Bash Contracts in Cheshire

Bash Shell
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 56 48
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing Bash 10 2 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.23% 0.40% 2.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.52% 1.55% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 12
10th Percentile - - £307
25th Percentile £463 £506 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £326
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% +57.21% -45.21%
75th Percentile £584 £519 £423
90th Percentile £715 - £565
North West median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 133 129 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.62% 25.60% 35.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 103 146
10th Percentile £323 £311 £315
25th Percentile £358 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -2.20% +23.15%
75th Percentile £500 £582 £575
90th Percentile £600 £610 £638
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile - £41.25 £31.21
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% +6.25% +63.27%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £60.60
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in Cheshire

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Bash in Cheshire

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Cheshire

Bash
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford 0 5 £475 -7.32% 5
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
Bash
North West

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) JIRA
3 3 (30.00%) GitLab
3 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Automation Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
1 2 (20.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ADO
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) Configuration Management
3 6 (60.00%) Task Automation
4 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (40.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
5 4 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
5 4 (40.00%) Migration
5 4 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (40.00%) Scrum
5 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (40.00%) Sprint Review
5 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (40.00%) Validation
6 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CCNA
1 2 (20.00%) CCNP
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Ansible
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Fortinet
1 4 (40.00%) Infoblox
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft