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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 149 201
Rank change year-on-year -42 +52 -72
Contract jobs citing Bash 551 450 426
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 1.88% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.05% 5.56% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 293 300
10th Percentile £388 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £578 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 10
10th Percentile £55.10 £25.25 £21.85
25th Percentile £58.01 £27.50 £22.81
Median hourly rate £62.82 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.65% +16.67% -19.10%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £69.76 £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 10,909 8,095 10,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.41% 33.76% 30.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,182 5,616 7,946
10th Percentile £355 £361 £350
25th Percentile £416 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £651
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £526
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.14% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 197 446
10th Percentile £40.38 £28.32 £37.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £49.53
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.40 £79.59
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% +2.97%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -47 223 £520 -5.45% 105
North of England -22 135 £482 -12.36% 63
Yorkshire -13 84 £475 -13.64% 13
South East -21 75 £470 +1.51% 60
South West -28 48 £500 -16.67% 32
Midlands -48 42 £465 -15.45% 19
North West -32 41 £538 +7.50% 42
West Midlands -32 40 £467 -23.13% 8
East of England -30 15 £483 +1.58% 10
North East -22 10 £425 -22.73% 8
East Midlands -28 2 £436 +6.99% 11
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 27 (4.90%) Confluence
2 11 (2.00%) Apache
3 9 (1.63%) SAS
4 7 (1.27%) nginx
4 7 (1.27%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.09%) IIS
6 5 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.91%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.73%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.36%) CMS
8 2 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.36%) JBoss
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.18%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
9 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
2 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 241 (43.74%) AWS
2 213 (38.66%) Azure
3 155 (28.13%) GitHub
4 108 (19.60%) GCP
5 87 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 87 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
6 71 (12.89%) OpenShift
7 44 (7.99%) Amazon EKS
7 44 (7.99%) Serverless
8 42 (7.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 41 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 37 (6.72%) Amazon S3
11 34 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (5.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 30 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (5.26%) Azure AKS
15 25 (4.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 22 (3.99%) Datadog
17 21 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
17 21 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 69 (12.52%) DNS
2 67 (12.16%) Firewall
3 38 (6.90%) TCP/IP
4 35 (6.35%) VPN
5 28 (5.08%) Network Security
6 16 (2.90%) SAN
7 15 (2.72%) DHCP
8 14 (2.54%) VLAN
9 13 (2.36%) NAS
10 12 (2.18%) HTTP
11 9 (1.63%) SSL
12 8 (1.45%) Reverse Proxy
12 8 (1.45%) WAN
13 7 (1.27%) SNMP
14 6 (1.09%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.91%) BGP
16 4 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
16 4 (0.73%) Multicast
16 4 (0.73%) SSH
17 3 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (5.63%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.99%) MongoDB
4 16 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (2.90%) Redis
5 15 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (2.72%) MySQL
6 14 (2.54%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (2.00%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.81%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.09%) Big Data
11 6 (1.09%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.09%) DB2
12 5 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (0.91%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.91%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 161 (29.22%) Jenkins
2 118 (21.42%) GitLab
3 97 (17.60%) Git
4 38 (6.90%) JIRA
5 10 (1.81%) Artifactory
6 8 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.45%) CircleCI
6 8 (1.45%) Postman
7 7 (1.27%) JMeter
8 6 (1.09%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.91%) Selenium
10 4 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.73%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.73%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.54%) Ant
11 3 (0.54%) Appium
11 3 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.54%) Spinnaker
General
1 138 (25.05%) Social Skills
2 62 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (9.80%) Finance
4 50 (9.07%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.44%) Banking
6 13 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (2.36%) Legal
7 12 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.45%) Military
9 5 (0.91%) Law
9 5 (0.91%) Retail
9 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.36%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.36%) Aviation
11 2 (0.36%) Front Office
11 2 (0.36%) Police
12 1 (0.18%) Back Office
12 1 (0.18%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (19.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
3 48 (8.71%) Platform Engineer
4 43 (7.80%) Senior
5 39 (7.08%) Cloud Engineer
5 39 (7.08%) Security Engineer
5 39 (7.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 31 (5.63%) Architect
7 30 (5.44%) Lead
7 30 (5.44%) Site Engineer
8 28 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
9 26 (4.72%) Data Engineer
9 26 (4.72%) GCP Engineer
10 23 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (3.99%) Automation Engineer
12 21 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
12 21 (3.81%) Linux Engineer
13 20 (3.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 20 (3.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 19 (3.45%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
2 38 (6.90%) Kafka
3 27 (4.90%) OpenTelemetry
4 26 (4.72%) REST
5 21 (3.81%) YAML
6 16 (2.90%) Middleware
7 15 (2.72%) ARM Templates
8 13 (2.36%) Node.js
9 11 (2.00%) LDAP
9 11 (2.00%) Loki
10 10 (1.81%) Swagger
11 9 (1.63%) ADO
11 9 (1.63%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.63%) JSON
11 9 (1.63%) Keycloak
12 8 (1.45%) React
12 8 (1.45%) SAML
12 8 (1.45%) Vue
13 7 (1.27%) OAuth
13 7 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 79 (14.34%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (3.99%) Data Centre
3 22 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (3.45%) Security Posture
6 17 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.90%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.72%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.72%) Replication
9 13 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.63%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.63%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.45%) PKI
12 7 (1.27%) Clustering
12 7 (1.27%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
14 4 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 213 (38.66%) Linux
2 84 (15.25%) Windows
3 47 (8.53%) Unix
4 42 (7.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (4.72%) Windows Server
6 16 (2.90%) Ubuntu
7 15 (2.72%) VMS
8 11 (2.00%) Mac OS
9 10 (1.81%) AIX
10 6 (1.09%) CentOS
11 5 (0.91%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.36%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.36%) Debian
13 2 (0.36%) Rocky
13 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.18%) Android
14 1 (0.18%) Solaris
14 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (57.71%) CI/CD
2 303 (54.99%) DevOps
3 242 (43.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 161 (29.22%) Containerisation
5 135 (24.50%) Observability
6 104 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
7 96 (17.42%) Platform Engineering
8 89 (16.15%) Agile
9 79 (14.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 72 (13.07%) Configuration Management
11 71 (12.89%) Migration
12 67 (12.16%) Root Cause Analysis
13 60 (10.89%) High Availability
14 55 (9.98%) Cloud Security
14 55 (9.98%) Infrastructure Automation
14 55 (9.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 51 (9.26%) Test Automation
16 47 (8.53%) Incident Response
17 46 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
18 43 (7.80%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 476 (86.39%) Python
2 235 (42.65%) PowerShell
3 78 (14.16%) SQL
4 45 (8.17%) Go
5 36 (6.53%) Java
6 24 (4.36%) Bicep
6 24 (4.36%) JavaScript
7 21 (3.81%) Shell Script
8 18 (3.27%) Groovy
9 13 (2.36%) Perl
10 10 (1.81%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.63%) Ruby
12 8 (1.45%) C
12 8 (1.45%) C#
13 7 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (1.09%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.09%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.91%) C++
16 4 (0.73%) Korn
16 4 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 180 (32.67%) Security Cleared
2 148 (26.86%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.35%) Degree
4 27 (4.90%) Azure Certification
5 26 (4.72%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (3.81%) AWS Certification
8 17 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (2.36%) CISSP
10 11 (2.00%) CCNP
10 11 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 10 (1.81%) CCNA
11 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.63%) RHCE
13 8 (1.45%) RHCA
14 7 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
15 5 (0.91%) CISM
16 4 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.73%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.63%) GDPR
3 18 (3.27%) QA
4 14 (2.54%) NIST
5 12 (2.18%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.81%) SLA
7 9 (1.63%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.27%) Data Quality
9 6 (1.09%) GRC
9 6 (1.09%) NCSC
10 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.91%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.73%) 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
1 157 (28.49%) Docker
2 45 (8.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (7.44%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (6.17%) Active Directory
5 21 (3.81%) vSphere
6 20 (3.63%) Hyper-V
7 17 (3.09%) VMware NSX
8 16 (2.90%) KVM
9 11 (2.00%) Firmware
9 11 (2.00%) Squid
10 9 (1.63%) NFS
11 6 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.91%) Postfix
13 4 (0.73%) Varnish
14 3 (0.54%) Ceph
14 3 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.54%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.36%) Lustre
15 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 282 (51.18%) Terraform
2 249 (45.19%) Kubernetes
3 220 (39.93%) Ansible
4 128 (23.23%) Grafana
5 111 (20.15%) Prometheus
6 48 (8.71%) Puppet
7 44 (7.99%) Argo
8 25 (4.54%) vCenter Server
9 23 (4.17%) Istio
9 23 (4.17%) Progress Chef
10 12 (2.18%) Kibana
11 11 (2.00%) Packer
12 9 (1.63%) Podman
13 8 (1.45%) linkerd
13 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (1.45%) NetBackup
13 8 (1.45%) Rancher
13 8 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
14 7 (1.27%) HAProxy
14 7 (1.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 78 (14.16%) Splunk
2 65 (11.80%) Microsoft
3 64 (11.62%) VMware
4 62 (11.25%) Red Hat
5 42 (7.62%) Google
6 40 (7.26%) Dynatrace
7 32 (5.81%) Oracle
8 19 (3.45%) Databricks
9 18 (3.27%) IBM
10 16 (2.90%) Pure Storage
11 15 (2.72%) Cisco
12 13 (2.36%) Palo Alto
13 12 (2.18%) AppDynamics
13 12 (2.18%) Zscaler
14 11 (2.00%) CyberArk
14 11 (2.00%) Fortinet
14 11 (2.00%) ServiceNow
15 10 (1.81%) Cloudera
15 10 (1.81%) Informatica
15 10 (1.81%) Tenable