Bash Contract Job Trends in the North West

Bash Shell
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 94 119
Rank change year-on-year +6 +25 -40
Contract jobs citing Bash 54 29 20
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.18% 1.34% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.14% 5.85% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 16 13
10th Percentile £353 £406 £503
25th Percentile £400 £422 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +1.30% +0.70%
75th Percentile £591 £741 £650
90th Percentile £686 £750 £735
England median daily rate £525 £575 £576
% change year-on-year -8.70% -0.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% - -
England median hourly rate £56.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% -13.33% +2.74%

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 663 496 700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.72% 22.89% 26.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 317 521
10th Percentile £313 £356 £325
25th Percentile £360 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £487
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -7.60% -4.98%
75th Percentile £520 £540 £575
90th Percentile £602 £611 £650
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 15 43
10th Percentile £41.46 - £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £64.63 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% +40.75% +20.26%
75th Percentile £74.26 £81.75 £50.88
90th Percentile £75.71 £86.90 £72.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bash relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Bash job vacancy trend in the North West

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Bash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in the North West over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the North West

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Bash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Bash

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 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -2 26 £588 +17.62% 8
Lancashire 0 13 £550 +4.76% 4
Cheshire -16 8 £361 -48.39% 9
Cumbria +7 4 £403 - 1
Bash
England

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (9.26%) OpenStack
1 5 (9.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (1.85%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 24 (44.44%) AWS
2 16 (29.63%) Azure
3 14 (25.93%) GCP
4 9 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (14.81%) Datadog
5 8 (14.81%) Entra ID
6 7 (12.96%) GitHub
6 7 (12.96%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (7.41%) Pulumi
8 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.56%) Serverless
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.70%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (38.89%) Firewall
2 8 (14.81%) BGP
2 8 (14.81%) Software-Defined Networking
2 8 (14.81%) VLAN
3 5 (9.26%) Network Security
3 5 (9.26%) TCP/IP
3 5 (9.26%) VPN
3 5 (9.26%) WebEx
4 4 (7.41%) SNMP
5 2 (3.70%) SSL
6 1 (1.85%) DNS
6 1 (1.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) MySQL
1 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 11 (20.37%) GitLab
3 7 (12.96%) Git
4 3 (5.56%) JIRA
4 3 (5.56%) Mockito
4 3 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (3.70%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.85%) Spinnaker
General
1 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Legal
4 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.26%) Banking
6 4 (7.41%) Games
7 3 (5.56%) Finance
8 1 (1.85%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (38.89%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) Network Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) Software Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Senior
3 6 (11.11%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Developer
5 4 (7.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Lead
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Developer
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.96%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (11.11%) Node.js
3 5 (9.26%) XMPP
4 3 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (5.56%) JAX-RS
4 3 (5.56%) Kafka
4 3 (5.56%) REST
4 3 (5.56%) RESTful
4 3 (5.56%) Spring
4 3 (5.56%) Spring Batch
4 3 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.56%) Spring Security
5 2 (3.70%) NestJS
6 1 (1.85%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.07%) Product Ownership
2 8 (14.81%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.85%) PKI
4 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (70.37%) Linux
2 23 (42.59%) Windows
3 15 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (22.22%) Windows Server
5 3 (5.56%) Mac OS
5 3 (5.56%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.85%) Solaris
6 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (57.41%) Containerisation
2 28 (51.85%) CI/CD
3 24 (44.44%) DevOps
4 23 (42.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (38.89%) Platform Engineering
6 17 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (22.22%) Change Control
7 12 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
7 12 (22.22%) ITSM
7 12 (22.22%) Observability
8 10 (18.52%) Agile
8 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (18.52%) DevSecOps
8 10 (18.52%) Service Management
8 10 (18.52%) Software Engineering
9 9 (16.67%) High Availability
9 9 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
10 8 (14.81%) Performance Monitoring
10 8 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (81.48%) Python
2 26 (48.15%) PowerShell
3 14 (25.93%) Perl
4 7 (12.96%) Java
5 4 (7.41%) Go
5 4 (7.41%) SQL
6 3 (5.56%) C++
7 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.85%) Bicep
8 1 (1.85%) C#
8 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 22 (40.74%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.96%) CCDP
3 7 (12.96%) CCNA
3 7 (12.96%) CCNP
3 7 (12.96%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (9.26%) Degree
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) GDPR
2 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 29 (53.70%) Docker
2 19 (35.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (20.37%) Active Directory
4 7 (12.96%) vSphere
5 1 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (51.85%) Kubernetes
2 24 (44.44%) Terraform
3 10 (18.52%) Ansible
4 8 (14.81%) Grafana
4 8 (14.81%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (7.41%) SCCM
6 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (5.56%) Podman
6 3 (5.56%) SELinux
7 2 (3.70%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.85%) Istio
8 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.85%) Puppet
8 1 (1.85%) QRadar
8 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.85%) SCOM
8 1 (1.85%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (42.59%) VMware
2 15 (27.78%) Red Hat
3 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 11 (20.37%) Cisco
4 11 (20.37%) Citrix
5 8 (14.81%) Palo Alto
6 6 (11.11%) F5
7 4 (7.41%) Juniper
8 3 (5.56%) Google
9 2 (3.70%) CheckPoint
9 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
9 2 (3.70%) Oracle
9 2 (3.70%) Ping Identity
9 2 (3.70%) Splunk
10 1 (1.85%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.85%) ArcSight
10 1 (1.85%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.85%) Veeam
10 1 (1.85%) Zscaler