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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 147 214
Rank change year-on-year -34 +67 -93
Contract jobs citing Bash 673 521 426
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.50% 1.92% 1.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.66% 5.79% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 344 306
10th Percentile £386 £361 £400
25th Percentile £435 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £613 £615 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 14
10th Percentile £56.35 £43.90 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £45.75 £26.75
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -17.86%
75th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £69.84
90th Percentile £100.00 £66.34 £74.06
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.84% -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 11,899 9,002 11,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.57% 33.09% 30.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,754 6,201 8,063
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -3.75% -1.82%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 227 438
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £35.37
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% -5.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £71.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.58 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -64 284 £511 -2.62% 64
North of England -1 161 £500 - 33
South East -19 93 £525 +20.69% 52
Yorkshire -4 84 £507 -3.43% 6
South West -23 67 £576 +0.22% 25
North West -10 60 £538 +10.82% 20
West Midlands -51 31 £525 -4.55% 11
Midlands -56 31 £525 -4.55% 18
East of England -18 21 £483 +1.58% 9
North East -29 17 £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 38 (5.65%) Confluence
2 19 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.53%) Apache
4 11 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.63%) nginx
4 11 (1.63%) SAS
5 7 (1.04%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.89%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.74%) IIS
8 4 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.59%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.59%) WordPress
9 3 (0.45%) JBoss
9 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.30%) CMS
10 2 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.30%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.30%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.15%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 319 (47.40%) AWS
2 277 (41.16%) Azure
3 182 (27.04%) GitHub
4 133 (19.76%) GCP
5 118 (17.53%) GitHub Actions
6 106 (15.75%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (9.36%) Amazon EKS
8 60 (8.92%) OpenShift
8 60 (8.92%) Serverless
9 57 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 56 (8.32%) Amazon S3
11 53 (7.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 47 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 44 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (5.94%) Datadog
15 39 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
16 36 (5.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 33 (4.90%) Azure AKS
18 30 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
19 22 (3.27%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 101 (15.01%) DNS
2 96 (14.26%) Firewall
3 56 (8.32%) TCP/IP
4 43 (6.39%) Network Security
5 42 (6.24%) VPN
6 34 (5.05%) DHCP
7 17 (2.53%) SAN
8 15 (2.23%) VLAN
9 14 (2.08%) NAS
9 14 (2.08%) SSL
10 12 (1.78%) WAN
11 11 (1.63%) HTTP
11 11 (1.63%) VSAN
12 9 (1.34%) SNMP
13 8 (1.19%) BGP
13 8 (1.19%) SD-WAN
14 7 (1.04%) DNSSEC
14 7 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
15 4 (0.59%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 30 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (2.82%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.23%) MySQL
6 14 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (1.93%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.93%) Redis
8 11 (1.63%) Pentaho
9 10 (1.49%) Big Data
9 10 (1.49%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.34%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.19%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.19%) Metadata
11 8 (1.19%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 192 (28.53%) Jenkins
2 127 (18.87%) GitLab
3 112 (16.64%) Git
4 42 (6.24%) JIRA
5 12 (1.78%) Artifactory
6 10 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.34%) Postman
7 9 (1.34%) Selenium
8 8 (1.19%) JMeter
9 7 (1.04%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.89%) Liquibase
10 6 (0.89%) MLflow
11 5 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (0.74%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.74%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.59%) Jaeger
13 3 (0.45%) Ant
13 3 (0.45%) Gradle
General
1 146 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 85 (12.63%) Finance
3 65 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 46 (6.84%) Banking
6 19 (2.82%) Legal
7 18 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.04%) Law
9 7 (1.04%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.89%) Military
11 5 (0.74%) Retail
12 4 (0.59%) Publishing
13 3 (0.45%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.45%) Front Office
13 3 (0.45%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.30%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.30%) Automotive
14 2 (0.30%) Aviation
14 2 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 141 (20.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 74 (11.00%) Senior
3 63 (9.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 52 (7.73%) Platform Engineer
5 49 (7.28%) AWS Engineer
6 43 (6.39%) Security Engineer
7 42 (6.24%) Architect
8 40 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 40 (5.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 39 (5.79%) Lead
10 38 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
11 33 (4.90%) Linux Engineer
12 32 (4.75%) Site Engineer
13 29 (4.31%) GCP Engineer
14 27 (4.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 26 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
15 26 (3.86%) Data Engineer
16 25 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
16 25 (3.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 24 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (6.54%) Kafka
2 37 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
3 33 (4.90%) REST
4 32 (4.75%) YAML
5 29 (4.31%) OpenTelemetry
6 21 (3.12%) ARM Templates
7 20 (2.97%) Loki
8 16 (2.38%) Middleware
9 13 (1.93%) JSON
10 12 (1.78%) LDAP
10 12 (1.78%) Node.js
11 10 (1.49%) SAML
12 9 (1.34%) .NET
12 9 (1.34%) OAuth
12 9 (1.34%) React
12 9 (1.34%) SOAP
12 9 (1.34%) Swagger
13 7 (1.04%) AngularJS
13 7 (1.04%) cloud-init
13 7 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 109 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 35 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.20%) Security Posture
4 27 (4.01%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
6 24 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.97%) Replication
8 19 (2.82%) PKI
9 18 (2.67%) Management Information System
10 17 (2.53%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.78%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 9 (1.34%) Clustering
15 9 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
16 8 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
17 7 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 284 (42.20%) Linux
2 130 (19.32%) Windows
3 73 (10.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 40 (5.94%) Unix
5 36 (5.35%) Windows Server
6 27 (4.01%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.49%) AIX
7 10 (1.49%) VMS
8 8 (1.19%) CentOS
9 7 (1.04%) Solaris
10 4 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.45%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.30%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.30%) Debian
12 2 (0.30%) Rocky
12 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (58.54%) CI/CD
2 366 (54.38%) DevOps
3 317 (47.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 196 (29.12%) Containerisation
5 158 (23.48%) Observability
6 126 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
7 122 (18.13%) Platform Engineering
8 119 (17.68%) Agile
9 98 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 93 (13.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 88 (13.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 86 (12.78%) Cloud Security
13 85 (12.63%) Migration
14 80 (11.89%) High Availability
15 77 (11.44%) Configuration Management
16 72 (10.70%) DevSecOps
16 72 (10.70%) Infrastructure Automation
17 68 (10.10%) SIEM
18 67 (9.96%) Root Cause Analysis
18 67 (9.96%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 590 (87.67%) Python
2 300 (44.58%) PowerShell
3 85 (12.63%) SQL
4 54 (8.02%) Java
5 52 (7.73%) Go
6 29 (4.31%) Bicep
7 24 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 23 (3.42%) Perl
9 20 (2.97%) Groovy
10 16 (2.38%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.63%) Ruby
12 10 (1.49%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.34%) TypeScript
14 7 (1.04%) C
15 6 (0.89%) C#
15 6 (0.89%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.74%) Korn
16 5 (0.74%) Scala
17 4 (0.59%) C++
18 3 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 238 (35.36%) Security Cleared
2 187 (27.79%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.98%) AWS Certification
4 46 (6.84%) DV Cleared
5 44 (6.54%) Azure Certification
6 39 (5.79%) Degree
7 24 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (3.12%) CISSP
9 16 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.93%) CCNP
11 13 (1.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 12 (1.78%) CCNA
13 11 (1.63%) RHCE
14 10 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.19%) RHCA
16 7 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
16 7 (1.04%) VCAP
17 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.86%) QA
2 25 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.53%) NIST
4 14 (2.08%) GDPR
4 14 (2.08%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.63%) SLA
6 10 (1.49%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.19%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.89%) GRC
9 5 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.30%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.30%) NCSC
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 208 (30.91%) Docker
2 63 (9.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (7.73%) Active Directory
4 43 (6.39%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (4.90%) Hyper-V
5 33 (4.90%) vSphere
6 25 (3.71%) VMware NSX
7 13 (1.93%) KVM
8 12 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.49%) Firmware
9 10 (1.49%) NFS
9 10 (1.49%) Squid
10 7 (1.04%) Postfix
11 5 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.59%) Varnish
13 3 (0.45%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.45%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.45%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 374 (55.57%) Terraform
2 294 (43.68%) Kubernetes
3 252 (37.44%) Ansible
4 143 (21.25%) Grafana
5 121 (17.98%) Prometheus
6 59 (8.77%) Puppet
7 52 (7.73%) Argo
8 42 (6.24%) Progress Chef
9 29 (4.31%) vCenter Server
10 21 (3.12%) Istio
11 12 (1.78%) Packer
12 11 (1.63%) Podman
13 10 (1.49%) NetBackup
14 9 (1.34%) systemd
15 8 (1.19%) HAProxy
16 7 (1.04%) Rancher
17 6 (0.89%) Consul
17 6 (0.89%) IBM BigFix
17 6 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
17 6 (0.89%) VxRail
Vendors
1 88 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 80 (11.89%) VMware
3 73 (10.85%) Red Hat
4 71 (10.55%) Google
5 57 (8.47%) Splunk
6 50 (7.43%) Oracle
7 44 (6.54%) Dynatrace
8 26 (3.86%) Cisco
9 24 (3.57%) IBM
10 22 (3.27%) CyberArk
11 20 (2.97%) Databricks
12 18 (2.67%) ServiceNow
13 17 (2.53%) Pure Storage
14 14 (2.08%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.93%) Cloudera
15 13 (1.93%) SolarWinds
16 12 (1.78%) Informatica
17 11 (1.63%) Fortinet
17 11 (1.63%) Talend
17 11 (1.63%) Zscaler