Bash Contract Job Trends in England

Bash Shell
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 150 200
Rank change year-on-year -43 +50 -71
Contract jobs citing Bash 567 455 431
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.90% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.11% 5.58% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 304 305
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -4.32% -12.00%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £625
90th Percentile £678 £725 £689
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 12
10th Percentile £54.55 £26.83 £22.00
25th Percentile £57.59 £34.24 £24.44
Median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -15.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.06 £71.88
90th Percentile £70.41 £67.89 £74.69
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -15.13%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,099 8,150 11,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.62% 34.04% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,296 5,656 8,040
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% -3.64%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 527 195 471
10th Percentile £36.95 £28.27 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.50 £48.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -0.80%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Bash job vacancy trend in England

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in England

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bash

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Bash in England

Bash
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the England region over the 6 months to 3 June 2026. 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
London -60 238 £525 -0.24% 114
North of England -13 142 £453 -13.71% 50
Yorkshire -18 81 £479 -12.95% 9
South East -28 71 £465 +0.43% 55
North West -11 49 £477 -3.15% 35
South West -31 48 £500 -16.67% 36
Midlands -40 41 £465 -15.45% 24
West Midlands -36 39 £467 -22.17% 10
East of England -32 16 £494 +3.95% 10
North East -22 12 £413 -25.00% 6
East Midlands -33 2 £436 +6.99% 14
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 31 (5.47%) Confluence
2 13 (2.29%) Apache
3 11 (1.94%) nginx
4 10 (1.76%) SAS
5 8 (1.41%) IIS
6 7 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.23%) WebSphere
7 6 (1.06%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.71%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.35%) CMS
10 2 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) JBoss
10 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.18%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.18%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 252 (44.44%) AWS
2 221 (38.98%) Azure
3 160 (28.22%) GitHub
4 117 (20.63%) GCP
5 98 (17.28%) GitHub Actions
6 89 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (10.76%) OpenShift
8 51 (8.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 50 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (8.47%) Serverless
11 46 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 40 (7.05%) Amazon S3
12 40 (7.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 36 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (5.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 29 (5.11%) Azure AKS
17 28 (4.94%) Datadog
18 23 (4.06%) Azure Monitor
19 21 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (13.23%) DNS
2 72 (12.70%) Firewall
3 38 (6.70%) TCP/IP
4 37 (6.53%) VPN
5 30 (5.29%) Network Security
6 18 (3.17%) SAN
7 15 (2.65%) DHCP
7 15 (2.65%) NAS
8 13 (2.29%) HTTP
8 13 (2.29%) VLAN
9 12 (2.12%) SSL
10 10 (1.76%) WAN
11 8 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
11 8 (1.41%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.23%) SNMP
13 6 (1.06%) BGP
14 4 (0.71%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (0.71%) Multicast
14 4 (0.71%) VSAN
14 4 (0.71%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 20 (3.53%) MongoDB
4 18 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (2.65%) MySQL
7 14 (2.47%) Redis
8 13 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (1.94%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.94%) Pentaho
9 11 (1.94%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.41%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.23%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (1.06%) DB2
13 5 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.88%) Big Data
13 5 (0.88%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 167 (29.45%) Jenkins
2 117 (20.63%) GitLab
3 99 (17.46%) Git
4 43 (7.58%) JIRA
5 12 (2.12%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.59%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.59%) Postman
7 7 (1.23%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.23%) JMeter
8 6 (1.06%) Liquibase
8 6 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.88%) Selenium
10 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.71%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.53%) Appium
11 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.53%) Snyk
11 3 (0.53%) Spinnaker
General
1 140 (24.69%) Social Skills
2 70 (12.35%) Finance
3 58 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 39 (6.88%) Banking
6 15 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.47%) Legal
8 13 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.59%) Law
10 7 (1.23%) Military
11 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.71%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.71%) Retail
13 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.35%) Aviation
13 2 (0.35%) Front Office
13 2 (0.35%) Police
14 1 (0.18%) Back Office
14 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 115 (20.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
3 49 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 46 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
4 46 (8.11%) Security Engineer
5 44 (7.76%) Senior
6 35 (6.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 33 (5.82%) Architect
8 32 (5.64%) Lead
9 29 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (4.76%) Data Engineer
10 27 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
11 26 (4.59%) Site Engineer
12 25 (4.41%) Linux Engineer
13 24 (4.23%) AWS DevOps
13 24 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (4.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.70%) GCP DevOps
16 18 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 18 (3.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
2 38 (6.70%) Kafka
3 27 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
3 27 (4.76%) REST
4 24 (4.23%) YAML
5 19 (3.35%) Middleware
6 16 (2.82%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.94%) JSON
7 11 (1.94%) Loki
7 11 (1.94%) Node.js
8 10 (1.76%) ADO
8 10 (1.76%) LDAP
8 10 (1.76%) SAML
8 10 (1.76%) Swagger
9 9 (1.59%) OAuth
10 8 (1.41%) .NET
10 8 (1.41%) AngularJS
10 8 (1.41%) Keycloak
10 8 (1.41%) React
10 8 (1.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 95 (16.75%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (4.59%) Security Posture
4 24 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (3.88%) Data Centre
5 22 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (3.53%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (3.00%) Onboarding
9 16 (2.82%) Replication
10 13 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (2.29%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.59%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.23%) Clustering
13 6 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.06%) PKI
14 5 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
14 5 (0.88%) Private Cloud
15 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 227 (40.04%) Linux
2 101 (17.81%) Windows
3 56 (9.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 46 (8.11%) Unix
5 32 (5.64%) Windows Server
6 21 (3.70%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.12%) VMS
8 11 (1.94%) Mac OS
9 10 (1.76%) AIX
10 9 (1.59%) CentOS
11 6 (1.06%) Solaris
12 5 (0.88%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.35%) CoreOS
15 2 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.35%) Debian
15 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (58.91%) CI/CD
2 324 (57.14%) DevOps
3 245 (43.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 164 (28.92%) Containerisation
5 142 (25.04%) Observability
6 100 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
7 98 (17.28%) Agile
8 96 (16.93%) Platform Engineering
9 76 (13.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 74 (13.05%) Migration
11 70 (12.35%) Configuration Management
12 69 (12.17%) Root Cause Analysis
13 67 (11.82%) Cloud Security
14 64 (11.29%) High Availability
15 63 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
16 58 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 54 (9.52%) Test Automation
18 53 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
19 51 (8.99%) SIEM
20 44 (7.76%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 487 (85.89%) Python
2 255 (44.97%) PowerShell
3 82 (14.46%) SQL
4 46 (8.11%) Go
5 45 (7.94%) Java
6 26 (4.59%) Bicep
7 23 (4.06%) Shell Script
8 22 (3.88%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.82%) Groovy
10 15 (2.65%) Perl
11 10 (1.76%) C
11 10 (1.76%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.76%) Ruby
12 8 (1.41%) C#
13 6 (1.06%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.88%) C++
14 5 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.71%) Scala
15 4 (0.71%) TypeScript
16 3 (0.53%) Korn
Qualifications
1 179 (31.57%) Security Cleared
2 150 (26.46%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.23%) Degree
4 36 (6.35%) Azure Certification
5 31 (5.47%) AWS Certification
6 23 (4.06%) DV Cleared
7 21 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (3.17%) CISSP
10 12 (2.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (1.94%) CCNA
11 11 (1.94%) CCNP
12 10 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (1.59%) RHCE
14 8 (1.41%) RHCA
15 7 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 4 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.71%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (3.35%) GDPR
2 19 (3.35%) QA
3 15 (2.65%) NIST
4 12 (2.12%) PCI DSS
4 12 (2.12%) SLA
5 8 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.41%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.06%) GRC
6 6 (1.06%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.88%) NCSC
8 4 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 167 (29.45%) Docker
2 49 (8.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
4 41 (7.23%) Active Directory
5 23 (4.06%) vSphere
6 21 (3.70%) Hyper-V
7 17 (3.00%) VMware NSX
8 15 (2.65%) KVM
9 11 (1.94%) Firmware
9 11 (1.94%) Squid
10 9 (1.59%) NFS
10 9 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (1.23%) Postfix
12 4 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.71%) Varnish
13 3 (0.53%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.53%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.35%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.35%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 296 (52.20%) Terraform
2 250 (44.09%) Kubernetes
3 218 (38.45%) Ansible
4 129 (22.75%) Grafana
5 114 (20.11%) Prometheus
6 46 (8.11%) Puppet
7 45 (7.94%) Argo
8 30 (5.29%) Progress Chef
9 26 (4.59%) vCenter Server
10 24 (4.23%) Istio
11 13 (2.29%) Packer
12 10 (1.76%) Kibana
13 9 (1.59%) NetBackup
13 9 (1.59%) Podman
14 8 (1.41%) HAProxy
14 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
15 7 (1.23%) linkerd
15 7 (1.23%) Rancher
15 7 (1.23%) SCCM
15 7 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (13.05%) Red Hat
2 70 (12.35%) Splunk
3 67 (11.82%) VMware
4 61 (10.76%) Microsoft
5 50 (8.82%) Google
6 42 (7.41%) Dynatrace
7 37 (6.53%) Oracle
8 21 (3.70%) IBM
9 18 (3.17%) Cisco
10 17 (3.00%) Databricks
10 17 (3.00%) Pure Storage
11 13 (2.29%) Palo Alto
11 13 (2.29%) ServiceNow
12 12 (2.12%) AppDynamics
12 12 (2.12%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.94%) Cloudera
13 11 (1.94%) Informatica
13 11 (1.94%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.76%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.76%) Talend