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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 184 152
Rank change year-on-year +48 -32 -2
Contract jobs citing Bash 654 431 649
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.16% 1.38% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.75% 4.28% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 266 475
10th Percentile £378 £366 £403
25th Percentile £425 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £617 £700 £695
90th Percentile £686 £810 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 19
10th Percentile - £50.75 £59.60
25th Percentile £41.25 £51.25 £69.38
Median hourly rate £55.25 £60.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% -20.00% +2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £78.28 £112.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -7.92% -20.00% +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 9,692 10,060 12,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.03% 32.31% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,447 6,509 8,856
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 268 413
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.71
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.89 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% -3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.25 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.79% +5.00% -

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025. 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 +38 312 £550 -8.33% 79
North of England +9 140 £520 -3.26% 23
South East +40 78 £475 +2.70% 73
Yorkshire -14 69 £506 -3.34% 5
North West +3 50 £550 +4.76% 16
Midlands +2 46 £540 +22.73% 16
West Midlands +7 36 £550 +22.49% 13
South West -2 35 £563 -13.46% 35
North East +15 25 £550 -5.09% 2
East of England -11 18 £444 -26.04% 16
East Midlands -3 10 £475 +7.95% 2
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 32 (4.89%) Confluence
2 17 (2.60%) OpenStack
3 12 (1.83%) Apache
4 10 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.53%) nginx
5 6 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.76%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.46%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.46%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.15%) CICS
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Documentum
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.15%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.22%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Finacle
1 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 297 (45.41%) AWS
2 245 (37.46%) Azure
3 146 (22.32%) GCP
4 129 (19.72%) GitHub
5 75 (11.47%) GitHub Actions
6 62 (9.48%) Amazon S3
7 60 (9.17%) Amazon EC2
7 60 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (8.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (7.80%) OpenShift
10 49 (7.49%) Entra ID
11 48 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 45 (6.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 40 (6.12%) Serverless
14 37 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
16 29 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
17 23 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
17 23 (3.52%) Datadog
18 22 (3.36%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 111 (16.97%) Firewall
2 84 (12.84%) DNS
3 68 (10.40%) TCP/IP
4 47 (7.19%) VPN
5 38 (5.81%) Network Security
6 30 (4.59%) SSL
7 25 (3.82%) Wireshark
8 21 (3.21%) BGP
9 20 (3.06%) VLAN
10 17 (2.60%) DHCP
11 12 (1.83%) OSPF
12 11 (1.68%) SSH
13 9 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
14 8 (1.22%) Ethernet
14 8 (1.22%) HTTP
14 8 (1.22%) Multicast
14 8 (1.22%) SD-WAN
15 7 (1.07%) EIGRP
15 7 (1.07%) SMTP
15 7 (1.07%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (5.35%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (5.05%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.82%) MongoDB
5 22 (3.36%) Redis
6 20 (3.06%) MySQL
7 18 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (2.45%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.68%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.53%) Big Data
10 10 (1.53%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.53%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.38%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.92%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.92%) Oracle Exadata
13 6 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 184 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 127 (19.42%) GitLab
3 113 (17.28%) Git
4 48 (7.34%) JIRA
5 20 (3.06%) SonarQube
6 19 (2.91%) Metasploit
7 18 (2.75%) Burp Suite
8 17 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 15 (2.29%) Bitbucket
10 13 (1.99%) Maven
11 10 (1.53%) Artifactory
11 10 (1.53%) CircleCI
12 8 (1.22%) Liquibase
13 7 (1.07%) Gradle
13 7 (1.07%) MLflow
14 6 (0.92%) Subversion
14 6 (0.92%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.76%) Mockito
16 4 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (0.61%) GCC
General
1 187 (28.59%) Social Skills
2 81 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (11.16%) Public Sector
4 63 (9.63%) Finance
5 28 (4.28%) Banking
6 21 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.29%) Legal
8 12 (1.83%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.53%) Front Office
9 10 (1.53%) Retail
10 7 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.92%) Law
11 6 (0.92%) Marketing
11 6 (0.92%) Military
12 5 (0.76%) Games
12 5 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.76%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.61%) Electronics
13 4 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 123 (18.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 84 (12.84%) Senior
3 60 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
4 35 (5.35%) Developer
5 34 (5.20%) Site Engineer
6 33 (5.05%) AWS DevOps
6 33 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
6 33 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 32 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (4.89%) Network Engineer
8 31 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 30 (4.59%) Architect
10 26 (3.98%) Administrator
11 25 (3.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 24 (3.67%) Data Engineer
13 23 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
14 22 (3.36%) Lead
15 21 (3.21%) Security Engineer
15 21 (3.21%) Senior DevOps
16 20 (3.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.72%) Elastic Stack
2 46 (7.03%) Kafka
3 29 (4.43%) Keycloak
4 27 (4.13%) REST
5 22 (3.36%) YAML
6 21 (3.21%) ARM Templates
7 19 (2.91%) Middleware
8 18 (2.75%) .NET
8 18 (2.75%) Node.js
9 13 (1.99%) Loki
10 11 (1.68%) FIX Protocol
10 11 (1.68%) SAML
11 10 (1.53%) LDAP
11 10 (1.53%) OAuth
12 8 (1.22%) .NET Core
12 8 (1.22%) ADO
12 8 (1.22%) RESTful
12 8 (1.22%) Spring
12 8 (1.22%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.07%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.27%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.28%) Product Ownership
3 26 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (3.67%) Linux Command Line
5 21 (3.21%) PKI
6 20 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.91%) Replication
8 16 (2.45%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.14%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.83%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.53%) Clustering
13 9 (1.38%) NHS
13 9 (1.38%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.07%) Algorithms
16 6 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
16 6 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 304 (46.48%) Linux
2 110 (16.82%) Windows
3 81 (12.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (7.95%) Unix
5 41 (6.27%) Mac OS
6 30 (4.59%) CentOS
7 29 (4.43%) Windows Server
8 19 (2.91%) Ubuntu
9 16 (2.45%) Solaris
10 8 (1.22%) Kali Linux
11 5 (0.76%) Windows 10
12 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.61%) Debian
13 3 (0.46%) AIX
13 3 (0.46%) Android
13 3 (0.46%) VMS
14 2 (0.31%) SUSE
14 2 (0.31%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (53.98%) CI/CD
2 328 (50.15%) DevOps
3 293 (44.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 186 (28.44%) Containerisation
5 144 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
6 118 (18.04%) Agile
7 114 (17.43%) Observability
8 89 (13.61%) Test Automation
9 84 (12.84%) Incident Response
10 82 (12.54%) High Availability
11 81 (12.39%) Platform Engineering
12 80 (12.23%) DevSecOps
12 80 (12.23%) Infrastructure Automation
13 69 (10.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 66 (10.09%) Migration
15 62 (9.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 62 (9.48%) Task Automation
16 61 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 59 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
17 59 (9.02%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 558 (85.32%) Python
2 229 (35.02%) PowerShell
3 74 (11.31%) SQL
4 64 (9.79%) Go
5 57 (8.72%) Perl
6 56 (8.56%) Java
7 30 (4.59%) Shell Script
8 26 (3.98%) JavaScript
9 23 (3.52%) Bicep
10 20 (3.06%) C++
11 18 (2.75%) Groovy
12 17 (2.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (2.29%) C#
14 13 (1.99%) C
14 13 (1.99%) PHP
15 11 (1.68%) PromQL
16 7 (1.07%) TypeScript
17 6 (0.92%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.76%) Tcl
18 5 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 217 (33.18%) Security Cleared
2 179 (27.37%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.12%) Degree
4 32 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 30 (4.59%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (3.67%) OSCP
8 22 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (3.06%) CCNP
10 17 (2.60%) CEH
11 16 (2.45%) CCNA
12 15 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (2.14%) Azure Certification
13 14 (2.14%) GPEN
14 12 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (1.68%) CISSP
15 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (1.53%) CCDP
17 8 (1.22%) Master's Degree
17 8 (1.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (4.74%) GDPR
3 16 (2.45%) NCSC
3 16 (2.45%) NIST
4 15 (2.29%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.99%) HIPAA
6 12 (1.83%) PCI DSS
6 12 (1.83%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.53%) QA
8 6 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.46%) SLA
11 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.15%) GxP
11 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 238 (36.39%) Docker
2 83 (12.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (7.34%) Active Directory
4 31 (4.74%) vSphere
5 12 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.53%) GPFS
6 10 (1.53%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 9 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.38%) VMware NSX
7 9 (1.38%) zsh
8 8 (1.22%) Firmware
8 8 (1.22%) Lustre
9 7 (1.07%) KVM
10 6 (0.92%) NFS
11 4 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.61%) Postfix
11 4 (0.61%) Squid
11 4 (0.61%) Veritas File System
11 4 (0.61%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 287 (43.88%) Terraform
2 273 (41.74%) Kubernetes
3 231 (35.32%) Ansible
4 124 (18.96%) Grafana
5 113 (17.28%) Prometheus
6 44 (6.73%) Argo
7 41 (6.27%) Puppet
8 25 (3.82%) Jamf Pro
9 23 (3.52%) NetBackup
10 21 (3.21%) Istio
10 21 (3.21%) Nmap
11 20 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
12 19 (2.91%) Packer
13 18 (2.75%) Progress Chef
14 16 (2.45%) SCCM
15 15 (2.29%) Kibana
16 13 (1.99%) Oracle RMAN
17 12 (1.83%) Red Hat Satellite
18 11 (1.68%) Nessus
18 11 (1.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (16.51%) VMware
2 99 (15.14%) Microsoft
3 98 (14.98%) Red Hat
4 88 (13.46%) Splunk
5 40 (6.12%) Google
5 40 (6.12%) Palo Alto
6 39 (5.96%) Cisco
7 33 (5.05%) Oracle
8 30 (4.59%) F5
9 28 (4.28%) CheckPoint
10 21 (3.21%) Citrix
10 21 (3.21%) ServiceNow
10 21 (3.21%) Veritas
11 20 (3.06%) CyberArk
12 17 (2.60%) Apple
12 17 (2.60%) Juniper
13 15 (2.29%) Databricks
13 15 (2.29%) Zscaler
14 12 (1.83%) Dynatrace
14 12 (1.83%) Okta