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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 147 173
Rank change year-on-year -67 +26 -6
Permanent jobs citing Bash 1,339 2,454 3,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.34% 2.47% 2.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.03% 5.70% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 825 1,379 1,895
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,874 £41,012
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,875 £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 £92,125 £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 33,218 43,078 87,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,863 27,599 43,697
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,375 £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 20 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 20 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 -56 1,224 £60,000 -14.29% 312
UK excluding London -99 828 £55,000 -12.00% 213
Work from Home -49 657 £62,500 -10.71% 176
London -17 481 £70,000 -12.50% 135
South West +7 301 £55,000 -18.52% 43
South East -13 216 £52,500 +5.00% 64
North of England -177 94 £60,000 -4.00% 31
Scotland -113 68 £60,000 -13.60% 9
Midlands -31 63 £52,500 -19.23% 26
East of England +12 61 £65,000 +23.81% 34
North West -102 52 £63,891 +13.70% 15
West Midlands -2 35 £60,000 -11.11% 19
Yorkshire -101 30 £47,250 -24.40% 12
East Midlands -28 28 £50,000 -4.76% 7
Northern Ireland +9 18 £70,000 -3.45% 3
North East -11 12 £45,000 -40.00% 4
Wales -45 7 £45,000 -34.30% 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 52 (3.88%) nginx
2 42 (3.14%) Apache
3 41 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.17%) Confluence
4 29 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.64%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.97%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.37%) JBoss
10 4 (0.30%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.15%) Drupal
11 2 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.15%) WordPress
12 1 (0.075%) Moodle
12 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 (1.19%) 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
1 583 (43.54%) Azure
2 383 (28.60%) AWS
3 252 (18.82%) Entra ID
4 115 (8.59%) GCP
5 97 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
6 91 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
6 91 (6.80%) OpenShift
7 90 (6.72%) Serverless
8 86 (6.42%) SaaS
9 85 (6.35%) GitHub
10 81 (6.05%) Amazon S3
11 51 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (3.36%) IaaS
13 43 (3.21%) PaaS
14 42 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
15 35 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
16 34 (2.54%) Azure AKS
17 28 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
18 27 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 221 (16.50%) Broadband
2 212 (15.83%) 5G
3 184 (13.74%) Firewall
4 129 (9.63%) TCP/IP
5 122 (9.11%) DNS
6 71 (5.30%) DHCP
7 47 (3.51%) HTTP
8 44 (3.29%) LAN
9 43 (3.21%) WAN
10 37 (2.76%) Network Security
11 35 (2.61%) VPN
12 27 (2.02%) Internet
13 26 (1.94%) Wireless
14 22 (1.64%) SAN
15 21 (1.57%) NAS
16 17 (1.27%) VSAN
17 16 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
17 16 (1.19%) FIX Connectivity
18 14 (1.05%) PBX
18 14 (1.05%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (6.50%) MySQL
2 75 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (5.60%) SQL Server
3 62 (4.63%) MongoDB
4 60 (4.48%) Relational Database
5 49 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
6 44 (3.29%) Redis
7 42 (3.14%) Hadoop
8 41 (3.06%) Big Data
9 40 (2.99%) RDBMS
10 38 (2.84%) Oracle Database
11 32 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (1.79%) MariaDB
13 23 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
14 22 (1.64%) Scylla
15 19 (1.42%) Presto
16 13 (0.97%) InfluxDB
17 12 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
18 10 (0.75%) Ingres
19 9 (0.67%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 217 (16.21%) Git
2 212 (15.83%) Jenkins
3 71 (5.30%) JIRA
4 62 (4.63%) GitLab
5 36 (2.69%) JDeveloper
6 27 (2.02%) TeamCity
7 25 (1.87%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.79%) Subversion
9 21 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
9 21 (1.57%) Visual Studio
10 19 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 17 (1.27%) Robot Framework
12 16 (1.19%) 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%) Maven
General
1 329 (24.57%) Analytical Skills
2 266 (19.87%) Social Skills
3 260 (19.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 190 (14.19%) Finance
5 61 (4.56%) Banking
6 59 (4.41%) Aerospace
7 44 (3.29%) Public Sector
8 35 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 30 (2.24%) Marketing
10 29 (2.17%) Electronics
11 24 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (1.79%) 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 (1.19%) Games
16 9 (0.67%) Tech for Good
17 8 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 355 (26.51%) Senior
2 222 (16.58%) Software Engineer
3 213 (15.91%) Linux Specialist
4 210 (15.68%) Technical Specialist
5 187 (13.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 129 (9.63%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 129 (9.63%) Senior Linux Specialist
7 127 (9.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 127 (9.48%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 127 (9.48%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 106 (7.92%) Linux Engineer
9 82 (6.12%) Administrator
10 80 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 75 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
12 70 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
13 67 (5.00%) Embedded Engineer
14 65 (4.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 65 (4.85%) Systems Engineer
15 62 (4.63%) Senior Software Engineer
16 59 (4.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (4.93%) Node.js
2 65 (4.85%) React
3 60 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
4 42 (3.14%) HTML
5 34 (2.54%) ARM Templates
5 34 (2.54%) YAML
6 27 (2.02%) Kafka
7 24 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
8 22 (1.64%) GraphQL
9 19 (1.42%) .NET
9 19 (1.42%) REST
10 18 (1.34%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (1.34%) Apache NiFi
11 17 (1.27%) AWS CDK
11 17 (1.27%) FIX Protocol
11 17 (1.27%) XML
12 16 (1.19%) Middleware
13 13 (0.97%) CSS
13 13 (0.97%) HTML5
14 12 (0.90%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 210 (15.68%) Social Media
2 77 (5.75%) Linux Command Line
3 42 (3.14%) Public Cloud
4 39 (2.91%) Algorithms
5 35 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 34 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (2.32%) PKI
8 30 (2.24%) IoT
9 27 (2.02%) Data Centre
10 26 (1.94%) Clustering
11 25 (1.87%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.87%) Onboarding
12 22 (1.64%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.57%) Cloud Native
14 16 (1.19%) Eurex
15 15 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
15 15 (1.12%) Replication
16 14 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
16 14 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
17 13 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 913 (68.19%) Linux
2 394 (29.42%) Windows
3 281 (20.99%) Ubuntu
4 129 (9.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 108 (8.07%) CentOS
6 102 (7.62%) Unix
7 94 (7.02%) Windows Server
8 70 (5.23%) Embedded Linux
9 49 (3.66%) Debian
10 48 (3.58%) Windows Server 2016
11 44 (3.29%) Windows Server 2019
12 41 (3.06%) Windows Server 2012
13 39 (2.91%) Mac OS
14 28 (2.09%) Solaris
15 19 (1.42%) CoreOS
16 18 (1.34%) Windows 10
17 13 (0.97%) SUSE
18 12 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
19 8 (0.60%) VMS
20 6 (0.45%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (36.89%) DevOps
2 416 (31.07%) Cybersecurity
3 317 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
4 290 (21.66%) CI/CD
5 274 (20.46%) Artificial Intelligence
6 268 (20.01%) Software Engineering
7 234 (17.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 221 (16.50%) IT Strategy
9 218 (16.28%) Technology Strategy
10 216 (16.13%) CRM
11 214 (15.98%) Containerisation
12 180 (13.44%) Agile
13 146 (10.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 134 (10.01%) Configuration Management
15 129 (9.63%) Continuous Integration
16 110 (8.22%) Open Source
17 107 (7.99%) Actionable Insight
18 98 (7.32%) Computer Science
19 97 (7.24%) Mentoring
20 87 (6.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 892 (66.62%) Python
2 486 (36.30%) PowerShell
3 171 (12.77%) Java
4 158 (11.80%) Perl
4 158 (11.80%) SQL
5 150 (11.20%) C
6 110 (8.22%) JavaScript
7 106 (7.92%) Ruby
8 105 (7.84%) Go
9 85 (6.35%) C++
10 61 (4.56%) C#
11 60 (4.48%) Shell Script
12 59 (4.41%) Embedded C
13 57 (4.26%) Rust
14 36 (2.69%) Bicep
15 26 (1.94%) PHP
16 25 (1.87%) Scala
17 20 (1.49%) Fortran
18 17 (1.27%) TypeScript
19 13 (0.97%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 293 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 181 (13.52%) Degree
3 119 (8.89%) DV Cleared
4 94 (7.02%) SC Cleared
5 51 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.39%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (1.94%) PhD
9 25 (1.87%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.64%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.57%) 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 (3.88%) QA
2 43 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.64%) SLA
4 21 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.49%) 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
14 1 (0.075%) MISRA
System Software
1 339 (25.32%) Active Directory
2 294 (21.96%) Docker
3 145 (10.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (4.41%) Virtual Machines
5 57 (4.26%) Hyper-V
6 27 (2.02%) 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%) Shibboleth
14 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 340 (25.39%) Kubernetes
2 295 (22.03%) Ansible
3 274 (20.46%) Terraform
4 231 (17.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 217 (16.21%) Jamf Pro
6 175 (13.07%) Puppet
7 94 (7.02%) Grafana
8 70 (5.23%) Prometheus
9 64 (4.78%) Progress Chef
10 30 (2.24%) vCenter Server
11 28 (2.09%) 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 (33.31%) Microsoft
2 216 (16.13%) CyberArk
3 210 (15.68%) Tanium
4 194 (14.49%) VMware
5 190 (14.19%) Red Hat
6 137 (10.23%) Oracle
7 60 (4.48%) Cisco
8 57 (4.26%) Google
9 35 (2.61%) Splunk
10 34 (2.54%) Atlassian
11 30 (2.24%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.94%) Dell
13 18 (1.34%) New Relic
14 17 (1.27%) Bloomberg
15 16 (1.19%) CQG
15 16 (1.19%) ION Trading
15 16 (1.19%) Patsystems
15 16 (1.19%) Reuters
15 16 (1.19%) ServiceNow
15 16 (1.19%) Trayport