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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 143 194
Rank change year-on-year -24 +51 -50
Contract jobs citing Bash 779 553 429
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.99% 1.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.51% 6.05% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 359 294
10th Percentile £400 £378 £371
25th Percentile £452 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £633 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £683 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 10
10th Percentile £56.50 £40.77 £24.93
25th Percentile £58.43 £41.25 £35.63
Median hourly rate £69.61 £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.52% -15.65% -20.69%
75th Percentile £92.81 £58.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.41 £62.35 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +40.65% -15.65% -20.69%

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 11,973 9,133 10,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.93% 32.84% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,744 6,172 7,343
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £545
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +3.98% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 261 309
10th Percentile £27.75 £31.25 £30.40
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £80.00 £79.34
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -33 364 £525 -1.87% 427
North of England -32 141 £500 - 98
South East -3 108 £568 +27.07% 129
South West +12 85 £671 +22.05% 64
Yorkshire -29 62 £500 -2.44% 22
North West -20 56 £544 +14.47% 65
East of England -9 35 £438 -7.89% 38
West Midlands -48 27 £525 -8.70% 18
Midlands -61 27 £525 -4.55% 37
North East -40 22 £419 -19.47% 11
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 29 (3.72%) Confluence
2 27 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.82%) Apache
4 17 (2.18%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.67%) nginx
7 8 (1.03%) 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 (0.39%) JBoss
11 3 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.26%) CMS
12 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.03%) 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
1 361 (46.34%) AWS
2 353 (45.31%) Azure
3 184 (23.62%) GitHub
4 154 (19.77%) GCP
5 136 (17.46%) GitHub Actions
6 135 (17.33%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
8 69 (8.86%) Serverless
9 63 (8.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 63 (8.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 62 (7.96%) Azure Monitor
11 59 (7.57%) Amazon S3
12 52 (6.68%) OpenShift
13 50 (6.42%) Datadog
13 50 (6.42%) Entra ID
14 49 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (6.29%) Azure AKS
14 49 (6.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 44 (5.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 41 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 127 (16.30%) Firewall
2 120 (15.40%) DNS
3 87 (11.17%) TCP/IP
4 68 (8.73%) Network Security
5 67 (8.60%) VPN
6 60 (7.70%) DHCP
7 20 (2.57%) WAN
8 19 (2.44%) SAN
8 19 (2.44%) VSAN
9 16 (2.05%) SSH
9 16 (2.05%) SSL
10 15 (1.93%) VLAN
11 13 (1.67%) HTTP
11 13 (1.67%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.41%) NAS
13 10 (1.28%) 5G
13 10 (1.28%) BGP
14 9 (1.16%) 4G
14 9 (1.16%) Kerberos
15 7 (0.90%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.21%) Redis
4 24 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (2.95%) MongoDB
6 21 (2.70%) MySQL
7 20 (2.57%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.80%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.54%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.28%) Big Data
11 9 (1.16%) Delta Lake
11 9 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.16%) Metadata
11 9 (1.16%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.16%) Pentaho
11 9 (1.16%) Power BI
12 8 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 193 (24.78%) Jenkins
2 165 (21.18%) GitLab
3 154 (19.77%) Git
4 38 (4.88%) JIRA
5 19 (2.44%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.93%) Selenium
6 15 (1.93%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 12 (1.54%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.03%) Postman
10 7 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.90%) JMeter
10 7 (0.90%) Maven
11 6 (0.77%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.77%) MLflow
11 6 (0.77%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.64%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.39%) Gatling
General
1 174 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 134 (17.20%) Finance
3 97 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.70%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.45%) Banking
6 23 (2.95%) Telecoms
7 14 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.80%) Legal
8 12 (1.54%) Military
9 11 (1.41%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.41%) Law
10 8 (1.03%) Retail
11 5 (0.64%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.64%) Front Office
11 5 (0.64%) Publishing
12 4 (0.51%) Automotive
13 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 156 (20.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 104 (13.35%) Senior
3 73 (9.37%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (9.24%) Platform Engineer
5 56 (7.19%) Security Engineer
6 55 (7.06%) Azure Engineer
6 55 (7.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 53 (6.80%) AWS Engineer
8 43 (5.52%) Linux Engineer
9 42 (5.39%) Lead
10 40 (5.13%) Architect
11 37 (4.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 35 (4.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 34 (4.36%) Developer
14 32 (4.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 32 (4.11%) Site Engineer
15 30 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
16 28 (3.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 28 (3.59%) Network Engineer
17 27 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 454 (58.28%) Terraform
2 69 (8.86%) Kafka
3 56 (7.19%) ARM Templates
4 44 (5.65%) REST
5 43 (5.52%) Elastic Stack
6 41 (5.26%) YAML
7 23 (2.95%) Middleware
8 21 (2.70%) Loki
9 18 (2.31%) Node.js
10 16 (2.05%) RESTful
11 14 (1.80%) .NET
11 14 (1.80%) JSON
11 14 (1.80%) React
12 13 (1.67%) Flask
13 12 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
13 12 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (1.54%) SAML
13 12 (1.54%) Spring
14 11 (1.41%) LDAP
15 10 (1.28%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 119 (15.28%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 42 (5.39%) Security Posture
4 33 (4.24%) PKI
5 32 (4.11%) Linux Command Line
5 32 (4.11%) Onboarding
6 31 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (3.85%) Data Centre
7 30 (3.85%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (3.08%) Public Cloud
10 20 (2.57%) Replication
11 19 (2.44%) Product Ownership
12 17 (2.18%) Cloud Security Posture
13 14 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
14 11 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
16 9 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 9 (1.16%) Private Cloud
16 9 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 376 (48.27%) Linux
2 177 (22.72%) Windows
3 98 (12.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (8.47%) Windows Server
5 52 (6.68%) Unix
6 38 (4.88%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.05%) CentOS
7 16 (2.05%) VMS
8 6 (0.77%) Rocky
8 6 (0.77%) Solaris
9 5 (0.64%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.39%) 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%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (59.82%) CI/CD
2 423 (54.30%) DevOps
3 415 (53.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 227 (29.14%) Containerisation
5 219 (28.11%) Observability
6 170 (21.82%) Platform Engineering
7 164 (21.05%) Agile
8 155 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 145 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
10 117 (15.02%) Cloud Security
10 117 (15.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 115 (14.76%) DevSecOps
12 105 (13.48%) Infrastructure Automation
13 102 (13.09%) Root Cause Analysis
14 98 (12.58%) AI
15 95 (12.20%) Configuration Management
15 95 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 94 (12.07%) Runbook
17 86 (11.04%) Migration
17 86 (11.04%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 665 (85.37%) Python
2 383 (49.17%) PowerShell
3 104 (13.35%) SQL
4 91 (11.68%) Java
5 79 (10.14%) Bicep
6 68 (8.73%) Go
7 45 (5.78%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.59%) Perl
9 24 (3.08%) Groovy
10 20 (2.57%) JavaScript
11 19 (2.44%) Korn
12 14 (1.80%) Ruby
12 14 (1.80%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.54%) C#
14 8 (1.03%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.51%) Cypher
17 3 (0.39%) C
17 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
17 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 307 (39.41%) Security Cleared
2 226 (29.01%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.65%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.09%) Azure Certification
5 62 (7.96%) AWS Certification
6 59 (7.57%) Degree
7 34 (4.36%) CISSP
8 29 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (1.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 14 (1.80%) VCAP
14 12 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 11 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (1.16%) CCNA
16 9 (1.16%) CCNP
16 9 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (0.90%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.78%) QA
2 35 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (3.72%) NIST
4 17 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.41%) GDPR
7 10 (1.28%) SLA
8 7 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.90%) NCSC
9 5 (0.64%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.64%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.51%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 277 (35.56%) Docker
2 83 (10.65%) Active Directory
3 72 (9.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.88%) Hyper-V
5 31 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (3.98%) vSphere
6 19 (2.44%) VMware NSX
7 15 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.28%) Squid
9 9 (1.16%) NFS
10 6 (0.77%) Postfix
11 4 (0.51%) Firmware
11 4 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.39%) KVM
12 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
12 3 (0.39%) Varnish
12 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.39%) zsh
13 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 367 (47.11%) Kubernetes
2 286 (36.71%) Ansible
3 167 (21.44%) Grafana
4 143 (18.36%) Prometheus
5 52 (6.68%) Puppet
6 50 (6.42%) Progress Chef
7 37 (4.75%) Argo
8 19 (2.44%) Istio
9 17 (2.18%) Podman
10 14 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.80%) VxRail
11 12 (1.54%) Kibana
11 12 (1.54%) SCCM
11 12 (1.54%) systemd
12 11 (1.41%) Packer
13 10 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (1.16%) Check_MK
14 9 (1.16%) Consul
15 8 (1.03%) HAProxy
15 8 (1.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 148 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 95 (12.20%) VMware
3 89 (11.42%) Google
4 63 (8.09%) Red Hat
5 60 (7.70%) Splunk
6 52 (6.68%) Dynatrace
6 52 (6.68%) Oracle
7 33 (4.24%) Cisco
8 30 (3.85%) CyberArk
9 23 (2.95%) Databricks
10 22 (2.82%) ServiceNow
11 17 (2.18%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.80%) IBM
13 13 (1.67%) NetApp
14 12 (1.54%) Fortinet
14 12 (1.54%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.28%) BMC
15 10 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
16 9 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (1.16%) Remedy