Bash Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Bash Shell
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 41 29 47
Rank change year-on-year -12 +18 +15
Contract jobs citing Bash 3 15 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.85% 3.51% 0.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.16% 14.02% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% - -
East of England median daily rate £479 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -16.74% +9.52% -6.67%
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 - - -
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £57.50 £73.75
% change year-on-year -26.09% -22.03% +1.03%

All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 95 107 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 26.76% 25.06% 22.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 61 73
10th Percentile £223 £300 £413
25th Percentile £325 £344 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £628 £550 £538
90th Percentile £700 £588 £574
East of England median daily rate £525 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -16.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 17
10th Percentile £26.50 £41.90 £29.60
25th Percentile £30.54 £46.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £47.38 £64.00 £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +22.81%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in Cambridgeshire

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Bash

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Bash

Bash
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 29 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge -13 3 £500 -20.00% 9
Bash
East of England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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