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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 143 210
Rank change year-on-year -41 +67 -76
Contract jobs citing Bash 578 468 421
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.92% 1.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.27% 5.70% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 306 288
10th Percentile £395 £378 £400
25th Percentile £416 £457 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -14.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £621
90th Percentile £675 £775 £716
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.61% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 9
10th Percentile £52.35 £25.25 £21.70
25th Percentile £58.43 £36.63 £22.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +4.76% -26.57%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £77.50 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £68.70 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +24.90% +4.76% -25.00%

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 10,971 8,211 10,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.15% 33.66% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,329 5,631 7,849
10th Percentile £355 £360 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -4.87%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 213 430
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.81 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 7 April 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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -54 222 £520 -5.45% 72
North of England -20 155 £500 -9.09% 51
South East -12 87 £475 +2.70% 42
Yorkshire -32 80 £479 -13.00% 12
North West +5 65 £550 -3.93% 22
Midlands -38 49 £463 -19.57% 20
West Midlands -27 46 £465 -28.60% 11
South West -42 38 £525 -12.50% 37
North East -6 14 £550 -1.35% 17
East of England -39 10 £413 -13.16% 19
East Midlands -34 3 £436 +10.38% 9
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 33 (5.71%) Confluence
2 14 (2.42%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.73%) nginx
4 8 (1.38%) SAS
5 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.04%) Apache
6 6 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.87%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.52%) IIS
10 2 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) FileNet
11 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (1.04%) Weka
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 246 (42.56%) AWS
2 218 (37.72%) Azure
3 163 (28.20%) GitHub
4 104 (17.99%) GCP
5 87 (15.05%) Azure DevOps
6 86 (14.88%) GitHub Actions
7 77 (13.32%) OpenShift
8 57 (9.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 56 (9.69%) Serverless
10 50 (8.65%) Amazon S3
11 48 (8.30%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (5.02%) Azure AKS
16 26 (4.50%) Entra ID
17 22 (3.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 21 (3.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 80 (13.84%) Firewall
2 69 (11.94%) DNS
3 42 (7.27%) TCP/IP
4 29 (5.02%) VPN
5 20 (3.46%) Network Security
5 20 (3.46%) VLAN
6 16 (2.77%) DHCP
7 13 (2.25%) HTTP
8 12 (2.08%) BGP
9 10 (1.73%) SNMP
10 9 (1.56%) Wireshark
11 8 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
11 8 (1.38%) SSL
12 7 (1.21%) SAN
13 6 (1.04%) NAS
13 6 (1.04%) SSH
13 6 (1.04%) WebEx
14 5 (0.87%) SMTP
15 4 (0.69%) Kerberos
15 4 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (10.21%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 22 (3.81%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.11%) NoSQL
6 17 (2.94%) Redis
7 14 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (2.42%) MySQL
8 13 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.73%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.56%) Big Data
10 9 (1.56%) Pentaho
11 8 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.38%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.04%) DB2
13 5 (0.87%) Data Vault
13 5 (0.87%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.87%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 165 (28.55%) Jenkins
2 118 (20.42%) GitLab
3 96 (16.61%) Git
4 42 (7.27%) JIRA
5 13 (2.25%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.73%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.21%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.04%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.87%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.87%) Selenium
10 4 (0.69%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.69%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.69%) ScriptRunner
10 4 (0.69%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.69%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.52%) Appium
11 3 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.52%) Jaeger
11 3 (0.52%) Snyk
General
1 163 (28.20%) Social Skills
2 82 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (9.69%) Finance
4 54 (9.34%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.19%) Banking
6 21 (3.63%) Legal
7 12 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.56%) Retail
10 7 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.69%) Games
11 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.69%) Military
12 3 (0.52%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.52%) Law
12 3 (0.52%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.35%) Aviation
13 2 (0.35%) Billing
13 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (17.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (14.01%) Platform Engineer
3 48 (8.30%) Senior
4 40 (6.92%) Architect
5 38 (6.57%) AWS Engineer
5 38 (6.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 34 (5.88%) Site Engineer
7 31 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (5.02%) Security Engineer
9 28 (4.84%) Lead
10 26 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (4.33%) Data Engineer
12 24 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (3.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 21 (3.63%) AWS DevOps
14 21 (3.63%) GCP Engineer
15 20 (3.46%) Automation Engineer
15 20 (3.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 19 (3.29%) Linux Engineer
17 17 (2.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (7.79%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (6.75%) Kafka
3 35 (6.06%) REST
4 25 (4.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 21 (3.63%) YAML
6 20 (3.46%) ARM Templates
7 16 (2.77%) Loki
8 14 (2.42%) Keycloak
9 13 (2.25%) Middleware
9 13 (2.25%) Node.js
10 12 (2.08%) LDAP
11 11 (1.90%) OAuth
12 10 (1.73%) SAML
13 9 (1.56%) .NET
13 9 (1.56%) ADO
14 7 (1.21%) SOAP
15 6 (1.04%) AngularJS
15 6 (1.04%) OpenAPI
15 6 (1.04%) Swagger
15 6 (1.04%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 74 (12.80%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.15%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.77%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (2.60%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.42%) Replication
9 13 (2.25%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.90%) PKI
11 11 (1.90%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.90%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.73%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.04%) Clustering
15 5 (0.87%) Algorithms
15 5 (0.87%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 256 (44.29%) Linux
2 111 (19.20%) Windows
3 62 (10.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (8.82%) Unix
5 38 (6.57%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.11%) Mac OS
7 16 (2.77%) Ubuntu
8 15 (2.60%) VMS
9 10 (1.73%) AIX
10 8 (1.38%) CentOS
11 6 (1.04%) Solaris
12 5 (0.87%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.69%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.17%) Debian
16 1 (0.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (54.50%) CI/CD
2 301 (52.08%) DevOps
3 260 (44.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 190 (32.87%) Containerisation
5 141 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (23.70%) Observability
7 123 (21.28%) Platform Engineering
8 108 (18.69%) Agile
9 84 (14.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 74 (12.80%) High Availability
11 67 (11.59%) Configuration Management
12 65 (11.25%) Infrastructure Automation
13 62 (10.73%) Migration
14 59 (10.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 59 (10.21%) Test Automation
15 56 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 54 (9.34%) DevSecOps
17 53 (9.17%) Root Cause Analysis
18 51 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
18 51 (8.82%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 496 (85.81%) Python
2 246 (42.56%) PowerShell
3 65 (11.25%) SQL
4 35 (6.06%) Java
5 31 (5.36%) Go
6 28 (4.84%) Bicep
7 26 (4.50%) Perl
8 21 (3.63%) JavaScript
9 18 (3.11%) Groovy
9 18 (3.11%) Shell Script
10 15 (2.60%) C#
11 11 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (1.56%) PHP
13 8 (1.38%) C
14 7 (1.21%) Ruby
15 5 (0.87%) C++
15 5 (0.87%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.87%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 196 (33.91%) Security Cleared
2 163 (28.20%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.75%) Degree
4 30 (5.19%) AWS Certification
5 24 (4.15%) Azure Certification
6 23 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (3.98%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.29%) CCNP
8 18 (3.11%) CCNA
9 11 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (1.56%) CCDP
11 9 (1.56%) CISSP
12 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.21%) CEH
13 7 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (1.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.29%) GDPR
1 19 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (2.25%) QA
3 10 (1.73%) NCSC
3 10 (1.73%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.56%) NIST
4 9 (1.56%) SLA
5 8 (1.38%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.21%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.04%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.87%) GRC
9 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.17%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 203 (35.12%) Docker
2 72 (12.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (7.61%) vSphere
4 43 (7.44%) Active Directory
5 35 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (4.33%) VMware NSX
7 23 (3.98%) Hyper-V
8 15 (2.60%) KVM
9 9 (1.56%) Firmware
10 8 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (1.21%) Lustre
11 7 (1.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (1.04%) GPFS
12 6 (1.04%) Postfix
13 3 (0.52%) Ceph
13 3 (0.52%) NFS
13 3 (0.52%) Squid
14 2 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.35%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 301 (52.08%) Terraform
2 268 (46.37%) Kubernetes
3 211 (36.51%) Ansible
4 122 (21.11%) Grafana
5 105 (18.17%) Prometheus
6 61 (10.55%) Argo
7 48 (8.30%) Puppet
8 33 (5.71%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.15%) Istio
10 19 (3.29%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.08%) Kibana
12 11 (1.90%) Kustomize
12 11 (1.90%) Rancher
12 11 (1.90%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (1.73%) NetBackup
14 9 (1.56%) Packer
14 9 (1.56%) SCCM
15 8 (1.38%) linkerd
16 7 (1.21%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 99 (17.13%) VMware
2 87 (15.05%) Red Hat
3 83 (14.36%) Microsoft
4 80 (13.84%) Splunk
5 35 (6.06%) Google
6 28 (4.84%) Dynatrace
7 24 (4.15%) Cisco
7 24 (4.15%) Databricks
8 23 (3.98%) Pure Storage
9 22 (3.81%) Oracle
10 15 (2.60%) Citrix
11 13 (2.25%) IBM
12 12 (2.08%) Atlassian
12 12 (2.08%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.90%) AppDynamics
13 11 (1.90%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.90%) Dell
13 11 (1.90%) F5
14 10 (1.73%) Palo Alto
14 10 (1.73%) Tenable