Bash Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Bash Shell
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 30 20
Rank change year-on-year -11 -10 -1
Contract jobs citing Bash 8 26 45
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 2.50% 6.25% 9.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.26% 17.45% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 37
10th Percentile £569 £525 £485
25th Percentile £589 £584 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £628 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +4.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £634 £694 £713
90th Percentile £663 £718 £775
South West median daily rate £550 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -12.70% +9.57% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £78.00
Median hourly rate - - £84.00
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - £60.00 £84.00
% change year-on-year - -28.57% +56.20%

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 78 149 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 24.38% 35.82% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 80 127
10th Percentile £338 £460 £395
25th Percentile £413 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £676 £700
90th Percentile £750 £701 £775
South West median daily rate £513 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 14
10th Percentile £52.00 - £38.33
25th Percentile - £30.00 £75.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -10.26% +33.69%
75th Percentile £69.50 - -
90th Percentile £72.50 - £88.50
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Bash

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Bash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Bash

Bash
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Cheltenham -1 5 £625 -0.40% 2
Gloucester - 3 £600 - 3
Bash
South West

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Automation Tester
1 3 (37.50%) Software Tester
1 3 (37.50%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Case Management
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (25.00%) SIEM
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) Go
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) DV Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) Kibana
3 2 (25.00%) logstash
3 2 (25.00%) Podman