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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 128 104
Rank change year-on-year -10 -24 -1
Permanent jobs citing Bash 95 37 218
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.14% 1.11% 2.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.87% 4.39% 7.81%
Number of salaries quoted 42 21 158
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £47,750 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,443 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% +4.44% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,750 £80,000 £86,625
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -10.71%

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 1,382 843 2,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.58% 25.38% 28.52%
Number of salaries quoted 966 567 2,189
10th Percentile £33,375 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £67,875 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 15 July 2026.

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 15 July 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
Gloucestershire +6 46 £60,000 +4.35% 12
Bristol -12 31 £75,000 +30.57% 8
Wiltshire -8 8 £75,000 -6.25% 3
Dorset +1 5 £47,500 -32.14% 2
Devon -24 4 £52,500 +10.53% 2
Somerset -36 1 £42,500 -32.00% 6
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 12 (12.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (9.47%) Apache
3 4 (4.21%) Confluence
4 2 (2.11%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 45 (47.37%) AWS
2 31 (32.63%) Azure
3 27 (28.42%) Serverless
4 23 (24.21%) GitHub
5 20 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (15.79%) IaaS
7 14 (14.74%) PaaS
8 13 (13.68%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (13.68%) Azure Functions
9 12 (12.63%) Amazon S3
9 12 (12.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (12.63%) Azure Key Vault
9 12 (12.63%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (11.58%) OpenShift
11 9 (9.47%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (9.47%) GCP
11 9 (9.47%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (5.26%) Datadog
13 4 (4.21%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.74%) VPN
2 11 (11.58%) Firewall
3 9 (9.47%) TCP/IP
4 8 (8.42%) DNS
5 7 (7.37%) DHCP
6 5 (5.26%) Network Security
7 4 (4.21%) IPv4
7 4 (4.21%) LAN
7 4 (4.21%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (4.21%) WAN
8 2 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (2.11%) NGFW
8 2 (2.11%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.11%) VSAN
9 1 (1.05%) Broadband
9 1 (1.05%) VLAN
9 1 (1.05%) VoIP
9 1 (1.05%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (9.47%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (8.42%) InfluxDB
4 4 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.16%) Big Data
5 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.11%) MySQL
7 1 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.05%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (38.95%) Git
1 37 (38.95%) Jenkins
2 27 (28.42%) GitLab
3 9 (9.47%) Bitbucket
3 9 (9.47%) Cucumber
3 9 (9.47%) SonarQube
4 8 (8.42%) Cypress.io
4 8 (8.42%) Robot Framework
4 8 (8.42%) TestRail
5 7 (7.37%) Selenium
6 6 (6.32%) Subversion
7 5 (5.26%) JIRA
8 3 (3.16%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.05%) Balsamiq
9 1 (1.05%) git-flow
9 1 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.05%) Postman
General
1 24 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.95%) Finance
3 14 (14.74%) Law
4 12 (12.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (10.53%) Aerospace
7 7 (7.37%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Marketing
9 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (17.89%) Senior
3 13 (13.68%) Analyst
3 13 (13.68%) Software Engineer
4 12 (12.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 9 (9.47%) Test Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Security Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (6.32%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
9 4 (4.21%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Security Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Automation Tester
10 3 (3.16%) IT Support
10 3 (3.16%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.11%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (10.53%) Apache NiFi
3 9 (9.47%) Vue
4 8 (8.42%) pytest
5 7 (7.37%) Playwright
6 6 (6.32%) Node.js
7 4 (4.21%) boto
7 4 (4.21%) Middleware
7 4 (4.21%) ZeroMQ
8 2 (2.11%) React
8 2 (2.11%) REST
8 2 (2.11%) SOAP
9 1 (1.05%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.05%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.05%) Flask
9 1 (1.05%) LDAP
9 1 (1.05%) Pandas
9 1 (1.05%) Plotly
9 1 (1.05%) React Native
9 1 (1.05%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.68%) Public Cloud
2 12 (12.63%) Podcast
2 12 (12.63%) Security Posture
3 8 (8.42%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.37%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.37%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.05%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.05%) IoT
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.05%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 53 (55.79%) Linux
2 33 (34.74%) Windows
3 15 (15.79%) VMS
4 13 (13.68%) CentOS
5 8 (8.42%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.21%) Unix
7 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.11%) CoreOS
8 2 (2.11%) Debian
8 2 (2.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.05%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (66.32%) CI/CD
2 57 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (56.84%) DevOps
4 48 (50.53%) Agile
5 31 (32.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 27 (28.42%) Collaborative Culture
6 27 (28.42%) Scrum
7 26 (27.37%) Containerisation
7 26 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (24.21%) DevSecOps
9 21 (22.11%) Test Automation
10 20 (21.05%) Cloud Security
10 20 (21.05%) Mentoring
11 18 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (17.89%) Observability
12 17 (17.89%) Root Cause Analysis
13 16 (16.84%) Software Engineering
13 16 (16.84%) Task Automation
14 14 (14.74%) AI
14 14 (14.74%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 75 (78.95%) Python
2 55 (57.89%) PowerShell
3 19 (20.00%) Java
4 18 (18.95%) JavaScript
5 16 (16.84%) Go
6 14 (14.74%) C++
6 14 (14.74%) SQL
7 13 (13.68%) Bicep
8 12 (12.63%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (8.42%) Rust
9 8 (8.42%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.16%) PHP
11 2 (2.11%) Ruby
11 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.05%) C#
12 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.05%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (46.32%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (14.74%) Azure Certification
3 14 (14.74%) DV Cleared
4 11 (11.58%) SC Cleared
5 8 (8.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (7.37%) AWS Certification
7 5 (5.26%) CCNA
7 5 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.21%) CISSP
8 4 (4.21%) CREST Certified
8 4 (4.21%) ISTQB
8 4 (4.21%) OSCP
8 4 (4.21%) RHCE
8 4 (4.21%) RHCSA
8 4 (4.21%) SANS
9 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) QA
2 4 (4.21%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.05%) NCSC
4 1 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (29.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (27.37%) Docker
3 22 (23.16%) Active Directory
4 16 (16.84%) vSphere
5 12 (12.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (8.42%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (4.21%) Hyper-V
7 4 (4.21%) Squid
7 4 (4.21%) VMware NSX
8 3 (3.16%) iptables
Systems Management
1 53 (55.79%) Terraform
2 49 (51.58%) Ansible
3 32 (33.68%) Grafana
4 30 (31.58%) Kubernetes
5 16 (16.84%) Kibana
5 16 (16.84%) logstash
6 14 (14.74%) Puppet
7 12 (12.63%) Prometheus
8 7 (7.37%) vCenter Server
9 6 (6.32%) Argo
9 6 (6.32%) Rancher
9 6 (6.32%) yum
10 5 (5.26%) Packer
11 4 (4.21%) Progress Chef
11 4 (4.21%) ZABBIX
12 2 (2.11%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (2.11%) NetBackup
12 2 (2.11%) SCVMM
13 1 (1.05%) Podman
Vendors
1 28 (29.47%) VMware
2 24 (25.26%) Microsoft
3 19 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 13 (13.68%) Splunk
5 12 (12.63%) ScienceLogic
6 7 (7.37%) Atlassian
7 6 (6.32%) Cisco
8 4 (4.21%) Oracle
9 2 (2.11%) Dell
9 2 (2.11%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.11%) HP
9 2 (2.11%) Juniper
9 2 (2.11%) McAfee
9 2 (2.11%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.11%) Veeam
10 1 (1.05%) Cribl.io
10 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.05%) Google