Bash Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Bash Shell
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Bash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bash over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 170 112
Rank change year-on-year +39 -58 +49
Contract jobs citing Bash 195 186 557
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.97% 1.21% 2.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.27% 3.62% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 130 432
10th Percentile £410 £400 £456
25th Percentile £457 £463 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -11.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £700
90th Percentile £717 £688 £835
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile - - £48.38
25th Percentile £25.25 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £59.00
75th Percentile £63.69 - £70.00
90th Percentile £64.48 - £76.65
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.90% -19.85% +13.91%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Bash falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Bash
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Bash trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Bash
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Bash.

Bash daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Bash over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Bash daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Bash.

Bash hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Bash over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Bash hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.13%) Confluence
2 8 (4.10%) nginx
3 5 (2.56%) Traefik
4 3 (1.54%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.51%) IIS
5 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Notion
1 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.51%) SAP IBP
1 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (42.05%) AWS
2 68 (34.87%) Azure
3 36 (18.46%) AWS CloudFormation
4 31 (15.90%) GCP
5 30 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (14.87%) GitHub
7 24 (12.31%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (11.79%) Amazon S3
8 23 (11.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 19 (9.74%) Serverless
10 17 (8.72%) OpenShift
11 16 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (5.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (5.64%) AWS Fargate
13 11 (5.64%) Datadog
14 10 (5.13%) Route 53
15 8 (4.10%) Entra ID
15 8 (4.10%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (14.87%) DNS
2 23 (11.79%) Firewall
3 13 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 12 (6.15%) HTTP
5 9 (4.62%) VPN
6 6 (3.08%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (2.56%) SSH
8 4 (2.05%) DHCP
8 4 (2.05%) Network Security
9 3 (1.54%) HTTPS
9 3 (1.54%) SSL
10 2 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (1.03%) Kerberos
10 2 (1.03%) SMTP
11 1 (0.51%) SAN
11 1 (0.51%) SNMP
11 1 (0.51%) VSAN
11 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (8.72%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.64%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (5.64%) MySQL
4 9 (4.62%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.08%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.56%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.56%) Redis
8 4 (2.05%) DB2
8 4 (2.05%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.54%) Hazelcast
9 3 (1.54%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.03%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.51%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 63 (32.31%) Jenkins
2 56 (28.72%) Git
3 53 (27.18%) GitLab
4 19 (9.74%) JIRA
5 6 (3.08%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.08%) Jasmine
5 6 (3.08%) JUnit
6 5 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (2.05%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.05%) MSI
7 4 (2.05%) Spinnaker
8 3 (1.54%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.54%) Maven
8 3 (1.54%) webpack
9 2 (1.03%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.03%) JMeter
9 2 (1.03%) Travis CI
General
1 48 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.38%) Finance
3 26 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.56%) Banking
5 5 (2.56%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.03%) French Language
7 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.51%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.51%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.51%) German Language
8 1 (0.51%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.51%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.51%) Legal
8 1 (0.51%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 68 (34.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (26.67%) Senior
3 29 (14.87%) Senior DevOps
4 26 (13.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 17 (8.72%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (8.72%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (6.67%) Developer
6 13 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
7 11 (5.64%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.10%) Lead
10 8 (4.10%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (3.08%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (5.64%) cloud-init
2 11 (5.64%) Kafka
2 11 (5.64%) RESTful
3 9 (4.62%) Spring
4 8 (4.10%) Keycloak
4 8 (4.10%) YAML
5 7 (3.59%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.59%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.08%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.08%) OpenAPI
6 6 (3.08%) React
6 6 (3.08%) REST
6 6 (3.08%) Swagger
7 5 (2.56%) AWS CDK
7 5 (2.56%) Node.js
7 5 (2.56%) Spring Batch
7 5 (2.56%) Spring Security
8 4 (2.05%) JSON
8 4 (2.05%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 7 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.59%) PKI
4 6 (3.08%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.54%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.03%) Clustering
8 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.03%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 93 (47.69%) Linux
2 37 (18.97%) Windows
3 34 (17.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (11.79%) Unix
5 15 (7.69%) CentOS
6 10 (5.13%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.59%) Ubuntu
8 6 (3.08%) Mac OS
8 6 (3.08%) SUSE
8 6 (3.08%) VMS
9 3 (1.54%) Solaris
10 2 (1.03%) AIX
11 1 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.51%) HPUX
11 1 (0.51%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (63.08%) CI/CD
2 107 (54.87%) DevOps
3 79 (40.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (39.49%) Containerisation
5 42 (21.54%) Agile
6 41 (21.03%) Continuous Integration
7 38 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (14.87%) Configuration Management
9 25 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (12.31%) Microservices
11 23 (11.79%) High Availability
11 23 (11.79%) Test Automation
12 22 (11.28%) Deployment Automation
13 21 (10.77%) Observability
13 21 (10.77%) Task Automation
14 20 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (10.26%) Software Delivery
15 19 (9.74%) Cloud Security
16 18 (9.23%) Mentoring
17 17 (8.72%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 163 (83.59%) Python
2 77 (39.49%) PowerShell
3 22 (11.28%) SQL
4 20 (10.26%) Java
5 18 (9.23%) Go
6 12 (6.15%) Perl
7 10 (5.13%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.10%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.56%) Bicep
9 5 (2.56%) Groovy
9 5 (2.56%) Ruby
10 4 (2.05%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.03%) C++
11 2 (1.03%) Korn
11 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.51%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.51%) C#
12 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.51%) PHP
12 1 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 66 (33.85%) Security Cleared
2 64 (32.82%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.77%) Degree
4 14 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.64%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.62%) CISSP
7 7 (3.59%) CEH
8 5 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.54%) RHCE
10 2 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.03%) GIAC
10 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (1.03%) OSCP
10 2 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.51%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.10%) NCSC
2 6 (3.08%) GDPR
2 6 (3.08%) QA
3 5 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (2.05%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.05%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.54%) NIST
6 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.51%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 77 (39.49%) Docker
2 12 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.62%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.03%) vSphere
7 1 (0.51%) KVM
7 1 (0.51%) NFS
7 1 (0.51%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.51%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.51%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.51%) Samba
7 1 (0.51%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.51%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 103 (52.82%) Kubernetes
2 96 (49.23%) Terraform
3 95 (48.72%) Ansible
4 34 (17.44%) Grafana
5 32 (16.41%) Puppet
6 31 (15.90%) Prometheus
7 27 (13.85%) Progress Chef
8 13 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
8 13 (6.67%) Packer
9 11 (5.64%) Istio
10 9 (4.62%) Consul
10 9 (4.62%) ZABBIX
11 8 (4.10%) Argo
11 8 (4.10%) Kibana
11 8 (4.10%) linkerd
12 7 (3.59%) Rancher
13 6 (3.08%) HAProxy
14 5 (2.56%) Nagios
14 5 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (1.54%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (10.77%) Red Hat
1 21 (10.77%) Splunk
2 19 (9.74%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.74%) VMware
3 11 (5.64%) Apple
3 11 (5.64%) Oracle
4 10 (5.13%) Cisco
5 8 (4.10%) Okta
5 8 (4.10%) SAP
6 7 (3.59%) F5
6 7 (3.59%) Google
7 6 (3.08%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.56%) ESET
9 4 (2.05%) Imperva
9 4 (2.05%) LogRhythm
9 4 (2.05%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.05%) Tanium
10 3 (1.54%) Delphix
10 3 (1.54%) IBM
10 3 (1.54%) New Relic