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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 121 71
Rank change year-on-year -25 -50 +46
Permanent jobs citing Bash 38 88 187
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.89% 1.49% 4.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.05% 5.24% 10.25%
Number of salaries quoted 30 51 112
10th Percentile £47,375 £51,250 £43,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £86,875 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,125 £85,000 £96,539
England median annual salary £67,500 £69,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% -1.43% -

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 752 1,679 1,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.57% 28.46% 40.37%
Number of salaries quoted 557 921 1,443
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,404 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 17 November 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 17 November 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 +13 18 £63,750 -7.61% 13
Bristol +22 13 £71,250 -10.94% 10
Wiltshire +19 4 £67,500 +28.57% 8
Devon 0 2 £55,000 -26.67% 1
Dorset -8 1 £130,000 +116.67% 3
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 1 (2.63%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 24 (63.16%) AWS
2 17 (44.74%) Azure
3 10 (26.32%) OpenShift
4 7 (18.42%) GitHub
5 6 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (15.79%) Serverless
6 5 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (10.53%) Azure AKS
8 3 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (7.89%) GCP
9 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
9 2 (5.26%) PaaS
9 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (2.63%) OCI
10 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) Firewall
2 5 (13.16%) LAN
2 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
2 5 (13.16%) WAN
3 4 (10.53%) DNS
3 4 (10.53%) Network Security
3 4 (10.53%) VPN
3 4 (10.53%) VSAN
4 3 (7.89%) DHCP
5 2 (5.26%) BGP
5 2 (5.26%) MPLS
5 2 (5.26%) OSPF
5 2 (5.26%) SD-WAN
5 2 (5.26%) VLAN
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (2.63%) InfiniBand
6 1 (2.63%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Big Data
1 2 (5.26%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 9 (23.68%) Git
3 3 (7.89%) Balsamiq
3 3 (7.89%) GitLab
4 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.26%) Robot Framework
4 2 (5.26%) TestRail
5 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.63%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.63%) Metasploit
5 1 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.63%) Subversion
General
1 10 (26.32%) Finance
1 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.89%) Military
3 3 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Electronics
4 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.26%) Marketing
5 1 (2.63%) Automotive
5 1 (2.63%) Avionics
5 1 (2.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Security Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Administrator
4 5 (13.16%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (10.53%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (10.53%) Senior
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Consultant
6 3 (7.89%) DevSecOps Consultant
6 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (7.89%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (7.89%) Tester
7 2 (5.26%) Automation Tester
7 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Network Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) ARM Templates
2 3 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.26%) .NET
4 1 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) IoT
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (47.37%) Linux
2 10 (26.32%) Windows
3 8 (21.05%) CentOS
4 6 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (15.79%) Windows Server
5 3 (7.89%) CoreOS
5 3 (7.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (7.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.26%) VMS
7 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) DevOps
2 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
2 11 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (26.32%) Agile
3 10 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
5 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (18.42%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (18.42%) Threat Modelling
6 6 (15.79%) Cloud Security
6 6 (15.79%) ITIL
6 6 (15.79%) Penetration Testing
6 6 (15.79%) RBAC
6 6 (15.79%) Security Testing
7 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (13.16%) Mentoring
7 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
7 5 (13.16%) Software Testing
7 5 (13.16%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (86.84%) Python
2 22 (57.89%) PowerShell
3 5 (13.16%) C#
4 4 (10.53%) Bicep
4 4 (10.53%) Go
5 3 (7.89%) VBScript
6 2 (5.26%) C
6 2 (5.26%) C++
6 2 (5.26%) Java
6 2 (5.26%) SQL
7 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.95%) DV Cleared
3 9 (23.68%) CREST Certified
4 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
5 6 (15.79%) Degree
6 5 (13.16%) CISSP
6 5 (13.16%) SANS
7 4 (10.53%) Azure Certification
8 3 (7.89%) CITP
9 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
9 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (5.26%) CCNP
9 2 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
10 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.26%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) Def Stans
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) NCSC
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) Docker
2 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.89%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.63%) Ceph
4 1 (2.63%) Firmware
4 1 (2.63%) iptables
4 1 (2.63%) Lustre
4 1 (2.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (36.84%) Ansible
1 14 (36.84%) Terraform
2 11 (28.95%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.53%) Grafana
3 4 (10.53%) Puppet
4 3 (7.89%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (7.89%) SCVMM
5 1 (2.63%) Argo
5 1 (2.63%) Kibana
5 1 (2.63%) logstash
5 1 (2.63%) Nmap
5 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.63%) Rancher
5 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.63%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Red Hat
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco
3 3 (7.89%) Fortinet
3 3 (7.89%) McAfee
3 3 (7.89%) Palo Alto
3 3 (7.89%) Splunk
4 2 (5.26%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) Google
5 1 (2.63%) VMware