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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 175 170
Rank change year-on-year +40 -5 -16
Contract jobs citing Bash 667 424 576
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.12% 1.47% 1.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.81% 4.51% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 257 417
10th Percentile £395 £375 £406
25th Percentile £427 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £576
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -0.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £738 £700
90th Percentile £675 £810 £798
UK median daily rate £520 £544 £575
% change year-on-year -4.41% -5.39% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 17
10th Percentile - £39.35 £59.20
25th Percentile £41.25 £52.50 £67.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -13.33% +2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 £94.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.70 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -12.69% -13.33% +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 9,791 9,411 11,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.10% 32.58% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,484 6,126 8,310
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 229 384
10th Percentile £34.25 £26.05 £35.19
25th Percentile £51.16 £44.49 £46.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -1.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 +42 294 £550 -9.47% 83
North of England +11 153 £513 -10.09% 40
South East +30 87 £496 +7.24% 68
Yorkshire -20 78 £489 -11.18% 22
North West +2 54 £550 -5.58% 15
Midlands -3 53 £486 +10.45% 20
West Midlands -2 42 £519 +6.03% 11
South West -7 35 £575 -10.51% 36
North East +12 25 £550 -2.65% 4
East of England -21 16 £444 -26.04% 26
East Midlands -11 11 £470 +13.25% 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 33 (4.95%) Confluence
2 17 (2.55%) OpenStack
3 12 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.50%) Apache
4 10 (1.50%) nginx
5 7 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.90%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.60%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.45%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.45%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.45%) IIS
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) CICS
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Documentum
10 1 (0.15%) FileNet
10 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.20%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Finacle
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 311 (46.63%) AWS
2 254 (38.08%) Azure
3 154 (23.09%) GCP
4 141 (21.14%) GitHub
5 84 (12.59%) GitHub Actions
6 68 (10.19%) Amazon S3
7 67 (10.04%) OpenShift
8 64 (9.60%) Amazon EC2
9 62 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 60 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 50 (7.50%) Entra ID
13 49 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 46 (6.90%) Serverless
15 43 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
16 34 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
17 33 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
18 27 (4.05%) Datadog
19 24 (3.60%) Azure AKS
20 22 (3.30%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 115 (17.24%) Firewall
2 81 (12.14%) DNS
3 71 (10.64%) TCP/IP
4 44 (6.60%) VPN
5 35 (5.25%) Network Security
6 31 (4.65%) SSL
7 25 (3.75%) Wireshark
8 21 (3.15%) VLAN
9 19 (2.85%) BGP
10 15 (2.25%) DHCP
11 11 (1.65%) SSH
12 10 (1.50%) HTTP
12 10 (1.50%) OSPF
13 9 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
14 8 (1.20%) Ethernet
14 8 (1.20%) Multicast
15 7 (1.05%) SD-WAN
15 7 (1.05%) SMTP
15 7 (1.05%) SNMP
16 6 (0.90%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (12.14%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (5.85%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (5.55%) SQL Server
4 27 (4.05%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.75%) Redis
6 23 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
7 20 (3.00%) MySQL
8 18 (2.70%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.80%) Big Data
9 12 (1.80%) Hadoop
10 11 (1.65%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.50%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.20%) Oracle Database
13 7 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.05%) Relational Database
14 6 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.75%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.75%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 188 (28.19%) Jenkins
2 146 (21.89%) GitLab
3 121 (18.14%) Git
4 50 (7.50%) JIRA
5 17 (2.55%) Metasploit
6 16 (2.40%) Burp Suite
6 16 (2.40%) SonarQube
7 15 (2.25%) CircleCI
8 13 (1.95%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (1.65%) Maven
10 8 (1.20%) Artifactory
10 8 (1.20%) MLflow
11 7 (1.05%) Subversion
12 6 (0.90%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.75%) Gradle
13 5 (0.75%) Liquibase
13 5 (0.75%) Mockito
13 5 (0.75%) Spinnaker
14 4 (0.60%) sqlmap
General
1 196 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 89 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (10.49%) Public Sector
4 61 (9.15%) Finance
5 31 (4.65%) Banking
6 21 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.25%) Legal
8 10 (1.50%) Front Office
8 10 (1.50%) Retail
9 8 (1.20%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.05%) Military
11 6 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.75%) Games
12 5 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.60%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.60%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.60%) Law
13 4 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 115 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (12.14%) Senior
3 60 (9.00%) Platform Engineer
4 38 (5.70%) Developer
5 35 (5.25%) Site Engineer
6 34 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
6 34 (5.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 33 (4.95%) Architect
8 32 (4.80%) Lead
9 31 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (4.65%) Network Engineer
10 30 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
11 29 (4.35%) Administrator
12 28 (4.20%) Security Engineer
13 25 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
13 25 (3.75%) Data Engineer
14 22 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
15 21 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (9.60%) Elastic Stack
2 51 (7.65%) Kafka
3 31 (4.65%) Keycloak
4 29 (4.35%) REST
5 22 (3.30%) Middleware
6 20 (3.00%) Node.js
7 14 (2.10%) .NET
7 14 (2.10%) Loki
7 14 (2.10%) YAML
8 13 (1.95%) ARM Templates
9 11 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
9 11 (1.65%) SAML
10 10 (1.50%) OAuth
11 9 (1.35%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.35%) LDAP
12 8 (1.20%) RESTful
12 8 (1.20%) Spring
12 8 (1.20%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.05%) OAuth2
13 7 (1.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 22 (3.30%) PKI
6 18 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 18 (2.70%) Replication
7 17 (2.55%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.10%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.10%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.35%) Clustering
12 9 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.35%) NHS
12 9 (1.35%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.20%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 311 (46.63%) Linux
2 115 (17.24%) Windows
3 78 (11.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 59 (8.85%) Unix
5 38 (5.70%) Mac OS
6 31 (4.65%) Windows Server
7 27 (4.05%) CentOS
8 19 (2.85%) Ubuntu
9 15 (2.25%) Solaris
10 10 (1.50%) Windows 10
11 8 (1.20%) Kali Linux
12 7 (1.05%) VMS
13 4 (0.60%) Debian
14 3 (0.45%) AIX
15 1 (0.15%) Android
15 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (54.42%) CI/CD
2 333 (49.93%) DevOps
3 300 (44.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 205 (30.73%) Containerisation
5 147 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (20.09%) Observability
7 117 (17.54%) Agile
8 93 (13.94%) Incident Response
9 87 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
9 87 (13.04%) Test Automation
10 85 (12.74%) High Availability
11 83 (12.44%) DevSecOps
12 82 (12.29%) Infrastructure Automation
13 75 (11.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 72 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 70 (10.49%) Migration
16 68 (10.19%) Task Automation
17 63 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
18 60 (9.00%) Data Protection
19 59 (8.85%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 577 (86.51%) Python
2 247 (37.03%) PowerShell
3 70 (10.49%) SQL
4 61 (9.15%) Go
4 61 (9.15%) Java
5 54 (8.10%) Perl
6 35 (5.25%) JavaScript
7 33 (4.95%) Shell Script
8 19 (2.85%) Groovy
8 19 (2.85%) Kusto Query Language
9 18 (2.70%) C++
10 17 (2.55%) Bicep
11 16 (2.40%) C#
12 14 (2.10%) C
13 13 (1.95%) PHP
14 9 (1.35%) TypeScript
15 7 (1.05%) PromQL
16 6 (0.90%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.75%) Rust
17 5 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 222 (33.28%) Security Cleared
2 181 (27.14%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.90%) Degree
4 33 (4.95%) DV Cleared
5 31 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (3.45%) OSCP
9 18 (2.70%) CCNP
9 18 (2.70%) CEH
10 17 (2.55%) CCNA
11 15 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (2.25%) CISSP
11 15 (2.25%) GPEN
12 14 (2.10%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (1.50%) CCDP
15 9 (1.35%) Master's Degree
15 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (4.80%) GDPR
3 19 (2.85%) NCSC
4 17 (2.55%) NIST
5 13 (1.95%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.95%) QA
6 11 (1.65%) HIPAA
6 11 (1.65%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.50%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.75%) SLA
9 4 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.15%) GxP
10 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 254 (38.08%) Docker
2 87 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (8.10%) Active Directory
4 28 (4.20%) vSphere
5 11 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 9 (1.35%) GPFS
7 9 (1.35%) KVM
7 9 (1.35%) Lustre
7 9 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.35%) VMware NSX
8 8 (1.20%) zsh
9 7 (1.05%) Firmware
10 6 (0.90%) NFS
10 6 (0.90%) Squid
11 5 (0.75%) Snort
12 4 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.60%) Postfix
12 4 (0.60%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 310 (46.48%) Terraform
2 295 (44.23%) Kubernetes
3 258 (38.68%) Ansible
4 141 (21.14%) Grafana
5 128 (19.19%) Prometheus
6 50 (7.50%) Argo
7 46 (6.90%) Puppet
8 26 (3.90%) Istio
9 23 (3.45%) NetBackup
10 21 (3.15%) SCCM
11 20 (3.00%) Kibana
12 19 (2.85%) Microsoft Intune
12 19 (2.85%) Nmap
13 18 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
14 17 (2.55%) Progress Chef
15 14 (2.10%) Packer
15 14 (2.10%) Red Hat Satellite
16 13 (1.95%) Oracle RMAN
17 11 (1.65%) vCenter Server
18 10 (1.50%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 117 (17.54%) VMware
2 104 (15.59%) Microsoft
3 98 (14.69%) Red Hat
3 98 (14.69%) Splunk
4 47 (7.05%) Google
5 41 (6.15%) Palo Alto
6 38 (5.70%) Cisco
7 31 (4.65%) Oracle
8 30 (4.50%) F5
9 28 (4.20%) CheckPoint
10 26 (3.90%) Citrix
11 21 (3.15%) CyberArk
11 21 (3.15%) ServiceNow
11 21 (3.15%) Veritas
12 18 (2.70%) Dynatrace
13 16 (2.40%) Databricks
13 16 (2.40%) Juniper
14 15 (2.25%) Zscaler
15 13 (1.95%) CrowdStrike
15 13 (1.95%) Qualys