Bash Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Bash Shell
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 96 109
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +51
Contract jobs citing Bash 34 15 12
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.65% 0.79% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.49% 3.48% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 8
10th Percentile £400 £271 £400
25th Percentile £425 £345 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £409 £648
Median % change year-on-year +34.47% -36.83% +19.91%
75th Percentile £600 £490 £697
90th Percentile £628 £494 £729
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 524 431 440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.49% 22.58% 22.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 258 317
10th Percentile £358 £345 £284
25th Percentile £445 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -13.38%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £600
90th Percentile £631 £661 £700
England median daily rate £514 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.37% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 9
10th Percentile £33.91 £25.72 £17.43
25th Percentile - £33.93 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +89.19% -58.89%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £19.25
90th Percentile - £69.00 £25.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.26%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Bash job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the West Midlands

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bash

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 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
Birmingham +9 21 £525 +15.51% 10
Shropshire - 6 £400 - 2
Worcestershire - 6 £581 - 2
Bash
England

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Tuxedo
2 1 (2.94%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) AWS
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) GitHub
3 8 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (20.59%) Amazon S3
5 6 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (14.71%) GCP
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon ELB
7 4 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (2.94%) npm
10 1 (2.94%) Pulumi
10 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (29.41%) Firewall
2 9 (26.47%) DNS
3 7 (20.59%) VPN
4 6 (17.65%) TCP/IP
5 5 (14.71%) SSH
5 5 (14.71%) SSL
6 3 (8.82%) Kerberos
6 3 (8.82%) Network Security
7 2 (5.88%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.88%) Big Data
3 2 (5.88%) Delta Lake
3 2 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.88%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 13 (38.24%) Jenkins
2 9 (26.47%) Git
3 8 (23.53%) GitLab
4 4 (11.76%) SonarQube
4 4 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (5.88%) JIRA
5 2 (5.88%) MLflow
5 2 (5.88%) Poetry
5 2 (5.88%) PyCharm
5 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.94%) Gradle
6 1 (2.94%) Jaeger
6 1 (2.94%) JUnit
6 1 (2.94%) Maven
6 1 (2.94%) Postman
6 1 (2.94%) Selenium
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Finance
6 1 (2.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Site Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Splunk Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Consultant
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes Specialist
5 3 (8.82%) Management Consultant
5 3 (8.82%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (8.82%) Security Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) SIEM Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Splunk Specialist
6 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.82%) Flask
2 3 (8.82%) LDAP
2 3 (8.82%) NumPy
2 3 (8.82%) OAuth
2 3 (8.82%) Pandas
2 3 (8.82%) SAML
3 2 (5.88%) Apache Avro
3 2 (5.88%) JSON
3 2 (5.88%) REST
3 2 (5.88%) YAML
4 1 (2.94%) .NET
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (2.94%) Lucene
4 1 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.94%) SOAP
4 1 (2.94%) Spring
4 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.94%) Swagger
4 1 (2.94%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.88%) NHS
4 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.94%) MISP
4 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (55.88%) Linux
2 7 (20.59%) Windows
3 6 (17.65%) Unix
4 3 (8.82%) AIX
4 3 (8.82%) Solaris
4 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) DevOps
2 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 14 (41.18%) Containerisation
3 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (35.29%) Incident Response
5 10 (29.41%) Migration
5 10 (29.41%) Observability
6 9 (26.47%) Data Modelling
7 8 (23.53%) Change Management
7 8 (23.53%) Computer Science
7 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (20.59%) Data Ingestion
8 7 (20.59%) Knowledge Transfer
8 7 (20.59%) Roadmaps
8 7 (20.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (17.65%) Dashboard Development
9 6 (17.65%) DevSecOps
9 6 (17.65%) High Availability
9 6 (17.65%) Performance Metrics
9 6 (17.65%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (88.24%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.76%) Bicep
3 4 (11.76%) SQL
4 3 (8.82%) Go
4 3 (8.82%) Groovy
5 1 (2.94%) C
5 1 (2.94%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) Korn
5 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Scala
5 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (44.12%) Security Cleared
2 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 8 (23.53%) Degree
3 8 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 7 (20.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CEH
5 1 (2.94%) CISSP
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (11.76%) NIST
3 3 (8.82%) PCI DSS
3 3 (8.82%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.94%) NCSC
4 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 19 (55.88%) Docker
2 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 17 (50.00%) Ansible
3 12 (35.29%) Kibana
3 12 (35.29%) Terraform
4 9 (26.47%) Puppet
5 6 (17.65%) logstash
6 5 (14.71%) Grafana
6 5 (14.71%) Prometheus
7 2 (5.88%) Argo
7 2 (5.88%) Istio
7 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.94%) Fluentd
8 1 (2.94%) Podman
8 1 (2.94%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Splunk
2 4 (11.76%) CheckPoint
2 4 (11.76%) F5
2 4 (11.76%) Palo Alto
2 4 (11.76%) VMware
3 3 (8.82%) BeyondTrust
3 3 (8.82%) CyberArk
3 3 (8.82%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.88%) Cloudera
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) Commvault
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Trillium
5 1 (2.94%) Veeam
5 1 (2.94%) webMethods