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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 155 181
Rank change year-on-year +5 +26 -31
Contract jobs citing Bash 605 445 518
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 1.67% 1.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.13% 5.03% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 272 366
10th Percentile £400 £382 £413
25th Percentile £425 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £688
90th Percentile £691 £810 £776
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.82% -2.27% -6.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 14
10th Percentile - £25.25 £58.60
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.94 £61.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -18.33% +2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 £86.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £79.43 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +2.04% -18.33% +2.74%

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 9,870 8,847 11,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.46% 33.18% 29.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,575 5,662 8,083
10th Percentile £350 £358 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £734 £774 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 214 464
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £35.82
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.69 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £69.86 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -5 260 £538 -10.42% 111
North of England -6 139 £500 -11.50% 60
South East +30 88 £483 +2.93% 104
Yorkshire -24 71 £500 -9.09% 18
Midlands -10 57 £486 -0.72% 24
North West -6 52 £550 -5.58% 33
West Midlands -15 48 £519 -5.73% 7
South West -24 27 £575 -6.50% 52
North East +3 19 £535 -5.31% 9
East of England -19 14 £444 -15.48% 27
East Midlands -21 9 £470 +18.99% 17
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 (5.12%) Confluence
2 18 (2.98%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.65%) nginx
4 8 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.99%) Apache
5 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.50%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.50%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.50%) IIS
7 3 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.33%) CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) Documentum
9 1 (0.17%) FileNet
9 1 (0.17%) Luigi
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (1.32%) Weka
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.17%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 279 (46.12%) AWS
2 229 (37.85%) Azure
3 128 (21.16%) GitHub
4 125 (20.66%) GCP
5 78 (12.89%) GitHub Actions
6 68 (11.24%) Amazon S3
7 64 (10.58%) Amazon EC2
8 62 (10.25%) OpenShift
9 61 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
10 60 (9.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 53 (8.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 48 (7.93%) Serverless
13 47 (7.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 43 (7.11%) Amazon EKS
14 43 (7.11%) Entra ID
15 35 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
16 34 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
17 28 (4.63%) Datadog
18 23 (3.80%) Azure AKS
19 22 (3.64%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 101 (16.69%) Firewall
2 66 (10.91%) DNS
3 63 (10.41%) TCP/IP
4 42 (6.94%) VPN
5 36 (5.95%) Network Security
6 29 (4.79%) SSL
7 22 (3.64%) Wireshark
8 20 (3.31%) VLAN
9 19 (3.14%) BGP
10 14 (2.31%) DHCP
11 10 (1.65%) OSPF
12 9 (1.49%) Multicast
12 9 (1.49%) Software-Defined Networking
13 8 (1.32%) HTTP
14 7 (1.16%) SNMP
15 6 (0.99%) EIGRP
15 6 (0.99%) SMTP
15 6 (0.99%) SSH
15 6 (0.99%) WebEx
16 5 (0.83%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (11.57%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 27 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
5 26 (4.30%) MongoDB
6 22 (3.64%) Redis
7 18 (2.98%) MySQL
8 15 (2.48%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.65%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.49%) Big Data
11 8 (1.32%) Delta Lake
11 8 (1.32%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.16%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.99%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.83%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 158 (26.12%) Jenkins
2 148 (24.46%) GitLab
3 112 (18.51%) Git
4 41 (6.78%) JIRA
5 18 (2.98%) CircleCI
6 14 (2.31%) Metasploit
7 13 (2.15%) Burp Suite
8 11 (1.82%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.82%) Maven
9 10 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (1.32%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.99%) Gradle
11 6 (0.99%) Subversion
11 6 (0.99%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.83%) MLflow
12 5 (0.83%) Selenium
12 5 (0.83%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.66%) ScriptRunner
13 4 (0.66%) Snyk
13 4 (0.66%) Terragrunt
General
1 169 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 89 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (10.08%) Public Sector
4 51 (8.43%) Finance
5 25 (4.13%) Banking
6 20 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.81%) Legal
8 10 (1.65%) Retail
9 7 (1.16%) Front Office
9 7 (1.16%) Military
10 6 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.83%) Games
11 5 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.66%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Law
13 3 (0.50%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.33%) Billing
14 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 101 (16.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 68 (11.24%) Senior
3 65 (10.74%) Platform Engineer
4 37 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (5.79%) Developer
6 33 (5.45%) Site Engineer
6 33 (5.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 30 (4.96%) Lead
8 28 (4.63%) Architect
8 28 (4.63%) AWS DevOps
8 28 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 28 (4.63%) Network Engineer
9 25 (4.13%) Automation Engineer
10 24 (3.97%) Security Engineer
11 22 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 21 (3.47%) Administrator
13 20 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (3.31%) Data Engineer
13 20 (3.31%) Tester
14 18 (2.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (9.59%) Elastic Stack
2 42 (6.94%) Kafka
3 26 (4.30%) REST
4 21 (3.47%) Keycloak
5 20 (3.31%) Middleware
5 20 (3.31%) Node.js
6 16 (2.64%) Loki
7 14 (2.31%) ARM Templates
8 12 (1.98%) .NET
8 12 (1.98%) YAML
9 9 (1.49%) SAML
10 8 (1.32%) AngularJS
10 8 (1.32%) LDAP
10 8 (1.32%) OAuth
10 8 (1.32%) RESTful
11 7 (1.16%) .NET Core
11 7 (1.16%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (0.99%) ADO
12 6 (0.99%) OpenID
12 6 (0.99%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.12%) Product Ownership
3 28 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (3.47%) Linux Command Line
5 20 (3.31%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.14%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.81%) PKI
8 16 (2.64%) Replication
9 14 (2.31%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.31%) Private Cloud
10 13 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.15%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.49%) NHS
12 8 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.32%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.16%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.16%) Clustering
14 6 (0.99%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 294 (48.60%) Linux
2 100 (16.53%) Windows
3 66 (10.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 63 (10.41%) Unix
5 33 (5.45%) Mac OS
6 26 (4.30%) Windows Server
7 17 (2.81%) CentOS
8 14 (2.31%) Solaris
9 11 (1.82%) Ubuntu
9 11 (1.82%) VMS
10 9 (1.49%) Kali Linux
11 8 (1.32%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.33%) AIX
13 1 (0.17%) Android
13 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (54.38%) CI/CD
2 301 (49.75%) DevOps
3 275 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 189 (31.24%) Containerisation
5 131 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
6 129 (21.32%) Observability
7 101 (16.69%) Agile
8 95 (15.70%) Platform Engineering
9 90 (14.88%) Incident Response
10 78 (12.89%) High Availability
11 76 (12.56%) Test Automation
12 72 (11.90%) DevSecOps
12 72 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
13 71 (11.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 67 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 64 (10.58%) Migration
16 63 (10.41%) Task Automation
17 57 (9.42%) Configuration Management
18 55 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
19 51 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 520 (85.95%) Python
2 223 (36.86%) PowerShell
3 54 (8.93%) SQL
4 51 (8.43%) Java
5 46 (7.60%) Perl
6 39 (6.45%) Go
7 34 (5.62%) JavaScript
8 27 (4.46%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.98%) Bicep
9 18 (2.98%) Kusto Query Language
10 17 (2.81%) C#
11 13 (2.15%) Groovy
12 11 (1.82%) C++
13 10 (1.65%) PHP
14 9 (1.49%) C
15 7 (1.16%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.99%) Search Processing Language
17 5 (0.83%) Rust
18 4 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 200 (33.06%) Security Cleared
2 166 (27.44%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.94%) Degree
4 29 (4.79%) DV Cleared
5 27 (4.46%) AWS Certification
6 26 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (2.98%) CCNP
8 18 (2.98%) OSCP
9 16 (2.64%) GPEN
10 15 (2.48%) CCNA
11 14 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (2.31%) CEH
12 11 (1.82%) Azure Certification
13 10 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.65%) CCDP
14 7 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (1.16%) CISSP
14 7 (1.16%) RHCE
15 6 (0.99%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (4.46%) GDPR
3 13 (2.15%) QA
4 12 (1.98%) NCSC
4 12 (1.98%) NIST
5 11 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.82%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.49%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.66%) SLA
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) GxP
9 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 240 (39.67%) Docker
2 76 (12.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (7.60%) Active Directory
4 28 (4.63%) vSphere
5 14 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.65%) KVM
6 10 (1.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 9 (1.49%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.49%) Lustre
7 9 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.49%) VMware NSX
8 8 (1.32%) GPFS
9 7 (1.16%) Firmware
10 6 (0.99%) zsh
11 5 (0.83%) NFS
11 5 (0.83%) Squid
12 4 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.66%) QEMU
12 4 (0.66%) Veritas File System
12 4 (0.66%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 293 (48.43%) Terraform
2 270 (44.63%) Kubernetes
3 240 (39.67%) Ansible
4 121 (20.00%) Grafana
5 112 (18.51%) Prometheus
6 47 (7.77%) Puppet
7 43 (7.11%) Argo
8 22 (3.64%) Kibana
9 18 (2.98%) Istio
9 18 (2.98%) NetBackup
10 17 (2.81%) SCCM
11 16 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (2.64%) Nmap
11 16 (2.64%) Red Hat Satellite
12 15 (2.48%) Progress Chef
13 13 (2.15%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (1.82%) Kustomize
14 11 (1.82%) vCenter Server
15 10 (1.65%) Oracle RMAN
15 10 (1.65%) Packer
Vendors
1 103 (17.02%) VMware
2 93 (15.37%) Microsoft
3 91 (15.04%) Splunk
4 86 (14.21%) Red Hat
5 41 (6.78%) Palo Alto
6 38 (6.28%) Google
7 34 (5.62%) Cisco
8 32 (5.29%) F5
9 28 (4.63%) CheckPoint
10 24 (3.97%) Oracle
11 22 (3.64%) Citrix
12 19 (3.14%) Databricks
12 19 (3.14%) Dynatrace
13 17 (2.81%) CyberArk
14 16 (2.64%) Veritas
15 15 (2.48%) ServiceNow
16 14 (2.31%) Zscaler
17 13 (2.15%) Juniper
18 12 (1.98%) Commvault
18 12 (1.98%) Qualys