Bash Job Trends in the North of England

Bash Shell
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 91 310
Rank change year-on-year -119 +219 -164
Permanent jobs citing Bash 128 307 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.64% 3.77% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.87% 11.67% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 86 48 61
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,306 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% -1.93%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,625 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -14.29%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,304 2,630 5,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.61% 32.28% 27.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,494 1,380 4,427
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,593 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Bash job vacancy trend in the North of England

Bash
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Bash in the North of England

Bash
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Yorkshire +6 54 £62,500 -9.09% 11
North West -139 42 £57,500 -4.17% 29
North East -19 32 £47,500 - 3
Bash
England

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (3.91%) Apache
1 5 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.91%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.34%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.34%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 77 (60.16%) AWS
2 68 (53.13%) Azure
3 41 (32.03%) Amazon S3
4 34 (26.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 34 (26.56%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
5 32 (25.00%) GitHub
6 31 (24.22%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (23.44%) Amazon ECS
7 30 (23.44%) AWS Lambda
7 30 (23.44%) AWS Step Functions
7 30 (23.44%) Serverless
8 29 (22.66%) Apigee
9 22 (17.19%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (14.06%) Entra ID
10 18 (14.06%) GCP
11 13 (10.16%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (8.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (8.59%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.41%) Firewall
2 17 (13.28%) TCP/IP
3 16 (12.50%) DNS
4 15 (11.72%) HTTP
5 6 (4.69%) VLAN
5 6 (4.69%) VPN
6 5 (3.91%) DMZ
6 5 (3.91%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (3.91%) STUN
6 5 (3.91%) VoIP
7 3 (2.34%) SSH
8 2 (1.56%) SNMP
9 1 (0.78%) BGP
9 1 (0.78%) DHCP
9 1 (0.78%) IPFIX
9 1 (0.78%) LAN
9 1 (0.78%) OSPF
9 1 (0.78%) VSAN
9 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (27.34%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (3.91%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.34%) MySQL
3 3 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.56%) Big Data
4 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.78%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 58 (45.31%) Jenkins
2 46 (35.94%) GitLab
3 30 (23.44%) Cypress.io
3 30 (23.44%) Maven
4 29 (22.66%) SonarQube
5 8 (6.25%) Git
6 5 (3.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (2.34%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.34%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.34%) Selenium
8 2 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 19 (14.84%) Law
2 16 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 15 (11.72%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.03%) Finance
6 6 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.13%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.34%) Legal
10 2 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.78%) German Language
11 1 (0.78%) Retail
11 1 (0.78%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (25.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (23.44%) Developer
3 28 (21.88%) Java Developer
4 21 (16.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (10.16%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (10.16%) Security Engineer
6 12 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (8.59%) Senior
8 10 (7.81%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 10 (7.81%) Lead
9 9 (7.03%) AWS Developer
10 7 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.47%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 6 (4.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.91%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.91%) Infrastructure Support
12 5 (3.91%) IT Engineer
12 5 (3.91%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.91%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (23.44%) AngularJS
1 30 (23.44%) Jest
1 30 (23.44%) Spring Boot
2 29 (22.66%) Gherkin
3 19 (14.84%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (8.59%) ARM Templates
5 8 (6.25%) .NET
5 8 (6.25%) YAML
6 5 (3.91%) FreeSWITCH
7 4 (3.13%) Node.js
8 3 (2.34%) Drools
8 3 (2.34%) React
8 3 (2.34%) Spring
8 3 (2.34%) XML
9 2 (1.56%) Kafka
9 2 (1.56%) PySpark
10 1 (0.78%) gRPC
10 1 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.94%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.34%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.34%) Replication
5 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.78%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.78%) IoT
6 1 (0.78%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 25 (19.53%) Linux
2 11 (8.59%) Windows
3 7 (5.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.69%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.91%) Debian
6 4 (3.13%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.56%) Solaris
7 2 (1.56%) Unix
8 1 (0.78%) CentOS
8 1 (0.78%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (65.63%) DevOps
2 82 (64.06%) CI/CD
3 67 (52.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (41.41%) Agile
5 38 (29.69%) Containerisation
6 29 (22.66%) SDLC
7 28 (21.88%) Observability
8 27 (21.09%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (20.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 26 (20.31%) Secure Coding
9 26 (20.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 24 (18.75%) ITIL
11 23 (17.97%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 22 (17.19%) DevSecOps
13 21 (16.41%) High Availability
14 19 (14.84%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (14.84%) Mentoring
14 19 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (14.06%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 75 (58.59%) Python
2 49 (38.28%) PowerShell
3 36 (28.13%) Java
4 30 (23.44%) Groovy
4 30 (23.44%) TypeScript
5 19 (14.84%) Go
6 16 (12.50%) SQL
7 10 (7.81%) Bicep
8 9 (7.03%) C#
9 3 (2.34%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 28 (21.88%) AWS Certification
2 22 (17.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (17.19%) ITIL Certification
3 18 (14.06%) Security Cleared
4 17 (13.28%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.47%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.91%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.56%) Degree
10 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.78%) LPIC
10 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.91%) QA
2 3 (2.34%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.34%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (43.75%) Docker
2 23 (17.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.34%) iptables
4 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (49.22%) Terraform
2 31 (24.22%) Kubernetes
3 30 (23.44%) Grafana
4 29 (22.66%) HP Fortify
4 29 (22.66%) Prometheus
5 23 (17.97%) Ansible
6 11 (8.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (7.03%) Argo
8 5 (3.91%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.34%) Istio
9 3 (2.34%) linkerd
9 3 (2.34%) systemd
10 2 (1.56%) Podman
10 2 (1.56%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.56%) Puppet
11 1 (0.78%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.78%) Nagios
11 1 (0.78%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (24.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.47%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.91%) Cisco
3 5 (3.91%) CyberArk
4 3 (2.34%) Google
4 3 (2.34%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (2.34%) VMware
5 2 (1.56%) Mirantis
6 1 (0.78%) Databricks
6 1 (0.78%) McAfee
6 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds