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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 143 206
Rank change year-on-year -40 +63 -71
Contract jobs citing Bash 573 468 421
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.92% 1.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.26% 5.70% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 306 288
10th Percentile £395 £378 £400
25th Percentile £416 £457 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -14.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £621
90th Percentile £675 £775 £716
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.61% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 9
10th Percentile £51.80 £25.25 £21.70
25th Percentile £58.01 £36.63 £22.00
Median hourly rate £68.70 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.90% +4.76% -26.57%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.43 £77.50 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +35.02% +4.76% -25.00%

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 10,902 8,205 10,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.20% 33.66% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,285 5,627 7,849
10th Percentile £355 £360 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -2.33% -4.87%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 501 213 430
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -50 221 £520 -5.45% 72
North of England -23 153 £500 -9.09% 51
South East -11 86 £475 +2.70% 42
Yorkshire -32 79 £479 -13.00% 12
North West -2 64 £550 -3.93% 22
Midlands -38 48 £463 -19.57% 20
West Midlands -24 45 £465 -28.60% 11
South West -37 38 £525 -12.50% 37
North East -5 14 £550 -1.35% 17
East of England -34 10 £413 -13.16% 19
East Midlands -35 3 £436 +10.38% 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 (5.76%) Confluence
2 14 (2.44%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.75%) nginx
4 8 (1.40%) SAS
5 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.05%) Apache
6 6 (1.05%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.87%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.52%) IIS
10 2 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) FileNet
11 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Weka
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 243 (42.41%) AWS
2 216 (37.70%) Azure
3 162 (28.27%) GitHub
4 103 (17.98%) GCP
5 87 (15.18%) Azure DevOps
6 86 (15.01%) GitHub Actions
7 77 (13.44%) OpenShift
8 56 (9.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 55 (9.60%) Serverless
10 49 (8.55%) Amazon S3
11 48 (8.38%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (7.16%) Amazon EC2
13 38 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 32 (5.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 29 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
16 29 (5.06%) Azure AKS
17 26 (4.54%) Entra ID
18 22 (3.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 21 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 80 (13.96%) Firewall
2 69 (12.04%) DNS
3 42 (7.33%) TCP/IP
4 29 (5.06%) VPN
5 20 (3.49%) Network Security
5 20 (3.49%) VLAN
6 16 (2.79%) DHCP
7 13 (2.27%) HTTP
8 12 (2.09%) BGP
9 10 (1.75%) SNMP
10 9 (1.57%) Wireshark
11 8 (1.40%) Software-Defined Networking
11 8 (1.40%) SSL
12 7 (1.22%) SAN
13 6 (1.05%) NAS
13 6 (1.05%) SSH
13 6 (1.05%) WebEx
14 5 (0.87%) SMTP
15 4 (0.70%) Kerberos
15 4 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (5.58%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 22 (3.84%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.14%) NoSQL
6 17 (2.97%) Redis
7 14 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (2.44%) MySQL
8 13 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.75%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.57%) Big Data
10 9 (1.57%) Pentaho
11 8 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.40%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.05%) DB2
13 5 (0.87%) Data Vault
13 5 (0.87%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.87%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 165 (28.80%) Jenkins
2 117 (20.42%) GitLab
3 96 (16.75%) Git
4 42 (7.33%) JIRA
5 13 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.75%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.22%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.05%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.87%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.87%) Selenium
10 4 (0.70%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.70%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.70%) ScriptRunner
10 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.70%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.52%) Appium
11 3 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.52%) Jaeger
11 3 (0.52%) Snyk
General
1 162 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 81 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (9.77%) Finance
4 54 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.24%) Banking
6 21 (3.66%) Legal
7 12 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.57%) Retail
10 6 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.70%) Military
12 3 (0.52%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.52%) Games
12 3 (0.52%) Law
12 3 (0.52%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.35%) Aviation
13 2 (0.35%) Billing
13 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (17.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 80 (13.96%) Platform Engineer
3 47 (8.20%) Senior
4 40 (6.98%) Architect
5 38 (6.63%) AWS Engineer
5 38 (6.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 34 (5.93%) Site Engineer
7 31 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (5.06%) Security Engineer
9 28 (4.89%) Lead
10 26 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (4.36%) Data Engineer
12 23 (4.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (3.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 21 (3.66%) AWS DevOps
14 21 (3.66%) GCP Engineer
15 20 (3.49%) Automation Engineer
15 20 (3.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 18 (3.14%) Linux Engineer
17 17 (2.97%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.68%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (6.81%) Kafka
3 35 (6.11%) REST
4 25 (4.36%) OpenTelemetry
5 21 (3.66%) YAML
6 20 (3.49%) ARM Templates
7 16 (2.79%) Loki
8 14 (2.44%) Keycloak
9 13 (2.27%) Middleware
9 13 (2.27%) Node.js
10 11 (1.92%) LDAP
10 11 (1.92%) OAuth
11 10 (1.75%) SAML
12 9 (1.57%) .NET
12 9 (1.57%) ADO
13 7 (1.22%) SOAP
14 6 (1.05%) AngularJS
14 6 (1.05%) OpenAPI
14 6 (1.05%) Swagger
14 6 (1.05%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 74 (12.91%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.19%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (2.62%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.44%) Replication
9 12 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.09%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.92%) PKI
10 11 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.92%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.75%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.05%) Clustering
13 5 (0.87%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.87%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 252 (43.98%) Linux
2 108 (18.85%) Windows
3 61 (10.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (8.90%) Unix
5 37 (6.46%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.14%) Mac OS
7 15 (2.62%) Ubuntu
7 15 (2.62%) VMS
8 10 (1.75%) AIX
9 8 (1.40%) CentOS
10 6 (1.05%) Solaris
11 5 (0.87%) Windows 10
12 4 (0.70%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.17%) Debian
15 1 (0.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (54.80%) CI/CD
2 300 (52.36%) DevOps
3 258 (45.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 189 (32.98%) Containerisation
5 140 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (23.73%) Observability
7 122 (21.29%) Platform Engineering
8 108 (18.85%) Agile
9 84 (14.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 74 (12.91%) High Availability
11 67 (11.69%) Configuration Management
12 65 (11.34%) Infrastructure Automation
13 62 (10.82%) Migration
14 59 (10.30%) Test Automation
15 58 (10.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 56 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
17 54 (9.42%) DevSecOps
18 53 (9.25%) Root Cause Analysis
19 51 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
19 51 (8.90%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 491 (85.69%) Python
2 243 (42.41%) PowerShell
3 65 (11.34%) SQL
4 35 (6.11%) Java
5 31 (5.41%) Go
6 28 (4.89%) Bicep
7 26 (4.54%) Perl
8 21 (3.66%) JavaScript
9 18 (3.14%) Groovy
9 18 (3.14%) Shell Script
10 15 (2.62%) C#
11 11 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (1.57%) PHP
13 8 (1.40%) C
14 7 (1.22%) Ruby
15 5 (0.87%) C++
15 5 (0.87%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.87%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.70%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 195 (34.03%) Security Cleared
2 162 (28.27%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.81%) Degree
4 30 (5.24%) AWS Certification
5 24 (4.19%) Azure Certification
6 23 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (3.84%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (3.84%) DV Cleared
8 19 (3.32%) CCNP
9 17 (2.97%) CCNA
10 11 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (1.57%) CCDP
11 9 (1.57%) CISSP
11 9 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.22%) CEH
12 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.32%) GDPR
2 17 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (2.27%) QA
4 10 (1.75%) NCSC
4 10 (1.75%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.57%) NIST
5 9 (1.57%) SLA
6 8 (1.40%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.22%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.87%) GRC
8 5 (0.87%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.17%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 202 (35.25%) Docker
2 71 (12.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (7.50%) vSphere
4 42 (7.33%) Active Directory
5 35 (6.11%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (4.36%) VMware NSX
7 22 (3.84%) Hyper-V
8 15 (2.62%) KVM
9 9 (1.57%) Firmware
10 7 (1.22%) Lustre
10 7 (1.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (1.05%) GPFS
11 6 (1.05%) Postfix
12 3 (0.52%) Ceph
12 3 (0.52%) NFS
12 3 (0.52%) Squid
13 2 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.35%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 299 (52.18%) Terraform
2 267 (46.60%) Kubernetes
3 209 (36.47%) Ansible
4 122 (21.29%) Grafana
5 105 (18.32%) Prometheus
6 61 (10.65%) Argo
7 48 (8.38%) Puppet
8 33 (5.76%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.19%) Istio
10 19 (3.32%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.09%) Kibana
12 11 (1.92%) Kustomize
12 11 (1.92%) Rancher
12 11 (1.92%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (1.75%) NetBackup
14 9 (1.57%) Packer
14 9 (1.57%) SCCM
15 8 (1.40%) linkerd
16 7 (1.22%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 97 (16.93%) VMware
2 87 (15.18%) Red Hat
3 83 (14.49%) Microsoft
4 79 (13.79%) Splunk
5 35 (6.11%) Google
6 28 (4.89%) Dynatrace
7 24 (4.19%) Databricks
8 23 (4.01%) Cisco
8 23 (4.01%) Pure Storage
9 22 (3.84%) Oracle
10 15 (2.62%) Citrix
11 13 (2.27%) IBM
12 12 (2.09%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.92%) AppDynamics
13 11 (1.92%) Atlassian
13 11 (1.92%) Dell
13 11 (1.92%) F5
14 10 (1.75%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.75%) Palo Alto
14 10 (1.75%) Tenable