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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 151 128
Rank change year-on-year +11 -23 -56
Permanent jobs citing Bash 106 21 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.01% 0.58% 1.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.76% 2.89% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 40 15 55
10th Percentile £47,750 £47,250 £46,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +2.27% -7.04%

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 1,567 727 1,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.96% 20.25% 26.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,169 498 1,049
10th Percentile £36,227 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £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 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 8 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 8 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 +17.39% 32
Bristol -23 28 £62,500 -9.09% 8
Wiltshire -17 9 £75,000 -14.29% 6
Somerset - 2 £42,500 - 16
Dorset -5 1 £62,500 - 2
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 (11.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (8.49%) Apache
3 6 (5.66%) Confluence
4 5 (4.72%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.83%) nginx
6 1 (0.94%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 54 (50.94%) AWS
2 34 (32.08%) Azure
3 26 (24.53%) Serverless
4 22 (20.75%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (20.75%) GitHub
5 16 (15.09%) OpenShift
6 14 (13.21%) IaaS
6 14 (13.21%) PaaS
7 13 (12.26%) Azure Functions
8 12 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (11.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 12 (11.32%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (11.32%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (9.43%) Amazon S3
9 10 (9.43%) GCP
10 8 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.09%) Firewall
2 14 (13.21%) VPN
3 7 (6.60%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.66%) DNS
5 5 (4.72%) DHCP
6 4 (3.77%) IPv4
6 4 (3.77%) LAN
6 4 (3.77%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (3.77%) WAN
7 2 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.89%) Network Security
7 2 (1.89%) NGFW
7 2 (1.89%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.89%) VSAN
8 1 (0.94%) SSL
8 1 (0.94%) VLAN
8 1 (0.94%) VoIP
8 1 (0.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.32%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (6.60%) InfluxDB
4 3 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.89%) Big Data
6 1 (0.94%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.94%) MySQL
6 1 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (39.62%) Git
2 30 (28.30%) GitLab
2 30 (28.30%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.55%) Cucumber
3 8 (7.55%) JIRA
3 8 (7.55%) Robot Framework
3 8 (7.55%) SonarQube
3 8 (7.55%) Subversion
4 7 (6.60%) Bitbucket
4 7 (6.60%) TestRail
5 6 (5.66%) Cypress.io
5 6 (5.66%) Selenium
6 3 (2.83%) git-flow
7 2 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.89%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.94%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.94%) Postman
8 1 (0.94%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (23.58%) Finance
2 20 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.21%) Law
4 12 (11.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 9 (8.49%) Aerospace
6 9 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Legal
8 2 (1.89%) Environmental Health
8 2 (1.89%) Military
8 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (18.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (12.26%) Senior
4 12 (11.32%) Analyst
4 12 (11.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 11 (10.38%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (9.43%) Test Engineer
7 9 (8.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (8.49%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (5.66%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
10 5 (4.72%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) Automation Tester
10 5 (4.72%) Lead
10 5 (4.72%) Tester
11 4 (3.77%) Administrator
11 4 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (67.92%) Terraform
2 21 (19.81%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (9.43%) Apache NiFi
4 7 (6.60%) Vue
5 6 (5.66%) Node.js
5 6 (5.66%) pytest
6 5 (4.72%) Playwright
7 4 (3.77%) boto
8 3 (2.83%) AWS CDK
9 2 (1.89%) JSP
9 2 (1.89%) Middleware
9 2 (1.89%) React
9 2 (1.89%) ZeroMQ
10 1 (0.94%) .NET
10 1 (0.94%) CSS
10 1 (0.94%) CSS3
10 1 (0.94%) Django
10 1 (0.94%) HTML
10 1 (0.94%) HTML5
10 1 (0.94%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.32%) Podcast
2 12 (11.32%) Public Cloud
2 12 (11.32%) Security Posture
3 7 (6.60%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.72%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.83%) Blog
7 2 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.89%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.89%) Social Media
8 1 (0.94%) IoT
8 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.94%) PKI
8 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.94%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 59 (55.66%) Linux
2 35 (33.02%) Windows
3 14 (13.21%) VMS
4 9 (8.49%) CentOS
5 8 (7.55%) Windows Server
6 6 (5.66%) Unix
7 3 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.89%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.89%) Debian
8 2 (1.89%) Rocky
8 2 (1.89%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (72.64%) CI/CD
2 76 (71.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 68 (64.15%) DevOps
4 55 (51.89%) Agile
5 43 (40.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 41 (38.68%) Containerisation
7 35 (33.02%) Scrum
8 30 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (24.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (23.58%) Collaborative Culture
11 24 (22.64%) Test Automation
12 22 (20.75%) DevSecOps
13 20 (18.87%) Cloud Security
13 20 (18.87%) Infrastructure Automation
13 20 (18.87%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (16.04%) AI
14 17 (16.04%) Mentoring
14 17 (16.04%) Observability
15 16 (15.09%) Root Cause Analysis
15 16 (15.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 80 (75.47%) Python
2 44 (41.51%) PowerShell
3 26 (24.53%) Java
4 21 (19.81%) Go
5 20 (18.87%) JavaScript
6 13 (12.26%) SQL
7 12 (11.32%) Bicep
7 12 (11.32%) Kusto Query Language
7 12 (11.32%) Rust
8 10 (9.43%) C++
9 7 (6.60%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.83%) PHP
10 3 (2.83%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.89%) Ruby
12 1 (0.94%) C#
12 1 (0.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 71 (66.98%) Security Cleared
2 28 (26.42%) DV Cleared
3 26 (24.53%) SC Cleared
4 16 (15.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (12.26%) Azure Certification
6 10 (9.43%) AWS Certification
6 10 (9.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (3.77%) CCNA
7 4 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.77%) ISTQB
7 4 (3.77%) OSCP
7 4 (3.77%) RHCE
7 4 (3.77%) RHCSA
8 3 (2.83%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.26%) QA
2 3 (2.83%) NCSC
3 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (30.19%) Docker
2 30 (28.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (21.70%) Active Directory
4 16 (15.09%) vSphere
5 13 (12.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (6.60%) VMware NSX
7 6 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (3.77%) Hyper-V
8 4 (3.77%) Squid
9 3 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (55.66%) Ansible
2 55 (51.89%) Kubernetes
3 26 (24.53%) Grafana
4 23 (21.70%) Puppet
5 13 (12.26%) Kibana
5 13 (12.26%) logstash
6 10 (9.43%) Prometheus
7 9 (8.49%) Argo
8 8 (7.55%) Rancher
8 8 (7.55%) vCenter Server
8 8 (7.55%) yum
9 4 (3.77%) Packer
9 4 (3.77%) ZABBIX
10 3 (2.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.89%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (1.89%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.89%) SCVMM
12 1 (0.94%) Nagios
12 1 (0.94%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 35 (33.02%) VMware
2 24 (22.64%) Microsoft
3 18 (16.98%) Red Hat
4 12 (11.32%) ScienceLogic
4 12 (11.32%) Splunk
5 8 (7.55%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.72%) Cisco
7 4 (3.77%) Oracle
8 2 (1.89%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.89%) IBM
8 2 (1.89%) McAfee
8 2 (1.89%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.94%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.94%) Dell
9 1 (0.94%) HP
9 1 (0.94%) Juniper
9 1 (0.94%) New Relic
9 1 (0.94%) Veeam