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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 151 201
Rank change year-on-year -33 +50 -64
Contract jobs citing Bash 556 451 420
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.84% 1.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.11% 5.46% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 289 294
10th Percentile £382 £400 £400
25th Percentile £416 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £624
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 10
10th Percentile £56.20 £25.25 £21.85
25th Percentile £58.43 £27.50 £22.81
Median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.26% +16.67% -19.10%
75th Percentile £72.65 £55.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £80.60 £66.34 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +20.26% +16.67% -19.10%

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 10,873 8,259 10,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.54% 33.75% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,179 5,731 7,900
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 211 446
10th Percentile £41.42 £26.32 £37.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.81 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -46 223 £511 -4.88% 105
North of England -21 135 £470 -12.56% 51
Yorkshire -21 83 £463 -15.91% 11
South East -22 81 £470 +1.51% 67
South West -24 46 £500 -16.67% 30
Midlands -41 43 £463 -19.57% 20
North West -26 42 £538 +7.50% 31
West Midlands -31 41 £465 -24.39% 7
East of England -31 14 £494 +3.95% 13
North East -13 10 £425 -22.73% 9
East Midlands -31 2 £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 26 (4.68%) Confluence
2 9 (1.62%) Apache
2 9 (1.62%) SAS
3 7 (1.26%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.08%) nginx
5 5 (0.90%) IIS
5 5 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.72%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.36%) CMS
7 2 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.36%) JBoss
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.18%) FileNet
8 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
8 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 (0.36%) 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
Cloud Services
1 244 (43.88%) AWS
2 218 (39.21%) Azure
3 155 (27.88%) GitHub
4 108 (19.42%) GCP
5 89 (16.01%) Azure DevOps
6 88 (15.83%) GitHub Actions
7 69 (12.41%) OpenShift
8 46 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
8 46 (8.27%) Serverless
9 45 (8.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 40 (7.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (6.65%) Amazon S3
12 34 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (5.94%) Azure AKS
14 32 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 30 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
16 26 (4.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 22 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (3.78%) Azure Monitor
19 19 (3.42%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 70 (12.59%) DNS
2 67 (12.05%) Firewall
3 41 (7.37%) TCP/IP
4 34 (6.12%) VPN
5 27 (4.86%) Network Security
6 19 (3.42%) DHCP
7 15 (2.70%) SAN
8 14 (2.52%) VLAN
9 12 (2.16%) HTTP
9 12 (2.16%) NAS
10 10 (1.80%) SNMP
11 9 (1.62%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.62%) SSL
12 8 (1.44%) Reverse Proxy
12 8 (1.44%) WAN
13 7 (1.26%) SSH
14 6 (1.08%) Wireshark
15 5 (0.90%) BGP
16 4 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
16 4 (0.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (5.58%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.78%) MongoDB
4 18 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (2.88%) Redis
6 15 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.52%) MySQL
8 12 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (2.16%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.80%) Pentaho
11 7 (1.26%) Big Data
11 7 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.08%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.08%) DB2
13 5 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (0.90%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 155 (27.88%) Jenkins
2 116 (20.86%) GitLab
3 98 (17.63%) Git
4 36 (6.47%) JIRA
5 10 (1.80%) Artifactory
6 8 (1.44%) CircleCI
6 8 (1.44%) Postman
7 7 (1.26%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.26%) JMeter
8 6 (1.08%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.90%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.90%) Selenium
9 5 (0.90%) Spinnaker
10 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.72%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.72%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.54%) Appium
11 3 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.54%) Snyk
General
1 139 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 64 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (9.53%) Finance
4 51 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.04%) Banking
6 15 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.34%) Legal
8 12 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.44%) Military
9 8 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.08%) Retail
11 5 (0.90%) Law
12 4 (0.72%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.54%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.36%) Aviation
14 2 (0.36%) Police
15 1 (0.18%) Corporate Banking
15 1 (0.18%) Games
15 1 (0.18%) Local Government
15 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (19.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (9.71%) Platform Engineer
3 49 (8.81%) AWS Engineer
4 48 (8.63%) Senior
5 41 (7.37%) Security Engineer
6 38 (6.83%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (6.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 30 (5.40%) Architect
8 29 (5.22%) Lead
8 29 (5.22%) Site Engineer
9 28 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 26 (4.68%) Data Engineer
11 26 (4.68%) GCP Engineer
12 22 (3.96%) AWS DevOps
13 21 (3.78%) Automation Engineer
13 21 (3.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 21 (3.78%) Linux Engineer
14 18 (3.24%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.37%) Elastic Stack
2 38 (6.83%) Kafka
3 30 (5.40%) REST
4 27 (4.86%) OpenTelemetry
5 22 (3.96%) YAML
6 15 (2.70%) ARM Templates
6 15 (2.70%) Middleware
6 15 (2.70%) Node.js
7 12 (2.16%) LDAP
7 12 (2.16%) Swagger
8 11 (1.98%) Loki
9 10 (1.80%) Keycloak
10 9 (1.62%) .NET
10 9 (1.62%) ADO
10 9 (1.62%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.62%) JSON
11 8 (1.44%) React
11 8 (1.44%) SAML
11 8 (1.44%) Vue
12 7 (1.26%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 80 (14.39%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (3.78%) Data Centre
3 21 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.24%) Security Posture
6 17 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.88%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.70%) Replication
9 13 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.34%) PKI
10 9 (1.62%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.44%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.08%) Clustering
12 6 (1.08%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 215 (38.67%) Linux
2 87 (15.65%) Windows
3 44 (7.91%) Unix
4 40 (7.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (4.68%) Windows Server
6 16 (2.88%) Ubuntu
6 16 (2.88%) VMS
7 12 (2.16%) Mac OS
8 10 (1.80%) AIX
9 6 (1.08%) CentOS
10 5 (0.90%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.36%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.36%) Debian
12 2 (0.36%) Rocky
12 2 (0.36%) Solaris
12 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.18%) Android
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (57.19%) CI/CD
2 301 (54.14%) DevOps
3 244 (43.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 166 (29.86%) Containerisation
5 133 (23.92%) Observability
6 111 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (19.06%) Platform Engineering
8 89 (16.01%) Agile
9 77 (13.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 72 (12.95%) Configuration Management
11 68 (12.23%) Migration
12 63 (11.33%) Root Cause Analysis
13 62 (11.15%) High Availability
14 57 (10.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 54 (9.71%) Test Automation
16 53 (9.53%) Infrastructure Automation
17 52 (9.35%) Cloud Security
18 48 (8.63%) DevSecOps
19 47 (8.45%) Incident Response
19 47 (8.45%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 478 (85.97%) Python
2 238 (42.81%) PowerShell
3 77 (13.85%) SQL
4 42 (7.55%) Go
5 39 (7.01%) Java
6 26 (4.68%) Bicep
6 26 (4.68%) JavaScript
7 21 (3.78%) Shell Script
8 18 (3.24%) Groovy
9 12 (2.16%) C#
9 12 (2.16%) Perl
10 10 (1.80%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.44%) C
11 8 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (1.44%) Ruby
12 6 (1.08%) PHP
12 6 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.08%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.90%) C++
14 4 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 180 (32.37%) Security Cleared
2 144 (25.90%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.65%) Degree
4 29 (5.22%) Azure Certification
5 27 (4.86%) DV Cleared
6 26 (4.68%) AWS Certification
7 23 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (2.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 13 (2.34%) CISSP
11 11 (1.98%) CCNP
12 10 (1.80%) CCNA
12 10 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (1.44%) RHCA
13 8 (1.44%) RHCE
14 7 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (1.26%) Oracle Certification
15 5 (0.90%) CISM
16 4 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (3.78%) GDPR
3 18 (3.24%) QA
4 14 (2.52%) NIST
5 12 (2.16%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.80%) SLA
7 9 (1.62%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.26%) Data Quality
9 6 (1.08%) GRC
9 6 (1.08%) NCSC
10 5 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.90%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.36%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 165 (29.68%) Docker
2 51 (9.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (7.37%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (6.83%) Active Directory
5 25 (4.50%) Hyper-V
6 21 (3.78%) vSphere
7 17 (3.06%) VMware NSX
8 16 (2.88%) KVM
9 11 (1.98%) Firmware
10 10 (1.80%) Squid
11 9 (1.62%) NFS
12 7 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.72%) Postfix
14 3 (0.54%) Ceph
14 3 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.54%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.54%) Varnish
15 2 (0.36%) Lustre
15 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 281 (50.54%) Terraform
2 256 (46.04%) Kubernetes
3 220 (39.57%) Ansible
4 129 (23.20%) Grafana
5 110 (19.78%) Prometheus
6 47 (8.45%) Puppet
7 45 (8.09%) Argo
8 26 (4.68%) vCenter Server
9 25 (4.50%) Istio
10 22 (3.96%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.16%) Kibana
12 10 (1.80%) Rancher
13 9 (1.62%) Packer
13 9 (1.62%) Podman
13 9 (1.62%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (1.44%) linkerd
14 8 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (1.44%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.44%) SCCM
15 7 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (13.85%) Splunk
2 73 (13.13%) Microsoft
3 70 (12.59%) VMware
4 60 (10.79%) Red Hat
5 41 (7.37%) Dynatrace
6 39 (7.01%) Google
7 32 (5.76%) Oracle
8 19 (3.42%) Databricks
9 18 (3.24%) IBM
10 17 (3.06%) Cisco
11 16 (2.88%) Pure Storage
12 12 (2.16%) AppDynamics
12 12 (2.16%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.16%) ServiceNow
12 12 (2.16%) Zscaler
13 11 (1.98%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.80%) Cloudera
14 10 (1.80%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.80%) Tenable
15 9 (1.62%) Talend