Bash Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Bash Shell
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 94 123
Rank change year-on-year -13 +29 +8
Contract jobs citing Bash 22 32 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.21% 1.55% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.64% 4.38% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 12
10th Percentile £400 £355 £406
25th Percentile £484 £438 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £544 £646
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -15.86% +2.38%
75th Percentile £622 £656 £724
90th Percentile £675 £675 £860
Central London median daily rate £540 £544 £613
% change year-on-year -0.69% -11.22% -3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £112.00 -

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 605 730 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.28% 35.42% 33.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 463 617
10th Percentile £357 £406 £400
25th Percentile £436 £482 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £585 £595
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.68% -0.83%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £26.00 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.31 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.32% +135.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £44.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £55.63 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.30% -12.63% -17.39%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bash relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Bash job vacancy trend in the City of London

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Bash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Bash

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 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the City of London

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Bash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Bash

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) GitHub
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
4 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) Datadog
5 2 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
5 2 (9.09%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (4.55%) DKIM
3 1 (4.55%) Network Security
3 1 (4.55%) SSL
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (9.09%) MySQL
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.55%) CouchDB
3 1 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (4.55%) GIS
3 1 (4.55%) OLTP
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Redis
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.55%) GitLab
4 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Local Government
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Database Specialist
2 2 (9.09%) Developer
2 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Migration Specialist
2 2 (9.09%) Senior
2 2 (9.09%) Site Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Architect
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Consultant
3 1 (4.55%) DBA
3 1 (4.55%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (4.55%) Lead
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Loki
1 2 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) CSS
2 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.55%) Memcached
2 1 (4.55%) Middleware
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (4.55%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Replication
2 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Clustering
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Code
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.55%) Android
4 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.55%) Solaris
4 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (45.45%) DevOps
4 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
4 5 (22.73%) High Availability
4 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (18.18%) Observability
6 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (13.64%) Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (9.09%) Performance Metrics
7 2 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
7 2 (9.09%) Server Hardening
7 2 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
2 5 (22.73%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
4 2 (9.09%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 2 (9.09%) PromQL
5 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
5 1 (4.55%) AWK
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) Korn
5 1 (4.55%) Perl
5 1 (4.55%) PHP
5 1 (4.55%) ProC
5 1 (4.55%) sed
5 1 (4.55%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) OCP
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (4.55%) RHCE
2 1 (4.55%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) GPFS
2 1 (4.55%) NFS
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Terraform
2 8 (36.36%) Ansible
3 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 5 (22.73%) Prometheus
4 4 (18.18%) Grafana
5 2 (9.09%) Argo
5 2 (9.09%) Kustomize
5 2 (9.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Data Guard
6 1 (4.55%) Icinga
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
1 4 (18.18%) Splunk
2 3 (13.64%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) F5
3 1 (4.55%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.55%) Qualys
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.55%) Symantec
3 1 (4.55%) Tanium
3 1 (4.55%) Tenable
3 1 (4.55%) VMware