Bash Contracts in Scotland

Bash Shell
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 96 79 79
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 +62
Contract jobs citing Bash 20 50 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.23% 2.26% 3.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.04% 7.49% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 38 77
10th Percentile £414 £435 £456
25th Percentile £479 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -0.63% +2.11%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £563
90th Percentile £556 £780 £623
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.90% -19.85% +13.91%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 658 668 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.49% 30.13% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 438 730
10th Percentile £313 £369 £406
25th Percentile £408 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £557
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.27
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in Scotland

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Bash in Scotland

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Scotland

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in Scotland

Bash
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh -5 13 £525 +8.47% 7
Glasgow -9 5 £465 -15.55% 7
Lanarkshire 0 1 £525 +18.64%
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (5.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Serverless
3 9 (45.00%) OpenShift
4 8 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 8 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (35.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 6 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (30.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 6 (30.00%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (30.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 6 (30.00%) AWS Fargate
6 6 (30.00%) PaaS
6 6 (30.00%) Route 53
6 6 (30.00%) SaaS
7 5 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (20.00%) Azure
9 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (20.00%) MariaDB
2 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (20.00%) MySQL
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (15.00%) InfluxDB
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (10.00%) Power Query
4 2 (10.00%) Redis
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (35.00%) Git
3 3 (15.00%) Artifactory
4 2 (10.00%) GitLab
5 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.00%) JIRA
5 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 9 (45.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Developer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) DevOps Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Unix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) AWS CDK
2 6 (30.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (10.00%) JSON
3 2 (10.00%) Node.js
3 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (10.00%) RESTful
3 2 (10.00%) YAML
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) CSS3
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) HTML5
4 1 (5.00%) Loki
4 1 (5.00%) Next.js
4 1 (5.00%) Redux
4 1 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (10.00%) Unix
4 1 (5.00%) AIX
4 1 (5.00%) CentOS
4 1 (5.00%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (5.00%) VMS
4 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (45.00%) Agile
2 9 (45.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (45.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (45.00%) Kanban
3 7 (35.00%) Scrum
4 6 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (20.00%) Microservices
6 4 (20.00%) Software Delivery
7 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
7 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (15.00%) Human-Centred Design
7 3 (15.00%) Inclusive Design
7 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 2 (10.00%) Analytics
8 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
8 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) Groovy
3 4 (20.00%) Java
3 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.00%) Bicep
5 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (10.00%) Perl
5 2 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (5.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (5.00%) OCP
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) KVM
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (70.00%) Ansible
2 13 (65.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (30.00%) Grafana
4 5 (25.00%) Terraform
5 4 (20.00%) Progress Chef
6 3 (15.00%) Kibana
6 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (10.00%) HAProxy
7 2 (10.00%) Puppet
8 1 (5.00%) linkerd
8 1 (5.00%) Nagios
8 1 (5.00%) Packer
8 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Imperva
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) Commvault
4 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.00%) ForgeRock
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) NetApp
4 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto