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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 65 56
Rank change year-on-year +22 -9 +9
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Bash 8 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.80% 0.29% 1.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.88% 1.28% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £366 £644 £205
25th Percentile £372 £653 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £688 £450
Median % change year-on-year -43.64% +52.78% -25.00%
75th Percentile £397 £709 £475
90th Percentile £399 £711 £730
East of England median daily rate £475 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -24.00% +38.89% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £42.39 - £69.38
25th Percentile £51.25 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £72.50
75th Percentile £55.00 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.38
East of England median hourly rate £54.50 £57.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -5.22% -20.69% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 164 156 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 36.85% 22.35% 29.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 49 105
10th Percentile £446 £325 £353
25th Percentile £479 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -17.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £675
90th Percentile £613 £640 £733
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 72 73
10th Percentile £48.75 £60.00 £57.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +25.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 £65.63 £87.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Bash

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Bash

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Bash in Hertfordshire

Bash
DemandTrendContract 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stevenage - 5 - - 17
Broxbourne - 1 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) SpaceWire
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) VLAN
3 2 (25.00%) BGP
3 2 (25.00%) OSPF
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP
4 1 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
4 1 (12.50%) NAS
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security
4 1 (12.50%) RS-232
4 1 (12.50%) SAN
4 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Aviation
2 1 (12.50%) Avionics
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Electrical Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Network Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CAN bus
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Unix
3 4 (50.00%) Windows
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Acquisition
1 4 (50.00%) System Testing
1 4 (50.00%) TestOps
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Network Management
2 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) BCP
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) C
2 5 (62.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) Tcl
3 4 (50.00%) VBA
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (12.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) EMC
1 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (25.00%) Huawei
2 1 (12.50%) Aruba
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) Twitter
2 1 (12.50%) Veeam
2 1 (12.50%) VMware