Bash Job Trends in Merseyside

Bash Shell
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Bash skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Permanent jobs citing Bash 8 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.39% - 1.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.34% - 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £47,875 - £59,000
25th Percentile £50,313 - £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £62,813 - -
90th Percentile £65,625 - -
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 109 192 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 18.89% 23.53% 25.23%
Number of salaries quoted 60 132 98
10th Percentile £34,850 £31,250 £32,263
25th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £37,828
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £69,625 £70,000 £59,688
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,250 £77,500
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in Merseyside

Bash
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in Merseyside over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Bash in Merseyside

Bash
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 14 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
Liverpool - 3 £56,250 - 4
Southport - 1 - -
Bash
North West

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (12.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) VPN
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) git-flow
1 1 (12.50%) Robot Framework
General
1 6 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Operations Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cyberattack
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
3 5 (62.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Line Management
3 5 (62.50%) Mathematics
3 5 (62.50%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Risk Management
3 5 (62.50%) Storage Management
3 5 (62.50%) Task Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Coaching
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) Microservices
5 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) System Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Test Management
5 1 (12.50%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (75.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
2 5 (62.50%) VMware NSX
2 5 (62.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Argo
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) 3PAR
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
1 5 (62.50%) Juniper
1 5 (62.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft