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 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 134 164 182
Rank change year-on-year +30 +18 -10
Permanent jobs citing Bash 1,336 2,828 2,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.56% 2.31% 2.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.27% 5.04% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 878 1,716 1,972
10th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +16.79%

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 21,309 56,138 66,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.76% 45.93% 51.97%
Number of salaries quoted 16,539 35,840 45,476
10th Percentile £39,740 £38,443 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,845 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 10 December 2023.

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 10 December 2023. 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 +25 1,127 £67,500 -3.57% 356
UK excluding London +81 799 £60,000 - 258
Work from Home +38 652 £70,000 +0.80% 187
London -10 456 £80,000 +6.67% 141
South West +65 246 £60,000 +9.09% 49
North of England +51 167 £60,000 -7.69% 54
South East +57 150 £53,760 -2.25% 77
Scotland +69 101 £70,000 +0.80% 24
North West +110 94 £58,750 -2.08% 31
Yorkshire +10 72 £61,250 -8.29% 21
Midlands +93 58 £60,000 -7.69% 22
East Midlands +56 35 £60,000 -7.69% 6
Wales +25 35 £57,500 - 9
Northern Ireland +42 24 £80,000 +14.29% 2
West Midlands +83 23 £61,500 -5.38% 16
East of England +57 22 £70,000 +21.74% 27
North East +17 1 £50,000 -28.57% 2

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 56 (4.19%) Confluence
2 55 (4.12%) Apache
3 32 (2.40%) nginx
4 31 (2.32%) Apache Spark
5 30 (2.25%) MS Exchange
6 25 (1.87%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.90%) IIS
8 11 (0.82%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.75%) WebSphere
10 9 (0.67%) CMS
11 6 (0.45%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.45%) WordPress
12 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.15%) Drupal
14 1 (0.075%) Apache Pulsar
14 1 (0.075%) JBoss
14 1 (0.075%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.075%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.67%) AutoCAD
2 9 (0.67%) PTC Creo
2 9 (0.67%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.75%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.52%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.30%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 603 (45.13%) AWS
2 590 (44.16%) Azure
3 238 (17.81%) GCP
4 200 (14.97%) Azure DevOps
5 176 (13.17%) Serverless
6 151 (11.30%) OpenShift
7 146 (10.93%) GitHub
8 137 (10.25%) SaaS
9 98 (7.34%) IaaS
10 96 (7.19%) PaaS
11 76 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
12 72 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
13 67 (5.01%) AWS CloudFormation
14 65 (4.87%) Azure AKS
15 55 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
16 53 (3.97%) Amazon S3
17 52 (3.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 47 (3.52%) OCI
19 45 (3.37%) Entra ID
20 42 (3.14%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 153 (11.45%) DNS
2 140 (10.48%) TCP/IP
3 117 (8.76%) Firewall
4 107 (8.01%) DHCP
5 92 (6.89%) HTTP
6 56 (4.19%) Network Security
7 52 (3.89%) VPN
8 40 (2.99%) WAN
9 39 (2.92%) IPv4
10 33 (2.47%) VLAN
11 27 (2.02%) Internet
12 23 (1.72%) OSPF
13 19 (1.42%) LAN
13 19 (1.42%) SAN
14 17 (1.27%) Wireless
15 16 (1.20%) PBX
16 15 (1.12%) SSL
17 14 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
17 14 (1.05%) SNMP
18 12 (0.90%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (7.49%) Oracle Database
2 95 (7.11%) Relational Database
3 87 (6.51%) RDBMS
4 81 (6.06%) MySQL
5 64 (4.79%) Big Data
6 63 (4.72%) SQL Server
7 62 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
8 61 (4.57%) MongoDB
9 53 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
10 35 (2.62%) Hadoop
11 32 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 27 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
14 22 (1.65%) NoSQL
15 21 (1.57%) Data Lake
16 20 (1.50%) BigQuery
17 19 (1.42%) Redis
18 17 (1.27%) InfluxDB
19 13 (0.97%) Tableau
20 12 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 319 (23.88%) Git
2 315 (23.58%) Jenkins
3 109 (8.16%) GitLab
4 66 (4.94%) JIRA
5 48 (3.59%) Maven
6 43 (3.22%) TeamCity
7 40 (2.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 40 (2.99%) Bitbucket
8 36 (2.69%) Artifactory
8 36 (2.69%) JDeveloper
9 35 (2.62%) Octopus Deploy
10 32 (2.40%) Sonatype Nexus
11 25 (1.87%) IntelliJ
12 23 (1.72%) CircleCI
13 21 (1.57%) SonarQube
14 19 (1.42%) Liquibase
15 18 (1.35%) Visual Studio
16 15 (1.12%) Selenium
17 13 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
18 12 (0.90%) Spinnaker
General
1 309 (23.13%) Finance
2 258 (19.31%) Social Skills
3 111 (8.31%) Banking
4 105 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 78 (5.84%) Aerospace
6 69 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
7 60 (4.49%) Public Sector
8 51 (3.82%) Police
9 33 (2.47%) Retail
9 33 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 22 (1.65%) Law
11 19 (1.42%) Marketing
12 16 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.20%) Investment Banking
13 15 (1.12%) Games
14 14 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.90%) Legal
16 11 (0.82%) Electronics
16 11 (0.82%) Front Office
16 11 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 398 (29.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 232 (17.37%) Senior
3 172 (12.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 130 (9.73%) Software Engineer
5 108 (8.08%) Lead
6 94 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 89 (6.66%) Azure Engineer
8 87 (6.51%) Ruby Engineer
9 81 (6.06%) Developer
10 73 (5.46%) Security Engineer
10 73 (5.46%) Senior DevOps
11 70 (5.24%) Linux Engineer
11 70 (5.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 68 (5.09%) Administrator
13 65 (4.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 56 (4.19%) AWS Engineer
14 56 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
15 53 (3.97%) GCP Engineer
16 51 (3.82%) Lead DevOps
17 47 (3.52%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (10.93%) React
2 123 (9.21%) Node.js
3 82 (6.14%) Elastic Stack
3 82 (6.14%) YAML
4 70 (5.24%) Kafka
5 59 (4.42%) JSON
6 54 (4.04%) .NET
7 46 (3.44%) ARM Templates
8 37 (2.77%) HTML
9 36 (2.69%) CSS
10 30 (2.25%) Apache NiFi
11 27 (2.02%) React Native
12 26 (1.95%) J2EE
13 25 (1.87%) jOOQ
13 25 (1.87%) Redux
14 22 (1.65%) Middleware
15 18 (1.35%) REST
16 17 (1.27%) RESTful
17 16 (1.20%) AngularJS
18 15 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 147 (11.00%) Public Cloud
2 70 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
3 64 (4.79%) Linux Command Line
4 44 (3.29%) Data Centre
5 38 (2.84%) Algorithms
6 35 (2.62%) Cloud Native
7 34 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (2.25%) Management Information System
9 26 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
11 23 (1.72%) Virtual Team
12 22 (1.65%) Data Structures
12 22 (1.65%) Private Cloud
13 19 (1.42%) Mobile App
14 13 (0.97%) CMDB
14 13 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.97%) Hedge funds
15 12 (0.90%) PKI
16 11 (0.82%) Distributed Applications
16 11 (0.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 677 (50.67%) Linux
2 413 (30.91%) Windows
3 160 (11.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 133 (9.96%) Unix
5 93 (6.96%) Windows Server
6 84 (6.29%) Ubuntu
7 80 (5.99%) CentOS
8 55 (4.12%) Mac OS
9 50 (3.74%) Windows Server 2019
10 43 (3.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 38 (2.84%) Solaris
12 34 (2.54%) Windows Server 2012
13 32 (2.40%) Debian
13 32 (2.40%) Windows 10
14 16 (1.20%) VMS
15 13 (0.97%) Mac OS X
16 12 (0.90%) AIX
16 12 (0.90%) Fedora
17 11 (0.82%) HPUX
18 6 (0.45%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (57.86%) DevOps
2 466 (34.88%) CI/CD
3 401 (30.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 357 (26.72%) Containerisation
5 354 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
6 332 (24.85%) Agile
7 283 (21.18%) Actionable Insight
8 247 (18.49%) Configuration Management
9 221 (16.54%) Software Engineering
10 210 (15.72%) Continuous Integration
11 189 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 166 (12.43%) Mentoring
13 159 (11.90%) Microservices
14 147 (11.00%) Computer Science
15 145 (10.85%) DevSecOps
16 142 (10.63%) Open Source
17 133 (9.96%) Task Automation
18 130 (9.73%) Collaborative Working
19 120 (8.98%) Design Patterns
20 110 (8.23%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 1,108 (82.93%) Python
2 656 (49.10%) PowerShell
3 377 (28.22%) Java
4 214 (16.02%) SQL
5 212 (15.87%) Perl
6 208 (15.57%) JavaScript
7 206 (15.42%) Ruby
8 193 (14.45%) Go
9 71 (5.31%) C++
10 64 (4.79%) C#
11 54 (4.04%) Groovy
12 51 (3.82%) Shell Script
13 43 (3.22%) PHP
14 42 (3.14%) Bicep
15 35 (2.62%) C
16 32 (2.40%) Scala
17 24 (1.80%) Korn
18 22 (1.65%) TypeScript
19 9 (0.67%) MATLAB
19 9 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 310 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 212 (15.87%) Degree
3 171 (12.80%) SC Cleared
4 97 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (5.54%) DV Cleared
6 58 (4.34%) Azure Certification
7 52 (3.89%) AWS Certification
7 52 (3.89%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (2.77%) CCNA
9 32 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (2.17%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.87%) CISSP
12 19 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 15 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (1.12%) MCSE
15 13 (0.97%) MCSA
16 12 (0.90%) GIAC
17 10 (0.75%) CCSP
17 10 (0.75%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (9.21%) QA
2 38 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (1.57%) NCSC
3 21 (1.57%) PCI DSS
4 16 (1.20%) NIST
5 15 (1.12%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.75%) PMO
7 9 (0.67%) GDPR
7 9 (0.67%) MISRA
8 7 (0.52%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.45%) ISO 9000
10 4 (0.30%) SLA
11 3 (0.22%) COBIT
11 3 (0.22%) DO-178B
11 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.075%) GRC
System Software
1 486 (36.38%) Docker
2 173 (12.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 158 (11.83%) Active Directory
4 115 (8.61%) Hyper-V
5 44 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.90%) KVM
8 10 (0.75%) NFS
9 7 (0.52%) Ceph
9 7 (0.52%) Firmware
10 5 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (0.37%) HDFS
10 5 (0.37%) Varnish
11 4 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.22%) GPFS
12 3 (0.22%) Lustre
12 3 (0.22%) LXC
12 3 (0.22%) Shibboleth
12 3 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 573 (42.89%) Kubernetes
2 525 (39.30%) Ansible
3 466 (34.88%) Terraform
4 253 (18.94%) Puppet
5 106 (7.93%) Grafana
6 83 (6.21%) Prometheus
7 74 (5.54%) Progress Chef
8 32 (2.40%) Istio
9 19 (1.42%) Nagios
10 18 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (1.35%) HAProxy
10 18 (1.35%) Packer
11 16 (1.20%) SCCM
12 15 (1.12%) Red Hat Satellite
13 13 (0.97%) ZABBIX
14 12 (0.90%) SCOM
15 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
16 10 (0.75%) Argo
17 8 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
17 8 (0.60%) Salt
Vendors
1 227 (16.99%) Red Hat
2 214 (16.02%) Oracle
3 213 (15.94%) VMware
4 212 (15.87%) Microsoft
5 109 (8.16%) Google
6 93 (6.96%) Splunk
7 46 (3.44%) New Relic
8 44 (3.29%) TOWER Software
9 43 (3.22%) Cisco
10 32 (2.40%) CyberArk
11 28 (2.10%) Atlassian
12 22 (1.65%) Palo Alto
12 22 (1.65%) SAP
13 18 (1.35%) Dell
14 17 (1.27%) SaltStack
15 16 (1.20%) IBM
16 14 (1.05%) McAfee
16 14 (1.05%) Sun
17 13 (0.97%) LogicMonitor
17 13 (0.97%) Okta