Bash Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Bash Shell
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 32 69
Rank change year-on-year -17 +37 +21
Contract jobs citing Bash 38 37 10
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 4.14% 5.20% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.75% 16.30% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 7
10th Percentile £378 - £542
25th Percentile £400 £406 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £500 £738 -
90th Percentile £550 £773 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -10.91% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 298 227 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 32.50% 31.93% 21.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 160 188
10th Percentile £369 £359 £330
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £567 £591
90th Percentile £675 £725 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile - £28.75 £19.91
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +146.36% -69.56%
75th Percentile - £99.32 £25.58
90th Percentile - £102.00 £44.39
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -69.56%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Bash job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in West Yorkshire

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Bash
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Leeds -22 30 £460 -16.40% 6
Bradford - 4 £435 - 1
Halifax - 3 - - 1
Bash
Yorkshire

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (2.63%) Apache
1 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (73.68%) AWS
2 18 (47.37%) Azure
3 17 (44.74%) GCP
4 10 (26.32%) Amazon S3
5 9 (23.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (23.68%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (21.05%) GitHub
6 8 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (15.79%) Amazon ELB
8 5 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (10.53%) Serverless
10 2 (5.26%) Apigee
10 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (5.26%) Datadog
11 1 (2.63%) AWS KMS
11 1 (2.63%) Azure Storage
11 1 (2.63%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 16 (42.11%) Firewall
2 6 (15.79%) DNS
2 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
2 6 (15.79%) VPN
3 5 (13.16%) Ethernet
3 5 (13.16%) SD-WAN
3 5 (13.16%) SSL
4 4 (10.53%) Wireshark
5 3 (7.89%) Network Security
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (2.63%) FTP
6 1 (2.63%) IOS XR
6 1 (2.63%) SNMP
6 1 (2.63%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (2.63%) SSH
6 1 (2.63%) TACACS
6 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 12 (31.58%) Git
3 9 (23.68%) GitLab
4 6 (15.79%) CircleCI
5 3 (7.89%) JIRA
6 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.63%) Maven
6 1 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.63%) Selenium
6 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.63%) Spinnaker
General
1 7 (18.42%) Banking
1 7 (18.42%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Finance
3 1 (2.63%) Law
3 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (28.95%) Senior
3 8 (21.05%) AWS DevOps
4 7 (18.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) NetBackup Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) Network Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (15.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) Test Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Lead
8 2 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Operations Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Veritas Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 1 (2.63%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Node.js
2 2 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.63%) Gherkin
3 1 (2.63%) Jest
3 1 (2.63%) JSON
3 1 (2.63%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.63%) Spring
3 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.63%) Swagger
3 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
1 5 (13.16%) NHS
2 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (47.37%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Unix
3 3 (7.89%) Windows
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (55.26%) DevOps
2 19 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 16 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (28.95%) Containerisation
5 10 (26.32%) Security Monitoring
6 9 (23.68%) Task Automation
7 8 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
8 7 (18.42%) Business Continuity
8 7 (18.42%) Business Strategy
8 7 (18.42%) Data Protection
8 7 (18.42%) Observability
8 7 (18.42%) RBAC
9 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (13.16%) DevSecOps
10 5 (13.16%) High Availability
10 5 (13.16%) Incident Response
10 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
10 5 (13.16%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 37 (97.37%) Python
2 17 (44.74%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.89%) Java
3 3 (7.89%) Search Processing Language
4 2 (5.26%) C#
4 2 (5.26%) Go
4 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.26%) SQL
5 1 (2.63%) Bicep
5 1 (2.63%) Groovy
5 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.63%) Perl
5 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.63%) CCNA
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.63%) CISSP
3 1 (2.63%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) HIPAA
1 3 (7.89%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (50.00%) Docker
2 7 (18.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (60.53%) Terraform
2 20 (52.63%) Ansible
3 11 (28.95%) Kubernetes
4 7 (18.42%) Grafana
4 7 (18.42%) NetBackup
4 7 (18.42%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (13.16%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.63%) HP Fortify
6 1 (2.63%) Istio
6 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.63%) Puppet
6 1 (2.63%) SCCM
6 1 (2.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Google
1 8 (21.05%) Oracle
1 8 (21.05%) VMware
2 7 (18.42%) CyberArk
2 7 (18.42%) Veritas
3 6 (15.79%) CheckPoint
3 6 (15.79%) F5
3 6 (15.79%) Palo Alto
4 5 (13.16%) Cisco
4 5 (13.16%) Splunk
5 4 (10.53%) Juniper
5 4 (10.53%) Meraki
5 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
5 4 (10.53%) Nokia
6 2 (5.26%) CloudEndure
6 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.26%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.63%) Ciena
7 1 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.63%) Darktrace