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

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 144 171
Rank change year-on-year -78 +27 -5
Permanent jobs citing Bash 1,336 2,444 3,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.34% 2.47% 2.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.02% 5.71% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 822 1,372 1,895
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,874 £41,012
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £92,463 £117,236 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +6.84% +6.36%

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 33,227 42,836 88,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.23% 43.33% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,855 27,410 43,712
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 21 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 21 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 -61 1,221 £60,000 -14.29% 300
UK excluding London -102 826 £55,000 -12.00% 204
Work from Home -55 657 £62,500 -10.71% 160
London -19 480 £72,500 -9.38% 129
South West +10 300 £55,000 -18.52% 37
South East -26 215 £52,500 +5.00% 61
North of England -179 94 £60,000 -4.00% 34
Scotland -118 68 £60,000 -13.60% 10
Midlands -27 63 £52,500 -19.23% 26
East of England +12 61 £65,000 +23.81% 32
North West -99 52 £63,891 +13.70% 17
West Midlands -9 35 £60,000 -11.11% 19
Yorkshire -109 30 £47,250 -25.70% 13
East Midlands -22 28 £50,000 -4.76% 7
Northern Ireland +7 18 £70,000 -3.45% 4
North East -17 12 £45,000 -40.00% 4
Wales -45 7 £45,000 -34.30% 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 53 (3.97%) nginx
2 42 (3.14%) Apache
3 41 (3.07%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (2.10%) Confluence
6 24 (1.80%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.65%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.97%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.37%) JBoss
11 4 (0.30%) CMS
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.15%) Drupal
12 2 (0.15%) IIS
12 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.15%) WordPress
13 1 (0.075%) Moodle
13 1 (0.075%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.82%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.15%) Abaqus
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.075%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.075%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.075%) Simulink
5 1 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.20%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.45%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.075%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 584 (43.71%) Azure
2 382 (28.59%) AWS
3 253 (18.94%) Entra ID
4 115 (8.61%) GCP
5 97 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
6 91 (6.81%) OpenShift
7 90 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
7 90 (6.74%) Serverless
8 87 (6.51%) SaaS
9 84 (6.29%) GitHub
10 82 (6.14%) Amazon S3
11 52 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 46 (3.44%) IaaS
13 44 (3.29%) PaaS
14 42 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
15 36 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
16 35 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
17 33 (2.47%) Azure AKS
18 28 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
19 27 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 221 (16.54%) Broadband
2 212 (15.87%) 5G
3 183 (13.70%) Firewall
4 129 (9.66%) TCP/IP
5 122 (9.13%) DNS
6 71 (5.31%) DHCP
7 48 (3.59%) HTTP
8 44 (3.29%) LAN
9 43 (3.22%) WAN
10 36 (2.69%) Network Security
11 35 (2.62%) VPN
12 27 (2.02%) Internet
13 26 (1.95%) Wireless
14 22 (1.65%) SAN
15 21 (1.57%) NAS
16 17 (1.27%) VSAN
17 16 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
17 16 (1.20%) FIX Connectivity
18 14 (1.05%) Wireshark
19 13 (0.97%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (6.44%) MySQL
2 74 (5.54%) SQL Server
3 73 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (4.64%) MongoDB
5 60 (4.49%) Relational Database
6 49 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
7 44 (3.29%) Redis
8 42 (3.14%) Hadoop
9 41 (3.07%) Big Data
10 40 (2.99%) RDBMS
11 38 (2.84%) Oracle Database
12 31 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
13 24 (1.80%) MariaDB
14 23 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
15 22 (1.65%) Scylla
16 19 (1.42%) Presto
17 13 (0.97%) InfluxDB
18 11 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
19 10 (0.75%) Ingres
20 9 (0.67%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 218 (16.32%) Git
2 212 (15.87%) Jenkins
3 70 (5.24%) JIRA
4 63 (4.72%) GitLab
5 36 (2.69%) JDeveloper
6 27 (2.02%) TeamCity
7 24 (1.80%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.80%) Subversion
8 21 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
9 20 (1.50%) Visual Studio
10 19 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 17 (1.27%) Robot Framework
12 16 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (0.75%) Eclipse
13 10 (0.75%) GNU Toolchain
14 9 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.60%) CMake
15 8 (0.60%) Gradle
15 8 (0.60%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.52%) TestRail
General
1 328 (24.55%) Analytical Skills
2 265 (19.84%) Social Skills
3 260 (19.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 189 (14.15%) Finance
5 62 (4.64%) Banking
6 59 (4.42%) Aerospace
7 43 (3.22%) Public Sector
8 35 (2.62%) Manufacturing
9 30 (2.25%) Marketing
10 29 (2.17%) Electronics
11 24 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (1.80%) Retail
12 23 (1.72%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.42%) Investment Banking
13 19 (1.42%) Law
14 17 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (1.20%) Games
16 9 (0.67%) Tech for Good
17 8 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 355 (26.57%) Senior
2 221 (16.54%) Software Engineer
3 213 (15.94%) Linux Specialist
4 210 (15.72%) Technical Specialist
5 188 (14.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 129 (9.66%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 129 (9.66%) Senior Linux Specialist
7 127 (9.51%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 127 (9.51%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 126 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 106 (7.93%) Linux Engineer
10 82 (6.14%) Administrator
11 80 (5.99%) Cloud Engineer
12 75 (5.61%) Platform Engineer
13 69 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
14 67 (5.01%) Embedded Engineer
15 65 (4.87%) Embedded Software Engineer
16 64 (4.79%) Systems Engineer
17 61 (4.57%) Senior Software Engineer
18 59 (4.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (4.94%) Node.js
2 65 (4.87%) React
3 61 (4.57%) Elastic Stack
4 42 (3.14%) HTML
5 35 (2.62%) ARM Templates
6 34 (2.54%) YAML
7 27 (2.02%) Kafka
8 24 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
9 22 (1.65%) GraphQL
10 19 (1.42%) .NET
10 19 (1.42%) REST
11 18 (1.35%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
12 17 (1.27%) AWS CDK
12 17 (1.27%) FIX Protocol
12 17 (1.27%) XML
13 15 (1.12%) Middleware
14 13 (0.97%) CSS
14 13 (0.97%) HTML5
15 12 (0.90%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 210 (15.72%) Social Media
2 78 (5.84%) Linux Command Line
3 42 (3.14%) Public Cloud
4 39 (2.92%) Algorithms
5 35 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 34 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (2.32%) PKI
8 30 (2.25%) IoT
9 27 (2.02%) Clustering
9 27 (2.02%) Data Centre
10 25 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 25 (1.87%) Onboarding
11 22 (1.65%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.57%) Cloud Native
13 16 (1.20%) Eurex
14 15 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
14 15 (1.12%) Replication
15 14 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
15 14 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
16 13 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 910 (68.11%) Linux
2 390 (29.19%) Windows
3 281 (21.03%) Ubuntu
4 128 (9.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 108 (8.08%) CentOS
6 102 (7.63%) Unix
7 92 (6.89%) Windows Server
8 70 (5.24%) Embedded Linux
9 49 (3.67%) Debian
10 47 (3.52%) Windows Server 2016
11 43 (3.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 41 (3.07%) Windows Server 2012
13 38 (2.84%) Mac OS
14 28 (2.10%) Solaris
15 19 (1.42%) CoreOS
16 17 (1.27%) Windows 10
17 13 (0.97%) SUSE
18 12 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
19 8 (0.60%) VMS
20 5 (0.37%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (37.13%) DevOps
2 415 (31.06%) Cybersecurity
3 316 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
4 291 (21.78%) CI/CD
5 274 (20.51%) Artificial Intelligence
6 267 (19.99%) Software Engineering
7 236 (17.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 221 (16.54%) IT Strategy
9 218 (16.32%) Technology Strategy
10 216 (16.17%) CRM
11 214 (16.02%) Containerisation
12 181 (13.55%) Agile
13 145 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 135 (10.10%) Configuration Management
15 130 (9.73%) Continuous Integration
16 111 (8.31%) Open Source
17 107 (8.01%) Actionable Insight
18 96 (7.19%) Computer Science
18 96 (7.19%) Mentoring
19 87 (6.51%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 891 (66.69%) Python
2 484 (36.23%) PowerShell
3 171 (12.80%) Java
4 157 (11.75%) Perl
5 155 (11.60%) SQL
6 149 (11.15%) C
7 109 (8.16%) JavaScript
8 105 (7.86%) Go
8 105 (7.86%) Ruby
9 84 (6.29%) C++
10 60 (4.49%) C#
10 60 (4.49%) Shell Script
11 58 (4.34%) Embedded C
12 56 (4.19%) Rust
13 36 (2.69%) Bicep
14 25 (1.87%) PHP
14 25 (1.87%) Scala
15 20 (1.50%) Fortran
16 17 (1.27%) TypeScript
17 12 (0.90%) Korn
Qualifications
1 291 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 178 (13.32%) Degree
3 118 (8.83%) DV Cleared
4 93 (6.96%) SC Cleared
5 50 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (1.95%) PhD
9 25 (1.87%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 20 (1.50%) CCNA
12 19 (1.42%) CISSP
13 17 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 17 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.75%) GIAC
16 9 (0.67%) CEH
16 9 (0.67%) OSCP
17 8 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
18 7 (0.52%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.89%) QA
2 43 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.65%) SLA
4 21 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.50%) PMO
6 12 (0.90%) SOC 2
7 8 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.52%) NIST
9 6 (0.45%) JTAG
9 6 (0.45%) NCSC
10 5 (0.37%) GDPR
10 5 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.15%) ISO 9000
14 1 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.075%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 338 (25.30%) Active Directory
2 294 (22.01%) Docker
3 145 (10.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
5 56 (4.19%) Hyper-V
6 26 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (1.87%) vSphere
8 21 (1.57%) Firmware
9 9 (0.67%) NFS
9 9 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.37%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.22%) KVM
13 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.15%) Ceph
14 2 (0.15%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 340 (25.45%) Kubernetes
2 297 (22.23%) Ansible
3 274 (20.51%) Terraform
4 231 (17.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 217 (16.24%) Jamf Pro
6 175 (13.10%) Puppet
7 94 (7.04%) Grafana
8 71 (5.31%) Prometheus
9 64 (4.79%) Progress Chef
10 30 (2.25%) vCenter Server
11 28 (2.10%) HAProxy
12 27 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (1.72%) Nagios
14 13 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 13 (0.97%) logstash
15 12 (0.90%) Fluentd
15 12 (0.90%) Graphite
15 12 (0.90%) Red Hat Satellite
16 11 (0.82%) Istio
17 9 (0.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 446 (33.38%) Microsoft
2 216 (16.17%) CyberArk
3 210 (15.72%) Tanium
4 192 (14.37%) VMware
5 189 (14.15%) Red Hat
6 136 (10.18%) Oracle
7 59 (4.42%) Cisco
8 57 (4.27%) Google
9 35 (2.62%) Splunk
10 33 (2.47%) Atlassian
11 29 (2.17%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.95%) Dell
13 18 (1.35%) New Relic
14 17 (1.27%) Bloomberg
15 16 (1.20%) CQG
15 16 (1.20%) ION Trading
15 16 (1.20%) Patsystems
15 16 (1.20%) Reuters
15 16 (1.20%) ServiceNow
15 16 (1.20%) Trayport