Bash Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Bash Shell
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 11 29
Rank change year-on-year -11 +18 +4
Contract jobs citing Bash 6 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 3.39% 4.86% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.09% 23.33% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £468 -
25th Percentile £513 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - £515 -
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £555
% change year-on-year - -14.41% -5.29%

All Programming Languages
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 23 30 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 12.99% 20.83% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 24
10th Percentile - £365 £148
25th Percentile £350 £419 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £575
90th Percentile £585 £563 £584
South East median daily rate £488 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.88% -2.38% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.30
25th Percentile - - £32.31
Median hourly rate - - £32.32
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.05%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £64.76 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% +17.75% -12.00%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Bash

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Bash

Bash
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Banbury - 4 - -
Oxford -3 1 £525 +5.00% 5
Bash
South East

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Pulumi
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Consultant
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
2 4 (66.67%) SIEM
2 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) OWASP
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (66.67%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) HIPAA
1 4 (66.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk