Bash Job Trends in the North West

Bash Shell
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 166 132
Rank change year-on-year +15 -34 +90
Permanent jobs citing Bash 26 46 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.42% 0.89% 1.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.07% 3.12% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23 30 43
10th Percentile £39,250 £36,625 £39,900
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,188 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% -7.97%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,500 £84,125 £96,539
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,175
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.40% -6.89%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 846 1,476 1,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.66% 28.56% 38.13%
Number of salaries quoted 709 837 1,233
10th Percentile £30,950 £33,900 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Bash job vacancy trend in the North West

Bash
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in the North West over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Bash in the North West

Bash
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Manchester +4 12 £60,000 -12.40% 8
Merseyside - 6 £50,000 - 3
Cumbria -2 4 £64,250 -11.38%
Cheshire -16 2 £37,500 -22.37% 9
Lancashire +7 1 £60,000 +21.77% 13
Bash
England

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) JBoss
1 1 (3.85%) nginx
1 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
1 1 (3.85%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) AWS
2 15 (57.69%) Azure
3 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (19.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (19.23%) GitHub
4 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
4 5 (19.23%) Snowflake
5 4 (15.38%) AWS CodeBuild
5 4 (15.38%) GCP
5 4 (15.38%) Route 53
5 4 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (11.54%) IaaS
6 3 (11.54%) PaaS
6 3 (11.54%) SaaS
7 2 (7.69%) Datadog
7 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
7 2 (7.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) HTTP
2 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (11.54%) Power BI
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 7 (26.92%) GitLab
3 5 (19.23%) CircleCI
4 3 (11.54%) Git
5 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.85%) Ant
6 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (3.85%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (3.85%) git-flow
6 1 (3.85%) JIRA
6 1 (3.85%) Maven
6 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Support Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Support Technician
4 2 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (11.54%) Node.js
2 3 (11.54%) REST
3 2 (7.69%) .NET
3 2 (7.69%) Middleware
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (57.69%) Linux
2 9 (34.62%) Windows
3 4 (15.38%) Debian
3 4 (15.38%) Ubuntu
4 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.69%) Unix
5 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
6 1 (3.85%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) DevOps
2 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 13 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 6 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (19.23%) Agile
6 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (15.38%) Auto-Scaling
7 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (15.38%) Observability
7 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (15.38%) Project Delivery
7 4 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (11.54%) DevSecOps
8 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (11.54%) ITIL
8 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
8 3 (11.54%) Security Operations
8 3 (11.54%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 12 (46.15%) PowerShell
3 6 (23.08%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) Go
5 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.85%) Bicep
6 1 (3.85%) C#
6 1 (3.85%) Groovy
6 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (46.15%) Terraform
2 11 (42.31%) Kubernetes
3 10 (38.46%) Ansible
4 8 (30.77%) Grafana
5 7 (26.92%) Prometheus
6 2 (7.69%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (7.69%) Podman
7 1 (3.85%) Argo
7 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Splunk
3 2 (7.69%) Freshdesk
3 2 (7.69%) MuleSoft
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.69%) VMware
4 1 (3.85%) Dell
4 1 (3.85%) F5
4 1 (3.85%) Mirantis
4 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto