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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 151 199
Rank change year-on-year -15 +48 -64
Contract jobs citing Bash 709 514 419
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.87% 1.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.99% 5.69% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 344 301
10th Percentile £393 £361 £375
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £623 £618 £638
90th Percentile £709 £698 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 13
10th Percentile £56.45 £44.82 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £47.13 £25.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.32% -4.78% -19.30%
75th Percentile £98.82 £63.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.00 £64.80 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £54.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.32% -4.78% -17.86%

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 11,838 9,030 10,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.40% 32.83% 31.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,679 6,226 7,721
10th Percentile £363 £345 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.45% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £653
90th Percentile £738 £772 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 226 373
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £40.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.12 £83.73 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -39 304 £508 -5.14% 105
North of England -10 160 £507 -0.59% 50
South East -13 99 £537 +23.45% 52
South West -7 76 £613 +6.52% 39
Yorkshire -17 76 £507 -1.07% 8
North West -8 64 £538 +7.50% 34
West Midlands -46 32 £525 +7.69% 13
Midlands -52 32 £525 +7.69% 20
East of England -13 22 £483 +1.58% 17
North East -37 20 £406 -26.14% 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 39 (5.50%) Confluence
2 20 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.54%) Apache
4 13 (1.83%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.55%) nginx
5 11 (1.55%) SAS
6 7 (0.99%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.85%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.71%) IIS
9 4 (0.56%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.56%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.56%) WordPress
10 3 (0.42%) JBoss
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.28%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.56%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.14%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 338 (47.67%) AWS
2 310 (43.72%) Azure
3 192 (27.08%) GitHub
4 148 (20.87%) GCP
5 128 (18.05%) GitHub Actions
6 112 (15.80%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (10.16%) Amazon EKS
8 63 (8.89%) Serverless
9 62 (8.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 59 (8.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 59 (8.32%) Amazon S3
11 55 (7.76%) OpenShift
12 50 (7.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 48 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (6.35%) Datadog
15 43 (6.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 41 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
17 39 (5.50%) Azure Monitor
18 37 (5.22%) Azure AKS
19 36 (5.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 116 (16.36%) DNS
2 113 (15.94%) Firewall
3 70 (9.87%) TCP/IP
4 55 (7.76%) VPN
5 49 (6.91%) Network Security
6 48 (6.77%) DHCP
7 16 (2.26%) SAN
7 16 (2.26%) VLAN
8 15 (2.12%) VSAN
9 14 (1.97%) SSL
9 14 (1.97%) WAN
10 13 (1.83%) NAS
11 11 (1.55%) HTTP
12 10 (1.41%) SD-WAN
13 9 (1.27%) SNMP
14 8 (1.13%) BGP
14 8 (1.13%) SSH
15 7 (0.99%) DNSSEC
15 7 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
16 4 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 30 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (2.54%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.12%) MySQL
5 15 (2.12%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (1.83%) Redis
8 11 (1.55%) Pentaho
9 10 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (1.41%) Oracle Database
9 10 (1.41%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.27%) Big Data
10 9 (1.27%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.27%) Metadata
11 8 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.13%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.85%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 198 (27.93%) Jenkins
2 135 (19.04%) GitLab
3 114 (16.08%) Git
4 43 (6.06%) JIRA
5 13 (1.83%) Artifactory
6 12 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.41%) Selenium
7 10 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.27%) Postman
9 8 (1.13%) JMeter
10 6 (0.85%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.85%) MLflow
10 6 (0.85%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.85%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (0.71%) Liquibase
12 4 (0.56%) Jaeger
13 3 (0.42%) Ant
13 3 (0.42%) Bugzilla
General
1 159 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 97 (13.68%) Finance
3 75 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.63%) Banking
6 18 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.40%) Legal
8 13 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.13%) Military
10 7 (0.99%) Law
10 7 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.56%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.56%) Front Office
11 4 (0.56%) Publishing
11 4 (0.56%) Retail
12 3 (0.42%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.42%) Automotive
13 2 (0.28%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.28%) Police
14 1 (0.14%) Billing
Job Titles
1 139 (19.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 87 (12.27%) Senior
3 69 (9.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 67 (9.45%) Platform Engineer
5 49 (6.91%) AWS Engineer
5 49 (6.91%) Security Engineer
6 48 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 47 (6.63%) Architect
8 43 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
8 43 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 42 (5.92%) Lead
10 34 (4.80%) Site Engineer
11 32 (4.51%) Linux Engineer
12 29 (4.09%) GCP Engineer
13 26 (3.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 26 (3.67%) Data Engineer
14 25 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
14 25 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
14 25 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 23 (3.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.63%) Kafka
2 37 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
3 36 (5.08%) REST
4 35 (4.94%) YAML
5 30 (4.23%) ARM Templates
6 29 (4.09%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.54%) Loki
8 17 (2.40%) Middleware
9 15 (2.12%) JSON
10 14 (1.97%) Node.js
11 13 (1.83%) .NET
12 12 (1.69%) LDAP
13 11 (1.55%) SOAP
14 10 (1.41%) SAML
15 9 (1.27%) OAuth
15 9 (1.27%) React
15 9 (1.27%) Swagger
16 8 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
17 7 (0.99%) AngularJS
17 7 (0.99%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 116 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (5.22%) Security Posture
4 32 (4.51%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (3.95%) Data Centre
7 26 (3.67%) Linux Command Line
8 24 (3.39%) Management Information System
8 24 (3.39%) PKI
9 20 (2.82%) Replication
10 17 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (2.40%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.69%) Product Ownership
13 11 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
14 10 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 10 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
15 9 (1.27%) Clustering
16 7 (0.99%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 309 (43.58%) Linux
2 151 (21.30%) Windows
3 79 (11.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (7.05%) Windows Server
5 37 (5.22%) Unix
6 33 (4.65%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.55%) VMS
8 9 (1.27%) CentOS
9 8 (1.13%) AIX
10 7 (0.99%) Solaris
11 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.28%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.28%) Debian
13 2 (0.28%) Rocky
13 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (58.96%) CI/CD
2 391 (55.15%) DevOps
3 346 (48.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 203 (28.63%) Containerisation
5 171 (24.12%) Observability
6 142 (20.03%) Platform Engineering
7 134 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
8 127 (17.91%) Agile
9 114 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 110 (15.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 95 (13.40%) Cloud Security
12 92 (12.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 90 (12.69%) Migration
14 82 (11.57%) Configuration Management
14 82 (11.57%) DevSecOps
14 82 (11.57%) High Availability
15 79 (11.14%) Infrastructure Automation
16 77 (10.86%) SIEM
17 75 (10.58%) Runbook
18 70 (9.87%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 615 (86.74%) Python
2 330 (46.54%) PowerShell
3 91 (12.83%) SQL
4 65 (9.17%) Java
5 58 (8.18%) Go
6 49 (6.91%) Bicep
7 25 (3.53%) Perl
7 25 (3.53%) Shell Script
8 22 (3.10%) Groovy
9 17 (2.40%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.55%) Ruby
11 10 (1.41%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.41%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.99%) C
12 7 (0.99%) C#
13 6 (0.85%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.71%) Korn
14 5 (0.71%) Scala
15 4 (0.56%) C++
15 4 (0.56%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 252 (35.54%) Security Cleared
2 193 (27.22%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.18%) DV Cleared
4 53 (7.48%) AWS Certification
5 51 (7.19%) Azure Certification
6 47 (6.63%) Degree
7 27 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (3.53%) CISSP
9 17 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (2.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (1.97%) CCNP
12 13 (1.83%) CCNA
13 12 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.55%) RHCE
15 10 (1.41%) VCAP
16 9 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (1.27%) RHCA
17 7 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 27 (3.81%) QA
2 18 (2.54%) NIST
3 14 (1.97%) GDPR
3 14 (1.97%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.55%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.55%) SLA
5 8 (1.13%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.71%) GRC
7 5 (0.71%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.28%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.28%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) HL7
11 1 (0.14%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 223 (31.45%) Docker
2 70 (9.87%) Active Directory
2 70 (9.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (5.50%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (4.94%) vSphere
5 34 (4.80%) Hyper-V
6 28 (3.95%) VMware NSX
7 12 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.41%) NFS
8 10 (1.41%) Squid
9 9 (1.27%) KVM
10 8 (1.13%) Firmware
11 7 (0.99%) Postfix
12 5 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.56%) Varnish
14 3 (0.42%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.42%) OpenSSH
14 3 (0.42%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.42%) zsh
Systems Management
1 408 (57.55%) Terraform
2 319 (44.99%) Kubernetes
3 267 (37.66%) Ansible
4 147 (20.73%) Grafana
5 124 (17.49%) Prometheus
6 61 (8.60%) Puppet
7 50 (7.05%) Argo
8 46 (6.49%) Progress Chef
9 25 (3.53%) vCenter Server
10 24 (3.39%) Istio
11 13 (1.83%) Podman
12 12 (1.69%) Packer
13 11 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (1.41%) NetBackup
14 10 (1.41%) systemd
14 10 (1.41%) VxRail
15 9 (1.27%) SCCM
16 8 (1.13%) HAProxy
17 7 (0.99%) Rancher
18 6 (0.85%) Consul
Vendors
1 107 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 91 (12.83%) VMware
3 76 (10.72%) Google
4 75 (10.58%) Red Hat
5 56 (7.90%) Splunk
6 53 (7.48%) Oracle
7 49 (6.91%) Dynatrace
8 29 (4.09%) Cisco
9 27 (3.81%) CyberArk
10 22 (3.10%) IBM
11 20 (2.82%) Databricks
12 19 (2.68%) ServiceNow
13 15 (2.12%) Pure Storage
14 14 (1.97%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.83%) Cloudera
16 12 (1.69%) Informatica
16 12 (1.69%) SolarWinds
17 11 (1.55%) Talend
17 11 (1.55%) Zscaler
18 10 (1.41%) Fortinet