Bash Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Bash Shell
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Bash skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 37 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Bash 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 1.34% 0.35% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.28% 1.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £449 - -
25th Percentile £451 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £440 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% - -
75th Percentile £477 - -
90th Percentile £483 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £461 £539 £500
% change year-on-year -14.43% +7.75% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 122 93 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 40.94% 32.40% 17.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 67 29
10th Percentile £264 £340 £310
25th Percentile £314 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% -5.76%
75th Percentile £430 £488 £538
90th Percentile £488 £581 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £411 £445 £464
% change year-on-year -7.58% -4.08% +1.97%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in Northamptonshire

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Bash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Bash

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Bash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Bash

Bash
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Northampton - 4 £461 - 6
Bash
East Midlands

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Business Transformation
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) VMware