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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 151 200
Rank change year-on-year -44 +49 -73
Contract jobs citing Bash 552 452 426
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 1.90% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.02% 5.62% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 299 299
10th Percentile £387 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £580 £640 £625
90th Percentile £671 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £539 £536
% change year-on-year -7.19% +0.51% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 10
10th Percentile £54.55 £25.25 £21.85
25th Percentile £57.59 £27.50 £22.81
Median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.26% +16.67% -31.30%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £70.41 £66.34 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +20.26% +16.67% -31.30%

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 10,996 8,048 10,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.49% 33.81% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,223 5,594 7,988
10th Percentile £356 £360 £350
25th Percentile £417 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.37% -2.40%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 186 453
10th Percentile £39.25 £28.09 £37.51
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -64 222 £525 -4.55% 90
North of England -14 137 £482 -12.36% 55
Yorkshire -14 85 £479 -13.00% 12
South East -27 75 £460 -0.54% 52
South West -32 48 £500 -16.67% 36
North West -22 42 £538 +7.50% 36
Midlands -45 42 £465 -15.45% 19
West Midlands -39 40 £467 -22.17% 7
East of England -38 15 £483 +1.58% 11
North East -16 10 £425 -22.73% 7
East Midlands -34 2 £436 +6.99% 12
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 (4.89%) Confluence
2 12 (2.17%) Apache
3 10 (1.81%) SAS
4 9 (1.63%) nginx
5 8 (1.45%) IIS
6 7 (1.27%) WebSphere
7 6 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.91%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.72%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.72%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.72%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.36%) CMS
10 2 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.36%) JBoss
10 2 (0.36%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.18%) FileNet
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.18%) PowerExchange
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
1 243 (44.02%) AWS
2 215 (38.95%) Azure
3 154 (27.90%) GitHub
4 108 (19.57%) GCP
5 87 (15.76%) Azure DevOps
5 87 (15.76%) GitHub Actions
6 71 (12.86%) OpenShift
7 44 (7.97%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 41 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 41 (7.43%) Serverless
10 37 (6.70%) Amazon S3
11 34 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (5.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 28 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (5.07%) Azure AKS
14 26 (4.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 22 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (3.99%) Datadog
16 20 (3.62%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 72 (13.04%) DNS
2 66 (11.96%) Firewall
3 39 (7.07%) TCP/IP
4 35 (6.34%) VPN
5 28 (5.07%) Network Security
6 17 (3.08%) SAN
7 14 (2.54%) DHCP
7 14 (2.54%) NAS
7 14 (2.54%) VLAN
8 12 (2.17%) HTTP
9 10 (1.81%) SSL
10 8 (1.45%) Reverse Proxy
10 8 (1.45%) WAN
11 7 (1.27%) SD-WAN
11 7 (1.27%) SNMP
12 6 (1.09%) BGP
13 4 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (0.72%) Multicast
13 4 (0.72%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (6.34%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.99%) MongoDB
4 16 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (2.90%) MySQL
4 16 (2.90%) Redis
5 15 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (2.36%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (1.99%) Pentaho
7 11 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.09%) DB2
9 6 (1.09%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (0.91%) Big Data
10 5 (0.91%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 160 (28.99%) Jenkins
2 116 (21.01%) GitLab
3 95 (17.21%) Git
4 38 (6.88%) 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
10 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.72%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.72%) Selenium
10 4 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.54%) Ant
11 3 (0.54%) Appium
11 3 (0.54%) Snyk
11 3 (0.54%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.54%) Spinnaker
General
1 140 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 60 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (10.14%) Finance
4 48 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 33 (5.98%) Banking
6 14 (2.54%) Legal
7 13 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.45%) Military
9 6 (1.09%) Law
10 5 (0.91%) Retail
10 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.72%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.36%) Aviation
12 2 (0.36%) Front Office
12 2 (0.36%) Police
13 1 (0.18%) Back Office
13 1 (0.18%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (19.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (9.24%) AWS Engineer
3 48 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
4 45 (8.15%) Senior
5 42 (7.61%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (6.88%) Security Engineer
6 38 (6.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 30 (5.43%) Architect
7 30 (5.43%) Lead
8 29 (5.25%) Site Engineer
9 28 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (4.89%) Data Engineer
10 27 (4.89%) GCP Engineer
11 24 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (3.99%) Automation Engineer
12 22 (3.99%) Linux Engineer
13 21 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (3.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 20 (3.62%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.07%) Elastic Stack
2 38 (6.88%) Kafka
3 27 (4.89%) OpenTelemetry
3 27 (4.89%) REST
4 24 (4.35%) YAML
5 16 (2.90%) Middleware
6 15 (2.72%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.99%) Loki
7 11 (1.99%) Node.js
8 10 (1.81%) JSON
8 10 (1.81%) LDAP
8 10 (1.81%) Swagger
9 9 (1.63%) ADO
9 9 (1.63%) Keycloak
10 8 (1.45%) .NET
10 8 (1.45%) AngularJS
10 8 (1.45%) React
10 8 (1.45%) SAML
10 8 (1.45%) Vue
11 7 (1.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 78 (14.13%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.99%) Data Centre
5 21 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (3.44%) Security Posture
7 18 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (2.90%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.72%) Management Information System
9 15 (2.72%) Replication
10 13 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.81%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.63%) Product Ownership
13 8 (1.45%) PKI
14 7 (1.27%) Clustering
15 6 (1.09%) Private Cloud
16 5 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
17 4 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
17 4 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
17 4 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 214 (38.77%) Linux
2 88 (15.94%) Windows
3 45 (8.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 45 (8.15%) Unix
4 30 (5.43%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.26%) Ubuntu
6 14 (2.54%) VMS
7 11 (1.99%) Mac OS
8 10 (1.81%) AIX
9 8 (1.45%) CentOS
10 5 (0.91%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.36%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.36%) Debian
13 2 (0.36%) Rocky
14 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (57.97%) CI/CD
2 304 (55.07%) DevOps
3 242 (43.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 158 (28.62%) Containerisation
5 133 (24.09%) Observability
6 103 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (17.03%) Platform Engineering
8 90 (16.30%) Agile
9 78 (14.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 71 (12.86%) Configuration Management
11 70 (12.68%) Migration
12 69 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
13 60 (10.87%) High Availability
14 57 (10.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 55 (9.96%) Cloud Security
16 54 (9.78%) Infrastructure Automation
17 50 (9.06%) Test Automation
18 47 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
19 44 (7.97%) Incident Response
20 41 (7.43%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 479 (86.78%) Python
2 236 (42.75%) PowerShell
3 78 (14.13%) SQL
4 46 (8.33%) Go
5 34 (6.16%) Java
6 24 (4.35%) Bicep
7 22 (3.99%) JavaScript
8 21 (3.80%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.08%) Groovy
10 13 (2.36%) Perl
11 10 (1.81%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.81%) Ruby
12 9 (1.63%) C
13 8 (1.45%) C#
14 6 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (1.09%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.91%) C++
15 5 (0.91%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.72%) Korn
16 4 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 179 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 149 (26.99%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.34%) Degree
4 27 (4.89%) Azure Certification
5 24 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 21 (3.80%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (2.36%) CISSP
9 11 (1.99%) CCNA
9 11 (1.99%) CCNP
9 11 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.63%) RHCE
12 8 (1.45%) RHCA
13 7 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.91%) CISM
15 4 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.72%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.62%) GDPR
3 18 (3.26%) QA
4 15 (2.72%) NIST
5 13 (2.36%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.17%) SLA
7 9 (1.63%) HIPAA
8 8 (1.45%) 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 (0.72%) 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
1 155 (28.08%) Docker
2 47 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (7.43%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (6.70%) Active Directory
5 21 (3.80%) Hyper-V
5 21 (3.80%) vSphere
6 17 (3.08%) VMware NSX
7 15 (2.72%) KVM
8 11 (1.99%) Firmware
9 10 (1.81%) Squid
10 8 (1.45%) NFS
11 7 (1.27%) Postfix
12 6 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.72%) Varnish
14 3 (0.54%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.54%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.36%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 286 (51.81%) Terraform
2 247 (44.75%) Kubernetes
3 222 (40.22%) Ansible
4 128 (23.19%) Grafana
5 111 (20.11%) Prometheus
6 47 (8.51%) Puppet
7 44 (7.97%) Argo
8 25 (4.53%) vCenter Server
9 23 (4.17%) Istio
10 22 (3.99%) Progress Chef
11 11 (1.99%) Kibana
11 11 (1.99%) Packer
12 9 (1.63%) Podman
13 8 (1.45%) HAProxy
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%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (13.41%) Splunk
2 66 (11.96%) Red Hat
2 66 (11.96%) VMware
3 65 (11.78%) Microsoft
4 42 (7.61%) Google
5 41 (7.43%) Dynatrace
6 33 (5.98%) Oracle
7 19 (3.44%) IBM
8 18 (3.26%) Databricks
9 17 (3.08%) Cisco
10 16 (2.90%) Pure Storage
11 12 (2.17%) AppDynamics
11 12 (2.17%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.99%) Cloudera
12 11 (1.99%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.99%) Fortinet
12 11 (1.99%) Informatica
12 11 (1.99%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.99%) Zscaler
13 10 (1.81%) Talend