Bash Job Trends in the South West

Bash Shell
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 135 60
Rank change year-on-year +8 -75 +48
Permanent jobs citing Bash 57 65 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.14% 1.50% 4.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.51% 4.64% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 41 41 122
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +16.95% +6.31%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £78,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 759 1,401 1,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.15% 32.30% 40.46%
Number of salaries quoted 563 767 1,425
10th Percentile £30,282 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,875 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Bash job vacancy trend in the South West

Bash
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in the South West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Bash in the South West

Bash
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Gloucestershire +21 25 £55,000 -20.29% 48
Bristol +5 19 £73,750 -4.84% 27
Wiltshire +15 6 £63,750 +13.33% 20
Dorset +8 4 £100,000 +81.82% 15
Devon 0 2 £55,000 -26.67% 21
Cornwall -15 1 - -
Bash
England

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (3.51%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.75%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 30 (52.63%) AWS
2 23 (40.35%) Azure
3 13 (22.81%) GitHub
4 10 (17.54%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (17.54%) OpenShift
5 6 (10.53%) GCP
5 6 (10.53%) Serverless
6 5 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.26%) Azure AKS
8 3 (5.26%) SaaS
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.51%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.51%) OCI
9 2 (3.51%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) TCP/IP
2 7 (12.28%) DNS
2 7 (12.28%) Firewall
3 6 (10.53%) LAN
3 6 (10.53%) VPN
3 6 (10.53%) WAN
4 5 (8.77%) DHCP
4 5 (8.77%) Network Security
5 4 (7.02%) VSAN
6 3 (5.26%) BGP
6 3 (5.26%) MPLS
6 3 (5.26%) OSPF
6 3 (5.26%) SD-WAN
6 3 (5.26%) VLAN
7 2 (3.51%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (3.51%) NGFW
8 1 (1.75%) Broadband
8 1 (1.75%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.51%) CockroachDB
2 2 (3.51%) InfluxDB
2 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.75%) Airbyte
3 1 (1.75%) Big Data
3 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.75%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.75%) MySQL
3 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.75%) Redis
3 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.79%) Git
3 6 (10.53%) GitLab
4 3 (5.26%) Balsamiq
4 3 (5.26%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.26%) Subversion
5 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.51%) Burp Suite
5 2 (3.51%) Checkstyle
5 2 (3.51%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.51%) Gradle
5 2 (3.51%) JIRA
5 2 (3.51%) JUnit
5 2 (3.51%) Maven
5 2 (3.51%) Metasploit
5 2 (3.51%) Mockito
5 2 (3.51%) Robot Framework
5 2 (3.51%) Selenium
5 2 (3.51%) TestNG
5 2 (3.51%) TestRail
General
1 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Finance
3 7 (12.28%) Aerospace
4 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.77%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.02%) Marketing
6 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Electronics
6 3 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.26%) Military
6 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Avionics
7 2 (3.51%) Billing
7 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Law
8 1 (1.75%) Automotive
8 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (15.79%) Security Engineer
2 8 (14.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) Senior
4 6 (10.53%) Administrator
4 6 (10.53%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Tester
6 4 (7.02%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (7.02%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Network Engineering Manager
7 3 (5.26%) Network Manager
7 3 (5.26%) Penetration Tester
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.51%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.51%) JWT
2 2 (3.51%) Middleware
2 2 (3.51%) OAuth
2 2 (3.51%) OAuth2
2 2 (3.51%) OpenAPI
2 2 (3.51%) REST
2 2 (3.51%) Spring
2 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.51%) Spring MVC
2 2 (3.51%) Spring Security
2 2 (3.51%) Swagger
2 2 (3.51%) ZeroMQ
3 1 (1.75%) .NET
3 1 (1.75%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.75%) Laravel
3 1 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.51%) e-Learning
3 2 (3.51%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.51%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 29 (50.88%) Linux
2 13 (22.81%) Windows
3 7 (12.28%) CentOS
3 7 (12.28%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (7.02%) Unix
5 4 (7.02%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (3.51%) CoreOS
7 2 (3.51%) Solaris
8 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) DevOps
2 19 (33.33%) Agile
2 19 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 15 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (17.54%) Cloud Security
7 10 (17.54%) Security Testing
8 9 (15.79%) Penetration Testing
8 9 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
9 8 (14.04%) Mentoring
9 8 (14.04%) Test Automation
10 7 (12.28%) DevSecOps
10 7 (12.28%) Roadmaps
10 7 (12.28%) Software Engineering
11 6 (10.53%) Application Security
11 6 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 50 (87.72%) Python
2 28 (49.12%) PowerShell
3 7 (12.28%) Go
3 7 (12.28%) Java
4 6 (10.53%) C#
5 4 (7.02%) C++
5 4 (7.02%) SQL
6 3 (5.26%) Bicep
6 3 (5.26%) C
6 3 (5.26%) VBScript
7 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.75%) Elixir
8 1 (1.75%) Erlang
8 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (40.35%) Security Cleared
2 16 (28.07%) DV Cleared
3 12 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 11 (19.30%) CREST Certified
5 7 (12.28%) Degree
6 6 (10.53%) CISSP
6 6 (10.53%) SANS
7 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
8 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
8 3 (5.26%) CCNP
8 3 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (5.26%) CITP
8 3 (5.26%) Master's Degree
9 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.26%) QA
4 2 (3.51%) NIST
5 1 (1.75%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.75%) GDPR
5 1 (1.75%) NCSC
5 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (28.07%) Docker
2 7 (12.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.02%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.51%) Firmware
6 1 (1.75%) Ceph
6 1 (1.75%) iptables
6 1 (1.75%) Lustre
6 1 (1.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (36.84%) Ansible
2 20 (35.09%) Kubernetes
2 20 (35.09%) Terraform
3 9 (15.79%) Grafana
4 5 (8.77%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.02%) Argo
6 3 (5.26%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (5.26%) Puppet
6 3 (5.26%) Rancher
6 3 (5.26%) SCVMM
6 3 (5.26%) yum
7 2 (3.51%) Nmap
8 1 (1.75%) Kibana
8 1 (1.75%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.75%) logstash
8 1 (1.75%) Nessus
8 1 (1.75%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Red Hat
2 5 (8.77%) Cisco
2 5 (8.77%) Google
2 5 (8.77%) Splunk
3 4 (7.02%) Fortinet
3 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.02%) Palo Alto
3 4 (7.02%) VMware
4 3 (5.26%) McAfee
4 3 (5.26%) SAP
5 2 (3.51%) Oracle
6 1 (1.75%) Dell
6 1 (1.75%) HP
6 1 (1.75%) Juniper
6 1 (1.75%) Mirantis
6 1 (1.75%) New Relic
6 1 (1.75%) Veeam