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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 111 80
Rank change year-on-year +3 -31 +30
Permanent jobs citing Bash 91 49 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.34% 1.81% 3.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.11% 5.23% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 59 33 198
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,446 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £51,698 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% -18.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,022 £81,325
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -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 999 937 2,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.69% 34.58% 35.67%
Number of salaries quoted 647 627 2,461
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,250 £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 3 April 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 3 April 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 +25 41 £55,000 -20.29% 14
Bristol -2 28 £75,000 +11.11% 10
Dorset -12 8 £58,750 -16.07% 2
Devon -16 7 £52,500 -30.00%
Wiltshire -11 6 £63,750 +4.08% 6
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 4 (4.40%) Apache
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.10%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 44 (48.35%) AWS
2 32 (35.16%) Azure
3 20 (21.98%) GitHub
4 18 (19.78%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (14.29%) GCP
6 10 (10.99%) OpenShift
7 9 (9.89%) Serverless
8 7 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (7.69%) Datadog
8 7 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (5.49%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.40%) CloudFront
10 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.09%) TCP/IP
2 10 (10.99%) DNS
3 8 (8.79%) DHCP
4 7 (7.69%) Firewall
4 7 (7.69%) Network Security
5 6 (6.59%) VPN
6 5 (5.49%) LAN
6 5 (5.49%) WAN
7 4 (4.40%) Broadband
8 3 (3.30%) BGP
8 3 (3.30%) MPLS
8 3 (3.30%) OSPF
8 3 (3.30%) SD-WAN
8 3 (3.30%) VLAN
8 3 (3.30%) VSAN
9 2 (2.20%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (2.20%) NGFW
10 1 (1.10%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.49%) InfluxDB
3 4 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.30%) Big Data
4 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.20%) CockroachDB
5 2 (2.20%) MySQL
6 1 (1.10%) Airbyte
6 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.10%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.10%) Redis
6 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 14 (15.38%) Git
2 14 (15.38%) GitLab
3 7 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 6 (6.59%) CircleCI
4 6 (6.59%) SonarQube
4 6 (6.59%) Subversion
5 5 (5.49%) Cypress.io
5 5 (5.49%) Robot Framework
5 5 (5.49%) Selenium
5 5 (5.49%) TestRail
6 4 (4.40%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.30%) Balsamiq
7 3 (3.30%) Burp Suite
7 3 (3.30%) Metasploit
8 2 (2.20%) Checkstyle
8 2 (2.20%) JIRA
8 2 (2.20%) Maven
8 2 (2.20%) Mockito
8 2 (2.20%) TestNG
General
1 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.88%) Finance
3 13 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.59%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.40%) Marketing
8 3 (3.30%) Billing
8 3 (3.30%) Electronics
8 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.30%) Military
9 2 (2.20%) Avionics
9 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Law
10 1 (1.10%) Automotive
10 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (17.58%) Senior
2 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) Security Engineer
5 9 (9.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Tester
8 6 (6.59%) Consultant
9 4 (4.40%) Administrator
9 4 (4.40%) C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Penetration Tester
9 4 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) DevSecOps Consultant
10 3 (3.30%) IT Support
10 3 (3.30%) Network Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (6.59%) REST
3 5 (5.49%) OAuth
3 5 (5.49%) Vue
4 4 (4.40%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (4.40%) Middleware
4 4 (4.40%) SOAP
4 4 (4.40%) ZeroMQ
5 3 (3.30%) GraphQL
5 3 (3.30%) LDAP
5 3 (3.30%) OpenID
5 3 (3.30%) Playwright
5 3 (3.30%) pytest
5 3 (3.30%) SAML
6 2 (2.20%) JWT
6 2 (2.20%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.20%) OpenAPI
6 2 (2.20%) Spring
6 2 (2.20%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.49%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (4.40%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.30%) Cyberattack
3 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.20%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.20%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.20%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 50 (54.95%) Linux
2 17 (18.68%) Windows
3 11 (12.09%) CentOS
4 5 (5.49%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.40%) Unix
6 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.20%) Solaris
7 2 (2.20%) VMS
7 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.10%) CoreOS
8 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.96%) DevOps
2 36 (39.56%) CI/CD
2 36 (39.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (34.07%) Agile
4 25 (27.47%) Containerisation
4 25 (27.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (18.68%) Mentoring
7 16 (17.58%) Security Testing
7 16 (17.58%) Test Automation
8 15 (16.48%) Collaborative Culture
9 14 (15.38%) Cloud Security
9 14 (15.38%) Software Engineering
10 13 (14.29%) DevSecOps
11 12 (13.19%) Penetration Testing
11 12 (13.19%) Roadmaps
12 11 (12.09%) Scrum
13 10 (10.99%) SDLC
13 10 (10.99%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 79 (86.81%) Python
2 50 (54.95%) PowerShell
3 16 (17.58%) Java
4 13 (14.29%) Go
5 9 (9.89%) C++
5 9 (9.89%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.69%) SQL
7 6 (6.59%) C#
8 4 (4.40%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.30%) Bicep
9 3 (3.30%) C
9 3 (3.30%) Elixir
9 3 (3.30%) Erlang
9 3 (3.30%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.30%) VBScript
10 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.20%) Rust
11 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (41.76%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 16 (17.58%) SC Cleared
4 14 (15.38%) CREST Certified
5 8 (8.79%) CISSP
5 8 (8.79%) Degree
5 8 (8.79%) SANS
6 6 (6.59%) AWS Certification
7 5 (5.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (4.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.30%) CCNP
9 3 (3.30%) CITP
9 3 (3.30%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.10%) CCNA
11 1 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.79%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.59%) QA
4 5 (5.49%) NIST
5 3 (3.30%) NCSC
6 1 (1.10%) Def Stans
6 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (29.67%) Docker
2 10 (10.99%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.49%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.40%) iptables
5 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.20%) Firmware
7 1 (1.10%) Ceph
7 1 (1.10%) Lustre
7 1 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.10%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (42.86%) Ansible
2 36 (39.56%) Terraform
3 30 (32.97%) Kubernetes
4 26 (28.57%) Grafana
5 12 (13.19%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.69%) Argo
6 7 (7.69%) Kibana
6 7 (7.69%) logstash
6 7 (7.69%) Puppet
7 6 (6.59%) Rancher
7 6 (6.59%) yum
8 5 (5.49%) Progress Chef
9 4 (4.40%) vCenter Server
10 3 (3.30%) NetBackup
10 3 (3.30%) Nmap
11 2 (2.20%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (2.20%) Podman
11 2 (2.20%) SCVMM
12 1 (1.10%) Kustomize
12 1 (1.10%) Nessus
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.89%) VMware
3 8 (8.79%) Splunk
4 7 (7.69%) Cisco
5 4 (4.40%) Fortinet
5 4 (4.40%) Google
5 4 (4.40%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.30%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.30%) Dell
6 3 (3.30%) HP
6 3 (3.30%) Juniper
6 3 (3.30%) SAP
6 3 (3.30%) Veeam
7 2 (2.20%) McAfee
7 2 (2.20%) Oracle
8 1 (1.10%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.10%) Mirantis
8 1 (1.10%) New Relic