Bash Contracts in Reading

Bash Shell
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 51 84 73
Rank change year-on-year +33 -11 +11
Contract jobs citing Bash 9 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.51% 0.59% 1.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.45% 2.42% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £429 £325
25th Percentile £318 £510 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year -44.17% -17.24% +11.54%
75th Percentile £353 £650 £784
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £64.38

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 165 289 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 24.24% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 202 216
10th Percentile £406 £363 £369
25th Percentile £500 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £670
90th Percentile £700 £688 £714
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 7
10th Percentile - £54.13 £63.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £72.63
Median hourly rate £77.19 £59.22 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +30.34% -25.22% -
75th Percentile - £66.03 -
90th Percentile - £67.63 £80.06
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in Reading

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Bash in Reading

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Git
1 7 (77.78%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Electronics
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Manufacturing
1 4 (44.44%) Marketing
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 6 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Digital Marketing
3 4 (44.44%) Programme Management
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 1 (11.11%) Migration
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
1 2 (22.22%) Puppet
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) VMware