) Master's Degree
11 7 (2.54%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (2.17%) PhD
13 5 (1.81%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (1.81%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (1.81%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.78%) NIST
2 20 (7.25%) NCSC
3 13 (4.71%) QA
4 12 (4.35%) Accessibility
5 11 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (3.26%) SLA
7 5 (1.81%) 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 45 (16.30%) 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 91 (32.97%) Terraform
2 80 (28.99%) Kubernetes
3 67 (24.28%) Ansible
4 30 (10.87%) Grafana
5 24 (8.70%) 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 47 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.42%) Red Hat
3 22 (7.97%) VMware
4 16 (5.80%) Cisco
4 16 (5.80%) Splunk
5 13 (4.71%) NetApp
6 12 (4.35%) Oracle
7 11 (3.99%) Google
8 7 (2.54%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.54%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.81%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.81%) Dell
9 5 (1.81%) Informatica
9 5 (1.81%) LogicMonitor
9 5 (1.81%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.81%) Talend
10 4 (1.45%) Juniper
11 3 (1.09%) EMC
11 3 (1.09%) IBM
11 3 (1.09%) McAfee