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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 51 56
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +51
Contract jobs citing Bash 13 20 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.03% 2.31% 4.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.99% 10.20% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 49
10th Percentile £477 £431 £421
25th Percentile £480 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £531 £587 £575
90th Percentile £538 £634 £613
Scotland median daily rate £490 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +2.08% -4.00% -1.23%
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 186 196 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 29.02% 22.63% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 136 311
10th Percentile £400 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £414 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -2.06% -0.82%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £538
90th Percentile £550 £616 £588
Scotland median daily rate £472 £453 £488
% change year-on-year +4.19% -7.08% +0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 4
10th Percentile - £33.20 £39.68
25th Percentile £21.00 £38.00 £40.69
Median hourly rate £24.66 £60.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.24% +27.37% +82.69%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.75 £55.94
90th Percentile £66.50 - £59.88
Scotland median hourly rate £31.08 £57.50 £58.27
% change year-on-year -45.95% -1.31% +23.97%

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 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (23.08%) Power Automate
5 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
5 3 (23.08%) Serverless
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (15.38%) CloudFront
6 2 (15.38%) GitHub
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
7 1 (7.69%) PaaS
7 1 (7.69%) Route 53
7 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (30.77%) MongoDB
3 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (23.08%) MariaDB
3 3 (23.08%) MySQL
3 3 (23.08%) Power Query
3 3 (23.08%) Redis
4 2 (15.38%) InfluxDB
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Snyk
3 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
3 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
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
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Mac Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Unix Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) ARM Templates
1 3 (23.08%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (23.08%) JSON
1 3 (23.08%) YAML
2 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
3 1 (7.69%) Loki
3 1 (7.69%) Next.js
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (23.08%) Low-Code
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
1 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Unix
4 1 (7.69%) AIX
4 1 (7.69%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
1 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Kanban
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
5 3 (23.08%) Log Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (15.38%) Microservices
6 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) SDLC
6 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.69%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
3 3 (23.08%) Bicep
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.69%) Go
5 1 (7.69%) Groovy
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
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 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
3 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 7 (53.85%) Terraform
3 5 (38.46%) Grafana
4 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
4 4 (30.77%) Progress Chef
4 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
5 2 (15.38%) HAProxy
6 1 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (7.69%) Kibana
6 1 (7.69%) linkerd
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Apple
3 1 (7.69%) Commvault
3 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.69%) ForgeRock
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) NetApp
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) VMware