Bash Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Bash Shell
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 70 75
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +27
Contract jobs citing Bash 17 15 35
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.06% 1.32% 2.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.42% 5.38% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 15
10th Percentile - £380 £348
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £622 - £588
90th Percentile £625 £675 £600
England median daily rate £525 £575 £576
% change year-on-year -8.70% -0.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile - - £64.25
25th Percentile £41.25 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £43.75 - £77.50
90th Percentile £50.35 - -
England median hourly rate £56.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% -13.33% +2.74%

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 385 279 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 24.06% 24.52% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 135 238
10th Percentile £328 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £340 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £617 £550 £560
90th Percentile £684 £600 £675
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 104
10th Percentile £41.25 £49.50 -
25th Percentile £61.50 £61.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -5.80% +6.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £84.36
90th Percentile £75.00 £95.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Bash job vacancy trend in the East of England

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Bash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Bash

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 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the East of England

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Bash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Bash

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 19 December 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 -9 8 £413 -19.51% 14
Hertfordshire -16 8 £563 -6.25% 14
Bedfordshire - 1 £483 - 12
Bash
England

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (29.41%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) GCP
3 5 (29.41%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) OCI
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
2 5 (29.41%) SpaceWire
3 4 (23.53%) RS-232
4 2 (11.76%) Firewall
5 1 (5.88%) DHCP
5 1 (5.88%) DNS
5 1 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (5.88%) InfiniBand
5 1 (5.88%) iSCSI
5 1 (5.88%) NAS
5 1 (5.88%) SAN
5 1 (5.88%) VLAN
5 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
General
1 4 (23.53%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Electrical Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Grid Computing
1 5 (29.41%) Private Cloud
1 5 (29.41%) Public Cloud
2 4 (23.53%) CAN bus
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Windows
3 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.88%) CentOS
4 1 (5.88%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (5.88%) Unix
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Validation
4 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity Planning
5 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security
5 1 (5.88%) Containerisation
5 1 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps
5 1 (5.88%) Incident Response
5 1 (5.88%) Log Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) SOAR
5 1 (5.88%) TestOps
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) Java
3 5 (29.41%) C
3 5 (29.41%) Tcl
3 5 (29.41%) VBA
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 2 (11.76%) C++
5 2 (11.76%) Perl
5 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.76%) Ruby
5 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.88%) Bicep
6 1 (5.88%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
1 7 (41.18%) GPFS
1 7 (41.18%) Lustre
1 7 (41.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Ansible
2 4 (23.53%) Puppet
2 4 (23.53%) Salt
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (5.88%) Consul
3 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) IBM
1 2 (11.76%) VMware
2 1 (5.88%) Aruba
2 1 (5.88%) Citrix
2 1 (5.88%) Cribl.io
2 1 (5.88%) HP
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Veeam
2 1 (5.88%) Vertica