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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 136 194
Rank change year-on-year -29 +58 -53
Contract jobs citing Bash 773 548 427
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 2.00% 1.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.45% 6.08% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 356 288
10th Percentile £400 £378 £365
25th Percentile £455 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £684 £738
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.14% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 12
10th Percentile £56.50 £40.77 £25.85
25th Percentile £58.43 £41.25 £44.38
Median hourly rate £69.61 £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.52% -15.65% -22.03%
75th Percentile £92.81 £58.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £99.41 £62.35 £107.99
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +40.65% -15.65% -22.03%

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 11,987 9,007 10,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.90% 32.85% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,745 6,074 7,211
10th Percentile £363 £350 £351
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £505 £526
% change year-on-year +3.47% -3.90% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 257 305
10th Percentile £26.68 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.25 £79.67
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -32 360 £525 -2.78% 527
North of England -37 141 £500 - 99
South East -1 109 £568 +27.07% 144
South West +10 85 £671 +22.05% 73
Yorkshire -38 62 £500 -2.44% 20
North West -22 57 £538 +13.16% 70
East of England -13 34 £438 -7.89% 42
West Midlands -53 26 £525 -8.70% 25
Midlands -66 26 £525 -4.55% 40
North East -32 21 £413 -20.29% 9
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 (4.01%) Confluence
2 27 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.85%) Apache
4 17 (2.20%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.68%) nginx
7 8 (1.03%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.91%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.78%) IIS
9 6 (0.78%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.65%) SAS
11 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.52%) WordPress
12 3 (0.39%) JBoss
12 3 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
13 2 (0.26%) CMS
13 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
14 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
14 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.03%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.65%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.65%) Summit
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.13%) Actimize
5 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 361 (46.70%) AWS
2 350 (45.28%) Azure
3 178 (23.03%) GitHub
4 154 (19.92%) GCP
5 131 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (16.82%) GitHub Actions
7 77 (9.96%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (8.67%) Serverless
9 63 (8.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 63 (8.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 61 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
11 60 (7.76%) Amazon S3
12 52 (6.73%) Entra ID
13 50 (6.47%) Datadog
13 50 (6.47%) OpenShift
13 50 (6.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 49 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
15 46 (5.95%) Azure AKS
16 43 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 41 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 126 (16.30%) Firewall
2 118 (15.27%) DNS
3 87 (11.25%) TCP/IP
4 68 (8.80%) Network Security
5 66 (8.54%) VPN
6 60 (7.76%) DHCP
7 20 (2.59%) WAN
8 19 (2.46%) SAN
8 19 (2.46%) VSAN
9 17 (2.20%) SSH
10 16 (2.07%) SSL
11 15 (1.94%) VLAN
12 13 (1.68%) HTTP
12 13 (1.68%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.42%) NAS
14 10 (1.29%) 5G
14 10 (1.29%) BGP
14 10 (1.29%) Kerberos
15 9 (1.16%) 4G
16 7 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.01%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.23%) Redis
4 24 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (3.10%) MongoDB
5 22 (2.85%) MySQL
6 21 (2.72%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.81%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.55%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (1.29%) Big Data
9 10 (1.29%) Metadata
10 9 (1.16%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.16%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.16%) Pentaho
10 9 (1.16%) Power BI
10 9 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 189 (24.45%) Jenkins
2 160 (20.70%) GitLab
3 154 (19.92%) Git
4 40 (5.17%) JIRA
5 19 (2.46%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.94%) Selenium
6 15 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.03%) Postman
10 7 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.91%) JMeter
10 7 (0.91%) Maven
11 6 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.78%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.78%) MLflow
12 5 (0.65%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.65%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 172 (22.25%) Social Skills
2 132 (17.08%) Finance
3 98 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.63%) Banking
6 23 (2.98%) Telecoms
7 14 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.81%) Legal
8 12 (1.55%) Military
9 11 (1.42%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.42%) Law
10 8 (1.03%) Retail
11 5 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.65%) Front Office
11 5 (0.65%) Publishing
12 4 (0.52%) Automotive
12 4 (0.52%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 150 (19.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 104 (13.45%) Senior
3 72 (9.31%) Cloud Engineer
3 72 (9.31%) Platform Engineer
4 57 (7.37%) Security Engineer
5 55 (7.12%) Azure Engineer
5 55 (7.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 52 (6.73%) AWS Engineer
7 43 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
8 42 (5.43%) Lead
9 39 (5.05%) Architect
10 37 (4.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 35 (4.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 35 (4.53%) Developer
12 32 (4.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 32 (4.14%) Site Engineer
13 29 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
14 28 (3.62%) Network Engineer
15 27 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
15 27 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 447 (57.83%) Terraform
2 69 (8.93%) Kafka
3 53 (6.86%) ARM Templates
4 45 (5.82%) REST
5 42 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
6 38 (4.92%) YAML
7 24 (3.10%) Middleware
8 21 (2.72%) Loki
9 19 (2.46%) Node.js
10 16 (2.07%) RESTful
11 15 (1.94%) React
12 14 (1.81%) .NET
12 14 (1.81%) JSON
13 13 (1.68%) Flask
14 12 (1.55%) LDAP
14 12 (1.55%) OpenTelemetry
14 12 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
14 12 (1.55%) SAML
14 12 (1.55%) Spring
15 11 (1.42%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 113 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (5.56%) Security Posture
4 34 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.27%) PKI
6 32 (4.14%) Linux Command Line
7 30 (3.88%) Data Centre
7 30 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
7 30 (3.88%) Management Information System
8 24 (3.10%) Public Cloud
9 20 (2.59%) Replication
10 19 (2.46%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.20%) Cloud Security Posture
12 14 (1.81%) Legacy Applications
13 10 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
13 10 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
14 9 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 9 (1.16%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 378 (48.90%) Linux
2 180 (23.29%) Windows
3 100 (12.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 68 (8.80%) Windows Server
5 52 (6.73%) Unix
6 38 (4.92%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.07%) CentOS
7 16 (2.07%) VMS
8 6 (0.78%) Rocky
8 6 (0.78%) Solaris
9 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.26%) AIX
12 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.26%) Debian
12 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (59.38%) CI/CD
2 413 (53.43%) DevOps
3 409 (52.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 220 (28.46%) Containerisation
5 216 (27.94%) Observability
6 165 (21.35%) Platform Engineering
7 162 (20.96%) Agile
8 156 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 144 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (15.27%) Cloud Security
11 117 (15.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 113 (14.62%) DevSecOps
13 103 (13.32%) Infrastructure Automation
14 101 (13.07%) Root Cause Analysis
15 97 (12.55%) AI
16 95 (12.29%) Runbook
17 93 (12.03%) Configuration Management
17 93 (12.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 87 (11.25%) Migration
18 87 (11.25%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 658 (85.12%) Python
2 382 (49.42%) PowerShell
3 104 (13.45%) SQL
4 93 (12.03%) Java
5 76 (9.83%) Bicep
6 69 (8.93%) Go
7 46 (5.95%) Shell Script
8 29 (3.75%) Perl
9 25 (3.23%) Groovy
10 21 (2.72%) JavaScript
11 19 (2.46%) Korn
12 14 (1.81%) TypeScript
13 13 (1.68%) Ruby
14 12 (1.55%) C#
15 8 (1.03%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.52%) Cypher
18 3 (0.39%) Scala
18 3 (0.39%) SPARQL
18 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 303 (39.20%) Security Cleared
2 222 (28.72%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.74%) DV Cleared
4 61 (7.89%) AWS Certification
5 59 (7.63%) Azure Certification
5 59 (7.63%) Degree
6 34 (4.40%) CISSP
7 29 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (1.81%) VCAP
12 12 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (1.16%) CCNA
14 9 (1.16%) CCNP
14 9 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 7 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.82%) QA
2 35 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (4.01%) NIST
4 17 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.81%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.29%) GDPR
6 10 (1.29%) SLA
7 7 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.91%) NCSC
8 5 (0.65%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.26%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 271 (35.06%) Docker
2 84 (10.87%) Active Directory
3 72 (9.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.92%) Hyper-V
5 31 (4.01%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (4.01%) vSphere
6 19 (2.46%) VMware NSX
7 15 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.29%) Squid
9 9 (1.16%) NFS
10 6 (0.78%) Postfix
11 4 (0.52%) Firmware
11 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.39%) KVM
12 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
12 3 (0.39%) Varnish
12 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.39%) zsh
13 2 (0.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 359 (46.44%) Kubernetes
2 283 (36.61%) Ansible
3 162 (20.96%) Grafana
4 140 (18.11%) Prometheus
5 49 (6.34%) Puppet
6 47 (6.08%) Progress Chef
7 36 (4.66%) Argo
8 19 (2.46%) Istio
9 17 (2.20%) Podman
10 14 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.81%) VxRail
11 12 (1.55%) Kibana
11 12 (1.55%) SCCM
11 12 (1.55%) systemd
12 11 (1.42%) Packer
13 10 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (1.16%) Check_MK
14 9 (1.16%) Consul
15 8 (1.03%) HAProxy
15 8 (1.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 149 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 95 (12.29%) VMware
3 90 (11.64%) Google
4 62 (8.02%) Red Hat
5 59 (7.63%) Splunk
6 53 (6.86%) Dynatrace
7 52 (6.73%) Oracle
8 33 (4.27%) Cisco
9 31 (4.01%) CyberArk
10 22 (2.85%) ServiceNow
11 20 (2.59%) Databricks
12 17 (2.20%) Palo Alto
13 15 (1.94%) IBM
14 13 (1.68%) NetApp
15 12 (1.55%) Fortinet
15 12 (1.55%) SolarWinds
16 10 (1.29%) BMC
16 10 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
17 9 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
17 9 (1.16%) WALLIX