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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 108 88
Rank change year-on-year -9 -20 +16
Permanent jobs citing Bash 91 46 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.23% 1.72% 2.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.15% 5.37% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 54 30 190
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,362 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +22.73% -18.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £81,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -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 1,117 856 2,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.06% 32.07% 33.75%
Number of salaries quoted 687 630 2,444
10th Percentile £34,600 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +6.38% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,188 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,550 £82,850 £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 22 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 22 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 +2 42 £55,000 -20.29% 9
Bristol -5 28 £75,000 +11.11% 10
Dorset -12 7 £47,500 -32.14%
Devon -21 7 £52,500 -30.00% 2
Wiltshire -6 6 £63,750 +4.08% 4
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 (6.59%) Apache
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 43 (47.25%) AWS
2 29 (31.87%) Azure
3 20 (21.98%) GitHub
4 18 (19.78%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (16.48%) GCP
6 9 (9.89%) OpenShift
7 8 (8.79%) 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%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.40%) CloudFront
10 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.99%) TCP/IP
2 9 (9.89%) DNS
3 7 (7.69%) DHCP
3 7 (7.69%) Firewall
3 7 (7.69%) Network Security
4 5 (5.49%) VPN
5 4 (4.40%) Broadband
5 4 (4.40%) LAN
5 4 (4.40%) WAN
6 3 (3.30%) BGP
6 3 (3.30%) MPLS
6 3 (3.30%) OSPF
6 3 (3.30%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.20%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (2.20%) NGFW
7 2 (2.20%) VLAN
8 1 (1.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.59%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (6.59%) InfluxDB
3 4 (4.40%) 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 38 (41.76%) Jenkins
2 17 (18.68%) GitLab
3 14 (15.38%) Git
4 8 (8.79%) SonarQube
5 7 (7.69%) Bitbucket
5 7 (7.69%) Subversion
6 6 (6.59%) CircleCI
6 6 (6.59%) Cucumber
6 6 (6.59%) Cypress.io
6 6 (6.59%) Robot Framework
6 6 (6.59%) Selenium
6 6 (6.59%) TestRail
7 3 (3.30%) Balsamiq
7 3 (3.30%) Burp Suite
7 3 (3.30%) JIRA
7 3 (3.30%) Metasploit
8 2 (2.20%) Checkstyle
8 2 (2.20%) Maven
8 2 (2.20%) Mockito
8 2 (2.20%) TestNG
General
1 22 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.88%) Finance
3 13 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.59%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.40%) Marketing
7 4 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.30%) Billing
8 3 (3.30%) Electronics
8 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.20%) Avionics
9 2 (2.20%) Law
9 2 (2.20%) Military
10 1 (1.10%) Automotive
10 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (16.48%) Senior
2 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (13.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (9.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 9 (9.89%) Security Engineer
4 9 (9.89%) Software Engineer
5 8 (8.79%) Tester
6 7 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Consultant
8 4 (4.40%) Automation Tester
8 4 (4.40%) C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Penetration Tester
8 4 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (4.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Network Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.68%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (7.69%) Vue
3 6 (6.59%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (6.59%) REST
4 5 (5.49%) OAuth
5 4 (4.40%) Middleware
5 4 (4.40%) Playwright
5 4 (4.40%) pytest
5 4 (4.40%) SOAP
5 4 (4.40%) ZeroMQ
6 3 (3.30%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.30%) LDAP
6 3 (3.30%) OpenID
6 3 (3.30%) SAML
7 2 (2.20%) JWT
7 2 (2.20%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.20%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.20%) Spring
7 2 (2.20%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.49%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.30%) Cyberattack
3 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.30%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.20%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.20%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.20%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (54.95%) Linux
2 16 (17.58%) Windows
3 10 (10.99%) CentOS
4 5 (5.49%) Unix
5 3 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.20%) Solaris
6 2 (2.20%) VMS
6 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.10%) CoreOS
7 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (47.25%) DevOps
2 39 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 38 (41.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (35.16%) Agile
5 26 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 26 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (26.37%) Containerisation
7 21 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (21.98%) Collaborative Culture
9 18 (19.78%) Test Automation
10 16 (17.58%) Mentoring
11 15 (16.48%) Security Testing
11 15 (16.48%) Software Engineering
12 14 (15.38%) Cloud Security
13 13 (14.29%) DevSecOps
14 12 (13.19%) Roadmaps
14 12 (13.19%) Scrum
15 11 (12.09%) Penetration Testing
15 11 (12.09%) SDLC
16 9 (9.89%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 79 (86.81%) Python
2 48 (52.75%) PowerShell
3 19 (20.88%) Java
4 15 (16.48%) Go
5 12 (13.19%) JavaScript
6 11 (12.09%) C++
7 7 (7.69%) SQL
8 6 (6.59%) C#
8 6 (6.59%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.40%) Rust
10 3 (3.30%) C
10 3 (3.30%) Elixir
10 3 (3.30%) Erlang
10 3 (3.30%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.20%) Bicep
11 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.20%) VBScript
12 1 (1.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (43.96%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.98%) DV Cleared
3 15 (16.48%) SC Cleared
4 12 (13.19%) CREST Certified
5 7 (7.69%) CISSP
5 7 (7.69%) Degree
5 7 (7.69%) SANS
6 6 (6.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (5.49%) AWS Certification
8 4 (4.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.30%) CCNP
9 3 (3.30%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.20%) CITP
10 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.10%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 7 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (7.69%) QA
2 5 (5.49%) NIST
3 3 (3.30%) NCSC
4 1 (1.10%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (29.67%) Docker
2 8 (8.79%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.40%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.40%) iptables
5 2 (2.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (43.96%) Ansible
2 38 (41.76%) Terraform
3 32 (35.16%) Kubernetes
4 30 (32.97%) Grafana
5 13 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 10 (10.99%) Kibana
6 10 (10.99%) logstash
7 9 (9.89%) Puppet
8 8 (8.79%) Argo
9 7 (7.69%) Rancher
9 7 (7.69%) yum
10 5 (5.49%) Progress Chef
11 4 (4.40%) vCenter Server
12 3 (3.30%) NetBackup
12 3 (3.30%) Nmap
13 2 (2.20%) Podman
14 1 (1.10%) Kustomize
14 1 (1.10%) Nessus
14 1 (1.10%) Packer
14 1 (1.10%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.89%) Splunk
2 9 (9.89%) VMware
3 6 (6.59%) Cisco
4 5 (5.49%) Google
5 4 (4.40%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.30%) Dell
6 3 (3.30%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.30%) HP
6 3 (3.30%) Juniper
6 3 (3.30%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.30%) SAP
6 3 (3.30%) Veeam
7 2 (2.20%) Oracle
8 1 (1.10%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.10%) McAfee
8 1 (1.10%) Mirantis
8 1 (1.10%) New Relic