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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 117 99
Rank change year-on-year -4 -18 +11
Permanent jobs citing Bash 90 38 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.15% 1.34% 2.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.36% 4.55% 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 48 21 181
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,443 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% +4.44% -15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,250 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year -7.41% +10.20% -12.50%

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 1,222 836 3,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.65% 29.57% 29.28%
Number of salaries quoted 827 558 2,399
10th Percentile £34,300 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,575 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -4 40 £55,000 -4.35% 7
Bristol -13 26 £75,000 +30.57% 10
Wiltshire -10 8 £75,000 -6.25% 4
Dorset +2 7 £47,500 -32.14%
Devon -23 7 £52,500 +10.53% 2
Somerset -34 1 £42,500 -27.24% 1
Cornwall - 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 6 (6.67%) Apache
1 6 (6.67%) Confluence
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 48 (53.33%) AWS
2 30 (33.33%) Azure
3 22 (24.44%) Serverless
4 21 (23.33%) GitHub
5 15 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (15.56%) Amazon S3
7 13 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (13.33%) GCP
8 12 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (12.22%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (10.00%) OpenShift
11 7 (7.78%) Azure Functions
11 7 (7.78%) IaaS
11 7 (7.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (6.67%) Datadog
12 6 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.22%) Firewall
2 8 (8.89%) DNS
2 8 (8.89%) TCP/IP
2 8 (8.89%) VPN
3 7 (7.78%) DHCP
4 6 (6.67%) Network Security
5 4 (4.44%) Broadband
5 4 (4.44%) IPv4
5 4 (4.44%) LAN
5 4 (4.44%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (4.44%) WAN
6 2 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (2.22%) NGFW
6 2 (2.22%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.22%) VSAN
7 1 (1.11%) VLAN
7 1 (1.11%) VoIP
7 1 (1.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (6.67%) InfluxDB
2 4 (4.44%) Big Data
3 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.22%) CockroachDB
4 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.22%) MySQL
4 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.11%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.11%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.11%) Redis
5 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (41.11%) Jenkins
2 26 (28.89%) Git
3 23 (25.56%) GitLab
4 10 (11.11%) Bitbucket
5 8 (8.89%) Cypress.io
5 8 (8.89%) SonarQube
6 7 (7.78%) JIRA
6 7 (7.78%) Selenium
7 6 (6.67%) Cucumber
7 6 (6.67%) Robot Framework
7 6 (6.67%) TestRail
8 5 (5.56%) Subversion
9 4 (4.44%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.22%) Checkstyle
10 2 (2.22%) ESLint
10 2 (2.22%) Gradle
10 2 (2.22%) JUnit
10 2 (2.22%) Maven
10 2 (2.22%) Mockito
10 2 (2.22%) TestNG
General
1 19 (21.11%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.33%) Finance
3 11 (12.22%) Aerospace
4 8 (8.89%) Law
4 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Billing
7 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (18.89%) Senior
2 15 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (12.22%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Security Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Analyst
7 7 (7.78%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 6 (6.67%) Test Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Applications Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (4.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Security Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Tester
11 3 (3.33%) C++ Software Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Developer
11 3 (3.33%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (7.78%) Vue
3 6 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (6.67%) Node.js
3 6 (6.67%) REST
4 5 (5.56%) OAuth
4 5 (5.56%) Playwright
4 5 (5.56%) pytest
5 4 (4.44%) boto
5 4 (4.44%) SOAP
6 3 (3.33%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.33%) LDAP
6 3 (3.33%) Middleware
6 3 (3.33%) OpenID
6 3 (3.33%) SAML
6 3 (3.33%) ZeroMQ
7 2 (2.22%) JWT
7 2 (2.22%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.22%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Security Posture
2 7 (7.78%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.78%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.67%) Podcast
4 5 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.33%) Cyberattack
7 2 (2.22%) Blockchain
7 2 (2.22%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.11%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.11%) IoT
8 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.11%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 49 (54.44%) Linux
2 26 (28.89%) Windows
3 11 (12.22%) CentOS
4 9 (10.00%) VMS
5 8 (8.89%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.44%) Unix
7 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.22%) CoreOS
8 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.11%) Debian
9 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (58.89%) CI/CD
2 51 (56.67%) DevOps
3 46 (51.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (42.22%) Agile
5 28 (31.11%) Containerisation
6 26 (28.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 22 (24.44%) Mentoring
8 21 (23.33%) Collaborative Culture
8 21 (23.33%) DevSecOps
8 21 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (22.22%) Test Automation
10 19 (21.11%) Scrum
11 16 (17.78%) Cloud Security
12 14 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (15.56%) Software Engineering
13 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure Automation
13 13 (14.44%) Roadmaps
13 13 (14.44%) Root Cause Analysis
13 13 (14.44%) Task Automation
14 10 (11.11%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 74 (82.22%) Python
2 50 (55.56%) PowerShell
3 21 (23.33%) Java
4 15 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 12 (13.33%) SQL
6 11 (12.22%) Go
7 10 (11.11%) C++
8 7 (7.78%) Bicep
9 6 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (6.67%) TypeScript
10 5 (5.56%) Rust
11 3 (3.33%) Elixir
11 3 (3.33%) Erlang
11 3 (3.33%) T-SQL
12 2 (2.22%) C#
12 2 (2.22%) Kotlin
12 2 (2.22%) PHP
12 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.11%) C
13 1 (1.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (41.11%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.89%) DV Cleared
3 10 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 9 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.78%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (5.56%) CCNA
7 5 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (5.56%) CREST Certified
8 4 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.44%) CISSP
8 4 (4.44%) ISTQB
8 4 (4.44%) OSCP
8 4 (4.44%) RHCE
8 4 (4.44%) RHCSA
8 4 (4.44%) SANS
9 1 (1.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) QA
2 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.44%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.33%) NCSC
4 3 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (34.44%) Docker
2 20 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 10 (11.11%) vSphere
5 6 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.44%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.44%) iptables
6 4 (4.44%) Squid
6 4 (4.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (52.22%) Terraform
2 46 (51.11%) Ansible
3 33 (36.67%) Grafana
4 31 (34.44%) Kubernetes
5 18 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 11 (12.22%) Kibana
6 11 (12.22%) logstash
6 11 (12.22%) Puppet
7 6 (6.67%) Argo
8 5 (5.56%) Packer
8 5 (5.56%) Progress Chef
8 5 (5.56%) Rancher
8 5 (5.56%) vCenter Server
8 5 (5.56%) yum
9 4 (4.44%) ZABBIX
10 2 (2.22%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (2.22%) NetBackup
10 2 (2.22%) SCVMM
11 1 (1.11%) Kustomize
11 1 (1.11%) Nmap
Vendors
1 20 (22.22%) VMware
2 17 (18.89%) Red Hat
3 16 (17.78%) Microsoft
4 13 (14.44%) Splunk
5 6 (6.67%) Cisco
5 6 (6.67%) Oracle
5 6 (6.67%) ScienceLogic
6 5 (5.56%) Atlassian
7 4 (4.44%) Google
8 2 (2.22%) Dell
8 2 (2.22%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.22%) HP
8 2 (2.22%) Juniper
8 2 (2.22%) McAfee
8 2 (2.22%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.22%) Veeam
9 1 (1.11%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace