Bash Contracts in the Midlands

Bash Shell
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 90 113 145
Rank change year-on-year +23 +32 +34
Contract jobs citing Bash 21 20 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.10% 0.73% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.40% 3.24% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 14
10th Percentile £277 £465 -
25th Percentile £367 £505 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £537 £381
Median % change year-on-year +9.46% +40.79% -22.98%
75th Percentile £689 £597 £566
90th Percentile £698 £625 £685
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.90% -19.85% +3.52%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.92% 22.42% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 447 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the Midlands

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Bash in the Midlands

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the Midlands

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the Midlands

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +17 15 £651 +30.25% 29
East Midlands +8 6 £408 -32.08% 6
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure API Management
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Batch
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.76%) Cloudflare
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DSL
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) MSI
2 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
3 4 (19.05%) GitLab
4 3 (14.29%) Git
4 3 (14.29%) JIRA
4 3 (14.29%) JMeter
4 3 (14.29%) Postman
4 3 (14.29%) REST Assured
4 3 (14.29%) Selenium
4 3 (14.29%) TestNG
4 3 (14.29%) Travis CI
General
1 15 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (14.29%) Mac Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Site Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Tester
3 1 (4.76%) Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Desktop Support
3 1 (4.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Lead
3 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Security Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Senior
3 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Software Packaging
2 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.76%) OAuth
3 1 (4.76%) OpenID
3 1 (4.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) SCADA
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.76%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Linux
3 3 (14.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (33.33%) DevOps
2 7 (33.33%) SIEM
2 7 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 6 (28.57%) Software Deployment
3 6 (28.57%) Software Distribution
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (23.81%) Task Automation
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Incident Response
6 3 (14.29%) API Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Functional Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) Bicep
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) CEH
3 4 (19.05%) CISSP
4 3 (14.29%) ISTQB
5 1 (4.76%) ACSP
5 1 (4.76%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) NCSC
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Ansible
2 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 6 (28.57%) Terraform
4 4 (19.05%) Kibana
5 3 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (4.76%) Grafana
6 1 (4.76%) logstash
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (4.76%) Podman
6 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.76%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Tanium
2 2 (9.52%) Apple
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) BT
3 1 (4.76%) F5
3 1 (4.76%) Foundry
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) Imperva
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) VMware