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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 141 109
Rank change year-on-year -2 -32 -19
Permanent jobs citing Bash 96 34 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.07% 0.97% 1.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.48% 4.19% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 40 18 108
10th Percentile £44,625 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,500 £46,495 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £57,471 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -0.91% -3.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,250 £78,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 1,482 811 2,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.57% 23.13% 25.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,056 534 1,500
10th Percentile £32,625 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,939
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% -6.25%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 51 £65,000 +1.96% 24
Bristol -12 30 £57,500 -7.96% 22
Wiltshire -7 10 £75,000 -6.25% 5
Dorset +2 3 £62,500 - 3
Devon -20 1 £52,500 +10.53% 1
Somerset -37 1 £42,500 -32.00% 10
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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (9.38%) Apache
3 6 (6.25%) Confluence
4 3 (3.13%) nginx
5 2 (2.08%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.04%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 48 (50.00%) AWS
2 32 (33.33%) Azure
3 27 (28.13%) Serverless
4 22 (22.92%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (22.92%) GitHub
5 15 (15.63%) IaaS
6 14 (14.58%) PaaS
7 13 (13.54%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (13.54%) Azure Functions
7 13 (13.54%) OpenShift
8 12 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 12 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (10.42%) Amazon S3
10 9 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (8.33%) GCP
12 6 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.58%) VPN
2 13 (13.54%) Firewall
3 8 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 7 (7.29%) DNS
5 6 (6.25%) DHCP
6 4 (4.17%) IPv4
6 4 (4.17%) LAN
6 4 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (4.17%) WAN
7 3 (3.13%) Network Security
8 2 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (2.08%) NGFW
8 2 (2.08%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.08%) VSAN
9 1 (1.04%) SSL
9 1 (1.04%) VLAN
9 1 (1.04%) VoIP
9 1 (1.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (7.29%) InfluxDB
4 4 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.08%) Big Data
6 1 (1.04%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.04%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.04%) MySQL
6 1 (1.04%) Redis
6 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (41.67%) Git
2 30 (31.25%) Jenkins
3 28 (29.17%) GitLab
4 9 (9.38%) Bitbucket
4 9 (9.38%) JIRA
5 8 (8.33%) Cucumber
5 8 (8.33%) Robot Framework
5 8 (8.33%) SonarQube
6 7 (7.29%) Cypress.io
6 7 (7.29%) Selenium
6 7 (7.29%) TestRail
7 5 (5.21%) Subversion
8 3 (3.13%) git-flow
9 2 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.08%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (1.04%) Balsamiq
10 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (1.04%) Postman
10 1 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.67%) Finance
3 14 (14.58%) Law
4 12 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (10.42%) Public Sector
6 9 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (7.29%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.13%) Legal
9 2 (2.08%) Environmental Health
9 2 (2.08%) Military
9 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Marketing
10 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (15.63%) Senior
3 13 (13.54%) Analyst
4 12 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 10 (10.42%) Test Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
9 5 (5.21%) Security Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Administrator
10 4 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Lead
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Security Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.79%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (9.38%) Apache NiFi
3 7 (7.29%) pytest
3 7 (7.29%) Vue
4 6 (6.25%) Node.js
4 6 (6.25%) Playwright
5 4 (4.17%) boto
6 3 (3.13%) AWS CDK
7 2 (2.08%) JSP
7 2 (2.08%) Middleware
7 2 (2.08%) React
7 2 (2.08%) ZeroMQ
8 1 (1.04%) Django
8 1 (1.04%) HTML5
8 1 (1.04%) OAuth
8 1 (1.04%) OpenID
8 1 (1.04%) REST
8 1 (1.04%) RESTful
8 1 (1.04%) SOAP
8 1 (1.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.54%) Cloud Native
1 13 (13.54%) Public Cloud
2 12 (12.50%) Podcast
2 12 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 7 (7.29%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.13%) Blog
7 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.08%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.08%) Social Media
8 1 (1.04%) IoT
8 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.04%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 51 (53.13%) Linux
2 34 (35.42%) Windows
3 15 (15.63%) VMS
4 10 (10.42%) CentOS
5 8 (8.33%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.17%) Unix
7 2 (2.08%) CoreOS
7 2 (2.08%) Debian
7 2 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.04%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 62 (64.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (61.46%) DevOps
4 50 (52.08%) Agile
5 33 (34.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (33.33%) Scrum
7 31 (32.29%) Containerisation
8 25 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (23.96%) Collaborative Culture
10 22 (22.92%) Test Automation
11 20 (20.83%) Cloud Security
11 20 (20.83%) DevSecOps
12 19 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (19.79%) Observability
13 18 (18.75%) Mentoring
14 16 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
14 16 (16.67%) Task Automation
15 15 (15.63%) Infrastructure Automation
15 15 (15.63%) Software Engineering
16 14 (14.58%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 72 (75.00%) Python
2 46 (47.92%) PowerShell
3 21 (21.88%) Java
3 21 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 16 (16.67%) Go
5 13 (13.54%) Bicep
5 13 (13.54%) SQL
6 12 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (10.42%) C++
7 10 (10.42%) Rust
8 7 (7.29%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.13%) PHP
10 2 (2.08%) Ruby
10 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.04%) C#
11 1 (1.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 54 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 19 (19.79%) DV Cleared
4 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (14.58%) Azure Certification
6 11 (11.46%) AWS Certification
7 10 (10.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (5.21%) CCNA
8 5 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (4.17%) ISTQB
9 4 (4.17%) OSCP
9 4 (4.17%) RHCE
9 4 (4.17%) RHCSA
10 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (1.04%) CREST Certified
12 1 (1.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) QA
2 3 (3.13%) NCSC
3 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (28.13%) Docker
3 23 (23.96%) Active Directory
4 16 (16.67%) vSphere
5 13 (13.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (5.21%) VMware NSX
8 4 (4.17%) Hyper-V
8 4 (4.17%) Squid
9 1 (1.04%) iptables
9 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (63.54%) Terraform
2 52 (54.17%) Ansible
3 37 (38.54%) Kubernetes
4 25 (26.04%) Grafana
5 17 (17.71%) Puppet
6 14 (14.58%) Kibana
6 14 (14.58%) logstash
7 10 (10.42%) Prometheus
8 7 (7.29%) vCenter Server
9 5 (5.21%) Argo
9 5 (5.21%) Packer
9 5 (5.21%) Rancher
9 5 (5.21%) yum
10 4 (4.17%) Progress Chef
10 4 (4.17%) ZABBIX
11 3 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (2.08%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (2.08%) NetBackup
12 2 (2.08%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 31 (32.29%) VMware
2 23 (23.96%) Microsoft
3 19 (19.79%) Red Hat
4 13 (13.54%) Splunk
5 12 (12.50%) ScienceLogic
6 9 (9.38%) Atlassian
7 6 (6.25%) Cisco
8 4 (4.17%) Oracle
9 2 (2.08%) Dell
9 2 (2.08%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.08%) HP
9 2 (2.08%) IBM
9 2 (2.08%) Juniper
9 2 (2.08%) McAfee
9 2 (2.08%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.08%) Veeam
10 1 (1.04%) Cribl.io
10 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.04%) Google
10 1 (1.04%) New Relic