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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 145 190
Rank change year-on-year -20 +45 -53
Contract jobs citing Bash 756 519 432
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.88% 1.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.31% 5.75% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 348 308
10th Percentile £400 £374 £375
25th Percentile £450 £439 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £631 £609 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.78% -10.00%
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 11,988 9,028 10,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.21% 32.70% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,779 6,177 7,549
10th Percentile £363 £345 £358
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 £651
90th Percentile £738 £753 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £533
% change year-on-year +1.98% -5.25% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 249 347
10th Percentile £31.83 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £40.00 £50.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +8.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £83.27 £79.50
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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -37 318 £525 - 55
North of England -25 161 £506 -2.64% 39
South East -19 111 £540 +20.00% 55
South West +4 86 £663 +15.22% 31
Yorkshire -28 72 £516 +0.73% 6
North West -5 64 £544 +8.75% 25
West Midlands -34 31 £525 -2.33% 6
Midlands -46 31 £525 -2.33% 11
East of England -8 29 £450 -5.26% 10
North East -29 24 £425 -22.73% 8
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 36 (4.76%) 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%) SAS
7 6 (0.79%) IIS
7 6 (0.79%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.79%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.53%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.53%) WordPress
10 3 (0.40%) JBoss
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.26%) CMS
11 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
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
1 373 (49.34%) AWS
2 341 (45.11%) Azure
3 194 (25.66%) GitHub
4 161 (21.30%) GCP
5 132 (17.46%) GitHub Actions
6 122 (16.14%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (10.19%) Amazon EKS
8 68 (8.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 65 (8.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 64 (8.47%) Serverless
11 63 (8.33%) Amazon S3
12 58 (7.67%) OpenShift
13 53 (7.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 50 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
15 48 (6.35%) Entra ID
15 48 (6.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 47 (6.22%) Datadog
17 45 (5.95%) Azure Monitor
18 43 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
19 40 (5.29%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 133 (17.59%) DNS
2 131 (17.33%) Firewall
3 80 (10.58%) TCP/IP
4 63 (8.33%) VPN
5 59 (7.80%) DHCP
6 58 (7.67%) Network Security
7 19 (2.51%) VSAN
7 19 (2.51%) WAN
8 16 (2.12%) SAN
8 16 (2.12%) SSL
8 16 (2.12%) VLAN
9 15 (1.98%) HTTP
10 13 (1.72%) NAS
10 13 (1.72%) SD-WAN
11 12 (1.59%) 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 36 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 36 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 25 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (2.91%) MongoDB
4 20 (2.65%) NoSQL
5 19 (2.51%) MySQL
6 17 (2.25%) Redis
7 13 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
8 12 (1.59%) Pentaho
9 11 (1.46%) Big Data
10 10 (1.32%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.32%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.32%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.19%) Metadata
12 8 (1.06%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.06%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 204 (26.98%) Jenkins
2 158 (20.90%) GitLab
3 128 (16.93%) Git
4 44 (5.82%) JIRA
5 14 (1.85%) Artifactory
5 14 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.59%) Selenium
6 12 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.06%) Postman
8 7 (0.93%) JMeter
8 7 (0.93%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.79%) MLflow
9 6 (0.79%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (0.66%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.53%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.53%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.40%) Gatling
General
1 169 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 121 (16.01%) Finance
3 91 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (7.80%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.14%) Banking
6 17 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.98%) Legal
7 15 (1.98%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.32%) Law
9 9 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.06%) Military
11 7 (0.93%) Retail
12 5 (0.66%) Front Office
12 5 (0.66%) Publishing
13 4 (0.53%) Automotive
13 4 (0.53%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.26%) Billing
14 2 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 139 (18.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 100 (13.23%) Senior
3 75 (9.92%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
5 57 (7.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 54 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 54 (7.14%) Security Engineer
7 46 (6.08%) Azure Engineer
8 44 (5.82%) Architect
9 43 (5.69%) Lead
10 41 (5.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 37 (4.89%) Linux Engineer
12 35 (4.63%) Site Engineer
13 30 (3.97%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 28 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
14 28 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
14 28 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
14 28 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 26 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 24 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.67%) Kafka
2 42 (5.56%) REST
3 39 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
4 38 (5.03%) YAML
5 37 (4.89%) ARM Templates
6 24 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
7 19 (2.51%) Loki
8 17 (2.25%) .NET
8 17 (2.25%) Middleware
9 15 (1.98%) JSON
10 14 (1.85%) Node.js
10 14 (1.85%) SAML
11 13 (1.72%) SOAP
12 12 (1.59%) LDAP
12 12 (1.59%) RESTful
13 11 (1.46%) OAuth
13 11 (1.46%) React
14 10 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (1.32%) Spring
15 9 (1.19%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 124 (16.40%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 42 (5.56%) Security Posture
4 34 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (4.37%) Onboarding
6 30 (3.97%) Data Centre
7 29 (3.84%) PKI
8 28 (3.70%) Management Information System
9 26 (3.44%) Linux Command Line
10 22 (2.91%) Public Cloud
11 21 (2.78%) Replication
12 17 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
13 15 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.59%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 11 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
15 11 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
16 9 (1.19%) Clustering
16 9 (1.19%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 350 (46.30%) Linux
2 167 (22.09%) Windows
3 84 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 58 (7.67%) Windows Server
5 44 (5.82%) Unix
6 34 (4.50%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.59%) CentOS
8 11 (1.46%) VMS
9 7 (0.93%) Solaris
10 5 (0.66%) 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
1 440 (58.20%) CI/CD
2 408 (53.97%) DevOps
3 382 (50.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 207 (27.38%) Containerisation
5 195 (25.79%) Observability
6 160 (21.16%) Platform Engineering
7 140 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 139 (18.39%) Agile
9 130 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 120 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 110 (14.55%) Cloud Security
12 102 (13.49%) DevSecOps
13 99 (13.10%) Infrastructure Automation
14 96 (12.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 91 (12.04%) Migration
16 88 (11.64%) Configuration Management
16 88 (11.64%) SIEM
17 87 (11.51%) Runbook
18 86 (11.38%) AI
19 84 (11.11%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 653 (86.38%) Python
2 368 (48.68%) PowerShell
3 98 (12.96%) SQL
4 76 (10.05%) Java
5 63 (8.33%) Go
6 62 (8.20%) Bicep
7 32 (4.23%) Shell Script
8 24 (3.17%) Perl
9 21 (2.78%) Groovy
10 17 (2.25%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.46%) C#
11 11 (1.46%) Ruby
12 10 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.32%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.93%) Korn
14 5 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.66%) Scala
14 5 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.53%) C
15 4 (0.53%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 276 (36.51%) Security Cleared
2 208 (27.51%) SC Cleared
3 72 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 62 (8.20%) AWS Certification
5 60 (7.94%) Azure Certification
6 53 (7.01%) Degree
7 34 (4.50%) CISSP
8 30 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (1.85%) VCAP
12 13 (1.72%) CCNP
13 12 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (1.46%) CCNA
14 11 (1.46%) RHCE
15 9 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
15 9 (1.19%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (4.23%) QA
3 27 (3.57%) NIST
4 16 (2.12%) GDPR
4 16 (2.12%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.46%) SLA
7 8 (1.06%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.66%) GRC
9 5 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.53%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.53%) NCSC
10 4 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
12 2 (0.26%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 241 (31.88%) Docker
2 84 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 76 (10.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (5.03%) Hyper-V
5 34 (4.50%) vSphere
6 30 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
7 25 (3.31%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.32%) NFS
9 10 (1.32%) Squid
10 7 (0.93%) Firmware
10 7 (0.93%) Postfix
11 5 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.53%) KVM
12 4 (0.53%) Varnish
12 4 (0.53%) zsh
13 3 (0.40%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.40%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.40%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 439 (58.07%) Terraform
2 351 (46.43%) Kubernetes
3 285 (37.70%) Ansible
4 158 (20.90%) Grafana
5 137 (18.12%) Prometheus
6 60 (7.94%) Puppet
7 52 (6.88%) Progress Chef
8 44 (5.82%) Argo
9 24 (3.17%) Istio
10 14 (1.85%) Podman
10 14 (1.85%) vCenter Server
10 14 (1.85%) VxRail
11 13 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (1.72%) Packer
12 12 (1.59%) SCCM
12 12 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (1.59%) systemd
13 8 (1.06%) Kibana
13 8 (1.06%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.93%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 130 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 99 (13.10%) VMware
3 87 (11.51%) Google
4 71 (9.39%) Red Hat
5 56 (7.41%) Splunk
6 55 (7.28%) Oracle
7 53 (7.01%) Dynatrace
8 34 (4.50%) CyberArk
9 32 (4.23%) Cisco
10 24 (3.17%) Databricks
11 22 (2.91%) 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%) Cloudera
16 9 (1.19%) F5
16 9 (1.19%) WALLIX