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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 144 127
Rank change year-on-year +6 -17 -51
Permanent jobs citing Bash 108 23 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.04% 0.65% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.85% 3.18% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 40 16 65
10th Percentile £47,750 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,563 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,625 £81,500
90th Percentile £93,375 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -9.72%

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 1,577 724 1,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.20% 20.50% 26.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,151 493 1,164
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £74,738 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,750 £82,821
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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -5 65 £67,500 +17.39% 34
Bristol -21 30 £67,500 +3.85% 9
Wiltshire -12 9 £75,000 -6.25% 6
Dorset -3 2 £80,000 - 3
Somerset - 2 £42,500 - 14
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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (9.26%) Apache
3 6 (5.56%) Confluence
4 4 (3.70%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.78%) nginx
6 1 (0.93%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 55 (50.93%) AWS
2 36 (33.33%) Azure
3 26 (24.07%) Serverless
4 24 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (22.22%) GitHub
5 16 (14.81%) OpenShift
6 15 (13.89%) IaaS
7 14 (12.96%) PaaS
8 13 (12.04%) Azure Functions
9 12 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
9 12 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (10.19%) GCP
11 10 (9.26%) Amazon S3
12 8 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (6.48%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.81%) Firewall
2 14 (12.96%) VPN
3 7 (6.48%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.56%) DNS
5 5 (4.63%) DHCP
6 4 (3.70%) IPv4
6 4 (3.70%) LAN
6 4 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (3.70%) WAN
7 2 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.85%) Network Security
7 2 (1.85%) NGFW
7 2 (1.85%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.85%) VSAN
8 1 (0.93%) SSL
8 1 (0.93%) VLAN
8 1 (0.93%) VoIP
8 1 (0.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (7.41%) InfluxDB
4 3 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.85%) Big Data
6 1 (0.93%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.93%) MySQL
6 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (39.81%) Git
2 33 (30.56%) GitLab
2 33 (30.56%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 9 (8.33%) JIRA
3 9 (8.33%) Robot Framework
3 9 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 8 (7.41%) Subversion
4 8 (7.41%) TestRail
5 7 (6.48%) Bitbucket
5 7 (6.48%) Cypress.io
5 7 (6.48%) Selenium
6 3 (2.78%) git-flow
7 2 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.85%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.93%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.93%) Postman
8 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (22.22%) Finance
2 21 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.96%) Law
4 12 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (10.19%) Public Sector
6 10 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (8.33%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.78%) Legal
9 2 (1.85%) Environmental Health
9 2 (1.85%) Military
9 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Marketing
10 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (12.04%) Senior
4 12 (11.11%) Analyst
4 12 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 12 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (10.19%) Test Engineer
6 10 (9.26%) Software Engineer
7 9 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
10 5 (4.63%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Automation Tester
10 5 (4.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Lead
10 5 (4.63%) Tester
11 4 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Lead DevOps
11 4 (3.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (68.52%) Terraform
2 23 (21.30%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (10.19%) Apache NiFi
4 8 (7.41%) Vue
5 7 (6.48%) pytest
6 6 (5.56%) Node.js
6 6 (5.56%) Playwright
7 4 (3.70%) boto
8 3 (2.78%) AWS CDK
9 2 (1.85%) JSP
9 2 (1.85%) Middleware
9 2 (1.85%) React
9 2 (1.85%) ZeroMQ
10 1 (0.93%) Django
10 1 (0.93%) HTML5
10 1 (0.93%) OAuth
10 1 (0.93%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.93%) OpenID
10 1 (0.93%) RESTful
10 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 13 (12.04%) Public Cloud
3 12 (11.11%) Podcast
3 12 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 7 (6.48%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.78%) Blog
8 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.85%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.85%) Social Media
9 1 (0.93%) IoT
9 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.93%) PKI
9 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 61 (56.48%) Linux
2 35 (32.41%) Windows
3 15 (13.89%) VMS
4 10 (9.26%) CentOS
5 8 (7.41%) Windows Server
6 6 (5.56%) Unix
7 4 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.85%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.85%) Debian
8 2 (1.85%) Rocky
8 2 (1.85%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (74.07%) CI/CD
2 77 (71.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 71 (65.74%) DevOps
4 55 (50.93%) Agile
5 43 (39.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 41 (37.96%) Containerisation
7 35 (32.41%) Scrum
8 31 (28.70%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
10 26 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (23.15%) Test Automation
12 22 (20.37%) DevSecOps
13 20 (18.52%) Cloud Security
13 20 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
14 19 (17.59%) Infrastructure Automation
14 19 (17.59%) Observability
15 18 (16.67%) Mentoring
16 17 (15.74%) AI
17 16 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
17 16 (14.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (75.00%) Python
2 46 (42.59%) PowerShell
3 26 (24.07%) Java
4 22 (20.37%) Go
4 22 (20.37%) JavaScript
5 13 (12.04%) Bicep
5 13 (12.04%) Rust
5 13 (12.04%) SQL
6 12 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (10.19%) C++
8 8 (7.41%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.78%) PHP
9 3 (2.78%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.85%) Ruby
11 1 (0.93%) C#
11 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 71 (65.74%) Security Cleared
2 26 (24.07%) DV Cleared
2 26 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (12.96%) Azure Certification
5 11 (10.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 10 (9.26%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.63%) CCNA
7 5 (4.63%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.70%) ISTQB
8 4 (3.70%) OSCP
8 4 (3.70%) RHCE
8 4 (3.70%) RHCSA
9 3 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.04%) QA
2 3 (2.78%) NCSC
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (29.63%) Docker
2 29 (26.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 16 (14.81%) vSphere
5 13 (12.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (5.56%) VMware NSX
8 4 (3.70%) Hyper-V
8 4 (3.70%) Squid
9 2 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (54.63%) Ansible
2 53 (49.07%) Kubernetes
3 29 (26.85%) Grafana
4 22 (20.37%) Puppet
5 15 (13.89%) Kibana
5 15 (13.89%) logstash
6 11 (10.19%) Prometheus
7 9 (8.33%) Argo
8 8 (7.41%) Rancher
8 8 (7.41%) vCenter Server
8 8 (7.41%) yum
9 5 (4.63%) Packer
10 4 (3.70%) ZABBIX
11 3 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.85%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (1.85%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.85%) SCVMM
13 1 (0.93%) Nagios
13 1 (0.93%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 34 (31.48%) VMware
2 23 (21.30%) Microsoft
3 20 (18.52%) Red Hat
4 13 (12.04%) Splunk
5 12 (11.11%) ScienceLogic
6 9 (8.33%) Atlassian
7 5 (4.63%) Cisco
8 4 (3.70%) Oracle
9 2 (1.85%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.85%) IBM
9 2 (1.85%) McAfee
9 2 (1.85%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.93%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.93%) Dell
10 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.93%) Google
10 1 (0.93%) HP
10 1 (0.93%) Juniper
10 1 (0.93%) New Relic
10 1 (0.93%) Veeam