Bash Contract Job Trends in the North East

Bash Shell
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 39 34
Rank change year-on-year +14 -5 +17
Contract jobs citing Bash 25 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 6.31% 1.32% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.81% 4.30% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 3 0
10th Percentile £400 £439 -
25th Percentile £483 £483 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% - -
75th Percentile £575 £661 -
90th Percentile £596 £715 -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £576
% change year-on-year -8.70% -0.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
England median hourly rate £56.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% -13.33% +2.74%

All Programming Languages
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 105 93 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 26.52% 30.79% 16.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 48 26
10th Percentile £390 £321 £266
25th Percentile £400 £353 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £457 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% -1.35% -15.77%
75th Percentile £565 £541 £528
90th Percentile £590 £616 £623
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £40.25 - -
25th Percentile £46.19 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.39% - -19.69%
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £64.63 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Bash job vacancy trend in the North East

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Bash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in the North East over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the North East

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Bash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Bash

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the North East region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Tyne and Wear 0 15 £520 -7.96% 4
Northumberland - 5 £550 -
Bash
England

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (16.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) CMS
3 1 (4.00%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 9 (36.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Azure
4 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) GitHub
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.00%) CloudFront
6 1 (4.00%) Pulumi
6 1 (4.00%) Route 53
6 1 (4.00%) Serverless
6 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) BGP
2 3 (12.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (12.00%) VLAN
3 2 (8.00%) Network Security
3 2 (8.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (32.00%) GitLab
3 4 (16.00%) JIRA
4 3 (12.00%) Git
5 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Developer
3 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) Keycloak
2 3 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (8.00%) Node.js
3 2 (8.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
1 6 (24.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (64.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (40.00%) Validation
4 9 (36.00%) DevOps
4 9 (36.00%) Migration
5 8 (32.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 8 (32.00%) GitOps
6 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (24.00%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (24.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 5 (20.00%) Agile
7 5 (20.00%) ITSM
7 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.00%) Change Control
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (16.00%) Knowledge Management
8 4 (16.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (96.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (28.00%) Perl
4 4 (16.00%) Go
4 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) Groovy
6 1 (4.00%) Java
6 1 (4.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (76.00%) SC Cleared
1 19 (76.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) CCDP
2 3 (12.00%) CCNA
2 3 (12.00%) CCNP
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (80.00%) Terraform
2 17 (68.00%) Ansible
2 17 (68.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (40.00%) Argo
4 9 (36.00%) Istio
5 7 (28.00%) Grafana
6 6 (24.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
8 1 (4.00%) Icinga
8 1 (4.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco
2 3 (12.00%) Citrix
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) VMware
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.00%) Splunk