Bash Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Bash Shell
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 49 26
Rank change year-on-year +8 -23 +6
Permanent jobs citing Bash 45 14 139
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 3.78% 3.49% 8.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.52% 10.22% 19.20%
Number of salaries quoted 16 6 97
10th Percentile - £51,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.29% +25.45% -18.52%
75th Percentile £66,875 £69,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £69,750 £80,000
South West median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -18.52%

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 243 137 724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.39% 34.16% 43.51%
Number of salaries quoted 142 76 588
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
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 Gloucestershire

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Bash
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Bash in Gloucestershire

Bash
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 17 April 2026. 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
Gloucester +11 27 - - 2
Cheltenham -24 10 £52,500 -4.55% 2
Tewkesbury -6 1 £52,500 -8.70%
Bash
South West

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (13.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 29 (64.44%) AWS
2 12 (26.67%) Azure
3 9 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 6 (13.33%) GCP
5 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.78%) DHCP
1 8 (17.78%) DNS
1 8 (17.78%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.44%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) LAN
2 2 (4.44%) VSAN
2 2 (4.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) InfluxDB
2 6 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (8.89%) Big Data
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.22%) MySQL
4 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 14 (31.11%) Git
2 14 (31.11%) GitLab
3 7 (15.56%) Robot Framework
3 7 (15.56%) Subversion
3 7 (15.56%) TestRail
4 6 (13.33%) Cucumber
4 6 (13.33%) SonarQube
5 4 (8.89%) Cypress.io
5 4 (8.89%) Selenium
6 3 (6.67%) Balsamiq
7 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (22.22%) Aerospace
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Marketing
5 3 (6.67%) Military
6 2 (4.44%) Electronics
6 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Tester
5 5 (11.11%) Automation Tester
6 4 (8.89%) C++ Software Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Senior
6 4 (8.89%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Test Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Consultant
7 3 (6.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 3 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
8 2 (4.44%) Administrator
8 2 (4.44%) Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
9 1 (2.22%) Linux Administrator
9 1 (2.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 1 (2.22%) Penetration Tester
9 1 (2.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (15.56%) Vue
3 6 (13.33%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (8.89%) Middleware
4 4 (8.89%) Playwright
4 4 (8.89%) pytest
4 4 (8.89%) ZeroMQ
5 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.44%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (68.89%) Linux
2 12 (26.67%) Windows
3 9 (20.00%) CentOS
4 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.44%) Unix
4 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.22%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) DevOps
2 22 (48.89%) Agile
2 22 (48.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (46.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 20 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 18 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (35.56%) Software Engineering
7 12 (26.67%) Containerisation
7 12 (26.67%) Scrum
8 10 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (22.22%) Software Testing
9 9 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 8 (17.78%) SDLC
11 7 (15.56%) Kanban
11 7 (15.56%) Test Management
11 7 (15.56%) Validation
12 6 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (13.33%) DevSecOps
13 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (93.33%) Python
2 19 (42.22%) PowerShell
3 16 (35.56%) Java
4 14 (31.11%) Go
5 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
6 9 (20.00%) C++
7 6 (13.33%) TypeScript
8 4 (8.89%) Rust
9 3 (6.67%) C#
9 3 (6.67%) Elixir
9 3 (6.67%) Erlang
9 3 (6.67%) VBScript
10 2 (4.44%) Kotlin
10 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
11 1 (2.22%) C
Qualifications
1 37 (82.22%) Security Cleared
2 19 (42.22%) DV Cleared
3 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 7 (15.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (8.89%) Degree
6 3 (6.67%) CITP
6 3 (6.67%) CREST Certified
7 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (28.89%) Docker
2 7 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 4 (8.89%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (51.11%) Ansible
2 21 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 18 (40.00%) Grafana
4 15 (33.33%) Terraform
5 10 (22.22%) Kibana
5 10 (22.22%) logstash
6 7 (15.56%) Argo
6 7 (15.56%) Rancher
6 7 (15.56%) yum
7 5 (11.11%) Prometheus
8 4 (8.89%) Puppet
8 4 (8.89%) vCenter Server
9 3 (6.67%) NetBackup
10 2 (4.44%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (4.44%) SCVMM
11 1 (2.22%) Nessus
11 1 (2.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 7 (15.56%) Splunk
2 7 (15.56%) VMware
3 4 (8.89%) Atlassian
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.67%) Cisco
4 3 (6.67%) Dell
4 3 (6.67%) HP
4 3 (6.67%) Juniper
4 3 (6.67%) Veeam
5 2 (4.44%) McAfee
5 2 (4.44%) SAP