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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 53 65
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 -5
Contract jobs citing Bash 12 14 15
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.65% 2.19% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.90% 6.48% 7.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 11
10th Percentile £350 £473 £475
25th Percentile £424 £475 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £507 £538 £528
90th Percentile £528 £542 £538
Scotland median daily rate £445 £500 £496
% change year-on-year -11.00% +0.76% -0.75%

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 174 216 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.97% 33.75% 23.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 121 115
10th Percentile £400 £413 £377
25th Percentile £413 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £538
90th Percentile £576 £625 £604
Scotland median daily rate £440 £500 £452
% change year-on-year -12.00% +10.68% -7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +42.86%
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -41.67% - +2.98%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Bash job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Edinburgh

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (16.67%) nginx
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (8.33%) CloudFront
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) Power Query
3 1 (8.33%) Redis
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) GitLab
3 2 (16.67%) Git
4 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (8.33%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Server Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Server Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Server Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Windows Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (8.33%) ADO
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (8.33%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) Middleware
3 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Unix
3 2 (16.67%) AIX
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Solaris
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (33.33%) Change Management
4 4 (33.33%) Observability
4 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 2 (16.67%) Patch Management
6 2 (16.67%) Security Hardening
6 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (25.00%) Go
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Bicep
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (8.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Grafana
2 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (16.67%) linkerd
4 1 (8.33%) Argo
4 1 (8.33%) HAProxy
4 1 (8.33%) Nagios
4 1 (8.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 2 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (16.67%) Qualys
3 2 (16.67%) Rapid7
3 2 (16.67%) Tenable
4 1 (8.33%) Databricks
4 1 (8.33%) IBM
4 1 (8.33%) New Relic
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) VMware