Bash Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Bash Shell
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Bash 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.47% - 2.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.33% - 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £454 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - £325
75th Percentile £511 - £338
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £475 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -19.15% +17.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.74%

All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire

Bash falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 30 23 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 14.15% 13.69% 17.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 25
10th Percentile £90 £404 £318
25th Percentile £425 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £581 -
90th Percentile - £675 £550
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £57.04 -
25th Percentile - £60.55 £51.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £66.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.30% +26.67% -7.89%
75th Percentile - £71.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - £76.40 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +6.15%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bash relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Bash job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Bash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Bash

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Salt
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Vertica