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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 147 213
Rank change year-on-year -40 +66 -82
Contract jobs citing Bash 560 451 416
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.37% 1.86% 1.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.13% 5.51% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 289 289
10th Percentile £383 £400 £400
25th Percentile £416 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £622
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £537
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.26% -10.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 10
10th Percentile £56.20 £25.25 £21.85
25th Percentile £58.43 £27.50 £22.81
Median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.26% +16.67% -23.40%
75th Percentile £72.65 £55.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £80.60 £66.34 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +20.26% +16.67% -23.40%

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 10,926 8,182 10,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.63% 33.73% 29.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,216 5,684 7,857
10th Percentile £354 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £533
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.44% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 208 444
10th Percentile £41.76 £26.30 £37.57
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.96 £49.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.30 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.42% -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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -52 227 £516 -5.06% 105
North of England -22 135 £470 -14.55% 55
Yorkshire -20 83 £463 -15.91% 14
South East -29 81 £470 +1.51% 64
South West -40 46 £500 -16.67% 31
Midlands -46 43 £463 -19.57% 18
North West -22 42 £538 +7.50% 32
West Midlands -37 41 £465 -24.39% 6
East of England -33 14 £494 +3.95% 13
North East -14 10 £425 -22.73% 9
East Midlands -29 2 £436 +6.99% 12
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 (4.64%) Confluence
2 9 (1.61%) Apache
2 9 (1.61%) SAS
3 7 (1.25%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.07%) nginx
5 5 (0.89%) IIS
5 5 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
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 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.18%) Weka
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%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 246 (43.93%) AWS
2 220 (39.29%) Azure
3 156 (27.86%) GitHub
4 108 (19.29%) GCP
5 90 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
6 89 (15.89%) GitHub Actions
7 69 (12.32%) OpenShift
8 49 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (8.75%) Serverless
9 45 (8.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 43 (7.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (7.14%) Amazon S3
12 37 (6.61%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 34 (6.07%) Azure AKS
15 33 (5.89%) AWS Lambda
16 26 (4.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 25 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
18 22 (3.93%) Datadog
19 21 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 70 (12.50%) DNS
2 67 (11.96%) Firewall
3 41 (7.32%) TCP/IP
4 34 (6.07%) VPN
5 27 (4.82%) Network Security
6 19 (3.39%) DHCP
7 15 (2.68%) SAN
8 14 (2.50%) VLAN
9 12 (2.14%) HTTP
9 12 (2.14%) NAS
10 10 (1.79%) SNMP
11 9 (1.61%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.61%) SSL
12 8 (1.43%) Reverse Proxy
12 8 (1.43%) WAN
13 7 (1.25%) SSH
14 6 (1.07%) Wireshark
15 5 (0.89%) BGP
16 4 (0.71%) Fibre Channel
16 4 (0.71%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (5.54%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (3.75%) MongoDB
4 16 (2.86%) Redis
5 15 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (2.68%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.50%) MySQL
7 12 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.14%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.79%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.25%) Big Data
10 7 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.07%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.07%) DB2
12 5 (0.89%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (0.89%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.89%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 157 (28.04%) Jenkins
2 119 (21.25%) GitLab
3 98 (17.50%) Git
4 36 (6.43%) JIRA
5 10 (1.79%) Artifactory
6 8 (1.43%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.25%) Postman
8 6 (1.07%) JMeter
8 6 (1.07%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.89%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.89%) Selenium
9 5 (0.89%) Spinnaker
10 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.71%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.54%) Ant
11 3 (0.54%) Appium
11 3 (0.54%) Cucumber
General
1 139 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 64 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (10.18%) Finance
4 51 (9.11%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.18%) Banking
6 15 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.32%) Legal
8 12 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.43%) Military
9 8 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.07%) Retail
11 5 (0.89%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.89%) Law
12 3 (0.54%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.36%) Aviation
13 2 (0.36%) Police
14 1 (0.18%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.18%) Games
14 1 (0.18%) Local Government
14 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (19.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 49 (8.75%) AWS Engineer
4 48 (8.57%) Senior
5 41 (7.32%) Security Engineer
6 39 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (6.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 31 (5.54%) Architect
8 31 (5.54%) Lead
9 29 (5.18%) Azure Engineer
9 29 (5.18%) Site Engineer
10 27 (4.82%) Data Engineer
10 27 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 26 (4.64%) GCP Engineer
12 23 (4.11%) AWS DevOps
13 22 (3.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 21 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
14 21 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.75%) Linux Engineer
15 18 (3.21%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
2 38 (6.79%) Kafka
3 30 (5.36%) REST
4 27 (4.82%) OpenTelemetry
5 22 (3.93%) YAML
6 15 (2.68%) ARM Templates
6 15 (2.68%) Middleware
6 15 (2.68%) Node.js
7 12 (2.14%) LDAP
8 11 (1.96%) Loki
8 11 (1.96%) Swagger
9 10 (1.79%) Keycloak
10 9 (1.61%) .NET
10 9 (1.61%) ADO
10 9 (1.61%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.61%) JSON
11 8 (1.43%) React
11 8 (1.43%) SAML
11 8 (1.43%) Vue
12 7 (1.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 79 (14.11%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.75%) Data Centre
4 21 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (3.21%) Security Posture
6 17 (3.04%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.86%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.68%) Replication
9 13 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.32%) PKI
10 9 (1.61%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.07%) Clustering
12 6 (1.07%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 218 (38.93%) Linux
2 87 (15.54%) Windows
3 44 (7.86%) Unix
4 40 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (4.64%) Windows Server
6 16 (2.86%) Ubuntu
6 16 (2.86%) VMS
7 12 (2.14%) Mac OS
8 10 (1.79%) AIX
9 6 (1.07%) CentOS
10 5 (0.89%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.36%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.36%) Debian
12 2 (0.36%) Rocky
12 2 (0.36%) Solaris
12 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (57.32%) CI/CD
2 304 (54.29%) DevOps
3 246 (43.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (30.18%) Containerisation
5 135 (24.11%) Observability
6 114 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (19.29%) Platform Engineering
8 89 (15.89%) Agile
9 80 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 74 (13.21%) Configuration Management
11 68 (12.14%) Migration
12 66 (11.79%) Root Cause Analysis
13 65 (11.61%) High Availability
14 57 (10.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 53 (9.46%) Infrastructure Automation
15 53 (9.46%) Test Automation
16 52 (9.29%) Cloud Security
17 50 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
17 50 (8.93%) Incident Response
18 48 (8.57%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 481 (85.89%) Python
2 238 (42.50%) PowerShell
3 78 (13.93%) SQL
4 42 (7.50%) Go
4 42 (7.50%) Java
5 26 (4.64%) Bicep
5 26 (4.64%) JavaScript
6 21 (3.75%) Shell Script
7 18 (3.21%) Groovy
8 12 (2.14%) C#
8 12 (2.14%) Perl
9 10 (1.79%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.43%) C
10 8 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (1.43%) Ruby
11 6 (1.07%) PHP
11 6 (1.07%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.89%) C++
13 4 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 179 (31.96%) Security Cleared
2 143 (25.54%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.61%) Degree
4 29 (5.18%) AWS Certification
4 29 (5.18%) Azure Certification
5 27 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 23 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 13 (2.32%) CISSP
10 11 (1.96%) CCNP
11 10 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.79%) CCNA
11 10 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.43%) RHCA
12 8 (1.43%) RHCE
13 7 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.89%) CISM
15 4 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (3.75%) GDPR
3 18 (3.21%) QA
4 14 (2.50%) NIST
5 12 (2.14%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.79%) SLA
7 9 (1.61%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.25%) Data Quality
9 6 (1.07%) GRC
9 6 (1.07%) NCSC
10 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.89%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.36%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 168 (30.00%) Docker
2 51 (9.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (6.79%) Active Directory
5 25 (4.46%) Hyper-V
6 21 (3.75%) vSphere
7 17 (3.04%) VMware NSX
8 16 (2.86%) KVM
9 11 (1.96%) Firmware
10 10 (1.79%) Squid
11 9 (1.61%) NFS
12 7 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.71%) Postfix
14 3 (0.54%) Ceph
14 3 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.54%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.54%) Varnish
15 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 285 (50.89%) Terraform
2 259 (46.25%) Kubernetes
3 219 (39.11%) Ansible
4 128 (22.86%) Grafana
5 109 (19.46%) Prometheus
6 47 (8.39%) Puppet
7 45 (8.04%) Argo
8 26 (4.64%) vCenter Server
9 25 (4.46%) Istio
10 22 (3.93%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.14%) Kibana
12 10 (1.79%) Rancher
13 9 (1.61%) Packer
13 9 (1.61%) Podman
13 9 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (1.43%) linkerd
14 8 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (1.43%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.43%) SCCM
15 7 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (13.75%) Splunk
2 73 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 70 (12.50%) VMware
4 60 (10.71%) Red Hat
5 41 (7.32%) Dynatrace
6 39 (6.96%) Google
7 32 (5.71%) Oracle
8 19 (3.39%) Databricks
9 18 (3.21%) IBM
10 17 (3.04%) Cisco
11 16 (2.86%) Pure Storage
12 12 (2.14%) AppDynamics
12 12 (2.14%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.14%) ServiceNow
12 12 (2.14%) Zscaler
13 11 (1.96%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.79%) Cloudera
14 10 (1.79%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.79%) Tenable
15 9 (1.61%) Talend