Bash Contract Job Trends in Wales

Bash Shell
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 46 50
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Bash 9 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 1.87% 0.22% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.33% 0.90% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £256 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.42%
75th Percentile £600 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%

All Programming Languages
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 108 111 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 22.41% 24.34% 25.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 71 90
10th Percentile £262 £170 £193
25th Percentile £400 £375 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -20.93%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £638 £575 £664
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 8
10th Percentile £25.70 £16.19 £24.13
25th Percentile £30.00 £20.12 £25.84
Median hourly rate £30.50 £20.24 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +50.73% -60.52% +170.38%
75th Percentile £33.75 £22.00 £55.25
90th Percentile £64.50 £24.97 -
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £62.50 £60.14
% change year-on-year +2.00% +3.92% -0.60%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Bash job vacancy trend in Wales

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Wales over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Wales

Bash
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Wales region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
South Wales +8 8 £263 - 3
Dyfed - 1 £600 -
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (11.11%) Azure App Service
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (55.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 1 (11.11%) Military
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Task Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Case Management
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (22.22%) SIEM
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Log Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Product Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Kibana
2 2 (22.22%) logstash
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Argo
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Podman
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk