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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 139 194
Rank change year-on-year -28 +55 -52
Contract jobs citing Bash 782 558 432
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 2.00% 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.46% 6.09% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 363 289
10th Percentile £400 £378 £366
25th Percentile £454 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -11.82%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £726 £681 £738
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.14% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 12
10th Percentile £56.50 £40.30 £25.85
25th Percentile £58.43 £41.25 £44.38
Median hourly rate £69.61 £42.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.78% -26.09% -22.03%
75th Percentile £92.81 £59.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £99.41 £62.45 £107.99
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £42.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +60.51% -26.09% -22.03%

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 12,112 9,159 10,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.03% 32.88% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,841 6,186 7,227
10th Percentile £363 £349 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £505 £526
% change year-on-year +3.47% -3.90% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 261 309
10th Percentile £26.52 £31.25 £29.55
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £48.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.80 £78.75 £79.34
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% +3.17%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -35 373 £525 -4.55% 416
North of England -30 138 £500 - 86
South East -13 108 £568 +27.07% 122
South West +7 85 £671 +22.05% 74
Yorkshire -34 60 £500 -1.23% 21
North West -25 55 £525 +10.53% 56
East of England -14 34 £438 -8.62% 41
West Midlands -44 26 £525 -8.70% 22
Midlands -61 26 £525 -4.55% 34
North East -39 22 £419 -19.08% 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 (4.22%) Confluence
2 28 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.81%) Apache
4 18 (2.30%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.66%) nginx
7 8 (1.02%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.77%) IIS
8 6 (0.77%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.77%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.64%) SAS
10 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.51%) WordPress
11 3 (0.38%) JBoss
12 2 (0.26%) CMS
12 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.13%) Camunda
13 1 (0.13%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.13%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.02%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.64%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.64%) Summit
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.13%) Actimize
5 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 365 (46.68%) AWS
2 356 (45.52%) Azure
3 181 (23.15%) GitHub
4 156 (19.95%) GCP
5 132 (16.88%) Azure DevOps
6 131 (16.75%) GitHub Actions
7 78 (9.97%) Amazon EKS
8 68 (8.70%) Serverless
9 64 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 64 (8.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 61 (7.80%) Amazon S3
10 61 (7.80%) Azure Monitor
11 53 (6.78%) Entra ID
12 50 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
12 50 (6.39%) Datadog
12 50 (6.39%) OpenShift
12 50 (6.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 45 (5.75%) Azure AKS
14 43 (5.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 42 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 125 (15.98%) Firewall
2 117 (14.96%) DNS
3 87 (11.13%) TCP/IP
4 68 (8.70%) Network Security
5 66 (8.44%) VPN
6 59 (7.54%) DHCP
7 20 (2.56%) WAN
8 17 (2.17%) SAN
8 17 (2.17%) SSH
8 17 (2.17%) VSAN
9 15 (1.92%) SSL
9 15 (1.92%) VLAN
10 13 (1.66%) SD-WAN
11 12 (1.53%) HTTP
12 10 (1.28%) 5G
12 10 (1.28%) BGP
12 10 (1.28%) Kerberos
13 9 (1.15%) 4G
13 9 (1.15%) NAS
14 7 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.09%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.32%) Redis
4 25 (3.20%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (2.94%) MySQL
7 22 (2.81%) NoSQL
8 15 (1.92%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.53%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.41%) Big Data
11 10 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.28%) Metadata
12 9 (1.15%) Delta Lake
12 9 (1.15%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.15%) Pentaho
12 9 (1.15%) Power BI
12 9 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 189 (24.17%) Jenkins
2 161 (20.59%) GitLab
3 156 (19.95%) Git
4 40 (5.12%) JIRA
5 19 (2.43%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.92%) Selenium
6 15 (1.92%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (1.66%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.02%) Postman
10 7 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.90%) JMeter
10 7 (0.90%) Maven
11 6 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.77%) MLflow
12 5 (0.64%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.64%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.64%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 176 (22.51%) Social Skills
2 142 (18.16%) Finance
3 101 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.93%) Banking
5 61 (7.80%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.94%) Telecoms
7 14 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.79%) Legal
8 12 (1.53%) Military
9 11 (1.41%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.41%) Law
10 8 (1.02%) Retail
11 6 (0.77%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.64%) Front Office
12 5 (0.64%) Publishing
13 4 (0.51%) Automotive
13 4 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.51%) Marketing
14 3 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 155 (19.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 104 (13.30%) Senior
3 73 (9.34%) Platform Engineer
4 72 (9.21%) Cloud Engineer
5 57 (7.29%) Security Engineer
6 56 (7.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 55 (7.03%) Azure Engineer
8 52 (6.65%) AWS Engineer
9 44 (5.63%) Linux Engineer
10 43 (5.50%) Lead
11 39 (4.99%) Architect
12 38 (4.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 36 (4.60%) Developer
14 35 (4.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 33 (4.22%) Site Engineer
16 32 (4.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 29 (3.71%) Automation Engineer
17 29 (3.71%) AWS DevOps
17 29 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
17 29 (3.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 452 (57.80%) Terraform
2 70 (8.95%) Kafka
3 52 (6.65%) ARM Templates
4 48 (6.14%) REST
5 42 (5.37%) Elastic Stack
6 37 (4.73%) YAML
7 26 (3.32%) Middleware
8 21 (2.69%) Loki
9 19 (2.43%) Node.js
10 17 (2.17%) JSON
10 17 (2.17%) RESTful
11 16 (2.05%) React
12 15 (1.92%) .NET
13 14 (1.79%) Flask
13 14 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (1.66%) SAML
15 12 (1.53%) AngularJS
15 12 (1.53%) LDAP
15 12 (1.53%) Spring
16 11 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 116 (14.83%) Cloud Native
2 51 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (5.50%) Security Posture
4 35 (4.48%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.22%) PKI
6 32 (4.09%) Linux Command Line
7 31 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
8 30 (3.84%) Data Centre
8 30 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (3.84%) Management Information System
9 24 (3.07%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.43%) Product Ownership
11 18 (2.30%) Replication
12 17 (2.17%) Cloud Security Posture
13 14 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
14 10 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
15 9 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
15 9 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 9 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 386 (49.36%) Linux
2 178 (22.76%) Windows
3 98 (12.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (8.44%) Windows Server
5 56 (7.16%) Unix
6 36 (4.60%) Ubuntu
7 17 (2.17%) CentOS
8 14 (1.79%) VMS
9 6 (0.77%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.77%) Rocky
9 6 (0.77%) Solaris
10 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.26%) AIX
12 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.26%) Debian
12 2 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (59.46%) CI/CD
2 420 (53.71%) DevOps
3 415 (53.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 222 (28.39%) Containerisation
5 218 (27.88%) Observability
6 164 (20.97%) Platform Engineering
7 163 (20.84%) Agile
8 157 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 147 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
10 119 (15.22%) Cloud Security
10 119 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 113 (14.45%) DevSecOps
12 104 (13.30%) Infrastructure Automation
13 102 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
14 99 (12.66%) AI
15 98 (12.53%) Runbook
16 95 (12.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 94 (12.02%) Configuration Management
18 87 (11.13%) Migration
18 87 (11.13%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 662 (84.65%) Python
2 384 (49.10%) PowerShell
3 111 (14.19%) SQL
4 93 (11.89%) Java
5 77 (9.85%) Bicep
6 70 (8.95%) Go
7 49 (6.27%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.58%) Perl
9 25 (3.20%) Groovy
10 24 (3.07%) JavaScript
11 20 (2.56%) Korn
12 15 (1.92%) TypeScript
13 13 (1.66%) Ruby
14 12 (1.53%) C#
15 8 (1.02%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.51%) Cypher
17 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.38%) MATLAB
18 3 (0.38%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 303 (38.75%) Security Cleared
2 222 (28.39%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.61%) DV Cleared
4 61 (7.80%) AWS Certification
4 61 (7.80%) Degree
5 58 (7.42%) Azure Certification
6 34 (4.35%) CISSP
7 31 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 12 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 12 (1.53%) VCAP
12 11 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (1.15%) CCNA
13 9 (1.15%) CCNP
13 9 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.90%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.75%) QA
2 35 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (4.09%) NIST
4 17 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.28%) GDPR
6 10 (1.28%) SLA
7 7 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.90%) NCSC
8 5 (0.64%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.64%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.51%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.26%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 274 (35.04%) Docker
2 84 (10.74%) Active Directory
3 70 (8.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.86%) Hyper-V
5 29 (3.71%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (3.71%) vSphere
6 17 (2.17%) VMware NSX
7 13 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.28%) Squid
9 9 (1.15%) NFS
10 6 (0.77%) Postfix
11 4 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.51%) zsh
12 3 (0.38%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.38%) Firmware
12 3 (0.38%) HDFS
12 3 (0.38%) KVM
12 3 (0.38%) OpenSSH
12 3 (0.38%) Varnish
12 3 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 364 (46.55%) Kubernetes
2 282 (36.06%) Ansible
3 164 (20.97%) Grafana
4 141 (18.03%) Prometheus
5 49 (6.27%) Puppet
6 46 (5.88%) Progress Chef
7 36 (4.60%) Argo
8 20 (2.56%) Istio
9 17 (2.17%) Podman
10 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.79%) VxRail
11 13 (1.66%) Kibana
12 12 (1.53%) SCCM
12 12 (1.53%) systemd
13 11 (1.41%) Packer
13 11 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (1.15%) Check_MK
14 9 (1.15%) Consul
15 8 (1.02%) Cilium
15 8 (1.02%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 152 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 93 (11.89%) VMware
3 91 (11.64%) Google
4 61 (7.80%) Red Hat
5 59 (7.54%) Splunk
6 55 (7.03%) Dynatrace
7 53 (6.78%) Oracle
8 33 (4.22%) Cisco
9 31 (3.96%) CyberArk
10 25 (3.20%) ServiceNow
11 21 (2.69%) Databricks
12 17 (2.17%) Palo Alto
13 16 (2.05%) IBM
14 13 (1.66%) NetApp
15 12 (1.53%) Fortinet
15 12 (1.53%) SolarWinds
16 10 (1.28%) BMC
16 10 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
17 9 (1.15%) BeyondTrust
17 9 (1.15%) WALLIX