Bash Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Bash Shell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Bash skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 65 60
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 +26
Contract jobs citing Bash 14 15 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.19% 1.84% 3.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.48% 7.65% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 33
10th Percentile £473 £475 £405
25th Percentile £475 £486 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.70%
75th Percentile £538 £528 £542
90th Percentile £542 £538 £585
Scotland median daily rate £500 £496 £500
% change year-on-year +0.76% -0.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 216 196 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 33.75% 23.99% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 115 245
10th Percentile £413 £377 £388
25th Percentile £456 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% -1.54%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £625 £604 £575
Scotland median daily rate £500 £452 £488
% change year-on-year +10.68% -7.33% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £55.63 - £39.90
25th Percentile £58.44 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £75.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +42.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.88 - £53.75
90th Percentile £70.25 - £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £58.27
% change year-on-year - +2.98% +12.77%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in Edinburgh

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Bash

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (14.29%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) OpenShift
2 6 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
3 5 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (28.57%) Azure
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) GitHub
5 3 (21.43%) Serverless
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (14.29%) CloudFront
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) MongoDB
2 4 (28.57%) InfluxDB
3 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
5 1 (7.14%) MySQL
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
5 1 (7.14%) Power Query
5 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Git
3 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) Snyk
4 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Site Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Mac Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Mac Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) Loki
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (42.86%) Unix
4 3 (21.43%) Windows
5 2 (14.29%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (7.14%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 11 (78.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (71.43%) Agile
4 9 (64.29%) DevOps
5 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (35.71%) Network Load Balancing
5 5 (35.71%) Observability
5 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Kanban
7 3 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (21.43%) Migration
7 3 (21.43%) Scrum
8 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
8 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Perl
3 4 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
5 2 (14.29%) Go
5 2 (14.29%) SQL
6 1 (7.14%) Bicep
6 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (7.14%) Groovy
6 1 (7.14%) Java
6 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) OCP
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (35.71%) KVM
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Ansible
2 10 (71.43%) Terraform
3 9 (64.29%) Grafana
4 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
4 8 (57.14%) Prometheus
5 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (28.57%) HAProxy
7 3 (21.43%) Nagios
8 2 (14.29%) Fluentd
8 2 (14.29%) linkerd
9 1 (7.14%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (7.14%) Kibana
9 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
1 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
2 4 (28.57%) Commvault
3 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 2 (14.29%) ForgeRock
4 1 (7.14%) Apple
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) NetApp
4 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.14%) Ping Identity