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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 146 198
Rank change year-on-year -21 +52 -55
Contract jobs citing Bash 774 550 421
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.98% 1.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.48% 6.03% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 358 279
10th Percentile £400 £382 £355
25th Percentile £453 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -4.55% -10.39%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £729 £683 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.49% -9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 10
10th Percentile £56.45 £40.30 £47.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £41.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £42.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +67.06% -27.66% -21.67%
75th Percentile £93.75 £59.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £99.53 £62.45 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £69.61 £42.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +63.78% -27.66% -21.67%

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 11,945 9,116 10,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.89% 32.86% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,742 6,148 7,133
10th Percentile £363 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +3.65% -3.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 503 259 304
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.38 £48.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.25 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.80 £76.75 £79.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 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 28 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 28 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 -27 371 £525 -4.55% 342
North of England -34 138 £500 - 80
South East -2 108 £568 +27.07% 91
South West +8 83 £675 +22.73% 70
Yorkshire -38 59 £500 -1.23% 20
North West -26 56 £525 +10.53% 52
East of England -5 31 £425 -11.23% 40
West Midlands -50 25 £525 -9.68% 18
Midlands -58 25 £525 -6.67% 33
North East -34 22 £419 -19.08% 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 34 (4.39%) Confluence
2 28 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.84%) Apache
4 18 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.68%) nginx
7 8 (1.03%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.90%) 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
13 2 (0.26%) CMS
13 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
14 1 (0.13%) Camunda
14 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.13%) Traefik
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
1 363 (46.90%) AWS
2 351 (45.35%) Azure
3 182 (23.51%) GitHub
4 153 (19.77%) GCP
5 132 (17.05%) GitHub Actions
6 129 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (10.21%) Amazon EKS
8 65 (8.40%) Serverless
9 63 (8.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 61 (7.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 61 (7.88%) Azure Monitor
11 60 (7.75%) Amazon S3
12 53 (6.85%) Entra ID
13 50 (6.46%) OpenShift
14 49 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (6.33%) Datadog
15 47 (6.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 44 (5.68%) Azure AKS
17 42 (5.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 41 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 123 (15.89%) Firewall
2 112 (14.47%) DNS
3 83 (10.72%) TCP/IP
4 69 (8.91%) Network Security
5 65 (8.40%) VPN
6 59 (7.62%) DHCP
7 20 (2.58%) WAN
8 17 (2.20%) SAN
8 17 (2.20%) SSH
8 17 (2.20%) VSAN
9 14 (1.81%) SSL
10 13 (1.68%) SD-WAN
10 13 (1.68%) VLAN
11 10 (1.29%) 5G
11 10 (1.29%) BGP
11 10 (1.29%) HTTP
11 10 (1.29%) Kerberos
12 9 (1.16%) 4G
12 9 (1.16%) NAS
13 7 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.49%) Redis
4 23 (2.97%) MongoDB
5 22 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (2.84%) MySQL
6 21 (2.71%) NoSQL
7 15 (1.94%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.55%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (1.42%) Big Data
10 10 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.29%) Metadata
10 10 (1.29%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.16%) Delta Lake
11 9 (1.16%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.16%) Pentaho
11 9 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 191 (24.68%) Jenkins
2 158 (20.41%) Git
2 158 (20.41%) GitLab
3 41 (5.30%) JIRA
4 19 (2.45%) Artifactory
5 15 (1.94%) Selenium
5 15 (1.94%) SonarQube
6 14 (1.81%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.03%) Postman
8 7 (0.90%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.90%) JMeter
8 7 (0.90%) Maven
9 6 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.78%) MLflow
10 5 (0.65%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.65%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.52%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.52%) Subversion
11 4 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 173 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 143 (18.48%) Finance
3 100 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (8.27%) Banking
5 62 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.97%) 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 6 (0.78%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.65%) Front Office
12 5 (0.65%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.65%) Publishing
13 4 (0.52%) Automotive
13 4 (0.52%) Marketing
14 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (19.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 104 (13.44%) Senior
3 72 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
3 72 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
4 56 (7.24%) Security Engineer
5 55 (7.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 51 (6.59%) AWS Engineer
6 51 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
7 44 (5.68%) Linux Engineer
8 43 (5.56%) Lead
9 39 (5.04%) Architect
10 38 (4.91%) Developer
10 38 (4.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 33 (4.26%) Site Engineer
12 32 (4.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 31 (4.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 29 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
14 29 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
14 29 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
14 29 (3.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (58.14%) Terraform
2 68 (8.79%) Kafka
3 52 (6.72%) ARM Templates
4 49 (6.33%) REST
5 43 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
6 37 (4.78%) YAML
7 26 (3.36%) Middleware
8 21 (2.71%) Loki
9 19 (2.45%) RESTful
10 18 (2.33%) JSON
10 18 (2.33%) Node.js
10 18 (2.33%) React
11 16 (2.07%) Flask
12 15 (1.94%) .NET
13 14 (1.81%) AngularJS
13 14 (1.81%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (1.68%) CSS
14 13 (1.68%) HTML
15 12 (1.55%) SOAP
15 12 (1.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 115 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 51 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 44 (5.68%) Security Posture
4 35 (4.52%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.26%) PKI
6 32 (4.13%) Linux Command Line
7 30 (3.88%) Data Centre
7 30 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (3.88%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (3.10%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.45%) Product Ownership
11 18 (2.33%) Replication
12 17 (2.20%) Cloud Security Posture
13 14 (1.81%) Legacy Applications
14 10 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
15 9 (1.16%) Private Cloud
15 9 (1.16%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 388 (50.13%) Linux
2 177 (22.87%) Windows
3 98 (12.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (8.40%) Windows Server
5 57 (7.36%) Unix
6 36 (4.65%) Ubuntu
7 17 (2.20%) CentOS
8 14 (1.81%) VMS
9 6 (0.78%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.78%) Rocky
9 6 (0.78%) Solaris
10 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
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%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (60.21%) CI/CD
2 417 (53.88%) DevOps
3 409 (52.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 222 (28.68%) Containerisation
5 218 (28.17%) Observability
6 164 (21.19%) Agile
7 162 (20.93%) Platform Engineering
8 159 (20.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 145 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (15.25%) Cloud Security
11 117 (15.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 115 (14.86%) DevSecOps
13 105 (13.57%) Infrastructure Automation
14 103 (13.31%) Root Cause Analysis
15 98 (12.66%) AI
16 97 (12.53%) Runbook
17 96 (12.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 95 (12.27%) Configuration Management
19 88 (11.37%) Migration
20 87 (11.24%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 658 (85.01%) Python
2 379 (48.97%) PowerShell
3 110 (14.21%) SQL
4 93 (12.02%) Java
5 76 (9.82%) Bicep
6 70 (9.04%) Go
7 51 (6.59%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.62%) Perl
9 25 (3.23%) JavaScript
10 24 (3.10%) Groovy
11 20 (2.58%) Korn
12 16 (2.07%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.55%) C#
14 11 (1.42%) Ruby
15 8 (1.03%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.65%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.52%) Cypher
19 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
19 3 (0.39%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 300 (38.76%) Security Cleared
2 220 (28.42%) SC Cleared
3 82 (10.59%) DV Cleared
4 61 (7.88%) Degree
5 60 (7.75%) AWS Certification
6 57 (7.36%) Azure Certification
7 34 (4.39%) CISSP
8 31 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.55%) VCAP
12 12 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 7 (0.90%) CCNP
17 6 (0.78%) CCNA
17 6 (0.78%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.94%) QA
2 33 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (4.26%) NIST
3 17 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.68%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.29%) SLA
6 8 (1.03%) GDPR
7 7 (0.90%) NCSC
8 6 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.65%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.13%) GRC
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 277 (35.79%) Docker
2 83 (10.72%) Active Directory
3 69 (8.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (4.78%) Hyper-V
5 29 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (3.75%) vSphere
6 17 (2.20%) VMware NSX
7 13 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (1.16%) NFS
8 9 (1.16%) Squid
9 6 (0.78%) Postfix
10 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.52%) zsh
11 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.39%) Firmware
11 3 (0.39%) HDFS
11 3 (0.39%) KVM
11 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
11 3 (0.39%) Varnish
11 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 360 (46.51%) Kubernetes
2 283 (36.56%) Ansible
3 166 (21.45%) Grafana
4 142 (18.35%) Prometheus
5 49 (6.33%) Puppet
6 47 (6.07%) Progress Chef
7 33 (4.26%) Argo
8 20 (2.58%) Istio
9 16 (2.07%) Podman
10 14 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.81%) VxRail
11 13 (1.68%) Kibana
12 12 (1.55%) SCCM
12 12 (1.55%) systemd
13 11 (1.42%) Packer
14 10 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (1.16%) Check_MK
15 9 (1.16%) Consul
16 8 (1.03%) Cilium
16 8 (1.03%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 153 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 92 (11.89%) VMware
3 91 (11.76%) Google
4 61 (7.88%) Red Hat
5 60 (7.75%) Splunk
6 55 (7.11%) Dynatrace
7 51 (6.59%) Oracle
8 32 (4.13%) Cisco
9 31 (4.01%) CyberArk
10 25 (3.23%) ServiceNow
11 22 (2.84%) Databricks
12 17 (2.20%) IBM
12 17 (2.20%) Palo Alto
13 13 (1.68%) NetApp
14 12 (1.55%) Fortinet
14 12 (1.55%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.29%) BMC
15 10 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
16 9 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (1.16%) WALLIX