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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 152 203
Rank change year-on-year -19 +51 -74
Contract jobs citing Bash 708 517 421
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 1.87% 1.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.95% 5.69% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 345 304
10th Percentile £388 £362 £383
25th Percentile £447 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £621 £615 £638
90th Percentile £705 £698 £700
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 13
10th Percentile £56.45 £43.90 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £45.75 £25.25
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 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.00 £66.34 £71.88
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 11,897 9,086 10,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.43% 32.91% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,736 6,271 7,778
10th Percentile £363 £350 £351
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £789
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 227 381
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £38.38 £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 £81.00 £83.58 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +7.35%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -38 300 £510 -2.86% 100
North of England -7 167 £500 -1.96% 47
South East -22 97 £536 +23.22% 51
Yorkshire -16 83 £504 -1.76% 7
South West -13 74 £606 +5.43% 37
North West -7 64 £538 +7.50% 32
West Midlands -38 32 £525 +7.69% 13
Midlands -46 32 £525 - 21
East of England -14 22 £483 +1.58% 15
North East -30 20 £406 -26.14% 8
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 (5.51%) Confluence
2 20 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.54%) Apache
4 12 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.55%) nginx
5 11 (1.55%) SAS
6 7 (0.99%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.85%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.71%) IIS
9 4 (0.56%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.56%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.56%) WordPress
10 3 (0.42%) JBoss
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.28%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.28%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.14%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 332 (46.89%) AWS
2 304 (42.94%) Azure
3 191 (26.98%) GitHub
4 144 (20.34%) GCP
5 125 (17.66%) GitHub Actions
6 110 (15.54%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (9.89%) Amazon EKS
8 64 (9.04%) Serverless
9 60 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 59 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 59 (8.33%) Amazon S3
11 58 (8.19%) OpenShift
12 50 (7.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 48 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (6.07%) Datadog
15 42 (5.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 41 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
18 37 (5.23%) Azure AKS
19 34 (4.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 115 (16.24%) DNS
2 110 (15.54%) Firewall
3 67 (9.46%) TCP/IP
4 53 (7.49%) VPN
5 49 (6.92%) Network Security
6 45 (6.36%) DHCP
7 16 (2.26%) SAN
7 16 (2.26%) VLAN
8 14 (1.98%) SSL
8 14 (1.98%) WAN
9 13 (1.84%) NAS
9 13 (1.84%) VSAN
10 11 (1.55%) HTTP
11 10 (1.41%) SD-WAN
12 9 (1.27%) SNMP
13 8 (1.13%) BGP
13 8 (1.13%) SSH
14 7 (0.99%) DNSSEC
14 7 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
15 4 (0.56%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 29 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (2.54%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.12%) MySQL
5 15 (2.12%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (1.84%) Redis
8 11 (1.55%) Pentaho
9 10 (1.41%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (1.27%) Big Data
10 9 (1.27%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.27%) Metadata
10 9 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.13%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.85%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 198 (27.97%) Jenkins
2 133 (18.79%) GitLab
3 113 (15.96%) Git
4 43 (6.07%) JIRA
5 13 (1.84%) Artifactory
6 11 (1.55%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.41%) Selenium
8 9 (1.27%) Postman
8 9 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.13%) JMeter
10 6 (0.85%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.85%) Liquibase
10 6 (0.85%) MLflow
10 6 (0.85%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.85%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
12 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.56%) Jaeger
13 3 (0.42%) Ant
13 3 (0.42%) Bugzilla
General
1 159 (22.46%) Social Skills
2 93 (13.14%) Finance
3 74 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.64%) Banking
6 18 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.40%) Legal
8 14 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.13%) Military
10 7 (0.99%) Law
10 7 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.71%) Retail
12 4 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.56%) Front Office
12 4 (0.56%) Publishing
13 3 (0.42%) Automotive
14 2 (0.28%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.28%) Police
15 1 (0.14%) Corporate Banking
15 1 (0.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 141 (19.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 84 (11.86%) Senior
3 67 (9.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 65 (9.18%) Platform Engineer
5 50 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
6 48 (6.78%) Security Engineer
7 47 (6.64%) Architect
7 47 (6.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 43 (6.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 42 (5.93%) Lead
10 41 (5.79%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (4.80%) Site Engineer
12 32 (4.52%) Linux Engineer
13 30 (4.24%) GCP Engineer
14 26 (3.67%) AWS DevOps
14 26 (3.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 26 (3.67%) Data Engineer
15 25 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
15 25 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 24 (3.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.50%) Kafka
2 37 (5.23%) Elastic Stack
3 36 (5.08%) REST
4 35 (4.94%) YAML
5 30 (4.24%) OpenTelemetry
6 29 (4.10%) ARM Templates
7 20 (2.82%) Loki
8 17 (2.40%) Middleware
9 15 (2.12%) JSON
10 14 (1.98%) Node.js
11 12 (1.69%) .NET
11 12 (1.69%) LDAP
12 10 (1.41%) SAML
13 9 (1.27%) OAuth
13 9 (1.27%) React
13 9 (1.27%) SOAP
13 9 (1.27%) Swagger
14 8 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (0.99%) RESTful
15 7 (0.99%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 118 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (5.23%) Security Posture
4 34 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 28 (3.95%) Data Centre
7 27 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
8 24 (3.39%) Management Information System
9 22 (3.11%) PKI
10 20 (2.82%) Replication
11 18 (2.54%) Public Cloud
12 17 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.84%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 9 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
17 9 (1.27%) Clustering
17 9 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
18 7 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 307 (43.36%) Linux
2 150 (21.19%) Windows
3 79 (11.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (6.92%) Windows Server
5 38 (5.37%) Unix
6 32 (4.52%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.55%) VMS
8 9 (1.27%) AIX
8 9 (1.27%) CentOS
9 7 (0.99%) Solaris
10 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.28%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.28%) Debian
12 2 (0.28%) Rocky
12 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (58.90%) CI/CD
2 389 (54.94%) DevOps
3 343 (48.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 206 (29.10%) Containerisation
5 170 (24.01%) Observability
6 138 (19.49%) Platform Engineering
7 134 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
8 127 (17.94%) Agile
9 111 (15.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 107 (15.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 93 (13.14%) Cloud Security
12 92 (12.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 90 (12.71%) Migration
14 85 (12.01%) High Availability
15 81 (11.44%) Configuration Management
15 81 (11.44%) DevSecOps
16 79 (11.16%) Infrastructure Automation
17 74 (10.45%) SIEM
18 72 (10.17%) Runbook
19 69 (9.75%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 614 (86.72%) Python
2 326 (46.05%) PowerShell
3 91 (12.85%) SQL
4 63 (8.90%) Java
5 56 (7.91%) Go
6 46 (6.50%) Bicep
7 25 (3.53%) Shell Script
8 24 (3.39%) Perl
9 21 (2.97%) Groovy
10 16 (2.26%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.55%) Ruby
12 10 (1.41%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.41%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.99%) C
14 6 (0.85%) C#
14 6 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.71%) Korn
15 5 (0.71%) Scala
16 4 (0.56%) C++
16 4 (0.56%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 247 (34.89%) Security Cleared
2 188 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.91%) DV Cleared
4 53 (7.49%) AWS Certification
5 49 (6.92%) Azure Certification
6 46 (6.50%) Degree
7 26 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (3.39%) CISSP
9 18 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.98%) CCNP
11 14 (1.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 13 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (1.84%) CCNA
13 12 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.55%) RHCE
15 9 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.27%) RHCA
15 9 (1.27%) VCAP
16 7 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 26 (3.67%) QA
2 17 (2.40%) NIST
3 14 (1.98%) GDPR
3 14 (1.98%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.55%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.55%) SLA
5 8 (1.13%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.71%) GRC
7 5 (0.71%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.28%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.14%) HL7
11 1 (0.14%) MIL-STD-1553
11 1 (0.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 221 (31.21%) Docker
2 69 (9.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (9.46%) Active Directory
4 42 (5.93%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (4.94%) vSphere
6 34 (4.80%) Hyper-V
7 28 (3.95%) VMware NSX
8 12 (1.69%) KVM
8 12 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.41%) Firmware
9 10 (1.41%) NFS
9 10 (1.41%) Squid
10 7 (0.99%) Postfix
11 5 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.56%) Varnish
13 3 (0.42%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.42%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.42%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.42%) zsh
Systems Management
1 404 (57.06%) Terraform
2 316 (44.63%) Kubernetes
3 264 (37.29%) Ansible
4 149 (21.05%) Grafana
5 124 (17.51%) Prometheus
6 61 (8.62%) Puppet
7 54 (7.63%) Argo
8 46 (6.50%) Progress Chef
9 28 (3.95%) vCenter Server
10 23 (3.25%) Istio
11 13 (1.84%) Podman
12 12 (1.69%) Packer
13 11 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (1.41%) NetBackup
14 10 (1.41%) systemd
15 9 (1.27%) SCCM
16 8 (1.13%) HAProxy
16 8 (1.13%) VxRail
17 7 (0.99%) Rancher
18 6 (0.85%) Consul
Vendors
1 106 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 90 (12.71%) VMware
3 76 (10.73%) Red Hat
4 74 (10.45%) Google
5 57 (8.05%) Splunk
6 53 (7.49%) Oracle
7 47 (6.64%) Dynatrace
8 29 (4.10%) Cisco
9 25 (3.53%) CyberArk
10 23 (3.25%) IBM
11 20 (2.82%) Databricks
12 19 (2.68%) ServiceNow
13 17 (2.40%) Pure Storage
14 14 (1.98%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.84%) Cloudera
16 12 (1.69%) Informatica
16 12 (1.69%) SolarWinds
17 11 (1.55%) Talend
17 11 (1.55%) Zscaler
18 10 (1.41%) Fortinet