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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 144 190
Rank change year-on-year -30 +46 -54
Contract jobs citing Bash 574 481 462
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.94% 1.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.38% 5.72% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 308 317
10th Percentile £394 £380 £400
25th Percentile £416 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £575 £679 £625
90th Percentile £696 £791 £705
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.61% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 12
10th Percentile £56.05 £25.48 £24.93
25th Percentile £61.25 £41.19 £56.31
Median hourly rate £74.26 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.02% -13.46% -4.06%
75th Percentile - £77.80 £76.77
90th Percentile £81.20 £108.67 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +32.02% -13.46% -7.14%

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 10,671 8,404 10,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.02% 33.97% 28.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,093 5,665 7,918
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 215 452
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.05
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.63
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -53 216 £520 -8.77% 64
North of England -13 152 £500 -9.09% 46
South East +1 96 £450 -5.26% 57
Yorkshire -34 80 £482 -12.36% 15
North West -5 61 £550 -3.93% 17
Midlands -27 48 £454 -15.45% 23
West Midlands -31 44 £460 -24.28% 13
South West -37 36 £538 -10.42% 32
North East -1 15 £550 -1.35% 14
East of England -40 9 £413 -13.16% 17
East Midlands -29 4 £436 +6.99% 10
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 33 (5.75%) Confluence
2 15 (2.61%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.74%) nginx
4 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.22%) SAS
5 6 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.05%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.87%) Apache
7 4 (0.70%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.52%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.52%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.52%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) FileNet
9 1 (0.17%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (1.39%) Weka
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 249 (43.38%) AWS
2 216 (37.63%) Azure
3 158 (27.53%) GitHub
4 109 (18.99%) GCP
5 86 (14.98%) GitHub Actions
6 80 (13.94%) Azure DevOps
7 75 (13.07%) OpenShift
8 55 (9.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 50 (8.71%) Amazon EKS
9 50 (8.71%) Amazon S3
9 50 (8.71%) Serverless
10 45 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (6.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
11 35 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 32 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (4.53%) Entra ID
14 24 (4.18%) Azure AKS
15 23 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (3.83%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 80 (13.94%) Firewall
2 60 (10.45%) DNS
3 47 (8.19%) TCP/IP
4 25 (4.36%) VPN
5 22 (3.83%) Network Security
6 19 (3.31%) VLAN
7 18 (3.14%) Wireshark
8 17 (2.96%) DHCP
9 13 (2.26%) BGP
10 10 (1.74%) HTTP
11 9 (1.57%) SNMP
11 9 (1.57%) Software-Defined Networking
11 9 (1.57%) SSL
12 8 (1.39%) Multicast
13 6 (1.05%) SSH
13 6 (1.05%) WebEx
14 5 (0.87%) SAN
14 5 (0.87%) SMTP
15 4 (0.70%) Kerberos
15 4 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (6.27%) SQL Server
3 34 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (3.83%) MongoDB
5 19 (3.31%) Redis
6 18 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (3.14%) NoSQL
7 16 (2.79%) MySQL
8 12 (2.09%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.92%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.57%) Big Data
12 8 (1.39%) Delta Lake
12 8 (1.39%) Pentaho
13 6 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.05%) DB2
13 6 (1.05%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 164 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 117 (20.38%) GitLab
3 96 (16.72%) Git
4 41 (7.14%) JIRA
5 15 (2.61%) CircleCI
6 14 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.74%) Metasploit
8 9 (1.57%) Burp Suite
9 7 (1.22%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.87%) Liquibase
10 5 (0.87%) Selenium
10 5 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.70%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.70%) MLflow
11 4 (0.70%) ScriptRunner
11 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.52%) Appium
12 3 (0.52%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.52%) Snyk
12 3 (0.52%) Spinnaker
General
1 166 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 88 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (11.50%) Public Sector
4 54 (9.41%) Finance
5 26 (4.53%) Banking
6 20 (3.48%) Legal
7 15 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.92%) Retail
9 10 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.70%) Front Office
11 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.70%) Military
12 3 (0.52%) Games
12 3 (0.52%) Law
12 3 (0.52%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.35%) Billing
13 2 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (17.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 75 (13.07%) Platform Engineer
3 54 (9.41%) Senior
4 39 (6.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 38 (6.62%) AWS Engineer
6 37 (6.45%) Architect
7 35 (6.10%) Site Engineer
8 31 (5.40%) Lead
9 25 (4.36%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (4.36%) Data Engineer
9 25 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (4.36%) Security Engineer
10 24 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (4.01%) AWS DevOps
12 21 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
13 20 (3.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 20 (3.48%) GCP Engineer
14 19 (3.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 19 (3.31%) Network Engineer
15 16 (2.79%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.19%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (6.10%) Kafka
3 32 (5.57%) REST
4 20 (3.48%) OpenTelemetry
5 16 (2.79%) ARM Templates
5 16 (2.79%) Loki
5 16 (2.79%) Middleware
6 15 (2.61%) YAML
7 14 (2.44%) Keycloak
8 12 (2.09%) Node.js
9 10 (1.74%) .NET
9 10 (1.74%) LDAP
10 9 (1.57%) OAuth
10 9 (1.57%) SAML
11 8 (1.39%) ADO
12 7 (1.22%) SOAP
13 6 (1.05%) .NET Core
13 6 (1.05%) OpenAPI
13 6 (1.05%) Swagger
13 6 (1.05%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.50%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.18%) Data Centre
5 19 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.14%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.61%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.26%) Replication
10 12 (2.09%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.09%) PKI
11 11 (1.92%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.74%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.74%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (1.22%) NHS
15 6 (1.05%) Algorithms
15 6 (1.05%) Clustering
15 6 (1.05%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 265 (46.17%) Linux
2 104 (18.12%) Windows
3 58 (10.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (9.06%) Unix
5 36 (6.27%) Windows Server
6 24 (4.18%) Mac OS
7 14 (2.44%) Ubuntu
8 12 (2.09%) VMS
9 11 (1.92%) CentOS
10 10 (1.74%) AIX
11 9 (1.57%) Kali Linux
12 5 (0.87%) Solaris
12 5 (0.87%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (55.75%) CI/CD
2 299 (52.09%) DevOps
3 264 (45.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 186 (32.40%) Containerisation
5 137 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
6 135 (23.52%) Observability
7 110 (19.16%) Platform Engineering
8 104 (18.12%) Agile
9 83 (14.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 75 (13.07%) High Availability
11 71 (12.37%) Infrastructure Automation
12 66 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 66 (11.50%) Incident Response
13 63 (10.98%) Configuration Management
14 61 (10.63%) Test Automation
15 60 (10.45%) DevSecOps
15 60 (10.45%) Migration
16 58 (10.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 54 (9.41%) Root Cause Analysis
17 54 (9.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 492 (85.71%) Python
2 238 (41.46%) PowerShell
3 68 (11.85%) SQL
4 37 (6.45%) Java
5 31 (5.40%) Perl
6 27 (4.70%) Go
7 24 (4.18%) Bicep
8 23 (4.01%) JavaScript
9 19 (3.31%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.79%) C#
10 16 (2.79%) Groovy
11 12 (2.09%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (1.74%) PHP
13 7 (1.22%) C
13 7 (1.22%) C++
14 5 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.87%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.70%) Ruby
16 3 (0.52%) Korn
16 3 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 202 (35.19%) Security Cleared
2 168 (29.27%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.14%) Degree
4 33 (5.75%) AWS Certification
5 23 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (3.66%) Azure Certification
7 20 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (3.48%) DV Cleared
8 18 (3.14%) CCNP
9 15 (2.61%) CCNA
10 13 (2.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (2.09%) CEH
12 11 (1.92%) CCDP
12 11 (1.92%) OSCP
13 10 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (1.74%) GPEN
14 9 (1.57%) CISSP
15 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (1.22%) Master's Degree
16 7 (1.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.14%) GDPR
2 17 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.44%) QA
4 11 (1.92%) NCSC
4 11 (1.92%) NIST
5 8 (1.39%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.39%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.22%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.05%) SLA
8 4 (0.70%) GRC
8 4 (0.70%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 209 (36.41%) Docker
2 66 (11.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (6.79%) Active Directory
4 38 (6.62%) vSphere
5 29 (5.05%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (3.66%) Hyper-V
7 20 (3.48%) VMware NSX
8 18 (3.14%) KVM
9 10 (1.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 9 (1.57%) Lustre
11 8 (1.39%) Firmware
11 8 (1.39%) GPFS
12 5 (0.87%) Postfix
13 4 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.52%) Ceph
14 3 (0.52%) Squid
14 3 (0.52%) zsh
15 2 (0.35%) NFS
15 2 (0.35%) Snort
15 2 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 298 (51.92%) Terraform
2 269 (46.86%) Kubernetes
3 213 (37.11%) Ansible
4 124 (21.60%) Grafana
5 111 (19.34%) Prometheus
6 54 (9.41%) Argo
7 49 (8.54%) Puppet
8 27 (4.70%) vCenter Server
9 23 (4.01%) Istio
10 17 (2.96%) Progress Chef
11 14 (2.44%) Kibana
12 11 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (1.92%) Kustomize
12 11 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (1.92%) Nmap
13 10 (1.74%) NetBackup
13 10 (1.74%) Packer
13 10 (1.74%) Rancher
13 10 (1.74%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (1.74%) SCCM
Vendors
1 94 (16.38%) VMware
2 92 (16.03%) Microsoft
3 81 (14.11%) Red Hat
4 79 (13.76%) Splunk
5 38 (6.62%) Google
6 26 (4.53%) Dynatrace
7 23 (4.01%) Cisco
8 20 (3.48%) Pure Storage
9 19 (3.31%) Databricks
10 18 (3.14%) Oracle
11 16 (2.79%) Citrix
12 15 (2.61%) Palo Alto
13 14 (2.44%) F5
14 12 (2.09%) IBM
15 11 (1.92%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.92%) ServiceNow
16 10 (1.74%) AppDynamics
16 10 (1.74%) Dell
16 10 (1.74%) Tenable
17 9 (1.57%) Commvault