Bash Jobs in the West Midlands

Bash Shell
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Bash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Bash over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 220 209
Rank change year-on-year +46 -11 +12
Permanent jobs citing Bash 23 35 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.55% 0.44% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.51% 1.78% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16 30 20
10th Percentile - - £47,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -9.43% +1.92%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £71,875 £75,000 £82,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% -

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 916 1,970 2,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.09% 25.02% 35.96%
Number of salaries quoted 586 1,673 1,182
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,772 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the West Midlands

Bash
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bash in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Bash in the West Midlands

Bash
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bash in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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
Solihull - 11 £55,000 -
Birmingham +40 3 £67,500 -1.82% 29
Warwickshire +3 3 - -
Shropshire +12 2 - - 48
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) Pulumi
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.35%) IaaS
4 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) Firewall
1 10 (43.48%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.70%) Broadband
3 2 (8.70%) DHCP
3 2 (8.70%) DNS
3 2 (8.70%) VPN
4 1 (4.35%) 5G
4 1 (4.35%) Bluetooth
4 1 (4.35%) LTE
4 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
1 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) DB2
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Cucumber
1 2 (8.70%) Jaeger
1 2 (8.70%) JUnit
1 2 (8.70%) Mockito
1 2 (8.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 10 (43.48%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Law
5 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Electronics
6 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Lead
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Site Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Team Leader
4 2 (8.70%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) SIEM Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.70%) Loki
2 2 (8.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (8.70%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) Management Information System
2 10 (43.48%) Private Cloud
3 3 (13.04%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) IoT
4 1 (4.35%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Windows
2 10 (43.48%) Linux
3 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.70%) Unix
5 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (56.52%) SIEM
3 12 (52.17%) ITIL
3 12 (52.17%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
4 11 (47.83%) Security Operations
5 10 (43.48%) Change Control
5 10 (43.48%) Commercial Awareness
5 10 (43.48%) Information Security
5 10 (43.48%) IT Governance
5 10 (43.48%) Kalman Filter
5 10 (43.48%) Security Monitoring
6 7 (30.43%) Mentoring
7 6 (26.09%) Agile
8 5 (21.74%) DevOps
8 5 (21.74%) High Availability
9 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (17.39%) Resource Management
9 4 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (17.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) Python
2 14 (60.87%) PowerShell
3 10 (43.48%) C#
4 4 (17.39%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 3 (13.04%) Perl
6 2 (8.70%) Go
6 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
6 2 (8.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (60.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (43.48%) COBIT
3 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (8.70%) NIST
3 2 (8.70%) QA
4 1 (4.35%) GDPR
4 1 (4.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Ansible
2 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
2 4 (17.39%) Terraform
3 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.04%) Puppet
4 2 (8.70%) Argo
4 2 (8.70%) Grafana
4 2 (8.70%) Kustomize
4 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
4 2 (8.70%) SCOM
5 1 (4.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) Splunk
3 2 (8.70%) ArcSight
3 2 (8.70%) Google
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) IBM
4 1 (4.35%) LogRhythm
4 1 (4.35%) VMware