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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 211 154
Rank change year-on-year -55 -57 +15
Permanent jobs citing Bash 574 1,399 2,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 1.42% 2.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.66% 4.21% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 401 864 1,426
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £89,472
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £117,236
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +17.12% -9.02% +4.27%

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 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Bash in the UK

Bash
Top 16 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 30 April 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 -58 528 £70,000 +16.67% 475
UK excluding London -47 324 £65,000 +17.12% 290
London -50 221 £82,500 +13.79% 207
Work from Home -68 198 £70,000 +11.50% 341
South East +7 109 £60,000 +9.09% 65
North of England +43 62 £72,246 +20.41% 71
East of England +53 53 £62,000 -4.62% 54
South West -53 45 £67,500 +22.73% 44
North West +21 42 £70,000 +14.02% 49
Midlands +34 40 £55,000 - 35
West Midlands +36 22 £55,000 -8.33% 28
Yorkshire +51 18 £72,500 +34.88% 16
Scotland +72 17 £85,253 +42.09% 19
East Midlands +36 17 £57,500 +15.00% 6
Northern Ireland +23 7 £55,000 -31.25% 9
North East +42 2 £75,500 +67.78% 6

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 17 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.61%) Confluence
3 12 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.92%) nginx
5 8 (1.39%) Apache
6 7 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.87%) IIS
8 4 (0.70%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.70%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.35%) CICS
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 17 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.22%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (1.39%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.35%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 228 (39.72%) Azure
2 194 (33.80%) AWS
3 98 (17.07%) GCP
4 69 (12.02%) GitHub
5 43 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (6.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 37 (6.45%) SaaS
8 30 (5.23%) Serverless
9 23 (4.01%) IaaS
10 22 (3.83%) PaaS
11 21 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (3.31%) Datadog
13 19 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (3.14%) Azure AKS
14 18 (3.14%) Entra ID
15 17 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 102 (17.77%) VPN
2 99 (17.25%) TCP/IP
3 96 (16.72%) Firewall
4 34 (5.92%) Network Security
5 30 (5.23%) DNS
6 20 (3.48%) WAN
7 19 (3.31%) 5G
8 17 (2.96%) DHCP
8 17 (2.96%) HTTP
9 15 (2.61%) LAN
10 14 (2.44%) BGP
10 14 (2.44%) VLAN
11 13 (2.26%) Internet
11 13 (2.26%) MPLS
11 13 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (2.09%) LTE
12 12 (2.09%) OSPF
13 11 (1.92%) Bluetooth
13 11 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
14 10 (1.74%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.88%) MySQL
2 27 (4.70%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.14%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.09%) Big Data
7 11 (1.92%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.57%) Power BI
9 8 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (1.22%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.70%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.70%) DB2
13 4 (0.70%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.52%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 78 (13.59%) Jenkins
2 67 (11.67%) Git
3 65 (11.32%) Cucumber
4 64 (11.15%) GitLab
4 64 (11.15%) Robot Framework
5 25 (4.36%) JIRA
6 13 (2.26%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.09%) TeamCity
8 9 (1.57%) Artifactory
8 9 (1.57%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.39%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
10 5 (0.87%) WiX
11 4 (0.70%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.52%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.52%) CMake
12 3 (0.52%) JUnit
12 3 (0.52%) TestRail
12 3 (0.52%) Vagrant
General
1 184 (32.06%) Social Skills
2 134 (23.34%) Finance
3 93 (16.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (14.81%) Banking
5 81 (14.11%) Telecoms
6 40 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.09%) Electronics
8 10 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.74%) Retail
9 9 (1.57%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.39%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.05%) Marketing
12 5 (0.87%) Back Office
12 5 (0.87%) Games
12 5 (0.87%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.70%) Front Office
13 4 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.70%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 85 (14.81%) Senior
2 79 (13.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (13.76%) Lead
3 66 (11.50%) Test Engineer
4 64 (11.15%) Test Automation Engineer
5 44 (7.67%) Administrator
6 43 (7.49%) Systems Administrator
7 41 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
8 40 (6.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 36 (6.27%) Analyst
10 34 (5.92%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 34 (5.92%) Software Engineer
11 32 (5.57%) Azure Engineer
11 32 (5.57%) Linux Administrator
12 31 (5.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 25 (4.36%) Developer
14 24 (4.18%) Linux Engineer
15 22 (3.83%) Network Engineer
16 19 (3.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 18 (3.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.23%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (3.66%) REST
3 19 (3.31%) RESTful
4 18 (3.14%) FIX Protocol
5 16 (2.79%) HTML
5 16 (2.79%) LDAP
6 13 (2.26%) .NET
6 13 (2.26%) AWS CDK
7 12 (2.09%) SOAP
8 11 (1.92%) Azure Blueprints
8 11 (1.92%) Pandas
8 11 (1.92%) Web Services
9 9 (1.57%) ADO
9 9 (1.57%) ARM Templates
9 9 (1.57%) Kafka
9 9 (1.57%) Loki
9 9 (1.57%) Middleware
10 8 (1.39%) CSS
10 8 (1.39%) React
11 7 (1.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 86 (14.98%) Linux Command Line
2 33 (5.75%) Data Centre
3 30 (5.23%) Cloud Native
4 27 (4.70%) Management Information System
5 25 (4.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (4.01%) Security Posture
7 17 (2.96%) IoT
8 15 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
8 15 (2.61%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.44%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.92%) Equities
10 11 (1.92%) NB-IoT
10 11 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.92%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.57%) Fixed Income
12 9 (1.57%) Security Operations Centre
13 8 (1.39%) Clustering
13 8 (1.39%) Eurex
13 8 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 331 (57.67%) Linux
2 195 (33.97%) Windows
3 57 (9.93%) Unix
4 51 (8.89%) Windows Server
5 44 (7.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (4.53%) CentOS
7 23 (4.01%) Mac OS
8 17 (2.96%) Ubuntu
9 13 (2.26%) Rocky
10 12 (2.09%) VMS
11 8 (1.39%) Solaris
12 7 (1.22%) Windows 10
13 6 (1.05%) Debian
13 6 (1.05%) SUSE
14 5 (0.87%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.52%) Android
17 2 (0.35%) zOS
18 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
18 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (45.47%) DevOps
2 193 (33.62%) CI/CD
3 186 (32.40%) Problem-Solving
4 152 (26.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 124 (21.60%) Mentoring
6 113 (19.69%) Containerisation
7 83 (14.46%) Test Automation
8 76 (13.24%) Coaching
9 72 (12.54%) Agile
10 69 (12.02%) System Testing
11 64 (11.15%) Test Management
12 63 (10.98%) Platform Engineering
13 55 (9.58%) Configuration Management
14 51 (8.89%) Computer Science
15 47 (8.19%) Software Engineering
16 46 (8.01%) ITIL
17 45 (7.84%) Observability
18 44 (7.67%) Cybersecurity
19 42 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence
20 41 (7.14%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 487 (84.84%) Python
2 290 (50.52%) PowerShell
3 106 (18.47%) JavaScript
4 95 (16.55%) SQL
5 47 (8.19%) Java
5 47 (8.19%) Perl
6 36 (6.27%) C++
7 33 (5.75%) C#
8 31 (5.40%) C
9 27 (4.70%) Bicep
10 23 (4.01%) TypeScript
11 22 (3.83%) Go
12 18 (3.14%) Ruby
13 17 (2.96%) Shell Script
14 12 (2.09%) Fortran
15 8 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (1.05%) R
17 5 (0.87%) JCL
18 4 (0.70%) Jython
18 4 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 158 (27.53%) Degree
2 54 (9.41%) Security Cleared
3 35 (6.10%) DV Cleared
4 32 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (5.23%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.23%) SC Cleared
6 25 (4.36%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (2.79%) CompTIA Security+
8 14 (2.44%) Master's Degree
9 13 (2.26%) Azure Certification
9 13 (2.26%) CCNP
10 11 (1.92%) CCNA
10 11 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
10 11 (1.92%) PhD
11 10 (1.74%) CCSP
11 10 (1.74%) CEH
11 10 (1.74%) CISSP
12 8 (1.39%) OSCP
13 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (1.05%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (13.94%) QA
2 39 (6.79%) GDPR
3 32 (5.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (4.18%) NIST
5 20 (3.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (3.14%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.92%) COBIT
8 10 (1.74%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.87%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.70%) PMO
11 4 (0.70%) SLA
12 3 (0.52%) NCSC
13 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
14 1 (0.17%) JTAG
14 1 (0.17%) MISRA
System Software
1 133 (23.17%) Docker
2 56 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (8.19%) Active Directory
4 20 (3.48%) vSphere
5 18 (3.14%) Hyper-V
5 18 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.87%) NFS
8 5 (0.87%) Postfix
9 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.52%) Firmware
10 2 (0.35%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.17%) LXC
11 1 (0.17%) Samba
11 1 (0.17%) Squid
11 1 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.17%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 187 (32.58%) Terraform
2 160 (27.87%) Kubernetes
3 153 (26.66%) Ansible
4 51 (8.89%) Grafana
5 46 (8.01%) Prometheus
5 46 (8.01%) Puppet
6 30 (5.23%) Nagios
7 26 (4.53%) Progress Chef
8 20 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 15 (2.61%) CASB
10 12 (2.09%) Argo
11 9 (1.57%) Istio
11 9 (1.57%) QRadar
12 8 (1.39%) SCCM
13 7 (1.22%) CA Endevor
13 7 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (1.22%) Rundeck
14 6 (1.05%) Kibana
14 6 (1.05%) linkerd
14 6 (1.05%) SCOM
Vendors
1 105 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 86 (14.98%) VMware
3 50 (8.71%) Red Hat
4 29 (5.05%) Splunk
5 27 (4.70%) SolarWinds
6 25 (4.36%) Google
7 21 (3.66%) Cisco
8 17 (2.96%) Oracle
9 12 (2.09%) Atlassian
10 11 (1.92%) Apple
11 10 (1.74%) Palo Alto
12 9 (1.57%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.57%) Reuters
13 8 (1.39%) CQG
13 8 (1.39%) ION Trading
13 8 (1.39%) NetApp
13 8 (1.39%) Patsystems
13 8 (1.39%) Trayport
14 7 (1.22%) Citrix
14 7 (1.22%) Dynatrace