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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 166 172
Rank change year-on-year +25 +6 -20
Contract jobs citing Bash 639 430 543
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 1.51% 1.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.55% 4.64% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 265 391
10th Percentile £395 £374 £406
25th Percentile £427 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £576
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -0.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £695
90th Percentile £675 £810 £798
UK median daily rate £514 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -4.42% -6.52% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 13
10th Percentile - £40.75 £58.40
25th Percentile £41.25 £58.44 £60.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -6.67% +2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 £103.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £78.28 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% -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 9,762 9,258 11,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.91% 32.55% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,493 6,000 8,113
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 221 390
10th Percentile £36.20 £25.26 £35.45
25th Percentile £52.00 £43.00 £46.29
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.10%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

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 28 December 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 28 December 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 28 December 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 +21 268 £546 -10.08% 201
North of England +11 152 £513 -14.58% 101
South East +36 89 £492 +6.38% 124
Yorkshire -16 77 £490 -18.33% 47
Midlands -5 56 £479 +11.28% 80
North West 0 54 £550 +4.76% 41
West Midlands +4 45 £491 +0.41% 42
South West -7 34 £575 -10.51% 67
North East +15 25 £550 -2.65% 14
East of England -22 15 £444 -24.47% 63
East Midlands -15 11 £470 +15.34% 35
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 (4.85%) Confluence
2 18 (2.82%) OpenStack
3 12 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.56%) nginx
5 7 (1.10%) Apache
5 7 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.47%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.47%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.47%) IIS
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.31%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.16%) CICS
10 1 (0.16%) CMS
10 1 (0.16%) Documentum
10 1 (0.16%) FileNet
10 1 (0.16%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.25%) 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
1 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 290 (45.38%) AWS
2 244 (38.18%) Azure
3 143 (22.38%) GCP
4 132 (20.66%) GitHub
5 82 (12.83%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (10.49%) Amazon S3
6 67 (10.49%) OpenShift
7 62 (9.70%) Amazon EC2
8 60 (9.39%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (8.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (8.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 48 (7.51%) Entra ID
12 47 (7.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 44 (6.89%) Serverless
14 42 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
15 33 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
17 28 (4.38%) Datadog
18 23 (3.60%) Azure AKS
19 22 (3.44%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 105 (16.43%) Firewall
2 77 (12.05%) DNS
3 70 (10.95%) TCP/IP
4 43 (6.73%) VPN
5 35 (5.48%) Network Security
6 31 (4.85%) SSL
7 25 (3.91%) Wireshark
8 21 (3.29%) VLAN
9 19 (2.97%) BGP
10 15 (2.35%) DHCP
11 11 (1.72%) SSH
12 10 (1.56%) OSPF
13 9 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
14 8 (1.25%) Ethernet
14 8 (1.25%) HTTP
14 8 (1.25%) Multicast
15 7 (1.10%) SD-WAN
15 7 (1.10%) SMTP
15 7 (1.10%) SNMP
16 6 (0.94%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (12.21%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (5.16%) SQL Server
4 26 (4.07%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (3.76%) Redis
6 18 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 17 (2.66%) MySQL
8 12 (1.88%) Big Data
8 12 (1.88%) Hadoop
9 11 (1.72%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.56%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.10%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.10%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.78%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.78%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 181 (28.33%) Jenkins
2 145 (22.69%) GitLab
3 116 (18.15%) Git
4 48 (7.51%) JIRA
5 15 (2.35%) CircleCI
6 13 (2.03%) Metasploit
6 13 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (1.88%) Burp Suite
7 12 (1.88%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.72%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.72%) Maven
9 8 (1.25%) Artifactory
9 8 (1.25%) MLflow
10 7 (1.10%) Subversion
11 6 (0.94%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.78%) Gradle
12 5 (0.78%) Mockito
12 5 (0.78%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.63%) ScriptRunner
13 4 (0.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 188 (29.42%) Social Skills
2 86 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (10.17%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.23%) Finance
5 27 (4.23%) Banking
6 21 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.35%) Legal
8 10 (1.56%) Front Office
8 10 (1.56%) Retail
9 7 (1.10%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.94%) Military
11 5 (0.78%) Games
11 5 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.63%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.63%) Law
13 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.47%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 109 (17.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 75 (11.74%) Senior
3 63 (9.86%) Platform Engineer
4 38 (5.95%) Developer
5 34 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
6 32 (5.01%) Architect
7 31 (4.85%) Lead
7 31 (4.85%) Network Engineer
8 30 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 30 (4.69%) Site Engineer
9 29 (4.54%) AWS DevOps
9 29 (4.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 25 (3.91%) Administrator
10 25 (3.91%) Automation Engineer
10 25 (3.91%) Data Engineer
11 24 (3.76%) Security Engineer
12 22 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
14 20 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 19 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (9.86%) Elastic Stack
2 48 (7.51%) Kafka
3 29 (4.54%) Keycloak
3 29 (4.54%) REST
4 24 (3.76%) Middleware
5 20 (3.13%) Node.js
6 15 (2.35%) Loki
7 13 (2.03%) YAML
8 12 (1.88%) .NET
8 12 (1.88%) ARM Templates
9 11 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
9 11 (1.72%) SAML
10 10 (1.56%) OAuth
11 9 (1.41%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.41%) LDAP
12 8 (1.25%) RESTful
12 8 (1.25%) Spring
12 8 (1.25%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.10%) OAuth2
13 7 (1.10%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.98%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.54%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (3.60%) Linux Command Line
5 21 (3.29%) PKI
6 18 (2.82%) Data Centre
7 17 (2.66%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.66%) Replication
8 15 (2.35%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (2.03%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.03%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.41%) NHS
12 9 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.25%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.25%) Clustering
14 7 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 299 (46.79%) Linux
2 109 (17.06%) Windows
3 72 (11.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 58 (9.08%) Unix
5 37 (5.79%) Mac OS
6 30 (4.69%) Windows Server
7 22 (3.44%) CentOS
8 15 (2.35%) Solaris
8 15 (2.35%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.56%) Windows 10
10 9 (1.41%) VMS
11 8 (1.25%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.47%) AIX
13 1 (0.16%) Android
13 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.16%) Debian
13 1 (0.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (54.93%) CI/CD
2 320 (50.08%) DevOps
3 290 (45.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 195 (30.52%) Containerisation
5 141 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
6 131 (20.50%) Observability
7 109 (17.06%) Agile
8 89 (13.93%) Incident Response
8 89 (13.93%) Platform Engineering
9 83 (12.99%) Test Automation
10 81 (12.68%) High Availability
10 81 (12.68%) Infrastructure Automation
11 78 (12.21%) DevSecOps
12 70 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 70 (10.95%) Migration
13 69 (10.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 63 (9.86%) Task Automation
15 58 (9.08%) Configuration Management
16 55 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 54 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 553 (86.54%) Python
2 237 (37.09%) PowerShell
3 62 (9.70%) SQL
4 56 (8.76%) Java
5 52 (8.14%) Go
6 51 (7.98%) Perl
7 32 (5.01%) JavaScript
7 32 (5.01%) Shell Script
8 19 (2.97%) Groovy
9 18 (2.82%) Kusto Query Language
10 16 (2.50%) Bicep
10 16 (2.50%) C++
11 15 (2.35%) C#
12 11 (1.72%) C
13 9 (1.41%) PHP
14 7 (1.10%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.94%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.78%) Ruby
16 5 (0.78%) Rust
17 4 (0.63%) Korn
Qualifications
1 213 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 173 (27.07%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.36%) Degree
4 32 (5.01%) DV Cleared
5 29 (4.54%) AWS Certification
5 29 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.91%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (2.97%) OSCP
8 18 (2.82%) CCNP
9 17 (2.66%) CCNA
10 15 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (2.35%) CEH
10 15 (2.35%) GPEN
11 13 (2.03%) CISSP
12 12 (1.88%) Azure Certification
13 11 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (1.56%) CCDP
15 9 (1.41%) Master's Degree
16 8 (1.25%) RHCE
17 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (4.69%) GDPR
3 17 (2.66%) NIST
4 15 (2.35%) NCSC
5 13 (2.03%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.88%) QA
7 11 (1.72%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.41%) HIPAA
9 8 (1.25%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.78%) SLA
11 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.16%) GxP
12 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 244 (38.18%) Docker
2 80 (12.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (7.98%) Active Directory
4 28 (4.38%) vSphere
5 12 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 9 (1.41%) KVM
7 9 (1.41%) Lustre
7 9 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.41%) VMware NSX
8 8 (1.25%) GPFS
8 8 (1.25%) zsh
9 7 (1.10%) Firmware
10 5 (0.78%) NFS
10 5 (0.78%) Squid
11 4 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.63%) Postfix
11 4 (0.63%) Snort
11 4 (0.63%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 304 (47.57%) Terraform
2 286 (44.76%) Kubernetes
3 255 (39.91%) Ansible
4 136 (21.28%) Grafana
5 123 (19.25%) Prometheus
6 50 (7.82%) Argo
7 45 (7.04%) Puppet
8 26 (4.07%) Istio
9 21 (3.29%) Kibana
9 21 (3.29%) SCCM
10 19 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (2.97%) NetBackup
11 16 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
12 15 (2.35%) Nmap
13 14 (2.19%) Progress Chef
13 14 (2.19%) Red Hat Satellite
14 12 (1.88%) Packer
15 11 (1.72%) vCenter Server
16 10 (1.56%) ITRS Geneos
16 10 (1.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 110 (17.21%) VMware
2 97 (15.18%) Microsoft
3 95 (14.87%) Red Hat
4 91 (14.24%) Splunk
5 41 (6.42%) Google
6 40 (6.26%) Palo Alto
7 37 (5.79%) Cisco
8 30 (4.69%) F5
9 28 (4.38%) CheckPoint
10 26 (4.07%) Citrix
11 25 (3.91%) Oracle
12 20 (3.13%) Dynatrace
13 19 (2.97%) ServiceNow
14 18 (2.82%) CyberArk
14 18 (2.82%) Databricks
15 17 (2.66%) Veritas
16 16 (2.50%) Juniper
17 14 (2.19%) Zscaler
18 12 (1.88%) Commvault
18 12 (1.88%) Qualys