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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 151 209
Rank change year-on-year -38 +58 -74
Contract jobs citing Bash 552 461 420
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.90% 1.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.05% 5.61% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 296 292
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £416 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £651 £623
90th Percentile £675 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £545 £537
% change year-on-year -8.26% +1.54% -10.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 9
10th Percentile £56.20 £25.25 £21.70
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -15.13%
75th Percentile £72.65 £61.19 £71.88
90th Percentile £80.60 £66.37 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -15.13%

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 10,925 8,212 10,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.81% 33.79% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,224 5,704 7,900
10th Percentile £353 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.28%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 219 444
10th Percentile £42.05 £26.15 £37.63
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.81 £49.34
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% +2.27%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -51 223 £520 -5.45% 105
North of England -29 133 £470 -14.55% 54
Yorkshire -30 82 £463 -15.91% 12
South East -28 80 £465 -2.21% 65
Midlands -34 46 £469 -20.17% 27
West Midlands -28 43 £476 -26.99% 13
South West -40 41 £500 -16.67% 31
North West -25 40 £538 +7.50% 33
East of England -40 14 £478 +0.53% 14
North East -10 11 £425 -22.73% 9
East Midlands -35 3 £436 +6.99% 14
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 26 (4.71%) Confluence
2 8 (1.45%) Apache
2 8 (1.45%) SAS
3 7 (1.27%) nginx
3 7 (1.27%) OpenStack
3 7 (1.27%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.09%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.72%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.54%) IIS
7 2 (0.36%) CMS
7 2 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.36%) JBoss
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.18%) FileNet
8 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.54%) 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 2 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.18%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 249 (45.11%) AWS
2 224 (40.58%) Azure
3 159 (28.80%) GitHub
4 108 (19.57%) GCP
5 89 (16.12%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (16.12%) GitHub Actions
6 72 (13.04%) OpenShift
7 49 (8.88%) Serverless
8 47 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
8 47 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 43 (7.79%) Amazon S3
10 38 (6.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (6.70%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (5.62%) Azure AKS
13 31 (5.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 22 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (3.44%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 68 (12.32%) DNS
2 64 (11.59%) Firewall
3 40 (7.25%) TCP/IP
4 34 (6.16%) VPN
5 24 (4.35%) Network Security
6 17 (3.08%) DHCP
7 12 (2.17%) HTTP
7 12 (2.17%) VLAN
8 11 (1.99%) SAN
9 10 (1.81%) NAS
9 10 (1.81%) SNMP
10 9 (1.63%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.63%) SSL
11 8 (1.45%) Reverse Proxy
11 8 (1.45%) WAN
12 7 (1.27%) SSH
13 6 (1.09%) Wireshark
14 5 (0.91%) BGP
15 4 (0.72%) SMTP
15 4 (0.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (5.98%) SQL Server
3 26 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (3.62%) MongoDB
5 16 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.90%) Redis
6 15 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (2.36%) MySQL
8 11 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (1.99%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.63%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.27%) Big Data
10 7 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.09%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.09%) DB2
12 5 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (0.91%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.91%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 153 (27.72%) Jenkins
2 116 (21.01%) GitLab
3 95 (17.21%) Git
4 36 (6.52%) JIRA
5 8 (1.45%) Artifactory
5 8 (1.45%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.45%) CircleCI
6 7 (1.27%) Postman
7 6 (1.09%) JMeter
7 6 (1.09%) Liquibase
8 5 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (0.91%) Selenium
9 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.72%) Jaeger
9 4 (0.72%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.72%) Spinnaker
10 3 (0.54%) Ant
10 3 (0.54%) Appium
10 3 (0.54%) Snyk
General
1 135 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 63 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (10.33%) Finance
4 50 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 26 (4.71%) Banking
6 13 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.36%) Legal
7 8 (1.45%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.27%) Military
8 7 (1.27%) Retail
9 5 (0.91%) Law
10 4 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.54%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.36%) Aviation
12 2 (0.36%) Police
13 1 (0.18%) Back Office
13 1 (0.18%) Front Office
13 1 (0.18%) Games
13 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (18.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (10.14%) Platform Engineer
3 48 (8.70%) Senior
4 46 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 40 (7.25%) Security Engineer
6 37 (6.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 35 (6.34%) Cloud Engineer
8 33 (5.98%) Architect
9 31 (5.62%) Site Engineer
10 29 (5.25%) Azure Engineer
11 28 (5.07%) Lead
12 26 (4.71%) Data Engineer
13 25 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
15 23 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
16 22 (3.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 21 (3.80%) Automation Engineer
17 21 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 19 (3.44%) Linux Engineer
19 17 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (7.79%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (7.07%) Kafka
3 28 (5.07%) OpenTelemetry
3 28 (5.07%) REST
4 21 (3.80%) YAML
5 15 (2.72%) ARM Templates
6 14 (2.54%) Node.js
7 13 (2.36%) LDAP
7 13 (2.36%) Middleware
8 11 (1.99%) Keycloak
8 11 (1.99%) Loki
8 11 (1.99%) Swagger
9 9 (1.63%) ADO
10 8 (1.45%) .NET
10 8 (1.45%) AngularJS
10 8 (1.45%) SAML
11 7 (1.27%) OAuth
11 7 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.27%) SOAP
11 7 (1.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 80 (14.49%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.44%) Data Centre
6 18 (3.26%) Security Posture
7 16 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.90%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.54%) Replication
9 13 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (2.17%) PKI
11 9 (1.63%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.63%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.45%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.09%) Clustering
14 4 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
14 4 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 217 (39.31%) Linux
2 85 (15.40%) Windows
3 43 (7.79%) Unix
4 40 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.53%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.26%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.90%) VMS
8 14 (2.54%) Mac OS
9 9 (1.63%) AIX
10 8 (1.45%) CentOS
11 5 (0.91%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.36%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.36%) Debian
13 2 (0.36%) Rocky
13 2 (0.36%) Solaris
13 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (57.07%) CI/CD
2 297 (53.80%) DevOps
3 246 (44.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 176 (31.88%) Containerisation
5 132 (23.91%) Observability
6 112 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
7 107 (19.38%) Platform Engineering
8 95 (17.21%) Agile
9 80 (14.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 78 (14.13%) Configuration Management
11 70 (12.68%) High Availability
12 68 (12.32%) Migration
13 66 (11.96%) Root Cause Analysis
14 55 (9.96%) Test Automation
15 54 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 53 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
17 52 (9.42%) Infrastructure Automation
18 50 (9.06%) DevSecOps
18 50 (9.06%) Incident Response
19 49 (8.88%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 477 (86.41%) Python
2 236 (42.75%) PowerShell
3 75 (13.59%) SQL
4 40 (7.25%) Go
4 40 (7.25%) Java
5 26 (4.71%) Bicep
6 24 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 19 (3.44%) Shell Script
8 17 (3.08%) Groovy
9 12 (2.17%) Perl
10 10 (1.81%) C#
10 10 (1.81%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.45%) C
12 8 (1.45%) Ruby
13 6 (1.09%) PHP
13 6 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.09%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.91%) C++
15 4 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 173 (31.34%) Security Cleared
2 142 (25.72%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.07%) Degree
4 29 (5.25%) AWS Certification
4 29 (5.25%) Azure Certification
5 26 (4.71%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 13 (2.36%) CISSP
10 11 (1.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.99%) CCNP
11 10 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.81%) CCNA
11 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.45%) RHCA
12 8 (1.45%) RHCE
13 7 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.91%) CISM
15 4 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (3.80%) GDPR
3 18 (3.26%) QA
4 14 (2.54%) NIST
5 12 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.63%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.63%) SLA
7 7 (1.27%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.27%) NCSC
8 6 (1.09%) GRC
9 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.91%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.36%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 170 (30.80%) Docker
2 51 (9.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (7.25%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (6.34%) Active Directory
5 25 (4.53%) Hyper-V
6 22 (3.99%) vSphere
7 18 (3.26%) VMware NSX
8 16 (2.90%) KVM
9 10 (1.81%) Firmware
10 7 (1.27%) NFS
10 7 (1.27%) Postfix
10 7 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (1.09%) Squid
12 4 (0.72%) Lustre
12 4 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.54%) Ceph
13 3 (0.54%) GPFS
13 3 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.54%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.54%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 281 (50.91%) Terraform
2 258 (46.74%) Kubernetes
3 220 (39.86%) Ansible
4 129 (23.37%) Grafana
5 111 (20.11%) Prometheus
6 52 (9.42%) Puppet
7 47 (8.51%) Argo
8 27 (4.89%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.35%) Istio
10 22 (3.99%) Progress Chef
11 13 (2.36%) Kibana
12 10 (1.81%) Rancher
13 9 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (1.63%) Packer
13 9 (1.63%) SCCM
14 8 (1.45%) linkerd
14 8 (1.45%) NetBackup
15 7 (1.27%) Podman
15 7 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (1.09%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 78 (14.13%) Splunk
2 76 (13.77%) Microsoft
3 69 (12.50%) VMware
4 59 (10.69%) Red Hat
5 38 (6.88%) Google
6 37 (6.70%) Dynatrace
7 30 (5.43%) Oracle
8 19 (3.44%) Databricks
9 17 (3.08%) IBM
9 17 (3.08%) Pure Storage
10 16 (2.90%) Cisco
11 12 (2.17%) Palo Alto
11 12 (2.17%) Zscaler
12 11 (1.99%) AppDynamics
12 11 (1.99%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.99%) ServiceNow
13 10 (1.81%) Fortinet
13 10 (1.81%) Tenable
14 9 (1.63%) Dell
14 9 (1.63%) PagerDuty