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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 192 170
Rank change year-on-year 0 -22 +87
Permanent jobs citing Bash 29 50 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.37% 0.75% 0.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.54% 2.86% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 23 25 44
10th Percentile £42,950 £31,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,125 £37,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £69,375 £67,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £70,750 £73,875
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,175
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.40% -6.89%

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 1,143 1,747 1,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.65% 26.22% 33.49%
Number of salaries quoted 934 958 1,472
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +9 21 £60,000 -5.51% 13
East Midlands -17 8 £67,750 +69.38% 13
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 4 (13.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (10.34%) IIS
2 3 (10.34%) SAS
3 2 (6.90%) CMS
3 2 (6.90%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (6.90%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) AWS
1 18 (62.07%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) GitHub
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (17.24%) Azure AKS
4 5 (17.24%) Datadog
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (10.34%) npm
6 3 (10.34%) NuGet
6 3 (10.34%) SonarCloud
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.45%) GCP
7 1 (3.45%) Google Workspace
7 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Broadband
1 2 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
1 2 (6.90%) LAN
1 2 (6.90%) VPN
1 2 (6.90%) WAN
1 2 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.34%) Delta Lake
2 3 (10.34%) Pentaho
3 2 (6.90%) MySQL
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.24%) Git
3 4 (13.79%) JUnit
3 4 (13.79%) Maven
3 4 (13.79%) Mockito
4 2 (6.90%) Vite
5 1 (3.45%) GitLab
5 1 (3.45%) Jaeger
General
1 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
1 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Local Government
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (31.03%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior DevOps
3 5 (17.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Java Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Product Owner
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) REST
2 5 (17.24%) React
2 5 (17.24%) YAML
3 4 (13.79%) ARM Templates
4 3 (10.34%) .NET
4 3 (10.34%) Node.js
5 2 (6.90%) .NET Core
5 2 (6.90%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.90%) CSS
5 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (6.90%) GraphQL
5 2 (6.90%) HTML
5 2 (6.90%) Laravel
5 2 (6.90%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (6.90%) SOAP
5 2 (6.90%) Spring
5 2 (6.90%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (6.90%) Vue
6 1 (3.45%) JSON
6 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) DevOps
2 13 (44.83%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
4 8 (27.59%) Containerisation
4 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (27.59%) Task Automation
5 7 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (24.14%) Microservices
6 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
7 5 (17.24%) RBAC
8 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
8 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (13.79%) Roadmaps
8 4 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (13.79%) Runbook
8 4 (13.79%) TDD
8 4 (13.79%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) Python
2 12 (41.38%) PowerShell
3 9 (31.03%) SQL
4 6 (20.69%) Java
4 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
5 5 (17.24%) Bicep
6 4 (13.79%) PL/SQL
7 3 (10.34%) C#
8 2 (6.90%) C
8 2 (6.90%) PHP
8 2 (6.90%) R
8 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
9 1 (3.45%) Go
9 1 (3.45%) Perl
9 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) Degree
4 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.90%) CCNA
5 2 (6.90%) CCNP
5 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.45%) CBAP
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.90%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) Docker
2 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (44.83%) Kubernetes
2 11 (37.93%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) Argo
4 1 (3.45%) Grafana
4 1 (3.45%) Kibana
4 1 (3.45%) Kustomize
4 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle
2 5 (17.24%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (13.79%) SolarWinds
4 3 (10.34%) Cloudera
4 3 (10.34%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (10.34%) Informatica
4 3 (10.34%) Talend
5 2 (6.90%) Cisco
5 2 (6.90%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.90%) Google
5 2 (6.90%) Juniper
6 1 (3.45%) LogRhythm
6 1 (3.45%) Splunk