Bash Shell
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 226 150
Rank change year-on-year +46 -76 +25
Permanent jobs citing Bash 1,037 1,323 2,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.76% 1.23% 2.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.18% 3.89% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 398 820 1,246
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,208 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £57,500 £61,180
% change year-on-year +7.83% -6.01% +1.97%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,779 34,024 36,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.51% 31.55% 41.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10,724 25,247 25,610
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the UK

Bash
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bash.

Salary trend for Bash in the UK

Bash
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Bash in the UK

Bash
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +43 1,006 £67,500 +8.00% 732
Work from Home +84 663 £70,000 +11.50% 385
UK excluding London +60 639 £62,000 +7.83% 411
North of England +195 314 £62,500 +4.17% 109
North West +158 289 £60,000 -2.27% 73
London -9 285 £82,500 +10.00% 359
South East -9 142 £67,500 +22.73% 98
East of England +54 83 £62,000 +3.33% 91
Midlands +73 51 £56,250 -6.25% 33
South West -35 42 £57,443 +4.44% 47
East Midlands +50 28 £57,500 +15.00% 17
West Midlands +64 22 £55,000 -15.38% 16
Yorkshire +49 20 £63,750 +34.21% 27
Scotland +61 12 £80,000 +33.33% 24
North East +38 5 £47,500 -5.00% 9
Wales +37 2 £57,500 +27.78% 4
Northern Ireland +30 1 £55,000 -21.43% 15

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (1.35%) Apache Spark
3 10 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.87%) Confluence
4 9 (0.87%) nginx
4 9 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.48%) Apache
5 5 (0.48%) IIS
6 4 (0.39%) Traefik
7 3 (0.29%) SAS
7 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.19%) CICS
8 2 (0.19%) JBoss
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.096%) CMS
9 1 (0.096%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 24 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.45%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.096%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.096%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.096%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.096%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 427 (41.18%) AWS
2 226 (21.79%) Pulumi
3 209 (20.15%) Azure
4 84 (8.10%) GCP
5 54 (5.21%) GitHub
6 44 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 44 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (3.38%) SaaS
7 35 (3.38%) Serverless
8 28 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (2.70%) IaaS
8 28 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (2.03%) PaaS
11 20 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (1.64%) Amazon S3
13 15 (1.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 370 (35.68%) VPN
2 262 (25.27%) Cisco IOS
3 219 (21.12%) Broadband
4 93 (8.97%) Firewall
4 93 (8.97%) TCP/IP
5 33 (3.18%) DNS
6 18 (1.74%) Network Security
7 17 (1.64%) DHCP
8 15 (1.45%) OSPF
9 14 (1.35%) BGP
10 13 (1.25%) MPLS
10 13 (1.25%) VLAN
11 10 (0.96%) HTTP
11 10 (0.96%) Internet
11 10 (0.96%) LAN
11 10 (0.96%) Multicast
11 10 (0.96%) WAN
12 8 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
12 8 (0.77%) SAN
13 7 (0.68%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (23.53%) Relational Database
2 230 (22.18%) NoSQL
3 218 (21.02%) RDBMS
4 35 (3.38%) SQL Server
5 29 (2.80%) MySQL
6 28 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (1.35%) Big Data
9 14 (1.35%) Power BI
10 11 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.58%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.48%) Metadata
13 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.39%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.39%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 216 (20.83%) Jaeger
2 78 (7.52%) Git
3 65 (6.27%) Cucumber
4 64 (6.17%) Robot Framework
5 63 (6.08%) Jenkins
6 51 (4.92%) GitLab
7 26 (2.51%) JIRA
8 12 (1.16%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.87%) Artifactory
10 8 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.68%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.58%) Burp Suite
12 6 (0.58%) Metasploit
12 6 (0.58%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.48%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.48%) WiX
14 3 (0.29%) JUnit
14 3 (0.29%) Maven
14 3 (0.29%) TestRail
15 2 (0.19%) CMake
General
1 555 (53.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 298 (28.74%) Analytical Skills
3 204 (19.67%) Social Skills
4 139 (13.40%) Finance
5 86 (8.29%) Telecoms
6 75 (7.23%) Banking
7 17 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (0.96%) Public Sector
10 9 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 9 (0.87%) Retail
11 7 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.68%) Law
11 7 (0.68%) Marketing
12 6 (0.58%) Advertising
12 6 (0.58%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.48%) Back Office
14 4 (0.39%) Electronics
14 4 (0.39%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 276 (26.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 275 (26.52%) Lead
3 216 (20.83%) Team Leader
4 84 (8.10%) DevOps Engineer
4 84 (8.10%) Senior
5 66 (6.36%) Test Engineer
6 64 (6.17%) Test Automation Engineer
7 48 (4.63%) Administrator
7 48 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
8 43 (4.15%) Systems Administrator
9 41 (3.95%) Linux Engineer
10 39 (3.76%) Analyst
10 39 (3.76%) Linux Administrator
11 36 (3.47%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 35 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
13 31 (2.99%) Software Engineer
14 28 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
14 28 (2.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 27 (2.60%) Linux Support
15 27 (2.60%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 506 (48.79%) Elastic Stack
2 217 (20.93%) OpenTelemetry
3 23 (2.22%) .NET
4 22 (2.12%) FIX Protocol
5 18 (1.74%) LDAP
6 15 (1.45%) REST
7 14 (1.35%) ARM Templates
7 14 (1.35%) Kafka
7 14 (1.35%) RESTful
8 12 (1.16%) YAML
9 11 (1.06%) Loki
9 11 (1.06%) Pandas
10 9 (0.87%) SOAP
11 8 (0.77%) AWS CDK
11 8 (0.77%) Jinja
11 8 (0.77%) Middleware
11 8 (0.77%) React
12 7 (0.68%) Node.js
13 6 (0.58%) .NET Framework
14 5 (0.48%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 265 (25.55%) Cyberattack
2 96 (9.26%) Linux Command Line
3 42 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.12%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.12%) Management Information System
6 19 (1.83%) Public Cloud
7 15 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.45%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.06%) Equities
9 10 (0.96%) Algorithms
9 10 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
9 10 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (0.87%) Fixed Income
11 8 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (0.77%) Private Cloud
12 7 (0.68%) Client/Server
12 7 (0.68%) Derivative
12 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (0.68%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 794 (76.57%) Linux
2 420 (40.50%) Windows
3 266 (25.65%) Unix
4 262 (25.27%) Android
5 49 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (2.80%) Mac OS
7 26 (2.51%) Windows Server
8 23 (2.22%) CentOS
9 18 (1.74%) Ubuntu
10 12 (1.16%) Rocky
11 11 (1.06%) Debian
12 9 (0.87%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 6 (0.58%) VMS
13 6 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.48%) SUSE
15 4 (0.39%) Solaris
15 4 (0.39%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.19%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.19%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (72.42%) DevOps
2 503 (48.51%) Task Automation
3 443 (42.72%) Problem-Solving
4 360 (34.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 348 (33.56%) Mentoring
6 336 (32.40%) Platform Engineering
7 317 (30.57%) Containerisation
8 291 (28.06%) Agile
9 284 (27.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 275 (26.52%) High Availability
11 272 (26.23%) Mathematics
12 269 (25.94%) Line Management
13 266 (25.65%) Risk Management
14 265 (25.55%) Storage Management
15 236 (22.76%) Continuous Integration
16 230 (22.18%) Cost Optimisation
16 230 (22.18%) Roadmaps
17 225 (21.70%) Resource Management
18 222 (21.41%) GitOps
18 222 (21.41%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 956 (92.19%) Python
2 535 (51.59%) PowerShell
3 299 (28.83%) JavaScript
4 263 (25.36%) Java
5 248 (23.92%) Go
6 95 (9.16%) SQL
7 40 (3.86%) Perl
8 32 (3.09%) C++
9 27 (2.60%) C#
10 25 (2.41%) Bicep
11 23 (2.22%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.64%) C
12 17 (1.64%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.96%) Ruby
15 9 (0.87%) Fortran
15 9 (0.87%) R
16 8 (0.77%) Korn
16 8 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 241 (23.24%) AWS Certification
2 144 (13.89%) Degree
3 57 (5.50%) Security Cleared
4 37 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 32 (3.09%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 23 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.25%) CCNP
8 13 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.16%) CCNA
9 12 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.16%) OSCP
10 10 (0.96%) CEH
10 10 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
11 9 (0.87%) CISSP
11 9 (0.87%) PhD
12 8 (0.77%) CISM
12 8 (0.77%) RHCSA
13 7 (0.68%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (8.00%) QA
2 40 (3.86%) GDPR
3 38 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (2.51%) NIST
5 13 (1.25%) HIPAA
6 10 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 10 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.77%) COBIT
7 8 (0.77%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.48%) GRC
9 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.19%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.19%) JTAG
10 2 (0.19%) SLA
11 1 (0.096%) NCSC
11 1 (0.096%) PMO
System Software
1 594 (57.28%) Docker
2 271 (26.13%) Hyper-V
3 266 (25.65%) vSphere
4 262 (25.27%) VMware NSX
5 47 (4.53%) Active Directory
6 43 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 16 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.77%) NFS
10 6 (0.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 6 (0.58%) Postfix
11 4 (0.39%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.39%) Firmware
11 4 (0.39%) zsh
12 3 (0.29%) Apache Flume
12 3 (0.29%) GPFS
12 3 (0.29%) HDFS
12 3 (0.29%) KVM
12 3 (0.29%) Lustre
13 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 636 (61.33%) Terraform
2 603 (58.15%) Ansible
3 361 (34.81%) Kubernetes
4 269 (25.94%) Prometheus
5 224 (21.60%) Argo
6 216 (20.83%) Kustomize
7 75 (7.23%) Grafana
8 28 (2.70%) Nagios
9 27 (2.60%) Puppet
10 26 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (1.74%) Progress Chef
12 15 (1.45%) QRadar
12 15 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (1.16%) Kibana
14 8 (0.77%) SCCM
15 7 (0.68%) HAProxy
16 6 (0.58%) Nmap
16 6 (0.58%) Proxmox
17 5 (0.48%) logstash
17 5 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 300 (28.93%) Splunk
2 271 (26.13%) Cisco
3 263 (25.36%) Juniper
4 262 (25.27%) 3PAR
5 230 (22.18%) Google
6 113 (10.90%) Microsoft
7 64 (6.17%) Red Hat
8 62 (5.98%) VMware
9 24 (2.31%) SolarWinds
10 19 (1.83%) Atlassian
11 17 (1.64%) Apple
12 16 (1.54%) Oracle
13 15 (1.45%) SAP
14 10 (0.96%) Databricks
15 9 (0.87%) Palo Alto
16 8 (0.77%) Hitachi
16 8 (0.77%) IBM
17 7 (0.68%) Dell
17 7 (0.68%) ServiceNow
18 6 (0.58%) Reuters