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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 16 27
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing Bash 3 14 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.62% 7.37% 1.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.95% 19.44% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £588 -
% change year-on-year -14.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.33% -
75th Percentile - £63.75 £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -23.33% -

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 76 72 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 41.08% 37.89% 40.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 38 56
10th Percentile £230 £300 £413
25th Percentile £379 £340 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -11.58% -5.94%
75th Percentile £613 £519 £550
90th Percentile £690 £595 £564
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - £44.10
25th Percentile £53.55 £51.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £54.70 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -4.17% +5.26%
75th Percentile £55.85 £63.75 £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £37.50 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -31.82% +4.76% +16.67%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash 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
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 and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Workload Management
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Security Patching
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat