Bash Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Bash Shell
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Bash skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 79 87
Rank change year-on-year +24 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing Bash 23 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.35% 0.84% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.50% 3.45% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 8
10th Percentile - £460 £451
25th Percentile £418 £483 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £537 £606 £504
90th Percentile £575 £678 £564
South East median daily rate £447 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.60% -9.09% -4.06%

All Programming Languages
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 242 319 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 24.72% 24.24% 27.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 206 202
10th Percentile £400 £391 £388
25th Percentile £466 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -4.55% +4.96%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 21 40
10th Percentile - £27.00 £42.96
25th Percentile - £60.00 £54.38
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +19.47% -2.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £58.50 - £75.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £69.69 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.08% +26.70% -8.33%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in Hampshire

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Hampshire over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Hampshire

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Bash

Bash
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Portsmouth +9 6 £435 -8.42% 2
Fleet - 6 £447 - 1
Farnborough +12 5 £513 - 1
Southampton +5 5 £600 +4.35% 1
Bash
South East

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) GCP
3 6 (26.09%) GitHub
4 5 (21.74%) OpenShift
5 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) TCP/IP
2 5 (21.74%) Firewall
3 3 (13.04%) BGP
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (13.04%) DNS
3 3 (13.04%) MPLS
3 3 (13.04%) Multicast
3 3 (13.04%) OSPF
3 3 (13.04%) VLAN
3 3 (13.04%) VPN
3 3 (13.04%) Wireshark
4 2 (8.70%) DHCP
5 1 (4.35%) NAS
5 1 (4.35%) SAN
5 1 (4.35%) SSH
5 1 (4.35%) SSL
5 1 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (21.74%) Redis
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) Big Data
4 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) Parquet
4 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) MLflow
2 1 (4.35%) Poetry
2 1 (4.35%) PyCharm
2 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Technical Specialist
2 3 (13.04%) Tester
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Linux Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Tester
3 2 (8.70%) Validation Tester
4 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Database Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Database Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Lead
4 1 (4.35%) Project Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Server Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (21.74%) Kafka
2 5 (21.74%) Keycloak
2 5 (21.74%) YAML
3 3 (13.04%) Swagger
4 2 (8.70%) RESTful
5 1 (4.35%) Apache Avro
5 1 (4.35%) Flask
5 1 (4.35%) NumPy
5 1 (4.35%) Pandas
5 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Clustering
1 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
1 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Linux
2 7 (30.43%) Windows
3 4 (17.39%) Mac OS
3 4 (17.39%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.70%) CentOS
4 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
4 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
2 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (34.78%) DevOps
3 8 (34.78%) Observability
4 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (26.09%) Agile
6 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (21.74%) Immutable Infrastructure
6 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Scrum
6 5 (21.74%) Task Automation
6 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
7 4 (17.39%) Business Strategy
7 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
7 4 (17.39%) IT Strategy
7 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
7 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (17.39%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) Go
4 3 (13.04%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) Perl
6 1 (4.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (8.70%) CCIE
4 2 (8.70%) CCNP
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.70%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.70%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
4 2 (8.70%) RHCE
4 2 (8.70%) RHCSA
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.35%) OCP
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) GDPR
1 5 (21.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (21.74%) Docker
3 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
4 2 (8.70%) KVM
5 1 (4.35%) Firmware
5 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) Ansible
2 10 (43.48%) Terraform
3 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
4 5 (21.74%) Grafana
4 5 (21.74%) Packer
4 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (17.39%) SCCM
6 3 (13.04%) Iperf
6 3 (13.04%) Nmap
6 3 (13.04%) Progress Chef
6 3 (13.04%) Proxmox
6 3 (13.04%) Puppet
6 3 (13.04%) Rundeck
6 3 (13.04%) Salt
7 1 (4.35%) Argo
7 1 (4.35%) Istio
7 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
7 1 (4.35%) vRealize
7 1 (4.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) VMware
2 8 (34.78%) Red Hat
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 5 (21.74%) Splunk
4 4 (17.39%) Citrix
5 3 (13.04%) CheckPoint
5 3 (13.04%) Cisco
5 3 (13.04%) Fortinet
5 3 (13.04%) Palo Alto
5 3 (13.04%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.35%) Cloudera
6 1 (4.35%) EMC
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle