Bash Contracts in the South West

Bash Shell
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 129 120
Rank change year-on-year +65 -9 -25
Contract jobs citing Bash 48 25 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.84% 0.79% 1.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.62% 3.95% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 24 35
10th Percentile £462 £474 £459
25th Percentile £556 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £631 £669 £694
90th Percentile £730 £757 £720
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £79.20
25th Percentile - - £81.00
Median hourly rate £78.70 - £84.00
75th Percentile - - £87.00
90th Percentile - - £88.80
England median hourly rate £53.50 £57.50 £67.75
% change year-on-year -6.96% -15.13% +7.07%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 452 633 1,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.75% 19.89% 28.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 426 730
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.48% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 97 92
10th Percentile £61.60 £49.20 £48.60
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £54.69
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +6.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.70 £75.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +21.95%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the South West

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Bash in the South West

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in the South West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the South West

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the South West

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Wiltshire +49 17 £575 +21.05% 5
Gloucestershire +22 15 £615 +2.50% 25
Bristol +21 10 £470 -10.48% 17
Devon - 3 £525 - 6
Somerset - 2 £710 - 1
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (14.58%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 26 (54.17%) AWS
2 24 (50.00%) Azure
3 16 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 6 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (47.92%) DNS
2 17 (35.42%) TCP/IP
3 16 (33.33%) DHCP
4 15 (31.25%) HTTP
5 4 (8.33%) Firewall
6 3 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.08%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.08%) SSH
7 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (29.17%) Jenkins
2 12 (25.00%) Git
3 11 (22.92%) Bitbucket
4 8 (16.67%) JIRA
5 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.08%) GitLab
5 1 (2.08%) Selenium
5 1 (2.08%) Snyk
5 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Legal
2 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.17%) Electronics
3 2 (4.17%) Finance
3 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.17%) Marketing
3 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (18.75%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Senior
6 4 (8.33%) Administrator
6 4 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 3 (6.25%) DevOps Administrator
7 3 (6.25%) Linux DevOps Administrator
7 3 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Linux Specialist
8 2 (4.17%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) Systems Administrator
9 1 (2.08%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) REST
1 11 (22.92%) SOAP
2 4 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.08%) Kafka
3 1 (2.08%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.08%) Clustering
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 42 (87.50%) Linux
2 30 (62.50%) Windows
3 24 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 17 (35.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (60.42%) Containerisation
2 23 (47.92%) Service Management
3 19 (39.58%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (35.42%) DevOps
5 15 (31.25%) Configuration Management
6 14 (29.17%) Agile
7 12 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (22.92%) Deployment Automation
8 11 (22.92%) Infrastructure Automation
8 11 (22.92%) Reverse Engineering
8 11 (22.92%) Validation
9 10 (20.83%) CI/CD
9 10 (20.83%) NsoIT
9 10 (20.83%) System Testing
10 8 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (14.58%) Incident Management
11 7 (14.58%) Task Automation
12 6 (12.50%) High Availability
13 5 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
13 5 (10.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (95.83%) Python
2 31 (64.58%) PowerShell
3 15 (31.25%) Java
4 4 (8.33%) Perl
5 1 (2.08%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 40 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 25 (52.08%) SC Cleared
3 13 (27.08%) DV Cleared
4 11 (22.92%) RHCE
5 10 (20.83%) CCNP
5 10 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (20.83%) OCA
5 10 (20.83%) Oracle Certification
5 10 (20.83%) RHCA
5 10 (20.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.08%) CISSP
6 1 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.08%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (64.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (56.25%) Docker
3 15 (31.25%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
5 2 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.08%) NFS
6 1 (2.08%) Samba
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (89.58%) Ansible
2 30 (62.50%) Puppet
3 28 (58.33%) Kubernetes
4 22 (45.83%) Terraform
5 12 (25.00%) Progress Chef
6 10 (20.83%) vCenter Server
7 6 (12.50%) Grafana
7 6 (12.50%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.08%) Kibana
8 1 (2.08%) logstash
8 1 (2.08%) Nagios
8 1 (2.08%) SELinux
8 1 (2.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (75.00%) VMware
2 22 (45.83%) Red Hat
3 13 (27.08%) Cisco
4 10 (20.83%) Oracle
5 7 (14.58%) Atlassian
6 4 (8.33%) NetApp
7 3 (6.25%) F5
8 2 (4.17%) SAP
8 2 (4.17%) Splunk
9 1 (2.08%) Citrix
9 1 (2.08%) ESRI
9 1 (2.08%) Google
9 1 (2.08%) Rapid7
9 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow