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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 136 104
Rank change year-on-year -5 -32 -20
Permanent jobs citing Bash 97 30 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.06% 0.86% 2.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.45% 3.90% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 39 15 108
10th Percentile £47,750 - £44,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £76,500 £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 1,503 769 2,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.42% 22.15% 25.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,078 523 1,472
10th Percentile £33,525 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,996 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%

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 20 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 20 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 -9 54 £67,500 +5.88% 17
Bristol -11 28 £57,500 -14.81% 10
Wiltshire -8 10 £75,000 -6.25% 2
Dorset -3 2 £80,000 - 2
Somerset -36 2 £42,500 -32.00% 3
Devon -24 1 £52,500 +10.53%
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 (12.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (9.28%) Apache
3 6 (6.19%) Confluence
4 3 (3.09%) nginx
4 3 (3.09%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.03%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 49 (50.52%) AWS
2 33 (34.02%) Azure
3 27 (27.84%) Serverless
4 22 (22.68%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (22.68%) GitHub
5 15 (15.46%) IaaS
6 14 (14.43%) OpenShift
6 14 (14.43%) PaaS
7 13 (13.40%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (13.40%) Azure Functions
8 12 (12.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 12 (12.37%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (12.37%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (10.31%) Amazon S3
10 9 (9.28%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (8.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (8.25%) GCP
12 6 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.46%) Firewall
2 14 (14.43%) VPN
3 8 (8.25%) TCP/IP
4 7 (7.22%) DNS
5 6 (6.19%) DHCP
6 4 (4.12%) IPv4
6 4 (4.12%) LAN
6 4 (4.12%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (4.12%) WAN
7 3 (3.09%) Network Security
8 2 (2.06%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (2.06%) NGFW
8 2 (2.06%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.06%) VSAN
9 1 (1.03%) SSL
9 1 (1.03%) VLAN
9 1 (1.03%) VoIP
9 1 (1.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.37%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (8.25%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (7.22%) InfluxDB
4 4 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.06%) Big Data
6 1 (1.03%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.03%) MySQL
6 1 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (41.24%) Git
2 29 (29.90%) GitLab
2 29 (29.90%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.28%) Bitbucket
3 9 (9.28%) JIRA
4 8 (8.25%) Cucumber
4 8 (8.25%) Robot Framework
4 8 (8.25%) SonarQube
5 7 (7.22%) Cypress.io
5 7 (7.22%) Selenium
5 7 (7.22%) TestRail
6 5 (5.15%) Subversion
7 3 (3.09%) git-flow
8 2 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.06%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (1.03%) Balsamiq
9 1 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.03%) Postman
9 1 (1.03%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.53%) Finance
3 14 (14.43%) Law
4 12 (12.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (11.34%) Public Sector
6 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (8.25%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.09%) Legal
9 2 (2.06%) Environmental Health
9 2 (2.06%) Military
9 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Marketing
10 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (18.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (17.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (15.46%) Senior
4 12 (12.37%) Analyst
4 12 (12.37%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 11 (11.34%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (10.31%) Test Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) Software Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (6.19%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
10 5 (5.15%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Lead
11 4 (4.12%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Lead DevOps
11 4 (4.12%) Security Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Senior Security Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (68.04%) Terraform
2 19 (19.59%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (9.28%) Apache NiFi
4 7 (7.22%) pytest
4 7 (7.22%) Vue
5 6 (6.19%) Node.js
5 6 (6.19%) Playwright
6 4 (4.12%) boto
7 3 (3.09%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.06%) JSP
8 2 (2.06%) Middleware
8 2 (2.06%) React
8 2 (2.06%) ZeroMQ
9 1 (1.03%) .NET
9 1 (1.03%) CSS
9 1 (1.03%) Django
9 1 (1.03%) Flask
9 1 (1.03%) HTML
9 1 (1.03%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.43%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.40%) Public Cloud
3 12 (12.37%) Podcast
3 12 (12.37%) Security Posture
4 7 (7.22%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
6 5 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.09%) Blog
8 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.06%) Educational Technology
8 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.06%) Social Media
9 1 (1.03%) IoT
9 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.03%) PKI
9 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.03%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 53 (54.64%) Linux
2 35 (36.08%) Windows
3 15 (15.46%) VMS
4 9 (9.28%) CentOS
5 8 (8.25%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.12%) Unix
7 2 (2.06%) CoreOS
7 2 (2.06%) Debian
7 2 (2.06%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.03%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (72.16%) CI/CD
2 66 (68.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 63 (64.95%) DevOps
4 51 (52.58%) Agile
5 35 (36.08%) Containerisation
5 35 (36.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (32.99%) Scrum
7 28 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (23.71%) Collaborative Culture
9 22 (22.68%) Test Automation
10 21 (21.65%) DevSecOps
11 20 (20.62%) Cloud Security
11 20 (20.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (19.59%) Mentoring
13 18 (18.56%) Observability
14 17 (17.53%) Platform Engineering
15 16 (16.49%) Infrastructure Automation
15 16 (16.49%) Root Cause Analysis
15 16 (16.49%) Task Automation
16 15 (15.46%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (74.23%) Python
2 45 (46.39%) PowerShell
3 21 (21.65%) Java
3 21 (21.65%) JavaScript
4 17 (17.53%) Go
5 13 (13.40%) Bicep
5 13 (13.40%) SQL
6 12 (12.37%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (11.34%) Rust
8 10 (10.31%) C++
9 7 (7.22%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.09%) PHP
11 2 (2.06%) Ruby
11 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.03%) C#
12 1 (1.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 58 (59.79%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.68%) DV Cleared
2 22 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 16 (16.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (14.43%) Azure Certification
5 11 (11.34%) AWS Certification
6 10 (10.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (5.15%) CCNA
7 5 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.12%) ISTQB
8 4 (4.12%) OSCP
8 4 (4.12%) RHCE
8 4 (4.12%) RHCSA
9 3 (3.09%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) NCSC
3 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (29.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (28.87%) Docker
3 24 (24.74%) Active Directory
4 16 (16.49%) vSphere
5 13 (13.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (8.25%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (5.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (5.15%) VMware NSX
8 4 (4.12%) Squid
9 1 (1.03%) iptables
9 1 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 55 (56.70%) Ansible
2 41 (42.27%) Kubernetes
3 25 (25.77%) Grafana
4 17 (17.53%) Puppet
5 14 (14.43%) Kibana
5 14 (14.43%) logstash
6 10 (10.31%) Prometheus
7 7 (7.22%) vCenter Server
8 5 (5.15%) Argo
8 5 (5.15%) Packer
8 5 (5.15%) Rancher
8 5 (5.15%) yum
9 4 (4.12%) Progress Chef
9 4 (4.12%) ZABBIX
10 3 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (2.06%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (2.06%) NetBackup
11 2 (2.06%) SCVMM
12 1 (1.03%) Nagios
Vendors
1 33 (34.02%) VMware
2 22 (22.68%) Microsoft
3 18 (18.56%) Red Hat
4 12 (12.37%) ScienceLogic
4 12 (12.37%) Splunk
5 9 (9.28%) Atlassian
6 6 (6.19%) Cisco
7 4 (4.12%) Oracle
8 2 (2.06%) Dell
8 2 (2.06%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.06%) HP
8 2 (2.06%) IBM
8 2 (2.06%) Juniper
8 2 (2.06%) McAfee
8 2 (2.06%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.06%) Veeam
9 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.03%) Google
9 1 (1.03%) New Relic