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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 157 205
Rank change year-on-year -31 +48 -79
Contract jobs citing Bash 583 454 425
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.39% 1.89% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.20% 5.55% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 305 300
10th Percentile £388 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £583 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £526 £536
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.82% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 12
10th Percentile £54.55 £26.83 £22.00
25th Percentile £57.59 £34.24 £24.44
Median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -15.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.06 £71.88
90th Percentile £70.41 £67.89 £74.69
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 11,208 8,173 11,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.68% 34.02% 30.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,366 5,674 8,031
10th Percentile £358 £361 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -3.48%
75th Percentile £613 £643 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 189 464
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £36.19
25th Percentile £54.66 £35.00 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.65 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.25
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.63% -0.40%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -50 239 £525 -1.87% 82
North of England -4 149 £463 -11.90% 50
Yorkshire -16 88 £482 -12.36% 10
South East -30 73 £465 +0.43% 48
South West -34 50 £500 -16.67% 27
North West -22 49 £477 -3.15% 33
Midlands -43 43 £467 -15.09% 19
West Midlands -45 41 £469 -21.83% 8
East of England -33 16 £494 +3.95% 10
North East -16 12 £413 -25.00% 7
East Midlands -29 2 £436 +6.99% 11
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 30 (5.15%) Confluence
2 13 (2.23%) Apache
3 10 (1.72%) SAS
4 9 (1.54%) nginx
5 8 (1.37%) IIS
6 7 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.20%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.86%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.86%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.69%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.34%) CMS
10 2 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.34%) JBoss
10 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.34%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.17%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 260 (44.60%) AWS
2 228 (39.11%) Azure
3 165 (28.30%) GitHub
4 119 (20.41%) GCP
5 98 (16.81%) GitHub Actions
6 90 (15.44%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (12.35%) OpenShift
8 51 (8.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 50 (8.58%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (8.23%) Serverless
11 46 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 44 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 42 (7.20%) Amazon S3
14 38 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
16 33 (5.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 29 (4.97%) Azure AKS
18 28 (4.80%) Datadog
19 24 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
20 22 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (12.86%) DNS
2 73 (12.52%) Firewall
3 38 (6.52%) TCP/IP
4 37 (6.35%) VPN
5 30 (5.15%) Network Security
6 18 (3.09%) SAN
7 15 (2.57%) DHCP
7 15 (2.57%) NAS
8 13 (2.23%) VLAN
9 12 (2.06%) HTTP
9 12 (2.06%) SSL
10 10 (1.72%) WAN
11 8 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
11 8 (1.37%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.20%) SNMP
13 6 (1.03%) BGP
14 4 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (0.69%) Multicast
14 4 (0.69%) VSAN
14 4 (0.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.77%) MongoDB
4 18 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (2.74%) MySQL
6 15 (2.57%) Redis
7 13 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (1.89%) Pentaho
8 11 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.20%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (1.03%) Big Data
10 6 (1.03%) DB2
10 6 (1.03%) Delta Lake
10 6 (1.03%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 170 (29.16%) Jenkins
2 122 (20.93%) GitLab
3 100 (17.15%) Git
4 42 (7.20%) JIRA
5 12 (2.06%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.54%) Postman
7 8 (1.37%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.20%) JMeter
9 6 (1.03%) Liquibase
9 6 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.86%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (0.86%) Selenium
11 4 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.69%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.69%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.51%) Appium
12 3 (0.51%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.51%) Snyk
12 3 (0.51%) Spinnaker
General
1 145 (24.87%) Social Skills
2 71 (12.18%) Finance
3 60 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 39 (6.69%) Banking
6 15 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.40%) Legal
8 13 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.54%) Law
10 8 (1.37%) Military
11 5 (0.86%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.69%) Retail
13 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.34%) Aviation
13 2 (0.34%) Front Office
13 2 (0.34%) Police
14 1 (0.17%) Back Office
14 1 (0.17%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (19.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (9.43%) AWS Engineer
3 49 (8.40%) Cloud Engineer
3 49 (8.40%) Platform Engineer
4 47 (8.06%) Senior
5 46 (7.89%) Security Engineer
6 38 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 35 (6.00%) Lead
8 34 (5.83%) Architect
9 30 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
10 29 (4.97%) Site Engineer
11 27 (4.63%) Data Engineer
11 27 (4.63%) GCP Engineer
12 26 (4.46%) Linux Engineer
13 25 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
15 22 (3.77%) Automation Engineer
15 22 (3.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 20 (3.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 20 (3.43%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.20%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (6.69%) Kafka
3 27 (4.63%) OpenTelemetry
3 27 (4.63%) REST
4 25 (4.29%) YAML
5 18 (3.09%) Middleware
6 16 (2.74%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.89%) Loki
7 11 (1.89%) Node.js
8 10 (1.72%) ADO
8 10 (1.72%) JSON
8 10 (1.72%) LDAP
8 10 (1.72%) SAML
8 10 (1.72%) Swagger
9 9 (1.54%) OAuth
10 8 (1.37%) .NET
10 8 (1.37%) AngularJS
10 8 (1.37%) Keycloak
10 8 (1.37%) React
10 8 (1.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 96 (16.47%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (4.46%) Security Posture
4 24 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 24 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.74%) Replication
8 13 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.23%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.72%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.37%) PKI
11 7 (1.20%) Clustering
12 6 (1.03%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
14 4 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 231 (39.62%) Linux
2 98 (16.81%) Windows
3 56 (9.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 46 (7.89%) Unix
5 31 (5.32%) Windows Server
6 21 (3.60%) Ubuntu
7 14 (2.40%) VMS
8 11 (1.89%) Mac OS
9 10 (1.72%) AIX
10 9 (1.54%) CentOS
11 5 (0.86%) Windows 10
12 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.34%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.34%) Debian
14 2 (0.34%) Rocky
14 2 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (59.01%) CI/CD
2 330 (56.60%) DevOps
3 255 (43.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 170 (29.16%) Containerisation
5 148 (25.39%) Observability
6 106 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (17.15%) Agile
7 100 (17.15%) Platform Engineering
8 81 (13.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 77 (13.21%) Migration
10 75 (12.86%) Configuration Management
11 73 (12.52%) Root Cause Analysis
12 67 (11.49%) Cloud Security
12 67 (11.49%) High Availability
13 65 (11.15%) Infrastructure Automation
14 60 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 54 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 54 (9.26%) Test Automation
16 51 (8.75%) SIEM
17 48 (8.23%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 504 (86.45%) Python
2 257 (44.08%) PowerShell
3 82 (14.07%) SQL
4 47 (8.06%) Go
5 44 (7.55%) Java
6 26 (4.46%) Bicep
7 23 (3.95%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.77%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.09%) Groovy
10 14 (2.40%) Perl
11 10 (1.72%) C
11 10 (1.72%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.72%) Ruby
12 8 (1.37%) C#
13 6 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.86%) C++
14 5 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.86%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.69%) Korn
15 4 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 182 (31.22%) Security Cleared
2 151 (25.90%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.55%) Degree
4 36 (6.17%) Azure Certification
5 31 (5.32%) AWS Certification
6 25 (4.29%) DV Cleared
7 23 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (3.43%) CISSP
9 19 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (2.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (1.89%) CCNA
11 11 (1.89%) CCNP
12 10 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (1.54%) RHCE
14 8 (1.37%) RHCA
15 7 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 4 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.69%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.43%) QA
3 19 (3.26%) GDPR
4 15 (2.57%) NIST
5 12 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 12 (2.06%) SLA
6 8 (1.37%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.37%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.03%) GRC
7 6 (1.03%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.86%) NCSC
9 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.17%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 171 (29.33%) Docker
2 48 (8.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (7.55%) Virtual Machines
4 41 (7.03%) Active Directory
5 23 (3.95%) vSphere
6 22 (3.77%) Hyper-V
7 17 (2.92%) VMware NSX
8 15 (2.57%) KVM
9 11 (1.89%) Firmware
9 11 (1.89%) Squid
10 9 (1.54%) NFS
11 7 (1.20%) Postfix
11 7 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.69%) Varnish
13 3 (0.51%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.51%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.34%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.34%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 310 (53.17%) Terraform
2 264 (45.28%) Kubernetes
3 230 (39.45%) Ansible
4 135 (23.16%) Grafana
5 120 (20.58%) Prometheus
6 49 (8.40%) Puppet
7 46 (7.89%) Argo
8 30 (5.15%) Progress Chef
9 26 (4.46%) vCenter Server
10 24 (4.12%) Istio
11 13 (2.23%) Packer
12 11 (1.89%) Kibana
13 9 (1.54%) NetBackup
13 9 (1.54%) Podman
14 8 (1.37%) HAProxy
14 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (1.37%) Rancher
15 7 (1.20%) linkerd
15 7 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
15 7 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (12.69%) Red Hat
2 73 (12.52%) Splunk
3 66 (11.32%) VMware
4 64 (10.98%) Microsoft
5 50 (8.58%) Google
6 42 (7.20%) Dynatrace
7 33 (5.66%) Oracle
8 19 (3.26%) Databricks
8 19 (3.26%) IBM
9 18 (3.09%) Cisco
10 17 (2.92%) Pure Storage
11 13 (2.23%) Palo Alto
11 13 (2.23%) ServiceNow
12 12 (2.06%) AppDynamics
13 11 (1.89%) Cloudera
13 11 (1.89%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.89%) Informatica
13 11 (1.89%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.72%) Dell
14 10 (1.72%) Fortinet