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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 142 213
Rank change year-on-year -46 +71 -82
Contract jobs citing Bash 547 466 403
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.37% 1.90% 1.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.00% 5.61% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 302 277
10th Percentile £388 £400 £400
25th Percentile £416 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £674 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £689
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 9
10th Percentile £55.65 £25.25 £21.70
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% +1.90% -19.85%
75th Percentile £74.26 £61.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.20 £66.37 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% +1.90% -19.85%

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 10,940 8,305 10,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.44% 33.78% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,274 5,736 7,900
10th Percentile £352 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -2.78% -4.42%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 523 215 436
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.68 £47.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.12% -0.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -1.92%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -57 218 £520 -5.45% 79
North of England -33 129 £482 -12.36% 40
South East -24 81 £450 -5.26% 55
Yorkshire -37 79 £460 -16.36% 8
Midlands -35 44 £467 -20.51% 27
South West -47 44 £538 -10.42% 20
North West -25 41 £538 +7.50% 20
West Midlands -31 41 £469 -27.98% 14
East of England -40 15 £438 -7.89% 25
North East -14 9 £425 -23.77% 12
East Midlands -36 3 £436 +6.99% 13
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 33 (6.03%) Confluence
2 13 (2.38%) nginx
3 10 (1.83%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.46%) SAS
5 7 (1.28%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.10%) Apache
6 6 (1.10%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.73%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.55%) IIS
9 2 (0.37%) CMS
9 2 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.37%) JBoss
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.37%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.18%) FileNet
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (0.91%) Weka
2 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 249 (45.52%) AWS
2 222 (40.59%) Azure
3 156 (28.52%) GitHub
4 110 (20.11%) GCP
5 89 (16.27%) Azure DevOps
6 84 (15.36%) GitHub Actions
7 71 (12.98%) OpenShift
8 54 (9.87%) Serverless
9 48 (8.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (8.59%) Amazon S3
11 42 (7.68%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (6.95%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (6.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 32 (5.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 31 (5.67%) Azure AKS
17 28 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
18 24 (4.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 22 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
20 19 (3.47%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 65 (11.88%) DNS
2 62 (11.33%) Firewall
3 39 (7.13%) TCP/IP
4 30 (5.48%) VPN
5 20 (3.66%) Network Security
6 14 (2.56%) DHCP
7 13 (2.38%) VLAN
8 12 (2.19%) HTTP
9 10 (1.83%) SNMP
10 9 (1.65%) SAN
10 9 (1.65%) SSL
11 8 (1.46%) NAS
11 8 (1.46%) Reverse Proxy
12 6 (1.10%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.10%) SSH
12 6 (1.10%) Wireshark
13 5 (0.91%) WAN
14 4 (0.73%) DKIM
14 4 (0.73%) DMARC
14 4 (0.73%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.15%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (6.22%) SQL Server
3 28 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (4.20%) MongoDB
5 21 (3.84%) NoSQL
6 16 (2.93%) MySQL
7 15 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (2.74%) Redis
8 13 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.01%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (1.65%) Pentaho
12 8 (1.46%) Big Data
13 7 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.10%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.10%) DB2
15 5 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
15 5 (0.91%) Delta Lake
16 4 (0.73%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 156 (28.52%) Jenkins
2 117 (21.39%) GitLab
3 97 (17.73%) Git
4 42 (7.68%) JIRA
5 15 (2.74%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.83%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.28%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.10%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.91%) Selenium
10 4 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.73%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.73%) ScriptRunner
10 4 (0.73%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.73%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.55%) Appium
11 3 (0.55%) JMeter
11 3 (0.55%) Postman
11 3 (0.55%) Snyk
General
1 146 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 67 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (10.60%) Finance
4 50 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.39%) Banking
6 13 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.01%) Legal
9 9 (1.65%) Retail
10 8 (1.46%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.10%) Military
12 5 (0.91%) Law
13 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.37%) Aviation
15 2 (0.37%) Billing
15 2 (0.37%) Police
16 1 (0.18%) Back Office
16 1 (0.18%) Financial Institution
16 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (18.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 59 (10.79%) Platform Engineer
3 49 (8.96%) Senior
4 39 (7.13%) AWS Engineer
5 36 (6.58%) Security Engineer
6 34 (6.22%) Architect
7 32 (5.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 30 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
9 29 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 29 (5.30%) Lead
9 29 (5.30%) Site Engineer
10 25 (4.57%) GCP Engineer
11 24 (4.39%) Data Engineer
12 23 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (3.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 21 (3.84%) Linux Engineer
14 20 (3.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
16 18 (3.29%) Automation Engineer
16 18 (3.29%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.31%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (7.13%) Kafka
3 33 (6.03%) REST
4 29 (5.30%) OpenTelemetry
5 20 (3.66%) YAML
6 18 (3.29%) ARM Templates
7 14 (2.56%) Node.js
8 13 (2.38%) Middleware
9 11 (2.01%) Keycloak
9 11 (2.01%) LDAP
10 10 (1.83%) .NET
10 10 (1.83%) Loki
10 10 (1.83%) OAuth
10 10 (1.83%) SAML
11 9 (1.65%) ADO
12 8 (1.46%) AngularJS
13 7 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (1.28%) SOAP
13 7 (1.28%) Swagger
13 7 (1.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 75 (13.71%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.47%) Linux Command Line
5 18 (3.29%) Security Posture
6 16 (2.93%) Data Centre
6 16 (2.93%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.56%) Replication
8 12 (2.19%) PKI
9 11 (2.01%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.01%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.83%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.10%) Clustering
13 5 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.91%) Grid Computing
13 5 (0.91%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 219 (40.04%) Linux
2 85 (15.54%) Windows
3 49 (8.96%) Unix
4 43 (7.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (4.39%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.29%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.93%) Mac OS
8 15 (2.74%) VMS
9 8 (1.46%) AIX
9 8 (1.46%) CentOS
10 5 (0.91%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.55%) Solaris
11 3 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.37%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.37%) Debian
12 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.18%) Android
13 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (55.76%) CI/CD
2 291 (53.20%) DevOps
3 243 (44.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (30.90%) Containerisation
5 128 (23.40%) Observability
6 119 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
7 107 (19.56%) Platform Engineering
8 99 (18.10%) Agile
9 78 (14.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 71 (12.98%) Configuration Management
11 70 (12.80%) High Availability
12 63 (11.52%) Migration
13 61 (11.15%) Root Cause Analysis
14 55 (10.05%) Infrastructure Automation
14 55 (10.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 54 (9.87%) DevSecOps
16 51 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (9.32%) Test Automation
17 47 (8.59%) Incident Response
18 45 (8.23%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 470 (85.92%) Python
2 229 (41.86%) PowerShell
3 73 (13.35%) SQL
4 36 (6.58%) Go
4 36 (6.58%) Java
5 26 (4.75%) Bicep
6 25 (4.57%) JavaScript
7 20 (3.66%) Shell Script
8 17 (3.11%) Groovy
9 13 (2.38%) C#
9 13 (2.38%) Perl
10 9 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (1.65%) PHP
11 8 (1.46%) C
12 7 (1.28%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.28%) Ruby
12 7 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.10%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.91%) C++
15 3 (0.55%) Korn
Qualifications
1 173 (31.63%) Security Cleared
2 142 (25.96%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.76%) Degree
4 28 (5.12%) DV Cleared
5 27 (4.94%) AWS Certification
5 27 (4.94%) Azure Certification
6 24 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (2.19%) CISSP
9 11 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.01%) CCNP
9 11 (2.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (1.65%) CCNA
11 8 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (1.28%) RHCA
12 7 (1.28%) RHCE
13 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.91%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.20%) GDPR
2 20 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (3.11%) QA
4 12 (2.19%) NIST
5 11 (2.01%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.65%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.65%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.65%) SLA
7 7 (1.28%) NCSC
8 6 (1.10%) GRC
9 5 (0.91%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.37%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 179 (32.72%) Docker
2 50 (9.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (7.13%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (6.03%) Active Directory
5 25 (4.57%) vSphere
6 23 (4.20%) Hyper-V
7 19 (3.47%) VMware NSX
8 16 (2.93%) KVM
9 9 (1.65%) Firmware
10 8 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (1.10%) Lustre
11 6 (1.10%) Postfix
11 6 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.91%) GPFS
12 5 (0.91%) NFS
12 5 (0.91%) Squid
13 4 (0.73%) Ceph
14 3 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.37%) QEMU
15 2 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 287 (52.47%) Terraform
2 263 (48.08%) Kubernetes
3 212 (38.76%) Ansible
4 119 (21.76%) Grafana
5 105 (19.20%) Prometheus
6 50 (9.14%) Argo
7 48 (8.78%) Puppet
8 28 (5.12%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.39%) Istio
10 20 (3.66%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.19%) Kibana
12 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (2.01%) Rancher
13 10 (1.83%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (1.46%) linkerd
14 8 (1.46%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.46%) SCCM
15 7 (1.28%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (1.28%) Podman
16 6 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (14.81%) Splunk
2 78 (14.26%) Microsoft
3 68 (12.43%) VMware
4 64 (11.70%) Red Hat
5 39 (7.13%) Google
6 34 (6.22%) Dynatrace
7 27 (4.94%) Oracle
8 20 (3.66%) Databricks
9 18 (3.29%) Pure Storage
10 15 (2.74%) IBM
11 14 (2.56%) Cisco
12 12 (2.19%) Atlassian
12 12 (2.19%) Dell
13 11 (2.01%) AppDynamics
13 11 (2.01%) CyberArk
13 11 (2.01%) ServiceNow
14 10 (1.83%) Fortinet
15 9 (1.65%) Cloudera
15 9 (1.65%) PagerDuty
15 9 (1.65%) Palo Alto