Bash Job Trends in the Midlands

Bash Shell
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 186 209
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 +61
Permanent jobs citing Bash 36 47 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.41% 0.79% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.92% 2.92% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27 24 58
10th Percentile £54,800 £31,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £37,500 £47,508
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +20.91% -2.22% -16.67%
75th Percentile £71,000 £66,875 £65,313
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,875 £72,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £64,132
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.15% -7.65%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,231 1,607 2,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.11% 26.96% 30.55%
Number of salaries quoted 976 894 2,262
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £31,775
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,500 £74,144 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bash relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Bash job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Bash
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Bash in the Midlands

Bash
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
West Midlands +14 23 £62,500 +13.64% 17
East Midlands -19 13 £67,750 +69.38% 10
Bash
England

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (16.67%) IIS
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (11.11%) CMS
2 4 (11.11%) nginx
2 4 (11.11%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (11.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (69.44%) AWS
2 22 (61.11%) Azure
3 11 (30.56%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (25.00%) GitHub
5 6 (16.67%) npm
5 6 (16.67%) NuGet
5 6 (16.67%) SonarCloud
6 5 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (13.89%) Azure AKS
6 5 (13.89%) Datadog
6 5 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.56%) GCP
8 2 (5.56%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
9 1 (2.78%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) NoSQL
2 4 (11.11%) MySQL
2 4 (11.11%) Pentaho
2 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.33%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (16.67%) JUnit
2 6 (16.67%) Maven
2 6 (16.67%) Mockito
3 4 (11.11%) Vite
4 1 (2.78%) GitLab
4 1 (2.78%) Jaeger
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Local Government
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (36.11%) Senior
3 7 (19.44%) Developer
3 7 (19.44%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (19.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Developer
6 4 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Product Owner
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) YAML
2 9 (25.00%) REST
3 8 (22.22%) React
4 6 (16.67%) .NET
4 6 (16.67%) Node.js
5 4 (11.11%) .NET Framework
5 4 (11.11%) ARM Templates
5 4 (11.11%) CSS
5 4 (11.11%) HTML
5 4 (11.11%) Laravel
5 4 (11.11%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (11.11%) Vue
6 3 (8.33%) .NET Core
6 3 (8.33%) GraphQL
6 3 (8.33%) SOAP
7 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET
7 2 (5.56%) LDAP
7 2 (5.56%) SAML
7 2 (5.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (13.89%) Management Information System
3 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (5.56%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (55.56%) Linux
2 6 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) Agile
2 18 (50.00%) DevOps
3 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 12 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 12 (33.33%) Microservices
5 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 8 (22.22%) Decision-Making
8 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
8 7 (19.44%) Scrum
8 7 (19.44%) Task Automation
9 6 (16.67%) DevSecOps
9 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (16.67%) Resource Management
9 6 (16.67%) SOA
9 6 (16.67%) TDD
9 6 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) Python
2 17 (47.22%) PowerShell
3 14 (38.89%) SQL
4 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 7 (19.44%) Java
6 6 (16.67%) C#
6 6 (16.67%) PL/SQL
7 5 (13.89%) Bicep
8 4 (11.11%) C
8 4 (11.11%) PHP
8 4 (11.11%) R
9 2 (5.56%) T-SQL
9 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
10 1 (2.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.33%) NIST
3 2 (5.56%) NCSC
4 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (61.11%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (38.89%) Terraform
3 4 (11.11%) Grafana
4 3 (8.33%) Ansible
5 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.78%) Argo
6 1 (2.78%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Oracle
2 6 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (13.89%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.11%) Cloudera
4 4 (11.11%) Informatica
4 4 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 4 (11.11%) Talend
5 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) Splunk