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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 147 199
Rank change year-on-year -19 +52 -58
Contract jobs citing Bash 766 528 422
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.92% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.42% 5.86% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 351 294
10th Percentile £400 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £630 £615 £638
90th Percentile £725 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 10
10th Percentile £56.50 £41.25 £24.93
25th Percentile £58.43 £43.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £69.61 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.72% -5.22% -20.69%
75th Percentile £92.81 £60.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.41 £63.25 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +25.17% -5.22% -20.69%

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 11,930 9,014 10,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.06% 32.72% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,726 6,149 7,485
10th Percentile £363 £345 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £791
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +3.90% -5.57% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 495 263 324
10th Percentile £29.98 £30.39 £31.25
25th Percentile £51.67 £41.92 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.45 £79.75 £78.38
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -36 347 £508 -3.33% 436
North of England -31 146 £500 -2.44% 88
South East -6 103 £550 +15.79% 118
South West +11 86 £671 +16.63% 64
Yorkshire -38 65 £518 +0.98% 19
North West -12 57 £525 +9.38% 54
East of England -2 32 £425 -10.53% 31
West Midlands -45 31 £506 -10.06% 18
Midlands -45 31 £506 -10.06% 32
North East -31 23 £419 -19.47% 15
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 31 (4.05%) Confluence
2 24 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.61%) Apache
4 14 (1.83%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.57%) nginx
6 8 (1.04%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.91%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.78%) IIS
8 6 (0.78%) SAS
8 6 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.52%) WordPress
10 3 (0.39%) JBoss
11 2 (0.26%) CMS
11 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.78%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.26%) Front Arena
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.26%) Summit
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 366 (47.78%) AWS
2 351 (45.82%) Azure
3 196 (25.59%) GitHub
4 155 (20.23%) GCP
5 136 (17.75%) GitHub Actions
6 132 (17.23%) Azure DevOps
7 74 (9.66%) Amazon EKS
8 68 (8.88%) Serverless
9 65 (8.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 64 (8.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 63 (8.22%) Amazon S3
12 58 (7.57%) Azure Monitor
13 56 (7.31%) OpenShift
14 49 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
15 48 (6.27%) Entra ID
16 47 (6.14%) Datadog
16 47 (6.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 45 (5.87%) Azure AKS
18 42 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
19 39 (5.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 131 (17.10%) DNS
2 124 (16.19%) Firewall
3 90 (11.75%) TCP/IP
4 64 (8.36%) VPN
5 62 (8.09%) DHCP
5 62 (8.09%) Network Security
6 20 (2.61%) SAN
6 20 (2.61%) WAN
7 19 (2.48%) VSAN
8 16 (2.09%) HTTP
8 16 (2.09%) SSL
8 16 (2.09%) VLAN
9 15 (1.96%) SSH
10 13 (1.70%) SD-WAN
11 12 (1.57%) NAS
12 10 (1.31%) BGP
13 9 (1.17%) SNMP
14 8 (1.04%) 5G
14 8 (1.04%) Kerberos
15 7 (0.91%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.18%) SQL Server
3 24 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 23 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (3.00%) NoSQL
5 22 (2.87%) Redis
6 18 (2.35%) MySQL
7 13 (1.70%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
8 11 (1.44%) Big Data
8 11 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.44%) Pentaho
9 10 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.31%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.17%) Metadata
10 9 (1.17%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.04%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 198 (25.85%) Jenkins
2 162 (21.15%) GitLab
3 141 (18.41%) Git
4 40 (5.22%) JIRA
5 14 (1.83%) Selenium
6 13 (1.70%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.57%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.04%) Postman
9 7 (0.91%) JMeter
9 7 (0.91%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.78%) MLflow
10 6 (0.78%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.65%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.52%) Browser DevTools
12 4 (0.52%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.39%) Bugzilla
13 3 (0.39%) Maven
General
1 180 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 124 (16.19%) Finance
3 99 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (7.70%) Public Sector
5 53 (6.92%) Banking
6 21 (2.74%) Telecoms
7 16 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.96%) Legal
9 11 (1.44%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.31%) Law
11 8 (1.04%) Military
11 8 (1.04%) Retail
12 5 (0.65%) Front Office
12 5 (0.65%) Publishing
13 4 (0.52%) Automotive
13 4 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.39%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.26%) Billing
Job Titles
1 144 (18.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 98 (12.79%) Senior
3 72 (9.40%) Cloud Engineer
4 71 (9.27%) Platform Engineer
5 59 (7.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 52 (6.79%) AWS Engineer
7 50 (6.53%) Azure Engineer
8 49 (6.40%) Security Engineer
9 45 (5.87%) Lead
10 43 (5.61%) Architect
11 41 (5.35%) Linux Engineer
12 39 (5.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 34 (4.44%) Site Engineer
14 31 (4.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 29 (3.79%) Developer
16 28 (3.66%) AWS DevOps
16 28 (3.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 24 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
18 24 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 447 (58.36%) Terraform
2 67 (8.75%) Kafka
3 48 (6.27%) ARM Templates
4 45 (5.87%) REST
5 40 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
5 40 (5.22%) YAML
6 21 (2.74%) Loki
6 21 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
7 16 (2.09%) Middleware
7 16 (2.09%) Node.js
8 15 (1.96%) .NET
8 15 (1.96%) JSON
8 15 (1.96%) RESTful
9 14 (1.83%) SAML
10 13 (1.70%) React
11 12 (1.57%) LDAP
11 12 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (1.57%) SOAP
11 12 (1.57%) Spring
12 11 (1.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 120 (15.67%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 39 (5.09%) Security Posture
4 33 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (4.31%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.05%) Data Centre
5 31 (4.05%) PKI
6 30 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
7 27 (3.52%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.74%) Public Cloud
9 19 (2.48%) Replication
10 17 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
12 13 (1.70%) Legacy Applications
12 13 (1.70%) Product Ownership
13 11 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 10 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.31%) Enterprise Storage
15 9 (1.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 356 (46.48%) Linux
2 168 (21.93%) Windows
3 87 (11.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (8.49%) Windows Server
5 46 (6.01%) Unix
6 35 (4.57%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.83%) VMS
8 13 (1.70%) CentOS
9 7 (0.91%) Solaris
10 6 (0.78%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.39%) AIX
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.26%) Debian
13 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (58.88%) CI/CD
2 411 (53.66%) DevOps
3 394 (51.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 217 (28.33%) Containerisation
5 204 (26.63%) Observability
6 170 (22.19%) Platform Engineering
7 150 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
8 148 (19.32%) Agile
9 145 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 120 (15.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 109 (14.23%) Cloud Security
12 107 (13.97%) DevSecOps
13 100 (13.05%) Infrastructure Automation
14 97 (12.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 93 (12.14%) Root Cause Analysis
16 90 (11.75%) AI
16 90 (11.75%) Configuration Management
16 90 (11.75%) Migration
17 89 (11.62%) Runbook
18 83 (10.84%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 662 (86.42%) Python
2 374 (48.83%) PowerShell
3 99 (12.92%) SQL
4 81 (10.57%) Java
5 72 (9.40%) Bicep
6 65 (8.49%) Go
7 35 (4.57%) Shell Script
8 30 (3.92%) Perl
9 21 (2.74%) Groovy
10 18 (2.35%) JavaScript
11 14 (1.83%) Korn
12 13 (1.70%) Ruby
13 12 (1.57%) C#
13 12 (1.57%) TypeScript
14 9 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.65%) Scala
17 4 (0.52%) C
17 4 (0.52%) Cypher
18 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 285 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 210 (27.42%) SC Cleared
3 78 (10.18%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.22%) Azure Certification
5 60 (7.83%) AWS Certification
6 56 (7.31%) Degree
7 32 (4.18%) CISSP
8 28 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 14 (1.83%) VCAP
13 13 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 11 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (1.31%) CCNA
16 10 (1.31%) CCNP
17 9 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 9 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
18 7 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.35%) QA
2 34 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (3.39%) NIST
4 15 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.70%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.44%) GDPR
6 11 (1.44%) SLA
7 7 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.78%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.78%) NCSC
9 5 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.39%) GRC
12 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 251 (32.77%) Docker
2 85 (11.10%) Active Directory
3 78 (10.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (5.22%) Hyper-V
5 33 (4.31%) vSphere
6 30 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (3.13%) VMware NSX
8 12 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.31%) Squid
10 9 (1.17%) NFS
11 7 (0.91%) Firmware
12 6 (0.78%) Postfix
13 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.52%) zsh
14 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.39%) KVM
14 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
14 3 (0.39%) Varnish
14 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.26%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 356 (46.48%) Kubernetes
2 281 (36.68%) Ansible
3 166 (21.67%) Grafana
4 142 (18.54%) Prometheus
5 54 (7.05%) Puppet
6 50 (6.53%) Progress Chef
7 43 (5.61%) Argo
8 21 (2.74%) Istio
9 14 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.83%) Podman
9 14 (1.83%) VxRail
10 13 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (1.70%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.57%) SCCM
11 12 (1.57%) systemd
12 10 (1.31%) Kibana
12 10 (1.31%) Packer
13 8 (1.04%) Consul
14 7 (0.91%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.91%) Cilium
Vendors
1 144 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 100 (13.05%) VMware
3 82 (10.70%) Google
4 68 (8.88%) Red Hat
5 64 (8.36%) Splunk
6 55 (7.18%) Oracle
7 51 (6.66%) Dynatrace
8 32 (4.18%) CyberArk
9 31 (4.05%) Cisco
10 26 (3.39%) Databricks
11 23 (3.00%) ServiceNow
12 16 (2.09%) IBM
13 14 (1.83%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.70%) NetApp
15 12 (1.57%) SolarWinds
16 10 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
16 10 (1.31%) Zscaler
17 9 (1.17%) BeyondTrust
17 9 (1.17%) Fortinet
17 9 (1.17%) WALLIX