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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 116 86
Rank change year-on-year -10 -30 +16
Permanent jobs citing Bash 89 37 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.16% 1.36% 2.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.54% 4.47% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 50 21 185
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £57,443 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +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 1,181 827 2,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.43% 30.43% 30.60%
Number of salaries quoted 772 562 2,402
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £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 £82,500 £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 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 3 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 -3 42 £55,000 -4.35% 12
Bristol -8 23 £75,000 +30.57% 12
Wiltshire -10 9 £75,000 -6.25% 4
Devon -23 7 £52,500 +10.53% 2
Dorset -7 6 £47,500 -32.14% 1
Somerset -29 1 £42,500 -27.24% 2
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 (6.74%) Apache
1 6 (6.74%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 47 (52.81%) AWS
2 28 (31.46%) Azure
3 17 (19.10%) GitHub
3 17 (19.10%) Serverless
4 14 (15.73%) Amazon S3
4 14 (15.73%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (14.61%) GCP
5 13 (14.61%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (12.36%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (10.11%) OpenShift
8 7 (7.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (6.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (6.74%) Datadog
10 4 (4.49%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.49%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (4.49%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (4.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.36%) Firewall
2 8 (8.99%) DNS
3 7 (7.87%) DHCP
3 7 (7.87%) TCP/IP
4 6 (6.74%) Network Security
5 5 (5.62%) VPN
6 4 (4.49%) Broadband
6 4 (4.49%) IPv4
6 4 (4.49%) LAN
6 4 (4.49%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (4.49%) WAN
7 2 (2.25%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (2.25%) NGFW
7 2 (2.25%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (6.74%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (5.62%) InfluxDB
3 4 (4.49%) Big Data
4 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.25%) CockroachDB
5 2 (2.25%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.12%) MySQL
6 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (41.57%) Jenkins
2 22 (24.72%) GitLab
3 21 (23.60%) Git
4 11 (12.36%) Bitbucket
5 8 (8.99%) SonarQube
6 7 (7.87%) JIRA
7 6 (6.74%) Cucumber
7 6 (6.74%) Cypress.io
7 6 (6.74%) Selenium
7 6 (6.74%) Subversion
8 5 (5.62%) CircleCI
8 5 (5.62%) Robot Framework
8 5 (5.62%) TestRail
9 2 (2.25%) Burp Suite
9 2 (2.25%) ESLint
9 2 (2.25%) Gradle
9 2 (2.25%) Maven
9 2 (2.25%) Metasploit
9 2 (2.25%) Mockito
9 2 (2.25%) TestNG
General
1 17 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.73%) Finance
3 13 (14.61%) Aerospace
4 9 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.62%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.49%) Law
8 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.37%) Marketing
8 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.25%) Billing
10 1 (1.12%) Electronics
10 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (17.98%) Senior
2 14 (15.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (13.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (13.48%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 9 (10.11%) Software Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Security Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Tester
8 5 (5.62%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Security Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Test Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Automation Tester
10 3 (3.37%) C++ Software Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) IT Support
10 3 (3.37%) Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.10%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (7.87%) Vue
3 6 (6.74%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (6.74%) REST
4 5 (5.62%) OAuth
5 4 (4.49%) boto
5 4 (4.49%) Node.js
5 4 (4.49%) Playwright
5 4 (4.49%) pytest
5 4 (4.49%) SOAP
6 3 (3.37%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.37%) LDAP
6 3 (3.37%) Middleware
6 3 (3.37%) OpenID
6 3 (3.37%) SAML
6 3 (3.37%) ZeroMQ
7 2 (2.25%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.25%) Spring
7 2 (2.25%) Spring MVC
7 2 (2.25%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.49%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.49%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.37%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.37%) Cyberattack
3 3 (3.37%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.25%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.25%) Podcast
4 2 (2.25%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.12%) IoT
5 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 51 (57.30%) Linux
2 24 (26.97%) Windows
3 10 (11.24%) CentOS
4 9 (10.11%) Windows Server
5 5 (5.62%) Unix
5 5 (5.62%) VMS
6 4 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.25%) CoreOS
8 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (53.93%) CI/CD
2 47 (52.81%) DevOps
3 43 (48.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (38.20%) Agile
5 28 (31.46%) Containerisation
6 26 (29.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 22 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (22.47%) Collaborative Culture
8 20 (22.47%) Mentoring
8 20 (22.47%) Test Automation
9 18 (20.22%) DevSecOps
10 16 (17.98%) Scrum
11 14 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (14.61%) Cloud Security
12 13 (14.61%) Software Engineering
13 12 (13.48%) Infrastructure Automation
14 11 (12.36%) Roadmaps
15 10 (11.24%) Platform Engineering
16 9 (10.11%) Incident Response
16 9 (10.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (87.64%) Python
2 47 (52.81%) PowerShell
3 22 (24.72%) Java
4 13 (14.61%) JavaScript
5 12 (13.48%) Go
6 10 (11.24%) C++
7 8 (8.99%) SQL
8 6 (6.74%) TypeScript
9 5 (5.62%) Rust
10 3 (3.37%) Bicep
10 3 (3.37%) C#
10 3 (3.37%) Elixir
10 3 (3.37%) Erlang
10 3 (3.37%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.25%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.12%) C
12 1 (1.12%) PHP
12 1 (1.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (44.94%) Security Cleared
2 20 (22.47%) DV Cleared
3 12 (13.48%) SC Cleared
4 9 (10.11%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (6.74%) CREST Certified
7 5 (5.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (5.62%) CCNA
7 5 (5.62%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.49%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.49%) CISSP
8 4 (4.49%) ISTQB
8 4 (4.49%) OSCP
8 4 (4.49%) RHCE
8 4 (4.49%) RHCSA
8 4 (4.49%) SANS
9 2 (2.25%) Degree
10 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) QA
2 6 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.49%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.37%) NCSC
4 3 (3.37%) NIST
5 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (34.83%) Docker
2 16 (17.98%) Active Directory
2 16 (17.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.74%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.74%) vSphere
4 5 (5.62%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.49%) iptables
5 4 (4.49%) Squid
5 4 (4.49%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (52.81%) Ansible
2 43 (48.31%) Terraform
3 33 (37.08%) Grafana
3 33 (37.08%) Kubernetes
4 18 (20.22%) Prometheus
5 11 (12.36%) Puppet
6 10 (11.24%) Kibana
6 10 (11.24%) logstash
7 7 (7.87%) Argo
8 6 (6.74%) Rancher
8 6 (6.74%) yum
9 5 (5.62%) Packer
9 5 (5.62%) Progress Chef
10 4 (4.49%) vCenter Server
10 4 (4.49%) ZABBIX
11 3 (3.37%) NetBackup
12 2 (2.25%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (2.25%) Nmap
12 2 (2.25%) Podman
12 2 (2.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 18 (20.22%) Red Hat
2 17 (19.10%) VMware
3 13 (14.61%) Microsoft
4 12 (13.48%) Splunk
5 7 (7.87%) Cisco
6 6 (6.74%) Oracle
7 4 (4.49%) Atlassian
7 4 (4.49%) Google
8 3 (3.37%) Dell
8 3 (3.37%) HP
8 3 (3.37%) Juniper
8 3 (3.37%) Veeam
9 2 (2.25%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.25%) McAfee
9 2 (2.25%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.25%) ScienceLogic
10 1 (1.12%) Cribl.io
10 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.12%) Mirantis
10 1 (1.12%) SAP