Bash Contracts in the East of England

Bash Shell
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 66 94 81
Rank change year-on-year +28 -13 +21
Contract jobs citing Bash 16 18 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.71% 0.94% 2.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.48% 4.30% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 21
10th Percentile £459 £435 £425
25th Percentile £463 £485 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £505
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +8.91% -7.76%
75th Percentile £497 £619 £672
90th Percentile £513 £638 £676
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £40.91 - £43.88
25th Percentile £47.56 £51.25 £66.81
Median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -24.66% +84.58%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.25 £74.50
90th Percentile - £62.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.90% -19.85% +3.52%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 247 419 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.33% 21.95% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 183 344
10th Percentile £315 £308 £289
25th Percentile £406 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £572 £563 £575
90th Percentile £675 £635 £684
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 145 99
10th Percentile £32.65 £52.50 £48.50
25th Percentile £59.00 £60.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £88.75 £77.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the East of England

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Bash in the East of England

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the East of England

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the East of England

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Bash in the East of England

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire +16 10 £475 -24.00% 40
Hertfordshire +32 5 £500 -25.93% 24
Suffolk - 1 £438 - 2
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (18.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) 5G NR
2 4 (25.00%) SpaceWire
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) RS-232
3 1 (6.25%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Artifactory
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.25%) Aviation
2 1 (6.25%) Avionics
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Electrical Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.25%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) CAN bus
3 1 (6.25%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Unix
3 3 (18.75%) Windows
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Software Testing
2 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (18.75%) Data Acquisition
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) System Testing
3 3 (18.75%) TestOps
3 3 (18.75%) Workload Management
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 2 (12.50%) Functional Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Security Patching
4 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) C
2 4 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) Tcl
3 3 (18.75%) Perl
3 3 (18.75%) VBA
4 1 (6.25%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) HAProxy
4 1 (6.25%) Nagios
4 1 (6.25%) Puppet
4 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Red Hat
2 3 (18.75%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) EMC
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) HP
4 1 (6.25%) NetApp
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) Sun
4 1 (6.25%) Twitter