Bash Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Bash Shell
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 20 38
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 -2
Contract jobs citing Bash 11 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 6.92% 1.75% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.67% 6.25% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £416 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £523 £488 £525
90th Percentile £538 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 30 32 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 18.87% 28.07% 26.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 36
10th Percentile - £362 £234
25th Percentile £416 £419 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £643 £552
90th Percentile £565 £675 £634
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 21
10th Percentile - £55.79 £55.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £60.81 £59.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £50.67 £64.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £70.63 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +0.81% +16.98%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Bash

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Bash

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) GitHub
1 8 (72.73%) OpenShift
2 7 (63.64%) AWS
3 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 6 (54.55%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (72.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Kafka
1 8 (72.73%) Keycloak
2 4 (36.36%) YAML
3 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
1 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
2 8 (72.73%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (63.64%) Observability
4 6 (54.55%) GitOps
5 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps
5 5 (45.45%) SBOM
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Immutable Infrastructure
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (9.09%) Change Management
7 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
7 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Scrum
7 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) SC Cleared
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) NCSC
2 2 (18.18%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Ansible
2 9 (81.82%) Grafana
2 9 (81.82%) Kubernetes
2 9 (81.82%) Terraform
3 8 (72.73%) Prometheus
4 6 (54.55%) Argo
4 6 (54.55%) Istio
4 6 (54.55%) linkerd
5 2 (18.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Splunk
2 7 (63.64%) Red Hat
3 6 (54.55%) VMware
4 2 (18.18%) F5
5 1 (9.09%) Atlassian