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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 116 126
Rank change year-on-year +24 +10 +9
Contract jobs citing Bash 77 70 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.34% 1.52% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.24% 5.90% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 56 64
10th Percentile £376 £418 £325
25th Percentile £463 £445 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% +0.77%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £678
90th Percentile £714 £650 £759
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 934 1,186 1,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.40% 25.74% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 839 1,174
10th Percentile £350 £324 £363
25th Percentile £400 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £566 £600
90th Percentile £613 £625 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 51 28
10th Percentile £34.68 £37.63 £30.01
25th Percentile £55.31 £43.57 £39.45
Median hourly rate £74.50 £47.50 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year +56.84% -3.62% +13.06%
75th Percentile £93.44 £68.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £100.97 £74.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +23.10%

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 22 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 22 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 +6 43 £550 +11.11% 171
North West +16 30 £500 -9.09% 252
North East - 4 £550 - 49
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 (20.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (7.79%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) nginx
3 1 (1.30%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.47%) AWS
2 16 (20.78%) Azure
3 12 (15.58%) AWS CloudFormation
3 12 (15.58%) GCP
4 8 (10.39%) GitHub
5 6 (7.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (6.49%) Entra ID
6 5 (6.49%) Serverless
7 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (3.90%) Apigee
8 3 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.90%) npm
8 3 (3.90%) Slack
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 23 (29.87%) DNS
2 6 (7.79%) Firewall
3 4 (5.19%) HTTP
3 4 (5.19%) SAN
3 4 (5.19%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.60%) Kerberos
4 2 (2.60%) NAS
4 2 (2.60%) SSH
5 1 (1.30%) DHCP
5 1 (1.30%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.30%) LAN
5 1 (1.30%) SMTP
5 1 (1.30%) SSL
5 1 (1.30%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.30%) VLAN
5 1 (1.30%) VPN
5 1 (1.30%) WAN
5 1 (1.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.97%) Oracle Database
2 10 (12.99%) MongoDB
3 9 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.19%) MySQL
6 3 (3.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (3.90%) BigQuery
6 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.60%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (31.17%) Jenkins
2 20 (25.97%) GitLab
3 17 (22.08%) Git
4 15 (19.48%) JIRA
5 5 (6.49%) Selenium
6 3 (3.90%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.90%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.90%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.90%) Jaeger
6 3 (3.90%) Jasmine
6 3 (3.90%) JUnit
6 3 (3.90%) webpack
7 2 (2.60%) TestNG
8 1 (1.30%) Maven
8 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.19%) Finance
4 4 (5.19%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.60%) Military
6 1 (1.30%) Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Electronics
6 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (32.47%) Senior
2 14 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (14.29%) Developer
4 11 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 11 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
5 10 (12.99%) Engineering Specialist
6 9 (11.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (10.39%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) IT Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Software Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.19%) Network Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.99%) RESTful
2 8 (10.39%) cloud-init
3 7 (9.09%) Node.js
3 7 (9.09%) pytest
4 6 (7.79%) REST
5 4 (5.19%) Kafka
6 3 (3.90%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.90%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.90%) CSS
6 3 (3.90%) Flask
6 3 (3.90%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.90%) HTML
6 3 (3.90%) OpenAPI
6 3 (3.90%) React
6 3 (3.90%) Spring
6 3 (3.90%) Spring Batch
6 3 (3.90%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.90%) Spring Security
6 3 (3.90%) Swagger
6 3 (3.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.97%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (10.39%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.60%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (2.60%) PKI
5 1 (1.30%) Clustering
5 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) MISP
5 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (64.94%) Linux
2 26 (33.77%) Windows
3 22 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 14 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (18.18%) Unix
5 11 (14.29%) CentOS
6 3 (3.90%) AIX
6 3 (3.90%) Solaris
6 3 (3.90%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.60%) HPUX
7 2 (2.60%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (55.84%) CI/CD
2 32 (41.56%) DevOps
2 32 (41.56%) Microservices
3 29 (37.66%) Agile
4 25 (32.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 22 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (25.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (23.38%) Security Management
8 17 (22.08%) Test Automation
9 16 (20.78%) Configuration Management
9 16 (20.78%) Containerisation
9 16 (20.78%) SOA
9 16 (20.78%) Task Automation
10 15 (19.48%) Server Management
11 13 (16.88%) Migration
12 11 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (11.69%) Deployment Automation
14 8 (10.39%) High Availability
14 8 (10.39%) Roadmaps
14 8 (10.39%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 46 (59.74%) Python
2 32 (41.56%) SQL
3 30 (38.96%) PowerShell
4 22 (28.57%) Perl
5 18 (23.38%) PL/SQL
6 10 (12.99%) Java
7 9 (11.69%) Go
8 6 (7.79%) TypeScript
9 5 (6.49%) JavaScript
10 3 (3.90%) Groovy
10 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.30%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.30%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.30%) AppleScript
11 1 (1.30%) Bicep
11 1 (1.30%) Korn
11 1 (1.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (50.65%) Security Cleared
2 33 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 22 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.49%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.60%) CCNA
5 2 (2.60%) CCNP
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.30%) Degree
6 1 (1.30%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) NCSC
1 2 (2.60%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) GDPR
2 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.30%) NIST
2 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (31.17%) Active Directory
2 20 (25.97%) Docker
3 2 (2.60%) KVM
3 2 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (38.96%) Kubernetes
2 23 (29.87%) Ansible
2 23 (29.87%) Terraform
3 13 (16.88%) Grafana
4 11 (14.29%) Progress Chef
5 10 (12.99%) Packer
6 9 (11.69%) Prometheus
6 9 (11.69%) Puppet
7 5 (6.49%) Istio
8 4 (5.19%) ZABBIX
9 3 (3.90%) Control-M
9 3 (3.90%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (3.90%) Kiali
10 2 (2.60%) Consul
10 2 (2.60%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (2.60%) Graylog
10 2 (2.60%) linkerd
10 2 (2.60%) Rancher
10 2 (2.60%) vRealize
11 1 (1.30%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 25 (32.47%) Oracle
2 23 (29.87%) Cisco
3 7 (9.09%) Splunk
4 6 (7.79%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.19%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.19%) Infoblox
6 4 (5.19%) VMware
7 3 (3.90%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.90%) Google
7 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.90%) PagerDuty
7 3 (3.90%) xMatters
8 2 (2.60%) 3PAR
8 2 (2.60%) Apple
8 2 (2.60%) Brocade
8 2 (2.60%) EMC
8 2 (2.60%) HP
8 2 (2.60%) IBM
8 2 (2.60%) Okta