Bash Contracts in the South East

Bash Shell
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 119 150 127
Rank change year-on-year +31 -23 +22
Contract jobs citing Bash 40 55 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.33% 0.99% 1.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.05% 4.56% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 40 72
10th Percentile £323 £327 £414
25th Percentile £370 £472 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £544 £587
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% -7.33% +6.68%
75th Percentile £552 £591 £628
90th Percentile £588 £664 £737
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £66.50 £52.38
25th Percentile - £68.75 £54.06
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +27.66% +6.82%
75th Percentile - £78.75 £65.31
90th Percentile - £79.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.90% -19.85% +3.52%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 792 1,205 1,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.31% 21.68% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 831 1,136
10th Percentile £353 £325 £328
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £679 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 73 91
10th Percentile £40.05 £35.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £48.99 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%
75th Percentile £64.52 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.19 £74.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the South East

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Bash in the South East

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the South East

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the South East

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the South East 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
Thames Valley +59 24 £360 -40.00% 33
Berkshire +39 16 £575 -4.17% 12
Hampshire +21 11 £495 -11.96% 7
Buckinghamshire - 6 £350 - 10
Oxfordshire - 4 £418 - 14
West Sussex -2 3 £550 +15.79% 3
Surrey +10 1 £425 -33.33% 10
East Sussex -7 1 £475 -11.01% 3
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (5.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 20 (50.00%) Azure
2 13 (32.50%) AWS
3 9 (22.50%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (17.50%) GCP
5 6 (15.00%) Snowflake
6 4 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 3 (7.50%) GitHub
7 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Storage
8 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.00%) IaaS
8 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
8 2 (5.00%) PaaS
8 2 (5.00%) Power Automate
8 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.00%) SaaS
8 2 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) DNS
2 4 (10.00%) DHCP
2 4 (10.00%) Firewall
3 3 (7.50%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (5.00%) BIG-IP
4 2 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (5.00%) SSL
5 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (7.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.00%) Power BI
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.50%) Redis
6 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Git
2 7 (17.50%) Selenium
3 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.00%) Subversion
5 1 (2.50%) GitLab
5 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.00%) Electronics
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (10.00%) Marketing
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Administrator
3 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Data Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Hardware Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Site Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Unix Administrator
6 1 (2.50%) Data Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) .NET
1 3 (7.50%) ADO
1 3 (7.50%) YAML
2 2 (5.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.00%) OAuth
2 2 (5.00%) OpenID
2 2 (5.00%) SAML
3 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.50%) Kafka
3 1 (2.50%) Keycloak
3 1 (2.50%) Middleware
3 1 (2.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 5 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Derivative
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.00%) Windows
2 13 (32.50%) Linux
3 7 (17.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (10.00%) Solaris
4 4 (10.00%) Unix
5 3 (7.50%) CentOS
6 2 (5.00%) AIX
6 2 (5.00%) HPUX
6 2 (5.00%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.50%) Fedora
7 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (42.50%) DevOps
3 11 (27.50%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (25.00%) Migration
5 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (20.00%) RBAC
6 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 6 (15.00%) Data Migration
6 6 (15.00%) Data Security
6 6 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 4 (10.00%) Agile
8 4 (10.00%) Data Management
8 4 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
8 4 (10.00%) High Availability
8 4 (10.00%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (77.50%) Python
2 19 (47.50%) PowerShell
3 11 (27.50%) SQL
4 5 (12.50%) C#
5 4 (10.00%) Java
6 2 (5.00%) Bicep
6 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.00%) Perl
7 1 (2.50%) C++
7 1 (2.50%) Korn
7 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.50%) CEH
4 1 (2.50%) CISM
4 1 (2.50%) CISSP
4 1 (2.50%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) GDPR
2 6 (15.00%) HIPAA
3 2 (5.00%) QA
4 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.50%) vSphere
3 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (37.50%) Ansible
2 11 (27.50%) Terraform
3 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 5 (12.50%) Puppet
5 3 (7.50%) Grafana
5 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle ZFS
6 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (5.00%) SELinux
7 1 (2.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (22.50%) Red Hat
3 5 (12.50%) F5
4 4 (10.00%) SAP
5 3 (7.50%) Cisco
5 3 (7.50%) VMware
6 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
6 2 (5.00%) Symantec
6 2 (5.00%) Veritas
7 1 (2.50%) HP
7 1 (2.50%) Oracle
7 1 (2.50%) Splunk