Bash Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Bash Shell
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 26 62
Rank change year-on-year -20 +36 +22
Contract jobs citing Bash 29 37 9
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 4.02% 6.06% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.03% 17.21% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 6
10th Percentile £378 - £631
25th Percentile £393 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £519 £738 -
90th Percentile £550 £773 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £435 £550 £700
% change year-on-year -20.91% -21.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 263 215 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 36.43% 35.19% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 150 172
10th Percentile £375 £359 £363
25th Percentile £413 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £673
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £35.25 £20.00
25th Percentile - £48.75 £20.84
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +324.28% -69.56%
75th Percentile - £102.00 £31.98
90th Percentile - - £49.99
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £52.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +146.36% -69.56%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Leeds

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Leeds over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Leeds

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Bash

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (82.76%) AWS
2 14 (48.28%) Azure
3 13 (44.83%) GCP
4 10 (34.48%) Amazon S3
5 9 (31.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (31.03%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (27.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (24.14%) GitHub
7 7 (24.14%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (20.69%) Amazon ELB
9 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (13.79%) Serverless
10 2 (6.90%) Apigee
10 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (6.90%) Datadog
11 1 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (3.45%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 15 (51.72%) Firewall
2 6 (20.69%) VPN
3 5 (17.24%) DNS
3 5 (17.24%) SSL
3 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
4 3 (10.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (58.62%) Jenkins
2 11 (37.93%) Git
3 8 (27.59%) GitLab
4 5 (17.24%) CircleCI
5 2 (6.90%) JIRA
6 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.45%) Maven
6 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (3.45%) Selenium
6 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.45%) Spinnaker
General
1 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.69%) Banking
3 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (27.59%) Senior
3 7 (24.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) NetBackup Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Veritas Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Backup Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Network Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Node.js
2 2 (6.90%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.45%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.45%) Jest
3 1 (3.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
3 1 (3.45%) Spring
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.45%) Swagger
3 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
1 5 (17.24%) NHS
2 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) DevOps
2 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 15 (51.72%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (34.48%) Containerisation
4 8 (27.59%) Task Automation
5 7 (24.14%) Business Continuity
5 7 (24.14%) Business Strategy
5 7 (24.14%) Data Protection
5 7 (24.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (24.14%) RBAC
5 7 (24.14%) Security Monitoring
6 6 (20.69%) Observability
7 5 (17.24%) Cloud Security
7 5 (17.24%) High Availability
7 5 (17.24%) Incident Response
7 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (13.79%) DevSecOps
8 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
9 3 (10.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (96.55%) Python
2 13 (44.83%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.90%) C#
3 2 (6.90%) Java
3 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) Bicep
4 1 (3.45%) Go
4 1 (3.45%) Groovy
4 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.45%) Perl
4 1 (3.45%) SQL
4 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CISSP
3 1 (3.45%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (62.07%) Docker
2 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (65.52%) Terraform
2 13 (44.83%) Ansible
3 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
4 7 (24.14%) NetBackup
4 7 (24.14%) Oracle RMAN
5 6 (20.69%) Grafana
6 5 (17.24%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.45%) HP Fortify
7 1 (3.45%) Istio
7 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.45%) Puppet
7 1 (3.45%) SCCM
7 1 (3.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Google
1 8 (27.59%) VMware
2 7 (24.14%) CyberArk
2 7 (24.14%) Oracle
2 7 (24.14%) Veritas
3 6 (20.69%) CheckPoint
3 6 (20.69%) F5
3 6 (20.69%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.90%) CloudEndure
4 2 (6.90%) Zscaler
5 1 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.45%) Darktrace
5 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.45%) IBM
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.45%) Splunk