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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 154 204
Rank change year-on-year -43 +50 -72
Contract jobs citing Bash 567 457 424
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.92% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.10% 5.65% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 303 299
10th Percentile £388 £400 £400
25th Percentile £424 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £580 £639 £625
90th Percentile £674 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £536 £535
% change year-on-year -6.76% +0.33% -10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 10
10th Percentile £54.55 £26.83 £21.85
25th Percentile £57.59 £34.24 £22.81
Median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% +18.89% -31.30%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.06 £71.88
90th Percentile £70.41 £67.89 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.01% +18.89% -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 11,122 8,087 11,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.63% 33.93% 30.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,297 5,623 8,012
10th Percentile £357 £363 £350
25th Percentile £417 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.11% -2.75%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £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 539 185 454
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.27 £37.51
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.25 £49.28
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -
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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -57 230 £523 -5.00% 84
North of England -9 143 £477 -11.26% 51
Yorkshire -14 87 £482 -12.36% 11
South East -21 74 £460 -0.54% 54
South West -25 49 £500 -16.67% 26
North West -20 45 £525 +5.00% 33
Midlands -45 42 £465 -15.45% 20
West Midlands -38 40 £467 -22.17% 9
East of England -30 16 £494 +3.95% 10
North East -21 11 £419 -23.86% 7
East Midlands -32 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 28 (4.94%) Confluence
2 12 (2.12%) Apache
3 10 (1.76%) SAS
4 9 (1.59%) nginx
5 8 (1.41%) IIS
6 7 (1.23%) WebSphere
7 6 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.71%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.71%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.35%) CMS
11 2 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.35%) JBoss
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 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 (0.35%) 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
1 250 (44.09%) AWS
2 222 (39.15%) Azure
3 160 (28.22%) GitHub
4 113 (19.93%) GCP
5 93 (16.40%) GitHub Actions
6 88 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (12.87%) OpenShift
8 46 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 46 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
9 43 (7.58%) Serverless
10 42 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 39 (6.88%) Amazon S3
12 37 (6.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 35 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
15 29 (5.11%) Azure AKS
15 29 (5.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 26 (4.59%) Datadog
17 24 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
18 21 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (13.05%) DNS
2 69 (12.17%) Firewall
3 38 (6.70%) TCP/IP
4 35 (6.17%) VPN
5 28 (4.94%) Network Security
6 18 (3.17%) SAN
7 15 (2.65%) DHCP
7 15 (2.65%) NAS
8 13 (2.29%) VLAN
9 12 (2.12%) HTTP
10 11 (1.94%) SSL
11 9 (1.59%) WAN
12 8 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
13 7 (1.23%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.23%) SNMP
14 6 (1.06%) BGP
15 4 (0.71%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.71%) Multicast
15 4 (0.71%) VSAN
15 4 (0.71%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.88%) MongoDB
4 16 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (2.82%) MySQL
4 16 (2.82%) Redis
5 15 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (2.29%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (1.94%) Pentaho
7 11 (1.94%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.23%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.06%) DB2
9 6 (1.06%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (0.88%) Big Data
10 5 (0.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 166 (29.28%) Jenkins
2 118 (20.81%) GitLab
3 96 (16.93%) Git
4 40 (7.05%) JIRA
5 10 (1.76%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.59%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.59%) Postman
7 8 (1.41%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.23%) JMeter
9 6 (1.06%) Liquibase
10 5 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (0.88%) Selenium
10 5 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.71%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.53%) Appium
12 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.53%) Snyk
12 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.53%) Spinnaker
General
1 143 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 62 (10.93%) Finance
3 60 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 36 (6.35%) Banking
6 14 (2.47%) Legal
7 13 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.41%) Military
9 6 (1.06%) Law
10 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.71%) Retail
12 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.35%) Aviation
12 2 (0.35%) Front Office
12 2 (0.35%) Police
13 1 (0.18%) Back Office
13 1 (0.18%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 113 (19.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
3 48 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
4 46 (8.11%) Senior
5 45 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (7.23%) Security Engineer
7 38 (6.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 33 (5.82%) Lead
9 31 (5.47%) Architect
10 30 (5.29%) Azure Engineer
11 29 (5.11%) Site Engineer
12 27 (4.76%) Data Engineer
12 27 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
13 25 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (4.23%) Linux Engineer
15 22 (3.88%) Automation Engineer
15 22 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
16 21 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 20 (3.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 20 (3.53%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.05%) Elastic Stack
1 40 (7.05%) Kafka
2 27 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 27 (4.76%) REST
3 24 (4.23%) YAML
4 17 (3.00%) Middleware
5 16 (2.82%) ARM Templates
6 11 (1.94%) Loki
6 11 (1.94%) Node.js
7 10 (1.76%) JSON
7 10 (1.76%) LDAP
7 10 (1.76%) Swagger
8 9 (1.59%) ADO
8 9 (1.59%) Keycloak
9 8 (1.41%) .NET
9 8 (1.41%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.41%) React
9 8 (1.41%) SAML
9 8 (1.41%) Vue
10 7 (1.23%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 87 (15.34%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (4.23%) Data Centre
4 23 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (3.88%) Security Posture
6 21 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (3.00%) Management Information System
9 16 (2.82%) Onboarding
9 16 (2.82%) Replication
10 13 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.94%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.76%) Product Ownership
13 8 (1.41%) PKI
14 7 (1.23%) Clustering
15 6 (1.06%) Private Cloud
16 5 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
16 5 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
17 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
17 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 221 (38.98%) Linux
2 93 (16.40%) Windows
3 49 (8.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 45 (7.94%) Unix
5 30 (5.29%) Windows Server
6 19 (3.35%) Ubuntu
7 14 (2.47%) VMS
8 11 (1.94%) Mac OS
9 10 (1.76%) AIX
10 8 (1.41%) CentOS
11 5 (0.88%) Windows 10
12 4 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.35%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.35%) Debian
14 2 (0.35%) Rocky
15 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (58.38%) CI/CD
2 316 (55.73%) DevOps
3 247 (43.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 164 (28.92%) Containerisation
5 143 (25.22%) Observability
6 105 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 98 (17.28%) Platform Engineering
8 94 (16.58%) Agile
9 79 (13.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 72 (12.70%) Migration
10 72 (12.70%) Root Cause Analysis
11 71 (12.52%) Configuration Management
12 63 (11.11%) High Availability
13 61 (10.76%) Cloud Security
14 59 (10.41%) Infrastructure Automation
14 59 (10.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 52 (9.17%) Test Automation
16 51 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
17 46 (8.11%) SIEM
18 44 (7.76%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 490 (86.42%) Python
2 246 (43.39%) PowerShell
3 80 (14.11%) SQL
4 47 (8.29%) Go
5 38 (6.70%) Java
6 25 (4.41%) Bicep
7 23 (4.06%) JavaScript
8 21 (3.70%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.17%) Groovy
10 14 (2.47%) Perl
11 10 (1.76%) C
11 10 (1.76%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.76%) Ruby
12 8 (1.41%) C#
13 6 (1.06%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.88%) C++
14 5 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.88%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.71%) Korn
15 4 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 181 (31.92%) Security Cleared
2 150 (26.46%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.88%) Degree
4 32 (5.64%) Azure Certification
5 26 (4.59%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.41%) AWS Certification
7 22 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (2.82%) CISSP
10 12 (2.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (1.94%) CCNA
11 11 (1.94%) CCNP
12 10 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.59%) RHCE
14 8 (1.41%) RHCA
15 7 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (0.88%) CISM
17 4 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.71%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.53%) GDPR
3 18 (3.17%) QA
4 15 (2.65%) NIST
5 13 (2.29%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.12%) SLA
7 9 (1.59%) HIPAA
8 8 (1.41%) Data Quality
9 6 (1.06%) GRC
9 6 (1.06%) NCSC
9 6 (1.06%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 162 (28.57%) Docker
2 48 (8.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
4 40 (7.05%) Active Directory
5 22 (3.88%) Hyper-V
5 22 (3.88%) vSphere
6 17 (3.00%) VMware NSX
7 15 (2.65%) KVM
8 11 (1.94%) Firmware
8 11 (1.94%) Squid
9 9 (1.59%) NFS
10 7 (1.23%) Postfix
10 7 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.71%) Varnish
12 3 (0.53%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.53%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.35%) Ceph
13 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.35%) zsh
Systems Management
1 297 (52.38%) Terraform
2 256 (45.15%) Kubernetes
3 226 (39.86%) Ansible
4 132 (23.28%) Grafana
5 116 (20.46%) Prometheus
6 47 (8.29%) Puppet
7 46 (8.11%) Argo
8 26 (4.59%) vCenter Server
9 25 (4.41%) Progress Chef
10 24 (4.23%) Istio
11 13 (2.29%) Packer
12 11 (1.94%) Kibana
13 9 (1.59%) NetBackup
13 9 (1.59%) Podman
14 8 (1.41%) HAProxy
14 8 (1.41%) linkerd
14 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (1.41%) Rancher
15 7 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
15 7 (1.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (13.05%) Splunk
2 70 (12.35%) Red Hat
3 67 (11.82%) VMware
4 64 (11.29%) Microsoft
5 46 (8.11%) Google
6 42 (7.41%) Dynatrace
7 32 (5.64%) Oracle
8 19 (3.35%) IBM
9 18 (3.17%) Cisco
9 18 (3.17%) Databricks
10 17 (3.00%) Pure Storage
11 12 (2.12%) AppDynamics
11 12 (2.12%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.94%) Cloudera
12 11 (1.94%) Informatica
12 11 (1.94%) ServiceNow
13 10 (1.76%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.76%) Dell
13 10 (1.76%) Fortinet
13 10 (1.76%) Talend