Bash Contracts in the North West

Bash Shell
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 90 111 83
Rank change year-on-year +21 -28 +17
Contract jobs citing Bash 30 26 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.52% 0.94% 2.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.59% 3.77% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 57
10th Percentile £431 £478 £325
25th Percentile £463 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £617 £650 £688
90th Percentile £733 £750 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +8.70%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 537 689 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.29% 25.01% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 516 700
10th Percentile £359 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £540 £544 £594
90th Percentile £625 £613 £651
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 32 14
10th Percentile £55.75 £41.25 £20.46
25th Percentile £65.25 £44.72 £37.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%
75th Percentile £86.00 £69.53 £51.93
90th Percentile £87.10 £80.15 £62.95
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the North West

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Bash in the North West

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the North West

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the North West

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the North West 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
Manchester +11 16 £500 -9.09% 51
Cheshire +8 10 £485 -5.37% 9
Cumbria - 2 - -
Merseyside - 1 - - 1
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 4 (13.33%) Serverless
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.67%) Apigee
5 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.67%) Slack
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) DNS
1 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) Kerberos
2 2 (6.67%) NAS
2 2 (6.67%) SAN
2 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.33%) DHCP
3 1 (3.33%) SSH
3 1 (3.33%) tcpdump
3 1 (3.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) MongoDB
1 7 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (6.67%) MySQL
3 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (33.33%) GitLab
3 9 (30.00%) Git
4 8 (26.67%) JIRA
5 2 (6.67%) CircleCI
5 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.67%) Cypress.io
5 2 (6.67%) Jasmine
5 2 (6.67%) JUnit
6 1 (3.33%) Maven
6 1 (3.33%) Selenium
6 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Military
4 1 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Senior
2 5 (16.67%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (13.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Automation Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Unix Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Digital Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) Node.js
2 4 (13.33%) cloud-init
2 4 (13.33%) RESTful
3 2 (6.67%) AWS CDK
3 2 (6.67%) GraphQL
3 2 (6.67%) LDAP
3 2 (6.67%) OpenAPI
3 2 (6.67%) Playwright
3 2 (6.67%) Puppeteer
3 2 (6.67%) React
3 2 (6.67%) Spring
3 2 (6.67%) Spring Batch
3 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.67%) Spring Security
3 2 (6.67%) Swagger
4 1 (3.33%) ADO
4 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.33%) Kafka
4 1 (3.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.33%) Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.33%) MISP
4 1 (3.33%) PKI
4 1 (3.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Linux
2 6 (20.00%) CentOS
2 6 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (20.00%) Unix
3 2 (6.67%) AIX
3 2 (6.67%) HPUX
3 2 (6.67%) Solaris
3 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 2 (6.67%) VMS
3 2 (6.67%) Windows
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (56.67%) DevOps
3 13 (43.33%) Configuration Management
4 12 (40.00%) Task Automation
5 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (30.00%) Test Automation
7 8 (26.67%) Agile
8 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
8 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (20.00%) Microservices
10 4 (13.33%) Backlog Refinement
10 4 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
10 4 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
10 4 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
10 4 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
10 4 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
10 4 (13.33%) Sprint Review
10 4 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (83.33%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 7 (23.33%) SQL
4 5 (16.67%) Java
5 4 (13.33%) Go
5 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 3 (10.00%) Perl
7 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) CCNA
4 2 (6.67%) CCNP
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.67%) KVM
3 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 14 (46.67%) Ansible
3 8 (26.67%) Progress Chef
3 8 (26.67%) Terraform
4 6 (20.00%) Grafana
4 6 (20.00%) Puppet
5 5 (16.67%) Packer
6 4 (13.33%) Prometheus
7 3 (10.00%) ZABBIX
8 2 (6.67%) Graylog
9 1 (3.33%) Consul
9 1 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (3.33%) Istio
9 1 (3.33%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (3.33%) linkerd
9 1 (3.33%) Nessus
9 1 (3.33%) OpenVAS
9 1 (3.33%) QRadar
9 1 (3.33%) Rancher
9 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) Fortinet
2 4 (13.33%) Infoblox
2 4 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) PagerDuty
4 2 (6.67%) Splunk
4 2 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (3.33%) ArcSight
5 1 (3.33%) Carbon Black
5 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) LogRhythm
5 1 (3.33%) Okta
5 1 (3.33%) Qualys
5 1 (3.33%) Rapid7