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

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	140	153	127
Rank change year-on-year	+13	-26	-55
Permanent jobs citing Bash	106	22	99
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West	1.00%	0.61%	1.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category	6.80%	3.07%	5.52%
Number of salaries quoted	39	18	54
10^th Percentile	£47,750	£47,125	£45,750
25^th Percentile	£56,250	£52,500	£52,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£67,500	£61,250	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+10.20%	+2.08%	-4.00%
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£86,875	£83,188
90^th Percentile	£92,500	£90,375	£87,500
England median annual salary	£65,000	£67,500	£67,000
% change year-on-year	-3.70%	+0.75%	-4.29%

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.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	1,558	716	1,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West	14.63%	19.96%	27.34%
Number of salaries quoted	1,170	501	996
10^th Percentile	£36,239	£29,000	£33,750
25^th Percentile	£45,219	£36,750	£42,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£50,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+20.00%	-9.09%	-
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£65,000	£70,313
90^th Percentile	£85,000	£78,750	£85,000
England median annual salary	£65,000	£62,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	-3.85%	-

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 Salary Trend in the South West

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 16 October 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 16 October 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	-12	66	£67,500	+12.50%	30
Bristol	-22	27	£57,500	-16.36%	9
Wiltshire	-12	9	£75,000	-14.29%	9
Somerset	-	3	£42,500	-	18
Dorset	-5	1	£62,500	-	1
Bash England

Bash Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 16 October 2026, job vacancies citing Bash also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region with a requirement for Bash.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	75.5%	80
2	CI/CD	73.6%	78
2	Infrastructure as Code	73.6%	78
4	Terraform	68.9%	73
5	Security Cleared	67.9%	72
6	DevOps	63.2%	67
7	Ansible	56.6%	60
7	Linux	56.6%	60
9	Agile	51.9%	55
9	Kubernetes	51.9%	55
11	AWS	50.0%	53
12	Infrastructure Engineering	41.5%	44
12	PowerShell	41.5%	44
14	Git	39.6%	42
15	Containerisation	38.7%	41
16	VMware	34.9%	37
17	Scrum	33.0%	35
17	Windows	33.0%	35
19	Azure	32.1%	34
20	VMware Infrastructure	30.2%	32
21	Docker	29.2%	31
21	Problem-Solving	29.2%	31
23	GitLab	28.3%	30
24	DV Cleared	27.4%	29
24	Jenkins	27.4%	29
26	Continuous Improvement	25.5%	27
26	Java	25.5%	27
26	SC Cleared	25.5%	27
26	Serverless	25.5%	27
30	Grafana	23.6%	25

Bash Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	75.5%	80
2	PowerShell	41.5%	44
3	Java	25.5%	27
4	Go	18.9%	20
5	JavaScript	17.9%	19
6	SQL	12.3%	13
7	Bicep	11.3%	12
7	Kusto Query Language	11.3%	12
7	Rust	11.3%	12
10	C++	9.4%	10
11	TypeScript	5.7%	6
12	PHP	2.8%	3
12	Shell Script	2.8%	3
14	Ruby	1.9%	2
15	Ada	0.9%	1
15	C	0.9%	1
15	Tcl	0.9%	1