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

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 115 138
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 +48
Contract jobs citing Bash 24 14 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.98% 0.52% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.77% 2.40% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 10
10th Percentile £275 £298 £358
25th Percentile £321 £300 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £393 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.65% -21.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £643
90th Percentile £618 £585 £691
England median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
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 £54.75 £57.50 £71.25
% change year-on-year -4.78% -19.30% +32.49%

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 636 584 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 25.86% 21.84% 25.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 419 577
10th Percentile £268 £312 £309
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £575
90th Percentile £575 £626 £700
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 16
10th Percentile £18.60 £22.50 £18.75
25th Percentile £28.18 £29.34 £23.81
Median hourly rate £33.91 £44.53 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% -13.11% +46.43%
75th Percentile £50.00 £56.88 £58.00
90th Percentile - £58.75 £83.75
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

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 August 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +11 18 £450 +50.00% 12
East Midlands 0 6 £500 -7.41% 10
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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.17%) Tuxedo
3 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
1 8 (33.33%) GitHub
2 7 (29.17%) GCP
2 7 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Batch
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) DNS
2 3 (12.50%) SSH
3 2 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.17%) DSL
4 1 (4.17%) Kerberos
4 1 (4.17%) Network Security
4 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Big Data
3 2 (8.33%) Delta Lake
3 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 13 (54.17%) Jenkins
2 6 (25.00%) GitLab
3 5 (20.83%) Git
3 5 (20.83%) JIRA
4 3 (12.50%) JMeter
4 3 (12.50%) Postman
4 3 (12.50%) REST Assured
4 3 (12.50%) Selenium
4 3 (12.50%) SonarQube
4 3 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (12.50%) TestNG
4 3 (12.50%) Travis CI
5 2 (8.33%) MLflow
5 2 (8.33%) Poetry
5 2 (8.33%) PyCharm
5 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (12.50%) Analyst
1 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
1 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Consultant
2 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Security Analyst
2 2 (8.33%) Security Operations Analyst
2 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Subject Matter Expert
2 2 (8.33%) Tester
3 1 (4.17%) IT Analyst
3 1 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (4.17%) Security Consultant
3 1 (4.17%) Security Specialist
3 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (12.50%) Flask
2 3 (12.50%) NumPy
2 3 (12.50%) Pandas
3 2 (8.33%) Apache Avro
3 2 (8.33%) Keycloak
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) JSON
4 1 (4.17%) LDAP
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth
4 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
4 1 (4.17%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) SAML
4 1 (4.17%) SOAP
4 1 (4.17%) Spring
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.17%) Swagger
4 1 (4.17%) WireMock
4 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) AIX
3 1 (4.17%) Solaris
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 13 (54.17%) DevOps
3 12 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (37.50%) SIEM
5 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (29.17%) Computer Science
6 7 (29.17%) Task Automation
7 6 (25.00%) Agile
8 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (20.83%) Incident Response
9 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (12.50%) Analytics
10 3 (12.50%) API Testing
10 3 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
10 3 (12.50%) Functional Testing
10 3 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
10 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) Python
2 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) Groovy
5 2 (8.33%) Bicep
5 2 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (4.17%) C
6 1 (4.17%) Go
6 1 (4.17%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) Korn
6 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Scala
6 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (29.17%) Degree
3 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) CEH
4 3 (12.50%) CISSP
4 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) ISTQB
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.33%) SLA
3 1 (4.17%) NCSC
3 1 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (62.50%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (41.67%) Terraform
3 9 (37.50%) Ansible
4 4 (16.67%) Argo
4 4 (16.67%) Istio
4 4 (16.67%) Kibana
5 3 (12.50%) Grafana
5 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (8.33%) Puppet
7 1 (4.17%) logstash
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (4.17%) Podman
7 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (4.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Cloudera
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (4.17%) BT
4 1 (4.17%) Commvault
4 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) Trillium
4 1 (4.17%) Veeam
4 1 (4.17%) VMware
4 1 (4.17%) webMethods