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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 122 81
Rank change year-on-year -12 -41 +44
Permanent jobs citing Bash 30 122 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.85% 1.62% 3.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.09% 6.22% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 19 73 118
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £74,375 £81,500 £78,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £87,500 £96,539
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -9.72% +2.86%

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 733 1,960 1,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 20.89% 25.99% 38.29%
Number of salaries quoted 498 1,229 1,459
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,617 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -3.85% +1.63%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Bash 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 0 12 £57,500 +6.98% 11
Bristol +29 8 £65,000 -18.75% 7
Devon +2 5 £51,250 +24.24% 2
Wiltshire +27 2 £80,000 +52.38% 4
Dorset +19 1 - -
Somerset +6 1 £62,500 +13.64% 1
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 6 (20.00%) Serverless
4 5 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (10.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Functions
7 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Stack
8 1 (3.33%) Datadog
8 1 (3.33%) GCP
8 1 (3.33%) Pulumi
8 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.00%) VPN
3 2 (6.67%) DHCP
3 2 (6.67%) DNS
3 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) IPv4
3 2 (6.67%) LAN
3 2 (6.67%) VSAN
3 2 (6.67%) WAN
4 1 (3.33%) Broadband
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (3.33%) Ethernet
4 1 (3.33%) Internet
4 1 (3.33%) Network Security
4 1 (3.33%) OSPF
4 1 (3.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.33%) Big Data
1 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Git
2 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.00%) GitLab
4 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.33%) Burp Suite
5 1 (3.33%) CMake
5 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.33%) Jaeger
5 1 (3.33%) Metasploit
5 1 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (3.33%) Robot Framework
5 1 (3.33%) Subversion
5 1 (3.33%) WiX
General
1 6 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Electronics
5 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.67%) Marketing
5 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Administrator
2 6 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 6 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (13.33%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Graduate Applications Support
6 1 (3.33%) Junior Applications Support
6 1 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.67%) .NET
2 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.33%) HTML
3 1 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.33%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.33%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.33%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.33%) IoT
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (63.33%) Linux
2 13 (43.33%) Windows
3 6 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (13.33%) CentOS
6 3 (10.00%) CoreOS
7 2 (6.67%) Unix
7 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (3.33%) Android
8 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) DevOps
2 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (26.67%) Agile
4 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
6 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (20.00%) Task Automation
7 5 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (13.33%) DevSecOps
8 4 (13.33%) ITIL
8 4 (13.33%) Time Management
9 3 (10.00%) GitOps
9 3 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (10.00%) RBAC
9 3 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 26 (86.67%) Python
2 19 (63.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.67%) Bicep
3 2 (6.67%) C
3 2 (6.67%) C#
3 2 (6.67%) C++
3 2 (6.67%) Java
3 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.67%) R
3 2 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Go
4 1 (3.33%) Perl
4 1 (3.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.33%) AWS Certification
4 4 (13.33%) Degree
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.67%) CREST Certified
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.33%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (3.33%) CISSP
6 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.33%) iptables
4 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Ansible
2 13 (43.33%) Terraform
3 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
4 6 (20.00%) Puppet
5 3 (10.00%) Argo
6 2 (6.67%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.67%) SCVMM
7 1 (3.33%) Grafana
7 1 (3.33%) Kustomize
7 1 (3.33%) Nmap
7 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (13.33%) VMware
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) McAfee
4 2 (6.67%) SAP
5 1 (3.33%) 3PAR
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) Juniper
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk