Bash Contracts in the North of England

Bash Shell
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 80 123 118
Rank change year-on-year +43 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Bash 90 63 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.73% 1.32% 1.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.67% 5.19% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 50 82
10th Percentile £381 £424 £325
25th Percentile £463 £445 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +3.45%
75th Percentile £715 £615 £688
90th Percentile £750 £654 £723
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +8.70%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 931 1,213 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.25% 25.44% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 869 1,256
10th Percentile £356 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £680
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 47 27
10th Percentile £34.68 £38.08 £27.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £45.88 £38.15
Median hourly rate £76.25 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.53% - +19.56%
75th Percentile £94.67 £66.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £72.50 £70.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the North of England

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Bash in the North of England

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the North of England

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the North of England

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
Yorkshire +25 55 £550 +11.11% 16
North West +21 30 £500 -9.09% 62
North East - 5 £558 - 7
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 16 (17.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (12.22%) Confluence
3 7 (7.78%) nginx
3 7 (7.78%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.56%) AWS
2 22 (24.44%) AWS CloudFormation
3 15 (16.67%) Azure
4 13 (14.44%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (13.33%) Entra ID
6 10 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
7 9 (10.00%) GCP
7 9 (10.00%) Slack
7 9 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (7.78%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (6.67%) GitHub
10 5 (5.56%) Serverless
11 3 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.22%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.22%) Apigee
12 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 30 (33.33%) DNS
2 11 (12.22%) TCP/IP
3 7 (7.78%) HTTP
4 6 (6.67%) Firewall
5 4 (4.44%) SAN
6 2 (2.22%) Kerberos
6 2 (2.22%) NAS
6 2 (2.22%) SSH
7 1 (1.11%) DHCP
7 1 (1.11%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.11%) LAN
7 1 (1.11%) SMTP
7 1 (1.11%) SSL
7 1 (1.11%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.11%) VLAN
7 1 (1.11%) VPN
7 1 (1.11%) WAN
7 1 (1.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (28.89%) MongoDB
2 20 (22.22%) Oracle Database
3 18 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (14.44%) MySQL
5 12 (13.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (5.56%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.22%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.22%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (35.56%) Jenkins
2 28 (31.11%) GitLab
3 21 (23.33%) Git
4 19 (21.11%) JIRA
5 10 (11.11%) Cucumber
5 10 (11.11%) Jasmine
5 10 (11.11%) JUnit
6 5 (5.56%) Selenium
7 2 (2.22%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.22%) Jaeger
7 2 (2.22%) TestNG
7 2 (2.22%) webpack
8 1 (1.11%) Maven
8 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.56%) Finance
5 4 (4.44%) Military
5 4 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.11%) Banking
6 1 (1.11%) Electronics
6 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (42.22%) Senior
2 20 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (18.89%) Developer
3 17 (18.89%) Senior DevOps
4 13 (14.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (13.33%) Senior Developer
6 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 11 (12.22%) Java Developer
7 10 (11.11%) Engineering Specialist
7 10 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (7.78%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) IT Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Network Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.89%) cloud-init
2 15 (16.67%) RESTful
3 12 (13.33%) Kafka
3 12 (13.33%) Spring
3 12 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 11 (12.22%) Spring Security
5 10 (11.11%) Spring Batch
6 9 (10.00%) Keycloak
6 9 (10.00%) Swagger
7 8 (8.89%) OpenAPI
8 6 (6.67%) Node.js
8 6 (6.67%) pytest
9 5 (5.56%) REST
10 3 (3.33%) ARM Templates
11 2 (2.22%) AWS CDK
11 2 (2.22%) GraphQL
11 2 (2.22%) gRPC
11 2 (2.22%) Playwright
11 2 (2.22%) Puppeteer
11 2 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (10.00%) PKI
3 8 (8.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.22%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (1.11%) Clustering
7 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) MISP
7 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 66 (73.33%) Linux
2 32 (35.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (28.89%) Windows
4 23 (25.56%) Unix
5 22 (24.44%) Windows Server
6 21 (23.33%) CentOS
7 3 (3.33%) AIX
7 3 (3.33%) Solaris
7 3 (3.33%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.22%) HPUX
8 2 (2.22%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 40 (44.44%) DevOps
3 37 (41.11%) Microservices
4 30 (33.33%) Agile
5 29 (32.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (28.89%) Continuous Integration
7 24 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (23.33%) Containerisation
9 21 (23.33%) Test Automation
10 18 (20.00%) Security Management
11 16 (17.78%) Configuration Management
11 16 (17.78%) SOA
12 15 (16.67%) Server Management
12 15 (16.67%) Task Automation
12 15 (16.67%) TDD
13 14 (15.56%) BDD
13 14 (15.56%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (14.44%) Migration
14 13 (14.44%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (57.78%) Python
2 40 (44.44%) SQL
3 30 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 21 (23.33%) Perl
5 18 (20.00%) Go
5 18 (20.00%) PL/SQL
6 17 (18.89%) Java
7 5 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.44%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.33%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.22%) Groovy
11 1 (1.11%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.11%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.11%) AppleScript
11 1 (1.11%) Bicep
11 1 (1.11%) Korn
11 1 (1.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 51 (56.67%) Security Cleared
2 44 (48.89%) SC Cleared
3 22 (24.44%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (12.22%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.22%) CCNA
6 2 (2.22%) CCNP
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.11%) Degree
7 1 (1.11%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) NCSC
2 2 (2.22%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 24 (26.67%) Active Directory
1 24 (26.67%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) KVM
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (45.56%) Kubernetes
2 30 (33.33%) Terraform
3 21 (23.33%) Ansible
4 20 (22.22%) Packer
5 19 (21.11%) Grafana
6 15 (16.67%) Prometheus
7 11 (12.22%) Istio
7 11 (12.22%) Progress Chef
7 11 (12.22%) ZABBIX
8 10 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (10.00%) Consul
9 9 (10.00%) linkerd
9 9 (10.00%) Puppet
9 9 (10.00%) Rancher
10 7 (7.78%) HAProxy
11 2 (2.22%) Control-M
11 2 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (2.22%) Graylog
11 2 (2.22%) Kiali
11 2 (2.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (27.78%) Oracle
2 23 (25.56%) Cisco
3 13 (14.44%) Splunk
4 9 (10.00%) Okta
5 8 (8.89%) Apple
6 7 (7.78%) ESET
7 5 (5.56%) Red Hat
7 5 (5.56%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.44%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.44%) Infoblox
8 4 (4.44%) VMware
9 3 (3.33%) Microsoft
10 2 (2.22%) 3PAR
10 2 (2.22%) AppDynamics
10 2 (2.22%) Brocade
10 2 (2.22%) EMC
10 2 (2.22%) Google
10 2 (2.22%) HP
10 2 (2.22%) IBM
10 2 (2.22%) PagerDuty