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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 131 99
Rank change year-on-year -4 -32 -4
Permanent jobs citing Bash 92 37 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.07% 1.08% 2.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.42% 4.47% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 39 21 126
10th Percentile £44,250 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,750 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,443 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -2.64% -5.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 1,434 827 2,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.68% 24.15% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,005 552 1,660
10th Percentile £32,850 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £68,750
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 29 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 29 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 -4 46 £60,500 +5.22% 18
Bristol -8 29 £67,500 +17.51% 11
Wiltshire -14 9 £75,000 -6.25% 2
Dorset -4 5 £47,500 -32.14% 2
Devon -21 2 £52,500 +10.53%
Somerset -43 1 £42,500 -32.00% 6
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 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (9.78%) Apache
3 5 (5.43%) Confluence
4 2 (2.17%) nginx
4 2 (2.17%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.09%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 44 (47.83%) AWS
2 31 (33.70%) Azure
3 27 (29.35%) Serverless
4 21 (22.83%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (22.83%) GitHub
5 15 (16.30%) IaaS
6 14 (15.22%) PaaS
7 13 (14.13%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (14.13%) Azure Functions
8 12 (13.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 12 (13.04%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (13.04%) OpenShift
9 11 (11.96%) Amazon S3
10 9 (9.78%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (8.70%) GCP
12 5 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.22%) VPN
2 12 (13.04%) Firewall
3 8 (8.70%) TCP/IP
4 7 (7.61%) DNS
5 6 (6.52%) DHCP
6 4 (4.35%) IPv4
6 4 (4.35%) LAN
6 4 (4.35%) Network Security
6 4 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (4.35%) WAN
7 2 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (2.17%) NGFW
7 2 (2.17%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.17%) VSAN
8 1 (1.09%) SSL
8 1 (1.09%) VLAN
8 1 (1.09%) VoIP
8 1 (1.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (7.61%) InfluxDB
4 4 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.26%) Big Data
5 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.17%) MySQL
7 1 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.09%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (43.48%) Git
2 32 (34.78%) Jenkins
3 27 (29.35%) GitLab
4 9 (9.78%) Bitbucket
5 8 (8.70%) Cucumber
5 8 (8.70%) Robot Framework
5 8 (8.70%) SonarQube
6 7 (7.61%) Cypress.io
6 7 (7.61%) JIRA
6 7 (7.61%) Selenium
6 7 (7.61%) TestRail
7 6 (6.52%) Subversion
8 2 (2.17%) git-flow
9 1 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.09%) Balsamiq
9 1 (1.09%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.09%) Postman
9 1 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.30%) Finance
3 14 (15.22%) Law
4 12 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.70%) Aerospace
6 8 (8.70%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Environmental Health
8 1 (1.09%) Legal
8 1 (1.09%) Marketing
8 1 (1.09%) Military
8 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (18.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (16.30%) Senior
3 14 (15.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (14.13%) Analyst
5 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 10 (10.87%) Software Engineer
7 9 (9.78%) Test Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Security Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (6.52%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
10 5 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Administrator
11 4 (4.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Senior Security Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
12 3 (3.26%) IT Consultant
12 3 (3.26%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.65%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (9.78%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (8.70%) Vue
4 7 (7.61%) pytest
5 6 (6.52%) Node.js
5 6 (6.52%) Playwright
6 4 (4.35%) boto
7 3 (3.26%) React
8 2 (2.17%) Middleware
8 2 (2.17%) ZeroMQ
9 1 (1.09%) .NET
9 1 (1.09%) CSS
9 1 (1.09%) Django
9 1 (1.09%) HTML
9 1 (1.09%) HTML5
9 1 (1.09%) JSP
9 1 (1.09%) OAuth
9 1 (1.09%) OpenID
9 1 (1.09%) RESTful
9 1 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.13%) Public Cloud
2 12 (13.04%) Podcast
2 12 (13.04%) Security Posture
3 11 (11.96%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.61%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.52%) Product Ownership
6 5 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.17%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.17%) Social Media
8 1 (1.09%) Blog
8 1 (1.09%) IoT
8 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.09%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.09%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 51 (55.43%) Linux
2 33 (35.87%) Windows
3 15 (16.30%) VMS
4 12 (13.04%) CentOS
5 8 (8.70%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.35%) Unix
7 2 (2.17%) CoreOS
7 2 (2.17%) Debian
7 2 (2.17%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.09%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (67.39%) CI/CD
2 56 (60.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 55 (59.78%) DevOps
4 49 (53.26%) Agile
5 30 (32.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 30 (32.61%) Scrum
6 28 (30.43%) Containerisation
7 23 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 22 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (22.83%) DevSecOps
9 21 (22.83%) Test Automation
10 20 (21.74%) Cloud Security
11 18 (19.57%) Mentoring
11 18 (19.57%) Observability
12 17 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
13 16 (17.39%) Task Automation
14 14 (15.22%) AI
14 14 (15.22%) Analytics
14 14 (15.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (76.09%) Python
2 49 (53.26%) PowerShell
3 20 (21.74%) Java
4 19 (20.65%) JavaScript
5 15 (16.30%) Go
6 13 (14.13%) Bicep
6 13 (14.13%) SQL
7 12 (13.04%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (11.96%) C++
9 7 (7.61%) Rust
9 7 (7.61%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.26%) PHP
11 2 (2.17%) Ruby
11 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.09%) C#
12 1 (1.09%) VB
Qualifications
1 45 (48.91%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.39%) DV Cleared
2 16 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (15.22%) Azure Certification
4 13 (14.13%) SC Cleared
5 8 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 8 (8.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (5.43%) CCNA
6 5 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (4.35%) ISTQB
7 4 (4.35%) OSCP
7 4 (4.35%) RHCE
7 4 (4.35%) RHCSA
8 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.17%) CISSP
8 2 (2.17%) CREST Certified
8 2 (2.17%) SANS
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.78%) QA
2 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (29.35%) Docker
1 27 (29.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (23.91%) Active Directory
3 16 (17.39%) vSphere
4 13 (14.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.35%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.35%) Squid
6 4 (4.35%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.17%) iptables
Systems Management
1 53 (57.61%) Terraform
2 49 (53.26%) Ansible
3 32 (34.78%) Kubernetes
4 27 (29.35%) Grafana
5 15 (16.30%) Puppet
6 14 (15.22%) Kibana
6 14 (15.22%) logstash
7 11 (11.96%) Prometheus
8 6 (6.52%) Argo
8 6 (6.52%) Rancher
8 6 (6.52%) vCenter Server
8 6 (6.52%) yum
9 5 (5.43%) Packer
10 4 (4.35%) Progress Chef
10 4 (4.35%) ZABBIX
11 2 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (2.17%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (2.17%) NetBackup
11 2 (2.17%) SCVMM
11 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (29.35%) VMware
2 23 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 20 (21.74%) Red Hat
4 13 (14.13%) Splunk
5 12 (13.04%) ScienceLogic
6 8 (8.70%) Atlassian
7 6 (6.52%) Cisco
8 4 (4.35%) Oracle
9 2 (2.17%) Dell
9 2 (2.17%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.17%) HP
9 2 (2.17%) Juniper
9 2 (2.17%) McAfee
9 2 (2.17%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.17%) Veeam
10 1 (1.09%) Cribl.io
10 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.09%) Google
10 1 (1.09%) IBM
10 1 (1.09%) New Relic