Bash Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Bash Shell
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 24 41
Rank change year-on-year -8 +17 +2
Contract jobs citing Bash 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.90% 1.57% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.45% 4.35% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £468 £460 -
25th Percentile £475 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £525 £600 -
90th Percentile £533 £630 -
South East median daily rate £463 £450 £560
% change year-on-year +2.78% -19.64% -4.27%

All Programming Languages
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 58 46 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 26.01% 36.22% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 38 50
10th Percentile - £356 £350
25th Percentile £205 £425 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £278 £475 £414
Median % change year-on-year -41.58% +14.73% -24.73%
75th Percentile £425 £600 £625
90th Percentile £564 £638 £678
South East median daily rate £488 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.67% -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £64.76 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% +17.75% -12.23%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Bash job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Bash

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Bash

Bash
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 3 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
Crawley -8 1 £475 -9.52% 2
Worthing - 1 £525 - 2
Bash
South East

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C++ Applications Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C++ Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOD
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) SOLID
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (50.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) Symantec
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas
1 1 (50.00%) VMware