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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 145 118
Rank change year-on-year +12 -27 -48
Permanent jobs citing Bash 111 22 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.04% 0.61% 1.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.11% 3.07% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 39 18 55
10th Percentile £47,750 £47,125 £46,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% +2.08% -2.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,875 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,375 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +0.75% -4.29%

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 1,561 716 1,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.69% 19.97% 27.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,171 499 1,009
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 15 October 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 October 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 -8 71 £67,500 +12.50% 10
Bristol -22 27 £57,500 -16.36% 6
Wiltshire -11 9 £75,000 -14.29% 2
Somerset - 3 £42,500 - 3
Dorset -3 1 £62,500 - 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 12 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (9.91%) Apache
3 6 (5.41%) Confluence
4 5 (4.50%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.70%) nginx
6 1 (0.90%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 58 (52.25%) AWS
2 35 (31.53%) Azure
3 27 (24.32%) Serverless
4 23 (20.72%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (19.82%) GitHub
6 17 (15.32%) OpenShift
7 14 (12.61%) IaaS
7 14 (12.61%) PaaS
8 13 (11.71%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (11.71%) Azure Functions
9 12 (10.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (10.81%) Azure Key Vault
9 12 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (9.91%) Amazon S3
10 11 (9.91%) GCP
11 9 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.32%) Firewall
2 15 (13.51%) VPN
3 7 (6.31%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.41%) DNS
5 5 (4.50%) DHCP
6 4 (3.60%) IPv4
6 4 (3.60%) LAN
6 4 (3.60%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (3.60%) WAN
7 3 (2.70%) Network Security
8 2 (1.80%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.80%) NGFW
8 2 (1.80%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.80%) VSAN
8 2 (1.80%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.90%) Multicast
9 1 (0.90%) SSL
9 1 (0.90%) tcpdump
9 1 (0.90%) VLAN
9 1 (0.90%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (9.01%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (7.21%) InfluxDB
4 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.80%) Big Data
6 1 (0.90%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.90%) MySQL
6 1 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (38.74%) Git
2 34 (30.63%) GitLab
2 34 (30.63%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.01%) Cucumber
3 10 (9.01%) SonarQube
4 9 (8.11%) Robot Framework
5 8 (7.21%) JIRA
5 8 (7.21%) Subversion
5 8 (7.21%) TestRail
6 7 (6.31%) Bitbucket
6 7 (6.31%) Cypress.io
6 7 (6.31%) Selenium
7 3 (2.70%) git-flow
8 2 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.80%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.90%) Postman
9 1 (0.90%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (24.32%) Finance
2 19 (17.12%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.61%) Law
4 12 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (9.91%) Public Sector
6 10 (9.01%) Aerospace
7 9 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Legal
8 3 (2.70%) Military
9 2 (1.80%) Environmental Health
9 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Marketing
10 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (17.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (12.61%) Senior
4 12 (10.81%) Analyst
4 12 (10.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 11 (9.91%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (9.91%) Test Engineer
6 10 (9.01%) Software Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Automation Tester
9 6 (5.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
9 6 (5.41%) Tester
10 5 (4.50%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Lead
11 4 (3.60%) Security Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (69.37%) Terraform
2 25 (22.52%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (10.81%) Apache NiFi
4 8 (7.21%) pytest
4 8 (7.21%) Vue
5 6 (5.41%) Node.js
5 6 (5.41%) Playwright
6 4 (3.60%) boto
7 3 (2.70%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.80%) Django
8 2 (1.80%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.80%) Flask
8 2 (1.80%) JSP
8 2 (1.80%) Middleware
8 2 (1.80%) React
8 2 (1.80%) RESTful
8 2 (1.80%) ZeroMQ
9 1 (0.90%) .NET
9 1 (0.90%) CSS
9 1 (0.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.41%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.81%) Podcast
2 12 (10.81%) Public Cloud
2 12 (10.81%) Security Posture
3 7 (6.31%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.70%) Blog
6 2 (1.80%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.80%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.80%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) Social Media
7 1 (0.90%) Acoustics
7 1 (0.90%) IoT
7 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.90%) PKI
7 1 (0.90%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 63 (56.76%) Linux
2 37 (33.33%) Windows
3 14 (12.61%) VMS
4 10 (9.01%) CentOS
5 8 (7.21%) Windows Server
6 7 (6.31%) Unix
7 3 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.80%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.80%) Debian
8 2 (1.80%) Rocky
8 2 (1.80%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (73.87%) CI/CD
2 80 (72.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 70 (63.06%) DevOps
4 57 (51.35%) Agile
5 47 (42.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 43 (38.74%) Containerisation
7 35 (31.53%) Scrum
8 33 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (25.23%) Collaborative Culture
9 28 (25.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (24.32%) Test Automation
11 21 (18.92%) DevSecOps
11 21 (18.92%) Infrastructure Automation
11 21 (18.92%) Platform Engineering
12 20 (18.02%) AI
12 20 (18.02%) Cloud Security
13 17 (15.32%) Mentoring
13 17 (15.32%) Observability
13 17 (15.32%) Root Cause Analysis
14 16 (14.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (75.68%) Python
2 46 (41.44%) PowerShell
3 29 (26.13%) Java
4 22 (19.82%) JavaScript
5 21 (18.92%) Go
6 14 (12.61%) Rust
7 13 (11.71%) SQL
8 12 (10.81%) Bicep
8 12 (10.81%) C++
8 12 (10.81%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (7.21%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.60%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.70%) PHP
12 2 (1.80%) Ruby
13 1 (0.90%) Ada
13 1 (0.90%) C
13 1 (0.90%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 77 (69.37%) Security Cleared
2 31 (27.93%) DV Cleared
3 27 (24.32%) SC Cleared
4 16 (14.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (11.71%) Azure Certification
6 11 (9.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 10 (9.01%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.60%) CCNA
8 4 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.60%) ISTQB
8 4 (3.60%) OSCP
8 4 (3.60%) RHCE
8 4 (3.60%) RHCSA
9 3 (2.70%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.71%) QA
2 3 (2.70%) NCSC
3 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (30.63%) Docker
2 33 (29.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (20.72%) Active Directory
4 17 (15.32%) vSphere
5 13 (11.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (7.21%) VMware NSX
7 7 (6.31%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (4.50%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (3.60%) Hyper-V
9 4 (3.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 64 (57.66%) Ansible
2 58 (52.25%) Kubernetes
3 30 (27.03%) Grafana
4 25 (22.52%) Puppet
5 16 (14.41%) Kibana
5 16 (14.41%) logstash
6 11 (9.91%) Prometheus
7 10 (9.01%) vCenter Server
8 9 (8.11%) Argo
9 8 (7.21%) Rancher
9 8 (7.21%) yum
10 4 (3.60%) Packer
10 4 (3.60%) ZABBIX
11 3 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.80%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (1.80%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.80%) SCVMM
13 1 (0.90%) Nagios
13 1 (0.90%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 38 (34.23%) VMware
2 25 (22.52%) Microsoft
3 19 (17.12%) Red Hat
4 13 (11.71%) Splunk
5 12 (10.81%) ScienceLogic
6 9 (8.11%) Atlassian
7 5 (4.50%) Cisco
8 4 (3.60%) Oracle
9 2 (1.80%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.80%) IBM
9 2 (1.80%) McAfee
9 2 (1.80%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.90%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.90%) Dell
10 1 (0.90%) EMC
10 1 (0.90%) HP
10 1 (0.90%) Juniper
10 1 (0.90%) New Relic
10 1 (0.90%) Thales
10 1 (0.90%) Veeam