Bash Contract Job Trends in Reading

Bash Shell
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Bash skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 86 80
Rank change year-on-year +30 -6 +12
Contract jobs citing Bash 9 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.53% 0.46% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.95% 1.91% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 10
10th Percentile £335 £358 £320
25th Percentile £349 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% - -16.88%
75th Percentile £495 - -
90th Percentile £581 £505 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £419 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +4.69% - -21.95%

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 182 262 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.90% 24.01% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 183 219
10th Percentile £364 £385 £400
25th Percentile £450 £509 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £605 £580
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% +4.31% +16.00%
75th Percentile £599 £650 £663
90th Percentile £625 £671 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -13.79% +5.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £71.31 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year - -9.95% +43.98%
Berkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £58.49 £52.15
% change year-on-year -66.66% +12.17% -34.82%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Reading over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Reading

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Bash

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (11.11%) Gunicorn
2 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Backup Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Database Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Django Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) HP Storage Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Storage Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Storage and Backup Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
1 1 (11.11%) Django
1 1 (11.11%) jQuery
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (11.11%) HP Storage
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Open Source
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) Data Security
4 1 (11.11%) Database Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 1 (11.11%) TDD
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) JNCIP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (11.11%) OCP
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) vSphere
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Ansible
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) 3PAR
1 1 (11.11%) Dell
1 1 (11.11%) HP
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) NetApp
1 1 (11.11%) Nimble Storage
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
1 1 (11.11%) Veritas