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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 125 80
Rank change year-on-year +19 -45 +36
Permanent jobs citing Bash 91 58 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.52% 1.68% 3.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.25% 4.71% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 62 38 149
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,169 £42,450
25th Percentile £47,813 £52,721 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £68,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +24.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,133 £81,950
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,641
% change year-on-year -7.14% +11.75% -9.80%

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 888 1,231 2,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.86% 35.67% 38.83%
Number of salaries quoted 618 665 2,180
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,925 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.34%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,150 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 23 February 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 23 February 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 +38 41 £55,000 -20.29% 6
Bristol +11 30 £75,000 +11.11% 6
Dorset -1 7 £47,500 -32.14%
Wiltshire +3 6 £63,750 +13.33% 13
Devon -10 6 £52,500 -30.00% 2
Cornwall -13 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 3 (3.30%) Apache
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.10%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 46 (50.55%) AWS
2 34 (37.36%) Azure
3 22 (24.18%) GitHub
4 19 (20.88%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (15.38%) GCP
6 10 (10.99%) OpenShift
7 8 (8.79%) Serverless
8 7 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (6.59%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (6.59%) Datadog
10 5 (5.49%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (3.30%) CloudFront
12 3 (3.30%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) TCP/IP
2 11 (12.09%) DNS
3 9 (9.89%) DHCP
4 8 (8.79%) Firewall
5 7 (7.69%) LAN
5 7 (7.69%) Network Security
5 7 (7.69%) WAN
6 6 (6.59%) VPN
7 5 (5.49%) VSAN
8 4 (4.40%) Broadband
9 3 (3.30%) BGP
9 3 (3.30%) MPLS
9 3 (3.30%) OSPF
9 3 (3.30%) SD-WAN
9 3 (3.30%) VLAN
10 2 (2.20%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (2.20%) NGFW
11 1 (1.10%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.30%) Big Data
2 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.30%) InfluxDB
2 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.20%) CockroachDB
3 2 (2.20%) MySQL
4 1 (1.10%) Airbyte
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.10%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.10%) Redis
4 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (36.26%) Jenkins
2 13 (14.29%) Git
3 11 (12.09%) GitLab
4 6 (6.59%) CircleCI
4 6 (6.59%) Subversion
5 5 (5.49%) Bitbucket
5 5 (5.49%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.30%) Balsamiq
6 3 (3.30%) Burp Suite
6 3 (3.30%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.30%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.30%) Metasploit
6 3 (3.30%) Robot Framework
6 3 (3.30%) Selenium
6 3 (3.30%) TestRail
7 2 (2.20%) ESLint
7 2 (2.20%) Gradle
7 2 (2.20%) Maven
7 2 (2.20%) Mockito
7 2 (2.20%) TestNG
General
1 22 (24.18%) Finance
1 22 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 7 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.40%) Marketing
6 3 (3.30%) Billing
6 3 (3.30%) Electronics
6 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.30%) Military
7 2 (2.20%) Avionics
7 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Automotive
8 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (15.38%) Senior
2 13 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 12 (13.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) Applications Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (9.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Tester
7 6 (6.59%) Consultant
7 6 (6.59%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Administrator
9 4 (4.40%) C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Penetration Tester
10 3 (3.30%) Engineering Manager
10 3 (3.30%) IT Consultant
10 3 (3.30%) Linux Administrator
10 3 (3.30%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 3 (3.30%) Network Manager
10 3 (3.30%) Support Consultant
10 3 (3.30%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.49%) OAuth
2 5 (5.49%) REST
3 4 (4.40%) Middleware
3 4 (4.40%) Vue
3 4 (4.40%) ZeroMQ
4 3 (3.30%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (3.30%) GraphQL
4 3 (3.30%) LDAP
4 3 (3.30%) OpenID
4 3 (3.30%) SAML
4 3 (3.30%) SOAP
5 2 (2.20%) JWT
5 2 (2.20%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.20%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.20%) Spring
5 2 (2.20%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.20%) Spring MVC
5 2 (2.20%) Spring Security
5 2 (2.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
1 5 (5.49%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (4.40%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.30%) Cyberattack
3 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.20%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.20%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.20%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (52.75%) Linux
2 16 (17.58%) Windows
3 11 (12.09%) CentOS
4 7 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 6 (6.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (4.40%) Unix
7 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.20%) CoreOS
8 2 (2.20%) Solaris
9 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (42.86%) DevOps
2 33 (36.26%) CI/CD
2 33 (36.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (31.87%) Agile
4 25 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (25.27%) Containerisation
5 23 (25.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (21.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (19.78%) Security Testing
8 16 (17.58%) Mentoring
9 15 (16.48%) Cloud Security
10 14 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
10 14 (15.38%) Roadmaps
10 14 (15.38%) Test Automation
11 13 (14.29%) DevSecOps
11 13 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 13 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
12 12 (13.19%) Collaborative Culture
12 12 (13.19%) Scrum
13 11 (12.09%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 79 (86.81%) Python
2 49 (53.85%) PowerShell
3 15 (16.48%) Java
4 12 (13.19%) Go
5 8 (8.79%) C++
6 7 (7.69%) SQL
7 6 (6.59%) C#
7 6 (6.59%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.30%) C
8 3 (3.30%) Elixir
8 3 (3.30%) Erlang
8 3 (3.30%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.30%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.30%) VBScript
9 2 (2.20%) Bicep
9 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.10%) Rust
10 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (39.56%) Security Cleared
2 22 (24.18%) DV Cleared
3 16 (17.58%) CREST Certified
4 15 (16.48%) SC Cleared
5 10 (10.99%) CISSP
5 10 (10.99%) SANS
6 8 (8.79%) Degree
7 5 (5.49%) AWS Certification
8 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.30%) CCNP
9 3 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.30%) CITP
9 3 (3.30%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.59%) QA
4 5 (5.49%) NIST
5 4 (4.40%) NCSC
6 1 (1.10%) Def Stans
6 1 (1.10%) GDPR
6 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (28.57%) Docker
2 11 (12.09%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.59%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.30%) iptables
6 2 (2.20%) Firmware
6 2 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.10%) Ceph
7 1 (1.10%) Lustre
7 1 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.10%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (38.46%) Ansible
2 32 (35.16%) Terraform
3 31 (34.07%) Kubernetes
4 21 (23.08%) Grafana
5 10 (10.99%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.69%) Argo
7 6 (6.59%) Puppet
7 6 (6.59%) Rancher
7 6 (6.59%) yum
8 4 (4.40%) Kibana
8 4 (4.40%) logstash
8 4 (4.40%) McAfee ePO
8 4 (4.40%) SCVMM
9 3 (3.30%) Nmap
9 3 (3.30%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.20%) NetBackup
10 2 (2.20%) Podman
10 2 (2.20%) vCenter Server
11 1 (1.10%) Kustomize
11 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.69%) Splunk
4 6 (6.59%) Cisco
4 6 (6.59%) VMware
5 5 (5.49%) Google
6 4 (4.40%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.40%) McAfee
6 4 (4.40%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.30%) SAP
8 2 (2.20%) Dell
8 2 (2.20%) HP
8 2 (2.20%) Juniper
8 2 (2.20%) Oracle
8 2 (2.20%) Veeam
9 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.10%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.10%) Mirantis
9 1 (1.10%) New Relic