Bash Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Bash Shell
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 50 51
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +8
Contract jobs citing Bash 3 6 22
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.73% 1.42% 3.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.99% 3.92% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 12
10th Percentile - - £550
25th Percentile £620 £350 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £490 £610
Median % change year-on-year +30.61% -19.67% +16.19%
75th Percentile £660 £738 £681
90th Percentile - £745 £835
South East median daily rate £496 £463 £528
% change year-on-year +7.24% -12.32% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
South East median hourly rate £79.50 - £76.53

All Programming Languages
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 151 153 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 36.74% 36.08% 26.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 107 128
10th Percentile £204 - £257
25th Percentile £204 £203 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £588
90th Percentile £626 £575 £675
South East median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 14
10th Percentile - - £43.13
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 £47.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £59.75
Median % change year-on-year +307.41% -77.41% -
75th Percentile £57.50 £13.75 £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £57.41
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.16% -4.32%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Surrey

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Bash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Bash

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Bash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Bash

Bash
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 20 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
Leatherhead - 1 - -
Staines - 1 - -
Woking - 1 £640 - 1
Bash
South East

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Akamai
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Loki
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Imperva
1 1 (33.33%) Okta
1 1 (33.33%) Proofpoint
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Tenable
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler