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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 153 208
Rank change year-on-year -24 +55 -81
Contract jobs citing Bash 700 516 422
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.89% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.90% 5.71% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 341 302
10th Percentile £389 £361 £400
25th Percentile £445 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £621 £610 £638
90th Percentile £705 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 14
10th Percentile £56.45 £43.90 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £45.75 £26.75
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -19.30%
75th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £69.84
90th Percentile £100.00 £66.34 £74.06
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -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 11,873 9,030 10,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.46% 33.02% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,704 6,213 7,885
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 230 402
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £35.00
25th Percentile £53.88 £39.25 £52.50
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 £82.25 £83.11 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.75
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.56% +3.51%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -46 297 £511 -2.62% 101
North of England -6 165 £500 - 43
South East -21 99 £535 +22.99% 53
Yorkshire -15 83 £504 +0.70% 8
South West -15 69 £575 - 28
North West -3 64 £538 +7.50% 28
West Midlands -47 32 £525 - 10
Midlands -49 32 £525 -2.33% 20
East of England -21 22 £483 +1.58% 13
North East -30 18 £400 -27.27% 7
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 (5.57%) Confluence
2 20 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.57%) Apache
4 12 (1.71%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.57%) nginx
5 11 (1.57%) SAS
6 7 (1.00%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.86%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.71%) IIS
9 4 (0.57%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.57%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.57%) WordPress
10 3 (0.43%) JBoss
10 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.29%) CMS
11 2 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.29%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.29%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.14%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 329 (47.00%) AWS
2 297 (42.43%) Azure
3 190 (27.14%) GitHub
4 142 (20.29%) GCP
5 124 (17.71%) GitHub Actions
6 108 (15.43%) Azure DevOps
7 69 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
8 62 (8.86%) Serverless
9 59 (8.43%) Amazon S3
10 58 (8.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (8.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 58 (8.29%) OpenShift
11 48 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 47 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (6.14%) Datadog
14 42 (6.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 40 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
16 36 (5.14%) Azure AKS
17 33 (4.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 114 (16.29%) DNS
2 109 (15.57%) Firewall
3 68 (9.71%) TCP/IP
4 54 (7.71%) VPN
5 49 (7.00%) Network Security
6 44 (6.29%) DHCP
7 17 (2.43%) SAN
7 17 (2.43%) VLAN
8 14 (2.00%) NAS
8 14 (2.00%) SSL
8 14 (2.00%) WAN
9 12 (1.71%) VSAN
10 11 (1.57%) HTTP
11 10 (1.43%) SD-WAN
12 9 (1.29%) BGP
12 9 (1.29%) SNMP
13 8 (1.14%) SSH
14 7 (1.00%) DNSSEC
14 7 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
15 4 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.14%) SQL Server
2 29 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (2.57%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.14%) MySQL
5 15 (2.14%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (1.86%) Redis
8 11 (1.57%) Pentaho
9 10 (1.43%) Big Data
9 10 (1.43%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (1.29%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.29%) Metadata
10 9 (1.29%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.14%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.86%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 198 (28.29%) Jenkins
2 133 (19.00%) GitLab
3 115 (16.43%) Git
4 44 (6.29%) JIRA
5 13 (1.86%) Artifactory
6 11 (1.57%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.43%) Selenium
8 9 (1.29%) Postman
8 9 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.14%) JMeter
10 7 (1.00%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.86%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.86%) Liquibase
11 6 (0.86%) MLflow
11 6 (0.86%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
13 4 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.57%) Jaeger
14 3 (0.43%) Ant
14 3 (0.43%) Bugzilla
General
1 152 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 92 (13.14%) Finance
3 71 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 46 (6.57%) Banking
6 19 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.43%) Legal
8 15 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.14%) Military
9 8 (1.14%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.00%) Law
11 5 (0.71%) Retail
12 4 (0.57%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.57%) Front Office
12 4 (0.57%) Publishing
13 3 (0.43%) Automotive
14 2 (0.29%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.29%) Aviation
14 2 (0.29%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 140 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 83 (11.86%) Senior
3 65 (9.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 61 (8.71%) Platform Engineer
5 50 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 48 (6.86%) Security Engineer
7 47 (6.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 44 (6.29%) Architect
9 43 (6.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 41 (5.86%) Azure Engineer
11 40 (5.71%) Lead
12 34 (4.86%) Site Engineer
13 32 (4.57%) Linux Engineer
14 30 (4.29%) GCP Engineer
15 27 (3.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.71%) AWS DevOps
16 26 (3.71%) Data Engineer
17 25 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
17 25 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 24 (3.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.71%) Kafka
2 37 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
3 36 (5.14%) REST
4 34 (4.86%) YAML
5 29 (4.14%) ARM Templates
5 29 (4.14%) OpenTelemetry
6 20 (2.86%) Loki
7 17 (2.43%) Middleware
8 15 (2.14%) JSON
9 14 (2.00%) Node.js
10 12 (1.71%) LDAP
11 10 (1.43%) .NET
11 10 (1.43%) SAML
12 9 (1.29%) OAuth
12 9 (1.29%) React
12 9 (1.29%) SOAP
12 9 (1.29%) Swagger
13 8 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (1.00%) AngularJS
14 7 (1.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 115 (16.43%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (5.43%) Security Posture
4 34 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
5 30 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 28 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
7 27 (3.86%) Data Centre
8 25 (3.57%) Management Information System
9 21 (3.00%) PKI
10 20 (2.86%) Replication
11 18 (2.57%) Public Cloud
12 16 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.71%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 9 (1.29%) Cloud Security Posture
16 9 (1.29%) Clustering
16 9 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
16 9 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
17 8 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 304 (43.43%) Linux
2 148 (21.14%) Windows
3 78 (11.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (7.00%) Windows Server
5 40 (5.71%) Unix
6 31 (4.43%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.57%) VMS
8 10 (1.43%) AIX
9 9 (1.29%) CentOS
10 7 (1.00%) Solaris
11 4 (0.57%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.29%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.29%) Debian
13 2 (0.29%) Rocky
13 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (58.86%) CI/CD
2 384 (54.86%) DevOps
3 335 (47.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 201 (28.71%) Containerisation
5 167 (23.86%) Observability
6 132 (18.86%) Platform Engineering
7 131 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
8 125 (17.86%) Agile
9 106 (15.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 105 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (13.00%) Cloud Security
11 91 (13.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 88 (12.57%) Migration
13 85 (12.14%) High Availability
14 81 (11.57%) Configuration Management
15 79 (11.29%) Infrastructure Automation
16 78 (11.14%) DevSecOps
17 73 (10.43%) SIEM
18 71 (10.14%) Root Cause Analysis
18 71 (10.14%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 607 (86.71%) Python
2 321 (45.86%) PowerShell
3 91 (13.00%) SQL
4 62 (8.86%) Java
5 56 (8.00%) Go
6 42 (6.00%) Bicep
7 25 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 24 (3.43%) Perl
9 21 (3.00%) Groovy
10 16 (2.29%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.57%) Ruby
12 10 (1.43%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.43%) TypeScript
13 7 (1.00%) C
14 6 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.71%) C#
15 5 (0.71%) Korn
15 5 (0.71%) Scala
16 4 (0.57%) C++
16 4 (0.57%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 246 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 186 (26.57%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.86%) DV Cleared
4 50 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 49 (7.00%) Azure Certification
6 46 (6.57%) Degree
7 27 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (3.43%) CISSP
9 18 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (2.14%) CCNP
12 14 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 13 (1.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (1.86%) CCNA
14 11 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.57%) RHCE
15 9 (1.29%) RHCA
16 8 (1.14%) VCAP
17 7 (1.00%) MCSE
17 7 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.86%) QA
2 26 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.43%) NIST
4 14 (2.00%) GDPR
4 14 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.57%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.57%) SLA
6 8 (1.14%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.86%) GRC
8 5 (0.71%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.29%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.29%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) HL7
12 1 (0.14%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 220 (31.43%) Docker
2 68 (9.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (9.29%) Active Directory
4 43 (6.14%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (5.00%) Hyper-V
6 34 (4.86%) vSphere
7 27 (3.86%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.86%) KVM
9 12 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (1.43%) Firmware
10 10 (1.43%) NFS
10 10 (1.43%) Squid
11 7 (1.00%) Postfix
12 5 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.57%) Varnish
14 3 (0.43%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.43%) OpenSSH
14 3 (0.43%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.43%) zsh
Systems Management
1 397 (56.71%) Terraform
2 308 (44.00%) Kubernetes
3 260 (37.14%) Ansible
4 147 (21.00%) Grafana
5 123 (17.57%) Prometheus
6 60 (8.57%) Puppet
7 52 (7.43%) Argo
8 45 (6.43%) Progress Chef
9 29 (4.14%) vCenter Server
10 21 (3.00%) Istio
11 13 (1.86%) Podman
12 12 (1.71%) Packer
13 11 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (1.43%) NetBackup
14 10 (1.43%) systemd
15 9 (1.29%) SCCM
16 8 (1.14%) HAProxy
17 7 (1.00%) Rancher
17 7 (1.00%) VxRail
18 6 (0.86%) Consul
Vendors
1 104 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 88 (12.57%) VMware
3 77 (11.00%) Red Hat
4 74 (10.57%) Google
5 56 (8.00%) Splunk
6 53 (7.57%) Oracle
7 47 (6.71%) Dynatrace
8 30 (4.29%) Cisco
9 24 (3.43%) CyberArk
9 24 (3.43%) IBM
10 20 (2.86%) Databricks
11 19 (2.71%) ServiceNow
12 17 (2.43%) Pure Storage
13 15 (2.14%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.86%) Cloudera
14 13 (1.86%) SolarWinds
15 12 (1.71%) Informatica
16 11 (1.57%) Fortinet
16 11 (1.57%) Talend
16 11 (1.57%) Zscaler