Bash Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Bash Shell
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bash 9 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.57% - 7.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.85% - 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £406 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - £536
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile £470 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £465 £651 £500
% change year-on-year -28.60% +30.25% -28.57%

All Programming Languages
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 234 42 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 40.91% 29.37% 49.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 26 33
10th Percentile £386 £435 £384
25th Percentile £420 £455 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £477 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -10.84% -0.93%
75th Percentile £519 £513 £538
90th Percentile £561 £538 -
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £483 £450
% change year-on-year +0.06% +7.33% -14.29%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Bash

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Bash

Bash
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. 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
Telford - 7 £460 - 3
Shrewsbury - 2 £400 -
Bash
West Midlands

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 4 (44.44%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DHCP
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) Kerberos
1 2 (22.22%) SSH
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Legal
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) LDAP
1 2 (22.22%) OAuth
1 2 (22.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (22.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) AIX
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Solaris
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Community of Practice
2 4 (44.44%) Data Acquisition
2 4 (44.44%) Data Integration
2 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (44.44%) ETL
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Change Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Key Management
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (22.22%) RBAC
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
1 2 (22.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cloudera
1 4 (44.44%) Informatica
1 4 (44.44%) Talend
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (22.22%) CyberArk
3 2 (22.22%) VMware