Bash Job Trends in Manchester

Bash Shell
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Bash skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 162 93
Rank change year-on-year +70 -69 +64
Permanent jobs citing Bash 67 23 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.79% 0.56% 2.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.62% 1.87% 6.96%
Number of salaries quoted 22 9 71
10th Percentile £52,750 £42,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £56,563 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +62.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £78,500
90th Percentile £86,625 £88,000 £89,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +33.33%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 777 1,227 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.35% 30.11% 42.78%
Number of salaries quoted 475 729 1,041
10th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,375 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £83,750
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Bash in Manchester

Bash
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Oldham - 4 £65,000 -
Bury - 4 £60,000 -
Sale - 3 - -
Cheadle - 3 - -
Stockport +12 2 - - 3
Bolton 0 2 - -
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Wigan - 2 - -
Altrincham - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - -
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Rochdale +14 1 - -
Littleborough - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.49%) Apache
1 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.49%) JBoss
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.49%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.88%) AWS
2 9 (13.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (13.43%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (13.43%) Azure
3 8 (11.94%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (11.94%) AWS CodeBuild
3 8 (11.94%) Route 53
3 8 (11.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (5.97%) GCP
5 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.99%) Datadog
6 2 (2.99%) GitHub
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.49%) IaaS
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.49%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.49%) PaaS
7 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (65.67%) VPN
2 43 (64.18%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.49%) Firewall
3 1 (1.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.99%) MySQL
2 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.49%) Big Data
2 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (22.39%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.93%) GitLab
3 8 (11.94%) CircleCI
4 3 (4.48%) JIRA
5 1 (1.49%) Ant
5 1 (1.49%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.49%) Git
5 1 (1.49%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.49%) Maven
5 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (64.18%) Analytical Skills
1 43 (64.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (7.46%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.99%) Finance
3 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (65.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (7.46%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Lead
5 3 (4.48%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (2.99%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) Windows Systems Engineer
7 1 (1.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (1.49%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.49%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (1.49%) Data Engineer
7 1 (1.49%) Linux Scripter
7 1 (1.49%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (1.49%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (80.60%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.99%) Middleware
3 1 (1.49%) Kafka
3 1 (1.49%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 43 (64.18%) Cyberattack
2 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (88.06%) Linux
2 48 (71.64%) Windows
3 43 (64.18%) Android
4 10 (14.93%) Ubuntu
5 9 (13.43%) Debian
6 3 (4.48%) CentOS
7 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.49%) Unix
8 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (91.04%) DevOps
2 50 (74.63%) Platform Engineering
3 46 (68.66%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (67.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 45 (67.16%) Storage Management
5 44 (65.67%) Task Automation
6 43 (64.18%) Line Management
6 43 (64.18%) Mathematics
6 43 (64.18%) Risk Management
7 18 (26.87%) CI/CD
8 17 (25.37%) Containerisation
9 14 (20.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (13.43%) Configuration Management
11 8 (11.94%) Auto-Scaling
11 8 (11.94%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (7.46%) Agile
12 5 (7.46%) Mentoring
13 3 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 2 (2.99%) Decision-Making
14 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 63 (94.03%) Python
2 48 (71.64%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.48%) SQL
4 2 (2.99%) Go
5 1 (1.49%) Groovy
5 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (4.48%) Degree
1 3 (4.48%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
2 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.49%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (1.49%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.49%) GDPR
1 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 60 (89.55%) Docker
2 44 (65.67%) Hyper-V
3 43 (64.18%) VMware NSX
3 43 (64.18%) vSphere
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.49%) Dovecot
5 1 (1.49%) Postfix
5 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (89.55%) Terraform
2 57 (85.07%) Ansible
3 13 (19.40%) Kubernetes
4 11 (16.42%) Grafana
4 11 (16.42%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.49%) Podman
5 1 (1.49%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 51 (76.12%) Splunk
2 43 (64.18%) 3PAR
2 43 (64.18%) Cisco
2 43 (64.18%) Juniper
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.49%) Dell
4 1 (1.49%) Google
4 1 (1.49%) New Relic
4 1 (1.49%) Okta
4 1 (1.49%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.49%) Talend
4 1 (1.49%) VMware