Bash Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Bash Shell
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 21 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Bash 5 14 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 4.76% 8.64% 3.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.63% 19.72% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £558 £545 £506
25th Percentile £561 £575 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £625 £638
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -1.96% -8.93%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £725
90th Percentile - £733 £813
Gloucestershire median daily rate £588 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -6.00% +4.17% -11.11%

All Programming Languages
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 32 71 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 30.48% 43.83% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 41 46
10th Percentile £243 £513 £409
25th Percentile £525 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -2.04% -12.50%
75th Percentile £700 £676 £700
90th Percentile £751 - £763
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -14.16% -2.92% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £67.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +0.74% -13.46% +41.82%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Cheltenham

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (20.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dell
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk