Bash Contracts in Manchester

Bash Shell
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Bash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bash over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 74 69
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +16
Contract jobs citing Bash 16 22 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.73% 1.45% 2.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.28% 4.89% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 34
10th Percentile £400 £460 £521
25th Percentile £438 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £697
90th Percentile £750 £750 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -

All Programming Languages
Manchester

Bash falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 303 450 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 32.72% 29.66% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 355 442
10th Percentile £375 £343 £339
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £600
90th Percentile £622 £620 £675
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 5
10th Percentile £68.38 - £39.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £52.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +55.56% +192.87%
75th Percentile £84.69 £81.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.13 £82.90 £59.10
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in Manchester

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Bash in Manchester

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Manchester

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in Manchester

Bash
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Altrincham - 1 - - 3
Bash
North West

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 2 (12.50%) Apigee
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (12.50%) Azure
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 2 (12.50%) Slack
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) Kerberos
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.25%) tcpdump
3 1 (6.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) MongoDB
2 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (12.50%) MySQL
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Jenkins
2 7 (43.75%) GitLab
3 4 (25.00%) JIRA
4 3 (18.75%) Git
5 2 (12.50%) CircleCI
5 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
5 2 (12.50%) Jasmine
5 2 (12.50%) JUnit
6 1 (6.25%) Maven
General
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Military
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Digital Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Security Specialist
6 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Node.js
2 4 (25.00%) cloud-init
2 4 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 2 (12.50%) LDAP
3 2 (12.50%) OpenAPI
3 2 (12.50%) Playwright
3 2 (12.50%) Puppeteer
3 2 (12.50%) React
3 2 (12.50%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Batch
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Security
3 2 (12.50%) Swagger
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.25%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) Keycloak
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.25%) MISP
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 6 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (25.00%) CentOS
3 4 (25.00%) Unix
4 2 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 10 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (37.50%) Microservices
5 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (18.75%) Observability
8 2 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
8 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
8 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
8 2 (12.50%) OWASP
8 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (12.50%) TDD
8 2 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) Go
3 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (43.75%) Terraform
3 6 (37.50%) Grafana
4 5 (31.25%) Packer
5 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (18.75%) Ansible
6 3 (18.75%) Puppet
6 3 (18.75%) ZABBIX
7 2 (12.50%) Graylog
8 1 (6.25%) Consul
8 1 (6.25%) Istio
8 1 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (6.25%) linkerd
8 1 (6.25%) Nessus
8 1 (6.25%) OpenVAS
8 1 (6.25%) QRadar
8 1 (6.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Google
1 2 (12.50%) PagerDuty
1 2 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) ArcSight
2 1 (6.25%) Carbon Black
2 1 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) LogRhythm
2 1 (6.25%) Okta
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Qualys
2 1 (6.25%) Rapid7