Bash Contracts in Bristol

Bash Shell
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 67 76
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 +18
Contract jobs citing Bash 8 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.18% 1.09% 0.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.28% 4.04% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 5
10th Percentile £435 £463 £401
25th Percentile £438 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% -16.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £506 £538 £675
90th Percentile £518 - £698
South West median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 - -
South West median hourly rate £78.70 £60.00 £84.00
% change year-on-year +31.17% -28.57% +52.65%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 187 297 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 27.54% 27.07% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 153 239
10th Percentile £332 £313 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £575
90th Percentile £616 £650 £675
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -9.52% +2.44% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 100 50
10th Percentile £62.20 £54.98 £53.75
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.91
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.75 - £70.30
90th Percentile £74.50 £77.55 -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +8.33%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in Bristol

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Bash in Bristol

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Bash in Bristol

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Linux DevOps Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Containerisation
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) Task Automation
3 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (50.00%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) GitOps
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Security Hardening
4 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
6 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
6 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (87.50%) Ansible
3 5 (62.50%) Grafana
3 5 (62.50%) Prometheus
3 5 (62.50%) Terraform
4 2 (25.00%) Kibana
4 2 (25.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (25.00%) NetApp