Bash Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Bash Shell
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 18 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Bash 8 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 3.79% 5.75% 2.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.89% 14.49% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile £406 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -19.05% +23.53%
75th Percentile £620 £656 £538
90th Percentile £625 £788 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £413 £425 £525
% change year-on-year -2.94% -19.05% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.33% +341.18%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -23.33% +341.18%

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 90 69 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 42.65% 39.66% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 42 41
10th Percentile £335 £300 £413
25th Percentile £400 £340 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £423 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -15.50% -
75th Percentile £580 £519 £560
90th Percentile £633 £578 £590
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 11
10th Percentile £32.75 £51.38 £15.52
25th Percentile £35.00 £51.56 £53.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £56.25 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -14.12% +87.14%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.19 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.41 £63.13 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% -13.04% +47.44%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Cambridge over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Cambridge

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Bash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Bash

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 5 (62.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
1 6 (75.00%) GCP
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) InfiniBand
General
1 2 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Grid Computing
1 5 (62.50%) Private Cloud
1 5 (62.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
2 2 (25.00%) Ruby
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) GPFS
1 7 (87.50%) Lustre
1 7 (87.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 6 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Puppet
2 3 (37.50%) Salt
3 1 (12.50%) Consul
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform