Bash Shell
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Bash skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Bash over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 154 173
Rank change year-on-year -57 +19 -6
Permanent jobs citing Bash 1,395 2,479 3,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.42% 2.37% 2.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.21% 5.45% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 860 1,436 1,901
10th Percentile £41,500 £42,874 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £89,472 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £117,236 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £61,180 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.28% +6.40% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
UK

Bash is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -36 1,266 £60,000 -14.29% 256
UK excluding London -82 858 £55,500 -9.28% 166
Work from Home -50 690 £62,783 -10.31% 150
London -8 498 £72,500 -6.45% 105
South West +11 296 £55,000 -18.52% 31
South East +7 234 £55,000 +10.00% 31
North of England -166 103 £60,000 -1.93% 34
Scotland -103 73 £60,000 -13.60% 15
Midlands 0 67 £55,000 -15.38% 21
East of England +1 55 £65,000 +23.81% 28
North West -78 54 £61,391 +11.86% 17
West Midlands +17 37 £60,000 -11.11% 12
Yorkshire -94 37 £53,750 -16.91% 14
East Midlands -15 30 £50,000 +8.11% 9
Northern Ireland +20 20 £80,000 +10.34% 3
North East -15 12 £45,000 -37.93% 3
Wales -32 10 £45,000 -30.77% 5

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 48 (3.44%) nginx
2 46 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 42 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 38 (2.72%) Apache
5 37 (2.65%) Confluence
6 27 (1.94%) SharePoint
7 19 (1.36%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.93%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.50%) CMS
10 6 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.22%) Drupal
11 3 (0.22%) JBoss
11 3 (0.22%) WordPress
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.14%) IIS
12 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.072%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.79%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.14%) Abaqus
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.072%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.072%) Simulink
5 1 (0.072%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.15%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.43%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.22%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 592 (42.44%) Azure
2 403 (28.89%) AWS
3 251 (17.99%) Entra ID
4 120 (8.60%) GCP
5 115 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (6.74%) Serverless
7 93 (6.67%) GitHub
8 92 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
8 92 (6.59%) SaaS
9 91 (6.52%) OpenShift
10 82 (5.88%) Amazon S3
11 64 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 51 (3.66%) IaaS
13 43 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
14 41 (2.94%) PaaS
15 36 (2.58%) Azure AKS
16 31 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 30 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 220 (15.77%) Broadband
2 215 (15.41%) 5G
3 193 (13.84%) Firewall
4 133 (9.53%) TCP/IP
5 128 (9.18%) DNS
6 71 (5.09%) DHCP
7 56 (4.01%) WAN
8 52 (3.73%) LAN
9 47 (3.37%) HTTP
10 38 (2.72%) Network Security
10 38 (2.72%) VPN
11 32 (2.29%) Wireless
12 30 (2.15%) Internet
13 25 (1.79%) SAN
14 19 (1.36%) NAS
15 18 (1.29%) PBX
16 17 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (1.22%) VSAN
17 16 (1.15%) FIX Connectivity
17 16 (1.15%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (6.31%) MySQL
2 80 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (5.66%) SQL Server
4 72 (5.16%) MongoDB
5 61 (4.37%) Relational Database
6 50 (3.58%) Elasticsearch
7 45 (3.23%) Big Data
8 43 (3.08%) Hadoop
8 43 (3.08%) Redis
9 40 (2.87%) RDBMS
10 39 (2.80%) Oracle Database
11 38 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (1.72%) InfluxDB
13 23 (1.65%) Scylla
14 20 (1.43%) MariaDB
15 18 (1.29%) Presto
16 17 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
17 15 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
18 10 (0.72%) Ingres
19 9 (0.65%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 230 (16.49%) Git
2 220 (15.77%) Jenkins
3 81 (5.81%) GitLab
4 73 (5.23%) JIRA
5 36 (2.58%) JDeveloper
6 27 (1.94%) TeamCity
7 26 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.72%) Subversion
9 21 (1.51%) Visual Studio
10 19 (1.36%) SonarQube
11 18 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 18 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
12 17 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
13 11 (0.79%) Robot Framework
14 10 (0.72%) GNU Toolchain
14 10 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (0.65%) Maven
16 8 (0.57%) CMake
16 8 (0.57%) Eclipse
17 7 (0.50%) TestRail
General
1 331 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
2 282 (20.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 266 (19.07%) Social Skills
4 208 (14.91%) Finance
5 68 (4.87%) Banking
6 53 (3.80%) Aerospace
7 47 (3.37%) Public Sector
8 36 (2.58%) Manufacturing
9 31 (2.22%) Marketing
10 30 (2.15%) Retail
11 29 (2.08%) Electronics
12 24 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (1.72%) Telecoms
13 23 (1.65%) Investment Banking
14 18 (1.29%) Games
15 16 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (1.15%) Law
16 9 (0.65%) Tech for Good
17 8 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 373 (26.74%) Senior
2 218 (15.63%) Software Engineer
3 213 (15.27%) Linux Specialist
4 212 (15.20%) Technical Specialist
5 206 (14.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 133 (9.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 129 (9.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 129 (9.25%) Senior Linux Specialist
8 127 (9.10%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 127 (9.10%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 114 (8.17%) Linux Engineer
10 83 (5.95%) Administrator
11 74 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
12 73 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
13 70 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
14 67 (4.80%) Embedded Engineer
15 66 (4.73%) Systems Engineer
16 65 (4.66%) Embedded Software Engineer
17 62 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
18 59 (4.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (5.09%) Node.js
1 71 (5.09%) React
2 65 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
3 37 (2.65%) HTML
4 36 (2.58%) ARM Templates
5 35 (2.51%) YAML
6 30 (2.15%) Kafka
7 24 (1.72%) .NET
8 23 (1.65%) GraphQL
9 22 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
10 21 (1.51%) REST
11 19 (1.36%) Apache NiFi
12 17 (1.22%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (1.22%) FIX Protocol
12 17 (1.22%) Middleware
13 14 (1.00%) XML
14 13 (0.93%) AWS CDK
14 13 (0.93%) Fluent Bit
14 13 (0.93%) LDAP
15 12 (0.86%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 210 (15.05%) Social Media
2 72 (5.16%) Linux Command Line
3 52 (3.73%) Public Cloud
4 43 (3.08%) Algorithms
5 37 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 36 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 35 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (2.44%) Data Centre
9 32 (2.29%) IoT
9 32 (2.29%) PKI
10 28 (2.01%) Clustering
11 26 (1.86%) Onboarding
12 23 (1.65%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.58%) Cloud Native
14 18 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
16 16 (1.15%) Eurex
17 15 (1.08%) Replication
17 15 (1.08%) Virtual Team
18 14 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 936 (67.10%) Linux
2 418 (29.96%) Windows
3 278 (19.93%) Ubuntu
4 133 (9.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 108 (7.74%) CentOS
6 103 (7.38%) Windows Server
7 102 (7.31%) Unix
8 71 (5.09%) Embedded Linux
9 53 (3.80%) Debian
10 48 (3.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 47 (3.37%) Mac OS
12 46 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 39 (2.80%) Windows Server 2012
14 27 (1.94%) Solaris
15 20 (1.43%) CoreOS
16 19 (1.36%) Windows 10
17 13 (0.93%) SUSE
18 11 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
19 9 (0.65%) VMS
20 8 (0.57%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (37.71%) DevOps
2 425 (30.47%) Cybersecurity
3 319 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
4 315 (22.58%) CI/CD
5 280 (20.07%) Software Engineering
6 270 (19.35%) Artificial Intelligence
7 244 (17.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 227 (16.27%) Containerisation
9 221 (15.84%) IT Strategy
10 218 (15.63%) Technology Strategy
11 217 (15.56%) CRM
12 180 (12.90%) Agile
13 150 (10.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 137 (9.82%) Configuration Management
15 133 (9.53%) Continuous Integration
16 128 (9.18%) Actionable Insight
17 113 (8.10%) Open Source
18 102 (7.31%) Mentoring
19 98 (7.03%) Computer Science
20 91 (6.52%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 937 (67.17%) Python
2 521 (37.35%) PowerShell
3 179 (12.83%) Java
4 173 (12.40%) SQL
5 160 (11.47%) Perl
6 147 (10.54%) C
7 116 (8.32%) JavaScript
8 115 (8.24%) Ruby
9 112 (8.03%) Go
10 81 (5.81%) C++
11 65 (4.66%) C#
12 59 (4.23%) Embedded C
12 59 (4.23%) Shell Script
13 57 (4.09%) Rust
14 39 (2.80%) Bicep
15 29 (2.08%) PHP
16 28 (2.01%) Scala
17 20 (1.43%) Fortran
18 18 (1.29%) Korn
19 16 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 294 (21.08%) Security Cleared
2 198 (14.19%) Degree
3 121 (8.67%) DV Cleared
4 92 (6.59%) SC Cleared
5 53 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (2.72%) CCNA
8 30 (2.15%) AWS Certification
9 26 (1.86%) PhD
10 25 (1.79%) Master's Degree
11 20 (1.43%) Azure Certification
12 19 (1.36%) CISSP
13 17 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 17 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.79%) OSCP
16 10 (0.72%) GIAC
17 9 (0.65%) CEH
18 8 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
19 7 (0.50%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.58%) QA
2 45 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 22 (1.58%) SLA
5 20 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (1.43%) PMO
6 11 (0.79%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.57%) NIST
9 7 (0.50%) GDPR
10 6 (0.43%) JTAG
10 6 (0.43%) NCSC
11 4 (0.29%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.22%) ISO 9000
13 1 (0.072%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.072%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.072%) MISRA
System Software
1 364 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 302 (21.65%) Docker
3 143 (10.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (4.44%) Hyper-V
5 58 (4.16%) Virtual Machines
6 32 (2.29%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (1.79%) vSphere
8 22 (1.58%) Firmware
9 10 (0.72%) NFS
10 7 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.43%) VMware Server
12 5 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.14%) Ceph
15 2 (0.14%) PowerHA
15 2 (0.14%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 355 (25.45%) Kubernetes
2 311 (22.29%) Ansible
3 290 (20.79%) Terraform
4 235 (16.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 220 (15.77%) Jamf Pro
6 179 (12.83%) Puppet
7 106 (7.60%) Grafana
8 82 (5.88%) Prometheus
9 62 (4.44%) Progress Chef
10 31 (2.22%) vCenter Server
11 28 (2.01%) HAProxy
12 24 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
13 19 (1.36%) Nagios
14 17 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
15 14 (1.00%) logstash
16 13 (0.93%) Fluentd
16 13 (0.93%) Istio
17 12 (0.86%) Graphite
18 11 (0.79%) SCCM
19 9 (0.65%) Salt
Vendors
1 447 (32.04%) Microsoft
2 216 (15.48%) CyberArk
3 210 (15.05%) Tanium
4 200 (14.34%) Red Hat
5 199 (14.27%) VMware
6 136 (9.75%) Oracle
7 79 (5.66%) Cisco
8 62 (4.44%) Google
9 34 (2.44%) Atlassian
9 34 (2.44%) Palo Alto
10 32 (2.29%) Splunk
11 28 (2.01%) Dell
12 17 (1.22%) Bloomberg
12 17 (1.22%) New Relic
13 16 (1.15%) Apple
13 16 (1.15%) CQG
13 16 (1.15%) Fortinet
13 16 (1.15%) Reuters
13 16 (1.15%) TOWER Software
13 16 (1.15%) Trayport