Bash Contracts in Edinburgh

Bash Shell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 54 49 56
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +64
Contract jobs citing Bash 13 23 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.08% 2.82% 4.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.47% 11.56% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 55
10th Percentile £479 £435 £435
25th Percentile £485 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £484 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% -5.65% -2.29%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £559
90th Percentile £553 - £604
Scotland median daily rate £525 £516 £520
% change year-on-year +1.69% -0.63% +2.11%
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
% change year-on-year - - +5.97%

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 201 199 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.16% 24.42% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 144 384
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £425 £420 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £482 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £536
90th Percentile £550 £631 £589
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile - £33.20 £42.68
25th Percentile £21.00 £38.00 £48.19
Median hourly rate £23.77 £60.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.71% +15.24% +15.23%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £57.19
90th Percentile £63.00 - £63.38
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Bash in Edinburgh

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 1 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 8 (61.54%) Serverless
3 7 (53.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (46.15%) Amazon S3
4 6 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (38.46%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (38.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 5 (38.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (38.46%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (38.46%) OpenShift
6 4 (30.77%) AWS CodeBuild
6 4 (30.77%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 4 (30.77%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (30.77%) Azure
6 4 (30.77%) PaaS
6 4 (30.77%) Route 53
6 4 (30.77%) SaaS
7 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (15.38%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (23.08%) InfluxDB
2 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (15.38%) MariaDB
3 2 (15.38%) MySQL
3 2 (15.38%) Power Query
3 2 (15.38%) Redis
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) Git
3 3 (23.08%) Artifactory
4 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Unix Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) AWS CDK
2 3 (23.08%) React
3 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
3 2 (15.38%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (15.38%) JSON
3 2 (15.38%) YAML
4 1 (7.69%) Loki
4 1 (7.69%) Next.js
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (23.08%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (15.38%) Low-Code
4 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
1 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) AIX
3 1 (7.69%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Kanban
3 7 (53.85%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
4 6 (46.15%) DevOps
4 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (46.15%) Scrum
5 5 (38.46%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
7 2 (15.38%) Analytics
7 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
7 2 (15.38%) Human-Centred Design
7 2 (15.38%) Inclusive Design
7 2 (15.38%) Log Analytics
7 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 2 (15.38%) Microservices
7 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (15.38%) Software Delivery
8 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
8 1 (7.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Groovy
3 3 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 2 (15.38%) Bicep
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (7.69%) OCP
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) KVM
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Ansible
2 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
3 6 (46.15%) Grafana
4 3 (23.08%) Kibana
4 3 (23.08%) Progress Chef
4 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 3 (23.08%) Terraform
5 2 (15.38%) HAProxy
6 1 (7.69%) linkerd
6 1 (7.69%) Nagios
6 1 (7.69%) Puppet
6 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
1 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) Commvault
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) ForgeRock
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Imperva
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) NetApp
2 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
2 1 (7.69%) VMware