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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 134 162
Rank change year-on-year -71 +28 +19
Permanent jobs citing Bash 977 1,538 3,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 2.59% 2.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.28% 6.38% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 477 988 1,815
10th Percentile £40,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.60% +8.70% -4.17%

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 22,808 24,089 68,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.15% 40.52% 48.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,275 18,693 38,261
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,646 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 -64 923 £67,500 -3.57% 234
London -14 480 £77,500 -6.06% 75
UK excluding London -138 479 £59,000 -5.60% 169
Work from Home -54 453 £63,500 -9.29% 481
South East -52 128 £62,500 +4.17% 43
South West -66 120 £60,000 -4.00% 31
North of England -118 80 £50,000 -20.00% 36
East of England -1 60 £55,000 -26.67% 24
Midlands -54 46 £57,500 -4.17% 23
Scotland -62 39 £45,000 -35.71% 10
North West -104 37 £59,000 -15.71% 24
Yorkshire -15 34 £49,274 -6.14% 8
West Midlands -40 26 £66,250 +12.29% 13
East Midlands -46 18 £40,000 -33.33% 10
North East -21 9 £50,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -2 6 - - 2
Wales -3 1 £60,000 +4.35% 3

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 42 (4.30%) Apache
2 31 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (2.97%) nginx
4 20 (2.05%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.74%) Jupyter
6 16 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 16 (1.64%) Tomcat
7 11 (1.13%) Confluence
8 10 (1.02%) IIS
9 4 (0.41%) CMS
9 4 (0.41%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.41%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) WordPress
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.10%) Moodle
11 1 (0.10%) Solana
11 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.10%) WildFly
Applications
1 23 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.20%) 3ds Max
2 2 (0.20%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.10%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.82%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.20%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 333 (34.08%) Azure
2 305 (31.22%) AWS
3 108 (11.05%) GCP
4 73 (7.47%) Entra ID
5 68 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (6.96%) SaaS
6 63 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
7 60 (6.14%) GitHub
8 58 (5.94%) PaaS
9 52 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
10 43 (4.40%) Serverless
11 38 (3.89%) IaaS
11 38 (3.89%) OpenShift
12 35 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 29 (2.97%) Amazon S3
14 24 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
15 23 (2.35%) Datadog
16 18 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (1.74%) Azure Storage
18 16 (1.64%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 182 (18.63%) Broadband
2 101 (10.34%) DNS
3 77 (7.88%) Firewall
4 73 (7.47%) DHCP
5 49 (5.02%) Network Security
6 48 (4.91%) TCP/IP
7 29 (2.97%) VPN
8 27 (2.76%) Internet
9 20 (2.05%) NAS
10 19 (1.94%) SAN
11 17 (1.74%) WAN
12 16 (1.64%) LAN
12 16 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
12 16 (1.64%) SSL
13 15 (1.54%) HTTP
14 14 (1.43%) Unified Communications
14 14 (1.43%) VLAN
15 9 (0.92%) Wireless
16 8 (0.82%) FIX Connectivity
16 8 (0.82%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.16%) SQL Server
2 54 (5.53%) MySQL
3 46 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 35 (3.58%) MongoDB
5 34 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (2.35%) NoSQL
7 22 (2.25%) Big Data
8 20 (2.05%) MariaDB
9 15 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (1.54%) Hadoop
10 12 (1.23%) Presto
11 10 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (0.92%) Redis
12 9 (0.92%) Relational Database
13 8 (0.82%) Azkaban
13 8 (0.82%) Spark SQL
14 7 (0.72%) DB2
14 7 (0.72%) DocumentDB
15 6 (0.61%) InfluxDB
15 6 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 126 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 108 (11.05%) Git
3 74 (7.57%) GitLab
4 43 (4.40%) JIRA
5 36 (3.68%) Octopus Deploy
6 17 (1.74%) Artifactory
6 17 (1.74%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.74%) Selenium
7 16 (1.64%) JMeter
8 15 (1.54%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.54%) TeamCity
9 14 (1.43%) Maven
10 13 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (1.13%) Robot Framework
12 8 (0.82%) Burp Suite
12 8 (0.82%) Metasploit
12 8 (0.82%) RStudio
13 6 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (0.51%) Spinnaker
14 5 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 344 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 218 (22.31%) Analytical Skills
3 162 (16.58%) Finance
4 62 (6.35%) Banking
5 34 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (2.56%) Law
7 18 (1.84%) Aerospace
7 18 (1.84%) Games
8 16 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (1.54%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.23%) Retail
12 11 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.92%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.82%) Automotive
14 8 (0.82%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.72%) Marketing
15 7 (0.72%) Public Sector
16 6 (0.61%) Billing
16 6 (0.61%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 171 (17.50%) Lead
2 157 (16.07%) Senior
3 133 (13.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (12.69%) Team Leader
5 104 (10.64%) Analyst
6 94 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 86 (8.80%) Software Engineer
8 81 (8.29%) Azure Engineer
9 78 (7.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 62 (6.35%) Linux Engineer
11 60 (6.14%) Platform Engineer
12 53 (5.42%) Applications Support
13 49 (5.02%) Support Analyst
14 47 (4.81%) Security Analyst
15 44 (4.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 40 (4.09%) Development Analyst
17 39 (3.99%) Systems Engineer
18 36 (3.68%) Applications Support Analyst
18 36 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
18 36 (3.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (16.99%) Elastic Stack
2 60 (6.14%) XML
3 58 (5.94%) HTML
4 55 (5.63%) REST
5 52 (5.32%) CSS
6 28 (2.87%) React
7 25 (2.56%) JSON
8 23 (2.35%) LDAP
9 20 (2.05%) YAML
10 18 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
11 16 (1.64%) Node.js
11 16 (1.64%) Web Services
12 15 (1.54%) .NET
12 15 (1.54%) Kafka
12 15 (1.54%) RESTful
13 14 (1.43%) Apache NiFi
13 14 (1.43%) AWS CDK
13 14 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
13 14 (1.43%) JSP
13 14 (1.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 140 (14.33%) Private Cloud
2 59 (6.04%) Linux Command Line
3 55 (5.63%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.81%) Cyber Threat
5 43 (4.40%) Data Centre
6 34 (3.48%) Public Cloud
7 31 (3.17%) Algorithms
8 30 (3.07%) Management Information System
9 28 (2.87%) Cloud Native
10 22 (2.25%) Security Posture
11 21 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (2.05%) Video Conferencing
13 18 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
15 14 (1.43%) NHS
15 14 (1.43%) Social Media
16 11 (1.13%) IoT
17 10 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
17 10 (1.02%) Replication
18 9 (0.92%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 636 (65.10%) Linux
2 319 (32.65%) Windows
3 95 (9.72%) Unix
4 86 (8.80%) Windows Server
5 66 (6.76%) Ubuntu
6 54 (5.53%) CentOS
6 54 (5.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.94%) Debian
8 17 (1.74%) Solaris
9 12 (1.23%) Mac OS
9 12 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (1.13%) Rocky
10 11 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.82%) VMS
11 8 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.72%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.61%) AIX
13 6 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.51%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (47.90%) DevOps
2 354 (36.23%) CI/CD
3 312 (31.93%) Problem-Solving
4 256 (26.20%) Containerisation
5 223 (22.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 216 (22.11%) Computer Science
7 213 (21.80%) Mentoring
8 207 (21.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 199 (20.37%) Configuration Management
10 197 (20.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 189 (19.34%) Observability
12 180 (18.42%) Task Automation
13 171 (17.50%) Continuous Integration
14 156 (15.97%) Deployment Automation
15 144 (14.74%) Roadmaps
16 138 (14.12%) Agile
16 138 (14.12%) Continuous Deployment
17 135 (13.82%) Software Engineering
18 134 (13.72%) Validation
19 126 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 729 (74.62%) Python
2 351 (35.93%) PowerShell
3 191 (19.55%) SQL
4 163 (16.68%) Shell Script
5 142 (14.53%) Java
6 99 (10.13%) Perl
7 77 (7.88%) C++
8 66 (6.76%) C
9 62 (6.35%) JavaScript
10 42 (4.30%) C#
10 42 (4.30%) Go
10 42 (4.30%) Ruby
11 30 (3.07%) Fortran
12 21 (2.15%) TypeScript
13 16 (1.64%) Korn
14 15 (1.54%) PHP
15 11 (1.13%) Bicep
16 10 (1.02%) R
17 7 (0.72%) Groovy
18 5 (0.51%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 290 (29.68%) Degree
2 176 (18.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 161 (16.48%) Master's Degree
4 145 (14.84%) Security Cleared
5 124 (12.69%) LPIC
5 124 (12.69%) RHCSA
6 74 (7.57%) DV Cleared
7 44 (4.50%) SC Cleared
8 33 (3.38%) PhD
9 29 (2.97%) Azure Certification
10 24 (2.46%) AWS Certification
11 20 (2.05%) CEH
12 19 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.74%) OSCP
14 13 (1.33%) CISSP
15 9 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
16 8 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (13.00%) NIST
2 125 (12.79%) SOC 2
3 20 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.43%) GDPR
5 14 (1.43%) PCI DSS
5 14 (1.43%) QA
6 9 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (0.92%) Solvency II
7 8 (0.82%) SLA
8 7 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.41%) PMO
11 2 (0.20%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 1 (0.10%) JTAG
12 1 (0.10%) MISRA
System Software
1 354 (36.23%) Docker
2 121 (12.38%) Active Directory
3 95 (9.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
5 36 (3.68%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.54%) VMware Server
7 14 (1.43%) NFS
8 13 (1.33%) Firmware
9 12 (1.23%) XenApp
9 12 (1.23%) XenDesktop
10 11 (1.13%) vSphere
11 8 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.51%) KVM
12 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.41%) Ceph
13 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 3 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 335 (34.29%) Ansible
2 255 (26.10%) Terraform
3 192 (19.65%) Grafana
4 191 (19.55%) Kubernetes
5 170 (17.40%) Prometheus
6 102 (10.44%) Puppet
7 43 (4.40%) Progress Chef
8 25 (2.56%) ZABBIX
9 23 (2.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
11 19 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
12 16 (1.64%) Nagios
13 14 (1.43%) HAProxy
14 13 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
15 12 (1.23%) Argo
16 11 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
17 10 (1.02%) Istio
18 9 (0.92%) WSUS
19 8 (0.82%) CASB
19 8 (0.82%) Nmap
Vendors
1 179 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 116 (11.87%) VMware
3 81 (8.29%) Google
4 74 (7.57%) Splunk
5 70 (7.16%) Red Hat
6 48 (4.91%) ServiceNow
7 41 (4.20%) Oracle
8 18 (1.84%) CyberArk
9 17 (1.74%) Citrix
10 15 (1.54%) Cisco
11 14 (1.43%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.43%) IBM
11 14 (1.43%) Tanium
11 14 (1.43%) Veeam
12 13 (1.33%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.33%) Remedy
13 12 (1.23%) BMC
13 12 (1.23%) TOWER Software
14 10 (1.02%) Commvault
14 10 (1.02%) HP