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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 138 195
Rank change year-on-year -26 +57 -47
Contract jobs citing Bash 811 588 431
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.73% 2.08% 1.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.63% 6.38% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 380 279
10th Percentile £400 £377 £368
25th Percentile £456 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £618 £675
90th Percentile £725 £675 £802
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 11
10th Percentile £58.43 - £48.75
25th Percentile £62.12 £41.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.39% -15.65% -23.33%
75th Percentile £96.29 £59.81 £71.88
90th Percentile £99.76 £62.55 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +46.39% -15.65% -23.33%

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 12,229 9,210 10,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.12% 32.65% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,910 6,136 6,903
10th Percentile £363 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.53% -1.36%
75th Percentile £631 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 536 272 287
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £47.88 £42.44 £47.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.63 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.40 £78.63 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% +4.00%

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 16 October 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 October 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 October 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 -28 401 £534 -0.70% 57
North of England -43 142 £500 - 26
South East -12 109 £590 +31.99% 36
South West +15 87 £650 +18.18% 25
Yorkshire -35 63 £500 - 7
North West -20 56 £500 +24.15% 15
East of England -17 28 £425 -11.23% 10
West Midlands -52 26 £525 -6.67% 7
Midlands -65 26 £525 -4.55% 10
North East -35 22 £419 -19.47% 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 39 (4.81%) Confluence
2 29 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.21%) Apache
4 21 (2.59%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.73%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.48%) nginx
7 10 (1.23%) IIS
8 9 (1.11%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.86%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.62%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.49%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.49%) SAS
11 4 (0.49%) WordPress
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.12%) Camunda
13 1 (0.12%) CMS
13 1 (0.12%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.12%) JBoss
13 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.12%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.99%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.62%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.62%) Summit
4 1 (0.12%) Actimize
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 378 (46.61%) Azure
2 373 (45.99%) AWS
3 200 (24.66%) GitHub
4 162 (19.98%) GCP
5 145 (17.88%) GitHub Actions
6 141 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (11.10%) Amazon EKS
8 73 (9.00%) Azure Monitor
9 66 (8.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 66 (8.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 62 (7.64%) Serverless
11 60 (7.40%) Amazon S3
12 59 (7.27%) Entra ID
13 52 (6.41%) OpenShift
14 51 (6.29%) Azure AKS
15 50 (6.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 49 (6.04%) Datadog
17 47 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
18 45 (5.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 41 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 133 (16.40%) Firewall
2 121 (14.92%) DNS
3 94 (11.59%) TCP/IP
4 75 (9.25%) Network Security
5 69 (8.51%) VPN
6 66 (8.14%) DHCP
7 22 (2.71%) WAN
8 19 (2.34%) SSH
9 16 (1.97%) SAN
9 16 (1.97%) VSAN
10 15 (1.85%) SD-WAN
10 15 (1.85%) SSL
10 15 (1.85%) VLAN
11 12 (1.48%) BGP
12 11 (1.36%) HTTP
12 11 (1.36%) Kerberos
13 10 (1.23%) 5G
14 9 (1.11%) 4G
15 8 (0.99%) NAS
16 7 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (4.32%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.45%) Redis
4 25 (3.08%) MongoDB
5 24 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (2.96%) MySQL
6 20 (2.47%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.22%) Data Lake
8 13 (1.60%) Big Data
8 13 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (1.60%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.48%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.23%) Metadata
10 10 (1.23%) Power BI
11 9 (1.11%) Delta Lake
11 9 (1.11%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.99%) Pentaho
13 7 (0.86%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 212 (26.14%) Jenkins
2 182 (22.44%) Git
3 169 (20.84%) GitLab
4 46 (5.67%) JIRA
5 20 (2.47%) Artifactory
6 17 (2.10%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.97%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
8 15 (1.85%) Selenium
9 10 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (1.11%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.99%) Maven
11 8 (0.99%) Postman
12 7 (0.86%) JMeter
12 7 (0.86%) MLflow
12 7 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (0.74%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.74%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.74%) Subversion
14 4 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 194 (23.92%) Social Skills
2 163 (20.10%) Finance
3 106 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (8.88%) Banking
5 67 (8.26%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.71%) Telecoms
7 14 (1.73%) Legal
8 12 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.36%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.36%) Military
10 9 (1.11%) Law
11 8 (0.99%) Retail
12 7 (0.86%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.74%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.62%) Front Office
14 5 (0.62%) Publishing
15 4 (0.49%) Automotive
15 4 (0.49%) Marketing
16 3 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 179 (22.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 111 (13.69%) Senior
3 74 (9.12%) Platform Engineer
4 73 (9.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 61 (7.52%) Azure Engineer
5 61 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 57 (7.03%) Security Engineer
7 50 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
8 44 (5.43%) Linux Engineer
9 43 (5.30%) Lead
10 42 (5.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 39 (4.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 38 (4.69%) Developer
13 37 (4.56%) Architect
14 36 (4.44%) Site Engineer
15 34 (4.19%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 34 (4.19%) Senior DevOps
16 33 (4.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 31 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
17 31 (3.82%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 488 (60.17%) Terraform
2 74 (9.12%) Kafka
3 58 (7.15%) ARM Templates
4 55 (6.78%) REST
5 43 (5.30%) Elastic Stack
6 38 (4.69%) YAML
7 27 (3.33%) Middleware
8 24 (2.96%) Loki
9 22 (2.71%) RESTful
10 20 (2.47%) .NET
11 19 (2.34%) Flask
11 19 (2.34%) JSON
11 19 (2.34%) React
12 16 (1.97%) CSS
12 16 (1.97%) HTML
13 14 (1.73%) AngularJS
13 14 (1.73%) Node.js
13 14 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (1.73%) pytest
13 14 (1.73%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 127 (15.66%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 42 (5.18%) Security Posture
4 41 (5.06%) Onboarding
4 41 (5.06%) PKI
5 32 (3.95%) Data Centre
5 32 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (3.82%) Management Information System
7 30 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
8 26 (3.21%) Public Cloud
9 21 (2.59%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.10%) Cloud Security Posture
10 17 (2.10%) Replication
11 14 (1.73%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (1.48%) ARM Cortex
13 11 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 419 (51.66%) Linux
2 191 (23.55%) Windows
3 103 (12.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 75 (9.25%) Windows Server
5 63 (7.77%) Unix
6 38 (4.69%) Ubuntu
7 18 (2.22%) CentOS
8 14 (1.73%) VMS
9 6 (0.74%) macOS
9 6 (0.74%) Rocky
9 6 (0.74%) Solaris
10 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.25%) AIX
12 2 (0.25%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.12%) Android
13 1 (0.12%) Debian
13 1 (0.12%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 456 (56.23%) DevOps
3 438 (54.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 242 (29.84%) Containerisation
5 233 (28.73%) Observability
6 180 (22.19%) Platform Engineering
7 177 (21.82%) Agile
8 172 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 155 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
10 133 (16.40%) DevSecOps
11 127 (15.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 126 (15.54%) Cloud Security
13 117 (14.43%) Infrastructure Automation
14 109 (13.44%) Root Cause Analysis
15 107 (13.19%) Runbook
16 106 (13.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 100 (12.33%) AI
18 94 (11.59%) Configuration Management
18 94 (11.59%) Migration
19 87 (10.73%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 683 (84.22%) Python
2 404 (49.82%) PowerShell
3 112 (13.81%) SQL
4 99 (12.21%) Java
5 87 (10.73%) Bicep
6 71 (8.75%) Go
7 54 (6.66%) Shell Script
8 26 (3.21%) Groovy
9 25 (3.08%) JavaScript
9 25 (3.08%) Perl
10 21 (2.59%) Korn
11 17 (2.10%) TypeScript
12 16 (1.97%) C#
13 9 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.99%) Ruby
15 6 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.62%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.49%) Cypher
18 3 (0.37%) Gremlin
18 3 (0.37%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 318 (39.21%) Security Cleared
2 228 (28.11%) SC Cleared
3 89 (10.97%) DV Cleared
4 65 (8.01%) AWS Certification
5 62 (7.64%) Degree
6 56 (6.91%) Azure Certification
7 35 (4.32%) CISSP
8 32 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.48%) VCAP
13 11 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 7 (0.86%) CCNP
16 6 (0.74%) CCSP
17 5 (0.62%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.55%) QA
2 34 (4.19%) NIST
3 29 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.34%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.86%) GDPR
6 7 (0.86%) NCSC
7 6 (0.74%) SLA
8 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.62%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.12%) GLBA
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 311 (38.35%) Docker
2 90 (11.10%) Active Directory
3 65 (8.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (4.32%) Hyper-V
5 27 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (3.21%) vSphere
7 17 (2.10%) VMware NSX
8 10 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.99%) Squid
10 7 (0.86%) NFS
11 5 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.62%) Postfix
12 4 (0.49%) Firmware
12 4 (0.49%) HDFS
12 4 (0.49%) KVM
12 4 (0.49%) zsh
13 3 (0.37%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.25%) Varnish
14 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 391 (48.21%) Kubernetes
2 297 (36.62%) Ansible
3 176 (21.70%) Grafana
4 146 (18.00%) Prometheus
5 49 (6.04%) Progress Chef
5 49 (6.04%) Puppet
6 38 (4.69%) Argo
7 23 (2.84%) Istio
8 19 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (2.34%) SCCM
9 14 (1.73%) Kibana
9 14 (1.73%) VxRail
10 12 (1.48%) Podman
10 12 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.48%) systemd
11 11 (1.36%) Packer
12 9 (1.11%) Check_MK
13 8 (0.99%) Cilium
14 7 (0.86%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 169 (20.84%) Microsoft
2 97 (11.96%) Google
3 87 (10.73%) VMware
4 65 (8.01%) Splunk
5 60 (7.40%) Red Hat
6 57 (7.03%) Dynatrace
7 53 (6.54%) Oracle
8 35 (4.32%) ServiceNow
9 30 (3.70%) CyberArk
10 29 (3.58%) Cisco
11 27 (3.33%) Databricks
12 16 (1.97%) CrowdStrike
12 16 (1.97%) Palo Alto
13 15 (1.85%) IBM
14 12 (1.48%) NetApp
15 11 (1.36%) SolarWinds
16 10 (1.23%) BeyondTrust
16 10 (1.23%) BMC
16 10 (1.23%) Murex
17 9 (1.11%) WALLIX