Bash Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Bash Shell
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 60 68
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 +15
Contract jobs citing Bash 21 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.11% 0.97% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.86% 3.63% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £390 £418 -
25th Percentile £419 £432 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £455 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.51% +13.63% -28.09%
75th Percentile £622 £477 £469
90th Percentile £664 £491 £510
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £409 £648
% change year-on-year +34.47% -36.83% +19.91%

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 177 193 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.18% 26.69% 22.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 118 136
10th Percentile £316 £321 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £617 £638
90th Percentile £621 £713 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -13.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +207.69% -
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% +89.19% -58.89%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Birmingham over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Birmingham

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 6 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) GitHub
3 5 (23.81%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (19.05%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (14.29%) Azure
6 2 (9.52%) GCP
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.76%) IaaS
7 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.76%) PaaS
7 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) DNS
1 6 (28.57%) Firewall
1 6 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 5 (23.81%) SSL
2 5 (23.81%) VPN
3 3 (14.29%) Network Security
4 2 (9.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.52%) Big Data
3 2 (9.52%) Delta Lake
3 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
3 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.52%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 7 (33.33%) Git
3 4 (19.05%) GitLab
4 3 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 3 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (9.52%) JIRA
5 2 (9.52%) MLflow
5 2 (9.52%) Poetry
5 2 (9.52%) PyCharm
5 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (4.76%) Jaeger
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Site Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Splunk Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes Specialist
4 3 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
4 3 (14.29%) Splunk Specialist
5 2 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (14.29%) Flask
2 3 (14.29%) NumPy
2 3 (14.29%) Pandas
3 2 (9.52%) Apache Avro
4 1 (4.76%) .NET
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Linux
2 6 (28.57%) Unix
3 2 (9.52%) Windows
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) Containerisation
3 10 (47.62%) Migration
3 10 (47.62%) Observability
4 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 9 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 9 (42.86%) Incident Response
4 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 6 (28.57%) Change Management
6 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
6 6 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
6 6 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
6 6 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
6 6 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
6 6 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (28.57%) Validation
7 5 (23.81%) DevSecOps
7 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) Bicep
3 3 (14.29%) Groovy
3 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (28.57%) Degree
3 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (71.43%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 13 (61.90%) Ansible
3 9 (42.86%) Kibana
3 9 (42.86%) Terraform
4 6 (28.57%) Puppet
5 3 (14.29%) logstash
6 2 (9.52%) Argo
6 2 (9.52%) Grafana
6 2 (9.52%) Istio
6 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Splunk
2 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
2 4 (19.05%) F5
2 4 (19.05%) Palo Alto
3 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (9.52%) Cloudera
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.76%) Commvault
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) Veeam
5 1 (4.76%) VMware