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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 148 206
Rank change year-on-year -44 +58 -73
Contract jobs citing Bash 547 467 418
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.92% 1.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.00% 5.65% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 299 289
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £416 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £673 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -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 10,936 8,260 10,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.95% 33.88% 29.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,251 5,727 7,900
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £542
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -3.05% -4.13%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 530 219 442
10th Percentile £42.44 £25.26 £35.65
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.99 £48.11
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% +1.73%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -53 218 £520 -5.45% 111
North of England -27 133 £479 -13.00% 54
Yorkshire -27 81 £463 -15.91% 10
South East -18 79 £465 -2.21% 61
Midlands -45 46 £469 -20.17% 27
West Midlands -30 43 £476 -26.99% 12
South West -42 43 £531 -13.27% 26
North West -25 41 £538 +7.50% 31
East of England -45 15 £450 -5.26% 25
North East -12 11 £425 -23.77% 13
East Midlands -36 3 £436 +6.99% 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 26 (4.75%) Confluence
2 8 (1.46%) OpenStack
2 8 (1.46%) SAS
3 7 (1.28%) Apache
3 7 (1.28%) nginx
3 7 (1.28%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.73%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.55%) IIS
7 2 (0.37%) CMS
7 2 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.37%) JBoss
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.37%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.18%) FileNet
8 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Weka
2 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 244 (44.61%) AWS
2 222 (40.59%) Azure
3 156 (28.52%) GitHub
4 112 (20.48%) GCP
5 89 (16.27%) Azure DevOps
6 86 (15.72%) GitHub Actions
7 73 (13.35%) OpenShift
8 51 (9.32%) Serverless
9 50 (9.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 45 (8.23%) Amazon S3
11 44 (8.04%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (6.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (5.67%) Azure AKS
16 30 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
17 29 (5.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (4.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 21 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
20 20 (3.66%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 64 (11.70%) DNS
1 64 (11.70%) Firewall
2 39 (7.13%) TCP/IP
3 34 (6.22%) VPN
4 23 (4.20%) Network Security
5 13 (2.38%) DHCP
6 12 (2.19%) HTTP
6 12 (2.19%) VLAN
7 10 (1.83%) SNMP
8 9 (1.65%) SAN
8 9 (1.65%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.65%) SSL
9 8 (1.46%) NAS
9 8 (1.46%) Reverse Proxy
9 8 (1.46%) WAN
10 6 (1.10%) SSH
10 6 (1.10%) Wireshark
11 5 (0.91%) BGP
12 4 (0.73%) DKIM
12 4 (0.73%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (6.22%) SQL Server
3 27 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (3.66%) MongoDB
5 16 (2.93%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (2.74%) Redis
7 13 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (2.38%) MySQL
8 11 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (2.01%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.65%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.28%) Big Data
10 7 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.10%) DB2
12 5 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (0.91%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.91%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 150 (27.42%) Jenkins
2 113 (20.66%) GitLab
3 95 (17.37%) Git
4 35 (6.40%) JIRA
5 8 (1.46%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.46%) CircleCI
6 7 (1.28%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.10%) Liquibase
8 5 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (0.91%) Selenium
9 4 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.73%) Jaeger
9 4 (0.73%) Postman
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%) JMeter
10 3 (0.55%) Snyk
General
1 138 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 64 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (10.97%) Finance
4 49 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.57%) Banking
6 13 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.38%) Legal
7 8 (1.46%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.28%) Retail
9 6 (1.10%) Military
10 5 (0.91%) 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
1 100 (18.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (10.60%) Platform Engineer
3 48 (8.78%) Senior
4 42 (7.68%) AWS Engineer
5 40 (7.31%) Security Engineer
6 36 (6.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 34 (6.22%) Architect
8 33 (6.03%) Cloud Engineer
9 31 (5.67%) Site Engineer
10 28 (5.12%) Azure Engineer
10 28 (5.12%) Lead
11 26 (4.75%) Data Engineer
12 25 (4.57%) GCP Engineer
13 23 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (4.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 21 (3.84%) AWS DevOps
16 20 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
16 20 (3.66%) Linux Engineer
17 19 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 18 (3.29%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.68%) Elastic Stack
2 38 (6.95%) Kafka
3 30 (5.48%) REST
4 29 (5.30%) OpenTelemetry
5 20 (3.66%) YAML
6 16 (2.93%) Node.js
7 14 (2.56%) ARM Templates
8 13 (2.38%) Middleware
9 12 (2.19%) LDAP
10 11 (2.01%) Keycloak
10 11 (2.01%) Loki
11 9 (1.65%) ADO
12 8 (1.46%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.46%) SAML
12 8 (1.46%) Swagger
13 7 (1.28%) .NET
13 7 (1.28%) OAuth
13 7 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (1.28%) SOAP
13 7 (1.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 78 (14.26%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.29%) Security Posture
6 16 (2.93%) Data Centre
6 16 (2.93%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (2.93%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.38%) Replication
9 12 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.19%) PKI
10 9 (1.65%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.65%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.10%) Clustering
12 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.73%) Grid Computing
12 4 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 217 (39.67%) Linux
2 85 (15.54%) Windows
3 44 (8.04%) Unix
4 41 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.57%) Windows Server
6 17 (3.11%) Ubuntu
7 15 (2.74%) Mac OS
7 15 (2.74%) VMS
8 8 (1.46%) AIX
9 7 (1.28%) CentOS
10 5 (0.91%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.37%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.37%) Debian
12 2 (0.37%) Solaris
12 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (56.49%) CI/CD
2 294 (53.75%) DevOps
3 245 (44.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 173 (31.63%) Containerisation
5 130 (23.77%) Observability
6 115 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (19.74%) Platform Engineering
8 96 (17.55%) Agile
9 79 (14.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 74 (13.53%) Configuration Management
11 68 (12.43%) High Availability
12 64 (11.70%) Migration
13 63 (11.52%) Root Cause Analysis
14 55 (10.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 54 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 54 (9.87%) Infrastructure Automation
16 52 (9.51%) DevSecOps
16 52 (9.51%) Test Automation
17 50 (9.14%) Cloud Security
18 49 (8.96%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 472 (86.29%) Python
2 232 (42.41%) PowerShell
3 73 (13.35%) SQL
4 39 (7.13%) Go
5 38 (6.95%) Java
6 25 (4.57%) Bicep
7 24 (4.39%) JavaScript
8 19 (3.47%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.11%) Groovy
10 11 (2.01%) Perl
11 10 (1.83%) C#
12 9 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.46%) C
13 8 (1.46%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.46%) TypeScript
14 7 (1.28%) Ruby
14 7 (1.28%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.10%) PHP
16 5 (0.91%) C++
17 4 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 169 (30.90%) Security Cleared
2 138 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.13%) Degree
4 28 (5.12%) Azure Certification
5 27 (4.94%) AWS Certification
5 27 (4.94%) DV Cleared
6 26 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (2.38%) CISSP
9 12 (2.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 11 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (2.01%) CCNP
11 10 (1.83%) CCNA
12 8 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (1.46%) RHCA
12 8 (1.46%) RHCE
13 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.91%) CISM
14 5 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (4.02%) GDPR
3 17 (3.11%) QA
4 14 (2.56%) NIST
5 12 (2.19%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.65%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.65%) SLA
7 7 (1.28%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.28%) NCSC
8 6 (1.10%) GRC
9 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.73%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.37%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 172 (31.44%) Docker
2 49 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (5.67%) Active Directory
5 24 (4.39%) Hyper-V
6 23 (4.20%) vSphere
7 19 (3.47%) VMware NSX
8 15 (2.74%) KVM
9 9 (1.65%) Firmware
10 7 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (1.10%) Postfix
12 5 (0.91%) Lustre
12 5 (0.91%) NFS
12 5 (0.91%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.91%) Squid
13 4 (0.73%) GPFS
14 3 (0.55%) Ceph
14 3 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.37%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 283 (51.74%) Terraform
2 258 (47.17%) Kubernetes
3 213 (38.94%) Ansible
4 123 (22.49%) Grafana
5 107 (19.56%) Prometheus
6 52 (9.51%) Puppet
7 48 (8.78%) Argo
8 28 (5.12%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.39%) Istio
10 21 (3.84%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.19%) Kibana
12 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (1.83%) Rancher
14 8 (1.46%) linkerd
14 8 (1.46%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.46%) Podman
14 8 (1.46%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (1.46%) SCCM
15 7 (1.28%) Packer
15 7 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (14.81%) Splunk
2 75 (13.71%) Microsoft
3 67 (12.25%) VMware
4 62 (11.33%) Red Hat
5 39 (7.13%) Google
6 35 (6.40%) Dynatrace
7 28 (5.12%) Oracle
8 19 (3.47%) Databricks
9 18 (3.29%) Pure Storage
10 16 (2.93%) IBM
11 15 (2.74%) Cisco
12 12 (2.19%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.19%) Zscaler
13 11 (2.01%) AppDynamics
13 11 (2.01%) CyberArk
13 11 (2.01%) Dell
13 11 (2.01%) ServiceNow
14 10 (1.83%) Fortinet
15 9 (1.65%) Cloudera
15 9 (1.65%) PagerDuty