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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 146 195
Rank change year-on-year -22 +49 -62
Contract jobs citing Bash 592 482 467
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.91% 1.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.59% 5.66% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 302 319
10th Percentile £395 £382 £405
25th Percentile £420 £459 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £568 £540
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +5.09% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £694 £625
90th Percentile £698 £798 £715
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 15
10th Percentile £40.75 £25.25 £33.70
25th Percentile £61.06 £36.63 £59.00
Median hourly rate £74.26 £55.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.02% -26.67% +2.74%
75th Percentile - £71.25 £77.02
90th Percentile £80.60 £112.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £55.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +35.02% -26.67% +2.74%

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 10,598 8,521 11,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.33% 33.83% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,077 5,644 7,925
10th Percentile £351 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £660
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 448 217 469
10th Percentile £41.83 £24.95 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £69.00
90th Percentile £77.15 £85.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -42 229 £525 -8.70% 74
North of England -9 155 £500 -9.09% 47
South East +8 95 £455 -2.93% 64
Yorkshire -34 84 £482 -12.36% 15
North West -2 62 £550 -3.93% 18
Midlands -32 54 £463 -7.50% 18
West Midlands -26 45 £454 -24.26% 14
South West -30 33 £544 -9.38% 32
North East -2 13 £550 - 14
East of England -37 11 £444 -6.58% 10
East Midlands -24 9 £470 +15.34% 4
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 33 (5.57%) Confluence
2 15 (2.53%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.69%) nginx
4 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.01%) Apache
5 6 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.01%) SAS
5 6 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.51%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.51%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.51%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.34%) Traefik
8 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) FileNet
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.35%) Weka
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 263 (44.43%) AWS
2 225 (38.01%) Azure
3 155 (26.18%) GitHub
4 125 (21.11%) GCP
5 86 (14.53%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (12.16%) OpenShift
8 57 (9.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 52 (8.78%) Amazon S3
9 52 (8.78%) Serverless
10 49 (8.28%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (7.94%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
12 37 (6.25%) Entra ID
13 36 (6.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (6.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 33 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (4.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 24 (4.05%) Azure AKS
17 22 (3.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 82 (13.85%) Firewall
2 62 (10.47%) DNS
3 47 (7.94%) TCP/IP
4 26 (4.39%) VPN
5 22 (3.72%) Network Security
6 21 (3.55%) VLAN
7 18 (3.04%) Wireshark
8 17 (2.87%) DHCP
9 14 (2.36%) BGP
10 11 (1.86%) HTTP
11 10 (1.69%) SSL
12 9 (1.52%) SNMP
12 9 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
13 8 (1.35%) Multicast
14 6 (1.01%) SSH
14 6 (1.01%) WebEx
15 5 (0.84%) DKIM
15 5 (0.84%) SAN
15 5 (0.84%) SMTP
16 4 (0.68%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (6.08%) SQL Server
3 24 (4.05%) MongoDB
4 20 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
5 19 (3.21%) MySQL
6 18 (3.04%) Redis
7 15 (2.53%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.86%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.69%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.35%) Big Data
11 8 (1.35%) Delta Lake
12 7 (1.18%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.18%) Pentaho
13 6 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.01%) DB2
13 6 (1.01%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 164 (27.70%) Jenkins
2 124 (20.95%) GitLab
3 93 (15.71%) Git
4 43 (7.26%) JIRA
5 15 (2.53%) CircleCI
6 14 (2.36%) Metasploit
7 13 (2.20%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.20%) Burp Suite
8 6 (1.01%) Artifactory
9 5 (0.84%) Selenium
9 5 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.84%) Spinnaker
10 4 (0.68%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.68%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.68%) Maven
10 4 (0.68%) MLflow
10 4 (0.68%) ScriptRunner
10 4 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.68%) sqlmap
11 3 (0.51%) Gradle
General
1 173 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 92 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (10.98%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.97%) Finance
5 28 (4.73%) Banking
6 20 (3.38%) Legal
7 15 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.86%) Retail
9 9 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.68%) Front Office
11 4 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.68%) Military
12 3 (0.51%) Games
12 3 (0.51%) Law
12 3 (0.51%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.34%) Billing
13 2 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 103 (17.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 75 (12.67%) Platform Engineer
3 56 (9.46%) Senior
4 40 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
5 39 (6.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 36 (6.08%) Architect
7 35 (5.91%) Site Engineer
8 31 (5.24%) Lead
9 25 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
9 25 (4.22%) Security Engineer
10 24 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
11 23 (3.89%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (3.89%) Data Engineer
12 22 (3.72%) GCP Engineer
13 21 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
13 21 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (3.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 20 (3.38%) Developer
14 20 (3.38%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (8.28%) Elastic Stack
2 34 (5.74%) Kafka
3 32 (5.41%) REST
4 19 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
5 17 (2.87%) Loki
5 17 (2.87%) Middleware
6 16 (2.70%) ARM Templates
7 14 (2.36%) Keycloak
7 14 (2.36%) Node.js
7 14 (2.36%) YAML
8 10 (1.69%) .NET
9 9 (1.52%) OAuth
9 9 (1.52%) SAML
10 8 (1.35%) ADO
10 8 (1.35%) LDAP
11 6 (1.01%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.01%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.01%) OpenAPI
11 6 (1.01%) Swagger
11 6 (1.01%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.82%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.89%) Data Centre
5 21 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
5 21 (3.55%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.55%) Security Posture
6 14 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.36%) PKI
7 13 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.20%) Replication
8 12 (2.03%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.18%) Clustering
10 7 (1.18%) NHS
11 6 (1.01%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 277 (46.79%) Linux
2 110 (18.58%) Windows
3 63 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 58 (9.80%) Unix
5 34 (5.74%) Windows Server
6 29 (4.90%) Mac OS
7 15 (2.53%) Ubuntu
8 14 (2.36%) CentOS
9 12 (2.03%) VMS
10 10 (1.69%) AIX
11 9 (1.52%) Kali Linux
12 7 (1.18%) Solaris
13 6 (1.01%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (54.22%) CI/CD
2 305 (51.52%) DevOps
3 268 (45.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 195 (32.94%) Containerisation
5 140 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (22.64%) Observability
7 109 (18.41%) Platform Engineering
8 108 (18.24%) Agile
9 81 (13.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 76 (12.84%) High Availability
11 72 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 72 (12.16%) Incident Response
11 72 (12.16%) Infrastructure Automation
12 66 (11.15%) Test Automation
13 64 (10.81%) Configuration Management
14 59 (9.97%) DevSecOps
15 58 (9.80%) Migration
16 56 (9.46%) Task Automation
17 53 (8.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 53 (8.95%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 505 (85.30%) Python
2 242 (40.88%) PowerShell
3 63 (10.64%) SQL
4 36 (6.08%) Java
5 33 (5.57%) Perl
6 32 (5.41%) Go
7 25 (4.22%) JavaScript
8 23 (3.89%) Bicep
9 21 (3.55%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.70%) C#
11 15 (2.53%) Groovy
12 13 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.69%) PHP
14 8 (1.35%) C
14 8 (1.35%) C++
15 6 (1.01%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.84%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.68%) Korn
17 4 (0.68%) Ruby
18 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 202 (34.12%) Security Cleared
2 168 (28.38%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.09%) Degree
4 36 (6.08%) AWS Certification
5 24 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (3.55%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (3.38%) DV Cleared
8 19 (3.21%) Azure Certification
8 19 (3.21%) CCNP
9 17 (2.87%) OSCP
10 16 (2.70%) GPEN
11 15 (2.53%) CCNA
12 14 (2.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.03%) CEH
15 11 (1.86%) CCDP
16 9 (1.52%) CISSP
16 9 (1.52%) RHCE
17 7 (1.18%) Master's Degree
18 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.05%) GDPR
2 20 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.36%) QA
4 12 (2.03%) NCSC
5 11 (1.86%) NIST
6 8 (1.35%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.35%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.18%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.01%) SLA
9 4 (0.68%) GRC
9 4 (0.68%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 219 (36.99%) Docker
2 72 (12.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (7.43%) Active Directory
4 37 (6.25%) vSphere
5 29 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (3.38%) Hyper-V
7 19 (3.21%) VMware NSX
8 18 (3.04%) KVM
9 10 (1.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 9 (1.52%) Firmware
10 9 (1.52%) Lustre
11 8 (1.35%) GPFS
12 6 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.84%) Postfix
14 4 (0.68%) Squid
15 3 (0.51%) Ceph
15 3 (0.51%) NFS
15 3 (0.51%) Snort
16 2 (0.34%) QEMU
16 2 (0.34%) zsh
Systems Management
1 298 (50.34%) Terraform
2 281 (47.47%) Kubernetes
3 220 (37.16%) Ansible
4 121 (20.44%) Grafana
5 109 (18.41%) Prometheus
6 54 (9.12%) Argo
7 52 (8.78%) Puppet
8 26 (4.39%) vCenter Server
9 25 (4.22%) Istio
10 19 (3.21%) Progress Chef
11 16 (2.70%) Kibana
11 16 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
12 15 (2.53%) Nmap
12 15 (2.53%) SCCM
13 13 (2.20%) NetBackup
14 12 (2.03%) Jamf Pro
15 11 (1.86%) Kustomize
15 11 (1.86%) Packer
15 11 (1.86%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (1.52%) Rancher
Vendors
1 101 (17.06%) VMware
2 96 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 86 (14.53%) Splunk
4 82 (13.85%) Red Hat
5 42 (7.09%) Google
6 25 (4.22%) Cisco
7 24 (4.05%) Dynatrace
8 21 (3.55%) Citrix
9 19 (3.21%) Oracle
9 19 (3.21%) Pure Storage
10 18 (3.04%) Databricks
11 16 (2.70%) Palo Alto
12 14 (2.36%) F5
12 14 (2.36%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.86%) Atlassian
13 11 (1.86%) IBM
13 11 (1.86%) Veritas
14 10 (1.69%) Commvault
14 10 (1.69%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.69%) Dell