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 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 103 121
Rank change year-on-year +16 +18 +5
Contract jobs citing Bash 35 24 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.06% 1.11% 1.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.12% 3.12% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 20 24
10th Percentile £412 £459 £479
25th Percentile £472 £494 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £583 £641
Median % change year-on-year -6.65% -9.16% +14.51%
75th Percentile £685 £660 £725
90th Percentile £733 £799 £744
Central London median daily rate £544 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -6.65% -2.92% +9.09%

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 684 770 1,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.28% 35.73% 41.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 540 928
10th Percentile £405 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £738
90th Percentile £800 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £555 £625
% change year-on-year -0.81% -11.28% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £21.35
25th Percentile £16.50 £46.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £48.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.95% -7.62% -1.87%
75th Percentile £17.50 £50.25 £83.75
90th Percentile - - £84.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.04 £48.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -52.51% -7.62% -1.87%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 5 (14.29%) Apache
2 4 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 4 (11.43%) Jupyter
3 3 (8.57%) Confluence
4 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
2 13 (37.14%) Azure
3 9 (25.71%) GitHub
4 5 (14.29%) GCP
4 5 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.71%) IaaS
6 2 (5.71%) Nutanix
6 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.71%) PaaS
6 2 (5.71%) SaaS
6 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) SSH
2 4 (11.43%) Firewall
3 3 (8.57%) DNS
4 2 (5.71%) Kerberos
4 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.86%) HTTP
5 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
5 1 (2.86%) Internet
5 1 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.86%) NAS
5 1 (2.86%) SAN
5 1 (2.86%) VPN
5 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (14.29%) Power BI
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.43%) Apache Hive
2 4 (11.43%) Delta Lake
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Redis
4 1 (2.86%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Git
2 9 (25.71%) JIRA
3 8 (22.86%) Jenkins
4 7 (20.00%) GitLab
5 4 (11.43%) RStudio
6 2 (5.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (5.71%) Subversion
6 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.86%) Serena SBM
7 1 (2.86%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Lead
4 3 (8.57%) Operations Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Security Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Security Operations Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Site Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Mac Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Mac Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) JSON
1 4 (11.43%) LDAP
1 4 (11.43%) pydantic
1 4 (11.43%) PySpark
1 4 (11.43%) YAML
2 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.71%) REST
3 1 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.86%) ADO
3 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.86%) JWT
3 1 (2.86%) Middleware
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) OAuth
3 1 (2.86%) SAML
3 1 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Data Structures
1 4 (11.43%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (11.43%) Reference Data
2 3 (8.57%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (8.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Clustering
4 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Replication
4 1 (2.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (54.29%) Linux
2 10 (28.57%) Windows
3 5 (14.29%) Unix
4 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.71%) Mac OS
5 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.71%) Solaris
6 1 (2.86%) CentOS
6 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
2 15 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (37.14%) DevOps
4 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (22.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 7 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (20.00%) Data Security
7 5 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (14.29%) Migration
8 4 (11.43%) Agile
8 4 (11.43%) Data Ingestion
8 4 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (11.43%) Incident Response
8 4 (11.43%) Observability
8 4 (11.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (11.43%) Scrum
9 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (97.14%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) PowerShell
3 7 (20.00%) SQL
4 4 (11.43%) Scala
5 3 (8.57%) C#
5 3 (8.57%) Java
6 2 (5.71%) Bicep
6 2 (5.71%) Groovy
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.71%) Perl
6 2 (5.71%) Ruby
7 1 (2.86%) AppleScript
7 1 (2.86%) C
7 1 (2.86%) C++
7 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.86%) CEH
5 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) OSCP
5 1 (2.86%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) GDPR
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.57%) QA
3 2 (5.71%) NIST
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.86%) NFS
4 1 (2.86%) OpenAM
4 1 (2.86%) OpenDJ
4 1 (2.86%) OpenIDM
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (2.86%) Veritas File System
4 1 (2.86%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 14 (40.00%) Ansible
1 14 (40.00%) Terraform
2 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 3 (8.57%) Grafana
4 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.57%) Puppet
5 2 (5.71%) Argo
5 2 (5.71%) Control-M
5 2 (5.71%) Istio
5 2 (5.71%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (5.71%) QRadar
5 2 (5.71%) Tivoli
6 1 (2.86%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (2.86%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (2.86%) Kibana
6 1 (2.86%) logstash
6 1 (2.86%) Netcool
6 1 (2.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (2.86%) yum
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) VMware
2 5 (14.29%) Splunk
3 4 (11.43%) Databricks
3 4 (11.43%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.57%) CyberArk
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.71%) BMC
5 2 (5.71%) IBM
5 2 (5.71%) Oracle
5 2 (5.71%) Qualys
6 1 (2.86%) Apple
6 1 (2.86%) EMC
6 1 (2.86%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.86%) Google
6 1 (2.86%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.86%) SAP
6 1 (2.86%) Serena
6 1 (2.86%) Sybase
6 1 (2.86%) TOWER Software