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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 146 174
Rank change year-on-year -86 +28 -6
Permanent jobs citing Bash 1,307 2,331 4,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.24% 2.46% 2.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.85% 5.82% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 817 1,311 1,890
10th Percentile £41,083 £42,874 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,250 £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 £89,427 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £117,236 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £58,216
% change year-on-year -12.00% +7.36% +5.85%

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 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £85,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -58 1,220 £60,000 -14.29% 275
UK excluding London -107 797 £55,000 -12.00% 161
Work from Home -77 600 £62,500 -11.35% 124
London -16 485 £72,500 -9.38% 118
South West +2 298 £55,000 -18.52% 36
South East -39 225 £52,500 -12.50% 37
North of England -191 82 £60,000 -1.93% 35
East of England +5 60 £62,500 +19.05% 28
Midlands -35 60 £52,500 -12.50% 19
Scotland -121 53 £60,000 -13.60% 10
North West -121 47 £63,891 +17.04% 21
West Midlands -21 35 £60,000 -2.44% 12
East Midlands -28 25 £50,000 +8.11% 7
Yorkshire -109 23 £46,250 -24.40% 9
Northern Ireland -7 15 £70,000 -5.08% 1
North East -20 12 £45,000 -43.75% 5
Wales -55 4 £45,000 -34.30% 2

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 51 (3.90%) nginx
2 39 (2.98%) Apache
3 31 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (1.91%) Confluence
6 24 (1.84%) SharePoint
7 20 (1.53%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.99%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.46%) JBoss
9 6 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.31%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.15%) Drupal
11 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.15%) WordPress
12 1 (0.077%) IIS
12 1 (0.077%) Moodle
Applications
1 11 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.15%) Abaqus
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.077%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 17 (1.30%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.077%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 588 (44.99%) Azure
2 376 (28.77%) AWS
3 253 (19.36%) Entra ID
4 101 (7.73%) GCP
5 93 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
6 92 (7.04%) OpenShift
7 90 (6.89%) Microsoft 365
8 85 (6.50%) SaaS
9 80 (6.12%) GitHub
10 70 (5.36%) Amazon S3
11 54 (4.13%) Serverless
12 51 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 45 (3.44%) IaaS
14 44 (3.37%) PaaS
15 41 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
16 34 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
17 32 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
18 30 (2.30%) Azure AKS
18 30 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
19 26 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 221 (16.91%) Broadband
2 211 (16.14%) 5G
3 180 (13.77%) Firewall
4 130 (9.95%) TCP/IP
5 127 (9.72%) DNS
6 76 (5.81%) DHCP
7 52 (3.98%) HTTP
8 45 (3.44%) LAN
9 41 (3.14%) WAN
10 37 (2.83%) Network Security
11 35 (2.68%) VPN
12 22 (1.68%) NAS
12 22 (1.68%) SAN
12 22 (1.68%) Wireless
13 20 (1.53%) Internet
14 17 (1.30%) FIX Connectivity
14 17 (1.30%) VSAN
15 16 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
16 15 (1.15%) Wireshark
17 13 (0.99%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (6.27%) MySQL
2 72 (5.51%) SQL Server
3 71 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (4.90%) MongoDB
5 40 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
6 36 (2.75%) Redis
7 32 (2.45%) Hadoop
8 30 (2.30%) Big Data
9 28 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (1.84%) MariaDB
11 23 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (1.76%) Relational Database
12 17 (1.30%) Presto
13 14 (1.07%) Scylla
14 13 (0.99%) InfluxDB
15 10 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (0.77%) Ingres
15 10 (0.77%) NoSQL
16 9 (0.69%) Data Mining
17 7 (0.54%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 213 (16.30%) Jenkins
2 180 (13.77%) Git
3 72 (5.51%) GitLab
4 70 (5.36%) JIRA
5 29 (2.22%) TeamCity
6 24 (1.84%) Subversion
7 23 (1.76%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
9 19 (1.45%) Visual Studio
10 17 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 17 (1.30%) Robot Framework
10 17 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.77%) Eclipse
11 10 (0.77%) GNU Toolchain
12 9 (0.69%) CMake
12 9 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.61%) Gradle
13 8 (0.61%) TestRail
14 6 (0.46%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 326 (24.94%) Analytical Skills
2 257 (19.66%) Social Skills
3 251 (19.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 189 (14.46%) Finance
5 63 (4.82%) Banking
6 62 (4.74%) Aerospace
7 41 (3.14%) Public Sector
8 35 (2.68%) Manufacturing
9 29 (2.22%) Marketing
10 27 (2.07%) Electronics
11 25 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (1.76%) Retail
13 22 (1.68%) Investment Banking
13 22 (1.68%) Telecoms
14 21 (1.61%) Law
15 16 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (1.15%) Games
17 9 (0.69%) Tech for Good
18 8 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
19 6 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 368 (28.16%) Senior
2 212 (16.22%) Linux Specialist
3 210 (16.07%) Technical Specialist
4 192 (14.69%) Software Engineer
5 181 (13.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 128 (9.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 128 (9.79%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 128 (9.79%) Senior Linux Specialist
7 127 (9.72%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 127 (9.72%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 103 (7.88%) Linux Engineer
9 85 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 84 (6.43%) Administrator
11 75 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
12 69 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
13 66 (5.05%) Embedded Engineer
13 66 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
14 64 (4.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 62 (4.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 60 (4.59%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
2 44 (3.37%) HTML
3 36 (2.75%) ARM Templates
4 28 (2.14%) React
4 28 (2.14%) YAML
5 27 (2.07%) Node.js
6 22 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
7 19 (1.45%) .NET
7 19 (1.45%) Kafka
7 19 (1.45%) REST
8 18 (1.38%) AWS CDK
8 18 (1.38%) FIX Protocol
9 17 (1.30%) XML
10 16 (1.22%) ActiveMQ
10 16 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
11 15 (1.15%) HTML5
11 15 (1.15%) Middleware
12 14 (1.07%) CSS
12 14 (1.07%) GraphQL
13 13 (0.99%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 210 (16.07%) Social Media
2 81 (6.20%) Linux Command Line
3 42 (3.21%) Algorithms
4 41 (3.14%) Public Cloud
5 33 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 32 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (2.37%) PKI
8 30 (2.30%) IoT
9 26 (1.99%) Clustering
9 26 (1.99%) Data Centre
10 25 (1.91%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.76%) Onboarding
12 22 (1.68%) Cloud Native
13 17 (1.30%) Eurex
14 15 (1.15%) Replication
15 14 (1.07%) CUDA
15 14 (1.07%) Cyber Defence
15 14 (1.07%) Data Structures
15 14 (1.07%) Embedded Systems
15 14 (1.07%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 919 (70.31%) Linux
2 391 (29.92%) Windows
3 279 (21.35%) Ubuntu
4 132 (10.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 111 (8.49%) CentOS
6 110 (8.42%) Unix
7 90 (6.89%) Windows Server
8 70 (5.36%) Embedded Linux
9 49 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 47 (3.60%) Debian
11 45 (3.44%) Windows Server 2019
12 43 (3.29%) Windows Server 2012
13 37 (2.83%) Mac OS
14 26 (1.99%) Solaris
15 19 (1.45%) CoreOS
16 17 (1.30%) Windows 10
17 13 (0.99%) SUSE
18 12 (0.92%) Oracle Linux
19 9 (0.69%) VMS
20 5 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (35.35%) DevOps
2 408 (31.22%) Cybersecurity
3 291 (22.26%) CI/CD
4 275 (21.04%) Artificial Intelligence
5 270 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
6 238 (18.21%) Software Engineering
7 226 (17.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 221 (16.91%) IT Strategy
9 218 (16.68%) Technology Strategy
10 216 (16.53%) CRM
11 181 (13.85%) Agile
12 178 (13.62%) Containerisation
13 148 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 134 (10.25%) Configuration Management
15 107 (8.19%) Computer Science
16 95 (7.27%) Mentoring
17 92 (7.04%) Continuous Integration
18 90 (6.89%) Task Automation
19 86 (6.58%) Platform Engineering
20 85 (6.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 867 (66.34%) Python
2 494 (37.80%) PowerShell
3 163 (12.47%) C
4 156 (11.94%) SQL
5 133 (10.18%) Java
6 126 (9.64%) Perl
7 94 (7.19%) C++
8 74 (5.66%) JavaScript
8 74 (5.66%) Ruby
9 63 (4.82%) C#
10 59 (4.51%) Go
11 58 (4.44%) Embedded C
12 56 (4.28%) Rust
13 52 (3.98%) Shell Script
14 36 (2.75%) Bicep
15 31 (2.37%) Fortran
16 24 (1.84%) PHP
17 17 (1.30%) Scala
17 17 (1.30%) TypeScript
18 15 (1.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 308 (23.57%) Security Cleared
2 184 (14.08%) Degree
3 120 (9.18%) DV Cleared
4 95 (7.27%) SC Cleared
5 51 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.75%) PhD
7 35 (2.68%) Master's Degree
8 30 (2.30%) AWS Certification
9 26 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.76%) Azure Certification
11 20 (1.53%) CISSP
12 19 (1.45%) CCNA
13 16 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.77%) CEH
15 10 (0.77%) GIAC
16 9 (0.69%) OSCP
17 8 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
18 6 (0.46%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (1.68%) SLA
3 21 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 20 (1.53%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.45%) PMO
6 16 (1.22%) QA
7 12 (0.92%) SOC 2
8 8 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.54%) NIST
10 6 (0.46%) JTAG
11 5 (0.38%) GDPR
11 5 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.38%) NCSC
12 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.23%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.15%) ISO 9000
15 1 (0.077%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.077%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.077%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 335 (25.63%) Active Directory
2 299 (22.88%) Docker
3 151 (11.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
5 59 (4.51%) Hyper-V
6 25 (1.91%) vSphere
7 23 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (1.61%) Firmware
9 11 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.77%) NFS
11 6 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.46%) XenApp
11 6 (0.46%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.38%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.31%) KVM
13 4 (0.31%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.23%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 332 (25.40%) Kubernetes
2 295 (22.57%) Ansible
3 268 (20.50%) Terraform
4 231 (17.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 218 (16.68%) Jamf Pro
6 178 (13.62%) Puppet
7 91 (6.96%) Grafana
8 70 (5.36%) Prometheus
9 59 (4.51%) Progress Chef
10 29 (2.22%) vCenter Server
11 28 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
12 25 (1.91%) HAProxy
13 23 (1.76%) Nagios
14 15 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
15 13 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 13 (0.99%) logstash
16 12 (0.92%) Fluentd
17 11 (0.84%) Graphite
18 9 (0.69%) Istio
18 9 (0.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 465 (35.58%) Microsoft
2 216 (16.53%) CyberArk
3 210 (16.07%) Tanium
4 196 (15.00%) Red Hat
5 194 (14.84%) VMware
6 103 (7.88%) Oracle
7 58 (4.44%) Cisco
8 48 (3.67%) Google
9 37 (2.83%) Splunk
10 32 (2.45%) Atlassian
11 26 (1.99%) Palo Alto
12 19 (1.45%) New Relic
13 18 (1.38%) Bloomberg
13 18 (1.38%) Dell
14 17 (1.30%) CQG
14 17 (1.30%) ION Trading
14 17 (1.30%) Patsystems
14 17 (1.30%) Reuters
14 17 (1.30%) Trayport
15 16 (1.22%) ServiceNow