Bash Contracts in the UK excluding London

Bash Shell
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 142 186 153
Rank change year-on-year +44 -33 +35
Contract jobs citing Bash 235 233 414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.84% 1.12% 1.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.45% 4.79% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 179 305
10th Percentile £364 £423 £409
25th Percentile £463 £463 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £692 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 12
10th Percentile £42.39 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £67.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% -5.90% +20.44%
75th Percentile - £76.25 £74.50
90th Percentile £69.22 £78.50 £75.85
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.90% -19.85% +13.91%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +43 90 £550 +4.76% 86
Yorkshire +25 55 £550 +11.11% 16
South West +69 49 £613 +11.36% 52
South East +31 40 £475 -12.64% 141
North West +21 30 £500 -9.09% 63
Midlands +23 21 £588 +9.46% 39
Scotland -17 20 £525 +1.69% 23
East of England +28 16 £475 -13.64% 79
West Midlands +17 15 £651 +30.25% 29
East Midlands +8 6 £408 -32.08% 6
North East - 5 £558 - 7
Wales +1 1 - - 4
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 25 (10.64%) Confluence
2 16 (6.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 8 (3.40%) nginx
4 7 (2.98%) Traefik
5 2 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 92 (39.15%) AWS
2 69 (29.36%) Azure
3 33 (14.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (11.91%) GCP
5 26 (11.06%) OpenShift
6 19 (8.09%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (7.23%) Serverless
9 16 (6.81%) AWS Fargate
10 14 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (5.96%) Entra ID
11 13 (5.53%) GitHub
12 11 (4.68%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (4.68%) SaaS
13 10 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.26%) PaaS
13 10 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (3.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 9 (3.83%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 62 (26.38%) DNS
2 28 (11.91%) TCP/IP
3 22 (9.36%) HTTP
4 21 (8.94%) DHCP
5 20 (8.51%) Firewall
6 6 (2.55%) 5G NR
6 6 (2.55%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (1.70%) SAN
7 4 (1.70%) SpaceWire
7 4 (1.70%) SSL
8 3 (1.28%) Kerberos
8 3 (1.28%) VPN
9 2 (0.85%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.85%) NAS
9 2 (0.85%) SSH
10 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.43%) RS-232
10 1 (0.43%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.19%) MongoDB
2 24 (10.21%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (9.36%) Oracle Database
4 18 (7.66%) MySQL
5 12 (5.11%) Apache Cassandra
6 9 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.98%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.70%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.28%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.28%) Redis
12 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.85%) Hazelcast
12 2 (0.85%) Power BI
12 2 (0.85%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 63 (26.81%) Jenkins
2 58 (24.68%) Git
3 37 (15.74%) GitLab
4 35 (14.89%) JIRA
5 15 (6.38%) Selenium
6 12 (5.11%) Bitbucket
7 10 (4.26%) Cucumber
7 10 (4.26%) Jasmine
7 10 (4.26%) JUnit
8 6 (2.55%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.55%) MSI
9 5 (2.13%) TestNG
10 3 (1.28%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.28%) JMeter
10 3 (1.28%) Postman
10 3 (1.28%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.28%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.28%) Travis CI
10 3 (1.28%) webpack
11 2 (0.85%) CircleCI
General
1 59 (25.11%) Social Skills
2 47 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 19 (8.09%) Finance
4 16 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.96%) Telecoms
6 7 (2.98%) Electronics
6 7 (2.98%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.98%) Marketing
7 5 (2.13%) Legal
8 4 (1.70%) Military
9 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.85%) Aviation
10 2 (0.85%) Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Avionics
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 53 (22.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 46 (19.57%) Senior
3 29 (12.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (9.79%) Developer
5 22 (9.36%) Linux Engineer
6 21 (8.94%) Senior DevOps
7 17 (7.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 13 (5.53%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (5.11%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.68%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 11 (4.68%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.26%) Administrator
11 10 (4.26%) Engineering Specialist
11 10 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (3.40%) Software Engineer
14 7 (2.98%) IT Engineer
14 7 (2.98%) Linux Administrator
15 6 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.23%) cloud-init
1 17 (7.23%) REST
1 17 (7.23%) RESTful
2 14 (5.96%) Kafka
3 13 (5.53%) Spring Boot
4 12 (5.11%) Spring
5 11 (4.68%) SOAP
5 11 (4.68%) Spring Security
6 10 (4.26%) AWS CDK
6 10 (4.26%) Keycloak
6 10 (4.26%) Spring Batch
7 9 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (3.83%) React
7 9 (3.83%) Swagger
8 8 (3.40%) Node.js
8 8 (3.40%) OpenAPI
9 7 (2.98%) ARM Templates
10 6 (2.55%) pytest
10 6 (2.55%) Software Packaging
11 5 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.91%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (3.83%) PKI
4 7 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.28%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.28%) SCADA
8 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.85%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (0.85%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.43%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 147 (62.55%) Linux
2 85 (36.17%) Windows
3 64 (27.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 46 (19.57%) Windows Server
5 33 (14.04%) Unix
6 26 (11.06%) CentOS
7 8 (3.40%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.98%) Solaris
9 6 (2.55%) AIX
9 6 (2.55%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.70%) HPUX
11 3 (1.28%) VMS
12 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.43%) Fedora
12 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (45.11%) CI/CD
2 91 (38.72%) DevOps
3 68 (28.94%) Containerisation
4 65 (27.66%) Agile
4 65 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (24.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 43 (18.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 43 (18.30%) Microservices
7 41 (17.45%) Continuous Integration
8 38 (16.17%) Test Automation
9 36 (15.32%) Configuration Management
10 35 (14.89%) Task Automation
11 28 (11.91%) Service Management
12 25 (10.64%) Migration
13 23 (9.79%) High Availability
13 23 (9.79%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (8.51%) Deployment Automation
14 20 (8.51%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (8.51%) Validation
15 18 (7.66%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 177 (75.32%) Python
2 99 (42.13%) PowerShell
3 54 (22.98%) SQL
4 45 (19.15%) Java
5 32 (13.62%) Perl
6 19 (8.09%) Go
7 18 (7.66%) PL/SQL
8 12 (5.11%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.40%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.40%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.55%) Bicep
10 6 (2.55%) Groovy
11 5 (2.13%) C#
12 4 (1.70%) C
12 4 (1.70%) Tcl
13 3 (1.28%) VBA
14 2 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.85%) Korn
14 2 (0.85%) Ruby
15 1 (0.43%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 117 (49.79%) Security Cleared
2 90 (38.30%) SC Cleared
3 32 (13.62%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.96%) Degree
6 12 (5.11%) AWS Certification
6 12 (5.11%) CCNP
7 11 (4.68%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (4.68%) RHCE
8 10 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (4.26%) OCA
8 10 (4.26%) RHCA
8 10 (4.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (2.55%) CISSP
10 5 (2.13%) CEH
11 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.28%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.68%) GDPR
1 11 (4.68%) NCSC
2 8 (3.40%) QA
3 6 (2.55%) HIPAA
4 5 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.28%) NIST
6 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (29.36%) Docker
2 41 (17.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (13.62%) Active Directory
4 17 (7.23%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.28%) KVM
7 3 (1.28%) vSphere
8 1 (0.43%) Firmware
8 1 (0.43%) NFS
8 1 (0.43%) Samba
Systems Management
1 108 (45.96%) Ansible
2 99 (42.13%) Kubernetes
3 77 (32.77%) Terraform
4 46 (19.57%) Puppet
5 34 (14.47%) Grafana
6 31 (13.19%) Progress Chef
7 28 (11.91%) Prometheus
8 22 (9.36%) Packer
9 13 (5.53%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (5.11%) ZABBIX
11 11 (4.68%) Istio
11 11 (4.68%) vCenter Server
12 10 (4.26%) HAProxy
12 10 (4.26%) linkerd
13 9 (3.83%) Consul
13 9 (3.83%) Rancher
14 8 (3.40%) Kibana
15 4 (1.70%) Nagios
16 3 (1.28%) Red Hat Satellite
16 3 (1.28%) SELinux
Vendors
1 49 (20.85%) VMware
2 45 (19.15%) Red Hat
3 39 (16.60%) Cisco
3 39 (16.60%) Oracle
4 17 (7.23%) Splunk
5 15 (6.38%) Microsoft
6 10 (4.26%) Apple
7 9 (3.83%) F5
7 9 (3.83%) Okta
8 8 (3.40%) Atlassian
8 8 (3.40%) Google
9 7 (2.98%) ESET
9 7 (2.98%) IBM
9 7 (2.98%) SAP
9 7 (2.98%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.55%) NetApp
10 6 (2.55%) Tanium
11 4 (1.70%) EMC
11 4 (1.70%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.70%) HP