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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 151 195
Rank change year-on-year -18 +44 -57
Contract jobs citing Bash 752 525 426
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.91% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.34% 5.82% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 351 296
10th Percentile £400 £380 £375
25th Percentile £450 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £630 £615 £638
90th Percentile £725 £681 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 10
10th Percentile £56.35 £40.77 £24.93
25th Percentile £58.43 £47.13 £35.63
Median hourly rate £71.00 £54.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.68% -4.78% -20.69%
75th Percentile £94.41 £61.44 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.76 £64.80 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £54.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +29.68% -4.78% -20.69%

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 11,864 9,028 10,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.97% 32.77% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,693 6,169 7,493
10th Percentile £363 £345 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £519 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +2.77% -4.72% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 264 335
10th Percentile £29.99 £29.53 £31.25
25th Percentile £51.31 £40.94 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.63 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.55%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -36 330 £513 -2.38% 281
North of England -30 153 £500 -2.44% 68
South East -16 100 £550 +15.79% 85
South West -2 85 £671 +16.74% 57
Yorkshire -29 68 £518 +0.98% 15
North West -14 61 £531 +7.87% 42
East of England -6 32 £425 -10.53% 18
West Midlands -48 31 £506 -8.01% 14
Midlands -48 31 £506 -8.01% 26
North East -33 23 £419 -23.86% 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 31 (4.12%) Confluence
2 22 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.66%) Apache
4 13 (1.73%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.46%) nginx
6 8 (1.06%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.93%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.80%) IIS
8 6 (0.80%) SAS
8 6 (0.80%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.53%) WordPress
10 3 (0.40%) JBoss
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.80%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.13%) Summit
4 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 361 (48.01%) AWS
2 345 (45.88%) Azure
3 190 (25.27%) GitHub
4 158 (21.01%) GCP
5 132 (17.55%) GitHub Actions
6 130 (17.29%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (10.11%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (8.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 66 (8.78%) Serverless
10 64 (8.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 63 (8.38%) Amazon S3
12 53 (7.05%) Azure Monitor
13 51 (6.78%) OpenShift
14 49 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
15 48 (6.38%) Azure AKS
16 47 (6.25%) Datadog
16 47 (6.25%) Entra ID
16 47 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 42 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
18 41 (5.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 132 (17.55%) DNS
2 123 (16.36%) Firewall
3 86 (11.44%) TCP/IP
4 63 (8.38%) VPN
5 62 (8.24%) Network Security
6 60 (7.98%) DHCP
7 20 (2.66%) WAN
8 19 (2.53%) VSAN
9 17 (2.26%) HTTP
9 17 (2.26%) SAN
9 17 (2.26%) VLAN
10 16 (2.13%) SSL
11 15 (1.99%) SSH
12 13 (1.73%) SD-WAN
13 12 (1.60%) NAS
14 10 (1.33%) BGP
15 9 (1.20%) SNMP
16 7 (0.93%) 5G
16 7 (0.93%) DNSSEC
17 6 (0.80%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.32%) MongoDB
4 23 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (3.06%) NoSQL
5 21 (2.79%) Redis
6 18 (2.39%) MySQL
7 11 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (1.46%) Big Data
7 11 (1.46%) Pentaho
8 10 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.33%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.33%) Oracle Database
9 9 (1.20%) Metadata
10 8 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.06%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 197 (26.20%) Jenkins
2 159 (21.14%) GitLab
3 138 (18.35%) Git
4 40 (5.32%) JIRA
5 14 (1.86%) Selenium
6 13 (1.73%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.60%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.06%) Postman
9 7 (0.93%) JMeter
9 7 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.80%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.80%) MLflow
10 6 (0.80%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (0.66%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.53%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.40%) Gatling
13 3 (0.40%) Liquibase
General
1 171 (22.74%) Social Skills
2 123 (16.36%) Finance
3 94 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (7.58%) Banking
4 57 (7.58%) Public Sector
5 20 (2.66%) Telecoms
6 16 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.99%) Legal
8 10 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.33%) Law
9 9 (1.20%) Aerospace
10 7 (0.93%) Military
10 7 (0.93%) Retail
11 5 (0.66%) Front Office
11 5 (0.66%) Publishing
12 4 (0.53%) Automotive
12 4 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.40%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.40%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.27%) Billing
Job Titles
1 144 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 96 (12.77%) Senior
3 71 (9.44%) Platform Engineer
4 70 (9.31%) Cloud Engineer
5 57 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 51 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
7 50 (6.65%) Azure Engineer
8 49 (6.52%) Security Engineer
9 43 (5.72%) Lead
10 42 (5.59%) Architect
11 38 (5.05%) Linux Engineer
11 38 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 33 (4.39%) Site Engineer
13 29 (3.86%) Developer
13 29 (3.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 28 (3.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 27 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
15 27 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
15 27 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (58.11%) Terraform
2 63 (8.38%) Kafka
3 47 (6.25%) REST
4 46 (6.12%) ARM Templates
5 39 (5.19%) YAML
6 38 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
7 21 (2.79%) OpenTelemetry
8 18 (2.39%) Loki
9 17 (2.26%) Middleware
10 15 (1.99%) .NET
10 15 (1.99%) JSON
10 15 (1.99%) Node.js
10 15 (1.99%) RESTful
11 14 (1.86%) SAML
12 13 (1.73%) SOAP
13 12 (1.60%) LDAP
13 12 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (1.60%) React
13 12 (1.60%) Spring
14 11 (1.46%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 117 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (4.79%) Security Posture
4 34 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (4.39%) Onboarding
6 30 (3.99%) Data Centre
6 30 (3.99%) PKI
7 28 (3.72%) Linux Command Line
8 25 (3.32%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.93%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.53%) Replication
11 17 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.99%) Product Ownership
13 14 (1.86%) Cloud Security Posture
13 14 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 11 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
15 10 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
16 9 (1.20%) Private Cloud
17 8 (1.06%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 346 (46.01%) Linux
2 165 (21.94%) Windows
3 83 (11.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 61 (8.11%) Windows Server
5 46 (6.12%) Unix
6 35 (4.65%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.86%) VMS
8 13 (1.73%) CentOS
9 7 (0.93%) Solaris
10 6 (0.80%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.40%) AIX
12 3 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.27%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.27%) Debian
13 2 (0.27%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (58.78%) CI/CD
2 404 (53.72%) DevOps
3 387 (51.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 215 (28.59%) Containerisation
5 197 (26.20%) Observability
6 163 (21.68%) Platform Engineering
7 144 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (19.02%) Agile
9 142 (18.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 119 (15.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 106 (14.10%) Cloud Security
11 106 (14.10%) DevSecOps
12 102 (13.56%) Infrastructure Automation
13 93 (12.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 90 (11.97%) Configuration Management
14 90 (11.97%) Root Cause Analysis
15 89 (11.84%) Migration
16 87 (11.57%) Runbook
17 85 (11.30%) AI
18 83 (11.04%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 649 (86.30%) Python
2 371 (49.34%) PowerShell
3 95 (12.63%) SQL
4 77 (10.24%) Java
5 73 (9.71%) Bicep
6 61 (8.11%) Go
7 35 (4.65%) Shell Script
8 27 (3.59%) Perl
9 21 (2.79%) Groovy
10 18 (2.39%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.46%) C#
11 11 (1.46%) Ruby
11 11 (1.46%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.33%) Korn
12 10 (1.33%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.66%) Scala
14 4 (0.53%) C
14 4 (0.53%) Cypher
15 3 (0.40%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 272 (36.17%) Security Cleared
2 200 (26.60%) SC Cleared
3 75 (9.97%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.38%) Azure Certification
5 61 (8.11%) AWS Certification
6 54 (7.18%) Degree
7 31 (4.12%) CISSP
8 28 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.86%) VCAP
11 14 (1.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 12 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.46%) CCNA
13 11 (1.46%) CCNP
14 10 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
16 7 (0.93%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.45%) QA
2 33 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (3.19%) NIST
4 14 (1.86%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.46%) GDPR
6 11 (1.46%) SLA
7 7 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.80%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.53%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.53%) NCSC
10 4 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.40%) GRC
12 2 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.27%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 247 (32.85%) Docker
2 83 (11.04%) Active Directory
3 76 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (5.19%) Hyper-V
5 34 (4.52%) vSphere
6 30 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (3.19%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.33%) NFS
9 10 (1.33%) Squid
10 7 (0.93%) Firmware
10 7 (0.93%) Postfix
11 5 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.53%) KVM
12 4 (0.53%) Varnish
12 4 (0.53%) zsh
13 3 (0.40%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.40%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.40%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 350 (46.54%) Kubernetes
2 273 (36.30%) Ansible
3 163 (21.68%) Grafana
4 138 (18.35%) Prometheus
5 55 (7.31%) Puppet
6 49 (6.52%) Progress Chef
7 43 (5.72%) Argo
8 23 (3.06%) Istio
9 14 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.86%) Podman
9 14 (1.86%) VxRail
10 13 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (1.73%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.60%) SCCM
11 12 (1.60%) systemd
12 10 (1.33%) Packer
13 9 (1.20%) Kibana
14 7 (0.93%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.93%) Consul
14 7 (0.93%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 139 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 96 (12.77%) VMware
3 81 (10.77%) Google
4 64 (8.51%) Red Hat
5 62 (8.24%) Splunk
6 55 (7.31%) Oracle
7 50 (6.65%) Dynatrace
8 32 (4.26%) CyberArk
9 31 (4.12%) Cisco
10 25 (3.32%) Databricks
11 23 (3.06%) ServiceNow
12 16 (2.13%) IBM
13 14 (1.86%) Palo Alto
14 12 (1.60%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.33%) NetApp
15 10 (1.33%) Zscaler
16 9 (1.20%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
16 9 (1.20%) Fortinet
16 9 (1.20%) WALLIX