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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 125 94
Rank change year-on-year -5 -31 +11
Permanent jobs citing Bash 87 38 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.13% 1.35% 2.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.26% 4.55% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 47 21 185
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,443 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% +4.44% -15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -14.29%

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,199 836 3,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.64% 29.75% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 798 556 2,408
10th Percentile £33,925 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 10 June 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 10 June 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 40 £55,000 -4.35% 12
Bristol -17 22 £75,000 +30.57% 10
Wiltshire -4 9 £75,000 -6.25% 4
Dorset +2 7 £47,500 -32.14%
Devon -21 7 £52,500 +10.53%
Somerset -32 1 £42,500 -27.24% 1
Cornwall - 1 - -
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 6 (6.90%) Apache
1 6 (6.90%) Confluence
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (52.87%) AWS
2 29 (33.33%) Azure
3 20 (22.99%) Serverless
4 18 (20.69%) GitHub
5 15 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (16.09%) Amazon S3
7 12 (13.79%) GCP
7 12 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (12.64%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (10.34%) OpenShift
10 7 (8.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (5.75%) Azure Functions
12 5 (5.75%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (5.75%) Datadog
12 5 (5.75%) IaaS
13 4 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (4.60%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (4.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.64%) Firewall
2 8 (9.20%) DNS
3 7 (8.05%) DHCP
3 7 (8.05%) TCP/IP
3 7 (8.05%) VPN
4 6 (6.90%) Network Security
5 4 (4.60%) Broadband
5 4 (4.60%) IPv4
5 4 (4.60%) LAN
5 4 (4.60%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (4.60%) WAN
6 2 (2.30%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (2.30%) NGFW
6 2 (2.30%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.30%) VSAN
7 1 (1.15%) VLAN
7 1 (1.15%) VoIP
7 1 (1.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (5.75%) InfluxDB
3 4 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.60%) Big Data
4 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.30%) CockroachDB
5 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.15%) MySQL
6 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (41.38%) Jenkins
2 22 (25.29%) Git
3 21 (24.14%) GitLab
4 10 (11.49%) Bitbucket
5 8 (9.20%) SonarQube
6 7 (8.05%) JIRA
7 6 (6.90%) Cucumber
7 6 (6.90%) Cypress.io
7 6 (6.90%) Selenium
7 6 (6.90%) Subversion
8 5 (5.75%) Robot Framework
8 5 (5.75%) TestRail
9 4 (4.60%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.30%) Checkstyle
10 2 (2.30%) ESLint
10 2 (2.30%) Gradle
10 2 (2.30%) JUnit
10 2 (2.30%) Maven
10 2 (2.30%) Mockito
10 2 (2.30%) TestNG
General
1 17 (19.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.79%) Aerospace
2 12 (13.79%) Finance
3 8 (9.20%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.90%) Law
6 5 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Billing
7 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (18.39%) Senior
2 14 (16.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (12.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Software Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Security Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Analyst
8 5 (5.75%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 4 (4.60%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Security Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Tester
10 3 (3.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) IT Support
10 3 (3.45%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.54%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (8.05%) Vue
3 6 (6.90%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (6.90%) REST
4 5 (5.75%) Node.js
4 5 (5.75%) OAuth
5 4 (4.60%) boto
5 4 (4.60%) Playwright
5 4 (4.60%) pytest
5 4 (4.60%) SOAP
6 3 (3.45%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.45%) LDAP
6 3 (3.45%) Middleware
6 3 (3.45%) OpenID
6 3 (3.45%) SAML
6 3 (3.45%) ZeroMQ
7 2 (2.30%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.30%) Spring
7 2 (2.30%) Spring MVC
7 2 (2.30%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.90%) Security Posture
3 5 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.75%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.60%) Podcast
4 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (3.45%) Cyberattack
5 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.30%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.30%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.15%) IoT
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 48 (55.17%) Linux
2 24 (27.59%) Windows
3 10 (11.49%) CentOS
4 9 (10.34%) Windows Server
5 7 (8.05%) VMS
6 4 (4.60%) Unix
7 3 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.30%) CoreOS
8 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (56.32%) CI/CD
2 48 (55.17%) DevOps
3 43 (49.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (39.08%) Agile
5 27 (31.03%) Containerisation
6 26 (29.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (24.14%) Mentoring
8 20 (22.99%) Collaborative Culture
9 19 (21.84%) DevSecOps
9 19 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (21.84%) Test Automation
10 18 (20.69%) Scrum
11 14 (16.09%) Cloud Security
12 13 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (14.94%) Software Engineering
13 12 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
13 12 (13.79%) Roadmaps
14 11 (12.64%) Root Cause Analysis
14 11 (12.64%) Task Automation
15 10 (11.49%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (83.91%) Python
2 47 (54.02%) PowerShell
3 22 (25.29%) Java
4 13 (14.94%) JavaScript
5 12 (13.79%) Go
6 10 (11.49%) C++
6 10 (11.49%) SQL
7 6 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.75%) Bicep
8 5 (5.75%) Rust
9 4 (4.60%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (3.45%) Elixir
10 3 (3.45%) Erlang
10 3 (3.45%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.30%) C#
11 2 (2.30%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.15%) C
12 1 (1.15%) PHP
12 1 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 38 (43.68%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.84%) DV Cleared
3 11 (12.64%) SC Cleared
4 9 (10.34%) AWS Certification
4 9 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.90%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (5.75%) CCNA
6 5 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.75%) CREST Certified
7 4 (4.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.60%) CISSP
7 4 (4.60%) ISTQB
7 4 (4.60%) OSCP
7 4 (4.60%) RHCE
7 4 (4.60%) RHCSA
7 4 (4.60%) SANS
8 1 (1.15%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.45%) NCSC
3 3 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (33.33%) Docker
2 17 (19.54%) Active Directory
2 17 (19.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (9.20%) vSphere
4 6 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (4.60%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.60%) iptables
5 4 (4.60%) Squid
5 4 (4.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (4.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (50.57%) Ansible
1 44 (50.57%) Terraform
2 32 (36.78%) Grafana
2 32 (36.78%) Kubernetes
3 18 (20.69%) Prometheus
4 11 (12.64%) Puppet
5 10 (11.49%) Kibana
5 10 (11.49%) logstash
6 7 (8.05%) Argo
7 6 (6.90%) Rancher
7 6 (6.90%) yum
8 5 (5.75%) Packer
8 5 (5.75%) Progress Chef
9 4 (4.60%) vCenter Server
9 4 (4.60%) ZABBIX
10 2 (2.30%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (2.30%) NetBackup
10 2 (2.30%) SCVMM
11 1 (1.15%) Kustomize
11 1 (1.15%) Nmap
Vendors
1 17 (19.54%) Red Hat
1 17 (19.54%) VMware
2 15 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 12 (13.79%) Splunk
4 6 (6.90%) Cisco
4 6 (6.90%) Oracle
5 4 (4.60%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.60%) Google
5 4 (4.60%) ScienceLogic
6 2 (2.30%) Dell
6 2 (2.30%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.30%) HP
6 2 (2.30%) Juniper
6 2 (2.30%) McAfee
6 2 (2.30%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.30%) Veeam
7 1 (1.15%) Cribl.io
7 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace