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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 150 171
Rank change year-on-year -61 +21 -2
Permanent jobs citing Bash 1,394 2,447 3,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.41% 2.36% 2.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.19% 5.45% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 855 1,422 1,916
10th Percentile £41,500 £42,874 £40,853
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 £89,868 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £117,236 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £61,090 £57,931
% change year-on-year -9.97% +5.45% +5.33%

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 33,269 44,878 84,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.74% 43.24% 53.88%
Number of salaries quoted 25,012 28,616 44,114
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,171
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 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%

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 3 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 3 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 -41 1,265 £60,000 -14.29% 235
UK excluding London -81 862 £55,000 -9.97% 140
Work from Home -50 687 £62,500 -10.71% 134
London -5 493 £72,500 -7.75% 102
South West +6 299 £55,000 -18.52% 25
South East -6 233 £55,000 +10.00% 27
North of England -171 103 £60,000 -1.93% 33
Scotland -105 73 £60,000 -13.60% 11
Midlands +2 66 £52,500 -16.00% 13
East of England +8 58 £65,000 +23.81% 25
North West -84 56 £61,391 +11.86% 16
West Midlands +6 36 £60,000 -11.11% 7
Yorkshire -102 35 £53,750 -16.91% 15
East Midlands -6 30 £50,000 -4.76% 6
Northern Ireland +18 20 £80,000 +10.34% 2
North East -17 12 £45,000 -37.93% 2
Wales -38 10 £45,000 -30.77% 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 49 (3.52%) nginx
2 45 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 42 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 39 (2.80%) Apache
5 35 (2.51%) Confluence
6 26 (1.87%) SharePoint
7 20 (1.43%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.93%) 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 (0.79%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.50%) 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
1 595 (42.68%) Azure
2 402 (28.84%) AWS
3 251 (18.01%) Entra ID
4 119 (8.54%) GCP
5 113 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (6.89%) Serverless
7 92 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
8 90 (6.46%) OpenShift
9 89 (6.38%) SaaS
10 88 (6.31%) GitHub
11 81 (5.81%) Amazon S3
12 63 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 49 (3.52%) IaaS
14 40 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
15 39 (2.80%) PaaS
16 36 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
17 33 (2.37%) Azure AKS
18 29 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
18 29 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 221 (15.85%) Broadband
2 215 (15.42%) 5G
3 190 (13.63%) Firewall
4 133 (9.54%) TCP/IP
5 128 (9.18%) DNS
6 71 (5.09%) DHCP
7 56 (4.02%) WAN
8 52 (3.73%) LAN
9 48 (3.44%) HTTP
10 38 (2.73%) VPN
11 37 (2.65%) Network Security
12 31 (2.22%) Wireless
13 29 (2.08%) Internet
14 25 (1.79%) SAN
15 20 (1.43%) NAS
16 17 (1.22%) PBX
16 17 (1.22%) VSAN
17 16 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
17 16 (1.15%) SNMP
18 15 (1.08%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (6.10%) MySQL
2 77 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (5.45%) SQL Server
4 73 (5.24%) MongoDB
5 61 (4.38%) Relational Database
6 52 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
7 44 (3.16%) Big Data
8 43 (3.08%) Hadoop
8 43 (3.08%) Redis
9 40 (2.87%) RDBMS
10 39 (2.80%) Oracle Database
11 34 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (1.72%) InfluxDB
13 23 (1.65%) Scylla
14 20 (1.43%) MariaDB
15 18 (1.29%) Presto
16 17 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
18 10 (0.72%) Ingres
18 10 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 228 (16.36%) Git
2 215 (15.42%) Jenkins
3 81 (5.81%) GitLab
4 73 (5.24%) JIRA
5 36 (2.58%) JDeveloper
6 27 (1.94%) TeamCity
7 25 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.72%) Subversion
9 22 (1.58%) Visual Studio
10 18 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 18 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
10 18 (1.29%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (0.79%) Robot Framework
13 10 (0.72%) GNU Toolchain
14 9 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.57%) CMake
15 8 (0.57%) Eclipse
16 7 (0.50%) Maven
16 7 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 335 (24.03%) Analytical Skills
2 281 (20.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 267 (19.15%) Social Skills
4 203 (14.56%) Finance
5 64 (4.59%) Banking
6 54 (3.87%) Aerospace
7 47 (3.37%) Public Sector
8 36 (2.58%) Manufacturing
9 32 (2.30%) Marketing
10 30 (2.15%) Retail
11 29 (2.08%) Electronics
12 24 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (1.72%) Telecoms
13 22 (1.58%) Investment Banking
14 19 (1.36%) Games
15 17 (1.22%) Law
16 16 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.65%) Tech for Good
18 8 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
19 6 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 368 (26.40%) Senior
2 223 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 213 (15.28%) Linux Specialist
4 212 (15.21%) Technical Specialist
5 201 (14.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 136 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 129 (9.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 129 (9.25%) Senior Linux Specialist
8 127 (9.11%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 127 (9.11%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 117 (8.39%) Linux Engineer
10 85 (6.10%) Administrator
11 77 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 75 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
13 70 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
14 67 (4.81%) Embedded Engineer
15 66 (4.73%) Systems Engineer
16 65 (4.66%) Embedded Software Engineer
17 63 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
18 60 (4.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (5.16%) Node.js
2 70 (5.02%) React
3 65 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
4 36 (2.58%) HTML
4 36 (2.58%) YAML
5 34 (2.44%) ARM Templates
6 31 (2.22%) Kafka
7 23 (1.65%) .NET
7 23 (1.65%) GraphQL
7 23 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
8 21 (1.51%) REST
9 19 (1.36%) Apache NiFi
10 17 (1.22%) ActiveMQ
10 17 (1.22%) Middleware
11 16 (1.15%) AWS CDK
11 16 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
12 14 (1.00%) XML
13 13 (0.93%) Fluent Bit
13 13 (0.93%) LDAP
14 12 (0.86%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 210 (15.06%) Social Media
2 72 (5.16%) Linux Command Line
3 53 (3.80%) Public Cloud
4 41 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 37 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 35 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 35 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (2.37%) Data Centre
8 32 (2.30%) IoT
9 31 (2.22%) PKI
10 28 (2.01%) Clustering
11 27 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 24 (1.72%) Cloud Native
13 23 (1.65%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
16 15 (1.08%) Eurex
16 15 (1.08%) Replication
16 15 (1.08%) Virtual Team
17 14 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 939 (67.36%) Linux
2 419 (30.06%) Windows
3 279 (20.01%) Ubuntu
4 134 (9.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 109 (7.82%) CentOS
6 104 (7.46%) Windows Server
7 101 (7.25%) Unix
8 70 (5.02%) Embedded Linux
9 52 (3.73%) Debian
10 49 (3.52%) Windows Server 2016
11 47 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
12 45 (3.23%) Mac OS
13 40 (2.87%) Windows Server 2012
14 26 (1.87%) Solaris
15 20 (1.43%) CoreOS
16 19 (1.36%) Windows 10
17 13 (0.93%) SUSE
18 11 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
19 10 (0.72%) VMS
20 8 (0.57%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (37.73%) DevOps
2 426 (30.56%) Cybersecurity
3 319 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
4 312 (22.38%) CI/CD
5 285 (20.44%) Software Engineering
6 271 (19.44%) Artificial Intelligence
7 243 (17.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 225 (16.14%) Containerisation
9 221 (15.85%) IT Strategy
10 218 (15.64%) Technology Strategy
11 217 (15.57%) CRM
12 182 (13.06%) Agile
13 154 (11.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 136 (9.76%) Configuration Management
15 132 (9.47%) Continuous Integration
16 129 (9.25%) Actionable Insight
17 113 (8.11%) Open Source
18 101 (7.25%) Mentoring
19 99 (7.10%) Computer Science
20 88 (6.31%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 933 (66.93%) Python
2 523 (37.52%) PowerShell
3 180 (12.91%) Java
4 168 (12.05%) SQL
5 163 (11.69%) Perl
6 149 (10.69%) C
7 112 (8.03%) JavaScript
7 112 (8.03%) Ruby
8 110 (7.89%) Go
9 83 (5.95%) C++
10 65 (4.66%) C#
11 60 (4.30%) Shell Script
12 59 (4.23%) Embedded C
13 57 (4.09%) Rust
14 38 (2.73%) Bicep
15 29 (2.08%) PHP
16 27 (1.94%) Scala
17 20 (1.43%) Fortran
18 17 (1.22%) Korn
19 16 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 299 (21.45%) Security Cleared
2 199 (14.28%) Degree
3 123 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 95 (6.81%) SC Cleared
5 54 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (2.65%) CCNA
8 30 (2.15%) AWS Certification
9 26 (1.87%) PhD
10 24 (1.72%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.51%) Azure Certification
12 19 (1.36%) CISSP
13 17 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 17 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.72%) GIAC
15 10 (0.72%) OSCP
16 9 (0.65%) CEH
17 8 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
18 7 (0.50%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.59%) QA
2 45 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.58%) Data Quality
4 21 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 21 (1.51%) PMO
4 21 (1.51%) SLA
5 12 (0.86%) SOC 2
6 9 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.57%) NIST
8 7 (0.50%) GDPR
9 6 (0.43%) JTAG
9 6 (0.43%) NCSC
10 4 (0.29%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.29%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.22%) ISO 9000
12 1 (0.072%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.072%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.072%) MISRA
System Software
1 363 (26.04%) Active Directory
2 300 (21.52%) Docker
3 147 (10.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (4.52%) Hyper-V
5 62 (4.45%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (1.79%) vSphere
8 21 (1.51%) Firmware
9 11 (0.79%) NFS
10 7 (0.50%) 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%) Ceph
15 2 (0.14%) KVM
15 2 (0.14%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 354 (25.39%) Kubernetes
2 309 (22.17%) Ansible
3 287 (20.59%) Terraform
4 234 (16.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 220 (15.78%) Jamf Pro
6 181 (12.98%) Puppet
7 104 (7.46%) Grafana
8 80 (5.74%) Prometheus
9 63 (4.52%) Progress Chef
10 31 (2.22%) vCenter Server
11 28 (2.01%) HAProxy
12 25 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (1.43%) Nagios
14 16 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
15 14 (1.00%) logstash
16 13 (0.93%) Fluentd
17 12 (0.86%) Graphite
17 12 (0.86%) Istio
18 11 (0.79%) SCCM
19 9 (0.65%) Salt
Vendors
1 446 (31.99%) Microsoft
2 216 (15.49%) CyberArk
3 210 (15.06%) Tanium
4 201 (14.42%) Red Hat
4 201 (14.42%) VMware
5 136 (9.76%) Oracle
6 78 (5.60%) Cisco
7 62 (4.45%) Google
8 33 (2.37%) Atlassian
8 33 (2.37%) Palo Alto
9 32 (2.30%) Splunk
10 28 (2.01%) Dell
11 17 (1.22%) Apple
12 16 (1.15%) Bloomberg
12 16 (1.15%) Fortinet
12 16 (1.15%) New Relic
13 15 (1.08%) CQG
13 15 (1.08%) ION Trading
13 15 (1.08%) Patsystems
13 15 (1.08%) TOWER Software