Bash Contracts in the Thames Valley

Bash Shell
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 137 116
Rank change year-on-year +59 -21 +4
Contract jobs citing Bash 24 8 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.59% 0.30% 1.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.05% 1.50% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 26
10th Percentile £306 £429 £319
25th Percentile £328 £510 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £600 £506
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +18.52% -11.96%
75th Percentile £494 £650 £722
90th Percentile £588 - £784
South East median daily rate £475 £544 £587
% change year-on-year -12.64% -7.33% +6.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £58.19
25th Percentile - - £60.16
Median hourly rate - - £64.38
75th Percentile - - £67.66
90th Percentile - - £69.06
South East median hourly rate - £75.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +27.66% +6.82%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 397 533 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.27% 19.84% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 364 521
10th Percentile £350 £352 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £700 £668 £680
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 30 20
10th Percentile £26.49 £33.94 £25.64
25th Percentile £40.75 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.30 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +2.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £65.62 £65.00 £76.61
90th Percentile £70.25 £67.63 £79.41
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the Thames Valley

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Bash in the Thames Valley

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the Thames Valley

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the Thames Valley

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +39 16 £575 -4.17% 26
Buckinghamshire - 6 £350 - 24
Oxfordshire - 4 £418 - 21
Bash
South East

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (8.33%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) GCP
3 6 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 4 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Storage
6 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 2 (8.33%) IaaS
6 2 (8.33%) PaaS
6 2 (8.33%) Power Automate
6 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.33%) SaaS
6 2 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) BIG-IP
1 2 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) SSL
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (12.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Git
2 7 (29.17%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (29.17%) Telecoms
2 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 4 (16.67%) Electronics
4 4 (16.67%) Finance
4 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 4 (16.67%) Marketing
5 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Snowflake Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Hardware Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Administrator
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Solaris Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) .NET
1 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
1 2 (8.33%) ADO
1 2 (8.33%) ARM Templates
1 2 (8.33%) OAuth
1 2 (8.33%) OpenID
1 2 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Linux
3 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.33%) AIX
4 2 (8.33%) CentOS
4 2 (8.33%) HPUX
4 2 (8.33%) Solaris
4 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (8.33%) Unix
5 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (45.83%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (37.50%) DevOps
3 9 (37.50%) Migration
3 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (33.33%) RBAC
5 6 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 6 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 6 (25.00%) Data Security
5 6 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (16.67%) Data Management
6 4 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
6 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) Product Analysis
6 4 (16.67%) Programme Management
6 4 (16.67%) Requirements Management
7 3 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 21 (87.50%) Python
2 14 (58.33%) PowerShell
3 10 (41.67%) SQL
4 4 (16.67%) C#
5 2 (8.33%) Bicep
5 2 (8.33%) Java
5 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.17%) Korn
6 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) GDPR
1 6 (25.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Ansible
1 4 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 4 (16.67%) Puppet
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Grafana
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle ZFS
2 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (16.67%) SAP
3 2 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (4.17%) HP
4 1 (4.17%) VMware