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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 144 207
Rank change year-on-year -44 +63 -89
Contract jobs citing Bash 654 522 431
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.93% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.46% 5.78% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 341 310
10th Percentile £388 £363 £398
25th Percentile £432 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £630
90th Percentile £693 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 14
10th Percentile £55.75 £27.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £57.17 £41.12 £26.75
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -17.86%
75th Percentile £72.65 £61.13 £69.84
90th Percentile £100.00 £63.25 £74.06
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -17.86%

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 11,974 9,026 11,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.78% 33.45% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,808 6,220 8,272
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £735 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 225 475
10th Percentile £34.48 £28.27 £35.55
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.48 £49.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.48 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -63 284 £513 -4.21% 85
North of England -9 153 £500 - 51
South East -11 90 £525 +18.64% 52
Yorkshire -12 84 £504 -4.10% 6
South West -23 60 £553 -3.91% 51
North West -9 53 £525 +8.25% 38
West Midlands -51 33 £525 -9.87% 10
Midlands -52 33 £525 -8.70% 19
East of England -24 18 £505 +6.32% 11
North East -22 16 £400 -27.27% 7
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 37 (5.66%) Confluence
2 18 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.60%) Apache
4 12 (1.83%) nginx
5 11 (1.68%) SAS
6 10 (1.53%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.07%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.92%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.76%) IIS
10 4 (0.61%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.61%) WordPress
11 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.31%) CMS
12 2 (0.31%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.31%) JBoss
12 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.31%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.15%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.31%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.15%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.15%) Shopify
3 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 304 (46.48%) AWS
2 260 (39.76%) Azure
3 179 (27.37%) GitHub
4 128 (19.57%) GCP
5 114 (17.43%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (15.44%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
8 60 (9.17%) Serverless
9 59 (9.02%) OpenShift
10 58 (8.87%) Amazon S3
11 57 (8.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 50 (7.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 49 (7.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 44 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (6.27%) Amazon EC2
16 36 (5.50%) Datadog
17 35 (5.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 33 (5.05%) Azure AKS
19 30 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
20 22 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (14.07%) DNS
2 87 (13.30%) Firewall
3 49 (7.49%) TCP/IP
4 41 (6.27%) Network Security
4 41 (6.27%) VPN
5 26 (3.98%) DHCP
6 18 (2.75%) SAN
7 15 (2.29%) NAS
7 15 (2.29%) SSL
8 13 (1.99%) VLAN
8 13 (1.99%) WAN
9 12 (1.83%) HTTP
10 9 (1.38%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.38%) SNMP
11 8 (1.22%) BGP
11 8 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
11 8 (1.22%) VSAN
12 7 (1.07%) DNSSEC
13 5 (0.76%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.05%) SQL Server
2 31 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (3.06%) MongoDB
5 17 (2.60%) MySQL
6 16 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (2.14%) Redis
9 13 (1.99%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.83%) Pentaho
11 9 (1.38%) Big Data
11 9 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.38%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.22%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.22%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.07%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.07%) Metadata
14 6 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (0.92%) Db2
Development Applications
1 185 (28.29%) Jenkins
2 127 (19.42%) GitLab
3 110 (16.82%) Git
4 41 (6.27%) JIRA
5 13 (1.99%) Artifactory
6 10 (1.53%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.38%) Postman
8 8 (1.22%) JMeter
9 7 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.92%) Liquibase
10 6 (0.92%) MLflow
10 6 (0.92%) Selenium
10 6 (0.92%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.76%) Browser DevTools
12 4 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.61%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.61%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.61%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.46%) Ant
13 3 (0.46%) Burp Suite
General
1 144 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 83 (12.69%) Finance
3 62 (9.48%) Public Sector
4 58 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (6.73%) Banking
6 19 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (2.91%) Legal
7 15 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.07%) Law
8 7 (1.07%) Military
9 6 (0.92%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.76%) Retail
11 4 (0.61%) Publishing
12 3 (0.46%) Front Office
12 3 (0.46%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.31%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.31%) Aviation
13 2 (0.31%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.31%) Police
14 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 136 (20.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 66 (10.09%) Senior
3 58 (8.87%) Cloud Engineer
4 52 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
5 50 (7.65%) Platform Engineer
6 45 (6.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 43 (6.57%) Security Engineer
8 41 (6.27%) Architect
9 38 (5.81%) Lead
10 37 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
11 36 (5.50%) Site Engineer
12 35 (5.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 30 (4.59%) Linux Engineer
14 29 (4.43%) GCP Engineer
15 27 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
15 27 (4.13%) Data Engineer
16 25 (3.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 22 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
17 22 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.57%) Kafka
2 40 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
3 32 (4.89%) REST
3 32 (4.89%) YAML
4 29 (4.43%) OpenTelemetry
5 20 (3.06%) Loki
6 19 (2.91%) ARM Templates
7 16 (2.45%) Middleware
8 12 (1.83%) JSON
9 11 (1.68%) Node.js
10 10 (1.53%) LDAP
10 10 (1.53%) SAML
11 9 (1.38%) .NET
11 9 (1.38%) OAuth
11 9 (1.38%) React
11 9 (1.38%) SOAP
11 9 (1.38%) Swagger
12 7 (1.07%) cloud-init
12 7 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (0.92%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 106 (16.21%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 35 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (5.05%) Security Posture
5 25 (3.82%) Data Centre
6 24 (3.67%) Linux Command Line
7 22 (3.36%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.91%) Management Information System
9 17 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (2.60%) Replication
10 15 (2.29%) Public Cloud
11 14 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.83%) PKI
12 12 (1.83%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 9 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
15 7 (1.07%) Private Cloud
15 7 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 270 (41.28%) Linux
2 116 (17.74%) Windows
3 65 (9.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (6.42%) Unix
5 33 (5.05%) Windows Server
6 24 (3.67%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.53%) AIX
7 10 (1.53%) VMS
8 8 (1.22%) CentOS
9 7 (1.07%) Solaris
10 4 (0.61%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.46%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.31%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.31%) Debian
12 2 (0.31%) Rocky
12 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (58.87%) CI/CD
2 360 (55.05%) DevOps
3 304 (46.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 192 (29.36%) Containerisation
5 157 (24.01%) Observability
6 123 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
7 114 (17.43%) Platform Engineering
8 106 (16.21%) Agile
9 93 (14.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 85 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 85 (13.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 83 (12.69%) Cloud Security
11 83 (12.69%) Migration
12 77 (11.77%) High Availability
13 72 (11.01%) Configuration Management
14 68 (10.40%) Root Cause Analysis
15 67 (10.24%) Infrastructure Automation
16 66 (10.09%) Runbook
17 63 (9.63%) DevSecOps
18 62 (9.48%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 573 (87.61%) Python
2 285 (43.58%) PowerShell
3 84 (12.84%) SQL
4 53 (8.10%) Go
5 51 (7.80%) Java
6 28 (4.28%) Bicep
7 23 (3.52%) Shell Script
8 22 (3.36%) Perl
9 19 (2.91%) Groovy
10 18 (2.75%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.68%) Ruby
12 9 (1.38%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.07%) C
13 7 (1.07%) C#
13 7 (1.07%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.92%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.76%) Korn
15 5 (0.76%) Scala
16 4 (0.61%) C++
16 4 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 227 (34.71%) Security Cleared
2 182 (27.83%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.27%) Degree
4 40 (6.12%) DV Cleared
5 39 (5.96%) Azure Certification
6 37 (5.66%) AWS Certification
7 22 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (3.21%) CISSP
9 18 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 12 (1.83%) CCNA
13 11 (1.68%) CCNP
13 11 (1.68%) RHCE
14 10 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (1.22%) RHCA
17 7 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
18 6 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 6 (0.92%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (3.21%) QA
3 18 (2.75%) NIST
4 14 (2.14%) GDPR
4 14 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.68%) SLA
6 10 (1.53%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.22%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.92%) GRC
8 6 (0.92%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.31%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.31%) NCSC
13 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 199 (30.43%) Docker
2 55 (8.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (6.73%) Active Directory
3 44 (6.73%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (4.59%) vSphere
5 28 (4.28%) Hyper-V
6 22 (3.36%) VMware NSX
7 13 (1.99%) KVM
8 12 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.53%) Firmware
9 10 (1.53%) NFS
9 10 (1.53%) Squid
10 7 (1.07%) Postfix
11 4 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.61%) Varnish
12 3 (0.46%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.46%) OpenSSH
12 3 (0.46%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 360 (55.05%) Terraform
2 285 (43.58%) Kubernetes
3 240 (36.70%) Ansible
4 139 (21.25%) Grafana
5 119 (18.20%) Prometheus
6 54 (8.26%) Puppet
7 51 (7.80%) Argo
8 37 (5.66%) Progress Chef
9 29 (4.43%) vCenter Server
10 21 (3.21%) Istio
11 13 (1.99%) Packer
12 10 (1.53%) NetBackup
13 9 (1.38%) Podman
14 8 (1.22%) HAProxy
15 7 (1.07%) Rancher
15 7 (1.07%) Salt
15 7 (1.07%) systemd
16 6 (0.92%) Consul
16 6 (0.92%) IBM BigFix
16 6 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 71 (10.86%) Red Hat
3 69 (10.55%) VMware
4 66 (10.09%) Google
5 63 (9.63%) Splunk
6 47 (7.19%) Oracle
7 44 (6.73%) Dynatrace
8 23 (3.52%) IBM
9 21 (3.21%) Databricks
10 20 (3.06%) Cisco
11 17 (2.60%) CyberArk
11 17 (2.60%) Pure Storage
12 15 (2.29%) ServiceNow
13 14 (2.14%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.99%) SolarWinds
15 12 (1.83%) Cloudera
15 12 (1.83%) Informatica
16 11 (1.68%) Fortinet
16 11 (1.68%) Talend
16 11 (1.68%) Zscaler