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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 152 195
Rank change year-on-year -42 +43 -68
Contract jobs citing Bash 574 467 434
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.90% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.05% 5.60% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 313 309
10th Percentile £375 £373 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £681 £715 £692
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 12
10th Percentile £54.55 £26.83 £22.00
25th Percentile £57.59 £34.24 £24.44
Median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -12.21%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.06 £71.88
90th Percentile £70.41 £67.89 £74.69
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -12.21%

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 11,377 8,332 11,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.68% 33.98% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,453 5,776 8,158
10th Percentile £358 £357 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -3.15% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 519 194 478
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.15 £85.00 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +2.97%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -49 245 £525 - 59
North of England -15 137 £465 -9.27% 42
Yorkshire -18 80 £500 -4.76% 11
South East -36 76 £473 +5.00% 44
South West -27 49 £538 -10.42% 23
North West -10 45 £525 +6.60% 27
West Midlands -38 39 £467 -23.13% 7
Midlands -51 39 £467 -16.98% 19
East of England -24 16 £494 +3.95% 11
North East -25 12 £413 -25.00% 4
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 30 (5.23%) Confluence
2 13 (2.26%) Apache
3 11 (1.92%) nginx
3 11 (1.92%) SAS
4 8 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.22%) IIS
5 7 (1.22%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.05%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.70%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.52%) WordPress
9 2 (0.35%) CMS
9 2 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.35%) JBoss
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.17%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 254 (44.25%) AWS
2 221 (38.50%) Azure
3 162 (28.22%) GitHub
4 115 (20.03%) GCP
5 102 (17.77%) GitHub Actions
6 88 (15.33%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (10.28%) OpenShift
8 54 (9.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 52 (9.06%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (8.36%) Serverless
11 46 (8.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 40 (6.97%) Amazon S3
13 39 (6.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 36 (6.27%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (6.10%) Datadog
16 34 (5.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 30 (5.23%) Azure AKS
18 24 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
19 21 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (13.59%) DNS
2 72 (12.54%) Firewall
3 39 (6.79%) VPN
4 37 (6.45%) TCP/IP
5 29 (5.05%) Network Security
6 18 (3.14%) SAN
7 15 (2.61%) DHCP
7 15 (2.61%) NAS
7 15 (2.61%) SSL
8 13 (2.26%) VLAN
9 11 (1.92%) HTTP
9 11 (1.92%) WAN
10 9 (1.57%) SD-WAN
11 8 (1.39%) Reverse Proxy
12 7 (1.22%) BGP
12 7 (1.22%) SNMP
13 5 (0.87%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (0.70%) Multicast
14 4 (0.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (5.57%) SQL Server
3 23 (4.01%) MongoDB
4 19 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (2.96%) Redis
6 15 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (2.44%) MySQL
8 12 (2.09%) Pentaho
9 11 (1.92%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.74%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.39%) Oracle Database
13 7 (1.22%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (1.05%) Big Data
14 6 (1.05%) Db2
15 5 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (0.87%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 172 (29.97%) Jenkins
2 114 (19.86%) GitLab
3 99 (17.25%) Git
4 42 (7.32%) JIRA
5 12 (2.09%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.57%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.57%) Postman
7 7 (1.22%) JMeter
8 6 (1.05%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.05%) Liquibase
8 6 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.87%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.70%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.70%) Selenium
10 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.70%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.52%) Ant
11 3 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.52%) Snyk
12 2 (0.35%) REST Assured
General
1 135 (23.52%) Social Skills
2 73 (12.72%) Finance
3 59 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.32%) Banking
6 16 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.61%) Legal
8 12 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.74%) Law
10 7 (1.22%) Military
11 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.70%) Publishing
12 4 (0.70%) Retail
13 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.35%) Aviation
13 2 (0.35%) Front Office
13 2 (0.35%) Police
14 1 (0.17%) Back Office
14 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (21.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (9.06%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (9.06%) Cloud Engineer
3 50 (8.71%) Senior
4 47 (8.19%) Platform Engineer
5 45 (7.84%) Security Engineer
6 38 (6.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 32 (5.57%) Azure Engineer
8 30 (5.23%) Lead
9 29 (5.05%) Architect
9 29 (5.05%) GCP Engineer
9 29 (5.05%) Linux Engineer
9 29 (5.05%) Site Engineer
10 27 (4.70%) Data Engineer
10 27 (4.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (4.01%) AWS DevOps
12 22 (3.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.66%) GCP DevOps
14 20 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.79%) Kafka
2 35 (6.10%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (4.70%) OpenTelemetry
3 27 (4.70%) REST
4 23 (4.01%) YAML
5 21 (3.66%) Middleware
6 16 (2.79%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.92%) Loki
7 11 (1.92%) SAML
8 10 (1.74%) ADO
8 10 (1.74%) JSON
8 10 (1.74%) LDAP
8 10 (1.74%) OAuth
8 10 (1.74%) Swagger
9 9 (1.57%) Node.js
10 8 (1.39%) .NET
10 8 (1.39%) Keycloak
11 7 (1.22%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.22%) React
11 7 (1.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 99 (17.25%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (4.88%) Security Posture
4 27 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (4.01%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (3.31%) Management Information System
8 18 (3.14%) Linux Command Line
9 17 (2.96%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.79%) Replication
11 13 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (2.26%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.92%) Product Ownership
13 8 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.22%) Clustering
15 6 (1.05%) PKI
16 5 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
16 5 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
16 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
16 5 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 229 (39.90%) Linux
2 101 (17.60%) Windows
3 59 (10.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (7.67%) Unix
5 31 (5.40%) Windows Server
6 22 (3.83%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.92%) VMS
8 10 (1.74%) AIX
9 8 (1.39%) CentOS
10 6 (1.05%) Mac OS
10 6 (1.05%) Solaris
11 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.35%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.35%) Debian
13 2 (0.35%) Rocky
13 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (58.71%) CI/CD
2 328 (57.14%) DevOps
3 258 (44.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 170 (29.62%) Containerisation
5 149 (25.96%) Observability
6 103 (17.94%) Platform Engineering
7 100 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (17.07%) Agile
9 83 (14.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 78 (13.59%) Migration
11 71 (12.37%) Configuration Management
12 69 (12.02%) Root Cause Analysis
13 66 (11.50%) Cloud Security
14 65 (11.32%) High Availability
15 63 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 62 (10.80%) Infrastructure Automation
17 55 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 55 (9.58%) Test Automation
18 53 (9.23%) SIEM
19 47 (8.19%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 498 (86.76%) Python
2 254 (44.25%) PowerShell
3 81 (14.11%) SQL
4 48 (8.36%) Go
4 48 (8.36%) Java
5 26 (4.53%) Bicep
6 22 (3.83%) Shell Script
7 19 (3.31%) Perl
8 17 (2.96%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.79%) Groovy
10 10 (1.74%) Ruby
11 9 (1.57%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.22%) C
12 7 (1.22%) C#
13 6 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.70%) C++
15 4 (0.70%) Scala
15 4 (0.70%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 182 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 151 (26.31%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.14%) Degree
4 36 (6.27%) AWS Certification
4 36 (6.27%) Azure Certification
5 25 (4.36%) DV Cleared
6 21 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (3.14%) CISSP
9 13 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (1.92%) CCNA
11 11 (1.92%) CCNP
12 10 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.74%) RHCE
13 8 (1.39%) RHCA
14 7 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (1.05%) MCSE
16 4 (0.70%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (3.31%) QA
3 18 (3.14%) NIST
4 14 (2.44%) GDPR
5 13 (2.26%) PCI DSS
5 13 (2.26%) SLA
6 8 (1.39%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.39%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.05%) GRC
7 6 (1.05%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.87%) NCSC
9 4 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.17%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 168 (29.27%) Docker
2 45 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (7.49%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (6.45%) Active Directory
5 25 (4.36%) vSphere
6 22 (3.83%) Hyper-V
7 17 (2.96%) VMware NSX
8 14 (2.44%) KVM
9 11 (1.92%) Firmware
9 11 (1.92%) Squid
10 9 (1.57%) NFS
10 9 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (1.22%) Postfix
12 4 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.70%) Varnish
13 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.52%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.35%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.35%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 306 (53.31%) Terraform
2 252 (43.90%) Kubernetes
3 223 (38.85%) Ansible
4 132 (23.00%) Grafana
5 119 (20.73%) Prometheus
6 51 (8.89%) Puppet
7 46 (8.01%) Argo
8 33 (5.75%) Progress Chef
9 26 (4.53%) vCenter Server
10 25 (4.36%) Istio
11 13 (2.26%) Packer
12 9 (1.57%) NetBackup
12 9 (1.57%) Podman
13 8 (1.39%) HAProxy
13 8 (1.39%) Kibana
13 8 (1.39%) linkerd
14 7 (1.22%) Rancher
14 7 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (1.05%) Salt
15 6 (1.05%) systemd
Vendors
1 72 (12.54%) Red Hat
2 69 (12.02%) Splunk
3 61 (10.63%) VMware
4 58 (10.10%) Microsoft
5 46 (8.01%) Google
6 44 (7.67%) Dynatrace
7 37 (6.45%) Oracle
8 22 (3.83%) IBM
9 19 (3.31%) Databricks
10 18 (3.14%) Cisco
11 17 (2.96%) Pure Storage
12 13 (2.26%) Palo Alto
13 12 (2.09%) AppDynamics
13 12 (2.09%) Informatica
13 12 (2.09%) ServiceNow
14 11 (1.92%) Cloudera
14 11 (1.92%) CyberArk
14 11 (1.92%) Talend
14 11 (1.92%) Zscaler
15 10 (1.74%) Fortinet