Bash Contracts in Hertfordshire

Bash Shell
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 40 72 53
Rank change year-on-year +32 -19 +6
Contract jobs citing Bash 5 1 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.56% 0.12% 2.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.90% 0.53% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile - £638 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £672
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +0.45% +66.96%
75th Percentile - £713 £676
90th Percentile - - £698
East of England median daily rate £475 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -13.64% +8.91% -7.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £40.91 - -
25th Percentile £47.56 - £71.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 - £73.00
75th Percentile £55.00 - £74.88
90th Percentile - - £75.55
East of England median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year -2.27% -24.66% +84.58%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 102 188 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 31.78% 22.54% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 49 101
10th Percentile £399 £360 £363
25th Percentile £463 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -14.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £634 £506 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £676
East of England median daily rate £479 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 108 84
10th Percentile £49.77 £60.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £60.69 £61.25 £54.69
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £90.00 £77.00
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in Hertfordshire

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Bash in Hertfordshire

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in Hertfordshire

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Bash in Hertfordshire

Bash
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Stevenage - 5 £500 - 17
Bash
East of England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) SpaceWire
2 1 (20.00%) RS-232
General
1 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Aviation
2 1 (20.00%) Avionics
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Electrical Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CAN bus
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Unix
3 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Acquisition
1 3 (60.00%) System Testing
1 3 (60.00%) TestOps
2 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) C
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) Tcl
3 3 (60.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Twitter
2 1 (20.00%) VMware