Bash Job Trends in Hampshire

Bash Shell
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire 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 112 135 113
Rank change year-on-year +23 -22 -5
Permanent jobs citing Bash 9 18 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.36% 0.68% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.24% 2.34% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 5 17 14
10th Percentile £48,100 £45,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £122,500 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - £78,000 -
South East median annual salary £56,430 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.95% - +11.63%

All Programming Languages
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 401 770 755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 16.14% 29.12% 37.77%
Number of salaries quoted 337 516 620
10th Percentile £30,650 £38,162 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Bash
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

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

Salary histogram for Bash in Hampshire

Bash
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Basingstoke +8 3 - -
Portsmouth +3 2 £49,750 -17.08% 3
Farnborough - 2 £72,500 - 6
Bash
South East

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) InfiniBand
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) NAS
3 1 (11.11%) NetScaler
3 1 (11.11%) PBX
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) VLAN
3 1 (11.11%) VoIP
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) Robot Framework
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
1 2 (22.22%) TestRail
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Manual Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Tester
4 1 (11.11%) ArcSight Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) Observability
3 3 (33.33%) SIEM
3 3 (33.33%) Validation
4 2 (22.22%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Backlog
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) CEH
3 2 (22.22%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) GCIH
3 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
3 2 (22.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (11.11%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (11.11%) Ceph
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) Lustre
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
2 2 (22.22%) Nessus
2 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) AirWatch
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) Nagios
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM
3 1 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) ArcSight
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco
1 1 (11.11%) Citrix
1 1 (11.11%) Commvault
1 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
1 1 (11.11%) Juniper
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Mitel
1 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
1 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk
1 1 (11.11%) Veeam
1 1 (11.11%) Veritas
1 1 (11.11%) VMware