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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 149 190
Rank change year-on-year -5 +41 -44
Contract jobs citing Bash 601 462 481
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.77% 1.78% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.89% 5.33% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 289 342
10th Percentile £385 £380 £407
25th Percentile £416 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £598 £725 £688
90th Percentile £700 £810 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 14
10th Percentile - £25.25 £58.60
25th Percentile £41.25 £27.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £68.38 £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -23.33% +2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £79.43 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +29.15% -23.33% +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 10,198 8,672 11,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.10% 33.46% 29.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,783 5,578 8,023
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% -4.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £660
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 204 472
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -18 248 £527 -8.35% 80
North of England -9 146 £485 -11.91% 55
South East +14 93 £475 - 49
Yorkshire -28 79 £482 -12.36% 23
Midlands -20 58 £490 -2.00% 25
North West -4 57 £550 +4.76% 25
West Midlands -14 49 £500 -17.70% 15
South West -35 27 £575 -6.50% 27
North East -4 14 £550 +12.94% 7
East of England -25 14 £444 -6.58% 15
East Midlands -20 9 £470 +15.34% 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 26 (4.33%) Confluence
2 17 (2.83%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.66%) nginx
4 6 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.83%) Apache
6 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.50%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.50%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.50%) IIS
6 3 (0.50%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.33%) CMS
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.17%) Documentum
8 1 (0.17%) FileNet
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (1.33%) Weka
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.17%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 264 (43.93%) AWS
2 228 (37.94%) Azure
3 134 (22.30%) GitHub
4 122 (20.30%) GCP
5 80 (13.31%) GitHub Actions
6 66 (10.98%) OpenShift
7 64 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (10.15%) Amazon S3
9 57 (9.48%) Amazon EC2
9 57 (9.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 48 (7.99%) Serverless
11 44 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (7.15%) Amazon EKS
12 43 (7.15%) Entra ID
13 41 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 34 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
15 33 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (4.16%) Datadog
17 20 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
17 20 (3.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (15.47%) Firewall
2 61 (10.15%) DNS
3 55 (9.15%) TCP/IP
4 36 (5.99%) VPN
5 31 (5.16%) Network Security
6 22 (3.66%) SSL
6 22 (3.66%) Wireshark
7 21 (3.49%) VLAN
8 19 (3.16%) BGP
9 13 (2.16%) DHCP
10 10 (1.66%) Multicast
11 9 (1.50%) OSPF
11 9 (1.50%) Software-Defined Networking
12 7 (1.16%) HTTP
12 7 (1.16%) SNMP
13 6 (1.00%) SSH
13 6 (1.00%) WebEx
14 5 (0.83%) DKIM
14 5 (0.83%) SMTP
15 4 (0.67%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (5.66%) SQL Server
4 26 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (3.99%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.33%) Redis
7 17 (2.83%) MySQL
8 13 (2.16%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.66%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.33%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.16%) Big Data
11 7 (1.16%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.00%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.00%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.83%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 149 (24.79%) Jenkins
2 141 (23.46%) GitLab
3 97 (16.14%) Git
4 36 (5.99%) JIRA
5 16 (2.66%) CircleCI
6 14 (2.33%) Metasploit
7 13 (2.16%) Burp Suite
8 10 (1.66%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.16%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.16%) Maven
10 6 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.83%) Gradle
11 5 (0.83%) MLflow
11 5 (0.83%) Selenium
11 5 (0.83%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.67%) ScriptRunner
12 4 (0.67%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.67%) Subversion
12 4 (0.67%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 173 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 90 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (9.65%) Public Sector
4 49 (8.15%) Finance
5 26 (4.33%) Banking
6 18 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (3.00%) Legal
7 11 (1.83%) Retail
8 8 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.33%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.00%) Military
10 5 (0.83%) Front Office
10 5 (0.83%) Games
11 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.50%) Law
12 3 (0.50%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.33%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.33%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 105 (17.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 68 (11.31%) Platform Engineer
3 61 (10.15%) Senior
4 36 (5.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 35 (5.82%) Architect
5 35 (5.82%) Site Engineer
6 34 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (5.32%) Developer
8 30 (4.99%) Lead
9 25 (4.16%) AWS DevOps
9 25 (4.16%) Network Engineer
10 24 (3.99%) Security Engineer
11 22 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
12 20 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
12 20 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 20 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (3.33%) Tester
13 18 (3.00%) Administrator
13 18 (3.00%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (3.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (9.32%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (6.49%) Kafka
3 25 (4.16%) REST
4 19 (3.16%) Node.js
5 18 (3.00%) Keycloak
6 17 (2.83%) ARM Templates
6 17 (2.83%) Loki
6 17 (2.83%) Middleware
7 13 (2.16%) YAML
8 12 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (1.50%) .NET
9 9 (1.50%) SAML
10 8 (1.33%) AngularJS
10 8 (1.33%) LDAP
10 8 (1.33%) OAuth
10 8 (1.33%) RESTful
11 7 (1.16%) ADO
11 7 (1.16%) Swagger
12 6 (1.00%) OpenID
12 6 (1.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.82%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.83%) Linux Command Line
5 22 (3.66%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.49%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.83%) PKI
8 16 (2.66%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.50%) Security Posture
10 14 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.33%) Replication
11 13 (2.16%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.50%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.50%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.33%) NHS
14 7 (1.16%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (1.00%) Grid Computing
15 6 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 297 (49.42%) Linux
2 108 (17.97%) Windows
3 67 (11.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (10.98%) Unix
5 33 (5.49%) Mac OS
6 29 (4.83%) Windows Server
7 16 (2.66%) CentOS
8 13 (2.16%) Ubuntu
9 12 (2.00%) Solaris
10 11 (1.83%) VMS
11 9 (1.50%) Kali Linux
12 8 (1.33%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.83%) AIX
14 1 (0.17%) Android
14 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (52.91%) CI/CD
2 297 (49.42%) DevOps
3 276 (45.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 195 (32.45%) Containerisation
5 137 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (22.63%) Observability
7 101 (16.81%) Platform Engineering
8 99 (16.47%) Agile
9 88 (14.64%) Incident Response
10 79 (13.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 78 (12.98%) High Availability
12 71 (11.81%) Test Automation
13 70 (11.65%) Infrastructure Automation
14 69 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 65 (10.82%) DevSecOps
15 65 (10.82%) Migration
16 62 (10.32%) Task Automation
17 57 (9.48%) Configuration Management
18 56 (9.32%) Root Cause Analysis
19 54 (8.99%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 516 (85.86%) Python
2 235 (39.10%) PowerShell
3 55 (9.15%) SQL
4 45 (7.49%) Java
5 39 (6.49%) Perl
6 37 (6.16%) Go
7 32 (5.32%) JavaScript
8 26 (4.33%) Shell Script
9 21 (3.49%) Bicep
10 17 (2.83%) Kusto Query Language
11 16 (2.66%) C#
12 14 (2.33%) Groovy
13 10 (1.66%) C
13 10 (1.66%) C++
13 10 (1.66%) PHP
14 7 (1.16%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.16%) TypeScript
15 6 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
16 5 (0.83%) Rust
17 4 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 201 (33.44%) Security Cleared
2 165 (27.45%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.66%) Degree
4 27 (4.49%) AWS Certification
4 27 (4.49%) DV Cleared
5 26 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (3.33%) CCNP
8 17 (2.83%) OSCP
9 16 (2.66%) GPEN
10 15 (2.50%) CCNA
11 13 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (2.16%) CEH
12 11 (1.83%) CCDP
13 10 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.66%) Azure Certification
14 7 (1.16%) Master's Degree
14 7 (1.16%) RHCE
15 6 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (1.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (4.16%) GDPR
3 15 (2.50%) QA
4 13 (2.16%) NCSC
5 11 (1.83%) NIST
5 11 (1.83%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.66%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.50%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.67%) SLA
9 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) GxP
11 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 228 (37.94%) Docker
2 80 (13.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (7.82%) Active Directory
4 33 (5.49%) vSphere
5 24 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (2.66%) KVM
7 15 (2.50%) Hyper-V
7 15 (2.50%) VMware NSX
8 10 (1.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 9 (1.50%) Lustre
10 8 (1.33%) Firmware
10 8 (1.33%) GPFS
11 6 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (1.00%) zsh
12 5 (0.83%) Squid
13 4 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.67%) Postfix
13 4 (0.67%) QEMU
13 4 (0.67%) Snort
14 3 (0.50%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 294 (48.92%) Terraform
2 268 (44.59%) Kubernetes
3 226 (37.60%) Ansible
4 125 (20.80%) Grafana
5 111 (18.47%) Prometheus
6 49 (8.15%) Argo
7 44 (7.32%) Puppet
8 22 (3.66%) Kibana
9 19 (3.16%) vCenter Server
10 17 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (2.83%) Nmap
10 17 (2.83%) SCCM
11 16 (2.66%) Istio
12 14 (2.33%) NetBackup
12 14 (2.33%) Red Hat Satellite
13 13 (2.16%) Jamf Pro
13 13 (2.16%) Kustomize
13 13 (2.16%) Progress Chef
14 10 (1.66%) Oracle RMAN
14 10 (1.66%) Packer
Vendors
1 108 (17.97%) VMware
2 97 (16.14%) Splunk
3 96 (15.97%) Microsoft
4 83 (13.81%) Red Hat
5 37 (6.16%) Google
6 33 (5.49%) Palo Alto
7 31 (5.16%) Cisco
8 24 (3.99%) F5
8 24 (3.99%) Oracle
9 23 (3.83%) Citrix
10 22 (3.66%) Dynatrace
11 21 (3.49%) CheckPoint
12 19 (3.16%) Databricks
13 15 (2.50%) Pure Storage
13 15 (2.50%) ServiceNow
14 14 (2.33%) CyberArk
15 12 (2.00%) Veritas
16 11 (1.83%) Atlassian
16 11 (1.83%) Zscaler
17 10 (1.66%) Qualys