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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 148 170
Rank change year-on-year -83 +22 -6
Permanent jobs citing Bash 1,325 2,269 4,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 2.44% 2.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.86% 5.79% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 823 1,288 1,920
10th Percentile £40,916 £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% - +16.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £117,236 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £61,180 £57,931
% change year-on-year -9.28% +5.61% +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 34,343 39,181 92,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.67% 42.09% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 25,459 26,275 43,476
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 £85,000 £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 9 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 9 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 -60 1,239 £60,000 -14.29% 243
UK excluding London -107 808 £55,500 -9.28% 151
Work from Home -74 601 £62,500 -11.97% 123
London -25 494 £72,500 -9.38% 94
South West 0 300 £55,000 -15.38% 38
South East -30 232 £52,500 -12.50% 41
North of England -197 81 £60,000 -1.93% 28
East of England +5 65 £60,000 +14.29% 22
Midlands -59 58 £55,000 -7.56% 17
Scotland -115 53 £60,000 -10.75% 7
North West -112 47 £63,891 +17.04% 18
West Midlands -25 33 £60,000 - 10
East Midlands -46 25 £50,000 +8.11% 7
Yorkshire -105 22 £45,000 -26.45% 6
Northern Ireland -8 15 £70,000 -5.08% 2
North East -24 12 £45,000 -43.75% 4
Wales -47 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 (3.85%) nginx
2 39 (2.94%) Apache
3 30 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (1.81%) Confluence
6 23 (1.74%) SharePoint
7 20 (1.51%) Jupyter
8 13 (0.98%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.45%) JBoss
9 6 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.075%) Drupal
12 1 (0.075%) IIS
12 1 (0.075%) Moodle
12 1 (0.075%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.15%) Abaqus
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.075%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 18 (1.36%) Fidessa
2 11 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.45%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 595 (44.91%) Azure
2 380 (28.68%) AWS
3 255 (19.25%) Entra ID
4 100 (7.55%) GCP
5 94 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
6 92 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
7 91 (6.87%) OpenShift
8 84 (6.34%) SaaS
9 78 (5.89%) GitHub
10 68 (5.13%) Amazon S3
11 54 (4.08%) Serverless
12 51 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 47 (3.55%) IaaS
14 43 (3.25%) PaaS
15 41 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
16 33 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
17 31 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
17 31 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
18 29 (2.19%) Azure AKS
19 26 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 221 (16.68%) Broadband
2 211 (15.92%) 5G
3 179 (13.51%) Firewall
4 130 (9.81%) DNS
5 129 (9.74%) TCP/IP
6 76 (5.74%) DHCP
7 52 (3.92%) HTTP
8 45 (3.40%) LAN
9 42 (3.17%) Network Security
10 41 (3.09%) WAN
11 37 (2.79%) VPN
12 22 (1.66%) NAS
12 22 (1.66%) SAN
12 22 (1.66%) Wireless
13 19 (1.43%) Internet
14 18 (1.36%) FIX Connectivity
15 17 (1.28%) VSAN
16 16 (1.21%) Cisco ASA
17 14 (1.06%) Wireshark
18 13 (0.98%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (5.96%) MySQL
2 77 (5.81%) SQL Server
3 68 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (4.83%) MongoDB
5 39 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
6 35 (2.64%) Redis
7 31 (2.34%) Hadoop
8 29 (2.19%) Big Data
9 26 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (1.81%) MariaDB
11 23 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (1.66%) Relational Database
13 17 (1.28%) Presto
14 13 (0.98%) InfluxDB
14 13 (0.98%) Scylla
15 10 (0.75%) Ingres
15 10 (0.75%) NoSQL
16 9 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
16 9 (0.68%) Data Mining
17 7 (0.53%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 214 (16.15%) Jenkins
2 179 (13.51%) Git
3 75 (5.66%) GitLab
4 69 (5.21%) JIRA
5 28 (2.11%) TeamCity
6 23 (1.74%) Subversion
7 21 (1.58%) Bitbucket
7 21 (1.58%) Octopus Deploy
8 19 (1.43%) Visual Studio
9 17 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 17 (1.28%) Robot Framework
9 17 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (0.75%) Eclipse
11 9 (0.68%) CMake
11 9 (0.68%) GNU Toolchain
11 9 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.60%) Gradle
12 8 (0.60%) TestRail
13 6 (0.45%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 329 (24.83%) Analytical Skills
2 256 (19.32%) Social Skills
3 250 (18.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 192 (14.49%) Finance
5 66 (4.98%) Banking
6 62 (4.68%) Aerospace
7 39 (2.94%) Public Sector
8 34 (2.57%) Manufacturing
9 28 (2.11%) Marketing
10 27 (2.04%) Electronics
11 24 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (1.74%) Investment Banking
12 23 (1.74%) Law
13 22 (1.66%) Retail
13 22 (1.66%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.13%) Games
16 9 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.60%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 371 (28.00%) Senior
2 213 (16.08%) Linux Specialist
3 210 (15.85%) Technical Specialist
4 195 (14.72%) Software Engineer
5 180 (13.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 133 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 128 (9.66%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 128 (9.66%) Senior Linux Specialist
8 127 (9.58%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 127 (9.58%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 103 (7.77%) Linux Engineer
10 91 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 84 (6.34%) Administrator
12 76 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
13 68 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
13 68 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
14 66 (4.98%) Embedded Engineer
15 64 (4.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
16 63 (4.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 58 (4.38%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (4.30%) Elastic Stack
2 44 (3.32%) HTML
3 35 (2.64%) ARM Templates
4 29 (2.19%) React
5 28 (2.11%) YAML
6 26 (1.96%) Node.js
7 22 (1.66%) RabbitMQ
8 19 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
8 19 (1.43%) REST
9 18 (1.36%) .NET
9 18 (1.36%) AWS CDK
9 18 (1.36%) Kafka
10 17 (1.28%) XML
11 16 (1.21%) ActiveMQ
11 16 (1.21%) Apache NiFi
12 15 (1.13%) HTML5
13 14 (1.06%) CSS
13 14 (1.06%) EDI
13 14 (1.06%) Middleware
14 13 (0.98%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 210 (15.85%) Social Media
2 85 (6.42%) Linux Command Line
3 43 (3.25%) Algorithms
3 43 (3.25%) Public Cloud
4 34 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (2.42%) IoT
6 31 (2.34%) PKI
6 31 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.11%) Data Centre
8 26 (1.96%) Clustering
8 26 (1.96%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.81%) Onboarding
10 21 (1.58%) Cloud Native
11 18 (1.36%) Eurex
12 15 (1.13%) Replication
13 14 (1.06%) CUDA
13 14 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
14 13 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
14 13 (0.98%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 929 (70.11%) Linux
2 398 (30.04%) Windows
3 282 (21.28%) Ubuntu
4 132 (9.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 111 (8.38%) CentOS
6 110 (8.30%) Unix
7 96 (7.25%) Windows Server
8 70 (5.28%) Embedded Linux
9 49 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 47 (3.55%) Debian
11 45 (3.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 43 (3.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 35 (2.64%) Mac OS
14 25 (1.89%) Solaris
15 19 (1.43%) CoreOS
16 18 (1.36%) Windows 10
17 13 (0.98%) SUSE
18 12 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
19 8 (0.60%) VMS
20 7 (0.53%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (35.55%) DevOps
2 410 (30.94%) Cybersecurity
3 291 (21.96%) CI/CD
4 275 (20.75%) Artificial Intelligence
5 271 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
6 240 (18.11%) Software Engineering
7 234 (17.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 221 (16.68%) IT Strategy
9 218 (16.45%) Technology Strategy
10 216 (16.30%) CRM
11 180 (13.58%) Agile
11 180 (13.58%) Containerisation
12 154 (11.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 135 (10.19%) Configuration Management
14 109 (8.23%) Computer Science
15 95 (7.17%) Task Automation
16 93 (7.02%) Mentoring
17 92 (6.94%) Continuous Integration
18 89 (6.72%) ITIL
19 88 (6.64%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 881 (66.49%) Python
2 502 (37.89%) PowerShell
3 167 (12.60%) C
4 159 (12.00%) SQL
5 136 (10.26%) Perl
6 133 (10.04%) Java
7 98 (7.40%) C++
8 77 (5.81%) JavaScript
8 77 (5.81%) Ruby
9 65 (4.91%) C#
10 58 (4.38%) Embedded C
10 58 (4.38%) Go
11 56 (4.23%) Rust
12 50 (3.77%) Shell Script
13 35 (2.64%) Bicep
14 33 (2.49%) Fortran
15 23 (1.74%) PHP
16 17 (1.28%) TypeScript
17 16 (1.21%) Korn
17 16 (1.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 311 (23.47%) Security Cleared
2 187 (14.11%) Degree
3 120 (9.06%) DV Cleared
4 92 (6.94%) SC Cleared
5 51 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 38 (2.87%) PhD
7 30 (2.26%) AWS Certification
8 25 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 24 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (1.51%) CISSP
11 17 (1.28%) CCNA
12 16 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.75%) CEH
16 9 (0.68%) GIAC
16 9 (0.68%) OSCP
17 8 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
18 6 (0.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (1.74%) Data Quality
3 22 (1.66%) SLA
4 21 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 19 (1.43%) PMO
6 16 (1.21%) QA
7 12 (0.91%) SOC 2
8 8 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.53%) NIST
10 6 (0.45%) JTAG
11 5 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.38%) NCSC
12 4 (0.30%) GDPR
12 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.23%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.15%) ISO 9000
15 1 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.075%) Disclosure Scotland
15 1 (0.075%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 341 (25.74%) Active Directory
2 300 (22.64%) Docker
3 156 (11.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (4.98%) Virtual Machines
5 59 (4.45%) Hyper-V
6 25 (1.89%) vSphere
7 23 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
8 22 (1.66%) Firmware
9 11 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.75%) NFS
11 8 (0.60%) XenApp
11 8 (0.60%) XenDesktop
12 6 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.38%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.30%) KVM
14 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
15 3 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
15 3 (0.23%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 329 (24.83%) Kubernetes
2 300 (22.64%) Ansible
3 270 (20.38%) Terraform
4 231 (17.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 218 (16.45%) Jamf Pro
6 181 (13.66%) Puppet
7 90 (6.79%) Grafana
8 70 (5.28%) Prometheus
9 59 (4.45%) Progress Chef
10 31 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
10 31 (2.34%) vCenter Server
11 25 (1.89%) HAProxy
12 23 (1.74%) Nagios
13 16 (1.21%) Red Hat Satellite
14 13 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.91%) logstash
16 11 (0.83%) Fluentd
16 11 (0.83%) Graphite
17 10 (0.75%) Istio
18 9 (0.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 474 (35.77%) Microsoft
2 216 (16.30%) CyberArk
3 210 (15.85%) Tanium
4 198 (14.94%) Red Hat
5 195 (14.72%) VMware
6 103 (7.77%) Oracle
7 56 (4.23%) Cisco
8 47 (3.55%) Google
9 36 (2.72%) Splunk
10 30 (2.26%) Atlassian
11 24 (1.81%) Palo Alto
12 19 (1.43%) Bloomberg
12 19 (1.43%) New Relic
13 18 (1.36%) CQG
13 18 (1.36%) ION Trading
13 18 (1.36%) Patsystems
13 18 (1.36%) Reuters
13 18 (1.36%) Trayport
14 17 (1.28%) Dell
15 16 (1.21%) ServiceNow