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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 158 170
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 -17
Contract jobs citing Bash 607 429 527
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 1.60% 1.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.23% 4.90% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 263 377
10th Percentile £400 £375 £406
25th Percentile £432 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £606 £738 £695
90th Percentile £675 £810 £778
UK median daily rate £520 £544 £570
% change year-on-year -4.41% -4.56% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 13
10th Percentile - £40.75 £58.40
25th Percentile £41.25 £58.44 £60.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 £103.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £79.43 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% -6.67% +2.74%

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 9,737 8,761 10,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.77% 32.71% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,485 5,636 7,867
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 209 396
10th Percentile £39.80 £25.26 £35.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £47.22
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £79.38
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -0.79%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -9 253 £550 -9.47% 165
North of England +2 148 £506 -11.96% 50
South East +32 87 £485 +4.86% 131
Yorkshire -19 76 £489 -13.16% 17
Midlands -4 57 £486 +13.02% 26
North West -2 54 £550 -5.58% 26
West Midlands -2 47 £519 +6.03% 7
South West -28 26 £581 -5.49% 54
North East +6 21 £535 -5.31% 7
East of England -17 14 £444 -24.47% 44
East Midlands -18 10 £470 +15.34% 18
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 31 (5.11%) Confluence
2 18 (2.97%) OpenStack
3 9 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.48%) nginx
4 6 (0.99%) Apache
4 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.99%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.66%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.49%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.49%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.49%) IIS
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.16%) CICS
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Documentum
9 1 (0.16%) FileNet
9 1 (0.16%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.32%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Finacle
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 276 (45.47%) AWS
2 234 (38.55%) Azure
3 130 (21.42%) GCP
4 129 (21.25%) GitHub
5 80 (13.18%) GitHub Actions
6 66 (10.87%) Amazon S3
7 64 (10.54%) Amazon EC2
8 62 (10.21%) OpenShift
9 58 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (9.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 53 (8.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 47 (7.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 46 (7.58%) Serverless
14 43 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
14 43 (7.08%) Entra ID
15 34 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
16 33 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
17 29 (4.78%) Datadog
18 23 (3.79%) Azure AKS
19 22 (3.62%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 100 (16.47%) Firewall
2 69 (11.37%) DNS
3 63 (10.38%) TCP/IP
4 41 (6.75%) VPN
5 35 (5.77%) Network Security
6 30 (4.94%) SSL
7 24 (3.95%) Wireshark
8 20 (3.29%) VLAN
9 19 (3.13%) BGP
10 14 (2.31%) DHCP
11 10 (1.65%) OSPF
12 9 (1.48%) Software-Defined Networking
13 8 (1.32%) Ethernet
13 8 (1.32%) HTTP
13 8 (1.32%) SSH
14 7 (1.15%) Multicast
14 7 (1.15%) SD-WAN
14 7 (1.15%) SNMP
15 6 (0.99%) SMTP
15 6 (0.99%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (12.19%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (5.44%) SQL Server
4 26 (4.28%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
6 23 (3.79%) Redis
7 17 (2.80%) MySQL
8 16 (2.64%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.65%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.48%) Big Data
10 9 (1.48%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.48%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (1.15%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.15%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.82%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.82%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 170 (28.01%) Jenkins
2 143 (23.56%) GitLab
3 113 (18.62%) Git
4 44 (7.25%) JIRA
5 16 (2.64%) CircleCI
6 14 (2.31%) Metasploit
7 13 (2.14%) Burp Suite
8 11 (1.81%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.81%) Maven
8 11 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.15%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.15%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.15%) Subversion
10 6 (0.99%) MLflow
10 6 (0.99%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.82%) Gradle
11 5 (0.82%) Mockito
11 5 (0.82%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.66%) sqlmap
12 4 (0.66%) Terragrunt
General
1 177 (29.16%) Social Skills
2 90 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (10.05%) Public Sector
4 51 (8.40%) Finance
5 26 (4.28%) Banking
6 20 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.47%) Legal
8 9 (1.48%) Retail
9 8 (1.32%) Front Office
10 6 (0.99%) Military
11 5 (0.82%) Games
11 5 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.66%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.49%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.49%) Law
13 3 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.49%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 105 (17.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (12.03%) Senior
3 65 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
4 38 (6.26%) Developer
5 34 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
6 31 (5.11%) Network Engineer
6 31 (5.11%) Site Engineer
7 30 (4.94%) Lead
7 30 (4.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 28 (4.61%) Architect
8 28 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
9 27 (4.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 25 (4.12%) Automation Engineer
11 23 (3.79%) Administrator
12 22 (3.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 22 (3.62%) Data Engineer
13 21 (3.46%) Security Engineer
14 20 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
14 20 (3.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (9.39%) Elastic Stack
2 45 (7.41%) Kafka
3 27 (4.45%) REST
4 24 (3.95%) Keycloak
5 21 (3.46%) Middleware
6 20 (3.29%) Node.js
7 15 (2.47%) Loki
8 13 (2.14%) ARM Templates
9 12 (1.98%) .NET
10 11 (1.81%) SAML
10 11 (1.81%) YAML
11 10 (1.65%) OAuth
12 9 (1.48%) AngularJS
12 9 (1.48%) LDAP
13 8 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (1.32%) RESTful
13 8 (1.32%) Spring
14 7 (1.15%) OAuth2
14 7 (1.15%) OpenID
14 7 (1.15%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.40%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 28 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
5 19 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 19 (3.13%) PKI
6 18 (2.97%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.64%) Replication
8 15 (2.47%) Private Cloud
9 13 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.14%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.48%) NHS
13 8 (1.32%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.15%) Clustering
15 6 (0.99%) Grid Computing
15 6 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 290 (47.78%) Linux
2 100 (16.47%) Windows
3 67 (11.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 58 (9.56%) Unix
5 32 (5.27%) Mac OS
6 27 (4.45%) Windows Server
7 18 (2.97%) CentOS
8 15 (2.47%) Solaris
9 11 (1.81%) Ubuntu
9 11 (1.81%) VMS
10 9 (1.48%) Kali Linux
11 8 (1.32%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.49%) AIX
13 1 (0.16%) Android
13 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (54.70%) CI/CD
2 306 (50.41%) DevOps
3 278 (45.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 188 (30.97%) Containerisation
5 134 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
6 128 (21.09%) Observability
7 106 (17.46%) Agile
8 92 (15.16%) Platform Engineering
9 85 (14.00%) Incident Response
10 81 (13.34%) Test Automation
11 76 (12.52%) High Availability
12 75 (12.36%) Infrastructure Automation
13 74 (12.19%) DevSecOps
14 67 (11.04%) Migration
14 67 (11.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 66 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (10.38%) Task Automation
17 57 (9.39%) Configuration Management
18 53 (8.73%) Root Cause Analysis
19 51 (8.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 528 (86.99%) Python
2 219 (36.08%) PowerShell
3 56 (9.23%) SQL
4 55 (9.06%) Java
5 48 (7.91%) Perl
6 45 (7.41%) Go
7 32 (5.27%) JavaScript
8 31 (5.11%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.80%) Bicep
9 17 (2.80%) Kusto Query Language
10 16 (2.64%) Groovy
11 15 (2.47%) C#
12 14 (2.31%) C++
13 9 (1.48%) C
13 9 (1.48%) PHP
14 7 (1.15%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.82%) Rust
16 5 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
17 4 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 202 (33.28%) Security Cleared
2 167 (27.51%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.75%) Degree
4 28 (4.61%) DV Cleared
5 26 (4.28%) AWS Certification
6 25 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (2.97%) CCNP
8 18 (2.97%) OSCP
9 16 (2.64%) CCNA
9 16 (2.64%) GPEN
10 15 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (2.31%) CEH
12 11 (1.81%) Azure Certification
13 10 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.65%) CCDP
14 8 (1.32%) CISSP
15 7 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (1.15%) Master's Degree
15 7 (1.15%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (4.45%) GDPR
3 13 (2.14%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.14%) NCSC
3 13 (2.14%) NIST
4 12 (1.98%) QA
4 12 (1.98%) SOC 2
5 9 (1.48%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.82%) SLA
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.16%) GxP
8 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 240 (39.54%) Docker
2 76 (12.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (7.58%) Active Directory
4 28 (4.61%) vSphere
5 12 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.65%) KVM
6 10 (1.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 9 (1.48%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.48%) Lustre
7 9 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.48%) VMware NSX
8 8 (1.32%) Firmware
8 8 (1.32%) GPFS
8 8 (1.32%) zsh
9 5 (0.82%) NFS
9 5 (0.82%) Squid
10 4 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.66%) Postfix
10 4 (0.66%) Snort
10 4 (0.66%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 292 (48.11%) Terraform
2 274 (45.14%) Kubernetes
3 244 (40.20%) Ansible
4 123 (20.26%) Grafana
5 111 (18.29%) Prometheus
6 46 (7.58%) Puppet
7 45 (7.41%) Argo
8 21 (3.46%) Istio
8 21 (3.46%) Kibana
9 18 (2.97%) NetBackup
10 17 (2.80%) SCCM
11 16 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (2.64%) Nmap
12 14 (2.31%) Jamf Pro
12 14 (2.31%) Progress Chef
12 14 (2.31%) Red Hat Satellite
13 11 (1.81%) vCenter Server
14 10 (1.65%) Kustomize
14 10 (1.65%) Oracle RMAN
14 10 (1.65%) Packer
Vendors
1 105 (17.30%) VMware
2 91 (14.99%) Microsoft
3 88 (14.50%) Red Hat
3 88 (14.50%) Splunk
4 40 (6.59%) Palo Alto
5 38 (6.26%) Google
6 37 (6.10%) Cisco
7 30 (4.94%) F5
8 28 (4.61%) CheckPoint
9 25 (4.12%) Oracle
10 22 (3.62%) Citrix
11 21 (3.46%) Databricks
12 20 (3.29%) Dynatrace
13 18 (2.97%) CyberArk
14 16 (2.64%) Juniper
14 16 (2.64%) Veritas
15 15 (2.47%) ServiceNow
16 14 (2.31%) Zscaler
17 12 (1.98%) Commvault
18 11 (1.81%) Qualys