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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 131 75
Rank change year-on-year +24 -56 +36
Permanent jobs citing Bash 83 59 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.52% 1.53% 3.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.12% 4.44% 8.95%
Number of salaries quoted 55 36 143
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,625 £41,650
25th Percentile £49,875 £56,094 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +25.45% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £87,300
England median annual salary £66,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.69% -6.40%

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 820 1,328 2,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.07% 34.46% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 576 704 2,111
10th Percentile £31,625 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,938 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.00% -1.08%
75th Percentile £68,488 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +31 40 £55,000 -20.29% 16
Bristol +7 26 £75,000 -3.23% 11
Wiltshire +6 6 £63,750 +13.33% 4
Devon +2 6 £52,500 -30.00% 5
Dorset - 4 £100,000 - 4
Cornwall -14 1 - - 8
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 3 (3.61%) Apache
2 2 (2.41%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.20%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 44 (53.01%) AWS
2 34 (40.96%) Azure
3 19 (22.89%) GitHub
4 16 (19.28%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (14.46%) GCP
5 12 (14.46%) OpenShift
6 8 (9.64%) Serverless
7 7 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (7.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (6.02%) Amazon S3
9 5 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.02%) Datadog
9 5 (6.02%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.82%) SaaS
11 3 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (3.61%) Azure AKS
11 3 (3.61%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.25%) TCP/IP
2 10 (12.05%) DNS
3 8 (9.64%) DHCP
3 8 (9.64%) Firewall
4 7 (8.43%) LAN
4 7 (8.43%) WAN
5 6 (7.23%) Network Security
5 6 (7.23%) VPN
6 5 (6.02%) VSAN
7 4 (4.82%) Broadband
8 3 (3.61%) BGP
8 3 (3.61%) MPLS
8 3 (3.61%) OSPF
8 3 (3.61%) SD-WAN
8 3 (3.61%) VLAN
9 2 (2.41%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (2.41%) NGFW
10 1 (1.20%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.61%) InfluxDB
3 2 (2.41%) Big Data
3 2 (2.41%) CockroachDB
3 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.20%) Airbyte
4 1 (1.20%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.20%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.20%) MySQL
4 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.20%) Redis
4 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (34.94%) Jenkins
2 13 (15.66%) Git
3 11 (13.25%) GitLab
4 5 (6.02%) CircleCI
4 5 (6.02%) SonarQube
4 5 (6.02%) Subversion
5 4 (4.82%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.61%) Balsamiq
6 3 (3.61%) Burp Suite
6 3 (3.61%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.61%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.61%) Metasploit
6 3 (3.61%) Robot Framework
6 3 (3.61%) Selenium
6 3 (3.61%) TestRail
7 2 (2.41%) Checkstyle
7 2 (2.41%) ESLint
7 2 (2.41%) JIRA
7 2 (2.41%) JUnit
7 2 (2.41%) Maven
General
1 20 (24.10%) Finance
1 20 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.46%) Aerospace
3 7 (8.43%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.23%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.82%) Marketing
6 3 (3.61%) Billing
6 3 (3.61%) Electronics
6 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.61%) Military
7 2 (2.41%) Avionics
7 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Law
8 1 (1.20%) Automotive
8 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (14.46%) Senior
2 11 (13.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (13.25%) Security Engineer
3 10 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Applications Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) Tester
6 6 (7.23%) Administrator
7 5 (6.02%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (4.82%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 4 (4.82%) Penetration Tester
9 3 (3.61%) Consultant
9 3 (3.61%) Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Engineering Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Network Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Consultant
9 3 (3.61%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.05%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.02%) OAuth
2 5 (6.02%) REST
3 4 (4.82%) Middleware
3 4 (4.82%) ZeroMQ
4 3 (3.61%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (3.61%) GraphQL
4 3 (3.61%) LDAP
4 3 (3.61%) OpenID
4 3 (3.61%) SAML
4 3 (3.61%) SOAP
4 3 (3.61%) Vue
5 2 (2.41%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.41%) JWT
5 2 (2.41%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.41%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.41%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.41%) Spring MVC
5 2 (2.41%) Spring Security
5 2 (2.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.02%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (4.82%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.61%) Cyberattack
3 3 (3.61%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.41%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.41%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.41%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (51.81%) Linux
2 16 (19.28%) Windows
3 9 (10.84%) CentOS
4 8 (9.64%) Windows Server
5 7 (8.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (6.02%) Unix
6 5 (6.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (4.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (3.61%) CoreOS
9 2 (2.41%) Solaris
10 1 (1.20%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (44.58%) DevOps
2 32 (38.55%) CI/CD
3 30 (36.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (32.53%) Agile
5 24 (28.92%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (26.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (24.10%) Containerisation
8 19 (22.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (18.07%) Security Testing
10 14 (16.87%) Cloud Security
10 14 (16.87%) Mentoring
11 13 (15.66%) Software Engineering
11 13 (15.66%) Test Automation
12 12 (14.46%) Collaborative Culture
12 12 (14.46%) DevSecOps
12 12 (14.46%) Penetration Testing
12 12 (14.46%) Roadmaps
13 11 (13.25%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (13.25%) Threat Modelling
14 10 (12.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 73 (87.95%) Python
2 42 (50.60%) PowerShell
3 13 (15.66%) Java
4 10 (12.05%) Go
5 7 (8.43%) C#
5 7 (8.43%) C++
5 7 (8.43%) SQL
6 5 (6.02%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.61%) Bicep
7 3 (3.61%) C
7 3 (3.61%) Elixir
7 3 (3.61%) Erlang
7 3 (3.61%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.61%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.61%) VBScript
8 2 (2.41%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.20%) Rust
9 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (42.17%) Security Cleared
2 22 (26.51%) DV Cleared
3 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
4 14 (16.87%) CREST Certified
5 8 (9.64%) CISSP
5 8 (9.64%) SANS
6 7 (8.43%) Degree
7 4 (4.82%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.61%) CCNP
8 3 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.61%) CITP
8 3 (3.61%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) Accessibility
1 8 (9.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.02%) NIST
2 5 (6.02%) QA
3 4 (4.82%) NCSC
4 1 (1.20%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.20%) GDPR
4 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (28.92%) Docker
2 11 (13.25%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.23%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.41%) Firmware
5 2 (2.41%) iptables
5 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.20%) Ceph
6 1 (1.20%) Lustre
6 1 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (40.96%) Ansible
2 31 (37.35%) Terraform
3 30 (36.14%) Kubernetes
4 19 (22.89%) Grafana
5 9 (10.84%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.23%) Argo
6 6 (7.23%) Puppet
7 5 (6.02%) Rancher
7 5 (6.02%) yum
8 4 (4.82%) Kibana
8 4 (4.82%) logstash
8 4 (4.82%) McAfee ePO
8 4 (4.82%) SCVMM
9 3 (3.61%) Nmap
10 2 (2.41%) NetBackup
10 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.41%) vCenter Server
11 1 (1.20%) Kustomize
11 1 (1.20%) Podman
11 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (14.46%) Red Hat
2 6 (7.23%) Cisco
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.23%) Splunk
2 6 (7.23%) VMware
3 5 (6.02%) Google
4 4 (4.82%) Fortinet
4 4 (4.82%) McAfee
4 4 (4.82%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.61%) SAP
6 2 (2.41%) Dell
6 2 (2.41%) HP
6 2 (2.41%) Juniper
6 2 (2.41%) Oracle
6 2 (2.41%) Veeam
7 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.20%) Mirantis
7 1 (1.20%) New Relic