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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 140 221
Rank change year-on-year -46 +81 -89
Contract jobs citing Bash 556 463 393
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.41% 1.89% 1.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.09% 5.58% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 302 269
10th Percentile £393 £381 £400
25th Percentile £416 £456 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -13.60%
75th Percentile £575 £674 £606
90th Percentile £691 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.61% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 9
10th Percentile £52.35 £25.25 £21.70
25th Percentile £58.43 £31.99 £22.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% +3.81% -22.51%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £77.50 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £68.70 £54.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +26.05% +3.81% -22.51%

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 10,932 8,294 10,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.64% 33.84% 29.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,268 5,734 7,813
10th Percentile £354 £363 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -4.52%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £653
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 212 428
10th Percentile £42.11 £25.25 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.97 £47.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.18
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +0.92% -0.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -53 218 £520 -5.45% 94
North of England -20 142 £500 -9.09% 50
South East -14 83 £450 -4.00% 56
Yorkshire -40 78 £460 -16.36% 11
North West -21 54 £550 +10.00% 27
South West -38 43 £525 -12.50% 26
Midlands -44 43 £465 -20.85% 27
West Midlands -36 40 £467 -28.29% 14
North East -5 14 £538 -3.59% 12
East of England -33 11 £413 -13.16% 24
East Midlands -37 3 £436 +6.99% 13
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 (5.94%) Confluence
2 13 (2.34%) nginx
3 10 (1.80%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.44%) SAS
5 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.26%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.08%) Apache
6 6 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.72%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.54%) IIS
9 2 (0.36%) CMS
9 2 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.36%) JBoss
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.18%) FileNet
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Weka
2 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 246 (44.24%) AWS
2 218 (39.21%) Azure
3 153 (27.52%) GitHub
4 107 (19.24%) GCP
5 88 (15.83%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (14.57%) GitHub Actions
7 74 (13.31%) OpenShift
8 54 (9.71%) Serverless
9 48 (8.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (8.27%) Amazon S3
11 43 (7.73%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (5.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (5.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 29 (5.22%) Azure AKS
16 27 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (4.50%) Entra ID
18 23 (4.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 19 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 70 (12.59%) Firewall
2 63 (11.33%) DNS
3 39 (7.01%) TCP/IP
4 27 (4.86%) VPN
5 23 (4.14%) Network Security
6 21 (3.78%) VLAN
7 13 (2.34%) DHCP
8 12 (2.16%) BGP
8 12 (2.16%) HTTP
9 9 (1.62%) SAN
10 8 (1.44%) NAS
10 8 (1.44%) Reverse Proxy
10 8 (1.44%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (1.44%) SSL
11 6 (1.08%) SNMP
11 6 (1.08%) SSH
11 6 (1.08%) WebEx
11 6 (1.08%) Wireshark
12 5 (0.90%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.90%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (11.33%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (6.12%) SQL Server
3 28 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (4.14%) MongoDB
5 21 (3.78%) NoSQL
6 17 (3.06%) Redis
7 16 (2.88%) MySQL
8 15 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.98%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.62%) Big Data
12 9 (1.62%) Pentaho
13 8 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.08%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.08%) DB2
15 5 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
15 5 (0.90%) Delta Lake
15 5 (0.90%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 156 (28.06%) Jenkins
2 117 (21.04%) GitLab
3 95 (17.09%) Git
4 42 (7.55%) JIRA
5 15 (2.70%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.80%) CircleCI
7 8 (1.44%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.08%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.90%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.90%) Selenium
10 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.72%) ScriptRunner
10 4 (0.72%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.72%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.54%) Ant
11 3 (0.54%) Appium
11 3 (0.54%) Jaeger
11 3 (0.54%) Snyk
12 2 (0.36%) Introscope
General
1 150 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 78 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (10.43%) Finance
4 48 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.32%) Banking
6 19 (3.42%) Legal
7 13 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.62%) Retail
10 8 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.08%) Military
12 5 (0.90%) Law
13 4 (0.72%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.54%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.36%) Aviation
15 2 (0.36%) Billing
15 2 (0.36%) Police
16 1 (0.18%) Financial Institution
16 1 (0.18%) Games
16 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (17.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (13.13%) Platform Engineer
3 49 (8.81%) Senior
4 38 (6.83%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (6.29%) Architect
6 34 (6.12%) Security Engineer
7 32 (5.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 30 (5.40%) Azure Engineer
8 30 (5.40%) Lead
9 29 (5.22%) Site Engineer
10 28 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (4.32%) Data Engineer
11 24 (4.32%) GCP Engineer
12 22 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (3.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 21 (3.78%) Linux Engineer
14 20 (3.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.42%) Automation Engineer
15 19 (3.42%) AWS DevOps
16 17 (3.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.55%) Elastic Stack
2 41 (7.37%) Kafka
3 33 (5.94%) REST
4 24 (4.32%) OpenTelemetry
5 21 (3.78%) YAML
6 19 (3.42%) ARM Templates
7 15 (2.70%) Node.js
8 13 (2.34%) Keycloak
8 13 (2.34%) Middleware
9 11 (1.98%) LDAP
9 11 (1.98%) Loki
10 10 (1.80%) OAuth
11 9 (1.62%) .NET
11 9 (1.62%) ADO
11 9 (1.62%) SAML
12 8 (1.44%) AngularJS
13 7 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (1.26%) SOAP
13 7 (1.26%) Vue
14 6 (1.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.95%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.78%) Data Centre
4 21 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (3.42%) Linux Command Line
6 17 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.06%) Security Posture
7 16 (2.88%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.70%) Replication
9 12 (2.16%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.16%) PKI
10 11 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.80%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.08%) Clustering
15 5 (0.90%) Grid Computing
16 4 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 231 (41.55%) Linux
2 99 (17.81%) Windows
3 57 (10.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 47 (8.45%) Unix
5 36 (6.47%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.24%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.88%) Mac OS
8 15 (2.70%) VMS
9 8 (1.44%) AIX
9 8 (1.44%) CentOS
10 5 (0.90%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.54%) Solaris
11 3 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.36%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.36%) Debian
12 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (54.68%) CI/CD
2 287 (51.62%) DevOps
3 245 (44.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 176 (31.65%) Containerisation
5 134 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (22.12%) Observability
7 117 (21.04%) Platform Engineering
8 102 (18.35%) Agile
9 74 (13.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 73 (13.13%) High Availability
11 69 (12.41%) Configuration Management
12 64 (11.51%) Migration
13 57 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (10.25%) Infrastructure Automation
14 56 (10.07%) DevSecOps
14 56 (10.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 54 (9.71%) Root Cause Analysis
16 53 (9.53%) Test Automation
17 50 (8.99%) Cybersecurity
18 47 (8.45%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 474 (85.25%) Python
2 239 (42.99%) PowerShell
3 72 (12.95%) SQL
4 36 (6.47%) Java
5 32 (5.76%) Go
6 26 (4.68%) Bicep
7 25 (4.50%) JavaScript
8 24 (4.32%) Perl
9 19 (3.42%) Shell Script
10 17 (3.06%) Groovy
11 13 (2.34%) C#
12 10 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (1.62%) PHP
14 8 (1.44%) C
14 8 (1.44%) Ruby
15 7 (1.26%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.08%) PL/SQL
16 6 (1.08%) TypeScript
17 5 (0.90%) C++
18 3 (0.54%) Korn
Qualifications
1 186 (33.45%) Security Cleared
2 156 (28.06%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.37%) Degree
4 27 (4.86%) AWS Certification
4 27 (4.86%) DV Cleared
5 26 (4.68%) Azure Certification
6 24 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.42%) CCNP
8 18 (3.24%) CCNA
9 13 (2.34%) CISSP
10 11 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (1.62%) CCDP
12 8 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.26%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (1.26%) RHCA
13 7 (1.26%) RHCE
14 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.96%) GDPR
2 20 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (2.88%) QA
4 12 (2.16%) NIST
5 10 (1.80%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.62%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.62%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.62%) SLA
7 8 (1.44%) NCSC
8 6 (1.08%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.90%) GRC
10 4 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.36%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 184 (33.09%) Docker
2 56 (10.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (7.37%) Active Directory
4 37 (6.65%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (5.04%) vSphere
6 23 (4.14%) Hyper-V
7 20 (3.60%) VMware NSX
8 16 (2.88%) KVM
9 9 (1.62%) Firmware
10 8 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (1.08%) Lustre
11 6 (1.08%) Postfix
11 6 (1.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.90%) GPFS
12 5 (0.90%) Squid
13 4 (0.72%) Ceph
13 4 (0.72%) NFS
14 2 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.36%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 284 (51.08%) Terraform
2 262 (47.12%) Kubernetes
3 209 (37.59%) Ansible
4 117 (21.04%) Grafana
5 103 (18.53%) Prometheus
6 54 (9.71%) Argo
7 47 (8.45%) Puppet
8 29 (5.22%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.32%) Istio
10 19 (3.42%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.16%) Kibana
12 11 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (1.98%) Rancher
13 10 (1.80%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (1.44%) linkerd
14 8 (1.44%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.44%) SCCM
15 7 (1.26%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (1.26%) Packer
15 7 (1.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 86 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 80 (14.39%) Red Hat
2 80 (14.39%) VMware
3 76 (13.67%) Splunk
4 39 (7.01%) Google
5 29 (5.22%) Dynatrace
6 25 (4.50%) Oracle
7 22 (3.96%) Cisco
8 21 (3.78%) Databricks
9 19 (3.42%) Pure Storage
10 15 (2.70%) Citrix
10 15 (2.70%) IBM
11 12 (2.16%) Atlassian
11 12 (2.16%) Dell
11 12 (2.16%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.98%) AppDynamics
12 11 (1.98%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.80%) Fortinet
13 10 (1.80%) Palo Alto
14 9 (1.62%) Cloudera