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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 129 54
Rank change year-on-year +6 -75 +60
Permanent jobs citing Bash 55 63 204
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.08% 1.44% 4.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.20% 4.47% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 40 40 118
10th Percentile £46,125 £51,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,156 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +15.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £78,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.11% -6.64%

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 764 1,409 1,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.03% 32.21% 40.36%
Number of salaries quoted 568 777 1,426
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,608 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 26 December 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 26 December 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 +25 25 £55,000 -20.29% 27
Bristol +6 18 £75,000 -4.76% 15
Wiltshire +17 6 £63,750 +13.33% 7
Dorset +5 3 £100,000 +81.82% 7
Devon +4 2 £55,000 -26.67% 8
Cornwall -18 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 1 (1.82%) Apache
1 1 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.82%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 29 (52.73%) AWS
2 22 (40.00%) Azure
3 11 (20.00%) GitHub
4 10 (18.18%) OpenShift
5 9 (16.36%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (10.91%) GCP
7 5 (9.09%) Serverless
8 4 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.45%) Azure AKS
9 3 (5.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (3.64%) Datadog
10 2 (3.64%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.64%) OCI
10 2 (3.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.55%) TCP/IP
2 7 (12.73%) DNS
2 7 (12.73%) Firewall
3 6 (10.91%) LAN
3 6 (10.91%) VPN
3 6 (10.91%) WAN
4 5 (9.09%) DHCP
4 5 (9.09%) Network Security
5 4 (7.27%) VSAN
6 3 (5.45%) BGP
6 3 (5.45%) MPLS
6 3 (5.45%) OSPF
6 3 (5.45%) SD-WAN
6 3 (5.45%) VLAN
7 2 (3.64%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (3.64%) NGFW
8 1 (1.82%) Broadband
8 1 (1.82%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.64%) InfluxDB
1 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.82%) Airbyte
2 1 (1.82%) Big Data
2 1 (1.82%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.82%) CockroachDB
2 1 (1.82%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.82%) MySQL
2 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.82%) Redis
2 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (29.09%) Jenkins
2 9 (16.36%) Git
3 5 (9.09%) GitLab
4 3 (5.45%) Balsamiq
4 3 (5.45%) Subversion
5 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.64%) Burp Suite
5 2 (3.64%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.64%) Metasploit
5 2 (3.64%) Robot Framework
5 2 (3.64%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.64%) TestRail
6 1 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.82%) ESLint
6 1 (1.82%) Gradle
6 1 (1.82%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.82%) Mockito
6 1 (1.82%) TestNG
General
1 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.45%) Finance
3 7 (12.73%) Aerospace
4 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.27%) Marketing
6 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Electronics
6 3 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.45%) Military
6 3 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Avionics
7 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Law
8 1 (1.82%) Automotive
8 1 (1.82%) Billing
8 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (16.36%) Security Engineer
2 8 (14.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Senior
4 6 (10.91%) Administrator
4 6 (10.91%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Tester
6 4 (7.27%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (7.27%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Consultant
7 3 (5.45%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 3 (5.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (5.45%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Network Engineering Manager
7 3 (5.45%) Network Manager
7 3 (5.45%) Penetration Tester
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (5.45%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.64%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.64%) Middleware
2 2 (3.64%) ZeroMQ
3 1 (1.82%) .NET
3 1 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.82%) JWT
3 1 (1.82%) Laravel
3 1 (1.82%) OAuth
3 1 (1.82%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.82%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.82%) REST
3 1 (1.82%) Spring
3 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.82%) Spring MVC
3 1 (1.82%) Spring Security
3 1 (1.82%) Swagger
3 1 (1.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (3.64%) e-Learning
2 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (52.73%) Linux
2 13 (23.64%) Windows
3 7 (12.73%) CentOS
3 7 (12.73%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (7.27%) Unix
5 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (3.64%) CoreOS
7 2 (3.64%) Solaris
8 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.18%) DevOps
2 18 (32.73%) Agile
2 18 (32.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (29.09%) CI/CD
4 15 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (21.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 10 (18.18%) Security Testing
9 9 (16.36%) Cloud Security
9 9 (16.36%) Penetration Testing
9 9 (16.36%) Threat Modelling
10 8 (14.55%) Mentoring
10 8 (14.55%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (12.73%) DevSecOps
11 7 (12.73%) Roadmaps
11 7 (12.73%) Software Engineering
11 7 (12.73%) Test Automation
12 6 (10.91%) Strategic Roadmap
12 6 (10.91%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 48 (87.27%) Python
2 27 (49.09%) PowerShell
3 7 (12.73%) Go
4 6 (10.91%) C#
4 6 (10.91%) Java
5 4 (7.27%) C++
6 3 (5.45%) Bicep
6 3 (5.45%) C
6 3 (5.45%) SQL
6 3 (5.45%) VBScript
7 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.82%) Elixir
8 1 (1.82%) Erlang
8 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (41.82%) Security Cleared
2 16 (29.09%) DV Cleared
3 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
4 11 (20.00%) CREST Certified
5 7 (12.73%) Degree
6 6 (10.91%) CISSP
6 6 (10.91%) SANS
7 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (5.45%) AWS Certification
8 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
8 3 (5.45%) CCNP
8 3 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (5.45%) CITP
8 3 (5.45%) Master's Degree
9 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.45%) QA
4 2 (3.64%) NIST
5 1 (1.82%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.82%) GDPR
5 1 (1.82%) NCSC
5 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (27.27%) Docker
2 7 (12.73%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.27%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.64%) Firmware
6 1 (1.82%) Ceph
6 1 (1.82%) iptables
6 1 (1.82%) Lustre
6 1 (1.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.82%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (38.18%) Ansible
2 19 (34.55%) Kubernetes
2 19 (34.55%) Terraform
3 8 (14.55%) Grafana
4 4 (7.27%) Argo
4 4 (7.27%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.45%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (5.45%) Puppet
5 3 (5.45%) Rancher
5 3 (5.45%) SCVMM
5 3 (5.45%) yum
6 2 (3.64%) Nmap
7 1 (1.82%) Kibana
7 1 (1.82%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.82%) logstash
7 1 (1.82%) Nessus
7 1 (1.82%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) Red Hat
2 5 (9.09%) Cisco
3 4 (7.27%) Fortinet
3 4 (7.27%) Google
3 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.27%) Palo Alto
3 4 (7.27%) Splunk
3 4 (7.27%) VMware
4 3 (5.45%) McAfee
4 3 (5.45%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) Dell
5 1 (1.82%) HP
5 1 (1.82%) Juniper
5 1 (1.82%) Mirantis
5 1 (1.82%) New Relic
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) Veeam