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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 144 210
Rank change year-on-year -42 +66 -74
Contract jobs citing Bash 575 470 421
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.93% 1.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.25% 5.72% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 309 288
10th Percentile £395 £379 £400
25th Percentile £416 £457 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -14.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £621
90th Percentile £679 £775 £716
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.61% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 9
10th Percentile £52.35 £25.25 £21.70
25th Percentile £58.43 £36.63 £22.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +4.76% -28.08%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £77.50 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £68.70 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +24.90% +4.76% -28.08%

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 10,958 8,223 10,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.02% 33.76% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,313 5,656 7,874
10th Percentile £353 £361 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -4.78%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 212 432
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.31 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.44 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £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 9 April 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 April 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 April 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 -45 226 £520 -5.45% 72
North of England -23 151 £500 -9.09% 51
South East -10 83 £470 +1.51% 42
Yorkshire -35 77 £479 -13.00% 12
North West +5 64 £550 -3.93% 22
Midlands -33 49 £463 -19.57% 20
West Midlands -27 46 £465 -28.60% 11
South West -39 39 £525 -13.40% 37
North East -7 14 £550 -1.35% 17
East of England -38 10 £413 -13.16% 19
East Midlands -35 3 £436 +10.38% 9
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 (5.57%) Confluence
2 14 (2.43%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.74%) nginx
4 8 (1.39%) SAS
5 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.87%) Apache
7 5 (0.87%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.52%) IIS
10 2 (0.35%) CMS
10 2 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.17%) FileNet
11 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (1.04%) Weka
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
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
1 252 (43.83%) AWS
2 221 (38.43%) Azure
3 159 (27.65%) GitHub
4 105 (18.26%) GCP
5 90 (15.65%) Azure DevOps
6 85 (14.78%) GitHub Actions
7 74 (12.87%) OpenShift
8 57 (9.91%) Serverless
9 54 (9.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 51 (8.87%) Amazon S3
11 47 (8.17%) Amazon EKS
12 43 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
13 40 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (5.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 32 (5.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (5.04%) Azure AKS
17 27 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (4.70%) Entra ID
18 22 (3.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 21 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 83 (14.43%) Firewall
2 69 (12.00%) DNS
3 42 (7.30%) TCP/IP
4 30 (5.22%) VPN
5 20 (3.48%) Network Security
5 20 (3.48%) VLAN
6 16 (2.78%) DHCP
7 13 (2.26%) HTTP
8 12 (2.09%) BGP
9 10 (1.74%) SNMP
10 8 (1.39%) SAN
10 8 (1.39%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (1.39%) SSH
10 8 (1.39%) SSL
11 7 (1.22%) NAS
11 7 (1.22%) Wireshark
12 6 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
12 6 (1.04%) WebEx
13 5 (0.87%) SMTP
14 4 (0.70%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (5.57%) SQL Server
3 30 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (3.65%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 17 (2.96%) Redis
7 15 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (2.61%) MySQL
8 14 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.74%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.57%) Big Data
10 9 (1.57%) Pentaho
11 8 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.39%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.04%) DB2
13 5 (0.87%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (0.87%) Data Vault
13 5 (0.87%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 165 (28.70%) Jenkins
2 117 (20.35%) GitLab
3 97 (16.87%) Git
4 41 (7.13%) JIRA
5 13 (2.26%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.74%) CircleCI
7 9 (1.57%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.04%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.87%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.87%) Selenium
10 4 (0.70%) ScriptRunner
10 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.70%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.52%) Ant
11 3 (0.52%) Appium
11 3 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.52%) Jaeger
11 3 (0.52%) Snyk
12 2 (0.35%) Introscope
General
1 158 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 83 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (9.57%) Finance
4 52 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 28 (4.87%) Banking
6 21 (3.65%) Legal
7 13 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.57%) Retail
10 8 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.04%) Military
12 5 (0.87%) Law
13 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.52%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.52%) Private Banking
15 2 (0.35%) Aviation
15 2 (0.35%) Billing
15 2 (0.35%) Games
15 2 (0.35%) Police
15 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 80 (13.91%) Platform Engineer
3 47 (8.17%) Senior
4 41 (7.13%) Architect
5 37 (6.43%) AWS Engineer
6 34 (5.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 32 (5.57%) Azure Engineer
8 30 (5.22%) Site Engineer
9 29 (5.04%) Security Engineer
10 28 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 26 (4.52%) Lead
12 25 (4.35%) Data Engineer
13 24 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (3.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 22 (3.83%) GCP Engineer
15 21 (3.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 19 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
16 19 (3.30%) Linux Engineer
17 18 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
18 17 (2.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.65%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (6.78%) Kafka
3 35 (6.09%) REST
4 25 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 21 (3.65%) YAML
6 20 (3.48%) ARM Templates
7 13 (2.26%) Keycloak
7 13 (2.26%) Middleware
7 13 (2.26%) Node.js
8 12 (2.09%) LDAP
8 12 (2.09%) Loki
9 11 (1.91%) OAuth
10 10 (1.74%) SAML
11 9 (1.57%) .NET
11 9 (1.57%) ADO
12 7 (1.22%) SOAP
13 6 (1.04%) JSON
13 6 (1.04%) RESTful
13 6 (1.04%) Swagger
13 6 (1.04%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 73 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 25 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.96%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (2.61%) Replication
7 15 (2.61%) Security Posture
8 13 (2.26%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.09%) PKI
10 11 (1.91%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.74%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.22%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.04%) Clustering
14 5 (0.87%) Grid Computing
15 4 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 248 (43.13%) Linux
2 110 (19.13%) Windows
3 57 (9.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (8.87%) Unix
5 37 (6.43%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.13%) Mac OS
7 16 (2.78%) Ubuntu
8 15 (2.61%) VMS
9 10 (1.74%) AIX
10 7 (1.22%) CentOS
11 6 (1.04%) Solaris
12 5 (0.87%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.35%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.17%) Debian
15 1 (0.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (54.96%) CI/CD
2 304 (52.87%) DevOps
3 258 (44.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 190 (33.04%) Containerisation
5 142 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
6 131 (22.78%) Observability
7 124 (21.57%) Platform Engineering
8 105 (18.26%) Agile
9 79 (13.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 75 (13.04%) High Availability
11 66 (11.48%) Infrastructure Automation
12 65 (11.30%) Configuration Management
13 63 (10.96%) Migration
14 59 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 57 (9.91%) Test Automation
16 56 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 54 (9.39%) DevSecOps
18 53 (9.22%) Root Cause Analysis
19 51 (8.87%) Cybersecurity
20 50 (8.70%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 492 (85.57%) Python
2 246 (42.78%) PowerShell
3 67 (11.65%) SQL
4 35 (6.09%) Java
5 31 (5.39%) Go
6 28 (4.87%) Bicep
7 26 (4.52%) Perl
8 21 (3.65%) JavaScript
9 18 (3.13%) Groovy
10 17 (2.96%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.43%) C#
12 11 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (1.57%) PHP
14 8 (1.39%) C
15 7 (1.22%) Ruby
16 6 (1.04%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.87%) C++
17 5 (0.87%) TypeScript
18 4 (0.70%) PL/SQL
19 3 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 195 (33.91%) Security Cleared
2 162 (28.17%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.43%) Degree
4 30 (5.22%) AWS Certification
5 26 (4.52%) Azure Certification
6 24 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 23 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.30%) CCNP
9 18 (3.13%) CCNA
10 11 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (1.57%) CCDP
11 9 (1.57%) CISSP
12 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.87%) CEH
14 5 (0.87%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.30%) GDPR
2 18 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.43%) QA
4 11 (1.91%) NIST
5 10 (1.74%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.57%) NCSC
6 9 (1.57%) SLA
7 8 (1.39%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.22%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.04%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.87%) GRC
11 4 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.17%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 203 (35.30%) Docker
2 70 (12.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (8.00%) Active Directory
4 40 (6.96%) vSphere
5 35 (6.09%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (4.35%) Hyper-V
6 25 (4.35%) VMware NSX
7 15 (2.61%) KVM
8 9 (1.57%) Firmware
9 8 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (1.22%) Lustre
10 7 (1.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (1.04%) GPFS
11 6 (1.04%) Postfix
12 4 (0.70%) NFS
13 3 (0.52%) Ceph
13 3 (0.52%) Squid
14 2 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.35%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 303 (52.70%) Terraform
2 268 (46.61%) Kubernetes
3 213 (37.04%) Ansible
4 120 (20.87%) Grafana
5 104 (18.09%) Prometheus
6 58 (10.09%) Argo
7 48 (8.35%) Puppet
8 34 (5.91%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.17%) Istio
10 19 (3.30%) Progress Chef
11 13 (2.26%) Kibana
12 11 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (1.91%) Rancher
12 11 (1.91%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (1.57%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.39%) linkerd
14 8 (1.39%) Packer
14 8 (1.39%) SCCM
15 7 (1.22%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (1.22%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 96 (16.70%) VMware
2 86 (14.96%) Microsoft
3 82 (14.26%) Red Hat
4 79 (13.74%) Splunk
5 35 (6.09%) Google
6 28 (4.87%) Dynatrace
7 25 (4.35%) Cisco
8 24 (4.17%) Databricks
8 24 (4.17%) Pure Storage
9 22 (3.83%) Oracle
10 15 (2.61%) Citrix
11 13 (2.26%) IBM
12 12 (2.09%) Atlassian
12 12 (2.09%) Dell
12 12 (2.09%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.91%) AppDynamics
13 11 (1.91%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.91%) F5
13 11 (1.91%) Palo Alto
14 10 (1.74%) Tenable