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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 137 104
Rank change year-on-year -2 -33 -18
Permanent jobs citing Bash 95 37 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.08% 1.06% 2.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.46% 4.53% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 41 21 117
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,443 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -0.96% -7.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £87,500
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 1,471 817 2,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.74% 23.51% 25.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 540 1,525
10th Percentile £32,650 £31,250 £33,450
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,423 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,375
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.00% -7.12%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -2 50 £65,000 +13.04% 17
Bristol -22 29 £62,500 +8.80% 17
Wiltshire -9 9 £75,000 -6.25% 3
Dorset -3 4 £55,000 -21.43% 2
Devon -25 2 £52,500 +10.53%
Somerset -37 1 £42,500 -32.00% 7
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 5 (5.26%) Confluence
4 2 (2.11%) nginx
4 2 (2.11%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.05%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 46 (48.42%) AWS
2 31 (32.63%) Azure
3 27 (28.42%) Serverless
4 22 (23.16%) GitHub
5 21 (22.11%) 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%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (12.63%) Azure Key Vault
9 12 (12.63%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (12.63%) OpenShift
10 11 (11.58%) Amazon S3
11 9 (9.47%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (8.42%) GCP
13 5 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.74%) VPN
2 13 (13.68%) Firewall
3 8 (8.42%) TCP/IP
4 7 (7.37%) DNS
5 6 (6.32%) DHCP
6 4 (4.21%) IPv4
6 4 (4.21%) LAN
6 4 (4.21%) Network Security
6 4 (4.21%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (4.21%) WAN
7 2 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (2.11%) NGFW
7 2 (2.11%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.11%) VSAN
8 1 (1.05%) SSL
8 1 (1.05%) VLAN
8 1 (1.05%) VoIP
8 1 (1.05%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (8.42%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (7.37%) InfluxDB
4 4 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.11%) Big Data
5 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.05%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.05%) MySQL
6 1 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (42.11%) Git
2 31 (32.63%) Jenkins
3 28 (29.47%) GitLab
4 9 (9.47%) Bitbucket
5 8 (8.42%) Cucumber
5 8 (8.42%) Robot Framework
5 8 (8.42%) SonarQube
6 7 (7.37%) Cypress.io
6 7 (7.37%) JIRA
6 7 (7.37%) Selenium
6 7 (7.37%) TestRail
7 6 (6.32%) Subversion
8 2 (2.11%) git-flow
9 1 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.05%) Balsamiq
9 1 (1.05%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.05%) Postman
9 1 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.79%) Finance
3 14 (14.74%) Law
4 12 (12.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.47%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.42%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.11%) Legal
7 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Environmental Health
8 1 (1.05%) Marketing
8 1 (1.05%) Military
8 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (18.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (16.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (16.84%) Senior
3 13 (13.68%) Analyst
4 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 9 (9.47%) Software Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Test Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (6.32%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
9 5 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Security Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Administrator
10 4 (4.21%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Lead
10 4 (4.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Senior Security Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (9.47%) Apache NiFi
3 7 (7.37%) pytest
3 7 (7.37%) Vue
4 6 (6.32%) Node.js
4 6 (6.32%) Playwright
5 4 (4.21%) boto
6 2 (2.11%) Middleware
6 2 (2.11%) React
6 2 (2.11%) ZeroMQ
7 1 (1.05%) .NET
7 1 (1.05%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.05%) CSS
7 1 (1.05%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.05%) HTML
7 1 (1.05%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.05%) Next.js
7 1 (1.05%) Plotly
7 1 (1.05%) React Native
7 1 (1.05%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.68%) Public Cloud
2 12 (12.63%) Podcast
2 12 (12.63%) Security Posture
3 11 (11.58%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.37%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.32%) Product Ownership
6 5 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.11%) Blog
7 2 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.11%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.11%) Social Media
8 1 (1.05%) IoT
8 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 54 (56.84%) Linux
2 34 (35.79%) Windows
3 15 (15.79%) VMS
4 11 (11.58%) CentOS
5 8 (8.42%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.21%) Unix
7 2 (2.11%) CoreOS
7 2 (2.11%) Debian
7 2 (2.11%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.05%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 61 (64.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (61.05%) DevOps
4 49 (51.58%) Agile
5 33 (34.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 30 (31.58%) Containerisation
6 30 (31.58%) Scrum
7 24 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (24.21%) Collaborative Culture
9 21 (22.11%) DevSecOps
9 21 (22.11%) Test Automation
10 20 (21.05%) Cloud Security
11 19 (20.00%) Mentoring
12 18 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (18.95%) Observability
13 16 (16.84%) Root Cause Analysis
13 16 (16.84%) Task Automation
14 15 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
15 14 (14.74%) Analytics
15 14 (14.74%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (74.74%) Python
2 48 (50.53%) PowerShell
3 20 (21.05%) Java
4 19 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 15 (15.79%) Go
6 13 (13.68%) Bicep
6 13 (13.68%) SQL
7 12 (12.63%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (10.53%) C++
9 9 (9.47%) Rust
10 7 (7.37%) TypeScript
11 3 (3.16%) PHP
12 2 (2.11%) Ruby
12 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.05%) C#
13 1 (1.05%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 16 (16.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (16.84%) SC Cleared
4 14 (14.74%) Azure Certification
5 9 (9.47%) AWS Certification
5 9 (9.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (5.26%) CCNA
6 5 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (4.21%) ISTQB
7 4 (4.21%) OSCP
7 4 (4.21%) RHCE
7 4 (4.21%) RHCSA
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.05%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.05%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.47%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) NCSC
3 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (29.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (28.42%) Docker
3 22 (23.16%) Active Directory
4 16 (16.84%) vSphere
5 13 (13.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (8.42%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (5.26%) VMware NSX
8 4 (4.21%) Hyper-V
8 4 (4.21%) Squid
9 2 (2.11%) iptables
10 1 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (62.11%) Terraform
2 52 (54.74%) Ansible
3 36 (37.89%) Kubernetes
4 27 (28.42%) Grafana
5 16 (16.84%) Puppet
6 14 (14.74%) Kibana
6 14 (14.74%) logstash
7 11 (11.58%) 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%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (2.11%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (2.11%) NetBackup
12 2 (2.11%) SCVMM
12 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (31.58%) VMware
2 24 (25.26%) Microsoft
3 19 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 13 (13.68%) Splunk
5 12 (12.63%) ScienceLogic
6 8 (8.42%) 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
10 1 (1.05%) IBM
10 1 (1.05%) New Relic