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 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 136 131
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing Bash 41 55 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.39% 0.97% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.19% 4.31% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 39 67
10th Percentile £331 £324 £420
25th Percentile £390 £469 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% -6.38% +6.82%
75th Percentile £519 £616 £600
90th Percentile £575 £665 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +6.75%
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% -12.78%
75th Percentile - £78.75 £65.31
90th Percentile - £79.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £53.50 £57.50 £67.75
% change year-on-year -6.96% -15.13% +47.11%

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 790 1,277 1,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.76% 22.62% 26.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 875 1,029
10th Percentile £354 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £608
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £540 £563
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 83 85
10th Percentile £37.60 £35.00 £20.47
25th Percentile £48.99 £46.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +57.14%
75th Percentile £63.13 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £65.62 £77.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +19.05%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +44 24 £355 -43.20% 254
Berkshire +37 19 £575 -4.17% 126
Hampshire +28 11 £469 -16.67% 105
Buckinghamshire +18 5 £350 -44.00% 78
West Sussex +1 3 £550 +15.79% 36
East Sussex 0 2 £463 -13.95% 38
Oxfordshire - 2 £355 - 51
Surrey +11 1 £425 -33.33% 70
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 5 (12.20%) OpenStack
2 2 (4.88%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) Azure
2 18 (43.90%) AWS
3 10 (24.39%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (14.63%) GCP
4 6 (14.63%) Snowflake
5 5 (12.20%) Azure AKS
5 5 (12.20%) GitHub
6 4 (9.76%) OpenShift
7 3 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (7.32%) Azure Storage
7 3 (7.32%) Azure Table
7 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (7.32%) Power Automate
7 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.88%) Azure API Management
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) DNS
2 4 (9.76%) Firewall
3 3 (7.32%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (4.88%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (12.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.32%) Data Lake
3 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.32%) Power BI
3 3 (7.32%) Redis
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Git
2 6 (14.63%) Selenium
3 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.88%) Subversion
General
1 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 12 (29.27%) Public Sector
2 12 (29.27%) Telecoms
3 4 (9.76%) Electronics
3 4 (9.76%) Finance
3 4 (9.76%) Manufacturing
3 4 (9.76%) Marketing
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Support Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Site Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) .NET
1 5 (12.20%) YAML
2 4 (9.76%) ADO
3 3 (7.32%) .NET Core
3 3 (7.32%) ARM Templates
3 3 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (7.32%) Kafka
3 3 (7.32%) Keycloak
4 2 (4.88%) OAuth
4 2 (4.88%) OpenID
4 2 (4.88%) SAML
5 1 (2.44%) Middleware
5 1 (2.44%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
1 5 (12.20%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (34.15%) Linux
2 11 (26.83%) Windows
3 3 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.88%) Solaris
4 2 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (65.85%) CI/CD
2 25 (60.98%) DevOps
3 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (24.39%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (24.39%) Migration
6 9 (21.95%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (19.51%) RBAC
8 7 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (14.63%) Agile
9 6 (14.63%) Continuous Deployment
9 6 (14.63%) Data Migration
9 6 (14.63%) Data Security
10 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
10 5 (12.20%) Open Source
10 5 (12.20%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (12.20%) Test Automation
11 4 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (9.76%) Digital Marketing
11 4 (9.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 33 (80.49%) Python
2 19 (46.34%) PowerShell
3 12 (29.27%) SQL
4 6 (14.63%) C#
5 4 (9.76%) Java
6 3 (7.32%) Bicep
7 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.88%) Perl
8 1 (2.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) GDPR
2 6 (14.63%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 8 (19.51%) vSphere
2 5 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.88%) Docker
4 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (46.34%) Ansible
2 14 (34.15%) Kubernetes
2 14 (34.15%) Terraform
3 6 (14.63%) Grafana
3 6 (14.63%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.32%) Packer
4 3 (7.32%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.32%) Puppet
5 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (4.88%) SELinux
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) Red Hat
3 4 (9.76%) SAP
4 3 (7.32%) Cisco
4 3 (7.32%) F5
4 3 (7.32%) Splunk
4 3 (7.32%) VMware
5 2 (4.88%) SolarWinds
5 2 (4.88%) Symantec
5 2 (4.88%) Veritas
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle