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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 123 70
Rank change year-on-year -17 -53 +57
Permanent jobs citing Bash 26 94 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.70% 1.52% 4.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.61% 5.46% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 21 52 118
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £44,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £87,250 £96,539
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -

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 720 1,721 1,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.38% 27.77% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 514 959 1,466
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £35,733
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £79,625 £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 27 October 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 27 October 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 0 12 £60,000 -5.88% 16
Bristol +17 8 £68,750 -14.06% 7
Devon +3 3 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Dorset 0 2 £130,000 +116.67% 2
Wiltshire +23 1 £87,500 +42.86% 3
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 18 (69.23%) AWS
2 12 (46.15%) Azure
3 8 (30.77%) OpenShift
4 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (19.23%) GitHub
4 5 (19.23%) Serverless
5 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (11.54%) Azure AKS
6 3 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Functions
7 2 (7.69%) GCP
7 2 (7.69%) PaaS
7 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.85%) CloudFront
8 1 (3.85%) Datadog
8 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) VSAN
2 3 (11.54%) DHCP
2 3 (11.54%) DNS
2 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) LAN
2 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.54%) WAN
3 2 (7.69%) Network Security
3 2 (7.69%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) Broadband
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (3.85%) InfiniBand
4 1 (3.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.85%) Big Data
1 1 (3.85%) InfluxDB
1 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Git
1 8 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.85%) Balsamiq
3 1 (3.85%) Jaeger
3 1 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (3.85%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.85%) TestRail
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Military
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Administrator
3 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (15.38%) Security Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.69%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) DevSecOps Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) GCP Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Graduate Applications Support
6 1 (3.85%) Junior Applications Support
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) ARM Templates
1 3 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.85%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) IoT
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (61.54%) Linux
2 10 (38.46%) Windows
3 7 (26.92%) CentOS
4 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (23.08%) Windows Server
5 3 (11.54%) CoreOS
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (7.69%) Unix
7 1 (3.85%) Android
7 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) DevOps
2 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (26.92%) Agile
3 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
4 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (19.23%) ITIL
5 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (19.23%) RBAC
5 5 (19.23%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (19.23%) Time Management
6 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 4 (15.38%) Task Automation
6 4 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (11.54%) Application Security
7 3 (11.54%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (11.54%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 23 (88.46%) Python
2 17 (65.38%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.54%) Bicep
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) Go
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) C++
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (26.92%) DV Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) CREST Certified
3 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
4 3 (11.54%) CISSP
4 3 (11.54%) SANS
5 2 (7.69%) Degree
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) CITP
6 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.69%) VMware NSX
3 2 (7.69%) vSphere
4 1 (3.85%) Ceph
4 1 (3.85%) iptables
4 1 (3.85%) Lustre
4 1 (3.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (46.15%) Ansible
2 11 (42.31%) Terraform
3 9 (34.62%) Kubernetes
4 4 (15.38%) Puppet
5 3 (11.54%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (11.54%) SCVMM
6 2 (7.69%) Grafana
6 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.85%) Argo
7 1 (3.85%) Kustomize
7 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Red Hat
2 3 (11.54%) McAfee
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Splunk
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco
3 2 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) 3PAR
4 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.85%) Juniper
4 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.85%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) VMware