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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 136 106
Rank change year-on-year -8 -30 -5
Permanent jobs citing Bash 91 36 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.08% 1.06% 2.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.48% 4.27% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 40 20 137
10th Percentile £44,625 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £47,375 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,471 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.27% -0.05% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,250 £81,847 £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 1,404 843 2,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.62% 24.92% 27.38%
Number of salaries quoted 997 567 1,889
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £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 23 July 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 23 July 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 45 £60,500 +5.22% 17
Bristol -10 28 £70,000 +21.86% 10
Wiltshire -14 8 £75,000 -6.25% 4
Dorset +4 5 £47,500 -32.14% 1
Devon -17 4 £52,500 +10.53%
Somerset -38 1 £42,500 -32.00% 13
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 (13.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (9.89%) Apache
3 4 (4.40%) Confluence
4 2 (2.20%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.10%) JBoss
5 1 (1.10%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 43 (47.25%) AWS
2 30 (32.97%) Azure
3 27 (29.67%) Serverless
4 21 (23.08%) GitHub
5 20 (21.98%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (16.48%) IaaS
7 14 (15.38%) PaaS
8 13 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (14.29%) Azure Functions
9 12 (13.19%) Amazon S3
9 12 (13.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (13.19%) Azure Key Vault
9 12 (13.19%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (12.09%) OpenShift
11 9 (9.89%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (8.79%) GCP
13 6 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (5.49%) Datadog
15 4 (4.40%) AWS CloudTrail
15 4 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.38%) VPN
2 12 (13.19%) Firewall
3 7 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 6 (6.59%) DNS
5 5 (5.49%) DHCP
5 5 (5.49%) Network Security
6 4 (4.40%) IPv4
6 4 (4.40%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (3.30%) LAN
7 3 (3.30%) WAN
8 2 (2.20%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (2.20%) NGFW
8 2 (2.20%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.10%) Broadband
9 1 (1.10%) SSL
9 1 (1.10%) VLAN
9 1 (1.10%) VoIP
9 1 (1.10%) VSAN
9 1 (1.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (8.79%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (7.69%) InfluxDB
4 4 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.30%) Big Data
5 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.20%) MySQL
7 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.10%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.10%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (40.66%) Git
2 33 (36.26%) Jenkins
3 26 (28.57%) GitLab
4 9 (9.89%) Bitbucket
5 8 (8.79%) Cucumber
5 8 (8.79%) Robot Framework
5 8 (8.79%) SonarQube
6 7 (7.69%) Cypress.io
6 7 (7.69%) Selenium
6 7 (7.69%) TestRail
7 6 (6.59%) Subversion
8 5 (5.49%) JIRA
9 2 (2.20%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.10%) Balsamiq
10 1 (1.10%) git-flow
10 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (1.10%) Postman
10 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.48%) Finance
3 14 (15.38%) Law
4 12 (13.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (9.89%) Aerospace
5 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
8 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (18.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (17.58%) Senior
3 14 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) Analyst
5 12 (13.19%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 11 (12.09%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Security Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (6.59%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
8 6 (6.59%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Senior Security Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Administrator
10 3 (3.30%) C++ Software Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Consultant
10 3 (3.30%) IT Consultant
10 3 (3.30%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.88%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (9.89%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (8.79%) Vue
4 7 (7.69%) pytest
5 6 (6.59%) Node.js
5 6 (6.59%) Playwright
6 4 (4.40%) boto
7 3 (3.30%) Middleware
7 3 (3.30%) React
7 3 (3.30%) ZeroMQ
8 2 (2.20%) OAuth
8 2 (2.20%) OpenID
8 2 (2.20%) REST
8 2 (2.20%) SOAP
9 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.10%) CSS3
9 1 (1.10%) HTML5
9 1 (1.10%) LDAP
9 1 (1.10%) RESTful
9 1 (1.10%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 12 (13.19%) Podcast
2 12 (13.19%) Security Posture
3 9 (9.89%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.59%) Product Ownership
6 5 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.20%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.10%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.10%) IoT
8 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) PropTech
8 1 (1.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 52 (57.14%) Linux
2 31 (34.07%) Windows
3 15 (16.48%) VMS
4 11 (12.09%) CentOS
5 7 (7.69%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.40%) Unix
7 3 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.20%) Debian
8 2 (2.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.10%) CoreOS
9 1 (1.10%) Rocky
9 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (68.13%) CI/CD
2 57 (62.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (59.34%) DevOps
4 47 (51.65%) Agile
5 30 (32.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 27 (29.67%) Containerisation
6 27 (29.67%) Scrum
7 24 (26.37%) Collaborative Culture
8 23 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (24.18%) DevSecOps
10 20 (21.98%) Cloud Security
10 20 (21.98%) Mentoring
10 20 (21.98%) Test Automation
11 17 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (18.68%) Observability
12 16 (17.58%) Root Cause Analysis
12 16 (17.58%) Task Automation
13 14 (15.38%) AI
13 14 (15.38%) Analytics
13 14 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 69 (75.82%) Python
2 50 (54.95%) PowerShell
3 18 (19.78%) Java
4 17 (18.68%) JavaScript
5 15 (16.48%) Go
6 14 (15.38%) SQL
7 13 (14.29%) Bicep
8 12 (13.19%) C++
8 12 (13.19%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (7.69%) Rust
9 7 (7.69%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.30%) PHP
11 2 (2.20%) Ruby
11 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.10%) C#
12 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 43 (47.25%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.58%) DV Cleared
2 16 (17.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (15.38%) Azure Certification
4 11 (12.09%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (5.49%) CCNA
6 5 (5.49%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (4.40%) ISTQB
7 4 (4.40%) OSCP
7 4 (4.40%) RHCE
7 4 (4.40%) RHCSA
8 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.20%) CISSP
9 2 (2.20%) CREST Certified
9 2 (2.20%) SANS
10 1 (1.10%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.79%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.10%) NCSC
3 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (28.57%) Docker
1 26 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 16 (17.58%) vSphere
4 13 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.40%) Squid
6 4 (4.40%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.30%) iptables
8 2 (2.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 53 (58.24%) Terraform
2 49 (53.85%) Ansible
3 31 (34.07%) Kubernetes
4 29 (31.87%) Grafana
5 15 (16.48%) Puppet
6 14 (15.38%) Kibana
6 14 (15.38%) logstash
7 12 (13.19%) Prometheus
8 6 (6.59%) Argo
8 6 (6.59%) Rancher
8 6 (6.59%) vCenter Server
8 6 (6.59%) yum
9 5 (5.49%) Packer
9 5 (5.49%) Progress Chef
10 4 (4.40%) ZABBIX
11 1 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (1.10%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (1.10%) Nagios
11 1 (1.10%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.10%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 26 (28.57%) VMware
2 24 (26.37%) Microsoft
3 18 (19.78%) Red Hat
4 13 (14.29%) Splunk
5 12 (13.19%) ScienceLogic
6 7 (7.69%) Atlassian
7 5 (5.49%) Cisco
8 4 (4.40%) Oracle
9 2 (2.20%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.20%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.10%) Cribl.io
10 1 (1.10%) Dell
10 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.10%) Google
10 1 (1.10%) HP
10 1 (1.10%) Juniper
10 1 (1.10%) McAfee
10 1 (1.10%) New Relic
10 1 (1.10%) Veeam