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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 168 168
Rank change year-on-year +22 0 -19
Contract jobs citing Bash 622 425 536
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.98% 1.55% 1.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.42% 4.75% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 263 385
10th Percentile £398 £373 £413
25th Percentile £428 £448 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £613 £738 £688
90th Percentile £675 £810 £786
UK median daily rate £515 £538 £573
% change year-on-year -4.19% -6.11% -4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 13
10th Percentile - £40.75 £58.40
25th Percentile £41.25 £58.44 £60.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 £103.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £78.85 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +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 9,693 8,941 10,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.81% 32.54% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,452 5,770 7,970
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £774 £768
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 212 391
10th Percentile £39.31 £25.36 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.25 £44.63 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.18
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.52% -1.04%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +16 258 £541 -10.91% 457
North of England +12 150 £513 -10.87% 76
South East +33 87 £485 +4.86% 343
Yorkshire -17 77 £490 -14.78% 21
Midlands -4 59 £479 +11.28% 45
North West +1 54 £550 +4.76% 26
West Midlands -9 48 £491 +0.41% 14
South West -13 32 £581 -9.53% 71
North East +8 23 £550 -2.65% 29
East of England -15 14 £444 -24.47% 86
East Midlands -17 11 £470 +15.34% 30
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 (5.14%) Confluence
2 18 (2.89%) OpenStack
3 12 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.61%) nginx
5 7 (1.13%) Apache
5 7 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.64%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.48%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.48%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.48%) IIS
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.16%) CICS
10 1 (0.16%) CMS
10 1 (0.16%) Documentum
10 1 (0.16%) FileNet
10 1 (0.16%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.29%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Finacle
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 283 (45.50%) AWS
2 241 (38.75%) Azure
3 137 (22.03%) GCP
4 132 (21.22%) GitHub
5 81 (13.02%) GitHub Actions
6 66 (10.61%) Amazon S3
7 65 (10.45%) OpenShift
8 62 (9.97%) Amazon EC2
9 61 (9.81%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (9.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 53 (8.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 47 (7.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 45 (7.23%) Entra ID
14 44 (7.07%) Serverless
15 42 (6.75%) Amazon EKS
16 33 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
17 32 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
18 29 (4.66%) Datadog
19 23 (3.70%) Azure AKS
20 22 (3.54%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 101 (16.24%) Firewall
2 73 (11.74%) DNS
3 66 (10.61%) TCP/IP
4 42 (6.75%) VPN
5 34 (5.47%) Network Security
6 31 (4.98%) SSL
7 24 (3.86%) Wireshark
8 20 (3.22%) VLAN
9 19 (3.05%) BGP
10 14 (2.25%) DHCP
11 11 (1.77%) SSH
12 10 (1.61%) OSPF
13 9 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
14 8 (1.29%) Ethernet
14 8 (1.29%) HTTP
15 7 (1.13%) Multicast
15 7 (1.13%) SD-WAN
15 7 (1.13%) SMTP
15 7 (1.13%) SNMP
16 6 (0.96%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (12.54%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.27%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (5.31%) SQL Server
4 26 (4.18%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (3.86%) Redis
6 18 (2.89%) NoSQL
7 17 (2.73%) MySQL
8 12 (1.93%) Big Data
8 12 (1.93%) Hadoop
9 11 (1.77%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.61%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (1.13%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.13%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.80%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.80%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 177 (28.46%) Jenkins
2 144 (23.15%) GitLab
3 114 (18.33%) Git
4 45 (7.23%) JIRA
5 15 (2.41%) CircleCI
6 13 (2.09%) Metasploit
6 13 (2.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (1.93%) Burp Suite
7 12 (1.93%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.77%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.77%) Maven
9 8 (1.29%) Artifactory
9 8 (1.29%) MLflow
10 7 (1.13%) Subversion
11 6 (0.96%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.80%) Gradle
12 5 (0.80%) Mockito
12 5 (0.80%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.64%) ScriptRunner
13 4 (0.64%) Terragrunt
General
1 179 (28.78%) Social Skills
2 88 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (10.45%) Public Sector
4 57 (9.16%) Finance
5 26 (4.18%) Banking
6 20 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.41%) Legal
8 10 (1.61%) Front Office
9 9 (1.45%) Retail
10 6 (0.96%) Military
10 6 (0.96%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.80%) Games
11 5 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.64%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.48%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.48%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.48%) Law
13 3 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.48%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 107 (17.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (11.74%) Senior
3 65 (10.45%) Platform Engineer
4 38 (6.11%) Developer
5 33 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
6 31 (4.98%) Lead
6 31 (4.98%) Network Engineer
7 30 (4.82%) Site Engineer
8 29 (4.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 28 (4.50%) Architect
9 28 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
9 28 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 25 (4.02%) Automation Engineer
10 25 (4.02%) Data Engineer
11 24 (3.86%) Administrator
12 22 (3.54%) Security Engineer
13 21 (3.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
14 20 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 18 (2.89%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.97%) Elastic Stack
2 46 (7.40%) Kafka
3 27 (4.34%) Keycloak
3 27 (4.34%) REST
4 23 (3.70%) Middleware
5 20 (3.22%) Node.js
6 15 (2.41%) Loki
7 13 (2.09%) YAML
8 12 (1.93%) .NET
9 11 (1.77%) ARM Templates
9 11 (1.77%) SAML
10 10 (1.61%) FIX Protocol
10 10 (1.61%) OAuth
11 9 (1.45%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.45%) LDAP
12 8 (1.29%) RESTful
12 8 (1.29%) Spring
12 8 (1.29%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.13%) OpenID
13 7 (1.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.20%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
5 21 (3.38%) PKI
6 18 (2.89%) Data Centre
7 17 (2.73%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.57%) Replication
9 15 (2.41%) Private Cloud
10 13 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (2.09%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.93%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.45%) NHS
13 8 (1.29%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.29%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.13%) Clustering
14 7 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.96%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 293 (47.11%) Linux
2 103 (16.56%) Windows
3 68 (10.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 58 (9.32%) Unix
5 33 (5.31%) Mac OS
6 27 (4.34%) Windows Server
7 19 (3.05%) CentOS
8 15 (2.41%) Solaris
9 11 (1.77%) Ubuntu
9 11 (1.77%) VMS
10 8 (1.29%) Kali Linux
10 8 (1.29%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.48%) AIX
12 1 (0.16%) Android
12 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (55.14%) CI/CD
2 316 (50.80%) DevOps
3 286 (45.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 196 (31.51%) Containerisation
5 135 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
6 132 (21.22%) Observability
7 109 (17.52%) Agile
8 91 (14.63%) Platform Engineering
9 87 (13.99%) Incident Response
10 81 (13.02%) Test Automation
11 78 (12.54%) DevSecOps
11 78 (12.54%) High Availability
11 78 (12.54%) Infrastructure Automation
12 69 (11.09%) Migration
13 68 (10.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 66 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 63 (10.13%) Task Automation
16 57 (9.16%) Configuration Management
17 53 (8.52%) Root Cause Analysis
18 52 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 541 (86.98%) Python
2 227 (36.50%) PowerShell
3 60 (9.65%) SQL
4 55 (8.84%) Java
5 49 (7.88%) Perl
6 47 (7.56%) Go
7 32 (5.14%) JavaScript
8 31 (4.98%) Shell Script
9 19 (3.05%) Groovy
10 18 (2.89%) Kusto Query Language
11 16 (2.57%) Bicep
12 15 (2.41%) C#
12 15 (2.41%) C++
13 10 (1.61%) C
14 9 (1.45%) PHP
15 7 (1.13%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.96%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.80%) Rust
18 4 (0.64%) Tcl
18 4 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 209 (33.60%) Security Cleared
2 170 (27.33%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.59%) Degree
4 31 (4.98%) DV Cleared
5 28 (4.50%) AWS Certification
6 25 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.05%) OSCP
9 18 (2.89%) CCNP
10 17 (2.73%) CCNA
11 15 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (2.41%) CEH
11 15 (2.41%) GPEN
12 12 (1.93%) Azure Certification
13 11 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.77%) CISSP
14 10 (1.61%) CCDP
15 7 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (1.13%) Master's Degree
15 7 (1.13%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (4.34%) GDPR
3 15 (2.41%) NCSC
3 15 (2.41%) NIST
4 13 (2.09%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.93%) QA
6 11 (1.77%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.45%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.80%) SLA
10 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.16%) GxP
11 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 245 (39.39%) Docker
2 76 (12.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (7.56%) Active Directory
4 28 (4.50%) vSphere
5 11 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.61%) KVM
6 10 (1.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 9 (1.45%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.45%) Lustre
7 9 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.45%) VMware NSX
8 8 (1.29%) Firmware
8 8 (1.29%) GPFS
8 8 (1.29%) zsh
9 5 (0.80%) NFS
9 5 (0.80%) Squid
10 4 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.64%) Snort
10 4 (0.64%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.64%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 300 (48.23%) Terraform
2 284 (45.66%) Kubernetes
3 250 (40.19%) Ansible
4 133 (21.38%) Grafana
5 119 (19.13%) Prometheus
6 48 (7.72%) Argo
7 46 (7.40%) Puppet
8 24 (3.86%) Istio
9 21 (3.38%) Kibana
10 18 (2.89%) NetBackup
11 17 (2.73%) SCCM
12 16 (2.57%) Jamf Pro
12 16 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (2.41%) Nmap
14 14 (2.25%) Progress Chef
14 14 (2.25%) Red Hat Satellite
15 12 (1.93%) Packer
16 11 (1.77%) vCenter Server
17 10 (1.61%) Kustomize
17 10 (1.61%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 106 (17.04%) VMware
2 93 (14.95%) Microsoft
3 91 (14.63%) Red Hat
3 91 (14.63%) Splunk
4 40 (6.43%) Palo Alto
5 38 (6.11%) Google
6 37 (5.95%) Cisco
7 30 (4.82%) F5
8 28 (4.50%) CheckPoint
9 25 (4.02%) Oracle
10 22 (3.54%) Citrix
11 21 (3.38%) Dynatrace
12 20 (3.22%) Databricks
13 18 (2.89%) CyberArk
14 16 (2.57%) Juniper
14 16 (2.57%) Veritas
15 15 (2.41%) ServiceNow
16 14 (2.25%) Zscaler
17 12 (1.93%) Commvault
18 11 (1.77%) Qualys