Bash Contracts in Berkshire

Bash Shell
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Bash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bash over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 116 87
Rank change year-on-year +39 -29 +23
Contract jobs citing Bash 16 8 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.36% 0.40% 1.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.82% 2.14% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 19
10th Percentile £367 £429 £369
25th Percentile £440 £510 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £773
90th Percentile - - £784
South East median daily rate £475 £544 £587
% change year-on-year -12.64% -7.33% +6.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £58.19
25th Percentile - - £60.16
Median hourly rate - - £64.38
75th Percentile - - £67.66
90th Percentile - - £69.06
South East median hourly rate - £75.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +27.66% +6.82%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 332 373 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.30% 18.80% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 250 320
10th Percentile £400 £325 £363
25th Percentile £454 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £694
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 14
10th Percentile £39.74 £56.20 £22.99
25th Percentile £53.97 £56.65 £53.59
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68.51 £64.55 £79.19
90th Percentile £73.72 £68.25 £80.72
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in Berkshire

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Bash in Berkshire

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Berkshire

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in Berkshire

Bash
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +33 9 £335 -44.17% 15
Wokingham - 4 - -
Windsor - 2 £575 -
Bash
South East

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (18.75%) AWS
5 2 (12.50%) Azure API Management
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Storage
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Table
5 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 2 (12.50%) IaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (12.50%) PaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
5 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 2 (12.50%) SaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) BIG-IP
1 2 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
1 7 (43.75%) Selenium
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Electronics
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 4 (25.00%) Marketing
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
1 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
1 2 (12.50%) ADO
1 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 2 (12.50%) OAuth
1 2 (12.50%) OpenID
1 2 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Programme Management
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (18.75%) RBAC
5 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) High Availability
6 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
6 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
6 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (81.25%) PowerShell
3 5 (31.25%) SQL
4 4 (25.00%) C#
5 2 (12.50%) Bicep
5 2 (12.50%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Grafana
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) SAP
3 2 (12.50%) F5
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) VMware