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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 118 92
Rank change year-on-year -9 -26 +4
Permanent jobs citing Bash 88 37 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.14% 1.41% 2.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.56% 4.68% 8.85%
Number of salaries quoted 50 21 188
10th Percentile £44,375 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,443 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% +4.44% -18.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -14.29%

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 1,164 791 2,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.07% 30.12% 31.44%
Number of salaries quoted 750 546 2,393
10th Percentile £33,975 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +3 44 £55,000 -4.35% 10
Bristol -19 23 £75,000 +30.57% 13
Devon -15 7 £52,500 +10.53% 2
Dorset -9 6 £47,500 -32.14% 1
Wiltshire -11 6 £75,000 -6.25% 2
Somerset -28 1 £42,500 -27.24%
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 (6.82%) Apache
2 5 (5.68%) Confluence
3 2 (2.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (51.14%) AWS
2 25 (28.41%) Azure
3 16 (18.18%) GitHub
4 14 (15.91%) GCP
4 14 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (13.64%) Amazon S3
5 12 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (13.64%) Serverless
6 10 (11.36%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (10.23%) OpenShift
8 7 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (7.95%) Datadog
8 7 (7.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.55%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.55%) CloudFront
10 4 (4.55%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.23%) DNS
1 9 (10.23%) Firewall
2 8 (9.09%) DHCP
2 8 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.68%) Network Security
4 4 (4.55%) Broadband
5 3 (3.41%) IPv4
5 3 (3.41%) LAN
5 3 (3.41%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (3.41%) WAN
6 2 (2.27%) VPN
6 2 (2.27%) VSAN
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.14%) NGFW
7 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (5.68%) InfluxDB
3 4 (4.55%) Big Data
4 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.27%) CockroachDB
5 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.14%) MySQL
6 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (42.05%) Jenkins
2 21 (23.86%) GitLab
3 18 (20.45%) Git
4 10 (11.36%) Bitbucket
5 8 (9.09%) SonarQube
6 7 (7.95%) Subversion
7 6 (6.82%) CircleCI
7 6 (6.82%) Cucumber
7 6 (6.82%) Cypress.io
7 6 (6.82%) JIRA
7 6 (6.82%) Selenium
8 5 (5.68%) Robot Framework
8 5 (5.68%) TestRail
9 2 (2.27%) Checkstyle
9 2 (2.27%) Gradle
9 2 (2.27%) JUnit
9 2 (2.27%) Maven
9 2 (2.27%) Metasploit
9 2 (2.27%) Mockito
9 2 (2.27%) TestNG
General
1 16 (18.18%) Finance
2 15 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.91%) Aerospace
4 9 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.55%) Marketing
7 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.27%) Billing
8 2 (2.27%) Electronics
8 2 (2.27%) Law
8 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (17.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 15 (17.05%) Senior
2 13 (14.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (13.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 10 (11.36%) Software Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) Security Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Tester
7 5 (5.68%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Automation Tester
9 3 (3.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) IT Support
9 3 (3.41%) Penetration Tester
9 3 (3.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.32%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (7.95%) Vue
3 6 (6.82%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (6.82%) REST
4 5 (5.68%) OAuth
5 4 (4.55%) Middleware
5 4 (4.55%) Playwright
5 4 (4.55%) pytest
5 4 (4.55%) SOAP
5 4 (4.55%) ZeroMQ
6 3 (3.41%) boto
6 3 (3.41%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.41%) LDAP
6 3 (3.41%) Node.js
6 3 (3.41%) OpenID
6 3 (3.41%) SAML
7 2 (2.27%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.27%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.27%) Spring MVC
7 2 (2.27%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.41%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.41%) Cyberattack
3 3 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.27%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.27%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (62.50%) Linux
2 21 (23.86%) Windows
3 10 (11.36%) CentOS
4 8 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 6 (6.82%) Unix
6 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.41%) VMS
7 3 (3.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.27%) CoreOS
8 2 (2.27%) Solaris
8 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (52.27%) DevOps
2 45 (51.14%) CI/CD
3 42 (47.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (37.50%) Agile
5 28 (31.82%) Containerisation
5 28 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (22.73%) Collaborative Culture
8 19 (21.59%) Test Automation
9 17 (19.32%) Mentoring
10 16 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (18.18%) DevSecOps
11 15 (17.05%) Scrum
12 13 (14.77%) Software Engineering
13 11 (12.50%) Cloud Security
13 11 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
14 10 (11.36%) Incident Response
14 10 (11.36%) Platform Engineering
14 10 (11.36%) Roadmaps
14 10 (11.36%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 79 (89.77%) Python
2 46 (52.27%) PowerShell
3 22 (25.00%) Java
4 13 (14.77%) Go
5 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 10 (11.36%) C++
7 6 (6.82%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.68%) Rust
8 5 (5.68%) SQL
9 3 (3.41%) C#
9 3 (3.41%) Elixir
9 3 (3.41%) Erlang
9 3 (3.41%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.14%) Bicep
11 1 (1.14%) C
11 1 (1.14%) PHP
11 1 (1.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 42 (47.73%) Security Cleared
2 20 (22.73%) DV Cleared
3 14 (15.91%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.82%) CREST Certified
6 5 (5.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.55%) CCNA
7 4 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (4.55%) CISSP
7 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (4.55%) SANS
8 3 (3.41%) ISTQB
8 3 (3.41%) OSCP
8 3 (3.41%) RHCE
8 3 (3.41%) RHCSA
9 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.27%) Degree
10 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) QA
2 6 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.41%) NCSC
4 3 (3.41%) NIST
5 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (34.09%) Docker
2 14 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (14.77%) Active Directory
4 6 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (5.68%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.55%) iptables
7 3 (3.41%) Squid
7 3 (3.41%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (52.27%) Ansible
2 40 (45.45%) Terraform
3 34 (38.64%) Kubernetes
4 33 (37.50%) Grafana
5 17 (19.32%) Prometheus
6 11 (12.50%) Puppet
7 10 (11.36%) Kibana
7 10 (11.36%) logstash
8 8 (9.09%) Argo
9 7 (7.95%) Rancher
9 7 (7.95%) yum
10 5 (5.68%) Progress Chef
11 4 (4.55%) Packer
11 4 (4.55%) vCenter Server
12 3 (3.41%) NetBackup
12 3 (3.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (2.27%) McAfee ePO
13 2 (2.27%) Nmap
13 2 (2.27%) Podman
13 2 (2.27%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Red Hat
2 15 (17.05%) VMware
3 11 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 11 (12.50%) Splunk
4 6 (6.82%) Cisco
5 5 (5.68%) Oracle
6 4 (4.55%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.55%) Google
7 3 (3.41%) Dell
7 3 (3.41%) HP
7 3 (3.41%) Juniper
7 3 (3.41%) Veeam
8 2 (2.27%) McAfee
8 2 (2.27%) SAP
9 1 (1.14%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.14%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.14%) Mirantis
9 1 (1.14%) Palo Alto