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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 175 112
Rank change year-on-year +46 -63 +50
Contract jobs citing Bash 200 185 559
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.02% 1.21% 2.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.36% 3.62% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 130 431
10th Percentile £410 £400 £456
25th Percentile £459 £463 £525
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 £716 £688 £835
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +6.01%
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 £57.50 £67.75
% change year-on-year -6.96% -15.13% +17.83%

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 3,730 5,108 9,566
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.68% 33.53% 37.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,655 3,698 6,998
10th Percentile £363 £350 £389
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £660
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 143 208
10th Percentile £24.93 £26.75 £33.73
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +25.94%
75th Percentile £68.13 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 £88.00 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.46% +2.67% +20.00%

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 4 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 4 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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 8 (4.00%) nginx
3 5 (2.50%) Traefik
4 3 (1.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.50%) IIS
5 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.50%) SAS
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Notion
1 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.50%) SAP IBP
1 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 84 (42.00%) AWS
2 70 (35.00%) Azure
3 36 (18.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 34 (17.00%) GCP
5 30 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (14.50%) GitHub
7 24 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (11.50%) Amazon S3
8 23 (11.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 19 (9.50%) Serverless
10 17 (8.50%) OpenShift
11 16 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (5.50%) AWS Fargate
13 11 (5.50%) Datadog
14 10 (5.00%) Route 53
15 8 (4.00%) Entra ID
15 8 (4.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (14.50%) DNS
2 23 (11.50%) Firewall
3 14 (7.00%) HTTP
4 13 (6.50%) TCP/IP
5 9 (4.50%) VPN
6 6 (3.00%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (2.50%) SSH
8 4 (2.00%) DHCP
8 4 (2.00%) Network Security
9 3 (1.50%) HTTPS
9 3 (1.50%) SSL
10 2 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (1.00%) Kerberos
10 2 (1.00%) SMTP
11 1 (0.50%) SAN
11 1 (0.50%) SNMP
11 1 (0.50%) VSAN
11 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (9.00%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.50%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (5.50%) MySQL
4 9 (4.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.00%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.50%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.50%) Redis
8 4 (2.00%) DB2
8 4 (2.00%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.50%) Hazelcast
9 3 (1.50%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.50%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.00%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 65 (32.50%) Jenkins
2 59 (29.50%) Git
3 57 (28.50%) GitLab
4 22 (11.00%) JIRA
5 6 (3.00%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.00%) Jasmine
5 6 (3.00%) JUnit
6 5 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (2.50%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (2.50%) webpack
7 4 (2.00%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.00%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.00%) MSI
7 4 (2.00%) Spinnaker
8 3 (1.50%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.50%) Maven
9 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.00%) JMeter
9 2 (1.00%) Travis CI
General
1 48 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.00%) Finance
3 27 (13.50%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.50%) Banking
5 5 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.00%) French Language
7 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.50%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.50%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.50%) German Language
8 1 (0.50%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.50%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.50%) Legal
8 1 (0.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 69 (34.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (27.00%) Senior
3 30 (15.00%) Senior DevOps
4 27 (13.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 17 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (8.50%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (7.50%) Developer
7 13 (6.50%) Linux Engineer
8 11 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.00%) Lead
11 8 (4.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (3.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.00%) RESTful
2 12 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (5.50%) cloud-init
3 11 (5.50%) Kafka
4 9 (4.50%) Spring
5 8 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 8 (4.00%) Keycloak
5 8 (4.00%) REST
5 8 (4.00%) YAML
6 7 (3.50%) ARM Templates
6 7 (3.50%) React
6 7 (3.50%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.00%) CSS
7 6 (3.00%) HTML
7 6 (3.00%) Node.js
7 6 (3.00%) OpenAPI
7 6 (3.00%) Swagger
8 5 (2.50%) AWS CDK
8 5 (2.50%) Spring Security
8 5 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.50%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 7 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.50%) PKI
4 6 (3.00%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.50%) Clustering
7 3 (1.50%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.50%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.00%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 95 (47.50%) Linux
2 37 (18.50%) Windows
3 34 (17.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (11.50%) Unix
5 15 (7.50%) CentOS
6 10 (5.00%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.50%) Ubuntu
8 6 (3.00%) Mac OS
8 6 (3.00%) SUSE
8 6 (3.00%) VMS
9 3 (1.50%) Solaris
10 2 (1.00%) AIX
11 1 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.50%) HPUX
11 1 (0.50%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (63.50%) CI/CD
2 108 (54.00%) DevOps
3 81 (40.50%) Containerisation
3 81 (40.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (21.50%) Agile
5 41 (20.50%) Continuous Integration
6 38 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (14.50%) Configuration Management
8 27 (13.50%) Microservices
9 26 (13.00%) Test Automation
10 25 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (12.00%) High Availability
12 23 (11.50%) Task Automation
13 22 (11.00%) Deployment Automation
13 22 (11.00%) Observability
14 20 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (10.00%) Software Delivery
15 19 (9.50%) Cloud Security
15 19 (9.50%) Mentoring
16 17 (8.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 168 (84.00%) Python
2 78 (39.00%) PowerShell
3 23 (11.50%) SQL
4 21 (10.50%) Java
5 18 (9.00%) Go
6 12 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.00%) Perl
7 8 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.50%) Bicep
8 5 (2.50%) Groovy
8 5 (2.50%) Ruby
8 5 (2.50%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.00%) C++
9 2 (1.00%) Korn
9 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.50%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.50%) C#
10 1 (0.50%) PHP
10 1 (0.50%) Scala
10 1 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (33.50%) Security Cleared
2 65 (32.50%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.50%) Degree
4 14 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.50%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.50%) CISSP
7 7 (3.50%) CEH
8 5 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.50%) RHCE
10 2 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.00%) GIAC
10 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (1.00%) OSCP
10 2 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.50%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.00%) NCSC
2 6 (3.00%) GDPR
2 6 (3.00%) QA
3 5 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (2.00%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.50%) NIST
6 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.50%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (40.50%) Docker
2 12 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.50%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.00%) vSphere
7 1 (0.50%) KVM
7 1 (0.50%) NFS
7 1 (0.50%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.50%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.50%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.50%) Samba
7 1 (0.50%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 107 (53.50%) Kubernetes
2 98 (49.00%) Terraform
3 95 (47.50%) Ansible
4 36 (18.00%) Grafana
5 33 (16.50%) Prometheus
6 32 (16.00%) Puppet
7 27 (13.50%) Progress Chef
8 13 (6.50%) Jamf Pro
8 13 (6.50%) Packer
9 11 (5.50%) Istio
10 9 (4.50%) Consul
10 9 (4.50%) ZABBIX
11 8 (4.00%) Argo
11 8 (4.00%) Kibana
11 8 (4.00%) linkerd
12 7 (3.50%) Rancher
13 6 (3.00%) HAProxy
14 5 (2.50%) Nagios
14 5 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (1.50%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (10.50%) Red Hat
1 21 (10.50%) Splunk
2 19 (9.50%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.50%) VMware
3 11 (5.50%) Apple
3 11 (5.50%) Oracle
4 10 (5.00%) Cisco
5 8 (4.00%) Google
5 8 (4.00%) Okta
5 8 (4.00%) SAP
6 7 (3.50%) F5
7 6 (3.00%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.50%) ESET
9 4 (2.00%) Imperva
9 4 (2.00%) LogRhythm
9 4 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.00%) Tanium
10 3 (1.50%) Delphix
10 3 (1.50%) IBM
10 3 (1.50%) New Relic