Bash Job Trends in the West Midlands

Bash Shell
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 153 240
Rank change year-on-year -13 +87 -41
Permanent jobs citing Bash 27 23 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.34% 0.68% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.74% 2.83% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 20 19 23
10th Percentile £47,950 £48,900 £50,000
25th Percentile £50,438 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -15.38% +5.69%
75th Percentile £66,500 £65,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £69,500 £71,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -10.71%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 987 814 1,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.32% 24.23% 23.61%
Number of salaries quoted 743 639 1,529
10th Percentile £35,100 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Bash job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Bash
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Bash in the West Midlands

Bash
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Birmingham -7 8 £50,000 -25.93% 9
Staffordshire +1 4 £48,000 -6.80% 2
Warwickshire -3 4 £65,000 - 2
Herefordshire -18 3 £60,000 -
Shropshire - 3 £62,500 -
Bilston - 2 £66,500 -
Bash
England

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 3 (11.11%) SAS
2 2 (7.41%) CMS
2 2 (7.41%) nginx
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (7.41%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (66.67%) Azure
2 16 (59.26%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) GitHub
4 3 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.41%) Pulumi
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.70%) Boomi
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) IaaS
6 1 (3.70%) iPaaS
6 1 (3.70%) PaaS
6 1 (3.70%) SaaS
6 1 (3.70%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Firewall
2 4 (14.81%) DNS
3 2 (7.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Pentaho
2 2 (7.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
1 5 (18.52%) JUnit
1 5 (18.52%) Maven
1 5 (18.52%) Mockito
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) Vite
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Lead
2 6 (22.22%) Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior
4 4 (14.81%) Support Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Lead Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) React
1 5 (18.52%) Spring
2 3 (11.11%) REST
2 3 (11.11%) RESTful
3 2 (7.41%) CSS
3 2 (7.41%) HTML
3 2 (7.41%) Laravel
3 2 (7.41%) LEMP Stack
3 2 (7.41%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (7.41%) Vue
3 2 (7.41%) YAML
4 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.70%) JSON
4 1 (3.70%) SOAP
4 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Windows
3 4 (14.81%) Android
3 4 (14.81%) Apple iOS
3 4 (14.81%) Mac OS
4 2 (7.41%) CentOS
4 2 (7.41%) Debian
4 2 (7.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Agile
2 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 9 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 9 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 9 (33.33%) Runbook
4 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) AI
5 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (22.22%) Microservices
5 6 (22.22%) Scrum
5 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (18.52%) High Availability
6 5 (18.52%) LLM
6 5 (18.52%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (18.52%) TDD
6 5 (18.52%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) PowerShell
2 9 (33.33%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) SQL
3 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
4 5 (18.52%) Java
4 5 (18.52%) PL/SQL
5 4 (14.81%) Bicep
6 2 (7.41%) PHP
6 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 12 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) CREST Certified
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (3.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.93%) Terraform
3 4 (14.81%) Ansible
3 4 (14.81%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.41%) Puppet
5 1 (3.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Oracle
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.81%) Informatica
4 3 (11.11%) Cloudera
4 3 (11.11%) Talend
5 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.70%) HubSpot
6 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.70%) SAP
6 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.70%) Splunk