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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 154 192
Rank change year-on-year +1 +38 -49
Contract jobs citing Bash 594 467 475
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 1.79% 1.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.81% 5.35% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 293 337
10th Percentile £384 £380 £410
25th Percentile £416 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £561
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +2.57% -6.56%
75th Percentile £600 £715 £675
90th Percentile £700 £810 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 14
10th Percentile - £25.25 £58.60
25th Percentile £41.25 £27.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £68.38 £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -23.33% +2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £79.43 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +29.15% -23.33% +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 10,224 8,733 11,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.10% 33.49% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,793 5,629 7,964
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £660
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 203 471
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £85.00 £77.50
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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -18 248 £529 -8.00% 81
North of England -16 144 £482 -12.36% 53
South East +18 89 £478 +0.53% 50
Yorkshire -32 77 £482 -12.36% 23
Midlands -16 58 £490 -2.00% 24
North West -1 57 £550 +4.76% 24
West Midlands -15 49 £500 -17.70% 15
South West -34 27 £575 -5.35% 26
North East -5 14 £550 +12.94% 6
East of England -28 14 £444 -6.58% 13
East Midlands -19 9 £470 +15.34% 10
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 25 (4.21%) Confluence
2 17 (2.86%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.68%) nginx
4 6 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.84%) Apache
6 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.51%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.51%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.51%) IIS
6 3 (0.51%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.34%) CMS
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.17%) Documentum
8 1 (0.17%) FileNet
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (1.35%) Weka
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.17%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 259 (43.60%) AWS
2 226 (38.05%) Azure
3 134 (22.56%) GitHub
4 118 (19.87%) GCP
5 79 (13.30%) GitHub Actions
6 66 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (11.11%) OpenShift
7 61 (10.27%) Amazon S3
8 57 (9.60%) Amazon EC2
8 57 (9.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 49 (8.25%) Serverless
10 44 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 44 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (6.90%) Entra ID
11 41 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 34 (5.72%) Amazon ECS
12 34 (5.72%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (4.21%) Datadog
14 21 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (3.37%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (15.66%) Firewall
2 62 (10.44%) DNS
3 56 (9.43%) TCP/IP
4 36 (6.06%) VPN
5 31 (5.22%) Network Security
6 22 (3.70%) SSL
7 21 (3.54%) VLAN
7 21 (3.54%) Wireshark
8 19 (3.20%) BGP
9 13 (2.19%) DHCP
10 10 (1.68%) Multicast
11 9 (1.52%) OSPF
11 9 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
12 7 (1.18%) HTTP
12 7 (1.18%) SNMP
13 6 (1.01%) SSH
13 6 (1.01%) WebEx
14 5 (0.84%) DKIM
14 5 (0.84%) SMTP
15 4 (0.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.57%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (5.72%) SQL Server
4 26 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (4.04%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.37%) Redis
7 17 (2.86%) MySQL
8 13 (2.19%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.68%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.35%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.18%) Big Data
11 7 (1.18%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.01%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.01%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.01%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 147 (24.75%) Jenkins
2 140 (23.57%) GitLab
3 98 (16.50%) Git
4 35 (5.89%) JIRA
5 15 (2.53%) CircleCI
6 14 (2.36%) Metasploit
7 13 (2.19%) Burp Suite
8 10 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.18%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.18%) Maven
10 6 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.84%) Gradle
11 5 (0.84%) MLflow
11 5 (0.84%) Selenium
11 5 (0.84%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.67%) ScriptRunner
12 4 (0.67%) sqlmap
12 4 (0.67%) Subversion
12 4 (0.67%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 172 (28.96%) Social Skills
2 90 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 48 (8.08%) Finance
5 26 (4.38%) Banking
6 18 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (3.03%) Legal
7 11 (1.85%) Retail
8 8 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.35%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.01%) Military
10 5 (0.84%) Games
11 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.67%) Front Office
11 4 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Law
12 3 (0.51%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 105 (17.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 69 (11.62%) Platform Engineer
3 61 (10.27%) Senior
4 36 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 35 (5.89%) Site Engineer
6 34 (5.72%) Architect
7 33 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (5.39%) Developer
9 29 (4.88%) Lead
10 24 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
10 24 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
10 24 (4.04%) Network Engineer
11 23 (3.87%) Security Engineer
12 21 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (3.37%) Tester
14 19 (3.20%) Automation Engineer
14 19 (3.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.03%) Administrator
15 18 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
15 18 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (9.43%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (6.57%) Kafka
3 25 (4.21%) REST
4 19 (3.20%) Node.js
5 18 (3.03%) ARM Templates
5 18 (3.03%) Keycloak
6 17 (2.86%) Loki
7 16 (2.69%) Middleware
8 13 (2.19%) YAML
9 12 (2.02%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (1.52%) .NET
10 9 (1.52%) LDAP
10 9 (1.52%) SAML
11 8 (1.35%) AngularJS
11 8 (1.35%) OAuth
11 8 (1.35%) RESTful
12 7 (1.18%) ADO
12 7 (1.18%) Swagger
13 6 (1.01%) OpenID
13 6 (1.01%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.87%) Linux Command Line
5 22 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.54%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.86%) PKI
8 15 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.53%) Security Posture
9 14 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.36%) Replication
10 13 (2.19%) Private Cloud
11 9 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.52%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.52%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.18%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.18%) NHS
13 6 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.01%) Grid Computing
13 6 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 293 (49.33%) Linux
2 105 (17.68%) Windows
3 67 (11.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (11.11%) Unix
5 30 (5.05%) Mac OS
6 29 (4.88%) Windows Server
7 16 (2.69%) CentOS
8 13 (2.19%) Ubuntu
9 12 (2.02%) Solaris
10 11 (1.85%) VMS
11 9 (1.52%) Kali Linux
12 6 (1.01%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.84%) AIX
14 1 (0.17%) Android
14 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (53.03%) CI/CD
2 295 (49.66%) DevOps
3 276 (46.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 196 (33.00%) Containerisation
5 137 (23.06%) Problem-Solving
6 135 (22.73%) Observability
7 101 (17.00%) Platform Engineering
8 99 (16.67%) Agile
9 88 (14.81%) Incident Response
10 79 (13.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 78 (13.13%) High Availability
12 70 (11.78%) Infrastructure Automation
13 69 (11.62%) Test Automation
14 67 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
15 65 (10.94%) DevSecOps
16 64 (10.77%) Migration
17 62 (10.44%) Task Automation
18 57 (9.60%) Configuration Management
19 56 (9.43%) Root Cause Analysis
20 52 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 511 (86.03%) Python
2 230 (38.72%) PowerShell
3 56 (9.43%) SQL
4 45 (7.58%) Java
5 39 (6.57%) Perl
6 36 (6.06%) Go
7 33 (5.56%) JavaScript
8 26 (4.38%) Shell Script
9 21 (3.54%) Bicep
10 16 (2.69%) C#
10 16 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (2.36%) Groovy
12 11 (1.85%) C
13 10 (1.68%) C++
13 10 (1.68%) PHP
14 7 (1.18%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.18%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.84%) Rust
15 5 (0.84%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 201 (33.84%) Security Cleared
2 165 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.73%) Degree
4 28 (4.71%) AWS Certification
5 27 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 26 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (3.37%) CCNP
9 17 (2.86%) OSCP
10 16 (2.69%) GPEN
11 15 (2.53%) CCNA
12 13 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (2.19%) CEH
13 11 (1.85%) CCDP
14 10 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (1.68%) Azure Certification
15 7 (1.18%) Master's Degree
15 7 (1.18%) RHCE
16 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (1.01%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (3.87%) GDPR
3 15 (2.53%) QA
4 13 (2.19%) NCSC
5 11 (1.85%) NIST
6 10 (1.68%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.68%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.35%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.67%) SLA
9 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) GxP
11 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 231 (38.89%) Docker
2 79 (13.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (7.58%) Active Directory
4 33 (5.56%) vSphere
5 25 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (2.69%) KVM
7 15 (2.53%) Hyper-V
7 15 (2.53%) VMware NSX
8 10 (1.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 9 (1.52%) Lustre
10 8 (1.35%) Firmware
10 8 (1.35%) GPFS
11 6 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (1.01%) zsh
12 5 (0.84%) Squid
13 4 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.67%) Postfix
13 4 (0.67%) QEMU
13 4 (0.67%) Snort
14 3 (0.51%) NFS
Systems Management
1 293 (49.33%) Terraform
2 267 (44.95%) Kubernetes
3 224 (37.71%) Ansible
4 123 (20.71%) Grafana
5 109 (18.35%) Prometheus
6 49 (8.25%) Argo
7 44 (7.41%) Puppet
8 22 (3.70%) Kibana
9 19 (3.20%) vCenter Server
10 17 (2.86%) Nmap
11 15 (2.53%) Istio
11 15 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (2.53%) SCCM
12 14 (2.36%) Red Hat Satellite
13 13 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
13 13 (2.19%) Kustomize
13 13 (2.19%) NetBackup
13 13 (2.19%) Progress Chef
14 10 (1.68%) Oracle RMAN
14 10 (1.68%) Packer
Vendors
1 106 (17.85%) VMware
2 96 (16.16%) Splunk
3 93 (15.66%) Microsoft
4 82 (13.80%) Red Hat
5 37 (6.23%) Google
6 33 (5.56%) Palo Alto
7 30 (5.05%) Cisco
8 24 (4.04%) F5
8 24 (4.04%) Oracle
9 22 (3.70%) Dynatrace
10 21 (3.54%) CheckPoint
10 21 (3.54%) Citrix
11 19 (3.20%) Databricks
12 15 (2.53%) Pure Storage
12 15 (2.53%) ServiceNow
13 14 (2.36%) CyberArk
14 11 (1.85%) Atlassian
14 11 (1.85%) Veritas
14 11 (1.85%) Zscaler
15 10 (1.68%) Qualys