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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 150 221
Rank change year-on-year -34 +71 -91
Contract jobs citing Bash 568 464 402
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.90% 1.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.20% 5.62% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 303 275
10th Percentile £393 £376 £400
25th Percentile £417 £456 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -14.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £603
90th Percentile £687 £750 £700
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 £31.99 £22.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% +3.81% -28.08%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £77.50 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £68.70 £54.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +26.05% +3.81% -28.08%

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 10,922 8,256 10,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.82% 33.83% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,297 5,690 7,869
10th Percentile £355 £361 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.61%
75th Percentile £608 £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 513 211 430
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.26 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.05
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.38% -2.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -44 216 £516 -6.14% 89
North of England -20 147 £500 -9.09% 42
South East -7 90 £470 +1.51% 54
Yorkshire -34 77 £470 -14.55% 11
North West -2 61 £550 -3.93% 19
Midlands -42 45 £463 -21.28% 17
South West -36 43 £538 -10.42% 17
West Midlands -30 42 £465 -28.60% 10
North East -9 13 £550 -1.35% 12
East of England -37 11 £413 -13.16% 19
East Midlands -36 3 £436 +6.99% 7
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 (5.46%) Confluence
2 14 (2.46%) OpenStack
3 12 (2.11%) nginx
4 8 (1.41%) SAS
5 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.23%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.06%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.88%) Apache
8 4 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.53%) IIS
10 2 (0.35%) CMS
10 2 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) JBoss
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.18%) FileNet
11 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (1.06%) 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
1 257 (45.25%) AWS
2 224 (39.44%) Azure
3 155 (27.29%) GitHub
4 110 (19.37%) GCP
5 86 (15.14%) Azure DevOps
6 82 (14.44%) GitHub Actions
7 76 (13.38%) OpenShift
8 58 (10.21%) Serverless
9 52 (9.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 50 (8.80%) Amazon S3
11 45 (7.92%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (7.39%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (5.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 32 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (5.11%) Azure AKS
17 27 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
18 25 (4.40%) Entra ID
19 22 (3.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 21 (3.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 78 (13.73%) Firewall
2 68 (11.97%) DNS
3 39 (6.87%) TCP/IP
4 27 (4.75%) VPN
5 20 (3.52%) Network Security
5 20 (3.52%) VLAN
6 14 (2.46%) DHCP
7 12 (2.11%) BGP
7 12 (2.11%) HTTP
8 8 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
8 8 (1.41%) SAN
8 8 (1.41%) SNMP
8 8 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
8 8 (1.41%) SSL
9 7 (1.23%) NAS
9 7 (1.23%) SSH
10 6 (1.06%) WebEx
10 6 (1.06%) Wireshark
11 5 (0.88%) SMTP
12 4 (0.70%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (10.74%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (5.81%) SQL Server
3 30 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (3.87%) MongoDB
5 20 (3.52%) NoSQL
6 16 (2.82%) MySQL
6 16 (2.82%) Redis
7 15 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.76%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.58%) Big Data
10 9 (1.58%) Pentaho
11 8 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.23%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.06%) DB2
14 5 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
14 5 (0.88%) Data Vault
14 5 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 163 (28.70%) Jenkins
2 117 (20.60%) GitLab
3 94 (16.55%) Git
4 40 (7.04%) JIRA
5 13 (2.29%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.76%) CircleCI
7 8 (1.41%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.06%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.88%) Selenium
10 4 (0.70%) ScriptRunner
10 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.70%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.53%) Ant
11 3 (0.53%) Appium
11 3 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.53%) Jaeger
11 3 (0.53%) Snyk
12 2 (0.35%) Introscope
General
1 153 (26.94%) Social Skills
2 79 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (9.86%) Finance
4 50 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 26 (4.58%) Banking
6 20 (3.52%) Legal
7 14 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.41%) Retail
9 8 (1.41%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.06%) Military
11 5 (0.88%) Law
12 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.53%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.35%) Aviation
14 2 (0.35%) Billing
14 2 (0.35%) Games
14 2 (0.35%) Police
15 1 (0.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (17.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (13.91%) Platform Engineer
3 48 (8.45%) Senior
4 41 (7.22%) Architect
5 37 (6.51%) AWS Engineer
6 33 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 30 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
7 30 (5.28%) Security Engineer
8 29 (5.11%) Site Engineer
9 28 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 28 (4.93%) Lead
10 25 (4.40%) Data Engineer
11 23 (4.05%) GCP Engineer
11 23 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 21 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
13 20 (3.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.17%) Automation Engineer
14 18 (3.17%) AWS DevOps
14 18 (3.17%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.39%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (6.87%) Kafka
3 33 (5.81%) REST
4 24 (4.23%) OpenTelemetry
5 21 (3.70%) YAML
6 19 (3.35%) ARM Templates
7 17 (2.99%) Node.js
8 13 (2.29%) Middleware
9 12 (2.11%) Keycloak
9 12 (2.11%) LDAP
9 12 (2.11%) Loki
10 11 (1.94%) OAuth
11 10 (1.76%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.76%) SAML
12 9 (1.58%) .NET
12 9 (1.58%) ADO
13 7 (1.23%) SOAP
13 7 (1.23%) Vue
14 6 (1.06%) React
14 6 (1.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.05%) Data Centre
5 20 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.82%) Security Posture
8 15 (2.64%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.46%) Replication
10 12 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.11%) PKI
11 11 (1.94%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.76%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.23%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.06%) Clustering
15 5 (0.88%) Grid Computing
16 4 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 244 (42.96%) Linux
2 104 (18.31%) Windows
3 57 (10.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (8.63%) Unix
5 35 (6.16%) Windows Server
6 16 (2.82%) Mac OS
6 16 (2.82%) Ubuntu
7 15 (2.64%) VMS
8 9 (1.58%) AIX
9 7 (1.23%) CentOS
10 5 (0.88%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.70%) Solaris
12 3 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.18%) Debian
14 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (55.11%) CI/CD
2 299 (52.64%) DevOps
3 253 (44.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 189 (33.27%) Containerisation
5 138 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
6 127 (22.36%) Observability
7 123 (21.65%) Platform Engineering
8 102 (17.96%) Agile
9 81 (14.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 74 (13.03%) High Availability
11 69 (12.15%) Configuration Management
12 66 (11.62%) Migration
13 62 (10.92%) Infrastructure Automation
14 56 (9.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 54 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 53 (9.33%) Root Cause Analysis
17 52 (9.15%) DevSecOps
17 52 (9.15%) Test Automation
18 50 (8.80%) Cybersecurity
19 48 (8.45%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 484 (85.21%) Python
2 240 (42.25%) PowerShell
3 71 (12.50%) SQL
4 35 (6.16%) Java
5 32 (5.63%) Go
6 27 (4.75%) Bicep
7 26 (4.58%) Perl
8 25 (4.40%) JavaScript
9 19 (3.35%) Shell Script
10 15 (2.64%) Groovy
11 14 (2.46%) C#
12 10 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (1.58%) PHP
14 8 (1.41%) C
14 8 (1.41%) Ruby
15 7 (1.23%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.23%) TypeScript
16 6 (1.06%) C++
16 6 (1.06%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.53%) Korn
Qualifications
1 194 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 161 (28.35%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.87%) Degree
4 30 (5.28%) AWS Certification
5 28 (4.93%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.40%) Azure Certification
7 24 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (3.35%) CCNP
10 18 (3.17%) CCNA
11 11 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 10 (1.76%) CISSP
13 9 (1.58%) CCDP
14 7 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (1.06%) RHCE
16 5 (0.88%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.35%) GDPR
2 17 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (2.64%) QA
4 10 (1.76%) NIST
5 9 (1.58%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.58%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.58%) SLA
6 8 (1.41%) NCSC
7 7 (1.23%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.88%) GRC
8 5 (0.88%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 199 (35.04%) Docker
2 66 (11.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (7.57%) Active Directory
4 39 (6.87%) vSphere
5 35 (6.16%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (4.40%) VMware NSX
7 24 (4.23%) Hyper-V
8 15 (2.64%) KVM
9 9 (1.58%) Firmware
10 8 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (1.23%) Lustre
11 7 (1.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (1.06%) GPFS
12 6 (1.06%) Postfix
13 4 (0.70%) NFS
13 4 (0.70%) Squid
14 3 (0.53%) Ceph
15 2 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.35%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 297 (52.29%) Terraform
2 271 (47.71%) Kubernetes
3 213 (37.50%) Ansible
4 117 (20.60%) Grafana
5 102 (17.96%) Prometheus
6 57 (10.04%) Argo
7 47 (8.27%) Puppet
8 34 (5.99%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.23%) Istio
10 19 (3.35%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.11%) Kibana
12 11 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (1.94%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (1.76%) Rancher
14 8 (1.41%) linkerd
14 8 (1.41%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.41%) Packer
14 8 (1.41%) Podman
14 8 (1.41%) SCCM
15 7 (1.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 91 (16.02%) VMware
2 85 (14.96%) Microsoft
3 84 (14.79%) Red Hat
4 76 (13.38%) Splunk
5 38 (6.69%) Google
6 27 (4.75%) Dynatrace
7 24 (4.23%) Oracle
7 24 (4.23%) Pure Storage
8 23 (4.05%) Cisco
9 22 (3.87%) Databricks
10 15 (2.64%) Citrix
10 15 (2.64%) IBM
11 12 (2.11%) Atlassian
11 12 (2.11%) Dell
12 11 (1.94%) AppDynamics
12 11 (1.94%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.94%) F5
12 11 (1.94%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.94%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.58%) PagerDuty