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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 145 189
Rank change year-on-year -14 +44 -52
Contract jobs citing Bash 607 462 460
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.79% 1.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.77% 5.35% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 290 320
10th Percentile £393 £375 £406
25th Percentile £416 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £587 £700 £650
90th Percentile £700 £798 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 16
10th Percentile - £25.25 £36.63
25th Percentile £41.25 £27.50 £59.50
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 10,521 8,631 10,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.75% 33.50% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,031 5,627 7,856
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 207 461
10th Percentile £41.42 £25.26 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.55 £42.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -20 246 £525 -8.70% 55
North of England -5 152 £500 -10.31% 47
South East +13 94 £460 -1.87% 27
Yorkshire -27 82 £482 -12.36% 18
North West -1 59 £550 -3.51% 19
Midlands -13 59 £469 -6.20% 17
West Midlands -15 50 £469 -21.83% 12
South West -36 29 £551 -8.13% 27
North East -3 15 £538 +10.37% 10
East of England -25 13 £444 -6.58% 7
East Midlands -24 9 £470 +15.34% 5
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 31 (5.11%) Confluence
2 15 (2.47%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.65%) nginx
4 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.82%) Apache
6 5 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.82%) SAS
7 3 (0.49%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.49%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.49%) IIS
8 2 (0.33%) CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.33%) Traefik
8 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.16%) FileNet
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.32%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.16%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 268 (44.15%) AWS
2 225 (37.07%) Azure
3 142 (23.39%) GitHub
4 116 (19.11%) GCP
5 79 (13.01%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (12.19%) OpenShift
7 68 (11.20%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (9.88%) Amazon S3
9 56 (9.23%) Amazon EC2
10 53 (8.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 51 (8.40%) Serverless
12 46 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 46 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 45 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
14 38 (6.26%) Entra ID
15 35 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
16 33 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
17 22 (3.62%) Datadog
17 22 (3.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 21 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 94 (15.49%) Firewall
2 67 (11.04%) DNS
3 57 (9.39%) TCP/IP
4 39 (6.43%) VPN
5 29 (4.78%) Network Security
6 22 (3.62%) VLAN
7 21 (3.46%) SSL
7 21 (3.46%) Wireshark
8 18 (2.97%) BGP
9 15 (2.47%) DHCP
10 10 (1.65%) Multicast
11 9 (1.48%) Software-Defined Networking
12 7 (1.15%) HTTP
12 7 (1.15%) OSPF
12 7 (1.15%) SNMP
13 6 (0.99%) SSH
13 6 (0.99%) WebEx
14 5 (0.82%) DKIM
14 5 (0.82%) SMTP
15 4 (0.66%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (6.26%) SQL Server
3 37 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (3.46%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.29%) Redis
7 19 (3.13%) MySQL
8 14 (2.31%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.81%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.48%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.48%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.15%) Big Data
13 6 (0.99%) DB2
13 6 (0.99%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.99%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.99%) Pentaho
14 5 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 161 (26.52%) Jenkins
2 133 (21.91%) GitLab
3 104 (17.13%) Git
4 41 (6.75%) JIRA
5 15 (2.47%) CircleCI
6 14 (2.31%) Metasploit
7 13 (2.14%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.14%) Burp Suite
8 7 (1.15%) Artifactory
8 7 (1.15%) Maven
9 6 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.82%) Gradle
10 5 (0.82%) Selenium
10 5 (0.82%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.82%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.66%) MLflow
11 4 (0.66%) ScriptRunner
11 4 (0.66%) sqlmap
11 4 (0.66%) Subversion
12 3 (0.49%) Liquibase
General
1 176 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 91 (14.99%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 54 (8.90%) Finance
5 24 (3.95%) Banking
6 19 (3.13%) Legal
7 18 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.81%) Retail
9 8 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.15%) Military
11 4 (0.66%) Front Office
11 4 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.66%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.49%) Games
12 3 (0.49%) Law
12 3 (0.49%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.33%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 111 (18.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 70 (11.53%) Platform Engineer
3 66 (10.87%) Senior
4 41 (6.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 38 (6.26%) AWS Engineer
6 37 (6.10%) Site Engineer
7 35 (5.77%) Architect
8 30 (4.94%) Lead
9 29 (4.78%) Security Engineer
10 27 (4.45%) Developer
11 25 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
11 25 (4.12%) Network Engineer
12 24 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
13 23 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
14 22 (3.62%) Data Engineer
15 21 (3.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (3.46%) Senior DevOps
15 21 (3.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 20 (3.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.73%) Elastic Stack
2 36 (5.93%) Kafka
3 28 (4.61%) REST
4 17 (2.80%) ARM Templates
4 17 (2.80%) Loki
4 17 (2.80%) Node.js
5 16 (2.64%) Keycloak
5 16 (2.64%) Middleware
5 16 (2.64%) YAML
6 15 (2.47%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (1.65%) .NET
8 8 (1.32%) LDAP
8 8 (1.32%) SAML
9 7 (1.15%) ADO
9 7 (1.15%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.15%) OAuth
10 6 (0.99%) .NET Core
10 6 (0.99%) OpenAPI
10 6 (0.99%) Swagger
10 6 (0.99%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.37%) Cloud Native
2 36 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.79%) Data Centre
4 23 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (3.79%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.46%) Security Posture
6 16 (2.64%) Replication
7 15 (2.47%) PKI
8 14 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.98%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.98%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.65%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.48%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.15%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.15%) Clustering
13 7 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.15%) NHS
14 6 (0.99%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 290 (47.78%) Linux
2 111 (18.29%) Windows
3 68 (11.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 63 (10.38%) Unix
5 34 (5.60%) Windows Server
6 30 (4.94%) Mac OS
7 14 (2.31%) CentOS
7 14 (2.31%) Ubuntu
8 12 (1.98%) VMS
9 11 (1.81%) Solaris
10 9 (1.48%) AIX
10 9 (1.48%) Kali Linux
11 6 (0.99%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (53.87%) CI/CD
2 310 (51.07%) DevOps
3 276 (45.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 195 (32.13%) Containerisation
5 139 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
6 135 (22.24%) Observability
7 110 (18.12%) Agile
8 104 (17.13%) Platform Engineering
9 86 (14.17%) Incident Response
10 82 (13.51%) High Availability
10 82 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 73 (12.03%) Infrastructure Automation
12 69 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 67 (11.04%) Migration
14 65 (10.71%) DevSecOps
15 64 (10.54%) Test Automation
16 61 (10.05%) Configuration Management
17 60 (9.88%) Root Cause Analysis
18 58 (9.56%) Task Automation
19 49 (8.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 517 (85.17%) Python
2 236 (38.88%) PowerShell
3 64 (10.54%) SQL
4 39 (6.43%) Java
5 34 (5.60%) Perl
6 31 (5.11%) Go
7 30 (4.94%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.62%) Shell Script
9 20 (3.29%) Bicep
10 16 (2.64%) C#
11 15 (2.47%) Groovy
11 15 (2.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (1.65%) PHP
13 9 (1.48%) C
13 9 (1.48%) C++
14 7 (1.15%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.82%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.66%) Korn
18 3 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 217 (35.75%) Security Cleared
2 179 (29.49%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.25%) Degree
4 33 (5.44%) AWS Certification
5 26 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (3.62%) CCNP
8 21 (3.46%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.80%) OSCP
10 16 (2.64%) GPEN
11 15 (2.47%) CCNA
12 14 (2.31%) Azure Certification
13 13 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (1.98%) CEH
15 11 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (1.81%) CCDP
15 11 (1.81%) RHCE
16 9 (1.48%) CISSP
17 8 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
18 7 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.45%) GDPR
2 22 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (2.14%) NIST
3 13 (2.14%) QA
4 12 (1.98%) NCSC
5 9 (1.48%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.32%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.99%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.82%) SLA
9 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.49%) GRC
10 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.33%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 229 (37.73%) Docker
2 74 (12.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (7.41%) Active Directory
4 36 (5.93%) vSphere
5 28 (4.61%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (3.13%) VMware NSX
7 18 (2.97%) Hyper-V
7 18 (2.97%) KVM
8 10 (1.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 9 (1.48%) Lustre
10 8 (1.32%) GPFS
11 7 (1.15%) Firmware
12 6 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.66%) Postfix
13 4 (0.66%) Squid
13 4 (0.66%) zsh
14 3 (0.49%) Ceph
14 3 (0.49%) NFS
14 3 (0.49%) Snort
Systems Management
1 307 (50.58%) Terraform
2 280 (46.13%) Kubernetes
3 234 (38.55%) Ansible
4 120 (19.77%) Grafana
5 104 (17.13%) Prometheus
6 52 (8.57%) Puppet
7 51 (8.40%) Argo
8 26 (4.28%) vCenter Server
9 21 (3.46%) Istio
10 20 (3.29%) Kibana
11 19 (3.13%) Progress Chef
12 17 (2.80%) Nmap
13 16 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
14 15 (2.47%) SCCM
15 13 (2.14%) Red Hat Satellite
16 12 (1.98%) Jamf Pro
16 12 (1.98%) NetBackup
17 11 (1.81%) Kustomize
17 11 (1.81%) Packer
18 9 (1.48%) Rancher
Vendors
1 102 (16.80%) VMware
2 95 (15.65%) Microsoft
3 89 (14.66%) Splunk
4 87 (14.33%) Red Hat
5 43 (7.08%) Google
6 30 (4.94%) Palo Alto
7 27 (4.45%) Cisco
8 25 (4.12%) Dynatrace
8 25 (4.12%) F5
9 23 (3.79%) Oracle
10 21 (3.46%) Citrix
11 19 (3.13%) CheckPoint
11 19 (3.13%) Pure Storage
12 18 (2.97%) Databricks
13 13 (2.14%) ServiceNow
14 12 (1.98%) CyberArk
15 11 (1.81%) Atlassian
16 10 (1.65%) IBM
16 10 (1.65%) Qualys
16 10 (1.65%) Veritas