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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 132 71
Rank change year-on-year -5 -61 +49
Permanent jobs citing Bash 42 80 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.94% 1.38% 4.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.53% 4.75% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 33 49 112
10th Percentile £49,500 £52,250 £42,738
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - £85,000 £96,539
England median annual salary £67,750 £69,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.81% +2.22% -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 760 1,683 1,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.00% 29.06% 40.37%
Number of salaries quoted 565 931 1,427
10th Percentile £30,066 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 24 November 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 24 November 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 +18 18 £63,750 -7.61% 14
Bristol +21 15 £77,500 -1.59% 12
Wiltshire +21 5 £67,500 +20.00% 6
Devon +5 2 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Dorset -3 2 £100,000 +66.67% 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 1 (2.38%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 26 (61.90%) AWS
2 19 (45.24%) Azure
3 10 (23.81%) OpenShift
4 9 (21.43%) GitHub
5 8 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (16.67%) Serverless
7 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (9.52%) Azure AKS
8 4 (9.52%) GCP
9 3 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (4.76%) Azure Functions
10 2 (4.76%) PaaS
10 2 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) Firewall
2 6 (14.29%) LAN
2 6 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 6 (14.29%) WAN
3 5 (11.90%) Network Security
3 5 (11.90%) VPN
4 4 (9.52%) DNS
4 4 (9.52%) VSAN
5 3 (7.14%) BGP
5 3 (7.14%) DHCP
5 3 (7.14%) MPLS
5 3 (7.14%) OSPF
5 3 (7.14%) SD-WAN
5 3 (7.14%) VLAN
6 2 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (4.76%) NGFW
7 1 (2.38%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.76%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.38%) Airbyte
2 1 (2.38%) Big Data
2 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.38%) Couchbase
2 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.38%) MySQL
2 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (19.05%) Git
3 3 (7.14%) Balsamiq
3 3 (7.14%) GitLab
4 2 (4.76%) Robot Framework
4 2 (4.76%) TestRail
5 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.38%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.38%) Metasploit
5 1 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.38%) Subversion
General
1 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.14%) Military
4 3 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.76%) Avionics
5 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Law
5 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Automotive
6 1 (2.38%) Billing
6 1 (2.38%) Electronics
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Security Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Administrator
4 6 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Linux Administrator
5 5 (11.90%) Senior
6 4 (9.52%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Consultant
7 3 (7.14%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 3 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Network Engineering Manager
7 3 (7.14%) Network Manager
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (7.14%) Tester
8 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) ARM Templates
2 3 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.76%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.38%) Laravel
4 1 (2.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (4.76%) e-Learning
2 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (42.86%) Linux
2 10 (23.81%) Windows
3 8 (19.05%) CentOS
4 6 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 3 (7.14%) CoreOS
5 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.76%) VMS
7 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (38.10%) DevOps
2 13 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 12 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (26.19%) Agile
5 9 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (21.43%) Threat Modelling
6 8 (19.05%) Cloud Security
6 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (19.05%) Security Testing
7 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
8 6 (14.29%) Application Security
8 6 (14.29%) ITIL
8 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 6 (14.29%) RBAC
8 6 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 6 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
8 6 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 36 (85.71%) Python
2 24 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 5 (11.90%) C#
4 4 (9.52%) Bicep
4 4 (9.52%) Go
5 3 (7.14%) SQL
5 3 (7.14%) VBScript
6 2 (4.76%) C
6 2 (4.76%) C++
6 2 (4.76%) Java
7 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.19%) DV Cleared
3 10 (23.81%) CREST Certified
4 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 6 (14.29%) CISSP
5 6 (14.29%) Degree
5 6 (14.29%) SANS
6 4 (9.52%) Azure Certification
7 3 (7.14%) CCNP
7 3 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (7.14%) CITP
7 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (7.14%) Master's Degree
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.76%) NIST
2 2 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) Def Stans
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) NCSC
3 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Docker
2 5 (11.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.76%) Firmware
5 1 (2.38%) Ceph
5 1 (2.38%) iptables
5 1 (2.38%) Lustre
5 1 (2.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (40.48%) Terraform
2 15 (35.71%) Ansible
3 12 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 4 (9.52%) Grafana
4 4 (9.52%) Puppet
5 3 (7.14%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (7.14%) SCVMM
6 1 (2.38%) Argo
6 1 (2.38%) Kibana
6 1 (2.38%) logstash
6 1 (2.38%) Nmap
6 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.38%) Rancher
6 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.38%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Red Hat
2 4 (9.52%) Cisco
2 4 (9.52%) Fortinet
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) Palo Alto
3 3 (7.14%) McAfee
3 3 (7.14%) Splunk
4 2 (4.76%) Google
5 1 (2.38%) New Relic
5 1 (2.38%) SAP
5 1 (2.38%) VMware