Bash Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Bash Shell
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 40 46
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Bash 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.98% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.43% 1.22% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £256 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.19%
75th Percentile £600 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £431 - £625
% change year-on-year - - -9.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £85.00 - -

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 83 82 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 23.51% 23.77% 29.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 51 74
10th Percentile £285 £161 £197
25th Percentile £375 £210 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -20.99%
75th Percentile £538 £547 £547
90th Percentile £671 £575 £643
Wales median daily rate £475 £500 £419
% change year-on-year -5.00% +19.40% -16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 7
10th Percentile £26.42 £15.20 £23.72
25th Percentile £30.00 £20.12 £36.43
Median hourly rate £31.25 £20.24 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.44% -61.46% +176.97%
75th Percentile £72.19 £23.64 £55.25
90th Percentile £86.25 £26.50 -
Wales median hourly rate £30.50 £21.12 £52.50
% change year-on-year +44.43% -59.78% +176.97%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Bash job vacancy trend in South Wales

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Bash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in South Wales over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in South Wales

Bash
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 21 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
Glamorgan - 3 £263 - 1
Newport +6 2 - - 1
Monmouthshire - 2 £600 -
Bash
Wales

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (14.29%) Azure App Service
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) VSAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Military
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) LDAP
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) SIEM
2 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Case Management
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Product Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
4 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kibana
2 2 (28.57%) logstash
3 1 (14.29%) Check_MK
3 1 (14.29%) Nessus
3 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
3 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
1 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk
1 1 (14.29%) Tenable
1 1 (14.29%) VMware