Bash Contracts in Central London

Bash Shell
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 108 118
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 +7
Contract jobs citing Bash 37 29 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.84% 1.23% 1.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.77% 3.36% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 31
10th Percentile £413 £466 £519
25th Percentile £488 £509 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £678 £725 £706
90th Percentile £725 £780 £731
London median daily rate £528 £550 £645
% change year-on-year -4.09% -14.73% +7.50%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 776 863 1,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.51% 36.55% 39.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 614 980
10th Percentile £402 £411 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +5.84%
75th Percentile £692 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £813 £850
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £22.05 - £23.95
25th Percentile £27.41 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £51.44 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £73.75 - £84.63
London median hourly rate £42.82 £49.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -13.51% -21.43% +24.44%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in Central London

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Bash in Central London

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in Central London over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in Central London

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in Central London

Bash
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Central London region over the 6 months to 7 July 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
City of London +6 33 £600 - 100
West End of London - 4 £503 - 3
Camden - 1 £580 -
City of Westminster - 1 £425 - 1
Bash
London

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (8.11%) Apache
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.41%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) AWS
2 11 (29.73%) GitHub
3 10 (27.03%) Azure
4 6 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (13.51%) GCP
5 5 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
7 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
7 3 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (5.41%) Datadog
8 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
8 2 (5.41%) Route 53
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.70%) IaaS
9 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.70%) PaaS
9 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) DNS
1 4 (10.81%) Firewall
2 3 (8.11%) SSH
3 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.41%) VPN
4 1 (2.70%) HTTP
4 1 (2.70%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.70%) Internet
4 1 (2.70%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.70%) NAS
4 1 (2.70%) SAN
4 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.11%) Power BI
3 2 (5.41%) Apache Hive
3 2 (5.41%) Delta Lake
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.70%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Git
2 8 (21.62%) Jenkins
3 6 (16.22%) GitLab
3 6 (16.22%) JIRA
4 2 (5.41%) RStudio
5 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.70%) Snyk
5 1 (2.70%) Subversion
5 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.70%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (29.73%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.70%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Site Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Senior
4 3 (8.11%) Administrator
4 3 (8.11%) Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.11%) Operations Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Security Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Security Operations Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Database Specialist
5 2 (5.41%) DBA
5 2 (5.41%) Mac Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) LDAP
2 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.41%) JSON
2 2 (5.41%) pydantic
2 2 (5.41%) PySpark
2 2 (5.41%) REST
2 2 (5.41%) YAML
3 1 (2.70%) .NET
3 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.70%) ADO
3 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.70%) JWT
3 1 (2.70%) Middleware
3 1 (2.70%) Node.js
3 1 (2.70%) OAuth
3 1 (2.70%) SAML
3 1 (2.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Clustering
1 3 (8.11%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
1 3 (8.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.41%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.41%) Replication
3 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (45.95%) Linux
2 9 (24.32%) Windows
3 5 (13.51%) Unix
4 3 (8.11%) Mac OS
4 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.70%) Solaris
6 1 (2.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) CI/CD
2 15 (40.54%) DevOps
2 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (27.03%) Containerisation
4 10 (27.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 7 (18.92%) Configuration Management
5 7 (18.92%) High Availability
6 6 (16.22%) Observability
7 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (13.51%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (13.51%) Incident Response
7 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (10.81%) Data Security
8 4 (10.81%) Migration
8 4 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (10.81%) Task Automation
9 3 (8.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (8.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (86.49%) Python
2 11 (29.73%) PowerShell
3 8 (21.62%) SQL
4 2 (5.41%) AWK
4 2 (5.41%) Bicep
4 2 (5.41%) C#
4 2 (5.41%) Go
4 2 (5.41%) Groovy
4 2 (5.41%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.41%) Scala
4 2 (5.41%) sed
5 1 (2.70%) AppleScript
5 1 (2.70%) C
5 1 (2.70%) C++
5 1 (2.70%) Perl
5 1 (2.70%) Ruby
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Degree
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.70%) CEH
5 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.41%) GDPR
3 2 (5.41%) NIST
4 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) NFS
3 2 (5.41%) GPFS
3 2 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.70%) OpenAM
4 1 (2.70%) OpenDJ
4 1 (2.70%) OpenIDM
4 1 (2.70%) Veritas File System
4 1 (2.70%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (45.95%) Terraform
2 13 (35.14%) Ansible
2 13 (35.14%) Kubernetes
3 6 (16.22%) Progress Chef
4 5 (13.51%) Grafana
4 5 (13.51%) Prometheus
5 4 (10.81%) Puppet
6 3 (8.11%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (5.41%) Argo
7 2 (5.41%) Istio
7 2 (5.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (2.70%) Control-M
8 1 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (2.70%) Kibana
8 1 (2.70%) logstash
8 1 (2.70%) Netcool
8 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.70%) Tivoli
8 1 (2.70%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Splunk
1 6 (16.22%) VMware
2 3 (8.11%) Apple
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.41%) CyberArk
3 2 (5.41%) Databricks
3 2 (5.41%) Google
3 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (2.70%) BMC
4 1 (2.70%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.70%) IBM
4 1 (2.70%) New Relic
4 1 (2.70%) Qualys
4 1 (2.70%) SaltStack
4 1 (2.70%) TOWER Software