Bash Job Trends in Bristol

Bash Shell
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 80 76
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +29
Permanent jobs citing Bash 20 27 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.96% 1.95% 3.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.52% 5.61% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 19 15 50
10th Percentile £45,750 £61,250 £42,613
25th Percentile £56,875 £67,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +11.60% +3.99%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile - £91,267 £96,539
South West median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% +2.22%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

Bash falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 266 481 770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 12.81% 34.73% 43.36%
Number of salaries quoted 224 314 684
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,344 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £68,125 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,375 £87,500 £91,934
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bash relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Bash job vacancy trend in Bristol

Bash
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in Bristol over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Bash in Bristol

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) GitHub
1 11 (55.00%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (40.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (25.00%) Serverless
4 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (15.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (15.00%) GCP
5 3 (15.00%) SaaS
5 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (10.00%) Datadog
7 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) Burp Suite
2 2 (10.00%) CircleCI
2 2 (10.00%) Metasploit
3 1 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Billing
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (10.00%) Avionics
4 2 (10.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Automotive
5 1 (5.00%) Electronics
5 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Information Assurance Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Information Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Product Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Solaris
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 8 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 7 (35.00%) DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) Application Security
4 6 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 6 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 6 (30.00%) Technology Transformation
5 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (65.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) Bicep
3 2 (10.00%) C
3 2 (10.00%) C#
3 2 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) CREST Certified
2 6 (30.00%) CISSP
2 6 (30.00%) SANS
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) Def Stans
3 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Firmware
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Grafana
3 2 (10.00%) Nmap
4 1 (5.00%) Podman
4 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) Mirantis
2 1 (5.00%) SAP