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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 142 197
Rank change year-on-year -21 +55 -56
Contract jobs citing Bash 807 569 420
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 2.03% 1.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.69% 6.20% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 364 276
10th Percentile £400 £377 £366
25th Percentile £456 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% -5.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £661
90th Percentile £725 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £541
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.84% -8.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 10
10th Percentile £58.43 £40.30 £47.00
25th Percentile £62.12 £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 £96.29 £59.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £99.76 £62.45 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £42.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +67.06% -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 12,064 9,182 10,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.08% 32.81% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,809 6,144 7,012
10th Percentile £363 £345 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £543
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
75th Percentile £636 £633 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 266 298
10th Percentile £23.00 £31.25 £30.35
25th Percentile £50.19 £42.25 £47.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% -
75th Percentile £70.88 £67.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.75 £79.42
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -30 393 £533 -0.93% 433
North of England -43 137 £500 - 82
South East -2 113 £574 +28.59% 124
South West +16 91 £655 +19.09% 75
Yorkshire -37 61 £500 -1.23% 17
North West -20 53 £525 +10.53% 51
East of England -22 30 £425 -11.92% 47
West Midlands -50 24 £525 -9.68% 15
Midlands -66 24 £525 -6.67% 29
North East -35 22 £419 -19.08% 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 38 (4.71%) Confluence
2 29 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (3.10%) Apache
4 19 (2.35%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.73%) nginx
5 14 (1.73%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.24%) IIS
7 9 (1.12%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.99%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.87%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.50%) SAS
10 4 (0.50%) WordPress
11 3 (0.37%) JBoss
12 2 (0.25%) CMS
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.12%) Camunda
13 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.12%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.99%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.62%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.62%) Summit
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.12%) Actimize
5 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 378 (46.84%) AWS
2 377 (46.72%) Azure
3 191 (23.67%) GitHub
4 167 (20.69%) GCP
5 138 (17.10%) GitHub Actions
6 135 (16.73%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (10.90%) Amazon EKS
8 69 (8.55%) Azure Monitor
9 66 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 66 (8.18%) Serverless
10 65 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 62 (7.68%) Amazon S3
12 59 (7.31%) Entra ID
13 52 (6.44%) OpenShift
14 51 (6.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 49 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
15 49 (6.07%) Azure AKS
15 49 (6.07%) Datadog
16 45 (5.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 43 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 133 (16.48%) Firewall
2 121 (14.99%) DNS
3 91 (11.28%) TCP/IP
4 74 (9.17%) Network Security
5 69 (8.55%) VPN
6 66 (8.18%) DHCP
7 21 (2.60%) WAN
8 19 (2.35%) SSH
9 16 (1.98%) SAN
9 16 (1.98%) VSAN
10 15 (1.86%) SSL
11 14 (1.73%) SD-WAN
12 13 (1.61%) VLAN
13 11 (1.36%) BGP
13 11 (1.36%) HTTP
13 11 (1.36%) Kerberos
14 10 (1.24%) 5G
15 9 (1.12%) 4G
16 8 (0.99%) NAS
16 8 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (4.21%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.47%) Redis
4 26 (3.22%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (2.97%) MySQL
7 22 (2.73%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.11%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.49%) Big Data
10 12 (1.49%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (1.49%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.36%) Metadata
12 10 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
12 10 (1.24%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.24%) Power BI
13 8 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.99%) Delta Lake
13 8 (0.99%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 207 (25.65%) Jenkins
2 177 (21.93%) Git
3 170 (21.07%) GitLab
4 45 (5.58%) JIRA
5 20 (2.48%) Artifactory
6 17 (2.11%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
8 15 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.86%) Selenium
9 10 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (0.99%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.99%) Maven
10 8 (0.99%) Postman
11 7 (0.87%) JMeter
11 7 (0.87%) MLflow
12 6 (0.74%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.74%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.62%) Subversion
14 4 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 189 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 158 (19.58%) Finance
3 106 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (8.80%) Banking
5 66 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.85%) Telecoms
7 15 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.61%) Legal
8 13 (1.61%) Military
9 11 (1.36%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.36%) Law
10 8 (0.99%) Retail
11 7 (0.87%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.74%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.62%) Front Office
13 5 (0.62%) Publishing
14 4 (0.50%) Automotive
14 4 (0.50%) Marketing
15 3 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 175 (21.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 111 (13.75%) Senior
3 73 (9.05%) Cloud Engineer
3 73 (9.05%) Platform Engineer
4 61 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 56 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
5 56 (6.94%) Security Engineer
6 50 (6.20%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (5.70%) Lead
8 44 (5.45%) Linux Engineer
9 42 (5.20%) Developer
10 39 (4.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 37 (4.58%) Architect
12 35 (4.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 35 (4.34%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 34 (4.21%) Senior DevOps
14 33 (4.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 33 (4.09%) Site Engineer
15 31 (3.84%) AWS DevOps
16 30 (3.72%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 477 (59.11%) Terraform
2 75 (9.29%) Kafka
3 58 (7.19%) ARM Templates
4 53 (6.57%) REST
5 42 (5.20%) Elastic Stack
6 38 (4.71%) YAML
7 29 (3.59%) Middleware
8 24 (2.97%) Loki
9 22 (2.73%) RESTful
10 21 (2.60%) React
11 18 (2.23%) Flask
11 18 (2.23%) JSON
11 18 (2.23%) Node.js
12 17 (2.11%) .NET
12 17 (2.11%) AngularJS
13 15 (1.86%) CSS
13 15 (1.86%) HTML
14 14 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
15 13 (1.61%) LDAP
15 13 (1.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 124 (15.37%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (5.33%) Security Posture
4 41 (5.08%) PKI
5 40 (4.96%) Onboarding
6 35 (4.34%) Enterprise Software
7 32 (3.97%) Linux Command Line
8 31 (3.84%) Data Centre
8 31 (3.84%) Management Information System
9 30 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
10 26 (3.22%) Public Cloud
11 21 (2.60%) Product Ownership
12 17 (2.11%) Cloud Security Posture
12 17 (2.11%) Replication
13 14 (1.73%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.49%) ARM Cortex
15 11 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
16 10 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
16 10 (1.24%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 414 (51.30%) Linux
2 191 (23.67%) Windows
3 100 (12.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 73 (9.05%) Windows Server
5 61 (7.56%) Unix
6 36 (4.46%) Ubuntu
7 17 (2.11%) CentOS
8 14 (1.73%) VMS
9 6 (0.74%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.74%) Rocky
9 6 (0.74%) Solaris
10 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.25%) AIX
12 2 (0.25%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.12%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.12%) Debian
13 1 (0.12%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (61.96%) CI/CD
2 451 (55.89%) DevOps
3 432 (53.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 242 (29.99%) Containerisation
5 228 (28.25%) Observability
6 176 (21.81%) Agile
7 175 (21.69%) Platform Engineering
8 168 (20.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 150 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
10 130 (16.11%) DevSecOps
11 126 (15.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 122 (15.12%) Cloud Security
13 111 (13.75%) Infrastructure Automation
14 105 (13.01%) Root Cause Analysis
15 104 (12.89%) AI
15 104 (12.89%) Runbook
15 104 (12.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 96 (11.90%) Migration
17 95 (11.77%) Configuration Management
18 86 (10.66%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 675 (83.64%) Python
2 400 (49.57%) PowerShell
3 114 (14.13%) SQL
4 97 (12.02%) Java
5 83 (10.29%) Bicep
6 70 (8.67%) Go
7 55 (6.82%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.47%) Perl
9 27 (3.35%) JavaScript
10 25 (3.10%) Groovy
11 21 (2.60%) Korn
12 17 (2.11%) TypeScript
13 14 (1.73%) C#
14 9 (1.12%) Ruby
15 8 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.62%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.50%) Cypher
18 3 (0.37%) Scala
18 3 (0.37%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 319 (39.53%) Security Cleared
2 233 (28.87%) SC Cleared
3 91 (11.28%) DV Cleared
4 64 (7.93%) AWS Certification
4 64 (7.93%) Degree
5 54 (6.69%) Azure Certification
6 36 (4.46%) CISSP
7 33 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 12 (1.49%) VCAP
12 11 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (0.87%) CCNP
15 6 (0.74%) CCSP
15 6 (0.74%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.82%) QA
2 33 (4.09%) NIST
3 30 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.87%) GDPR
6 7 (0.87%) NCSC
7 6 (0.74%) SLA
8 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.62%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 305 (37.79%) Docker
2 93 (11.52%) Active Directory
3 65 (8.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (4.34%) Hyper-V
5 27 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (3.22%) vSphere
7 17 (2.11%) VMware NSX
8 10 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (1.12%) Squid
10 7 (0.87%) NFS
11 5 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.62%) Postfix
12 4 (0.50%) HDFS
12 4 (0.50%) zsh
13 3 (0.37%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.37%) Firmware
13 3 (0.37%) KVM
13 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 390 (48.33%) Kubernetes
2 302 (37.42%) Ansible
3 174 (21.56%) Grafana
4 147 (18.22%) Prometheus
5 53 (6.57%) Puppet
6 49 (6.07%) Progress Chef
7 39 (4.83%) Argo
8 23 (2.85%) Istio
9 19 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (2.35%) SCCM
10 15 (1.86%) Kibana
10 15 (1.86%) Podman
11 14 (1.73%) VxRail
12 12 (1.49%) systemd
13 11 (1.36%) Packer
13 11 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (1.12%) Check_MK
15 8 (0.99%) Cilium
15 8 (0.99%) Consul
16 7 (0.87%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 169 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 99 (12.27%) Google
3 87 (10.78%) VMware
4 63 (7.81%) Splunk
5 61 (7.56%) Red Hat
6 55 (6.82%) Dynatrace
7 54 (6.69%) Oracle
8 32 (3.97%) CyberArk
9 31 (3.84%) ServiceNow
10 29 (3.59%) Cisco
11 23 (2.85%) Databricks
12 17 (2.11%) IBM
13 16 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
13 16 (1.98%) Palo Alto
14 12 (1.49%) NetApp
15 11 (1.36%) SolarWinds
16 10 (1.24%) BeyondTrust
16 10 (1.24%) BMC
16 10 (1.24%) Fortinet
17 9 (1.12%) WALLIX