Bash Contracts in Birmingham

Bash Shell
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 38 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Bash 12 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.30% - 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.52% - 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £462 - £565
25th Percentile £591 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.08%
75th Percentile £691 - £688
90th Percentile £696 - £695
West Midlands median daily rate £651 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +30.25% -16.67% +21.21%
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 - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 126 186 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.14% 24.06% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 144 158
10th Percentile £341 £259 £313
25th Percentile £425 £310 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.88% -18.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £650
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £456 £525
% change year-on-year +4.11% -13.10% +14.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £40.20 £21.70
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.50 £24.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +64.74% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £75.63
90th Percentile - - £98.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -52.17% +96.13% +68.59%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in Birmingham

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Bash in Birmingham

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Birmingham

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Akamai
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DSL
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) MSI
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) JMeter
2 2 (16.67%) Postman
2 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) TestNG
2 2 (16.67%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Site Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Tester
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Software Packaging
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) SCADA
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (8.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) SIEM
2 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Software Delivery
2 5 (41.67%) Software Deployment
2 5 (41.67%) Software Distribution
3 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Use Case
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) CEH
3 3 (25.00%) CISSP
4 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
5 1 (8.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Ansible
2 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (33.33%) Terraform
4 3 (25.00%) Kibana
5 1 (8.33%) logstash
5 1 (8.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Tanium
2 1 (8.33%) BT
2 1 (8.33%) F5
2 1 (8.33%) Foundry
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Imperva
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk