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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 122 101
Rank change year-on-year +1 -21 +8
Permanent jobs citing Bash 104 38 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.31% 1.32% 2.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.13% 4.49% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 50 21 180
10th Percentile £44,625 £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 £82,750 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -10.71%

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 1,279 846 3,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.11% 29.33% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 867 565 2,373
10th Percentile £35,000 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,350 £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 24 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 24 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 +5 48 £55,000 -4.35% 5
Bristol -5 34 £73,750 +28.39% 7
Wiltshire -14 8 £75,000 -6.25% 4
Devon -25 7 £52,500 +10.53%
Dorset +6 6 £47,500 -32.14%
Somerset -37 1 £42,500 -32.00% 2
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 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (8.65%) Apache
3 5 (4.81%) Confluence
4 3 (2.88%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 52 (50.00%) AWS
2 38 (36.54%) Azure
3 29 (27.88%) Serverless
4 27 (25.96%) GitHub
5 21 (20.19%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (14.42%) Amazon S3
8 14 (13.46%) IaaS
9 13 (12.50%) Azure Functions
9 13 (12.50%) GCP
9 13 (12.50%) PaaS
10 12 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (11.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 12 (11.54%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (10.58%) OpenShift
12 7 (6.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (5.77%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.46%) VPN
2 11 (10.58%) Firewall
3 9 (8.65%) TCP/IP
4 8 (7.69%) DNS
5 7 (6.73%) DHCP
6 6 (5.77%) Network Security
7 4 (3.85%) IPv4
7 4 (3.85%) LAN
7 4 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (3.85%) WAN
8 3 (2.88%) Broadband
9 2 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.92%) NGFW
9 2 (1.92%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.92%) VSAN
10 1 (0.96%) VLAN
10 1 (0.96%) VoIP
10 1 (0.96%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (8.65%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (6.73%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.73%) InfluxDB
4 4 (3.85%) Big Data
5 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.92%) MySQL
7 1 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.96%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.96%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (39.42%) Jenkins
2 35 (33.65%) Git
3 27 (25.96%) GitLab
4 10 (9.62%) Bitbucket
4 10 (9.62%) SonarQube
5 9 (8.65%) Cucumber
6 8 (7.69%) Cypress.io
7 7 (6.73%) Robot Framework
7 7 (6.73%) Selenium
7 7 (6.73%) TestRail
8 6 (5.77%) JIRA
8 6 (5.77%) Subversion
9 4 (3.85%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.96%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.96%) Checkstyle
10 1 (0.96%) ESLint
10 1 (0.96%) git-flow
10 1 (0.96%) JUnit
10 1 (0.96%) Maven
10 1 (0.96%) Postman
General
1 25 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.42%) Finance
3 14 (13.46%) Law
4 12 (11.54%) Aerospace
4 12 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.81%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Billing
8 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (19.23%) Senior
2 19 (18.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (12.50%) Analyst
3 13 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (11.54%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 11 (10.58%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 11 (10.58%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Test Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.77%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
8 6 (5.77%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Senior Security Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.19%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (9.62%) Apache NiFi
3 9 (8.65%) Vue
4 7 (6.73%) pytest
5 6 (5.77%) Node.js
5 6 (5.77%) Playwright
6 5 (4.81%) REST
7 4 (3.85%) boto
7 4 (3.85%) OAuth
7 4 (3.85%) SOAP
8 3 (2.88%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.88%) LDAP
8 3 (2.88%) Middleware
8 3 (2.88%) OpenID
8 3 (2.88%) SAML
8 3 (2.88%) ZeroMQ
9 2 (1.92%) React
10 1 (0.96%) Flask
10 1 (0.96%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.96%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.46%) Security Posture
2 13 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 12 (11.54%) Podcast
4 8 (7.69%) Cloud Native
5 7 (6.73%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (5.77%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.88%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.92%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.92%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.96%) IoT
10 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.96%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 53 (50.96%) Linux
2 33 (31.73%) Windows
3 15 (14.42%) VMS
4 12 (11.54%) CentOS
5 8 (7.69%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.85%) Unix
7 3 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.92%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.92%) Debian
8 2 (1.92%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.96%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (63.46%) CI/CD
2 63 (60.58%) DevOps
3 58 (55.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (45.19%) Agile
5 30 (28.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (27.88%) Containerisation
7 27 (25.96%) DevSecOps
7 27 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 26 (25.00%) Scrum
9 24 (23.08%) Mentoring
10 23 (22.12%) Cloud Security
11 22 (21.15%) Test Automation
12 19 (18.27%) Root Cause Analysis
13 17 (16.35%) Software Engineering
13 17 (16.35%) Task Automation
14 16 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
14 16 (15.38%) Observability
15 15 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (14.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 82 (78.85%) Python
2 59 (56.73%) PowerShell
3 22 (21.15%) Java
4 17 (16.35%) JavaScript
4 17 (16.35%) SQL
5 14 (13.46%) Go
6 13 (12.50%) Bicep
7 12 (11.54%) C++
7 12 (11.54%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (7.69%) TypeScript
9 7 (6.73%) Rust
10 3 (2.88%) Elixir
10 3 (2.88%) Erlang
10 3 (2.88%) PHP
10 3 (2.88%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.92%) C#
11 2 (1.92%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.92%) Ruby
11 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.96%) C
Qualifications
1 46 (44.23%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.31%) DV Cleared
3 16 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 13 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 8 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 7 (6.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (4.81%) CCNA
7 5 (4.81%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.81%) CREST Certified
8 4 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.85%) CISSP
8 4 (3.85%) ISTQB
8 4 (3.85%) OSCP
8 4 (3.85%) RHCE
8 4 (3.85%) RHCSA
8 4 (3.85%) SANS
9 1 (0.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) QA
2 5 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.88%) NCSC
4 3 (2.88%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (29.81%) Docker
2 27 (25.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (23.08%) Active Directory
4 16 (15.38%) vSphere
5 12 (11.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (6.73%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (3.85%) Hyper-V
7 4 (3.85%) iptables
7 4 (3.85%) Squid
7 4 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 58 (55.77%) Terraform
2 53 (50.96%) Ansible
3 37 (35.58%) Grafana
4 34 (32.69%) Kubernetes
5 17 (16.35%) Prometheus
6 15 (14.42%) Kibana
6 15 (14.42%) logstash
7 13 (12.50%) Puppet
8 6 (5.77%) Argo
8 6 (5.77%) Rancher
8 6 (5.77%) vCenter Server
8 6 (5.77%) yum
9 5 (4.81%) Packer
9 5 (4.81%) Progress Chef
10 4 (3.85%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.92%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (1.92%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.92%) SCVMM
12 1 (0.96%) Nmap
12 1 (0.96%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (25.96%) VMware
2 23 (22.12%) Microsoft
3 19 (18.27%) Red Hat
4 13 (12.50%) Splunk
5 12 (11.54%) ScienceLogic
6 6 (5.77%) Atlassian
6 6 (5.77%) Cisco
7 5 (4.81%) Oracle
8 2 (1.92%) Dell
8 2 (1.92%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.92%) Google
8 2 (1.92%) HP
8 2 (1.92%) Juniper
8 2 (1.92%) McAfee
8 2 (1.92%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.92%) Veeam
9 1 (0.96%) Cribl.io
9 1 (0.96%) Dynatrace