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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 143 192
Rank change year-on-year -24 +49 -57
Contract jobs citing Bash 755 528 435
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.92% 1.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.31% 5.83% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 356 305
10th Percentile £400 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £440 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £630 £616 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -10.42%
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 11,956 9,049 10,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.18% 32.84% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,758 6,184 7,535
10th Percentile £363 £345 £356
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 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £503 £533
% change year-on-year +2.99% -5.72% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 257 345
10th Percentile £31.57 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.53 £37.77 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.90 £80.00 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -31 324 £505 -3.81% 65
North of England -26 156 £500 -3.15% 37
South East -10 105 £550 +22.22% 61
South West -5 89 £663 +15.22% 30
Yorkshire -33 69 £518 +0.98% 8
North West -3 63 £538 +9.14% 22
West Midlands -42 31 £506 -8.01% 5
Midlands -46 31 £506 -8.01% 12
East of England +3 30 £438 -7.89% 10
North East -27 23 £419 -23.86% 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 35 (4.64%) Confluence
2 21 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.65%) Apache
4 13 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.46%) nginx
6 7 (0.93%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.79%) IIS
7 6 (0.79%) SAS
7 6 (0.79%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.79%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.53%) WordPress
10 3 (0.40%) JBoss
11 2 (0.26%) CMS
11 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.79%) 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
1 365 (48.34%) AWS
2 345 (45.70%) Azure
3 192 (25.43%) GitHub
4 159 (21.06%) GCP
5 131 (17.35%) GitHub Actions
6 129 (17.09%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (10.07%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (8.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 66 (8.74%) Serverless
10 64 (8.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 63 (8.34%) Amazon S3
12 54 (7.15%) OpenShift
13 51 (6.75%) Azure Monitor
14 50 (6.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 49 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
16 48 (6.36%) Entra ID
17 47 (6.23%) Azure AKS
17 47 (6.23%) Datadog
18 44 (5.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 43 (5.70%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 132 (17.48%) DNS
2 127 (16.82%) Firewall
3 83 (10.99%) TCP/IP
4 64 (8.48%) VPN
5 61 (8.08%) Network Security
6 60 (7.95%) DHCP
7 19 (2.52%) VSAN
7 19 (2.52%) WAN
8 17 (2.25%) SAN
8 17 (2.25%) VLAN
9 16 (2.12%) SSL
10 15 (1.99%) HTTP
11 13 (1.72%) NAS
11 13 (1.72%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.72%) SSH
12 9 (1.19%) BGP
12 9 (1.19%) SNMP
13 7 (0.93%) DNSSEC
14 6 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
15 5 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.37%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (3.05%) MongoDB
4 21 (2.78%) NoSQL
5 19 (2.52%) Redis
6 17 (2.25%) MySQL
7 12 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
8 11 (1.46%) Big Data
8 11 (1.46%) Pentaho
9 10 (1.32%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.32%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.19%) Metadata
11 8 (1.06%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 202 (26.75%) Jenkins
2 158 (20.93%) GitLab
3 138 (18.28%) Git
4 44 (5.83%) JIRA
5 15 (1.99%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.85%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.59%) Selenium
7 12 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.06%) Postman
9 7 (0.93%) JMeter
9 7 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.79%) MLflow
10 6 (0.79%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (0.66%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.53%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.40%) Gatling
13 3 (0.40%) Liquibase
General
1 173 (22.91%) Social Skills
2 121 (16.03%) Finance
3 91 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.15%) Banking
6 17 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (2.25%) Telecoms
7 15 (1.99%) Legal
8 10 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.32%) Law
9 9 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 7 (0.93%) Military
10 7 (0.93%) Retail
11 5 (0.66%) Front Office
11 5 (0.66%) Publishing
12 4 (0.53%) Automotive
12 4 (0.53%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.26%) Billing
13 2 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 144 (19.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 97 (12.85%) Senior
3 74 (9.80%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (9.54%) Platform Engineer
5 59 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 53 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
7 52 (6.89%) Security Engineer
8 51 (6.75%) Azure Engineer
9 43 (5.70%) Lead
10 42 (5.56%) Architect
11 40 (5.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 37 (4.90%) Linux Engineer
13 34 (4.50%) Site Engineer
14 29 (3.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 29 (3.84%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 28 (3.71%) AWS DevOps
16 27 (3.58%) GCP Engineer
17 26 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 25 (3.31%) Senior DevOps
18 25 (3.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (58.01%) Terraform
2 59 (7.81%) Kafka
3 45 (5.96%) ARM Templates
3 45 (5.96%) REST
4 39 (5.17%) YAML
5 36 (4.77%) Elastic Stack
6 23 (3.05%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.38%) Loki
8 17 (2.25%) Middleware
9 16 (2.12%) .NET
10 15 (1.99%) JSON
11 14 (1.85%) Node.js
11 14 (1.85%) RESTful
11 14 (1.85%) SAML
12 13 (1.72%) SOAP
13 12 (1.59%) LDAP
13 12 (1.59%) React
14 11 (1.46%) OAuth
15 10 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (1.32%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 119 (15.76%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 39 (5.17%) Security Posture
4 33 (4.37%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
6 31 (4.11%) Data Centre
7 29 (3.84%) PKI
8 28 (3.71%) Linux Command Line
9 25 (3.31%) Management Information System
10 22 (2.91%) Public Cloud
11 20 (2.65%) Replication
12 18 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.99%) Product Ownership
14 14 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
14 14 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
16 11 (1.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 11 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
17 9 (1.19%) Private Cloud
18 8 (1.06%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 347 (45.96%) Linux
2 170 (22.52%) Windows
3 84 (11.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 62 (8.21%) Windows Server
5 45 (5.96%) Unix
6 35 (4.64%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.85%) VMS
8 12 (1.59%) CentOS
9 7 (0.93%) Solaris
10 6 (0.79%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.53%) AIX
11 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.26%) Debian
13 2 (0.26%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (58.54%) CI/CD
2 407 (53.91%) DevOps
3 386 (51.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 215 (28.48%) Containerisation
5 195 (25.83%) Observability
6 162 (21.46%) Platform Engineering
7 144 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
8 142 (18.81%) Agile
9 136 (18.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 122 (16.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 107 (14.17%) Cloud Security
12 106 (14.04%) DevSecOps
13 103 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
14 94 (12.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 91 (12.05%) Configuration Management
16 90 (11.92%) Migration
17 86 (11.39%) Root Cause Analysis
17 86 (11.39%) Runbook
18 85 (11.26%) SIEM
19 84 (11.13%) AI
Programming Languages
1 652 (86.36%) Python
2 373 (49.40%) PowerShell
3 93 (12.32%) SQL
4 74 (9.80%) Java
5 71 (9.40%) Bicep
6 62 (8.21%) Go
7 33 (4.37%) Shell Script
8 26 (3.44%) Perl
9 21 (2.78%) Groovy
10 18 (2.38%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.46%) C#
11 11 (1.46%) Ruby
12 10 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.32%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.06%) Korn
14 5 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.66%) Scala
15 4 (0.53%) C
15 4 (0.53%) Cypher
16 3 (0.40%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 277 (36.69%) Security Cleared
2 206 (27.28%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.80%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.34%) Azure Certification
5 62 (8.21%) AWS Certification
6 53 (7.02%) Degree
7 33 (4.37%) CISSP
8 31 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (1.85%) CCNP
11 14 (1.85%) VCAP
12 12 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.46%) CCNA
14 10 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (1.32%) RHCE
15 9 (1.19%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.77%) QA
2 33 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.31%) NIST
4 15 (1.99%) PCI DSS
5 14 (1.85%) GDPR
6 13 (1.72%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.46%) SLA
8 7 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.93%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.53%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.53%) GRC
10 4 (0.53%) NCSC
10 4 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 245 (32.45%) Docker
2 84 (11.13%) Active Directory
3 77 (10.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (5.17%) Hyper-V
5 34 (4.50%) vSphere
6 30 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (3.18%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.32%) NFS
9 10 (1.32%) Squid
10 8 (1.06%) Firmware
11 7 (0.93%) Postfix
12 5 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.53%) KVM
13 4 (0.53%) Varnish
13 4 (0.53%) zsh
14 3 (0.40%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.40%) OpenSSH
14 3 (0.40%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 352 (46.62%) Kubernetes
2 280 (37.09%) Ansible
3 162 (21.46%) Grafana
4 138 (18.28%) Prometheus
5 60 (7.95%) Puppet
6 53 (7.02%) Progress Chef
7 43 (5.70%) Argo
8 23 (3.05%) Istio
9 14 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.85%) Podman
9 14 (1.85%) VxRail
10 13 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (1.72%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.59%) SCCM
11 12 (1.59%) systemd
12 10 (1.32%) Packer
13 9 (1.19%) Kibana
14 8 (1.06%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.93%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.93%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 138 (18.28%) Microsoft
2 100 (13.25%) VMware
3 84 (11.13%) Google
4 68 (9.01%) Red Hat
5 58 (7.68%) Splunk
6 54 (7.15%) Oracle
7 50 (6.62%) Dynatrace
8 33 (4.37%) CyberArk
9 32 (4.24%) Cisco
10 25 (3.31%) Databricks
11 23 (3.05%) ServiceNow
12 17 (2.25%) IBM
13 14 (1.85%) Palo Alto
14 12 (1.59%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.32%) Fortinet
15 10 (1.32%) Zscaler
16 9 (1.19%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
16 9 (1.19%) NetApp
16 9 (1.19%) WALLIX