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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 71 86
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 -2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Bash 15 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.48% 1.08% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.62% 3.96% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile £361 £406 £503
25th Percentile £400 £547 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +5.93%
75th Percentile £650 £687 £688
90th Percentile - £710 £720
North West median daily rate £480 £525 £606
% change year-on-year -8.57% -13.40% +1.46%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 267 328 509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 26.36% 27.13% 29.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 229 405
10th Percentile £318 £355 £325
25th Percentile £395 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £594
90th Percentile £613 £640 £675
North West median daily rate £425 £451 £500
% change year-on-year -5.66% -9.90% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 4
10th Percentile £45.16 - £39.38
25th Percentile £68.13 £52.50 £53.44
Median hourly rate £74.50 £67.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.19% +5.10% -8.93%
75th Percentile £87.69 £74.50 £68.13
90th Percentile £91.88 £100.00 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +27.27% +19.10% -8.01%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Bash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Manchester

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Bash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Bash

Bash
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheadle - 2 £650 - 1
Oldham - 2 - - 4
Altrincham - 1 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) Apigee
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Datadog
4 2 (13.33%) Pulumi
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) tcpdump
1 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (40.00%) GitLab
2 6 (40.00%) JIRA
3 3 (20.00%) CircleCI
3 3 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (20.00%) Git
3 3 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (13.33%) Mockito
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Games
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) Senior
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Junior
6 1 (6.67%) Junior Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Security Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Node.js
2 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (20.00%) Playwright
2 3 (20.00%) Puppeteer
2 3 (20.00%) React
2 3 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (13.33%) AWS CDK
3 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (13.33%) JAX-RS
3 2 (13.33%) Kafka
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Batch
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Security
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Amplify
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.67%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 11 (73.33%) Software Engineering
2 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (60.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (40.00%) DevOps
4 6 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 6 (40.00%) Task Automation
5 5 (33.33%) Microservices
5 5 (33.33%) Observability
6 4 (26.67%) Agile
7 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
7 3 (20.00%) Kanban
7 3 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (20.00%) Scrum
7 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (20.00%) UML
7 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
7 3 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) Java
3 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 4 (26.67%) SQL
5 3 (20.00%) C++
6 2 (13.33%) Go
6 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 1 (6.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (33.33%) Grafana
2 5 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 5 (33.33%) Terraform
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (20.00%) Podman
3 3 (20.00%) SELinux
4 1 (6.67%) Nessus
4 1 (6.67%) OpenVAS
4 1 (6.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Google
1 3 (20.00%) PagerDuty
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) ArcSight
3 1 (6.67%) Carbon Black
3 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) LogRhythm
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Qualys
3 1 (6.67%) Rapid7
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk