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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 146 208
Rank change year-on-year -49 +62 -71
Contract jobs citing Bash 546 457 417
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.88% 1.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.05% 5.56% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 294 291
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £416 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £644 £614
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -6.54% -0.47% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 9
10th Percentile £56.20 £25.25 £21.70
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -15.13%
75th Percentile £72.65 £61.19 £71.88
90th Percentile £80.60 £66.37 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -15.13%

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 10,822 8,217 10,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.66% 33.80% 29.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,139 5,712 7,899
10th Percentile £352 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.48%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £530
% change year-on-year -4.40% -1.32% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 217 443
10th Percentile £41.94 £26.25 £37.78
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.50 £50.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.12% -0.12%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -50 217 £520 -5.45% 98
North of England -25 134 £470 -14.55% 53
Yorkshire -22 83 £463 -15.91% 11
South East -20 79 £469 -1.26% 68
Midlands -30 47 £467 -18.78% 27
West Midlands -36 44 £469 -23.74% 13
South West -39 41 £500 -16.67% 34
North West -27 40 £538 +7.50% 33
East of England -31 13 £505 +6.32% 13
North East -10 11 £425 -22.73% 9
East Midlands -36 3 £436 +6.99% 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 25 (4.58%) Confluence
2 9 (1.65%) SAS
3 8 (1.47%) Apache
4 7 (1.28%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.10%) nginx
6 5 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.73%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.55%) IIS
9 2 (0.37%) CMS
9 2 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.37%) JBoss
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.37%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.18%) FileNet
10 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.18%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.18%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 244 (44.69%) AWS
2 221 (40.48%) Azure
3 156 (28.57%) GitHub
4 106 (19.41%) GCP
5 90 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
6 89 (16.30%) GitHub Actions
7 69 (12.64%) OpenShift
8 49 (8.97%) Serverless
9 45 (8.24%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 41 (7.51%) Amazon S3
12 39 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (5.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 31 (5.68%) Azure AKS
17 25 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
18 23 (4.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 22 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
20 19 (3.48%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 67 (12.27%) DNS
2 65 (11.90%) Firewall
3 39 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 34 (6.23%) VPN
5 25 (4.58%) Network Security
6 17 (3.11%) DHCP
7 12 (2.20%) HTTP
7 12 (2.20%) SAN
7 12 (2.20%) VLAN
8 11 (2.01%) NAS
9 10 (1.83%) SNMP
10 9 (1.65%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.65%) SSL
11 8 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
11 8 (1.47%) WAN
12 7 (1.28%) SSH
13 6 (1.10%) Wireshark
14 5 (0.92%) BGP
15 4 (0.73%) SMTP
15 4 (0.73%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (5.49%) SQL Server
3 23 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (3.66%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (2.75%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.75%) Redis
6 13 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (2.38%) MySQL
7 11 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (2.01%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.83%) Pentaho
9 7 (1.28%) Big Data
9 7 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.10%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.10%) DB2
11 5 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (0.92%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.92%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 152 (27.84%) Jenkins
2 115 (21.06%) GitLab
3 92 (16.85%) Git
4 35 (6.41%) JIRA
5 8 (1.47%) CircleCI
6 7 (1.28%) Artifactory
6 7 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.28%) Postman
7 6 (1.10%) JMeter
7 6 (1.10%) Liquibase
8 5 (0.92%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (0.92%) Selenium
9 4 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.73%) Jaeger
9 4 (0.73%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.73%) Spinnaker
10 3 (0.55%) Ant
10 3 (0.55%) Appium
10 3 (0.55%) Snyk
General
1 135 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 62 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (10.44%) Finance
4 52 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.95%) Banking
6 13 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.38%) Legal
7 8 (1.47%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.28%) Military
9 6 (1.10%) Retail
10 5 (0.92%) Law
11 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.37%) Aviation
13 2 (0.37%) Police
14 1 (0.18%) Back Office
14 1 (0.18%) Front Office
14 1 (0.18%) Games
14 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (18.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (10.26%) Platform Engineer
3 47 (8.61%) AWS Engineer
3 47 (8.61%) Senior
4 40 (7.33%) Security Engineer
5 36 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (6.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 31 (5.68%) Architect
7 29 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
8 28 (5.13%) Lead
8 28 (5.13%) Site Engineer
9 27 (4.95%) Data Engineer
10 26 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 24 (4.40%) GCP Engineer
12 23 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
13 22 (4.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 21 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
14 21 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.48%) Linux Engineer
16 17 (3.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (7.88%) Elastic Stack
2 37 (6.78%) Kafka
3 28 (5.13%) REST
4 27 (4.95%) OpenTelemetry
5 22 (4.03%) YAML
6 15 (2.75%) ARM Templates
7 14 (2.56%) Node.js
8 13 (2.38%) LDAP
8 13 (2.38%) Middleware
9 11 (2.01%) Loki
9 11 (2.01%) Swagger
10 10 (1.83%) Keycloak
11 9 (1.65%) .NET
11 9 (1.65%) ADO
12 8 (1.47%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.47%) JSON
12 8 (1.47%) SAML
13 7 (1.28%) OAuth
13 7 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (1.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 77 (14.10%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (3.48%) Data Centre
5 18 (3.30%) Security Posture
6 16 (2.93%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (2.93%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.56%) Replication
8 13 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.20%) PKI
10 9 (1.65%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.47%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.10%) Clustering
12 6 (1.10%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 211 (38.64%) Linux
2 84 (15.38%) Windows
3 43 (7.88%) Unix
4 40 (7.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.58%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.30%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.93%) VMS
8 12 (2.20%) Mac OS
9 9 (1.65%) AIX
10 8 (1.47%) CentOS
11 5 (0.92%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.37%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.37%) Debian
13 2 (0.37%) Rocky
13 2 (0.37%) Solaris
13 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 296 (54.21%) DevOps
3 243 (44.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 170 (31.14%) Containerisation
5 132 (24.18%) Observability
6 107 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (19.41%) Platform Engineering
8 91 (16.67%) Agile
9 76 (13.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 75 (13.74%) Configuration Management
11 69 (12.64%) High Availability
12 67 (12.27%) Migration
13 66 (12.09%) Root Cause Analysis
14 56 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 54 (9.89%) Test Automation
16 53 (9.71%) Infrastructure Automation
17 51 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
18 50 (9.16%) Cloud Security
18 50 (9.16%) Incident Response
19 49 (8.97%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 471 (86.26%) Python
2 236 (43.22%) PowerShell
3 75 (13.74%) SQL
4 41 (7.51%) Go
5 40 (7.33%) Java
6 26 (4.76%) Bicep
7 24 (4.40%) JavaScript
8 19 (3.48%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.11%) Groovy
10 12 (2.20%) Perl
11 11 (2.01%) C#
12 10 (1.83%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.47%) C
13 8 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.47%) Ruby
14 6 (1.10%) PHP
14 6 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.10%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.92%) C++
16 4 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 173 (31.68%) Security Cleared
2 141 (25.82%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.78%) Degree
4 29 (5.31%) AWS Certification
4 29 (5.31%) Azure Certification
5 26 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 23 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 13 (2.38%) CISSP
10 11 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (2.01%) CCNP
11 10 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.83%) CCNA
11 10 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.47%) RHCA
12 8 (1.47%) RHCE
13 7 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.92%) CISM
15 4 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (3.85%) GDPR
3 18 (3.30%) QA
4 14 (2.56%) NIST
5 12 (2.20%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.65%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.65%) SLA
7 7 (1.28%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.10%) GRC
8 6 (1.10%) NCSC
9 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.92%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.37%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 166 (30.40%) Docker
2 51 (9.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (7.33%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (6.41%) Active Directory
5 25 (4.58%) Hyper-V
6 21 (3.85%) vSphere
7 17 (3.11%) VMware NSX
8 16 (2.93%) KVM
9 10 (1.83%) Firmware
10 7 (1.28%) NFS
10 7 (1.28%) Postfix
10 7 (1.28%) Squid
10 7 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.55%) Ceph
11 3 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.55%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.55%) Varnish
12 2 (0.37%) Lustre
12 2 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 277 (50.73%) Terraform
2 254 (46.52%) Kubernetes
3 214 (39.19%) Ansible
4 125 (22.89%) Grafana
5 110 (20.15%) Prometheus
6 48 (8.79%) Puppet
7 44 (8.06%) Argo
8 26 (4.76%) vCenter Server
9 23 (4.21%) Istio
10 22 (4.03%) Progress Chef
11 13 (2.38%) Kibana
12 10 (1.83%) Rancher
13 9 (1.65%) Packer
14 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (1.47%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.47%) SCCM
15 7 (1.28%) linkerd
15 7 (1.28%) Podman
15 7 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (1.10%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 76 (13.92%) Splunk
2 74 (13.55%) Microsoft
3 68 (12.45%) VMware
4 57 (10.44%) Red Hat
5 38 (6.96%) Dynatrace
5 38 (6.96%) Google
6 31 (5.68%) Oracle
7 19 (3.48%) Databricks
8 17 (3.11%) IBM
9 16 (2.93%) Cisco
9 16 (2.93%) Pure Storage
10 12 (2.20%) Palo Alto
10 12 (2.20%) Zscaler
11 11 (2.01%) AppDynamics
11 11 (2.01%) CyberArk
11 11 (2.01%) ServiceNow
12 10 (1.83%) Cloudera
12 10 (1.83%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.83%) Tenable
13 9 (1.65%) Dell