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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 154 173
Rank change year-on-year -64 +19 -8
Permanent jobs citing Bash 1,367 2,398 3,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.38% 2.37% 2.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.12% 5.47% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 845 1,395 1,891
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,874 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £77,700 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £92,350 £117,236 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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 33,162 43,852 84,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.27% 54.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24,974 27,985 43,449
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 £106,275 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.55% +6.22%

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 9 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 9 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 -46 1,240 £60,000 -14.29% 234
UK excluding London -79 843 £55,000 -10.10% 141
Work from Home -55 674 £62,500 -10.71% 135
London -9 489 £70,000 -12.50% 103
South West +4 295 £55,000 -18.52% 25
South East -26 219 £52,500 +5.00% 29
North of England -160 102 £60,000 -1.93% 26
Scotland -99 74 £60,000 -13.60% 12
Midlands -21 66 £52,500 -12.50% 17
East of England +18 59 £65,000 +23.81% 25
North West -84 55 £62,783 +14.70% 14
West Midlands 0 36 £60,000 -9.43% 9
Yorkshire -96 35 £47,500 -26.57% 10
East Midlands -16 30 £50,000 -4.76% 8
Northern Ireland +15 19 £70,000 -3.45% 4
North East -14 12 £45,000 -40.00% 2
Wales -41 9 £45,000 -30.77% 4

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 50 (3.66%) nginx
2 42 (3.07%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.93%) Apache
4 33 (2.41%) Confluence
5 31 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 25 (1.83%) SharePoint
7 21 (1.54%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.95%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.37%) CMS
11 4 (0.29%) JBoss
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 (0.073%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.80%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.15%) Abaqus
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.073%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.073%) Simulink
5 1 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.17%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.44%) NEC Housing
2 6 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 598 (43.75%) Azure
2 395 (28.90%) AWS
3 254 (18.58%) Entra ID
4 120 (8.78%) GCP
5 114 (8.34%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (7.02%) Serverless
7 91 (6.66%) Microsoft 365
8 90 (6.58%) OpenShift
9 89 (6.51%) GitHub
10 87 (6.36%) SaaS
11 83 (6.07%) Amazon S3
12 64 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 46 (3.37%) IaaS
14 43 (3.15%) PaaS
15 41 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
16 39 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
17 37 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (2.56%) Azure AKS
19 29 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 28 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 221 (16.17%) Broadband
2 214 (15.65%) 5G
3 188 (13.75%) Firewall
4 131 (9.58%) TCP/IP
5 124 (9.07%) DNS
6 71 (5.19%) DHCP
7 52 (3.80%) WAN
8 50 (3.66%) LAN
9 46 (3.37%) HTTP
10 38 (2.78%) VPN
11 36 (2.63%) Network Security
12 29 (2.12%) Wireless
13 28 (2.05%) Internet
14 22 (1.61%) SAN
15 20 (1.46%) NAS
16 17 (1.24%) VSAN
17 16 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
17 16 (1.17%) FIX Connectivity
17 16 (1.17%) PBX
18 15 (1.10%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (6.36%) MySQL
2 78 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 60 (4.39%) MongoDB
4 60 (4.39%) Relational Database
5 51 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
6 45 (3.29%) Redis
7 43 (3.15%) Big Data
7 43 (3.15%) Hadoop
8 40 (2.93%) RDBMS
9 39 (2.85%) Oracle Database
10 34 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (1.83%) InfluxDB
12 23 (1.68%) Scylla
13 22 (1.61%) MariaDB
14 21 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
15 18 (1.32%) Presto
16 13 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
17 10 (0.73%) Ingres
17 10 (0.73%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 226 (16.53%) Git
2 221 (16.17%) Jenkins
3 78 (5.71%) GitLab
4 72 (5.27%) JIRA
5 36 (2.63%) JDeveloper
6 28 (2.05%) TeamCity
7 25 (1.83%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.76%) Subversion
9 21 (1.54%) Visual Studio
10 20 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
11 19 (1.39%) SonarQube
12 18 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 16 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
14 14 (1.02%) Robot Framework
15 10 (0.73%) GNU Toolchain
16 9 (0.66%) Eclipse
16 9 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
17 8 (0.59%) CMake
17 8 (0.59%) Gradle
18 7 (0.51%) TestRail
General
1 331 (24.21%) Analytical Skills
2 267 (19.53%) Social Skills
3 265 (19.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 196 (14.34%) Finance
5 63 (4.61%) Banking
6 57 (4.17%) Aerospace
7 46 (3.37%) Public Sector
8 36 (2.63%) Manufacturing
9 31 (2.27%) Marketing
10 29 (2.12%) Electronics
11 28 (2.05%) Retail
12 24 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (1.76%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.46%) Investment Banking
14 18 (1.32%) Law
15 17 (1.24%) Games
16 16 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.66%) Tech for Good
18 8 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
19 6 (0.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 359 (26.26%) Senior
2 223 (16.31%) Software Engineer
3 213 (15.58%) Linux Specialist
4 210 (15.36%) Technical Specialist
5 201 (14.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 129 (9.44%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 129 (9.44%) Senior Linux Specialist
7 127 (9.29%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 127 (9.29%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 126 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 113 (8.27%) Linux Engineer
10 83 (6.07%) Administrator
11 80 (5.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 74 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
12 74 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
13 67 (4.90%) Embedded Engineer
14 66 (4.83%) Systems Engineer
15 65 (4.75%) Azure Engineer
15 65 (4.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
16 62 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (5.19%) React
2 70 (5.12%) Elastic Stack
2 70 (5.12%) Node.js
3 41 (3.00%) HTML
4 36 (2.63%) YAML
5 35 (2.56%) ARM Templates
6 30 (2.19%) Kafka
7 23 (1.68%) .NET
7 23 (1.68%) GraphQL
7 23 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
8 20 (1.46%) REST
9 18 (1.32%) Apache NiFi
10 17 (1.24%) ActiveMQ
10 17 (1.24%) FIX Protocol
10 17 (1.24%) Middleware
11 16 (1.17%) AWS CDK
12 15 (1.10%) XML
13 14 (1.02%) CSS
14 13 (0.95%) Fluent Bit
15 12 (0.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 210 (15.36%) Social Media
2 75 (5.49%) Linux Command Line
3 55 (4.02%) Public Cloud
4 41 (3.00%) Algorithms
5 35 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 34 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (2.27%) PKI
8 30 (2.19%) Data Centre
9 29 (2.12%) IoT
10 28 (2.05%) Clustering
11 27 (1.98%) Onboarding
12 24 (1.76%) Cloud Native
12 24 (1.76%) Management Information System
13 23 (1.68%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (1.17%) Eurex
15 16 (1.17%) Replication
16 15 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
17 14 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
17 14 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 930 (68.03%) Linux
2 411 (30.07%) Windows
3 282 (20.63%) Ubuntu
4 131 (9.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 109 (7.97%) CentOS
6 103 (7.53%) Unix
7 100 (7.32%) Windows Server
8 70 (5.12%) Embedded Linux
9 50 (3.66%) Debian
10 46 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 44 (3.22%) Mac OS
12 43 (3.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 39 (2.85%) Windows Server 2012
14 28 (2.05%) Solaris
15 20 (1.46%) CoreOS
16 18 (1.32%) Windows 10
17 13 (0.95%) SUSE
18 12 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
19 10 (0.73%) VMS
20 7 (0.51%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (37.23%) DevOps
2 425 (31.09%) Cybersecurity
3 320 (23.41%) Problem-Solving
4 311 (22.75%) CI/CD
5 285 (20.85%) Software Engineering
6 273 (19.97%) Artificial Intelligence
7 247 (18.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 227 (16.61%) Containerisation
9 221 (16.17%) IT Strategy
10 218 (15.95%) Technology Strategy
11 217 (15.87%) CRM
12 191 (13.97%) Agile
13 145 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 136 (9.95%) Configuration Management
15 131 (9.58%) Continuous Integration
16 123 (9.00%) Actionable Insight
17 112 (8.19%) Open Source
18 99 (7.24%) Mentoring
19 95 (6.95%) Computer Science
20 85 (6.22%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 903 (66.06%) Python
2 506 (37.02%) PowerShell
3 175 (12.80%) Java
4 158 (11.56%) Perl
5 154 (11.27%) SQL
6 149 (10.90%) C
7 114 (8.34%) JavaScript
8 110 (8.05%) Ruby
9 109 (7.97%) Go
10 84 (6.14%) C++
11 64 (4.68%) C#
12 61 (4.46%) Shell Script
13 59 (4.32%) Embedded C
14 57 (4.17%) Rust
15 38 (2.78%) Bicep
16 28 (2.05%) PHP
17 27 (1.98%) Scala
18 20 (1.46%) Fortran
19 17 (1.24%) TypeScript
20 15 (1.10%) Korn
Qualifications
1 294 (21.51%) Security Cleared
2 179 (13.09%) Degree
3 118 (8.63%) DV Cleared
4 95 (6.95%) SC Cleared
5 50 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.27%) AWS Certification
7 30 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (1.90%) PhD
9 23 (1.68%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.61%) Azure Certification
10 22 (1.61%) CCNA
11 19 (1.39%) CISSP
12 18 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.73%) GIAC
16 9 (0.66%) CEH
16 9 (0.66%) OSCP
17 8 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
18 7 (0.51%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (3.73%) QA
2 44 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.61%) SLA
4 21 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (1.46%) PMO
6 18 (1.32%) Data Quality
7 12 (0.88%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.59%) NIST
10 6 (0.44%) GDPR
10 6 (0.44%) JTAG
10 6 (0.44%) NCSC
11 5 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.22%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 9000
14 1 (0.073%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.073%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.073%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.073%) MISRA
System Software
1 344 (25.16%) Active Directory
2 304 (22.24%) Docker
3 142 (10.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (4.39%) Hyper-V
5 58 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (1.83%) vSphere
8 21 (1.54%) Firmware
9 10 (0.73%) NFS
10 8 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.44%) VMware Server
12 5 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.22%) KVM
14 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.15%) PowerHA
15 2 (0.15%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 357 (26.12%) Kubernetes
2 308 (22.53%) Ansible
3 290 (21.21%) Terraform
4 234 (17.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 220 (16.09%) Jamf Pro
6 176 (12.87%) Puppet
7 107 (7.83%) Grafana
8 82 (6.00%) Prometheus
9 63 (4.61%) Progress Chef
10 31 (2.27%) vCenter Server
11 28 (2.05%) HAProxy
12 26 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (1.68%) Nagios
14 14 (1.02%) logstash
14 14 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
15 13 (0.95%) Fluentd
15 13 (0.95%) Graphite
15 13 (0.95%) Istio
16 11 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 10 (0.73%) SCCM
Vendors
1 446 (32.63%) Microsoft
2 216 (15.80%) CyberArk
3 210 (15.36%) Tanium
4 194 (14.19%) VMware
5 193 (14.12%) Red Hat
6 136 (9.95%) Oracle
7 63 (4.61%) Google
8 61 (4.46%) Cisco
9 36 (2.63%) Splunk
10 34 (2.49%) Atlassian
11 31 (2.27%) Palo Alto
12 28 (2.05%) Dell
13 17 (1.24%) Apple
13 17 (1.24%) Bloomberg
13 17 (1.24%) New Relic
14 16 (1.17%) CQG
14 16 (1.17%) ION Trading
14 16 (1.17%) Patsystems
14 16 (1.17%) Reuters
14 16 (1.17%) Trayport