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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 148 196
Rank change year-on-year -16 +48 -54
Contract jobs citing Bash 767 527 419
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.91% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.44% 5.83% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 349 292
10th Percentile £399 £375 £369
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £630 £615 £639
90th Percentile £725 £675 £701
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 10
10th Percentile £56.50 £41.25 £24.93
25th Percentile £58.43 £43.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £69.61 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.72% -5.22% -20.69%
75th Percentile £92.81 £60.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.41 £63.25 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +25.17% -5.22% -20.69%

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 11,908 9,045 10,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.08% 32.80% 32.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,704 6,165 7,453
10th Percentile £363 £349 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 266 315
10th Percentile £29.96 £30.61 £31.98
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.60 £79.38 £79.67
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -31 348 £505 -3.85% 434
North of England -25 147 £500 - 90
South East -5 106 £558 +17.47% 113
South West +3 84 £670 +16.52% 62
Yorkshire -28 67 £515 +0.49% 20
North West -21 56 £525 +10.53% 56
East of England -4 32 £425 -3.68% 31
West Midlands -43 29 £525 -6.67% 15
Midlands -54 29 £525 -6.67% 29
North East -38 23 £419 -19.47% 14
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 (4.04%) Confluence
2 24 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.61%) Apache
4 14 (1.83%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.56%) nginx
6 8 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.04%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.91%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.78%) IIS
8 6 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.65%) SAS
10 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.52%) WordPress
11 3 (0.39%) JBoss
12 2 (0.26%) CMS
12 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.78%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.26%) Front Arena
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.26%) Summit
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 364 (47.46%) AWS
2 353 (46.02%) Azure
3 195 (25.42%) GitHub
4 156 (20.34%) GCP
5 135 (17.60%) GitHub Actions
6 132 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
7 74 (9.65%) Amazon EKS
8 69 (9.00%) Serverless
9 64 (8.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 64 (8.34%) Amazon S3
10 63 (8.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 60 (7.82%) Azure Monitor
12 56 (7.30%) OpenShift
13 50 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (6.39%) Entra ID
15 48 (6.26%) Datadog
15 48 (6.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 45 (5.87%) Azure AKS
17 43 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
18 41 (5.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 132 (17.21%) DNS
2 127 (16.56%) Firewall
3 90 (11.73%) TCP/IP
4 65 (8.47%) VPN
5 62 (8.08%) DHCP
5 62 (8.08%) Network Security
6 20 (2.61%) WAN
7 19 (2.48%) SAN
7 19 (2.48%) VSAN
8 16 (2.09%) HTTP
8 16 (2.09%) SSL
8 16 (2.09%) VLAN
9 15 (1.96%) SSH
10 13 (1.69%) SD-WAN
11 11 (1.43%) NAS
12 10 (1.30%) BGP
13 9 (1.17%) SNMP
14 8 (1.04%) 5G
14 8 (1.04%) Kerberos
15 7 (0.91%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (3.00%) NoSQL
4 22 (2.87%) MongoDB
4 22 (2.87%) Redis
5 18 (2.35%) MySQL
6 14 (1.83%) Data Lake
7 11 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (1.43%) Big Data
7 11 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
8 10 (1.30%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.30%) Pentaho
9 9 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.17%) Metadata
9 9 (1.17%) Oracle Database
10 8 (1.04%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 195 (25.42%) Jenkins
2 161 (20.99%) GitLab
3 143 (18.64%) Git
4 40 (5.22%) JIRA
5 14 (1.83%) Selenium
6 13 (1.69%) Artifactory
6 13 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (1.56%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.04%) Postman
8 8 (1.04%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.91%) JMeter
10 6 (0.78%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.78%) MLflow
10 6 (0.78%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.52%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.52%) Maven
11 4 (0.52%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.39%) Bugzilla
General
1 180 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 122 (15.91%) Finance
3 98 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 52 (6.78%) Banking
6 21 (2.74%) Telecoms
7 16 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.96%) Legal
9 11 (1.43%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.30%) Law
11 8 (1.04%) Military
12 7 (0.91%) Retail
13 5 (0.65%) Front Office
13 5 (0.65%) Publishing
14 4 (0.52%) Automotive
15 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.39%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 145 (18.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 100 (13.04%) Senior
3 73 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (9.39%) Platform Engineer
5 58 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 51 (6.65%) Azure Engineer
7 50 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
8 49 (6.39%) Security Engineer
9 44 (5.74%) Lead
10 43 (5.61%) Architect
10 43 (5.61%) Linux Engineer
11 39 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 34 (4.43%) Site Engineer
13 31 (4.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 30 (3.91%) Developer
15 29 (3.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
16 26 (3.39%) GCP Engineer
17 24 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 24 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (58.54%) Terraform
2 67 (8.74%) Kafka
3 47 (6.13%) ARM Templates
4 42 (5.48%) REST
5 41 (5.35%) YAML
6 40 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
7 21 (2.74%) Loki
7 21 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
8 16 (2.09%) Middleware
8 16 (2.09%) Node.js
9 15 (1.96%) .NET
9 15 (1.96%) JSON
9 15 (1.96%) RESTful
10 14 (1.83%) SAML
11 13 (1.69%) React
12 12 (1.56%) Flask
12 12 (1.56%) LDAP
12 12 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (1.56%) Spring
13 11 (1.43%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 122 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 39 (5.08%) Security Posture
4 34 (4.43%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
6 31 (4.04%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (4.04%) PKI
7 30 (3.91%) Data Centre
8 27 (3.52%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.87%) Public Cloud
10 18 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (2.35%) Replication
11 15 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
12 13 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
12 13 (1.69%) Product Ownership
13 11 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 11 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
14 9 (1.17%) Enterprise Storage
14 9 (1.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 359 (46.81%) Linux
2 170 (22.16%) Windows
3 90 (11.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (8.74%) Windows Server
5 49 (6.39%) Unix
6 35 (4.56%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.96%) VMS
8 13 (1.69%) CentOS
9 7 (0.91%) Solaris
10 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.65%) Rocky
11 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.26%) AIX
13 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (59.32%) CI/CD
2 413 (53.85%) DevOps
3 396 (51.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 219 (28.55%) Containerisation
5 206 (26.86%) Observability
6 169 (22.03%) Platform Engineering
7 150 (19.56%) Agile
8 149 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
9 146 (19.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 118 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 109 (14.21%) Cloud Security
12 107 (13.95%) DevSecOps
13 99 (12.91%) Infrastructure Automation
14 98 (12.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 94 (12.26%) Root Cause Analysis
16 92 (11.99%) AI
17 90 (11.73%) Configuration Management
18 89 (11.60%) Migration
18 89 (11.60%) Runbook
19 83 (10.82%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 659 (85.92%) Python
2 370 (48.24%) PowerShell
3 98 (12.78%) SQL
4 83 (10.82%) Java
5 71 (9.26%) Bicep
6 65 (8.47%) Go
7 40 (5.22%) Shell Script
8 29 (3.78%) Perl
9 22 (2.87%) Groovy
10 18 (2.35%) JavaScript
11 14 (1.83%) Korn
11 14 (1.83%) Ruby
12 12 (1.56%) C#
12 12 (1.56%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.17%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.65%) Scala
16 4 (0.52%) Cypher
17 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
17 3 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 288 (37.55%) Security Cleared
2 211 (27.51%) SC Cleared
3 80 (10.43%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.21%) Azure Certification
5 60 (7.82%) AWS Certification
6 56 (7.30%) Degree
7 32 (4.17%) CISSP
8 28 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 14 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.83%) VCAP
13 12 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (1.30%) CCNA
15 10 (1.30%) CCNP
16 9 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.35%) QA
2 35 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.52%) NIST
4 16 (2.09%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.43%) GDPR
7 10 (1.30%) SLA
8 7 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.78%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.78%) NCSC
9 6 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.39%) GRC
12 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 256 (33.38%) Docker
2 86 (11.21%) Active Directory
3 79 (10.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (5.22%) Hyper-V
5 36 (4.69%) vSphere
6 32 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (3.13%) VMware NSX
8 15 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.30%) Squid
10 9 (1.17%) NFS
11 6 (0.78%) Firmware
11 6 (0.78%) Postfix
12 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.52%) zsh
13 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.39%) KVM
13 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.39%) Varnish
13 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.26%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 356 (46.41%) Kubernetes
2 284 (37.03%) Ansible
3 168 (21.90%) Grafana
4 143 (18.64%) Prometheus
5 54 (7.04%) Puppet
6 50 (6.52%) Progress Chef
7 42 (5.48%) Argo
8 21 (2.74%) Istio
9 17 (2.22%) Podman
10 14 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.83%) VxRail
11 13 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (1.69%) vCenter Server
12 12 (1.56%) SCCM
12 12 (1.56%) systemd
13 10 (1.30%) Kibana
13 10 (1.30%) Packer
14 9 (1.17%) Check_MK
15 8 (1.04%) Consul
16 7 (0.91%) Cilium
Vendors
1 146 (19.04%) Microsoft
2 102 (13.30%) VMware
3 85 (11.08%) Google
4 69 (9.00%) Red Hat
5 63 (8.21%) Splunk
6 54 (7.04%) Oracle
7 51 (6.65%) Dynatrace
8 32 (4.17%) CyberArk
9 30 (3.91%) Cisco
10 25 (3.26%) Databricks
11 23 (3.00%) ServiceNow
12 15 (1.96%) IBM
13 14 (1.83%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.69%) NetApp
15 12 (1.56%) SolarWinds
16 10 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
16 10 (1.30%) Zscaler
17 9 (1.17%) BeyondTrust
17 9 (1.17%) Fortinet
17 9 (1.17%) WALLIX