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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 139 193
Rank change year-on-year -25 +54 -52
Contract jobs citing Bash 798 566 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 2.02% 1.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.61% 6.15% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 367 279
10th Percentile £400 £377 £361
25th Percentile £450 £438 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £678 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 10
10th Percentile £57.12 £40.30 £47.00
25th Percentile £61.74 £41.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £42.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +67.06% -27.66% -21.67%
75th Percentile £93.75 £59.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £99.53 £62.45 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £69.61 £42.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +63.78% -27.66% -21.67%

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 12,074 9,210 10,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.95% 32.87% 32.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,812 6,183 7,103
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £543
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.16% -1.27%
75th Percentile £634 £635 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +3.65% -3.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 265 298
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £48.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £71.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.75 £80.00
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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -23 388 £525 -2.33% 391
North of England -41 140 £500 - 118
South East -5 108 £568 +27.07% 149
South West +15 88 £671 +21.93% 93
Yorkshire -34 62 £500 -1.23% 28
North West -24 55 £525 +10.53% 69
East of England -11 31 £425 -11.92% 56
West Midlands -47 24 £525 -9.68% 28
Midlands -67 24 £525 -6.67% 52
North East -41 22 £419 -19.08% 22
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 38 (4.76%) Confluence
2 28 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (3.13%) Apache
4 18 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.75%) nginx
5 14 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.13%) IIS
6 9 (1.13%) Tomcat
7 8 (1.00%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.88%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.50%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.50%) SAS
9 4 (0.50%) WordPress
10 3 (0.38%) JBoss
11 2 (0.25%) CMS
11 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.13%) Camunda
12 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.13%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.00%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.63%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.63%) Summit
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.13%) Actimize
5 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 377 (47.24%) AWS
2 365 (45.74%) Azure
3 190 (23.81%) GitHub
4 159 (19.92%) GCP
5 137 (17.17%) GitHub Actions
6 133 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 85 (10.65%) Amazon EKS
8 66 (8.27%) Serverless
9 65 (8.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 64 (8.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 62 (7.77%) Amazon S3
12 61 (7.64%) Azure Monitor
13 54 (6.77%) Entra ID
14 52 (6.52%) OpenShift
15 51 (6.39%) Datadog
16 50 (6.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 49 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
18 46 (5.76%) Azure AKS
19 43 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
19 43 (5.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 127 (15.91%) Firewall
2 113 (14.16%) DNS
3 86 (10.78%) TCP/IP
4 71 (8.90%) Network Security
5 64 (8.02%) VPN
6 60 (7.52%) DHCP
7 21 (2.63%) WAN
8 19 (2.38%) SSH
9 17 (2.13%) SAN
9 17 (2.13%) VSAN
10 15 (1.88%) SSL
11 14 (1.75%) SD-WAN
12 13 (1.63%) VLAN
13 11 (1.38%) BGP
13 11 (1.38%) HTTP
13 11 (1.38%) Kerberos
14 10 (1.25%) 5G
15 9 (1.13%) 4G
15 9 (1.13%) NAS
16 8 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.51%) Redis
4 26 (3.26%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.13%) MySQL
6 24 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (2.76%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.01%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.50%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.38%) Big Data
10 11 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.38%) Metadata
11 10 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (1.25%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.25%) Power BI
12 8 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (1.00%) Delta Lake
12 8 (1.00%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 199 (24.94%) Jenkins
2 168 (21.05%) Git
3 164 (20.55%) GitLab
4 46 (5.76%) JIRA
5 19 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 17 (2.13%) SonarQube
7 16 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
8 15 (1.88%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.88%) Selenium
9 8 (1.00%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.00%) Maven
9 8 (1.00%) Postman
10 7 (0.88%) JMeter
10 7 (0.88%) MLflow
11 6 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.75%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.75%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.63%) Subversion
13 4 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 182 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 154 (19.30%) Finance
3 105 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (8.65%) Banking
5 65 (8.15%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.01%) Telecoms
7 14 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.63%) Legal
9 12 (1.50%) Military
10 11 (1.38%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.38%) Law
11 8 (1.00%) Retail
12 7 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.75%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.63%) Front Office
14 5 (0.63%) Publishing
15 4 (0.50%) Automotive
15 4 (0.50%) Marketing
16 3 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 164 (20.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 107 (13.41%) Senior
3 73 (9.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 71 (8.90%) Platform Engineer
5 57 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 55 (6.89%) Security Engineer
7 53 (6.64%) Azure Engineer
8 48 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
9 45 (5.64%) Lead
9 45 (5.64%) Linux Engineer
10 42 (5.26%) Developer
11 39 (4.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 38 (4.76%) Architect
13 34 (4.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 33 (4.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 33 (4.14%) Site Engineer
15 32 (4.01%) Senior DevOps
16 31 (3.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 30 (3.76%) Network Engineer
18 29 (3.63%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (58.52%) Terraform
2 73 (9.15%) Kafka
3 54 (6.77%) REST
4 53 (6.64%) ARM Templates
5 42 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
6 39 (4.89%) YAML
7 29 (3.63%) Middleware
8 24 (3.01%) Loki
9 22 (2.76%) RESTful
10 21 (2.63%) JSON
11 20 (2.51%) React
12 18 (2.26%) Flask
12 18 (2.26%) Node.js
13 16 (2.01%) .NET
13 16 (2.01%) AngularJS
14 15 (1.88%) CSS
14 15 (1.88%) HTML
14 15 (1.88%) LDAP
15 14 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
16 13 (1.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 123 (15.41%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (5.39%) Security Posture
4 38 (4.76%) PKI
5 37 (4.64%) Onboarding
6 33 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
6 33 (4.14%) Linux Command Line
7 31 (3.88%) Data Centre
8 30 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (3.76%) Management Information System
9 26 (3.26%) Public Cloud
10 21 (2.63%) Product Ownership
11 18 (2.26%) Replication
12 17 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
13 14 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
14 11 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
15 10 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
15 10 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
16 9 (1.13%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 406 (50.88%) Linux
2 187 (23.43%) Windows
3 101 (12.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (8.40%) Windows Server
5 61 (7.64%) Unix
6 37 (4.64%) Ubuntu
7 17 (2.13%) CentOS
8 15 (1.88%) VMS
9 6 (0.75%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.75%) Rocky
9 6 (0.75%) Solaris
10 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.25%) AIX
12 2 (0.25%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.13%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (61.15%) CI/CD
2 437 (54.76%) DevOps
3 426 (53.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 230 (28.82%) Containerisation
5 224 (28.07%) Observability
6 175 (21.93%) Agile
7 165 (20.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 165 (20.68%) Platform Engineering
8 148 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
9 125 (15.66%) DevSecOps
10 121 (15.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 119 (14.91%) Cloud Security
12 108 (13.53%) Infrastructure Automation
13 104 (13.03%) AI
13 104 (13.03%) Root Cause Analysis
14 103 (12.91%) Runbook
15 98 (12.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 94 (11.78%) Configuration Management
17 93 (11.65%) Migration
18 88 (11.03%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 674 (84.46%) Python
2 392 (49.12%) PowerShell
3 112 (14.04%) SQL
4 98 (12.28%) Java
5 78 (9.77%) Bicep
6 71 (8.90%) Go
7 54 (6.77%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.51%) Perl
9 27 (3.38%) JavaScript
10 25 (3.13%) Groovy
11 21 (2.63%) Korn
12 17 (2.13%) TypeScript
13 13 (1.63%) C#
14 9 (1.13%) Ruby
15 8 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (1.00%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.75%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.50%) Cypher
18 3 (0.38%) C
18 3 (0.38%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 310 (38.85%) Security Cleared
2 228 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 85 (10.65%) DV Cleared
4 62 (7.77%) AWS Certification
4 62 (7.77%) Degree
5 56 (7.02%) Azure Certification
6 35 (4.39%) CISSP
7 32 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 12 (1.50%) VCAP
11 12 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 10 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 9 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.88%) CCNP
15 6 (0.75%) CCNA
15 6 (0.75%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.89%) QA
2 35 (4.39%) NIST
3 33 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.75%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.88%) GDPR
6 7 (0.88%) NCSC
6 7 (0.88%) SLA
7 6 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.63%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.63%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 293 (36.72%) Docker
2 89 (11.15%) Active Directory
3 69 (8.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (4.64%) Hyper-V
5 30 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (3.63%) vSphere
7 17 (2.13%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (1.13%) Squid
10 8 (1.00%) NFS
11 5 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.63%) Postfix
12 4 (0.50%) zsh
13 3 (0.38%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.38%) Firmware
13 3 (0.38%) HDFS
13 3 (0.38%) KVM
13 3 (0.38%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 378 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 294 (36.84%) Ansible
3 174 (21.80%) Grafana
4 148 (18.55%) Prometheus
5 51 (6.39%) Puppet
6 48 (6.02%) Progress Chef
7 38 (4.76%) Argo
8 22 (2.76%) Istio
9 16 (2.01%) Podman
10 15 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (1.75%) Kibana
11 14 (1.75%) SCCM
11 14 (1.75%) VxRail
12 12 (1.50%) systemd
13 11 (1.38%) Packer
14 10 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (1.13%) Check_MK
15 9 (1.13%) Consul
16 8 (1.00%) Cilium
17 7 (0.88%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 160 (20.05%) Microsoft
2 96 (12.03%) Google
3 92 (11.53%) VMware
4 64 (8.02%) Splunk
5 62 (7.77%) Red Hat
6 55 (6.89%) Dynatrace
7 54 (6.77%) Oracle
8 32 (4.01%) CyberArk
9 31 (3.88%) Cisco
10 28 (3.51%) ServiceNow
11 23 (2.88%) Databricks
12 17 (2.13%) IBM
12 17 (2.13%) Palo Alto
13 13 (1.63%) NetApp
14 12 (1.50%) SolarWinds
15 11 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
15 11 (1.38%) Fortinet
16 10 (1.25%) BMC
17 9 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
17 9 (1.13%) Remedy