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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 181 159
Rank change year-on-year +52 -22 -10
Contract jobs citing Bash 657 429 617
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.12% 1.41% 1.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.76% 4.35% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 264 447
10th Percentile £394 £377 £406
25th Percentile £433 £461 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £615 £728 £700
90th Percentile £675 £810 £798
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 17
10th Percentile - £41.70 £59.20
25th Percentile £41.25 £50.63 £67.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £61.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -18.33% +2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 £86.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.70 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £61.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year -8.57% -18.33% +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 9,722 9,862 11,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.40% 32.53% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,457 6,420 8,650
10th Percentile £346 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 254 404
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £47.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
Median % change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 +40 302 £550 -9.47% 85
North of England +13 150 £514 -9.87% 146
South East +26 79 £485 +4.86% 169
Yorkshire -12 79 £500 -9.09% 60
North West +7 50 £550 -14.06% 76
Midlands -1 48 £539 +22.39% 116
West Midlands -1 39 £550 +22.49% 56
South West -20 33 £575 -10.51% 102
North East +18 25 £550 -2.65% 11
East of England -11 17 £475 -19.15% 105
East Midlands -10 9 £475 +7.95% 55
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 (5.02%) Confluence
2 16 (2.44%) OpenStack
3 12 (1.83%) Apache
3 12 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.52%) nginx
5 7 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.76%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.46%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.46%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.15%) CICS
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Documentum
10 1 (0.15%) FileNet
10 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.15%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 8 (1.22%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Finacle
1 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 300 (45.66%) AWS
2 240 (36.53%) Azure
3 146 (22.22%) GCP
4 137 (20.85%) GitHub
5 79 (12.02%) GitHub Actions
6 69 (10.50%) Amazon S3
7 66 (10.05%) Amazon EC2
8 60 (9.13%) OpenShift
9 58 (8.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 58 (8.83%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (7.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 50 (7.61%) Entra ID
12 46 (7.00%) Serverless
12 46 (7.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 40 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
14 34 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
16 23 (3.50%) Azure AKS
16 23 (3.50%) Datadog
17 22 (3.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 111 (16.89%) Firewall
2 81 (12.33%) DNS
3 68 (10.35%) TCP/IP
4 46 (7.00%) VPN
5 36 (5.48%) Network Security
6 30 (4.57%) SSL
7 25 (3.81%) Wireshark
8 21 (3.20%) VLAN
9 20 (3.04%) BGP
10 16 (2.44%) DHCP
11 11 (1.67%) OSPF
11 11 (1.67%) SSH
12 9 (1.37%) HTTP
12 9 (1.37%) Software-Defined Networking
13 8 (1.22%) Ethernet
13 8 (1.22%) Multicast
14 7 (1.07%) EIGRP
14 7 (1.07%) SD-WAN
14 7 (1.07%) SMTP
14 7 (1.07%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.87%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.81%) MongoDB
5 22 (3.35%) Redis
6 21 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (3.20%) MySQL
7 19 (2.89%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.83%) Big Data
9 11 (1.67%) Delta Lake
9 11 (1.67%) Hadoop
10 10 (1.52%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.37%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.91%) Oracle Exadata
13 6 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.76%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 189 (28.77%) Jenkins
2 139 (21.16%) GitLab
3 116 (17.66%) Git
4 47 (7.15%) JIRA
5 19 (2.89%) SonarQube
6 18 (2.74%) Metasploit
7 17 (2.59%) Burp Suite
8 15 (2.28%) Bitbucket
9 14 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (1.83%) CircleCI
11 11 (1.67%) Maven
12 9 (1.37%) Artifactory
12 9 (1.37%) MLflow
13 6 (0.91%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.91%) Subversion
13 6 (0.91%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.76%) Gradle
14 5 (0.76%) Mockito
15 4 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.61%) GCC
General
1 184 (28.01%) Social Skills
2 82 (12.48%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 59 (8.98%) Finance
5 27 (4.11%) Banking
6 21 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.28%) Legal
8 10 (1.52%) Front Office
8 10 (1.52%) Retail
9 9 (1.37%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.07%) Military
11 6 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.76%) Games
12 5 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.76%) Marketing
13 4 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.61%) Electronics
13 4 (0.61%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 115 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 87 (13.24%) Senior
3 62 (9.44%) Platform Engineer
4 37 (5.63%) Developer
4 37 (5.63%) Site Engineer
5 36 (5.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 32 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (4.87%) Network Engineer
7 31 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
8 30 (4.57%) AWS DevOps
9 28 (4.26%) Architect
10 27 (4.11%) Administrator
11 26 (3.96%) Data Engineer
12 25 (3.81%) Lead
13 24 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
14 22 (3.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
15 21 (3.20%) Security Engineer
15 21 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.98%) Elastic Stack
2 45 (6.85%) Kafka
3 28 (4.26%) Keycloak
4 26 (3.96%) REST
5 18 (2.74%) Middleware
5 18 (2.74%) Node.js
6 17 (2.59%) YAML
7 16 (2.44%) .NET
8 14 (2.13%) ARM Templates
9 13 (1.98%) Loki
10 11 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
11 10 (1.52%) SAML
12 9 (1.37%) LDAP
12 9 (1.37%) OAuth
12 9 (1.37%) Spring
12 9 (1.37%) Spring Boot
13 8 (1.22%) RESTful
14 7 (1.07%) .NET Core
14 7 (1.07%) OpenTelemetry
14 7 (1.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.70%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.41%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
5 22 (3.35%) PKI
6 19 (2.89%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.89%) Replication
7 14 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.13%) Private Cloud
8 13 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.98%) Security Posture
9 10 (1.52%) Clustering
9 10 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.37%) NHS
10 9 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.07%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.91%) Grid Computing
13 6 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 303 (46.12%) Linux
2 106 (16.13%) Windows
3 81 (12.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 54 (8.22%) Unix
5 39 (5.94%) Mac OS
6 30 (4.57%) Windows Server
7 29 (4.41%) CentOS
8 18 (2.74%) Ubuntu
9 15 (2.28%) Solaris
10 8 (1.22%) Kali Linux
11 6 (0.91%) VMS
12 5 (0.76%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.61%) Debian
14 3 (0.46%) AIX
15 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
16 1 (0.15%) Android
16 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (53.73%) CI/CD
2 321 (48.86%) DevOps
3 297 (45.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 194 (29.53%) Containerisation
5 140 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (18.72%) Observability
7 116 (17.66%) Agile
8 88 (13.39%) Incident Response
9 87 (13.24%) Test Automation
10 86 (13.09%) Platform Engineering
11 85 (12.94%) High Availability
12 77 (11.72%) DevSecOps
12 77 (11.72%) Infrastructure Automation
13 74 (11.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 69 (10.50%) Migration
15 65 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 62 (9.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 62 (9.44%) Task Automation
17 58 (8.83%) Cybersecurity
18 57 (8.68%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 564 (85.84%) Python
2 230 (35.01%) PowerShell
3 76 (11.57%) SQL
4 62 (9.44%) Go
5 58 (8.83%) Java
6 56 (8.52%) Perl
7 31 (4.72%) Shell Script
8 29 (4.41%) JavaScript
9 20 (3.04%) Groovy
10 19 (2.89%) C++
11 18 (2.74%) Bicep
11 18 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (2.13%) C
13 13 (1.98%) C#
14 12 (1.83%) PHP
15 11 (1.67%) PromQL
16 9 (1.37%) TypeScript
17 6 (0.91%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.76%) Tcl
18 5 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 217 (33.03%) Security Cleared
2 175 (26.64%) SC Cleared
3 44 (6.70%) Degree
4 34 (5.18%) DV Cleared
5 30 (4.57%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (3.65%) OSCP
9 19 (2.89%) CCNP
10 17 (2.59%) CCNA
10 17 (2.59%) CEH
11 15 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (2.28%) GPEN
12 14 (2.13%) CISSP
13 13 (1.98%) Azure Certification
14 12 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (1.52%) CCDP
16 9 (1.37%) Master's Degree
16 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (1.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (4.41%) GDPR
3 16 (2.44%) NCSC
4 15 (2.28%) NIST
5 13 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.98%) HIPAA
5 13 (1.98%) QA
6 12 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.67%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.30%) SLA
11 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.15%) GxP
11 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 246 (37.44%) Docker
2 83 (12.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (7.31%) Active Directory
4 28 (4.26%) vSphere
5 11 (1.67%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.52%) GPFS
6 10 (1.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 9 (1.37%) Lustre
7 9 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.37%) VMware NSX
8 8 (1.22%) Firmware
8 8 (1.22%) KVM
8 8 (1.22%) zsh
9 7 (1.07%) NFS
10 5 (0.76%) Snort
10 5 (0.76%) Squid
11 4 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.61%) Postfix
11 4 (0.61%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 303 (46.12%) Terraform
2 281 (42.77%) Kubernetes
3 243 (36.99%) Ansible
4 131 (19.94%) Grafana
5 120 (18.26%) Prometheus
6 45 (6.85%) Argo
6 45 (6.85%) Puppet
7 25 (3.81%) Jamf Pro
8 23 (3.50%) NetBackup
9 21 (3.20%) Istio
10 20 (3.04%) Nmap
11 19 (2.89%) Progress Chef
12 18 (2.74%) Kibana
12 18 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (2.44%) Packer
13 16 (2.44%) SCCM
14 14 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
15 13 (1.98%) Oracle RMAN
16 11 (1.67%) Nessus
16 11 (1.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 107 (16.29%) VMware
2 101 (15.37%) Microsoft
3 96 (14.61%) Red Hat
4 91 (13.85%) Splunk
5 41 (6.24%) Google
5 41 (6.24%) Palo Alto
6 40 (6.09%) Cisco
7 30 (4.57%) F5
7 30 (4.57%) Oracle
8 28 (4.26%) CheckPoint
9 21 (3.20%) Citrix
9 21 (3.20%) Veritas
10 20 (3.04%) CyberArk
11 18 (2.74%) ServiceNow
12 17 (2.59%) Apple
12 17 (2.59%) Databricks
12 17 (2.59%) Juniper
13 15 (2.28%) Zscaler
14 13 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
14 13 (1.98%) Dynatrace