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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 150 208
Rank change year-on-year -20 +58 -76
Contract jobs citing Bash 721 515 418
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.59% 1.87% 1.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.02% 5.70% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 347 301
10th Percentile £394 £362 £375
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £723 £696 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 13
10th Percentile £56.50 £44.82 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £47.13 £25.25
Median hourly rate £68.70 £54.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.47% -4.78% -19.30%
75th Percentile £98.82 £63.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.00 £64.80 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £68.70 £54.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +25.47% -4.78% -17.86%

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 11,972 9,029 10,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.41% 32.81% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,774 6,240 7,683
10th Percentile £363 £350 £354
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £768 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 228 370
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £31.16
25th Percentile £53.53 £40.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +5.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.16 £83.42 £78.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -38 311 £519 -3.26% 115
North of England -6 162 £510 -0.05% 54
South East -11 99 £537 +23.45% 56
South West -8 78 £613 +6.52% 40
Yorkshire -24 77 £507 -1.07% 11
North West -11 64 £544 +8.75% 36
Midlands -44 32 £525 +16.67% 17
West Midlands -47 32 £525 +16.67% 10
East of England -14 22 £483 +1.58% 16
North East -34 20 £406 -26.14% 7
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 40 (5.55%) Confluence
2 21 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.64%) Apache
4 13 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.53%) nginx
5 11 (1.53%) SAS
6 7 (0.97%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.83%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.69%) IIS
9 4 (0.55%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.55%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.55%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.55%) WordPress
10 3 (0.42%) JBoss
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.28%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.55%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.14%) Actimize
4 1 (0.14%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 351 (48.68%) AWS
2 320 (44.38%) Azure
3 198 (27.46%) GitHub
4 151 (20.94%) GCP
5 132 (18.31%) GitHub Actions
6 117 (16.23%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (10.12%) Amazon EKS
8 64 (8.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 63 (8.74%) Serverless
10 61 (8.46%) Amazon S3
11 60 (8.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 57 (7.91%) OpenShift
13 51 (7.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 48 (6.66%) AWS Lambda
15 45 (6.24%) Datadog
16 43 (5.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 42 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
18 40 (5.55%) Azure Monitor
19 37 (5.13%) Azure AKS
19 37 (5.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 122 (16.92%) DNS
2 118 (16.37%) Firewall
3 72 (9.99%) TCP/IP
4 56 (7.77%) VPN
5 51 (7.07%) DHCP
6 50 (6.93%) Network Security
7 17 (2.36%) VLAN
7 17 (2.36%) VSAN
8 16 (2.22%) SAN
9 15 (2.08%) SSL
10 14 (1.94%) WAN
11 13 (1.80%) NAS
12 11 (1.53%) HTTP
13 10 (1.39%) SD-WAN
14 9 (1.25%) SNMP
15 8 (1.11%) BGP
15 8 (1.11%) SSH
16 7 (0.97%) DNSSEC
16 7 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
17 4 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.85%) SQL Server
2 29 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 16 (2.22%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.08%) MySQL
7 14 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (1.94%) Redis
8 13 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
9 11 (1.53%) Pentaho
10 10 (1.39%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.39%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.25%) Big Data
11 9 (1.25%) Metadata
11 9 (1.25%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.11%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.83%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 202 (28.02%) Jenkins
2 138 (19.14%) GitLab
3 116 (16.09%) Git
4 44 (6.10%) JIRA
5 13 (1.80%) Artifactory
6 12 (1.66%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (1.39%) Selenium
9 9 (1.25%) Postman
10 8 (1.11%) JMeter
11 6 (0.83%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.83%) MLflow
11 6 (0.83%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.83%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
12 5 (0.69%) Liquibase
13 4 (0.55%) Jaeger
14 3 (0.42%) Gatling
14 3 (0.42%) Spinnaker
General
1 162 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 101 (14.01%) Finance
3 77 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (9.29%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.52%) Banking
6 18 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.36%) Legal
8 12 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.11%) Law
9 8 (1.11%) Military
9 8 (1.11%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.69%) Publishing
10 5 (0.69%) Retail
11 4 (0.55%) Automotive
11 4 (0.55%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.55%) Front Office
12 3 (0.42%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.28%) Billing
13 2 (0.28%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 139 (19.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 90 (12.48%) Senior
3 70 (9.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 70 (9.71%) Platform Engineer
4 51 (7.07%) Security Engineer
5 50 (6.93%) AWS Engineer
5 50 (6.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 47 (6.52%) Architect
7 44 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
8 43 (5.96%) Lead
8 43 (5.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 34 (4.72%) Site Engineer
10 32 (4.44%) Linux Engineer
11 29 (4.02%) GCP Engineer
12 26 (3.61%) AWS DevOps
12 26 (3.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 26 (3.61%) Data Engineer
12 26 (3.61%) Senior DevOps
12 26 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 23 (3.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.66%) Kafka
2 38 (5.27%) Elastic Stack
3 36 (4.99%) REST
3 36 (4.99%) YAML
4 31 (4.30%) ARM Templates
4 31 (4.30%) OpenTelemetry
5 19 (2.64%) Loki
6 18 (2.50%) Middleware
7 15 (2.08%) JSON
8 14 (1.94%) .NET
8 14 (1.94%) Node.js
9 13 (1.80%) LDAP
10 11 (1.53%) SAML
10 11 (1.53%) SOAP
11 9 (1.25%) OAuth
11 9 (1.25%) React
11 9 (1.25%) Swagger
12 8 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (0.97%) AngularJS
13 7 (0.97%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 118 (16.37%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (5.27%) Security Posture
4 33 (4.58%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (4.16%) Data Centre
7 27 (3.74%) PKI
8 26 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
9 24 (3.33%) Management Information System
10 21 (2.91%) Replication
11 19 (2.64%) Public Cloud
12 17 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.66%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
16 10 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 10 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
17 9 (1.25%) Clustering
18 8 (1.11%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 314 (43.55%) Linux
2 153 (21.22%) Windows
3 79 (10.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (7.07%) Windows Server
5 36 (4.99%) Unix
6 34 (4.72%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.53%) VMS
8 9 (1.25%) CentOS
9 7 (0.97%) AIX
9 7 (0.97%) Solaris
10 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.28%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.28%) Debian
12 2 (0.28%) Rocky
12 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (59.22%) CI/CD
2 396 (54.92%) DevOps
3 355 (49.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 205 (28.43%) Containerisation
5 177 (24.55%) Observability
6 147 (20.39%) Platform Engineering
7 134 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
8 131 (18.17%) Agile
9 115 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 113 (15.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 98 (13.59%) Cloud Security
12 92 (12.76%) Migration
12 92 (12.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 87 (12.07%) DevSecOps
14 83 (11.51%) High Availability
15 82 (11.37%) Configuration Management
15 82 (11.37%) Infrastructure Automation
16 80 (11.10%) SIEM
17 78 (10.82%) AI
18 77 (10.68%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 626 (86.82%) Python
2 335 (46.46%) PowerShell
3 92 (12.76%) SQL
4 65 (9.02%) Java
5 57 (7.91%) Go
6 52 (7.21%) Bicep
7 25 (3.47%) Perl
7 25 (3.47%) Shell Script
8 22 (3.05%) Groovy
9 17 (2.36%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.53%) Ruby
11 10 (1.39%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.39%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.11%) C#
13 7 (0.97%) C
14 5 (0.69%) Korn
14 5 (0.69%) Scala
14 5 (0.69%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.55%) C++
15 4 (0.55%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 258 (35.78%) Security Cleared
2 198 (27.46%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.32%) DV Cleared
4 55 (7.63%) AWS Certification
5 51 (7.07%) Azure Certification
6 47 (6.52%) Degree
7 28 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (3.47%) CISSP
9 16 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (2.08%) CCNP
11 13 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.80%) CCNA
12 12 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.66%) VCAP
13 11 (1.53%) RHCE
14 9 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (1.25%) RHCA
15 7 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.02%) QA
2 27 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.64%) NIST
4 14 (1.94%) GDPR
4 14 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.66%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.53%) SLA
7 8 (1.11%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.69%) GRC
9 5 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.28%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.28%) NCSC
13 1 (0.14%) HL7
13 1 (0.14%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 229 (31.76%) Docker
2 73 (10.12%) Active Directory
3 72 (9.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (5.13%) vSphere
5 34 (4.72%) Hyper-V
6 30 (4.16%) VMware NSX
7 12 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.39%) NFS
8 10 (1.39%) Squid
9 8 (1.11%) Firmware
9 8 (1.11%) KVM
10 7 (0.97%) Postfix
11 5 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.55%) Varnish
13 3 (0.42%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.42%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.42%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.42%) zsh
Systems Management
1 419 (58.11%) Terraform
2 327 (45.35%) Kubernetes
3 274 (38.00%) Ansible
4 150 (20.80%) Grafana
5 126 (17.48%) Prometheus
6 61 (8.46%) Puppet
7 51 (7.07%) Argo
8 46 (6.38%) Progress Chef
9 24 (3.33%) Istio
9 24 (3.33%) vCenter Server
10 13 (1.80%) Podman
11 12 (1.66%) Packer
11 12 (1.66%) systemd
11 12 (1.66%) VxRail
12 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (1.39%) NetBackup
14 9 (1.25%) SCCM
15 8 (1.11%) HAProxy
16 7 (0.97%) Rancher
17 6 (0.83%) Consul
Vendors
1 113 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 93 (12.90%) VMware
3 78 (10.82%) Google
4 76 (10.54%) Red Hat
5 56 (7.77%) Splunk
6 55 (7.63%) Oracle
7 51 (7.07%) Dynatrace
8 30 (4.16%) Cisco
9 27 (3.74%) CyberArk
10 22 (3.05%) Databricks
10 22 (3.05%) IBM
11 21 (2.91%) ServiceNow
12 15 (2.08%) Pure Storage
13 14 (1.94%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.80%) Cloudera
15 12 (1.66%) Informatica
15 12 (1.66%) SolarWinds
16 11 (1.53%) Talend
16 11 (1.53%) Zscaler
17 10 (1.39%) Fortinet