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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 141 201
Rank change year-on-year -54 +60 -70
Contract jobs citing Bash 561 456 426
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.92% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.07% 5.67% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 304 299
10th Percentile £388 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £580 £640 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £536
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.28% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 10
10th Percentile £54.55 £26.83 £21.85
25th Percentile £57.59 £34.24 £22.81
Median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% +18.89% -31.30%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.06 £71.88
90th Percentile £70.41 £67.89 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.01% +18.89% -31.30%

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 11,073 8,043 10,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.58% 33.83% 30.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,270 5,602 7,987
10th Percentile £357 £360 £350
25th Percentile £417 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 183 452
10th Percentile £36.65 £28.53 £37.55
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.37 £49.34
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 £77.50 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -63 227 £525 -4.55% 89
North of England -10 139 £482 -12.36% 56
Yorkshire -10 86 £482 -12.36% 13
South East -23 75 £460 -0.54% 52
South West -30 49 £500 -16.67% 30
North West -25 43 £538 +7.50% 36
Midlands -53 42 £465 -15.45% 19
West Midlands -39 40 £467 -22.17% 8
East of England -30 16 £494 +3.95% 11
North East -18 10 £425 -22.73% 7
East Midlands -36 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 28 (4.99%) Confluence
2 12 (2.14%) Apache
3 10 (1.78%) SAS
4 9 (1.60%) nginx
5 8 (1.43%) IIS
6 7 (1.25%) WebSphere
7 6 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.89%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.71%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.71%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.36%) CMS
11 2 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.36%) JBoss
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.18%) PowerExchange
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
2 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 247 (44.03%) AWS
2 218 (38.86%) Azure
3 158 (28.16%) GitHub
4 110 (19.61%) GCP
5 91 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
6 87 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (12.83%) OpenShift
8 46 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (8.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 42 (7.49%) Serverless
11 38 (6.77%) Amazon S3
12 34 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
12 34 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 30 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (4.99%) Azure AKS
15 26 (4.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 24 (4.28%) Datadog
17 23 (4.10%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 74 (13.19%) DNS
2 67 (11.94%) Firewall
3 39 (6.95%) TCP/IP
4 35 (6.24%) VPN
5 28 (4.99%) Network Security
6 17 (3.03%) SAN
7 15 (2.67%) DHCP
8 14 (2.50%) NAS
8 14 (2.50%) VLAN
9 12 (2.14%) HTTP
10 11 (1.96%) SSL
11 9 (1.60%) WAN
12 8 (1.43%) Reverse Proxy
13 7 (1.25%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.25%) SNMP
14 6 (1.07%) BGP
15 4 (0.71%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.71%) Multicast
15 4 (0.71%) Wireshark
16 3 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (6.24%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.92%) MongoDB
4 16 (2.85%) MySQL
4 16 (2.85%) Redis
5 15 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (2.32%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (1.96%) Pentaho
7 11 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.25%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.07%) DB2
9 6 (1.07%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (0.89%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (0.89%) Big Data
10 5 (0.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 165 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 118 (21.03%) GitLab
3 96 (17.11%) Git
4 40 (7.13%) JIRA
5 10 (1.78%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.60%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.60%) Postman
7 8 (1.43%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.25%) JMeter
9 6 (1.07%) Liquibase
10 5 (0.89%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (0.89%) Selenium
10 5 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.71%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.53%) Appium
12 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.53%) Snyk
12 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.53%) Spinnaker
General
1 141 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 60 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (10.52%) Finance
4 51 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 35 (6.24%) Banking
6 14 (2.50%) Legal
7 13 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.43%) Military
9 6 (1.07%) Law
10 5 (0.89%) Retail
10 5 (0.89%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.71%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.36%) Aviation
12 2 (0.36%) Front Office
12 2 (0.36%) Police
13 1 (0.18%) Back Office
13 1 (0.18%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (19.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (9.45%) AWS Engineer
3 48 (8.56%) Platform Engineer
4 45 (8.02%) Senior
5 42 (7.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (6.95%) Security Engineer
7 38 (6.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 33 (5.88%) Lead
9 30 (5.35%) Architect
10 29 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
10 29 (5.17%) Site Engineer
11 27 (4.81%) Data Engineer
11 27 (4.81%) GCP Engineer
12 25 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 23 (4.10%) Linux Engineer
14 22 (3.92%) Automation Engineer
14 22 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
15 21 (3.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 20 (3.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 20 (3.57%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.13%) Elastic Stack
1 40 (7.13%) Kafka
2 27 (4.81%) OpenTelemetry
2 27 (4.81%) REST
3 24 (4.28%) YAML
4 16 (2.85%) ARM Templates
4 16 (2.85%) Middleware
5 11 (1.96%) Loki
5 11 (1.96%) Node.js
6 10 (1.78%) JSON
6 10 (1.78%) LDAP
6 10 (1.78%) Swagger
7 9 (1.60%) ADO
7 9 (1.60%) Keycloak
8 8 (1.43%) .NET
8 8 (1.43%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.43%) React
8 8 (1.43%) SAML
8 8 (1.43%) Vue
9 7 (1.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 82 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (4.10%) Data Centre
3 23 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (3.39%) Security Posture
6 18 (3.21%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.85%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.67%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.67%) Replication
9 13 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.96%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.78%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.43%) PKI
13 7 (1.25%) Clustering
14 6 (1.07%) Private Cloud
15 5 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
16 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
16 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Storage
16 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 218 (38.86%) Linux
2 92 (16.40%) Windows
3 46 (8.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 45 (8.02%) Unix
5 31 (5.53%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.21%) Ubuntu
7 14 (2.50%) VMS
8 12 (2.14%) Mac OS
9 10 (1.78%) AIX
10 8 (1.43%) CentOS
11 5 (0.89%) Windows 10
12 4 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.36%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.36%) Debian
14 2 (0.36%) Rocky
15 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (57.93%) CI/CD
2 310 (55.26%) DevOps
3 245 (43.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 161 (28.70%) Containerisation
5 138 (24.60%) Observability
6 104 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
7 96 (17.11%) Platform Engineering
8 91 (16.22%) Agile
9 78 (13.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 71 (12.66%) Configuration Management
10 71 (12.66%) Migration
10 71 (12.66%) Root Cause Analysis
11 63 (11.23%) High Availability
12 60 (10.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 57 (10.16%) Cloud Security
14 55 (9.80%) Infrastructure Automation
15 51 (9.09%) Test Automation
16 50 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
17 45 (8.02%) Incident Response
18 43 (7.66%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 485 (86.45%) Python
2 242 (43.14%) PowerShell
3 79 (14.08%) SQL
4 47 (8.38%) Go
5 34 (6.06%) Java
6 25 (4.46%) Bicep
7 23 (4.10%) JavaScript
8 21 (3.74%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.21%) Groovy
10 14 (2.50%) Perl
11 10 (1.78%) C
11 10 (1.78%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.78%) Ruby
12 8 (1.43%) C#
13 6 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.89%) C++
14 5 (0.89%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.71%) Korn
15 4 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 181 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 150 (26.74%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.42%) Degree
4 27 (4.81%) Azure Certification
5 26 (4.63%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (3.74%) AWS Certification
8 18 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (2.32%) CISSP
10 11 (1.96%) CCNA
10 11 (1.96%) CCNP
10 11 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 10 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.60%) RHCE
13 8 (1.43%) RHCA
14 7 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
15 5 (0.89%) CISM
16 4 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.71%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.57%) GDPR
3 18 (3.21%) QA
4 15 (2.67%) NIST
5 13 (2.32%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.14%) SLA
7 9 (1.60%) HIPAA
8 8 (1.43%) Data Quality
9 6 (1.07%) GRC
9 6 (1.07%) NCSC
9 6 (1.07%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.36%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 159 (28.34%) Docker
2 47 (8.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (7.49%) Virtual Machines
4 41 (7.31%) Active Directory
5 21 (3.74%) Hyper-V
5 21 (3.74%) vSphere
6 17 (3.03%) VMware NSX
7 15 (2.67%) KVM
8 11 (1.96%) Firmware
8 11 (1.96%) Squid
9 8 (1.43%) NFS
10 7 (1.25%) Postfix
11 6 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.71%) Varnish
13 3 (0.53%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.53%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.36%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 291 (51.87%) Terraform
2 252 (44.92%) Kubernetes
3 223 (39.75%) Ansible
4 130 (23.17%) Grafana
5 114 (20.32%) Prometheus
6 47 (8.38%) Puppet
7 45 (8.02%) Argo
8 25 (4.46%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.28%) Istio
10 22 (3.92%) Progress Chef
11 13 (2.32%) Packer
12 11 (1.96%) Kibana
13 9 (1.60%) Podman
14 8 (1.43%) HAProxy
14 8 (1.43%) linkerd
14 8 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (1.43%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.43%) Rancher
14 8 (1.43%) Red Hat Satellite
15 7 (1.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 75 (13.37%) Splunk
2 67 (11.94%) Red Hat
3 66 (11.76%) VMware
4 65 (11.59%) Microsoft
5 43 (7.66%) Google
6 42 (7.49%) Dynatrace
7 32 (5.70%) Oracle
8 19 (3.39%) IBM
9 18 (3.21%) Databricks
10 17 (3.03%) Cisco
11 16 (2.85%) Pure Storage
12 12 (2.14%) AppDynamics
12 12 (2.14%) Palo Alto
13 11 (1.96%) Cloudera
13 11 (1.96%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.96%) Fortinet
13 11 (1.96%) Informatica
13 11 (1.96%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.96%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.78%) Talend