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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 154 208
Rank change year-on-year -32 +54 -75
Contract jobs citing Bash 548 460 419
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.90% 1.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.04% 5.62% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 295 291
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £416 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £666 £624
90th Percentile £675 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
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 10,865 8,191 10,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.82% 33.80% 29.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,182 5,676 7,891
10th Percentile £352 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.22%
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 531 218 443
10th Percentile £41.94 £26.10 £36.89
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.40 £48.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.97%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% +2.20%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -48 220 £516 -6.14% 111
North of England -30 132 £470 -14.55% 52
Yorkshire -28 81 £463 -15.91% 11
South East -28 80 £465 -2.21% 63
Midlands -44 46 £469 -20.17% 28
West Midlands -28 43 £476 -26.99% 14
South West -43 41 £500 -17.53% 32
North West -29 40 £538 +7.50% 32
East of England -32 14 £478 +0.53% 16
North East -10 11 £425 -23.77% 9
East Midlands -31 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 (4.74%) Confluence
2 8 (1.46%) Apache
2 8 (1.46%) SAS
3 7 (1.28%) nginx
3 7 (1.28%) OpenStack
3 7 (1.28%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.09%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.73%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.55%) 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 (0.55%) 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
1 246 (44.89%) AWS
2 224 (40.88%) Azure
3 159 (29.01%) GitHub
4 108 (19.71%) GCP
5 89 (16.24%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (16.24%) GitHub Actions
6 72 (13.14%) OpenShift
7 49 (8.94%) Serverless
8 47 (8.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 45 (8.21%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (7.85%) Amazon S3
11 36 (6.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (6.39%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (5.66%) Azure AKS
15 30 (5.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 28 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
17 23 (4.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 22 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
19 19 (3.47%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 68 (12.41%) DNS
2 63 (11.50%) Firewall
3 39 (7.12%) TCP/IP
4 34 (6.20%) VPN
5 23 (4.20%) Network Security
6 17 (3.10%) DHCP
7 12 (2.19%) HTTP
7 12 (2.19%) VLAN
8 11 (2.01%) SAN
9 10 (1.82%) NAS
9 10 (1.82%) SNMP
10 9 (1.64%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.64%) SSL
11 8 (1.46%) Reverse Proxy
11 8 (1.46%) WAN
12 7 (1.28%) SSH
13 6 (1.09%) Wireshark
14 5 (0.91%) BGP
15 4 (0.73%) SMTP
15 4 (0.73%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.67%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 26 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (3.65%) MongoDB
5 16 (2.92%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.92%) Redis
6 15 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (2.37%) MySQL
8 11 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (2.01%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.64%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.28%) Big Data
10 7 (1.28%) 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
1 151 (27.55%) Jenkins
2 114 (20.80%) GitLab
3 93 (16.97%) Git
4 36 (6.57%) JIRA
5 8 (1.46%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.46%) CircleCI
6 6 (1.09%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.09%) Liquibase
6 6 (1.09%) Postman
7 5 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
7 5 (0.91%) JMeter
7 5 (0.91%) Selenium
8 4 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.73%) Jaeger
8 4 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.73%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.55%) Ant
9 3 (0.55%) Appium
9 3 (0.55%) Snyk
General
1 134 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 63 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (10.40%) Finance
4 50 (9.12%) Public Sector
5 26 (4.74%) Banking
6 13 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.37%) Legal
7 8 (1.46%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.28%) Retail
9 6 (1.09%) Military
10 5 (0.91%) Law
11 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.36%) Aviation
13 2 (0.36%) Police
14 1 (0.18%) Back Office
14 1 (0.18%) Front Office
14 1 (0.18%) Games
14 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (18.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (10.22%) Platform Engineer
3 48 (8.76%) Senior
4 44 (8.03%) AWS Engineer
5 40 (7.30%) Security Engineer
6 37 (6.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 33 (6.02%) Architect
7 33 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (5.66%) Site Engineer
9 29 (5.29%) Azure Engineer
10 28 (5.11%) Lead
11 26 (4.74%) Data Engineer
12 25 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 24 (4.38%) GCP Engineer
14 23 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
15 22 (4.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 21 (3.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 20 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
18 19 (3.47%) Linux Engineer
19 17 (3.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (7.85%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (7.12%) Kafka
3 28 (5.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 28 (5.11%) REST
4 21 (3.83%) YAML
5 15 (2.74%) ARM Templates
6 14 (2.55%) Node.js
7 13 (2.37%) LDAP
7 13 (2.37%) Middleware
8 11 (2.01%) Keycloak
8 11 (2.01%) Loki
9 10 (1.82%) Swagger
10 9 (1.64%) ADO
11 8 (1.46%) .NET
11 8 (1.46%) AngularJS
11 8 (1.46%) SAML
12 7 (1.28%) OAuth
12 7 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (1.28%) SOAP
12 7 (1.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 79 (14.42%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.47%) Data Centre
6 18 (3.28%) Security Posture
7 16 (2.92%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.92%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.55%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.55%) Replication
9 12 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.19%) PKI
10 9 (1.64%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.46%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.09%) Clustering
13 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 217 (39.60%) Linux
2 85 (15.51%) Windows
3 43 (7.85%) Unix
4 40 (7.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.56%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.28%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.92%) VMS
8 14 (2.55%) Mac OS
9 9 (1.64%) AIX
10 8 (1.46%) CentOS
11 5 (0.91%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.55%) 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
1 311 (56.75%) CI/CD
2 293 (53.47%) DevOps
3 245 (44.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 175 (31.93%) Containerisation
5 131 (23.91%) Observability
6 112 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
7 107 (19.53%) Platform Engineering
8 94 (17.15%) Agile
9 80 (14.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 78 (14.23%) Configuration Management
11 70 (12.77%) High Availability
12 68 (12.41%) Migration
13 66 (12.04%) Root Cause Analysis
14 54 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 53 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (9.67%) Test Automation
16 52 (9.49%) Infrastructure Automation
17 50 (9.12%) DevSecOps
17 50 (9.12%) Incident Response
18 49 (8.94%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 473 (86.31%) Python
2 235 (42.88%) PowerShell
3 75 (13.69%) SQL
4 40 (7.30%) Java
5 39 (7.12%) Go
6 26 (4.74%) Bicep
7 24 (4.38%) JavaScript
8 19 (3.47%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.10%) Groovy
10 12 (2.19%) Perl
11 10 (1.82%) C#
11 10 (1.82%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.46%) C
13 8 (1.46%) Ruby
14 6 (1.09%) PHP
14 6 (1.09%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.09%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.91%) C++
16 4 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 171 (31.20%) Security Cleared
2 140 (25.55%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.12%) Degree
4 29 (5.29%) AWS Certification
4 29 (5.29%) Azure Certification
5 26 (4.74%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 13 (2.37%) CISSP
10 11 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (2.01%) CCNP
11 10 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.82%) CCNA
11 10 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.46%) RHCA
12 8 (1.46%) RHCE
13 7 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.91%) CISM
15 4 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (3.83%) GDPR
3 18 (3.28%) QA
4 14 (2.55%) NIST
5 12 (2.19%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.64%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.64%) SLA
7 7 (1.28%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.28%) NCSC
8 6 (1.09%) GRC
9 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.91%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.36%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 170 (31.02%) Docker
2 51 (9.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (7.30%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (6.39%) Active Directory
5 25 (4.56%) Hyper-V
6 22 (4.01%) vSphere
7 18 (3.28%) VMware NSX
8 16 (2.92%) KVM
9 10 (1.82%) Firmware
10 7 (1.28%) NFS
10 7 (1.28%) Postfix
10 7 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.91%) Squid
12 4 (0.73%) Lustre
12 4 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.55%) Ceph
13 3 (0.55%) GPFS
13 3 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.55%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.55%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 279 (50.91%) Terraform
2 257 (46.90%) Kubernetes
3 218 (39.78%) Ansible
4 126 (22.99%) Grafana
5 110 (20.07%) Prometheus
6 52 (9.49%) Puppet
7 47 (8.58%) Argo
8 27 (4.93%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.38%) Istio
10 22 (4.01%) Progress Chef
11 13 (2.37%) Kibana
12 10 (1.82%) Rancher
13 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (1.64%) Packer
13 9 (1.64%) SCCM
14 8 (1.46%) linkerd
14 8 (1.46%) NetBackup
15 7 (1.28%) Podman
15 7 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (1.09%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 78 (14.23%) Splunk
2 76 (13.87%) Microsoft
3 69 (12.59%) VMware
4 59 (10.77%) Red Hat
5 38 (6.93%) Google
6 37 (6.75%) Dynatrace
7 30 (5.47%) Oracle
8 19 (3.47%) Databricks
9 17 (3.10%) IBM
9 17 (3.10%) Pure Storage
10 16 (2.92%) Cisco
11 12 (2.19%) Palo Alto
11 12 (2.19%) Zscaler
12 11 (2.01%) AppDynamics
12 11 (2.01%) CyberArk
12 11 (2.01%) ServiceNow
13 10 (1.82%) Fortinet
13 10 (1.82%) Tenable
14 9 (1.64%) Dell
14 9 (1.64%) PagerDuty