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 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 92 111 118
Rank change year-on-year +19 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Bash 37 22 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.85% 0.90% 1.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.79% 2.64% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 19 32
10th Percentile £413 £462 £464
25th Percentile £425 £506 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £565 £648
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% -12.74% +17.73%
75th Percentile £676 £635 £727
90th Percentile £725 £758 £750
London median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +8.33%

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 773 833 1,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.71% 34.06% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 608 1,091
10th Percentile £409 £412 £420
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £620
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
London median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +21 33 £619 +10.99% 18
West End of London - 4 £503 - 4
Camden - 1 £580 -
City of Westminster - 1 £425 -
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 5 (13.51%) Apache
2 4 (10.81%) Apache Spark
2 4 (10.81%) Jupyter
3 3 (8.11%) Confluence
4 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (35.14%) AWS
2 12 (32.43%) Azure
3 9 (24.32%) GitHub
4 5 (13.51%) GCP
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (10.81%) OpenShift
5 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.41%) Datadog
7 2 (5.41%) Nutanix
7 2 (5.41%) Route 53
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.70%) Slack
8 1 (2.70%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) SSH
2 3 (8.11%) DNS
2 3 (8.11%) Firewall
2 3 (8.11%) VPN
3 2 (5.41%) Kerberos
3 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.70%) BGP
4 1 (2.70%) HTTP
4 1 (2.70%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.70%) OSPF
4 1 (2.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.81%) Apache Hive
2 4 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (10.81%) Delta Lake
2 4 (10.81%) Power BI
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.70%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.70%) MySQL
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Git
2 9 (24.32%) JIRA
3 6 (16.22%) GitLab
3 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.81%) RStudio
5 2 (5.41%) Subversion
5 2 (5.41%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.70%) Jasmine
6 1 (2.70%) JUnit
6 1 (2.70%) Serena SBM
6 1 (2.70%) Snyk
6 1 (2.70%) Travis CI
General
1 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 3 (8.11%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Senior
3 4 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Lead
4 3 (8.11%) Mac Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) GCP DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Site Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) JSON
1 4 (10.81%) pydantic
1 4 (10.81%) PySpark
1 4 (10.81%) YAML
2 3 (8.11%) LDAP
3 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.41%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) JWT
4 1 (2.70%) Middleware
4 1 (2.70%) OAuth
4 1 (2.70%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.70%) RESTful
4 1 (2.70%) SAML
4 1 (2.70%) SOAP
4 1 (2.70%) Spring
4 1 (2.70%) Spring Batch
4 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.70%) Spring Security
4 1 (2.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Data Structures
1 4 (10.81%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (10.81%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) Clustering
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (40.54%) Linux
2 7 (18.92%) Windows
3 4 (10.81%) Mac OS
4 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (8.11%) Unix
4 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.41%) Solaris
6 1 (2.70%) CentOS
6 1 (2.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) CI/CD
2 14 (37.84%) DevOps
3 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (27.03%) Containerisation
5 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (18.92%) Data Security
7 6 (16.22%) Configuration Management
7 6 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (13.51%) Agile
8 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (13.51%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (10.81%) Data Ingestion
9 4 (10.81%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (10.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 4 (10.81%) Scrum
9 4 (10.81%) Task Automation
10 3 (8.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (8.11%) High Availability
10 3 (8.11%) Observability
10 3 (8.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (89.19%) Python
2 9 (24.32%) PowerShell
3 7 (18.92%) SQL
4 4 (10.81%) Scala
5 3 (8.11%) Java
6 2 (5.41%) Groovy
6 2 (5.41%) Perl
6 2 (5.41%) Ruby
7 1 (2.70%) AppleScript
7 1 (2.70%) Bicep
7 1 (2.70%) C#
7 1 (2.70%) C++
7 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Degree
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.70%) CEH
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.70%) OSCP
5 1 (2.70%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) GDPR
2 4 (10.81%) QA
3 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (5.41%) NIST
5 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.70%) NFS
4 1 (2.70%) OpenAM
4 1 (2.70%) OpenDJ
4 1 (2.70%) OpenIDM
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (2.70%) Veritas File System
4 1 (2.70%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (45.95%) Ansible
2 16 (43.24%) Terraform
3 11 (29.73%) Kubernetes
4 6 (16.22%) Progress Chef
5 4 (10.81%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (10.81%) Puppet
6 2 (5.41%) Control-M
6 2 (5.41%) Grafana
6 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.41%) QRadar
6 2 (5.41%) Tivoli
7 1 (2.70%) Argo
7 1 (2.70%) Data Guard
7 1 (2.70%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (2.70%) Istio
7 1 (2.70%) Kibana
7 1 (2.70%) logstash
7 1 (2.70%) Netcool
7 1 (2.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) VMware
2 4 (10.81%) Databricks
2 4 (10.81%) Red Hat
3 3 (8.11%) Apple
3 3 (8.11%) CyberArk
4 2 (5.41%) BMC
4 2 (5.41%) Google
4 2 (5.41%) IBM
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) Qualys
4 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.41%) Splunk
5 1 (2.70%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.70%) EMC
5 1 (2.70%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.70%) New Relic
5 1 (2.70%) SaltStack
5 1 (2.70%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) Sybase