Bash Contracts in the City of London

Bash Shell
Central London > City of London

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 94 117
Rank change year-on-year +7 +23 -4
Contract jobs citing Bash 33 29 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.87% 1.37% 1.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.72% 3.74% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 24
10th Percentile £418 £466 £479
25th Percentile £488 £509 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £641
Median % change year-on-year - -6.43% +6.88%
75th Percentile £680 £725 £724
90th Percentile £725 £780 £744
Central London median daily rate £580 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.35% -0.43%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 699 776 1,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.65% 36.67% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 541 901
10th Percentile £404 £406 £422
25th Percentile £463 £475 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £695 £738
90th Percentile £778 £813 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £19.28 - £23.95
25th Percentile £23.44 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £81.25 - £84.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.26 £48.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year -17.00% -26.79% +26.19%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the City of London

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Bash in the City of London

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the City of London

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the City of London

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
Bash
Central London

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (9.09%) Apache
2 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) Jupyter
3 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) AWS
2 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 10 (30.30%) GitHub
3 5 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (12.12%) GCP
4 4 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Table
7 1 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
7 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) DNS
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
1 3 (9.09%) SSH
2 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.03%) HTTP
3 1 (3.03%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.03%) Internet
3 1 (3.03%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.03%) NAS
3 1 (3.03%) SAN
3 1 (3.03%) VPN
3 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.09%) Power BI
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.06%) Apache Hive
3 2 (6.06%) Delta Lake
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) Git
2 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
3 6 (18.18%) GitLab
3 6 (18.18%) JIRA
4 2 (6.06%) RStudio
5 1 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.03%) Subversion
5 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.03%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Site Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Administrator
3 3 (9.09%) Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Lead
3 3 (9.09%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Security Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Security Operations Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Database Specialist
4 2 (6.06%) DBA
4 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL Specialist
5 1 (3.03%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) LDAP
2 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.06%) JSON
2 2 (6.06%) pydantic
2 2 (6.06%) PySpark
2 2 (6.06%) REST
2 2 (6.06%) YAML
3 1 (3.03%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.03%) ADO
3 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.03%) JWT
3 1 (3.03%) Middleware
3 1 (3.03%) Node.js
3 1 (3.03%) OAuth
3 1 (3.03%) SAML
3 1 (3.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Clustering
1 3 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 3 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.06%) Reference Data
2 2 (6.06%) Replication
3 1 (3.03%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (48.48%) Linux
2 8 (24.24%) Windows
3 5 (15.15%) Unix
4 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
6 1 (3.03%) Solaris
6 1 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 14 (42.42%) DevOps
2 14 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (30.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 9 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
7 6 (18.18%) High Availability
7 6 (18.18%) Observability
8 5 (15.15%) Incident Response
9 4 (12.12%) Data Security
9 4 (12.12%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (12.12%) Migration
9 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (12.12%) Task Automation
10 3 (9.09%) Computer Science
10 3 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (90.91%) Python
2 10 (30.30%) PowerShell
3 8 (24.24%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) AWK
4 2 (6.06%) Bicep
4 2 (6.06%) C#
4 2 (6.06%) Go
4 2 (6.06%) Groovy
4 2 (6.06%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) Scala
4 2 (6.06%) sed
5 1 (3.03%) AppleScript
5 1 (3.03%) C
5 1 (3.03%) C++
5 1 (3.03%) Perl
5 1 (3.03%) Ruby
5 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.03%) CEH
5 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) NIST
3 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 3 (9.09%) NFS
3 2 (6.06%) GPFS
3 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.03%) OpenAM
4 1 (3.03%) OpenDJ
4 1 (3.03%) OpenIDM
4 1 (3.03%) Veritas File System
4 1 (3.03%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 15 (45.45%) Terraform
2 12 (36.36%) Ansible
2 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 5 (15.15%) Grafana
3 5 (15.15%) Progress Chef
3 5 (15.15%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.09%) Puppet
5 2 (6.06%) Argo
5 2 (6.06%) Istio
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Control-M
6 1 (3.03%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (3.03%) logstash
6 1 (3.03%) Netcool
6 1 (3.03%) Packer
6 1 (3.03%) QRadar
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.03%) Tivoli
6 1 (3.03%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Splunk
1 6 (18.18%) VMware
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle
2 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.06%) CyberArk
3 2 (6.06%) Databricks
3 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.03%) Apple
4 1 (3.03%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (3.03%) BMC
4 1 (3.03%) ForgeRock
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) IBM
4 1 (3.03%) Qualys
4 1 (3.03%) SaltStack
4 1 (3.03%) TOWER Software