Bash Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Bash Shell
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 71 70
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +26
Contract jobs citing Bash 31 46 73
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.02% 2.73% 3.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.37% 8.00% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 36 56
10th Percentile £354 £406 £400
25th Percentile £381 £447 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £600
90th Percentile £539 £548 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -4.17%

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 577 575 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.57% 34.14% 30.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 318 467
10th Percentile £350 £356 £400
25th Percentile £410 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £600
90th Percentile £625 £625 £700
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 9
10th Percentile £52.25 £17.99 £52.96
25th Percentile £55.63 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £61.23 £19.59 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +212.53% -67.35% +14.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £48.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £64.20 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -0.80%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Scotland

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Scotland

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Bash

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 14 December 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
Glasgow -3 18 £450 -1.10% 7
Edinburgh -3 11 £503 -2.43% 5
South Lanarkshire - 2 £550 -
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (3.23%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) GCP
3 6 (19.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (16.13%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (16.13%) Amazon S3
4 5 (16.13%) Apigee
4 5 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (16.13%) OpenShift
5 4 (12.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (9.68%) Azure
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.45%) GitHub
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.23%) Route 53
8 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) DNS
1 7 (22.58%) TCP/IP
2 4 (12.90%) DHCP
2 4 (12.90%) HTTP
2 4 (12.90%) SSL
3 3 (9.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.45%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.45%) InfluxDB
2 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.23%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Jenkins
2 7 (22.58%) Git
3 2 (6.45%) GitLab
4 1 (3.23%) Snyk
4 1 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 8 (25.81%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 6 (19.35%) Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Investment Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Site Engineer
3 7 (22.58%) Developer
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (9.68%) OAT Tester
5 3 (9.68%) Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Administrator
6 2 (6.45%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Unix Administrator
7 1 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Mac Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Mac Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
2 4 (12.90%) REST
2 4 (12.90%) RESTful
2 4 (12.90%) SOAP
3 2 (6.45%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.23%) CSS
4 1 (3.23%) CSS3
4 1 (3.23%) HTML
4 1 (3.23%) HTML5
4 1 (3.23%) Node.js
4 1 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.23%) React
4 1 (3.23%) Redux
4 1 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Onboarding
2 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.45%) Clustering
4 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (58.06%) Linux
2 13 (41.94%) Unix
3 8 (25.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) CI/CD
2 14 (45.16%) Agile
2 14 (45.16%) DevOps
2 14 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (41.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 11 (35.48%) Observability
5 9 (29.03%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (22.58%) Task Automation
8 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
8 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (16.13%) ITIL
9 5 (16.13%) Migration
9 5 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (12.90%) Configuration Management
10 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (12.90%) High Availability
10 4 (12.90%) Network Load Balancing
10 4 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
11 3 (9.68%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) Perl
2 9 (29.03%) PowerShell
3 6 (19.35%) Shell Script
4 5 (16.13%) Java
4 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
5 4 (12.90%) Go
6 3 (9.68%) SQL
7 2 (6.45%) Korn
8 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) SLA
2 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Docker
2 4 (12.90%) KVM
3 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (54.84%) Terraform
2 16 (51.61%) Kubernetes
3 12 (38.71%) Ansible
4 7 (22.58%) Grafana
5 6 (19.35%) Prometheus
6 4 (12.90%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (6.45%) Fluentd
7 2 (6.45%) HAProxy
7 2 (6.45%) Nagios
7 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
8 1 (3.23%) Argo
8 1 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (3.23%) Karpenter
8 1 (3.23%) linkerd
8 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Google
2 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
3 4 (12.90%) F5
3 4 (12.90%) Infoblox
3 4 (12.90%) MuleSoft
3 4 (12.90%) Oracle
4 3 (9.68%) Commvault
4 3 (9.68%) Splunk
4 3 (9.68%) VMware
5 1 (3.23%) Apple
5 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.23%) ForgeRock
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.23%) Ping Identity