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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 145 198
Rank change year-on-year -19 +53 -55
Contract jobs citing Bash 795 566 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 2.02% 1.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.57% 6.14% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 370 279
10th Percentile £400 £377 £355
25th Percentile £450 £438 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £682 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £520 £541
% change year-on-year - -3.84% -9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 10
10th Percentile £57.12 £40.30 £47.00
25th Percentile £61.74 £41.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £42.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +67.06% -27.66% -21.67%
75th Percentile £93.75 £59.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £99.53 £62.45 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £69.61 £42.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +63.78% -27.66% -21.67%

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 12,100 9,219 10,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.00% 32.94% 32.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,827 6,192 7,110
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 264 300
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £48.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -
75th Percentile £71.00 £67.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.88 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -26 384 £525 -2.33% 471
North of England -41 141 £500 - 97
South East -10 108 £568 +27.07% 141
South West +15 87 £673 +22.39% 83
Yorkshire -30 62 £500 -1.23% 22
North West -25 56 £525 +10.53% 60
East of England -12 31 £425 -11.92% 45
West Midlands -46 24 £525 -9.68% 20
Midlands -70 24 £525 -6.67% 38
North East -38 22 £419 -19.08% 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 38 (4.78%) Confluence
2 28 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (3.02%) Apache
4 18 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.76%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.64%) nginx
7 9 (1.13%) IIS
7 9 (1.13%) Tomcat
8 8 (1.01%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.88%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.50%) SAS
10 4 (0.50%) WordPress
11 3 (0.38%) JBoss
12 2 (0.25%) CMS
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.13%) Camunda
13 1 (0.13%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.13%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.01%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.63%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.63%) Summit
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.13%) Actimize
5 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 377 (47.42%) AWS
2 366 (46.04%) Azure
3 191 (24.03%) GitHub
4 159 (20.00%) GCP
5 137 (17.23%) GitHub Actions
6 133 (16.73%) Azure DevOps
7 85 (10.69%) Amazon EKS
8 65 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 65 (8.18%) Serverless
9 62 (7.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 61 (7.67%) Amazon S3
10 61 (7.67%) Azure Monitor
11 54 (6.79%) Entra ID
12 51 (6.42%) Datadog
12 51 (6.42%) OpenShift
13 49 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (6.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 45 (5.66%) Azure AKS
15 43 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
15 43 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 125 (15.72%) Firewall
2 111 (13.96%) DNS
3 84 (10.57%) TCP/IP
4 69 (8.68%) Network Security
5 64 (8.05%) VPN
6 59 (7.42%) DHCP
7 20 (2.52%) WAN
8 19 (2.39%) SSH
9 17 (2.14%) SAN
9 17 (2.14%) VSAN
10 15 (1.89%) SSL
11 13 (1.64%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.64%) VLAN
12 11 (1.38%) HTTP
12 11 (1.38%) Kerberos
13 10 (1.26%) 5G
13 10 (1.26%) BGP
14 9 (1.13%) 4G
14 9 (1.13%) NAS
15 7 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (4.28%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.52%) Redis
4 26 (3.27%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.14%) MySQL
6 24 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (2.77%) NoSQL
8 15 (1.89%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.51%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.51%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.38%) Big Data
10 11 (1.38%) Metadata
11 10 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.26%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.13%) Delta Lake
12 9 (1.13%) Power BI
13 8 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.01%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 197 (24.78%) Jenkins
2 165 (20.75%) Git
3 164 (20.63%) GitLab
4 45 (5.66%) JIRA
5 19 (2.39%) Artifactory
6 16 (2.01%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 15 (1.89%) Selenium
7 15 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.01%) Maven
8 8 (1.01%) Postman
9 7 (0.88%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.88%) JMeter
9 7 (0.88%) MLflow
10 6 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.75%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.63%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.63%) Subversion
12 4 (0.50%) Spinnaker
General
1 182 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 149 (18.74%) Finance
3 104 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (8.43%) Banking
5 65 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.02%) Telecoms
7 14 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.76%) Legal
8 12 (1.51%) Military
9 11 (1.38%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.38%) Law
10 8 (1.01%) Retail
11 7 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.63%) Front Office
13 5 (0.63%) Publishing
14 4 (0.50%) Automotive
14 4 (0.50%) Marketing
15 3 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 162 (20.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 107 (13.46%) Senior
3 72 (9.06%) Cloud Engineer
3 72 (9.06%) Platform Engineer
4 57 (7.17%) Security Engineer
5 55 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 53 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
7 50 (6.29%) AWS Engineer
8 45 (5.66%) Lead
8 45 (5.66%) Linux Engineer
9 42 (5.28%) Developer
10 38 (4.78%) Architect
10 38 (4.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 34 (4.28%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 33 (4.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 33 (4.15%) Site Engineer
13 32 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
14 31 (3.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 29 (3.65%) AWS DevOps
15 29 (3.65%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (58.24%) Terraform
2 72 (9.06%) Kafka
3 53 (6.67%) ARM Templates
4 52 (6.54%) REST
5 44 (5.53%) Elastic Stack
6 39 (4.91%) YAML
7 29 (3.65%) Middleware
8 24 (3.02%) Loki
9 22 (2.77%) RESTful
10 20 (2.52%) JSON
10 20 (2.52%) React
11 18 (2.26%) Flask
11 18 (2.26%) Node.js
12 16 (2.01%) .NET
12 16 (2.01%) AngularJS
13 15 (1.89%) CSS
13 15 (1.89%) HTML
13 15 (1.89%) LDAP
14 14 (1.76%) OpenTelemetry
15 13 (1.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 122 (15.35%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 44 (5.53%) Security Posture
4 37 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 36 (4.53%) PKI
6 32 (4.03%) Linux Command Line
7 31 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
8 30 (3.77%) Data Centre
8 30 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (3.77%) Management Information System
9 25 (3.14%) Public Cloud
10 21 (2.64%) Product Ownership
11 18 (2.26%) Replication
12 17 (2.14%) Cloud Security Posture
13 14 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
14 11 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
15 10 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
15 10 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
16 9 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 9 (1.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 401 (50.44%) Linux
2 183 (23.02%) Windows
3 101 (12.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (8.43%) Windows Server
5 61 (7.67%) Unix
6 37 (4.65%) Ubuntu
7 17 (2.14%) CentOS
8 15 (1.89%) VMS
9 6 (0.75%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.75%) Rocky
9 6 (0.75%) Solaris
10 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.25%) AIX
12 2 (0.25%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (61.26%) CI/CD
2 433 (54.47%) DevOps
3 423 (53.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 231 (29.06%) Containerisation
5 223 (28.05%) Observability
6 173 (21.76%) Agile
7 165 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 165 (20.75%) Platform Engineering
8 147 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (15.60%) DevSecOps
10 120 (15.09%) Cloud Security
11 118 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 107 (13.46%) Infrastructure Automation
13 104 (13.08%) Root Cause Analysis
14 103 (12.96%) Runbook
15 102 (12.83%) AI
16 97 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 93 (11.70%) Configuration Management
18 92 (11.57%) Migration
19 89 (11.19%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 672 (84.53%) Python
2 388 (48.81%) PowerShell
3 109 (13.71%) SQL
4 96 (12.08%) Java
5 78 (9.81%) Bicep
6 70 (8.81%) Go
7 54 (6.79%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.52%) Perl
9 27 (3.40%) JavaScript
10 25 (3.14%) Groovy
11 21 (2.64%) Korn
12 17 (2.14%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.51%) C#
14 9 (1.13%) Ruby
15 8 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.75%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.50%) Cypher
19 3 (0.38%) Scala
19 3 (0.38%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 308 (38.74%) Security Cleared
2 226 (28.43%) SC Cleared
3 85 (10.69%) DV Cleared
4 63 (7.92%) Degree
5 61 (7.67%) AWS Certification
6 57 (7.17%) Azure Certification
7 35 (4.40%) CISSP
8 33 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.51%) VCAP
12 12 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.88%) CCNP
16 6 (0.75%) CCNA
16 6 (0.75%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.91%) QA
2 34 (4.28%) NIST
3 33 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (2.01%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.64%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.01%) GDPR
7 7 (0.88%) NCSC
7 7 (0.88%) SLA
8 6 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.63%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.50%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.25%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 291 (36.60%) Docker
2 87 (10.94%) Active Directory
3 69 (8.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (4.65%) Hyper-V
5 30 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (3.65%) vSphere
7 17 (2.14%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (1.13%) Squid
10 8 (1.01%) NFS
11 5 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.63%) Postfix
12 4 (0.50%) zsh
13 3 (0.38%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.38%) Firmware
13 3 (0.38%) HDFS
13 3 (0.38%) KVM
13 3 (0.38%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 376 (47.30%) Kubernetes
2 290 (36.48%) Ansible
3 173 (21.76%) Grafana
4 147 (18.49%) Prometheus
5 51 (6.42%) Puppet
6 47 (5.91%) Progress Chef
7 37 (4.65%) Argo
8 21 (2.64%) Istio
9 16 (2.01%) Podman
10 15 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (1.76%) Kibana
11 14 (1.76%) VxRail
12 13 (1.64%) SCCM
13 12 (1.51%) systemd
14 11 (1.38%) Packer
15 10 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (1.13%) Check_MK
16 9 (1.13%) Consul
17 8 (1.01%) Cilium
18 7 (0.88%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 159 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 94 (11.82%) Google
3 92 (11.57%) VMware
4 64 (8.05%) Splunk
5 61 (7.67%) Red Hat
6 55 (6.92%) Dynatrace
7 54 (6.79%) Oracle
8 32 (4.03%) CyberArk
9 31 (3.90%) Cisco
10 28 (3.52%) ServiceNow
11 23 (2.89%) Databricks
12 17 (2.14%) IBM
12 17 (2.14%) Palo Alto
13 13 (1.64%) NetApp
14 12 (1.51%) SolarWinds
15 11 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
15 11 (1.38%) Fortinet
16 10 (1.26%) BMC
17 9 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
17 9 (1.13%) Remedy