Bourne shell Contract Job Trends

Bourne shell
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Bourne shell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bourne shell 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.018% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £383 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 - -
75th Percentile £428 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 - -

All Programming Languages
UK

Bourne shell 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,393 11,557 14,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.40% 32.36% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,515 7,415 9,980
10th Percentile £349 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 282 433
10th Percentile £31.02 £22.00 £31.30
25th Percentile £48.75 £40.19 £47.50
Median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bourne shell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Bourne shell job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bourne shell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bourne shell

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bourne shell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bourne shell

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Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bourne shell within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England - 2 £405 -
East of England - 1 £405 -
UK excluding London - 1 £405 -
London - 1 - -

Bourne shell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Multimedia
1 2 (100.00%) Wearables
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Augmented Reality
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (50.00%) Acoustics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 2 (100.00%) Inertial Measurement
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree