Bash Shell
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 196 207
Rank change year-on-year -96 +11 -53
Permanent jobs citing Bash 694 843 1,094
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.69% 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.74% 6.08% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 455 414 628
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,325 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,313
90th Percentile £92,000 £99,542 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +7.83% -8.00%

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 18,579 13,866 25,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.43% 27.81% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,144 9,096 17,696
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Bash job vacancy trend in the UK

Bash
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

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 15 August 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
England -85 658 £65,000 -3.70% 601
UK excluding London -109 439 £60,000 -3.23% 300
London -60 221 £75,000 - 355
Work from Home -156 182 £60,000 -17.24% 226
North of England -113 136 £57,000 -8.80% 72
South East -9 127 £60,000 -13.04% 96
South West -14 97 £66,250 +15.28% 49
North West -128 62 £60,000 - 44
Midlands -29 48 £60,000 +4.47% 20
Yorkshire -11 40 £65,000 +1.96% 15
North East -29 34 £50,000 +5.26% 13
West Midlands -15 31 £60,000 +9.09% 10
East Midlands -33 17 £64,000 +11.30% 10
East of England -60 17 £50,000 -13.04% 25
Wales -50 8 £60,000 - 5
Scotland -3 5 £56,650 -29.19% 25
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 12

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 33 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (3.31%) Confluence
3 22 (3.17%) Apache
4 9 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.15%) nginx
6 7 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (1.01%) SAS
7 6 (0.86%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.72%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.72%) IIS
8 5 (0.72%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.58%) JBoss
9 4 (0.58%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) SPSS
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (1.59%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (0.72%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.43%) Summit
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 361 (52.02%) AWS
2 330 (47.55%) Azure
3 125 (18.01%) Azure DevOps
4 107 (15.42%) GitHub
5 103 (14.84%) Serverless
6 88 (12.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 86 (12.39%) GCP
8 80 (11.53%) AWS Lambda
9 78 (11.24%) Amazon ECS
10 77 (11.10%) Amazon S3
11 73 (10.52%) GitHub Actions
12 62 (8.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 56 (8.07%) OpenShift
14 52 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
15 49 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
15 49 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
16 47 (6.77%) Datadog
17 44 (6.34%) SaaS
18 39 (5.62%) Amazon ECR
18 39 (5.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 121 (17.44%) Firewall
2 72 (10.37%) TCP/IP
3 67 (9.65%) DNS
4 57 (8.21%) VPN
5 36 (5.19%) Network Security
6 25 (3.60%) DHCP
7 24 (3.46%) HTTP
8 23 (3.31%) LAN
9 21 (3.03%) WAN
10 17 (2.45%) VLAN
11 14 (2.02%) VoIP
12 12 (1.73%) SAN
12 12 (1.73%) Software-Defined Networking
13 10 (1.44%) SMTP
14 9 (1.30%) BGP
14 9 (1.30%) FTP
14 9 (1.30%) IPv4
15 8 (1.15%) Asterisk PBX
15 8 (1.15%) iSCSI
15 8 (1.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.76%) MySQL
3 31 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 29 (4.18%) DynamoDB
5 28 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (1.87%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.87%) Oracle Database
9 11 (1.59%) MongoDB
10 10 (1.44%) InfluxDB
11 8 (1.15%) Redis
12 7 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.01%) Big Data
13 6 (0.86%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.43%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.43%) DocumentDB
15 3 (0.43%) Oracle Exadata
15 3 (0.43%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 149 (21.47%) GitLab
2 139 (20.03%) Git
3 124 (17.87%) Jenkins
4 40 (5.76%) JIRA
5 33 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 32 (4.61%) Maven
6 32 (4.61%) SonarQube
7 31 (4.47%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.73%) Robot Framework
9 11 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 11 (1.59%) Subversion
10 10 (1.44%) JUnit
10 10 (1.44%) Mockito
10 10 (1.44%) Selenium
11 9 (1.30%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.01%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.01%) TestRail
13 6 (0.86%) Postman
14 5 (0.72%) GDB
General
1 157 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 155 (22.33%) Finance
3 98 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.49%) Banking
6 36 (5.19%) Law
7 34 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (4.61%) Aerospace
9 18 (2.59%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.44%) Legal
13 9 (1.30%) Electronics
13 9 (1.30%) Retail
14 8 (1.15%) Automotive
14 8 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.72%) Aviation
15 5 (0.72%) Marketing
16 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 150 (21.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 123 (17.72%) Senior
3 69 (9.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 69 (9.94%) Platform Engineer
4 67 (9.65%) Cloud Engineer
5 49 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
6 46 (6.63%) Developer
6 46 (6.63%) Linux Engineer
7 45 (6.48%) Administrator
8 42 (6.05%) Security Engineer
8 42 (6.05%) Systems Administrator
9 40 (5.76%) Lead
10 37 (5.33%) Analyst
11 33 (4.76%) Linux Administrator
11 33 (4.76%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 30 (4.32%) Java Developer
13 26 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
14 24 (3.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 24 (3.46%) Linux Systems Engineer
15 22 (3.17%) Linux DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (6.34%) Elastic Stack
2 41 (5.91%) YAML
3 28 (4.03%) .NET
3 28 (4.03%) Node.js
4 26 (3.75%) ARM Templates
4 26 (3.75%) React
5 24 (3.46%) AWS CDK
5 24 (3.46%) Jest
5 24 (3.46%) SAML
6 23 (3.31%) AngularJS
7 22 (3.17%) Spring Boot
8 21 (3.03%) Gherkin
9 19 (2.74%) REST
10 17 (2.45%) OAuth
11 16 (2.31%) pytest
12 15 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (2.02%) Kafka
14 13 (1.87%) LDAP
14 13 (1.87%) Loki
14 13 (1.87%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 105 (15.13%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.20%) Onboarding
3 36 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 32 (4.61%) Linux Command Line
5 24 (3.46%) Security Posture
6 23 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (3.17%) Public Cloud
7 22 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (3.03%) Management Information System
9 18 (2.59%) Data Centre
10 16 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
10 16 (2.31%) PKI
11 15 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (2.16%) Security Operations Centre
12 12 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (1.73%) Podcast
12 12 (1.73%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.44%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
15 8 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 353 (50.86%) Linux
2 152 (21.90%) Windows
3 61 (8.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (7.06%) Windows Server
5 48 (6.92%) Ubuntu
6 47 (6.77%) CentOS
7 46 (6.63%) Unix
8 16 (2.31%) Debian
8 16 (2.31%) Mac OS
9 15 (2.16%) VMS
10 14 (2.02%) AIX
10 14 (2.02%) Rocky
11 12 (1.73%) Oracle Linux
12 11 (1.59%) Apple iOS
12 11 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
13 9 (1.30%) Android
13 9 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (1.15%) Solaris
15 5 (0.72%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (57.20%) CI/CD
2 371 (53.46%) DevOps
3 364 (52.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 192 (27.67%) Problem-Solving
5 188 (27.09%) Agile
6 183 (26.37%) Containerisation
7 145 (20.89%) Observability
7 145 (20.89%) Platform Engineering
8 131 (18.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 131 (18.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 113 (16.28%) Cloud Security
10 109 (15.71%) Mentoring
11 103 (14.84%) AI
12 101 (14.55%) Infrastructure Automation
13 95 (13.69%) ITIL
14 80 (11.53%) Configuration Management
15 76 (10.95%) Software Engineering
16 74 (10.66%) Incident Response
16 74 (10.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 74 (10.66%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 522 (75.22%) Python
2 312 (44.96%) PowerShell
3 123 (17.72%) Java
4 105 (15.13%) SQL
5 59 (8.50%) Go
6 53 (7.64%) JavaScript
7 43 (6.20%) Bicep
8 41 (5.91%) Perl
9 35 (5.04%) C#
9 35 (5.04%) PHP
10 34 (4.90%) C++
11 32 (4.61%) Ruby
11 32 (4.61%) TypeScript
12 31 (4.47%) Shell Script
13 25 (3.60%) Rust
14 24 (3.46%) PL/SQL
15 22 (3.17%) Groovy
16 21 (3.03%) Korn
17 20 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
18 15 (2.16%) C
Qualifications
1 225 (32.42%) Security Cleared
2 114 (16.43%) SC Cleared
3 75 (10.81%) Degree
4 62 (8.93%) AWS Certification
5 54 (7.78%) DV Cleared
6 39 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (4.18%) Azure Certification
7 29 (4.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (3.75%) CompTIA Security+
9 21 (3.03%) RHCSA
10 20 (2.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 20 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (2.88%) ITIL Certification
11 19 (2.74%) OSCP
12 17 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (2.31%) CISSP
14 15 (2.16%) RHCE
15 14 (2.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (1.87%) CEH
16 13 (1.87%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (7.93%) QA
2 25 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.59%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.59%) GDPR
4 11 (1.59%) NIST
5 9 (1.30%) SLA
6 8 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.86%) PMO
8 5 (0.72%) NCSC
9 4 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.58%) JTAG
10 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.43%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.43%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.43%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.29%) Def Stans
System Software
1 250 (36.02%) Docker
2 86 (12.39%) Active Directory
3 74 (10.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (4.32%) Hyper-V
5 24 (3.46%) vSphere
6 16 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (2.02%) Oracle RAC
7 14 (2.02%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (1.59%) KVM
10 8 (1.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 8 (1.15%) Squid
11 7 (1.01%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.58%) iptables
13 3 (0.43%) Firmware
14 2 (0.29%) Samba
14 2 (0.29%) Xen
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 384 (55.33%) Terraform
2 276 (39.77%) Kubernetes
3 230 (33.14%) Ansible
4 149 (21.47%) Grafana
5 118 (17.00%) Prometheus
6 48 (6.92%) Nagios
7 42 (6.05%) Puppet
8 38 (5.48%) Argo
9 22 (3.17%) ZABBIX
10 21 (3.03%) HP Fortify
11 19 (2.74%) Kibana
11 19 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (2.45%) Proxmox
13 15 (2.16%) Data Guard
13 15 (2.16%) Istio
13 15 (2.16%) logstash
14 14 (2.02%) Oracle RMAN
14 14 (2.02%) Packer
14 14 (2.02%) Progress Chef
15 13 (1.87%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 165 (23.78%) Microsoft
2 108 (15.56%) Red Hat
3 85 (12.25%) VMware
4 74 (10.66%) Splunk
5 53 (7.64%) Oracle
6 25 (3.60%) Cisco
6 25 (3.60%) Google
7 19 (2.74%) Dynatrace
7 19 (2.74%) IBM
8 17 (2.45%) ServiceNow
9 15 (2.16%) Veeam
10 13 (1.87%) SolarWinds
11 12 (1.73%) Atlassian
11 12 (1.73%) CrowdStrike
11 12 (1.73%) Dell
11 12 (1.73%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.59%) Rapid7
13 9 (1.30%) Fortinet
14 8 (1.15%) Apple
15 7 (1.01%) New Relic