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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 150 198
Rank change year-on-year -12 +48 -59
Contract jobs citing Bash 616 465 459
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.83% 1.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.75% 5.44% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 294 313
10th Percentile £395 £386 £412
25th Percentile £417 £457 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £582 £715 £644
90th Percentile £700 £798 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 16
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.25 £36.63
25th Percentile £51.13 £27.50 £59.50
Median hourly rate £74.26 £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.15% -23.33% +2.74%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +29.15% -23.33% +2.74%

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 10,709 8,545 10,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.49% 33.69% 29.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,151 5,637 7,840
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -3.45% -5.43%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £663
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 210 467
10th Percentile £41.45 £25.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £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 £68.56 £69.62
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £76.92
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.34%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -32 245 £525 -9.87% 84
North of England -3 160 £500 -12.66% 55
South East -2 93 £455 -4.21% 75
Yorkshire -29 86 £482 -12.36% 21
North West -3 65 £550 -14.06% 20
Midlands -20 59 £465 -7.00% 21
West Midlands -19 50 £460 -23.33% 16
South West -35 33 £544 -9.38% 40
North East -3 13 £550 - 14
East of England -34 12 £444 -6.58% 10
East Midlands -24 9 £470 +15.34% 5
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 32 (5.19%) Confluence
2 15 (2.44%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.62%) nginx
4 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.97%) Apache
5 6 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.97%) SAS
5 6 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.49%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.49%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.49%) IIS
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.32%) Traefik
8 2 (0.32%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.32%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) FileNet
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.30%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 276 (44.81%) AWS
2 231 (37.50%) Azure
3 152 (24.68%) GitHub
4 127 (20.62%) GCP
5 86 (13.96%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (12.01%) Azure DevOps
6 74 (12.01%) OpenShift
7 60 (9.74%) Amazon S3
8 57 (9.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 56 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
10 50 (8.12%) Serverless
11 48 (7.79%) Amazon EKS
12 47 (7.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 46 (7.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 38 (6.17%) Entra ID
15 35 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
16 34 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (4.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 24 (3.90%) Azure AKS
19 22 (3.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 94 (15.26%) Firewall
2 72 (11.69%) DNS
3 59 (9.58%) TCP/IP
4 40 (6.49%) VPN
5 31 (5.03%) Network Security
6 22 (3.57%) VLAN
7 21 (3.41%) SSL
8 20 (3.25%) Wireshark
9 17 (2.76%) BGP
10 15 (2.44%) DHCP
11 11 (1.79%) HTTP
12 9 (1.46%) Multicast
12 9 (1.46%) Software-Defined Networking
13 7 (1.14%) SNMP
14 6 (0.97%) OSPF
14 6 (0.97%) SSH
14 6 (0.97%) WebEx
15 5 (0.81%) DKIM
15 5 (0.81%) SAN
15 5 (0.81%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (6.01%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (5.84%) SQL Server
4 24 (3.90%) MongoDB
5 22 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (3.08%) MySQL
6 19 (3.08%) Redis
7 14 (2.27%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.79%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.46%) Delta Lake
9 9 (1.46%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.14%) Big Data
11 7 (1.14%) Pentaho
12 6 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (0.97%) DB2
12 6 (0.97%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.97%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 174 (28.25%) Jenkins
2 135 (21.92%) GitLab
3 105 (17.05%) Git
4 42 (6.82%) JIRA
5 15 (2.44%) CircleCI
6 14 (2.27%) Metasploit
7 13 (2.11%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.11%) Burp Suite
8 7 (1.14%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.97%) Maven
10 5 (0.81%) Selenium
10 5 (0.81%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.81%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.65%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.65%) Gradle
11 4 (0.65%) Liquibase
11 4 (0.65%) MLflow
11 4 (0.65%) ScriptRunner
11 4 (0.65%) sqlmap
General
1 178 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 92 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (10.88%) Public Sector
4 62 (10.06%) Finance
5 28 (4.55%) Banking
6 20 (3.25%) Legal
7 17 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.79%) Retail
9 7 (1.14%) Military
9 7 (1.14%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.65%) Front Office
10 4 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.49%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.49%) Games
11 3 (0.49%) Law
11 3 (0.49%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.32%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.32%) Billing
Job Titles
1 117 (18.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (11.69%) Platform Engineer
3 68 (11.04%) Senior
4 41 (6.66%) AWS Engineer
5 40 (6.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 36 (5.84%) Architect
6 36 (5.84%) Site Engineer
7 31 (5.03%) Lead
8 27 (4.38%) AWS DevOps
8 27 (4.38%) Security Engineer
9 26 (4.22%) Network Engineer
10 25 (4.06%) Senior DevOps
10 25 (4.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 24 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 23 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (3.57%) Data Engineer
13 22 (3.57%) Developer
13 22 (3.57%) GCP Engineer
13 22 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (8.28%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (5.68%) Kafka
3 31 (5.03%) REST
4 17 (2.76%) ARM Templates
4 17 (2.76%) Loki
4 17 (2.76%) Middleware
5 16 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
6 15 (2.44%) Keycloak
6 15 (2.44%) Node.js
6 15 (2.44%) YAML
7 11 (1.79%) SAML
8 10 (1.62%) .NET
8 10 (1.62%) OAuth
9 8 (1.30%) LDAP
10 7 (1.14%) ADO
10 7 (1.14%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.97%) .NET Core
11 6 (0.97%) OpenAPI
11 6 (0.97%) Swagger
11 6 (0.97%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.90%) Data Centre
5 22 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
5 22 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.41%) Security Posture
7 15 (2.44%) PKI
7 15 (2.44%) Replication
8 14 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.95%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.95%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.62%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.62%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.14%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.14%) Clustering
11 7 (1.14%) NHS
12 6 (0.97%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 286 (46.43%) Linux
2 111 (18.02%) Windows
3 67 (10.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 62 (10.06%) Unix
5 34 (5.52%) Windows Server
6 30 (4.87%) Mac OS
7 15 (2.44%) CentOS
7 15 (2.44%) Ubuntu
8 12 (1.95%) VMS
9 10 (1.62%) AIX
10 9 (1.46%) Kali Linux
10 9 (1.46%) Solaris
11 6 (0.97%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (53.90%) CI/CD
2 320 (51.95%) DevOps
3 282 (45.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 198 (32.14%) Containerisation
5 143 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (22.08%) Observability
7 109 (17.69%) Agile
8 106 (17.21%) Platform Engineering
9 85 (13.80%) High Availability
10 83 (13.47%) Incident Response
11 82 (13.31%) Infrastructure Automation
11 82 (13.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 72 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 69 (11.20%) DevSecOps
14 66 (10.71%) Test Automation
15 65 (10.55%) Migration
16 64 (10.39%) Configuration Management
17 61 (9.90%) Root Cause Analysis
18 56 (9.09%) Task Automation
19 54 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 527 (85.55%) Python
2 243 (39.45%) PowerShell
3 64 (10.39%) SQL
4 37 (6.01%) Java
5 34 (5.52%) Perl
6 32 (5.19%) Go
7 27 (4.38%) JavaScript
8 24 (3.90%) Bicep
9 23 (3.73%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.60%) C#
10 16 (2.60%) Groovy
11 14 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (1.62%) PHP
13 9 (1.46%) C
13 9 (1.46%) C++
14 6 (0.97%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.81%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.81%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.65%) Korn
16 4 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 214 (34.74%) Security Cleared
2 177 (28.73%) SC Cleared
3 43 (6.98%) Degree
4 36 (5.84%) AWS Certification
5 25 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (3.57%) CCNP
8 20 (3.25%) DV Cleared
9 19 (3.08%) Azure Certification
10 17 (2.76%) OSCP
11 16 (2.60%) CCNA
11 16 (2.60%) GPEN
12 14 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (1.95%) CEH
15 11 (1.79%) CCDP
15 11 (1.79%) RHCE
16 9 (1.46%) CISSP
17 8 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
18 7 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.22%) GDPR
2 22 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.27%) QA
4 13 (2.11%) NIST
5 12 (1.95%) NCSC
6 8 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.30%) SOC 2
7 7 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.97%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.97%) SLA
9 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.49%) GRC
10 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.32%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 234 (37.99%) Docker
2 74 (12.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (7.31%) Active Directory
4 37 (6.01%) vSphere
5 29 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (3.25%) Hyper-V
7 19 (3.08%) KVM
7 19 (3.08%) VMware NSX
8 10 (1.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 9 (1.46%) Lustre
10 8 (1.30%) Firmware
10 8 (1.30%) GPFS
11 6 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.81%) Postfix
13 4 (0.65%) Squid
14 3 (0.49%) Ceph
14 3 (0.49%) NFS
14 3 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.49%) Snort
14 3 (0.49%) zsh
Systems Management
1 313 (50.81%) Terraform
2 286 (46.43%) Kubernetes
3 237 (38.47%) Ansible
4 124 (20.13%) Grafana
5 109 (17.69%) Prometheus
6 55 (8.93%) Argo
7 53 (8.60%) Puppet
8 26 (4.22%) vCenter Server
9 24 (3.90%) Istio
10 20 (3.25%) Progress Chef
11 18 (2.92%) Kibana
12 16 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
12 16 (2.60%) Nmap
13 15 (2.44%) SCCM
14 12 (1.95%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (1.95%) NetBackup
14 12 (1.95%) Red Hat Satellite
15 11 (1.79%) Kustomize
15 11 (1.79%) Packer
16 9 (1.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 103 (16.72%) VMware
2 97 (15.75%) Microsoft
3 90 (14.61%) Splunk
4 85 (13.80%) Red Hat
5 42 (6.82%) Google
6 29 (4.71%) Palo Alto
7 27 (4.38%) Cisco
8 26 (4.22%) F5
9 24 (3.90%) Dynatrace
10 22 (3.57%) Oracle
11 21 (3.41%) Citrix
12 19 (3.08%) Pure Storage
13 18 (2.92%) CheckPoint
13 18 (2.92%) Databricks
14 13 (2.11%) ServiceNow
14 13 (2.11%) Zscaler
15 11 (1.79%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.79%) IBM
16 10 (1.62%) CyberArk
16 10 (1.62%) Veritas