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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 142 216
Rank change year-on-year -39 +74 -93
Contract jobs citing Bash 637 513 427
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.95% 1.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.42% 5.79% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 338 305
10th Percentile £388 £364 £400
25th Percentile £428 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £595 £623 £630
90th Percentile £688 £703 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 14
10th Percentile £54.75 £27.28 £22.00
25th Percentile £56.63 £38.80 £26.75
Median hourly rate £62.57 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.80% -5.22% -17.86%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.00 £69.84
90th Percentile £69.76 £64.80 £74.06
UK median hourly rate £62.57 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +14.80% -5.22% -17.86%

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 11,748 8,861 11,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.72% 33.64% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,648 6,116 8,213
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £521 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -3.61% -2.70%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £511 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.29% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 216 481
10th Percentile £35.25 £28.18 £35.58
25th Percentile £55.58 £36.19 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.98 £81.48 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -50 278 £511 -3.08% 108
North of England -5 150 £496 -0.75% 55
South East -15 88 £525 +18.64% 63
Yorkshire -16 84 £504 -4.10% 9
South West -25 54 £551 -4.13% 47
North West -10 51 £513 +5.67% 39
Midlands -47 33 £525 -8.70% 18
West Midlands -50 33 £525 -9.87% 9
East of England -30 18 £505 +6.32% 10
North East -25 15 £400 -27.27% 7
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 36 (5.65%) Confluence
2 18 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.51%) Apache
4 12 (1.88%) nginx
5 11 (1.73%) SAS
6 10 (1.57%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.10%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.94%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.78%) IIS
10 4 (0.63%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.63%) WordPress
11 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.31%) CMS
12 2 (0.31%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.31%) JBoss
12 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.31%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.16%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.31%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.16%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.16%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.16%) Shopify
3 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 296 (46.47%) AWS
2 252 (39.56%) Azure
3 176 (27.63%) GitHub
4 128 (20.09%) GCP
5 112 (17.58%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (15.54%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (9.58%) Amazon EKS
8 60 (9.42%) Serverless
9 59 (9.26%) OpenShift
10 57 (8.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 57 (8.95%) Amazon S3
11 50 (7.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 49 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 44 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (5.65%) Datadog
16 35 (5.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 31 (4.87%) Azure AKS
18 28 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
19 22 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (13.19%) DNS
2 79 (12.40%) Firewall
3 43 (6.75%) TCP/IP
4 41 (6.44%) VPN
5 39 (6.12%) Network Security
6 20 (3.14%) DHCP
7 18 (2.83%) SAN
8 15 (2.35%) NAS
8 15 (2.35%) SSL
9 13 (2.04%) VLAN
9 13 (2.04%) WAN
10 12 (1.88%) HTTP
11 9 (1.41%) SD-WAN
12 8 (1.26%) BGP
12 8 (1.26%) Reverse Proxy
12 8 (1.26%) SNMP
13 7 (1.10%) DNSSEC
14 5 (0.78%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.63%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
1 31 (4.87%) SQL Server
2 22 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (3.14%) MongoDB
4 17 (2.67%) MySQL
5 16 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (2.20%) Redis
8 13 (2.04%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.88%) Pentaho
10 9 (1.41%) Big Data
10 9 (1.41%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.26%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.26%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.10%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.10%) Metadata
13 6 (0.94%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (0.94%) Db2
Development Applications
1 185 (29.04%) Jenkins
2 127 (19.94%) GitLab
3 108 (16.95%) Git
4 40 (6.28%) JIRA
5 13 (2.04%) Artifactory
6 10 (1.57%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.41%) Postman
8 8 (1.26%) JMeter
9 7 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.94%) Liquibase
10 6 (0.94%) MLflow
10 6 (0.94%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (0.78%) Selenium
12 4 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.63%) Jaeger
13 3 (0.47%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.47%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.47%) Gatling
13 3 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 138 (21.66%) Social Skills
2 81 (12.72%) Finance
3 59 (9.26%) Public Sector
4 57 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (6.75%) Banking
6 19 (2.98%) Legal
7 16 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.10%) Law
9 7 (1.10%) Military
10 6 (0.94%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.78%) Retail
12 4 (0.63%) Publishing
13 3 (0.47%) Front Office
13 3 (0.47%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.31%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.31%) Aviation
14 2 (0.31%) Police
15 1 (0.16%) Corporate Banking
15 1 (0.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (20.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 61 (9.58%) Senior
3 56 (8.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 51 (8.01%) AWS Engineer
5 48 (7.54%) Platform Engineer
6 45 (7.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 43 (6.75%) Security Engineer
8 41 (6.44%) Architect
9 37 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
9 37 (5.81%) Lead
10 36 (5.65%) Site Engineer
11 32 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 30 (4.71%) Linux Engineer
13 29 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
14 27 (4.24%) Data Engineer
15 26 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
16 25 (3.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 24 (3.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 21 (3.30%) GCP DevOps
19 19 (2.98%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.75%) Kafka
2 40 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
3 30 (4.71%) REST
3 30 (4.71%) YAML
4 29 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
5 19 (2.98%) ARM Templates
5 19 (2.98%) Loki
6 16 (2.51%) Middleware
7 12 (1.88%) JSON
8 10 (1.57%) LDAP
8 10 (1.57%) Node.js
8 10 (1.57%) SAML
9 9 (1.41%) .NET
9 9 (1.41%) OAuth
9 9 (1.41%) React
9 9 (1.41%) SOAP
9 9 (1.41%) Swagger
10 7 (1.10%) cloud-init
10 7 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (0.94%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 104 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 35 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (5.18%) Security Posture
5 22 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
6 21 (3.30%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.98%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.83%) Management Information System
9 17 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (2.67%) Replication
10 15 (2.35%) Public Cloud
11 14 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.73%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 9 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
15 7 (1.10%) PKI
15 7 (1.10%) Private Cloud
15 7 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 261 (40.97%) Linux
2 107 (16.80%) Windows
3 65 (10.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (6.59%) Unix
5 31 (4.87%) Windows Server
6 23 (3.61%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.57%) AIX
7 10 (1.57%) VMS
8 8 (1.26%) CentOS
9 7 (1.10%) Solaris
10 4 (0.63%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.31%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.31%) Debian
12 2 (0.31%) Rocky
12 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (58.87%) CI/CD
2 354 (55.57%) DevOps
3 294 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 186 (29.20%) Containerisation
5 153 (24.02%) Observability
6 117 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
7 107 (16.80%) Platform Engineering
8 105 (16.48%) Agile
9 93 (14.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 83 (13.03%) Migration
11 81 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 81 (12.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 80 (12.56%) Cloud Security
13 77 (12.09%) High Availability
14 70 (10.99%) Configuration Management
15 68 (10.68%) Root Cause Analysis
16 65 (10.20%) Infrastructure Automation
17 62 (9.73%) AI
17 62 (9.73%) Runbook
18 59 (9.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 559 (87.76%) Python
2 273 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 84 (13.19%) SQL
4 53 (8.32%) Go
5 51 (8.01%) Java
6 28 (4.40%) Bicep
7 23 (3.61%) Shell Script
8 22 (3.45%) Perl
9 19 (2.98%) Groovy
10 18 (2.83%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.73%) Ruby
12 9 (1.41%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.10%) C
13 7 (1.10%) C#
14 6 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.94%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.78%) Korn
15 5 (0.78%) Scala
16 4 (0.63%) C++
16 4 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 218 (34.22%) Security Cleared
2 178 (27.94%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.28%) Degree
4 38 (5.97%) Azure Certification
5 36 (5.65%) AWS Certification
6 34 (5.34%) DV Cleared
7 21 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (3.30%) CISSP
8 17 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (1.73%) CCNA
11 11 (1.73%) CCNP
11 11 (1.73%) RHCE
12 10 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (1.26%) RHCA
14 7 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.94%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (2.98%) QA
3 18 (2.83%) NIST
4 14 (2.20%) GDPR
4 14 (2.20%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.73%) SLA
6 10 (1.57%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.26%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.94%) GRC
8 6 (0.94%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.31%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.31%) NCSC
13 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.16%) HL7
13 1 (0.16%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 193 (30.30%) Docker
2 48 (7.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (6.91%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (5.97%) Active Directory
5 26 (4.08%) vSphere
6 22 (3.45%) Hyper-V
7 18 (2.83%) VMware NSX
8 13 (2.04%) KVM
9 12 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (1.57%) Firmware
10 10 (1.57%) NFS
10 10 (1.57%) Squid
11 7 (1.10%) Postfix
12 4 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.63%) Varnish
13 3 (0.47%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.47%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.47%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 348 (54.63%) Terraform
2 277 (43.49%) Kubernetes
3 233 (36.58%) Ansible
4 138 (21.66%) Grafana
5 119 (18.68%) Prometheus
6 54 (8.48%) Puppet
7 50 (7.85%) Argo
8 37 (5.81%) Progress Chef
9 29 (4.55%) vCenter Server
10 21 (3.30%) Istio
11 13 (2.04%) Packer
12 10 (1.57%) NetBackup
13 9 (1.41%) Podman
14 8 (1.26%) HAProxy
15 7 (1.10%) Rancher
15 7 (1.10%) Salt
15 7 (1.10%) systemd
16 6 (0.94%) Consul
16 6 (0.94%) IBM BigFix
16 6 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (11.77%) Microsoft
2 70 (10.99%) Red Hat
3 66 (10.36%) Google
4 63 (9.89%) Splunk
5 60 (9.42%) VMware
6 45 (7.06%) Oracle
7 44 (6.91%) Dynatrace
8 23 (3.61%) IBM
9 21 (3.30%) Databricks
10 19 (2.98%) Cisco
11 17 (2.67%) Pure Storage
12 15 (2.35%) ServiceNow
13 14 (2.20%) Palo Alto
14 13 (2.04%) CyberArk
14 13 (2.04%) SolarWinds
15 12 (1.88%) Cloudera
15 12 (1.88%) Informatica
16 11 (1.73%) Fortinet
16 11 (1.73%) Talend
16 11 (1.73%) Zscaler