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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 154 172
Rank change year-on-year -57 +18 -7
Permanent jobs citing Bash 1,383 2,438 3,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.40% 2.35% 2.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.17% 5.45% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 852 1,415 1,916
10th Percentile £41,500 £42,874 £40,664
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 £78,750 £89,736 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £117,236 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% +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 33,199 44,762 84,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 43.22% 53.81%
Number of salaries quoted 24,953 28,538 44,073
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 £54,000 £55,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.09% +6.70%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -48 1,255 £60,000 -14.29% 239
UK excluding London -81 858 £55,000 -9.84% 137
Work from Home -52 682 £62,500 -10.71% 142
London -17 488 £72,500 -9.38% 107
South West +8 299 £55,000 -18.52% 25
South East -14 229 £55,000 +10.00% 27
North of England -174 103 £60,000 -1.93% 32
Scotland -104 73 £60,000 -13.60% 12
Midlands +4 66 £52,500 -12.50% 13
East of England +17 58 £65,000 +23.81% 24
North West -79 56 £61,391 +11.86% 16
West Midlands +4 36 £60,000 -9.43% 7
Yorkshire -101 35 £53,750 -16.91% 15
East Midlands -13 30 £50,000 -4.76% 6
Northern Ireland +15 20 £80,000 +10.34% 2
North East -16 12 £45,000 -37.93% 1
Wales -32 10 £45,000 -30.77% 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 49 (3.54%) nginx
2 42 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 39 (2.82%) Apache
5 34 (2.46%) Confluence
6 26 (1.88%) SharePoint
7 20 (1.45%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.94%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.43%) CMS
9 6 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.22%) Drupal
10 3 (0.22%) JBoss
10 3 (0.22%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.14%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.072%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.80%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.51%) 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 15 (1.08%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.43%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 593 (42.88%) Azure
2 400 (28.92%) AWS
3 251 (18.15%) Entra ID
4 119 (8.60%) GCP
5 113 (8.17%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (6.94%) Serverless
7 91 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
8 90 (6.51%) OpenShift
9 89 (6.44%) SaaS
10 87 (6.29%) GitHub
11 81 (5.86%) Amazon S3
12 63 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 49 (3.54%) IaaS
14 40 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (2.89%) Cloud Computing
15 39 (2.82%) PaaS
16 36 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
17 33 (2.39%) Azure AKS
18 29 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
18 29 (2.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 221 (15.98%) Broadband
2 214 (15.47%) 5G
3 188 (13.59%) Firewall
4 133 (9.62%) TCP/IP
5 128 (9.26%) DNS
6 71 (5.13%) DHCP
7 53 (3.83%) WAN
8 51 (3.69%) LAN
9 48 (3.47%) HTTP
10 38 (2.75%) VPN
11 36 (2.60%) Network Security
12 30 (2.17%) Wireless
13 29 (2.10%) Internet
14 23 (1.66%) SAN
15 20 (1.45%) NAS
16 17 (1.23%) PBX
16 17 (1.23%) VSAN
17 16 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
18 15 (1.08%) FIX Connectivity
18 15 (1.08%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (6.15%) MySQL
2 77 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (5.50%) SQL Server
4 69 (4.99%) MongoDB
5 61 (4.41%) Relational Database
6 52 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
7 44 (3.18%) Big Data
8 43 (3.11%) Hadoop
8 43 (3.11%) Redis
9 40 (2.89%) RDBMS
10 39 (2.82%) Oracle Database
11 34 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (1.74%) InfluxDB
13 23 (1.66%) Scylla
14 20 (1.45%) MariaDB
15 18 (1.30%) Presto
16 17 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
18 10 (0.72%) Ingres
18 10 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 227 (16.41%) Git
2 215 (15.55%) Jenkins
3 80 (5.78%) GitLab
4 73 (5.28%) JIRA
5 36 (2.60%) JDeveloper
6 27 (1.95%) TeamCity
7 25 (1.81%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.74%) Subversion
9 21 (1.52%) Visual Studio
10 18 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 18 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
10 18 (1.30%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (0.80%) Robot Framework
13 10 (0.72%) GNU Toolchain
14 9 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.58%) CMake
15 8 (0.58%) Eclipse
16 7 (0.51%) Maven
16 7 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 334 (24.15%) Analytical Skills
2 277 (20.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 265 (19.16%) Social Skills
4 201 (14.53%) Finance
5 63 (4.56%) Banking
6 53 (3.83%) Aerospace
7 47 (3.40%) Public Sector
8 36 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 31 (2.24%) Marketing
10 29 (2.10%) Electronics
10 29 (2.10%) Retail
11 24 (1.74%) Telecoms
12 23 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
13 21 (1.52%) Investment Banking
14 19 (1.37%) Games
15 17 (1.23%) Law
16 16 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.65%) Tech for Good
18 8 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
19 6 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 367 (26.54%) Senior
2 222 (16.05%) Software Engineer
3 213 (15.40%) Linux Specialist
4 212 (15.33%) Technical Specialist
5 201 (14.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 133 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 129 (9.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 129 (9.33%) Senior Linux Specialist
8 127 (9.18%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 127 (9.18%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 113 (8.17%) Linux Engineer
10 85 (6.15%) Administrator
11 77 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
12 75 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
13 70 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
14 67 (4.84%) Embedded Engineer
15 66 (4.77%) Systems Engineer
16 65 (4.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
17 62 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
18 60 (4.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (5.21%) Node.js
2 70 (5.06%) React
3 65 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
4 36 (2.60%) HTML
4 36 (2.60%) YAML
5 34 (2.46%) ARM Templates
6 31 (2.24%) Kafka
7 23 (1.66%) .NET
7 23 (1.66%) GraphQL
7 23 (1.66%) RabbitMQ
8 21 (1.52%) REST
9 19 (1.37%) Apache NiFi
10 17 (1.23%) ActiveMQ
10 17 (1.23%) Middleware
11 16 (1.16%) AWS CDK
11 16 (1.16%) FIX Protocol
12 14 (1.01%) XML
13 13 (0.94%) Fluent Bit
13 13 (0.94%) LDAP
14 12 (0.87%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 210 (15.18%) Social Media
2 72 (5.21%) Linux Command Line
3 53 (3.83%) Public Cloud
4 41 (2.96%) Algorithms
5 35 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 32 (2.31%) Data Centre
7 32 (2.31%) IoT
8 31 (2.24%) PKI
9 27 (1.95%) Clustering
10 26 (1.88%) Onboarding
11 24 (1.74%) Cloud Native
12 23 (1.66%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
14 16 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
15 15 (1.08%) Eurex
15 15 (1.08%) Replication
16 14 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
16 14 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 934 (67.53%) Linux
2 417 (30.15%) Windows
3 279 (20.17%) Ubuntu
4 133 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 108 (7.81%) CentOS
6 102 (7.38%) Windows Server
7 101 (7.30%) Unix
8 70 (5.06%) Embedded Linux
9 52 (3.76%) Debian
10 48 (3.47%) Windows Server 2016
11 46 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
12 45 (3.25%) Mac OS
13 40 (2.89%) Windows Server 2012
14 26 (1.88%) Solaris
15 20 (1.45%) CoreOS
16 19 (1.37%) Windows 10
17 13 (0.94%) SUSE
18 11 (0.80%) Oracle Linux
19 10 (0.72%) VMS
20 8 (0.58%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (37.67%) DevOps
2 425 (30.73%) Cybersecurity
3 316 (22.85%) Problem-Solving
4 311 (22.49%) CI/CD
5 284 (20.54%) Software Engineering
6 271 (19.60%) Artificial Intelligence
7 243 (17.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 225 (16.27%) Containerisation
9 221 (15.98%) IT Strategy
10 218 (15.76%) Technology Strategy
11 217 (15.69%) CRM
12 182 (13.16%) Agile
13 151 (10.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 135 (9.76%) Configuration Management
15 132 (9.54%) Continuous Integration
16 129 (9.33%) Actionable Insight
17 113 (8.17%) Open Source
18 101 (7.30%) Mentoring
19 96 (6.94%) Computer Science
20 88 (6.36%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 922 (66.67%) Python
2 518 (37.45%) PowerShell
3 180 (13.02%) Java
4 164 (11.86%) SQL
5 161 (11.64%) Perl
6 149 (10.77%) C
7 112 (8.10%) JavaScript
8 111 (8.03%) Ruby
9 110 (7.95%) Go
10 82 (5.93%) C++
11 65 (4.70%) C#
12 60 (4.34%) Shell Script
13 59 (4.27%) Embedded C
14 57 (4.12%) Rust
15 38 (2.75%) Bicep
16 29 (2.10%) PHP
17 27 (1.95%) Scala
18 20 (1.45%) Fortran
19 16 (1.16%) Korn
19 16 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 299 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 192 (13.88%) Degree
3 123 (8.89%) DV Cleared
4 95 (6.87%) SC Cleared
5 52 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (2.39%) CCNA
8 30 (2.17%) AWS Certification
9 26 (1.88%) PhD
10 24 (1.74%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.52%) Azure Certification
12 19 (1.37%) CISSP
13 17 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 17 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.72%) GIAC
15 10 (0.72%) OSCP
16 9 (0.65%) CEH
17 8 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
18 7 (0.51%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.62%) QA
2 45 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 21 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 21 (1.52%) SLA
5 20 (1.45%) PMO
6 12 (0.87%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.58%) NIST
9 7 (0.51%) GDPR
10 6 (0.43%) JTAG
10 6 (0.43%) NCSC
11 4 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
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
1 358 (25.89%) Active Directory
2 300 (21.69%) Docker
3 146 (10.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (4.56%) Hyper-V
5 62 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (1.81%) vSphere
8 21 (1.52%) Firmware
9 10 (0.72%) NFS
10 7 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.43%) VMware Server
12 5 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.14%) KVM
15 2 (0.14%) PowerHA
15 2 (0.14%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 354 (25.60%) Kubernetes
2 307 (22.20%) Ansible
3 287 (20.75%) Terraform
4 234 (16.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 220 (15.91%) Jamf Pro
6 180 (13.02%) Puppet
7 104 (7.52%) Grafana
8 80 (5.78%) Prometheus
9 63 (4.56%) Progress Chef
10 31 (2.24%) vCenter Server
11 28 (2.02%) HAProxy
12 25 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (1.45%) Nagios
14 15 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
15 14 (1.01%) logstash
16 13 (0.94%) Fluentd
17 12 (0.87%) Graphite
17 12 (0.87%) Istio
18 11 (0.80%) SCCM
19 9 (0.65%) Salt
Vendors
1 445 (32.18%) Microsoft
2 216 (15.62%) CyberArk
3 210 (15.18%) Tanium
4 200 (14.46%) VMware
5 198 (14.32%) Red Hat
6 136 (9.83%) Oracle
7 73 (5.28%) Cisco
8 62 (4.48%) Google
9 33 (2.39%) Atlassian
10 32 (2.31%) Palo Alto
10 32 (2.31%) Splunk
11 28 (2.02%) Dell
12 17 (1.23%) Apple
13 16 (1.16%) Bloomberg
13 16 (1.16%) New Relic
14 15 (1.08%) CQG
14 15 (1.08%) Fortinet
14 15 (1.08%) ION Trading
14 15 (1.08%) Reuters
14 15 (1.08%) Trayport