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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 150 181
Rank change year-on-year -10 +31 -45
Contract jobs citing Bash 765 523 435
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.90% 1.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.38% 5.79% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 351 308
10th Percentile £400 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £440 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £630 £614 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £516 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.67% -2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 13
10th Percentile £56.35 £43.90 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% -4.35% -20.69%
75th Percentile £94.41 £62.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.76 £66.34 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +29.09% -4.35% -20.69%

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 11,989 9,033 10,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.22% 32.75% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,780 6,176 7,550
10th Percentile £363 £345 £358
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £503 £533
% change year-on-year +2.93% -5.68% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 252 347
10th Percentile £31.30 £29.10 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.39 £41.20 £50.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +8.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £82.66 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +8.33%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -37 321 £513 -2.38% 275
North of England -23 164 £506 -2.64% 67
South East -13 111 £540 +20.00% 99
South West +4 89 £663 +15.22% 45
Yorkshire -27 72 £516 +0.73% 11
North West -8 66 £550 +10.00% 44
East of England -11 30 £438 -7.89% 18
Midlands -36 30 £525 -4.55% 22
West Midlands -45 30 £525 -4.55% 9
North East -27 25 £425 -22.73% 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 36 (4.71%) Confluence
2 21 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.61%) Apache
4 13 (1.70%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.44%) nginx
6 7 (0.92%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.78%) IIS
7 6 (0.78%) SAS
7 6 (0.78%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.78%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.65%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.52%) WordPress
10 3 (0.39%) JBoss
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.26%) CMS
11 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.78%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.13%) Summit
4 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 376 (49.15%) AWS
2 350 (45.75%) Azure
3 195 (25.49%) GitHub
4 163 (21.31%) GCP
5 132 (17.25%) GitHub Actions
6 127 (16.60%) Azure DevOps
7 78 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
8 68 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 66 (8.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 65 (8.50%) Serverless
11 63 (8.24%) Amazon S3
12 58 (7.58%) OpenShift
13 53 (6.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 50 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
15 48 (6.27%) Entra ID
15 48 (6.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 47 (6.14%) Azure Monitor
16 47 (6.14%) Datadog
17 45 (5.88%) Azure AKS
18 43 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 134 (17.52%) DNS
2 133 (17.39%) Firewall
3 80 (10.46%) TCP/IP
4 64 (8.37%) VPN
5 60 (7.84%) Network Security
6 59 (7.71%) DHCP
7 19 (2.48%) VSAN
7 19 (2.48%) WAN
8 16 (2.09%) SAN
8 16 (2.09%) SSL
8 16 (2.09%) VLAN
9 15 (1.96%) HTTP
10 13 (1.70%) NAS
10 13 (1.70%) SD-WAN
11 12 (1.57%) SSH
12 10 (1.31%) BGP
13 9 (1.18%) SNMP
14 7 (0.92%) DNSSEC
15 6 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
16 5 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 36 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (3.01%) MongoDB
5 21 (2.75%) NoSQL
6 19 (2.48%) MySQL
7 18 (2.35%) Redis
8 13 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (1.44%) Big Data
10 11 (1.44%) Pentaho
11 10 (1.31%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.31%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.31%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.18%) Metadata
13 8 (1.05%) DynamoDB
13 8 (1.05%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 206 (26.93%) Jenkins
2 160 (20.92%) GitLab
3 134 (17.52%) Git
4 45 (5.88%) JIRA
5 15 (1.96%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.83%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.57%) Selenium
7 12 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.05%) Postman
9 7 (0.92%) JMeter
9 7 (0.92%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.78%) MLflow
10 6 (0.78%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.65%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (0.65%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.52%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.52%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.39%) Gatling
General
1 171 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 123 (16.08%) Finance
3 91 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.84%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.06%) Banking
6 17 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.09%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.96%) Legal
9 10 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.31%) Law
10 9 (1.18%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.05%) Military
12 7 (0.92%) Retail
13 5 (0.65%) Front Office
13 5 (0.65%) Publishing
14 4 (0.52%) Automotive
14 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.26%) Billing
15 2 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 144 (18.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 100 (13.07%) Senior
3 76 (9.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (9.41%) Platform Engineer
5 58 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 56 (7.32%) Security Engineer
7 54 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
8 49 (6.41%) Azure Engineer
9 44 (5.75%) Architect
10 43 (5.62%) Lead
11 41 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 36 (4.71%) Linux Engineer
13 35 (4.58%) Site Engineer
14 30 (3.92%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 28 (3.66%) AWS DevOps
15 28 (3.66%) GCP Engineer
15 28 (3.66%) Senior DevOps
15 28 (3.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 27 (3.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (7.71%) Kafka
2 44 (5.75%) REST
3 41 (5.36%) ARM Templates
4 39 (5.10%) Elastic Stack
4 39 (5.10%) YAML
5 24 (3.14%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (2.48%) Loki
7 17 (2.22%) .NET
7 17 (2.22%) Middleware
8 15 (1.96%) JSON
9 14 (1.83%) Node.js
9 14 (1.83%) SAML
10 13 (1.70%) RESTful
10 13 (1.70%) SOAP
11 12 (1.57%) LDAP
11 12 (1.57%) React
12 11 (1.44%) OAuth
13 10 (1.31%) AngularJS
13 10 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (1.31%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 126 (16.47%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (5.62%) Security Posture
4 34 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (4.31%) Onboarding
6 31 (4.05%) Data Centre
7 29 (3.79%) PKI
8 28 (3.66%) Management Information System
9 27 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
10 22 (2.88%) Public Cloud
11 21 (2.75%) Replication
12 17 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
13 15 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.96%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 11 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (1.18%) Clustering
15 9 (1.18%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 353 (46.14%) Linux
2 170 (22.22%) Windows
3 85 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 60 (7.84%) Windows Server
5 45 (5.88%) Unix
6 34 (4.44%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.57%) CentOS
7 12 (1.57%) VMS
8 7 (0.92%) Solaris
9 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.52%) AIX
10 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.26%) Debian
12 2 (0.26%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (58.56%) CI/CD
2 415 (54.25%) DevOps
3 389 (50.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 213 (27.84%) Containerisation
5 199 (26.01%) Observability
6 160 (20.92%) Platform Engineering
7 143 (18.69%) Agile
7 143 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
8 136 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 121 (15.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 111 (14.51%) Cloud Security
11 108 (14.12%) DevSecOps
12 102 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
13 96 (12.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 91 (11.90%) Configuration Management
14 91 (11.90%) Migration
15 89 (11.63%) SIEM
16 88 (11.50%) Runbook
17 86 (11.24%) AI
18 85 (11.11%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 659 (86.14%) Python
2 376 (49.15%) PowerShell
3 97 (12.68%) SQL
4 77 (10.07%) Java
5 66 (8.63%) Bicep
6 64 (8.37%) Go
7 33 (4.31%) Shell Script
8 24 (3.14%) Perl
9 21 (2.75%) Groovy
10 18 (2.35%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.44%) C#
11 11 (1.44%) Ruby
12 10 (1.31%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.31%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.92%) Korn
14 5 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.65%) Scala
14 5 (0.65%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.52%) C
15 4 (0.52%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 282 (36.86%) Security Cleared
2 213 (27.84%) SC Cleared
3 73 (9.54%) DV Cleared
4 65 (8.50%) AWS Certification
5 62 (8.10%) Azure Certification
6 54 (7.06%) Degree
7 35 (4.58%) CISSP
8 31 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (1.83%) CCNP
11 14 (1.83%) VCAP
12 12 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.44%) CCNA
13 11 (1.44%) RHCE
14 10 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.18%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 33 (4.31%) QA
2 27 (3.53%) NIST
3 16 (2.09%) GDPR
3 16 (2.09%) PCI DSS
4 13 (1.70%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.31%) SLA
6 8 (1.05%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.65%) GRC
8 5 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.52%) NCSC
9 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.26%) HL7
11 2 (0.26%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 249 (32.55%) Docker
2 84 (10.98%) Active Directory
3 77 (10.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.97%) Hyper-V
5 35 (4.58%) vSphere
6 30 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
7 25 (3.27%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.31%) NFS
9 10 (1.31%) Squid
10 7 (0.92%) Firmware
10 7 (0.92%) Postfix
11 5 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.52%) KVM
12 4 (0.52%) Varnish
12 4 (0.52%) zsh
13 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.39%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 445 (58.17%) Terraform
2 360 (47.06%) Kubernetes
3 286 (37.39%) Ansible
4 161 (21.05%) Grafana
5 139 (18.17%) Prometheus
6 60 (7.84%) Puppet
7 55 (7.19%) Progress Chef
8 44 (5.75%) Argo
9 25 (3.27%) Istio
10 14 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.83%) Podman
10 14 (1.83%) vCenter Server
10 14 (1.83%) VxRail
11 13 (1.70%) Packer
11 13 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (1.57%) SCCM
12 12 (1.57%) systemd
13 9 (1.18%) Kibana
14 8 (1.05%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.92%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 137 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 101 (13.20%) VMware
3 88 (11.50%) Google
4 72 (9.41%) Red Hat
5 58 (7.58%) Splunk
6 54 (7.06%) Oracle
7 53 (6.93%) Dynatrace
8 34 (4.44%) CyberArk
9 32 (4.18%) Cisco
10 24 (3.14%) Databricks
11 22 (2.88%) ServiceNow
12 17 (2.22%) IBM
13 14 (1.83%) Palo Alto
14 12 (1.57%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.31%) Fortinet
15 10 (1.31%) Zscaler
16 9 (1.18%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (1.18%) Dell
16 9 (1.18%) F5
16 9 (1.18%) WALLIX