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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 151 197
Rank change year-on-year -23 +46 -59
Contract jobs citing Bash 576 469 461
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.92% 1.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.40% 5.66% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 298 316
10th Percentile £392 £375 £400
25th Percentile £415 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £625
90th Percentile £691 £777 £706
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.61% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 12
10th Percentile £56.05 £25.48 £24.93
25th Percentile £61.25 £41.19 £56.31
Median hourly rate £74.26 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.02% -13.46% -4.06%
75th Percentile - £77.80 £76.77
90th Percentile £81.20 £108.67 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +32.02% -13.46% -7.14%

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 10,657 8,287 10,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.80% 33.87% 28.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,103 5,588 7,905
10th Percentile £352 £359 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.42% -6.03%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 458 217 445
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £76.48 £85.40 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -43 221 £520 -6.73% 72
North of England -16 158 £500 -9.09% 54
South East -6 90 £465 -2.21% 56
Yorkshire -28 83 £482 -12.36% 20
North West +7 65 £550 -3.93% 20
Midlands -36 47 £460 -21.70% 22
West Midlands -27 43 £463 -28.98% 14
South West -33 35 £544 -9.38% 30
North East +1 14 £550 -1.35% 14
East of England -27 9 £413 -13.16% 19
East Midlands -35 4 £436 +6.99% 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 35 (6.08%) Confluence
2 15 (2.60%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.74%) nginx
4 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.22%) SAS
5 6 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.87%) Apache
7 4 (0.69%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.52%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.52%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.52%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) FileNet
9 1 (0.17%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (1.39%) Weka
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 244 (42.36%) AWS
2 213 (36.98%) Azure
3 164 (28.47%) GitHub
4 107 (18.58%) GCP
5 88 (15.28%) GitHub Actions
6 83 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (13.72%) OpenShift
8 57 (9.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (8.85%) Amazon S3
9 51 (8.85%) Serverless
10 49 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (7.81%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (6.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 31 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (4.51%) Entra ID
16 24 (4.17%) Azure AKS
17 23 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
17 23 (3.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 79 (13.72%) Firewall
2 63 (10.94%) DNS
3 45 (7.81%) TCP/IP
4 26 (4.51%) VPN
5 23 (3.99%) Network Security
6 20 (3.47%) VLAN
7 18 (3.13%) Wireshark
8 15 (2.60%) DHCP
9 13 (2.26%) BGP
10 10 (1.74%) HTTP
11 9 (1.56%) SNMP
11 9 (1.56%) Software-Defined Networking
11 9 (1.56%) SSL
12 8 (1.39%) Multicast
13 6 (1.04%) SSH
13 6 (1.04%) WebEx
14 5 (0.87%) SAN
14 5 (0.87%) SMTP
15 4 (0.69%) Kerberos
15 4 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (5.73%) SQL Server
3 32 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.65%) MongoDB
5 19 (3.30%) Redis
6 16 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (2.78%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.43%) MySQL
8 11 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.91%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.56%) Big Data
9 9 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.39%) Pentaho
11 7 (1.22%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.04%) DB2
12 6 (1.04%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.87%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 169 (29.34%) Jenkins
2 117 (20.31%) GitLab
3 96 (16.67%) Git
4 43 (7.47%) JIRA
5 14 (2.43%) Bitbucket
5 14 (2.43%) CircleCI
6 10 (1.74%) Metasploit
7 9 (1.56%) Burp Suite
8 7 (1.22%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.04%) Liquibase
10 5 (0.87%) Selenium
11 4 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.69%) MLflow
11 4 (0.69%) ScriptRunner
11 4 (0.69%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.52%) Appium
12 3 (0.52%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.52%) Snyk
12 3 (0.52%) Spinnaker
General
1 169 (29.34%) Social Skills
2 84 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (11.28%) Public Sector
4 54 (9.38%) Finance
5 28 (4.86%) Banking
6 20 (3.47%) Legal
7 12 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.91%) Retail
9 10 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.04%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.69%) Front Office
11 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.69%) Military
12 3 (0.52%) Games
12 3 (0.52%) Law
12 3 (0.52%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.35%) Billing
13 2 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (17.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 78 (13.54%) Platform Engineer
3 55 (9.55%) Senior
4 38 (6.60%) Architect
4 38 (6.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 37 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
6 34 (5.90%) Site Engineer
7 33 (5.73%) Lead
8 26 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
8 26 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (4.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (4.34%) Security Engineer
10 24 (4.17%) Data Engineer
11 22 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
11 22 (3.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 21 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
12 21 (3.65%) GCP Engineer
13 19 (3.30%) Network Engineer
14 18 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 17 (2.95%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (6.08%) Kafka
3 32 (5.56%) REST
4 25 (4.34%) OpenTelemetry
5 16 (2.78%) ARM Templates
5 16 (2.78%) Loki
5 16 (2.78%) Middleware
6 15 (2.60%) YAML
7 14 (2.43%) Keycloak
8 12 (2.08%) Node.js
9 10 (1.74%) .NET
9 10 (1.74%) LDAP
10 9 (1.56%) OAuth
10 9 (1.56%) SAML
11 8 (1.39%) ADO
12 7 (1.22%) SOAP
13 6 (1.04%) .NET Core
13 6 (1.04%) OpenAPI
13 6 (1.04%) Swagger
13 6 (1.04%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.15%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 18 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.95%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.60%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.08%) PKI
9 12 (2.08%) Replication
10 11 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.91%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.91%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.74%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.04%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.04%) Grid Computing
12 6 (1.04%) NHS
13 5 (0.87%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 263 (45.66%) Linux
2 103 (17.88%) Windows
3 59 (10.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (8.68%) Unix
5 35 (6.08%) Windows Server
6 23 (3.99%) Mac OS
7 12 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.08%) VMS
8 10 (1.74%) AIX
9 9 (1.56%) CentOS
9 9 (1.56%) Kali Linux
10 6 (1.04%) Solaris
11 5 (0.87%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.17%) Rocky
13 1 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (56.42%) CI/CD
2 306 (53.13%) DevOps
3 267 (46.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 190 (32.99%) Containerisation
5 138 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
6 135 (23.44%) Observability
7 115 (19.97%) Platform Engineering
8 104 (18.06%) Agile
9 85 (14.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 80 (13.89%) High Availability
11 71 (12.33%) Infrastructure Automation
12 67 (11.63%) Incident Response
13 65 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 63 (10.94%) Configuration Management
14 63 (10.94%) Test Automation
15 61 (10.59%) DevSecOps
16 59 (10.24%) Migration
17 56 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 54 (9.38%) Root Cause Analysis
19 48 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 495 (85.94%) Python
2 239 (41.49%) PowerShell
3 65 (11.28%) SQL
4 37 (6.42%) Java
5 29 (5.03%) Go
5 29 (5.03%) Perl
6 25 (4.34%) Bicep
7 22 (3.82%) JavaScript
8 19 (3.30%) Shell Script
9 16 (2.78%) C#
9 16 (2.78%) Groovy
10 12 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
11 10 (1.74%) PHP
12 7 (1.22%) C
12 7 (1.22%) C++
13 5 (0.87%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.87%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.69%) Ruby
15 3 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 204 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 169 (29.34%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.94%) Degree
4 31 (5.38%) AWS Certification
5 22 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.30%) Azure Certification
7 19 (3.30%) CCNP
8 16 (2.78%) CCNA
9 13 (2.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (2.08%) CEH
11 11 (1.91%) CCDP
11 11 (1.91%) OSCP
12 10 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.74%) GPEN
13 9 (1.56%) CISSP
14 7 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (1.22%) Master's Degree
14 7 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.78%) GDPR
2 14 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.43%) QA
3 11 (1.91%) NCSC
3 11 (1.91%) NIST
4 8 (1.39%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.22%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.04%) SLA
7 5 (0.87%) GRC
8 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 208 (36.11%) Docker
2 68 (11.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (7.29%) vSphere
4 39 (6.77%) Active Directory
5 30 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (4.17%) VMware NSX
7 21 (3.65%) Hyper-V
8 16 (2.78%) KVM
9 9 (1.56%) Lustre
9 9 (1.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 8 (1.39%) Firmware
10 8 (1.39%) GPFS
11 5 (0.87%) Postfix
12 4 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.52%) Ceph
13 3 (0.52%) Squid
14 2 (0.35%) NFS
14 2 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.35%) Xen
14 2 (0.35%) zsh
Systems Management
1 305 (52.95%) Terraform
2 270 (46.88%) Kubernetes
3 214 (37.15%) Ansible
4 128 (22.22%) Grafana
5 112 (19.44%) Prometheus
6 59 (10.24%) Argo
7 47 (8.16%) Puppet
8 31 (5.38%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.17%) Istio
10 15 (2.60%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.08%) Kibana
12 11 (1.91%) Kustomize
12 11 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (1.91%) NetBackup
12 11 (1.91%) Nmap
13 10 (1.74%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (1.74%) Packer
13 10 (1.74%) Rancher
13 10 (1.74%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (1.74%) SCCM
Vendors
1 95 (16.49%) VMware
2 88 (15.28%) Microsoft
3 87 (15.10%) Red Hat
4 81 (14.06%) Splunk
5 38 (6.60%) Google
6 27 (4.69%) Dynatrace
7 24 (4.17%) Pure Storage
8 23 (3.99%) Cisco
9 20 (3.47%) Databricks
10 18 (3.13%) Oracle
11 16 (2.78%) Citrix
12 15 (2.60%) Palo Alto
13 14 (2.43%) F5
14 12 (2.08%) IBM
15 11 (1.91%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.91%) ServiceNow
16 10 (1.74%) AppDynamics
16 10 (1.74%) Commvault
16 10 (1.74%) Dell
16 10 (1.74%) Tenable