Bash Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Bash Shell
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 23 37
Rank change year-on-year -25 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing Bash 10 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 3.75% 3.00% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.26% 7.14% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile £348 £426 -
25th Percentile £531 £462 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £522 £513
Median % change year-on-year +17.66% +1.90% +57.69%
75th Percentile £622 £582 £519
90th Percentile £652 £617 -
Cheshire median daily rate £538 £693 £513
% change year-on-year -22.38% +35.12% +57.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Programming Languages
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 121 42 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 45.32% 42.00% 48.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 35 48
10th Percentile £313 £306 £439
25th Percentile £358 £356 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £360 £560
Median % change year-on-year +18.06% -35.71% +18.52%
75th Percentile £500 £496 £586
90th Percentile £613 £619 £614
Cheshire median daily rate £431 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -9.37% -6.86% +10.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £86.00 £85.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +0.58% +101.18% +41.67%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Knutsford over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Knutsford

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) Azure
3 7 (70.00%) GCP
4 5 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (30.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (30.00%) GitHub
6 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
7 2 (20.00%) Datadog
7 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) GitLab
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) CircleCI
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Architect
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) DevSecOps
3 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (30.00%) API Integration
6 3 (30.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
6 3 (30.00%) GitOps
6 3 (30.00%) Scrum
6 3 (30.00%) Secrets Management
6 3 (30.00%) SIEM
6 3 (30.00%) Static Application Security Testing
6 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
7 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Bicep
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (40.00%) CISSP
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Degree
5 1 (10.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) Grafana
2 5 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (30.00%) Argo
4 2 (20.00%) Ansible
4 2 (20.00%) Istio
4 2 (20.00%) linkerd
5 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) CyberArk
1 3 (30.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Varonis