Bash Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Bash Shell
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 40 50
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 -14
Contract jobs citing Bash 28 20 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.09% 4.22% 1.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.43% 12.90% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 4
10th Percentile £490 £504 £118
25th Percentile £506 £563 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +38.89% -25.00%
75th Percentile £537 £645 £625
90th Percentile £602 £649 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £650
% change year-on-year -6.98% -17.31% +4.00%

All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 297 155 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 43.42% 32.70% 28.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 105 79
10th Percentile £318 £385 £300
25th Percentile £400 £470 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £534 £561
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% -4.81% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -4.76%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Bash job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in South Yorkshire

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Bash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Bash

Bash
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Sheffield -13 28 £520 -16.60% 4
Bash
Yorkshire

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 11 (39.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) GitHub
2 8 (28.57%) CloudBees
3 5 (17.86%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) Cohesity
4 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
5 2 (7.14%) AWS
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.57%) Azure
6 1 (3.57%) Route 53
6 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 12 (42.86%) JIRA
3 11 (39.29%) GitLab
4 3 (10.71%) Git
5 2 (7.14%) Jaeger
6 1 (3.57%) Postman
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Banking
2 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Automation Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Data Protection Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Administrator
5 4 (14.29%) Developer
5 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) VMWare Administrator
6 3 (10.71%) Senior
7 2 (7.14%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Lead Java Developer
8 1 (3.57%) SCM Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Integration Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Storage Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.14%) Unix
4 1 (3.57%) CentOS
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (3.57%) SUSE
4 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) DevOps
2 17 (60.71%) CI/CD
3 15 (53.57%) Test Automation
4 14 (50.00%) Data Protection
5 11 (39.29%) Configuration Management
5 11 (39.29%) Scrum
5 11 (39.29%) User Stories
6 10 (35.71%) Backlog Refinement
6 10 (35.71%) Sprint Retrospective
7 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
9 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (17.86%) Migration
10 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (14.29%) Server Management
11 3 (10.71%) Agile
12 2 (7.14%) API Development
12 2 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
12 2 (7.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (82.14%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.71%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.14%) Go
5 1 (3.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) KVM
2 1 (3.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (71.43%) Ansible
2 11 (39.29%) NetBackup
3 6 (21.43%) Grafana
3 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
4 5 (17.86%) Terraform
5 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 4 (14.29%) Puppet
6 2 (7.14%) Argo
7 1 (3.57%) Control-M
7 1 (3.57%) Istio
7 1 (3.57%) Kiali
7 1 (3.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Red Hat
2 11 (39.29%) Commvault
3 8 (28.57%) Veritas
4 7 (25.00%) VMware
5 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 2 (7.14%) Google
6 2 (7.14%) Splunk
7 1 (3.57%) AppDynamics
7 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
7 1 (3.57%) Oracle
7 1 (3.57%) Pure Storage
7 1 (3.57%) xMatters