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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 71 109
Rank change year-on-year -5 +38 -16
Permanent jobs citing Bash 29 21 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.04% 2.15% 1.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.09% 5.34% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 27 14 50
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,231 £42,588
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,698 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.36% +1.62%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,771 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,065 -
South West median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +22.73% -18.52%

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 319 393 1,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 11.49% 40.14% 38.07%
Number of salaries quoted 258 307 962
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,750 £39,658
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

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 10 April 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 18 (62.07%) GitHub
1 18 (62.07%) GitHub Actions
2 11 (37.93%) Azure
3 10 (34.48%) AWS
4 8 (27.59%) GCP
5 7 (24.14%) Datadog
6 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (13.79%) Serverless
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
7 3 (10.34%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (10.34%) SaaS
7 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.45%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (3.45%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (62.07%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.69%) CircleCI
3 3 (10.34%) Burp Suite
3 3 (10.34%) Metasploit
4 1 (3.45%) Balsamiq
4 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.34%) Aerospace
4 3 (10.34%) Billing
5 2 (6.90%) Avionics
5 2 (6.90%) Law
6 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Automotive
6 1 (3.45%) Electronics
6 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Security Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Applications Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Penetration Tester
5 3 (10.34%) Tester
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Graduate Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Graduate Data Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Information Assurance Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Product Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Unix Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Mobile App
1 3 (10.34%) Security Posture
2 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (41.38%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Solaris
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) VMS
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Security Testing
2 12 (41.38%) CI/CD
2 12 (41.38%) DevOps
2 12 (41.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (37.93%) Penetration Testing
3 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (34.48%) Cloud Security
4 10 (34.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (34.48%) Threat Modelling
5 9 (31.03%) Incident Response
5 9 (31.03%) Roadmaps
6 8 (27.59%) Application Security
6 8 (27.59%) Strategic Roadmap
6 8 (27.59%) Technology Transformation
6 8 (27.59%) Test Automation
7 7 (24.14%) Agile
7 7 (24.14%) DevSecOps
8 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
8 6 (20.69%) Security Operations
8 6 (20.69%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (68.97%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.79%) C#
4 2 (6.90%) C
4 2 (6.90%) C++
5 1 (3.45%) Bicep
5 1 (3.45%) Go
5 1 (3.45%) SQL
5 1 (3.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) CREST Certified
2 8 (27.59%) CISSP
2 8 (27.59%) SANS
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) Accessibility
2 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.90%) NIST
4 1 (3.45%) Def Stans
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Firmware
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Terraform
2 7 (24.14%) Ansible
2 7 (24.14%) Grafana
2 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.34%) Nmap
4 1 (3.45%) Packer
4 1 (3.45%) Podman
4 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
1 2 (6.90%) VMware
2 1 (3.45%) Cribl.io
2 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.45%) Google
2 1 (3.45%) Mirantis
2 1 (3.45%) SAP
2 1 (3.45%) Splunk