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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 145 204
Rank change year-on-year -44 +59 -80
Contract jobs citing Bash 589 487 435
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.95% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.09% 5.75% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 328 312
10th Percentile £384 £373 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £626
90th Percentile £675 £718 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 14
10th Percentile £54.55 £26.83 £22.00
25th Percentile £57.59 £34.24 £26.75
Median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -17.86%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.06 £69.84
90th Percentile £70.41 £67.89 £74.06
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -17.86%

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 11,566 8,466 11,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.69% 33.89% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,547 5,884 8,146
10th Percentile £360 £356 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £785
UK median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 520 200 498
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.16 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.75 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.08 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -65 253 £510 -2.86% 55
North of England -11 144 £500 -2.44% 44
Yorkshire -15 83 £500 -6.98% 9
South East -23 78 £500 +12.99% 47
South West -32 51 £544 -9.38% 15
North West -16 48 £513 +4.06% 28
Midlands -43 34 £477 -15.20% 13
West Midlands -43 34 £477 -18.11% 6
East of England -28 17 £494 +3.95% 12
North East -26 13 £371 -23.85% 7
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 30 (5.09%) Confluence
2 15 (2.55%) Apache
2 15 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.04%) nginx
4 11 (1.87%) SAS
5 9 (1.53%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.19%) WebSphere
7 6 (1.02%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.85%) IIS
9 4 (0.68%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.68%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.68%) WordPress
10 3 (0.51%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.34%) CMS
11 2 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.34%) JBoss
11 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.34%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.34%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.17%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 262 (44.48%) AWS
2 223 (37.86%) Azure
3 155 (26.32%) GitHub
4 119 (20.20%) GCP
5 95 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
6 92 (15.62%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (9.51%) OpenShift
8 53 (9.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 52 (8.83%) Serverless
10 50 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (8.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 44 (7.47%) Amazon S3
13 43 (7.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 39 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
15 38 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
16 35 (5.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 32 (5.43%) Datadog
18 30 (5.09%) Azure AKS
19 25 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
20 20 (3.40%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.75%) DNS
2 78 (13.24%) Firewall
3 41 (6.96%) TCP/IP
4 40 (6.79%) VPN
5 33 (5.60%) Network Security
6 20 (3.40%) DHCP
7 18 (3.06%) SAN
8 15 (2.55%) NAS
8 15 (2.55%) SSL
9 13 (2.21%) VLAN
10 12 (2.04%) HTTP
10 12 (2.04%) WAN
11 9 (1.53%) SD-WAN
12 8 (1.36%) BGP
12 8 (1.36%) Reverse Proxy
13 7 (1.19%) SNMP
14 6 (1.02%) DNSSEC
15 5 (0.85%) Wireshark
16 4 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
16 4 (0.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 31 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.40%) MongoDB
3 19 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (2.72%) MySQL
5 15 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (2.38%) Redis
7 13 (2.21%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.04%) Pentaho
9 9 (1.53%) Big Data
9 9 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.36%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.36%) Oracle Database
10 8 (1.36%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (1.02%) Db2
13 5 (0.85%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 174 (29.54%) Jenkins
2 116 (19.69%) GitLab
3 100 (16.98%) Git
4 39 (6.62%) JIRA
5 13 (2.21%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.53%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.53%) Postman
7 7 (1.19%) JMeter
7 7 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.02%) Liquibase
8 6 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.85%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.68%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.68%) MLflow
10 4 (0.68%) Selenium
11 3 (0.51%) Ant
11 3 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.51%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.51%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.51%) Gradle
General
1 130 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 76 (12.90%) Finance
3 59 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 41 (6.96%) Banking
6 15 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (2.55%) Legal
7 7 (1.19%) Law
7 7 (1.19%) Military
8 6 (1.02%) Telecoms
9 5 (0.85%) Retail
10 4 (0.68%) Publishing
11 3 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.34%) Aviation
12 2 (0.34%) Front Office
12 2 (0.34%) Police
13 1 (0.17%) Back Office
13 1 (0.17%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 121 (20.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (9.51%) Senior
3 53 (9.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 50 (8.49%) Platform Engineer
5 48 (8.15%) AWS Engineer
6 41 (6.96%) Security Engineer
6 41 (6.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 36 (6.11%) Architect
7 36 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
8 32 (5.43%) Site Engineer
9 31 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 30 (5.09%) Linux Engineer
11 29 (4.92%) GCP Engineer
12 28 (4.75%) Lead
13 27 (4.58%) Data Engineer
14 23 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
14 23 (3.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 21 (3.57%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.11%) Elastic Stack
2 34 (5.77%) Kafka
3 27 (4.58%) OpenTelemetry
3 27 (4.58%) YAML
4 25 (4.24%) REST
5 18 (3.06%) Middleware
6 17 (2.89%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.87%) JSON
8 10 (1.70%) ADO
8 10 (1.70%) LDAP
8 10 (1.70%) SAML
9 9 (1.53%) .NET
9 9 (1.53%) Loki
9 9 (1.53%) Node.js
9 9 (1.53%) OAuth
9 9 (1.53%) Swagger
10 8 (1.36%) React
11 7 (1.19%) cloud-init
11 7 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 100 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 30 (5.09%) Security Posture
4 29 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (3.74%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
7 19 (3.23%) Management Information System
8 18 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (2.89%) Replication
10 16 (2.72%) Onboarding
11 14 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (2.21%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.87%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 9 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.19%) Clustering
15 7 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
16 6 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
16 6 (1.02%) PKI
17 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 240 (40.75%) Linux
2 103 (17.49%) Windows
3 61 (10.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (7.30%) Unix
5 29 (4.92%) Windows Server
6 22 (3.74%) Ubuntu
7 13 (2.21%) VMS
8 10 (1.70%) AIX
9 8 (1.36%) CentOS
10 6 (1.02%) Solaris
11 5 (0.85%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.34%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.34%) Debian
14 2 (0.34%) Rocky
14 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (57.72%) CI/CD
2 327 (55.52%) DevOps
3 265 (44.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 172 (29.20%) Containerisation
5 137 (23.26%) Observability
6 105 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (17.66%) Platform Engineering
8 101 (17.15%) Agile
9 84 (14.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 79 (13.41%) Migration
11 73 (12.39%) High Availability
12 68 (11.54%) Cloud Security
12 68 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 68 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 67 (11.38%) Configuration Management
14 66 (11.21%) Root Cause Analysis
15 59 (10.02%) Infrastructure Automation
16 56 (9.51%) Test Automation
17 53 (9.00%) SIEM
18 52 (8.83%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 512 (86.93%) Python
2 252 (42.78%) PowerShell
3 83 (14.09%) SQL
4 48 (8.15%) Go
5 47 (7.98%) Java
6 27 (4.58%) Bicep
7 22 (3.74%) Perl
8 21 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.89%) JavaScript
10 16 (2.72%) Groovy
11 10 (1.70%) Ruby
12 9 (1.53%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.19%) C
14 6 (1.02%) C#
14 6 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.85%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.68%) C++
16 4 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.68%) Scala
17 2 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 192 (32.60%) Security Cleared
2 158 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.96%) Degree
4 36 (6.11%) Azure Certification
5 35 (5.94%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.75%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (3.23%) CISSP
8 18 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (1.87%) CCNA
11 11 (1.87%) CCNP
11 11 (1.87%) RHCE
12 10 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (1.36%) RHCA
14 7 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (1.02%) MCSE
16 4 (0.68%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (2.89%) QA
3 16 (2.72%) NIST
4 14 (2.38%) GDPR
5 13 (2.21%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.70%) SLA
7 9 (1.53%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.36%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.02%) GRC
9 6 (1.02%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.34%) NCSC
14 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.17%) HL7
14 1 (0.17%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 173 (29.37%) Docker
2 45 (7.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (7.47%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (6.28%) Active Directory
5 26 (4.41%) vSphere
6 22 (3.74%) Hyper-V
7 17 (2.89%) VMware NSX
8 14 (2.38%) KVM
9 11 (1.87%) Firmware
10 10 (1.70%) Squid
11 9 (1.53%) NFS
11 9 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (1.19%) Postfix
13 4 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.68%) Varnish
14 3 (0.51%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.51%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.34%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.34%) SRDF
15 2 (0.34%) zsh
Systems Management
1 314 (53.31%) Terraform
2 250 (42.44%) Kubernetes
3 219 (37.18%) Ansible
4 123 (20.88%) Grafana
5 114 (19.35%) Prometheus
6 50 (8.49%) Puppet
7 41 (6.96%) Argo
8 34 (5.77%) Progress Chef
9 26 (4.41%) vCenter Server
10 21 (3.57%) Istio
11 13 (2.21%) Packer
12 9 (1.53%) NetBackup
12 9 (1.53%) Podman
13 8 (1.36%) HAProxy
14 7 (1.19%) Kibana
14 7 (1.19%) Rancher
14 7 (1.19%) Salt
14 7 (1.19%) systemd
15 6 (1.02%) IBM BigFix
15 6 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (11.88%) Red Hat
2 64 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 61 (10.36%) Splunk
4 57 (9.68%) Google
4 57 (9.68%) VMware
5 42 (7.13%) Dynatrace
6 35 (5.94%) Oracle
7 23 (3.90%) Databricks
7 23 (3.90%) IBM
8 19 (3.23%) Cisco
9 17 (2.89%) Pure Storage
10 14 (2.38%) Palo Alto
11 12 (2.04%) Cloudera
11 12 (2.04%) Informatica
12 11 (1.87%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.87%) Fortinet
12 11 (1.87%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.87%) Talend
12 11 (1.87%) Zscaler
13 10 (1.70%) SolarWinds