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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 188 150
Rank change year-on-year +38 -38 +49
Contract jobs citing Bash 225 230 376
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.73% 1.11% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.95% 4.67% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 182 261
10th Percentile £361 £413 £400
25th Percentile £460 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £594 £625 £638
90th Percentile £692 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £526 £536 £600
% change year-on-year -1.82% -10.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 14
10th Percentile £42.39 - £51.25
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.25 £52.66
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -15.79% +29.48%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £77.13
90th Percentile £69.22 £78.00 £86.40
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £57.50 £67.75
% change year-on-year -6.96% -15.13% +28.91%

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 3,784 4,920 6,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.03% 23.74% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,522 3,294 4,475
10th Percentile £321 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% -2.65% -
75th Percentile £558 £582 £594
90th Percentile £638 £650 £679
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 430 324
10th Percentile £27.91 £37.55 £26.16
25th Percentile £44.51 £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.26% -0.80% +22.11%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +13 67 £525 - 119
South West +66 53 £600 +9.09% 37
South East +27 38 £463 -15.91% 94
Yorkshire +6 38 £550 +8.91% 37
Midlands +17 26 £550 +2.61% 37
North West +11 25 £493 -10.45% 79
Scotland -2 23 £518 +7.86% 35
East of England +22 18 £475 -13.64% 70
West Midlands +17 18 £600 +33.33% 25
East Midlands +9 8 £408 -32.08% 11
North East - 4 £550 - 3
Wales +4 2 £325 -52.90% 8
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 17 (7.56%) Confluence
2 16 (7.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.33%) nginx
3 3 (1.33%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 90 (40.00%) AWS
2 78 (34.67%) Azure
3 32 (14.22%) GCP
4 28 (12.44%) OpenShift
5 21 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (8.00%) Serverless
8 16 (7.11%) GitHub
9 12 (5.33%) Amazon S3
9 12 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (4.89%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (4.89%) SaaS
11 10 (4.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 9 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (4.00%) PaaS
13 8 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (3.11%) AWS Fargate
15 6 (2.67%) Entra ID
15 6 (2.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 54 (24.00%) DNS
2 25 (11.11%) Firewall
3 20 (8.89%) DHCP
3 20 (8.89%) TCP/IP
4 19 (8.44%) HTTP
5 6 (2.67%) 5G NR
5 6 (2.67%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (2.22%) VPN
7 4 (1.78%) SAN
7 4 (1.78%) SpaceWire
8 3 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.33%) Kerberos
8 3 (1.33%) VLAN
9 2 (0.89%) BGP
9 2 (0.89%) NAS
9 2 (0.89%) Network Security
9 2 (0.89%) OSPF
9 2 (0.89%) SSH
9 2 (0.89%) SSL
9 2 (0.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.78%) Oracle Database
2 15 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.22%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.56%) MySQL
6 6 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.67%) MariaDB
6 6 (2.67%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.78%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.78%) Redis
9 3 (1.33%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.33%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.33%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.33%) Power BI
9 3 (1.33%) Power Query
10 2 (0.89%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 53 (23.56%) Jenkins
2 48 (21.33%) Git
3 29 (12.89%) JIRA
4 25 (11.11%) GitLab
5 15 (6.67%) Selenium
6 11 (4.89%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.67%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.67%) MSI
8 5 (2.22%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.22%) TestNG
8 5 (2.22%) webpack
9 3 (1.33%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.33%) Jaeger
9 3 (1.33%) JMeter
9 3 (1.33%) Postman
9 3 (1.33%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.33%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.33%) Travis CI
10 2 (0.89%) Snyk
10 2 (0.89%) Subversion
General
1 60 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.44%) Public Sector
3 17 (7.56%) Finance
4 16 (7.11%) Telecoms
5 15 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.67%) Electronics
6 6 (2.67%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.67%) Marketing
7 5 (2.22%) Legal
8 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.89%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.89%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Aviation
10 1 (0.44%) Avionics
10 1 (0.44%) Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 45 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (12.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (9.78%) Linux Engineer
4 21 (9.33%) Senior
5 16 (7.11%) Developer
6 13 (5.78%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (4.89%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 11 (4.89%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (4.44%) Administrator
8 10 (4.44%) Engineering Specialist
9 8 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (3.56%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (3.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.11%) IT Engineer
10 7 (3.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 6 (2.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.56%) REST
2 14 (6.22%) Node.js
3 11 (4.89%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (4.89%) React
3 11 (4.89%) RESTful
3 11 (4.89%) SOAP
4 10 (4.44%) AWS CDK
5 9 (4.00%) ARM Templates
6 7 (3.11%) pytest
7 6 (2.67%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.67%) Software Packaging
7 6 (2.67%) YAML
8 5 (2.22%) .NET
8 5 (2.22%) ADO
8 5 (2.22%) CSS
8 5 (2.22%) HTML
8 5 (2.22%) Kafka
9 4 (1.78%) OAuth
9 4 (1.78%) Playwright
9 4 (1.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.89%) Linux Command Line
2 17 (7.56%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.78%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.33%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.33%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.33%) SCADA
7 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.89%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (0.89%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.89%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.44%) MISP
8 1 (0.44%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 121 (53.78%) Linux
2 84 (37.33%) Windows
3 47 (20.89%) Windows Server
4 35 (15.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (6.67%) Unix
6 7 (3.11%) CentOS
7 6 (2.67%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.22%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.22%) Solaris
9 4 (1.78%) AIX
10 3 (1.33%) VMS
11 2 (0.89%) HPUX
12 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.44%) Fedora
12 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (43.11%) CI/CD
2 86 (38.22%) DevOps
3 65 (28.89%) Containerisation
4 64 (28.44%) Agile
4 64 (28.44%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (22.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 43 (19.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 38 (16.89%) Task Automation
8 36 (16.00%) Microservices
9 34 (15.11%) Test Automation
10 33 (14.67%) Configuration Management
11 29 (12.89%) Service Management
12 25 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
12 25 (11.11%) Migration
13 20 (8.89%) Deployment Automation
13 20 (8.89%) Infrastructure Automation
14 19 (8.44%) Validation
15 18 (8.00%) High Availability
15 18 (8.00%) Security Management
16 17 (7.56%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 176 (78.22%) Python
2 99 (44.00%) PowerShell
3 47 (20.89%) SQL
4 38 (16.89%) Java
5 32 (14.22%) Perl
6 18 (8.00%) PL/SQL
7 15 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.44%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.56%) Bicep
9 8 (3.56%) Groovy
9 8 (3.56%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.67%) C#
11 5 (2.22%) C
12 4 (1.78%) Go
12 4 (1.78%) Tcl
13 3 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.33%) VBA
14 2 (0.89%) C++
14 2 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.44%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 102 (45.33%) Security Cleared
2 73 (32.44%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.22%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (9.33%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.33%) CCNP
5 12 (5.33%) Degree
6 11 (4.89%) Oracle Certification
6 11 (4.89%) RHCE
7 10 (4.44%) OCA
7 10 (4.44%) RHCA
7 10 (4.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.67%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.22%) CISSP
11 4 (1.78%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.78%) CEH
11 4 (1.78%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.33%) GDPR
2 10 (4.44%) QA
3 6 (2.67%) HIPAA
4 5 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.33%) NCSC
5 3 (1.33%) NIST
6 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.89%) SLA
6 2 (0.89%) WCAG
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 69 (30.67%) Docker
2 40 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (13.78%) Active Directory
4 16 (7.11%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.67%) vSphere
6 5 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.33%) KVM
7 3 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.44%) Firmware
8 1 (0.44%) NFS
8 1 (0.44%) Samba
Systems Management
1 119 (52.89%) Ansible
2 95 (42.22%) Kubernetes
3 75 (33.33%) Terraform
4 43 (19.11%) Puppet
5 32 (14.22%) Grafana
6 30 (13.33%) Progress Chef
7 25 (11.11%) Prometheus
8 11 (4.89%) vCenter Server
9 8 (3.56%) Kibana
10 5 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (2.22%) Nagios
10 5 (2.22%) Packer
11 4 (1.78%) HAProxy
11 4 (1.78%) Istio
11 4 (1.78%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.33%) Control-M
12 3 (1.33%) Kiali
12 3 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (1.33%) SELinux
13 2 (0.89%) Podman
Vendors
1 48 (21.33%) VMware
2 43 (19.11%) Red Hat
3 39 (17.33%) Cisco
3 39 (17.33%) Oracle
4 18 (8.00%) Microsoft
5 10 (4.44%) Splunk
6 9 (4.00%) Google
7 8 (3.56%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.11%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.11%) F5
8 7 (3.11%) IBM
9 6 (2.67%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.67%) NetApp
9 6 (2.67%) SAP
9 6 (2.67%) Tanium
10 4 (1.78%) Apple
10 4 (1.78%) EMC
10 4 (1.78%) Infoblox
11 3 (1.33%) HP
11 3 (1.33%) Imperva