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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 147 208
Rank change year-on-year -50 +61 -81
Contract jobs citing Bash 577 473 438
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.91% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.05% 5.64% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 319 312
10th Percentile £375 £373 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £625
90th Percentile £681 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £54.55 £26.83 £22.00
25th Percentile £57.59 £34.24 £25.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -12.21%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.06 £71.88
90th Percentile £70.41 £67.89 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -12.21%

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 11,428 8,381 11,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.62% 33.88% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,471 5,816 8,125
10th Percentile £359 £356 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £521 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -3.25% -3.93%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 196 488
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.75 £49.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +2.97%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -53 250 £513 -2.38% 73
North of England -7 141 £476 -9.33% 104
Yorkshire -21 81 £500 -6.98% 30
South East -26 71 £473 +5.00% 108
South West -29 50 £538 -10.42% 41
North West -14 47 £500 +1.52% 55
West Midlands -37 35 £473 -23.09% 25
Midlands -48 35 £473 -14.00% 58
East of England -28 17 £494 +3.95% 55
North East -22 13 £371 -32.50% 19
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 (5.37%) Confluence
2 15 (2.60%) Apache
3 11 (1.91%) nginx
3 11 (1.91%) SAS
4 10 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.21%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.04%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.87%) IIS
8 4 (0.69%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.69%) WordPress
9 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.35%) CMS
10 2 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) JBoss
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.17%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 250 (43.33%) AWS
2 220 (38.13%) Azure
3 159 (27.56%) GitHub
4 114 (19.76%) GCP
5 97 (16.81%) GitHub Actions
6 92 (15.94%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (9.71%) OpenShift
8 53 (9.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 52 (9.01%) Amazon EKS
10 50 (8.67%) Serverless
11 48 (8.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 43 (7.45%) Amazon S3
13 38 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
15 36 (6.24%) AWS CloudFormation
15 36 (6.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 32 (5.55%) Azure AKS
16 32 (5.55%) Datadog
17 25 (4.33%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (3.47%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.17%) DNS
2 73 (12.65%) Firewall
3 39 (6.76%) VPN
4 36 (6.24%) TCP/IP
5 31 (5.37%) Network Security
6 18 (3.12%) SAN
7 16 (2.77%) SSL
8 15 (2.60%) DHCP
8 15 (2.60%) NAS
9 13 (2.25%) VLAN
10 12 (2.08%) HTTP
11 11 (1.91%) WAN
12 9 (1.56%) SD-WAN
13 8 (1.39%) Reverse Proxy
14 7 (1.21%) BGP
14 7 (1.21%) SNMP
15 5 (0.87%) Wireshark
16 4 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
16 4 (0.69%) Multicast
16 4 (0.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (5.37%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.64%) MongoDB
4 20 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (2.77%) MySQL
6 15 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (2.43%) Redis
8 12 (2.08%) Pentaho
9 11 (1.91%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.39%) Oracle Database
10 8 (1.39%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.21%) Big Data
11 7 (1.21%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (1.04%) Db2
13 5 (0.87%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 175 (30.33%) Jenkins
2 113 (19.58%) GitLab
3 102 (17.68%) Git
4 41 (7.11%) JIRA
5 12 (2.08%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.56%) Postman
7 7 (1.21%) JMeter
7 7 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.04%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.87%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.87%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.69%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.69%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.69%) Selenium
10 4 (0.69%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.52%) Ant
11 3 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 131 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 74 (12.82%) Finance
3 57 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.28%) Banking
6 16 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.60%) Legal
8 12 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.39%) Law
10 7 (1.21%) Military
11 5 (0.87%) Retail
11 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.69%) Publishing
13 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.35%) Aviation
13 2 (0.35%) Front Office
13 2 (0.35%) Police
14 1 (0.17%) Back Office
14 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (21.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (9.19%) Cloud Engineer
3 52 (9.01%) Senior
4 51 (8.84%) AWS Engineer
5 47 (8.15%) Platform Engineer
6 43 (7.45%) Security Engineer
7 38 (6.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 35 (6.07%) Azure Engineer
9 31 (5.37%) Architect
10 30 (5.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 29 (5.03%) GCP Engineer
11 29 (5.03%) Lead
11 29 (5.03%) Linux Engineer
11 29 (5.03%) Site Engineer
12 27 (4.68%) Data Engineer
13 24 (4.16%) AWS DevOps
14 22 (3.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.64%) GCP DevOps
16 20 (3.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.24%) Elastic Stack
2 34 (5.89%) Kafka
3 27 (4.68%) OpenTelemetry
4 26 (4.51%) REST
5 23 (3.99%) YAML
6 19 (3.29%) Middleware
7 16 (2.77%) ARM Templates
8 12 (2.08%) ADO
9 11 (1.91%) JSON
9 11 (1.91%) SAML
10 10 (1.73%) LDAP
10 10 (1.73%) Loki
10 10 (1.73%) Node.js
10 10 (1.73%) OAuth
10 10 (1.73%) Swagger
11 8 (1.39%) .NET
12 7 (1.21%) cloud-init
12 7 (1.21%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (1.21%) SOAP
13 6 (1.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 99 (17.16%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 30 (5.20%) Security Posture
4 28 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (3.99%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
7 20 (3.47%) Management Information System
8 19 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (2.95%) Onboarding
9 17 (2.95%) Replication
10 14 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (2.25%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.91%) Product Ownership
13 9 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.21%) Clustering
14 7 (1.21%) PKI
15 6 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
16 5 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
16 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
16 5 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 232 (40.21%) Linux
2 98 (16.98%) Windows
3 60 (10.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (7.45%) Unix
5 29 (5.03%) Windows Server
6 23 (3.99%) Ubuntu
7 14 (2.43%) VMS
8 10 (1.73%) AIX
9 8 (1.39%) CentOS
10 6 (1.04%) Solaris
11 5 (0.87%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.35%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.35%) Debian
14 2 (0.35%) Rocky
14 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (58.75%) CI/CD
2 328 (56.85%) DevOps
3 258 (44.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 170 (29.46%) Containerisation
5 141 (24.44%) Observability
6 102 (17.68%) Platform Engineering
7 100 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (17.16%) Agile
9 81 (14.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 79 (13.69%) Migration
11 70 (12.13%) Configuration Management
12 67 (11.61%) Cloud Security
12 67 (11.61%) High Availability
13 66 (11.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 63 (10.92%) Root Cause Analysis
15 62 (10.75%) Infrastructure Automation
16 57 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 57 (9.88%) Test Automation
17 54 (9.36%) SIEM
18 48 (8.32%) AI
Programming Languages
1 501 (86.83%) Python
2 250 (43.33%) PowerShell
3 83 (14.38%) SQL
4 48 (8.32%) Go
5 47 (8.15%) Java
6 26 (4.51%) Bicep
7 22 (3.81%) Shell Script
8 21 (3.64%) Perl
9 16 (2.77%) Groovy
10 15 (2.60%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.73%) Ruby
12 9 (1.56%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.21%) C
14 6 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.87%) C#
16 4 (0.69%) C++
16 4 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.69%) Scala
16 4 (0.69%) TypeScript
17 2 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 181 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 148 (25.65%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.11%) Degree
4 37 (6.41%) Azure Certification
5 36 (6.24%) AWS Certification
6 27 (4.68%) DV Cleared
7 20 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (3.29%) CISSP
9 13 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (1.91%) CCNA
11 11 (1.91%) CCNP
12 10 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.73%) RHCE
13 8 (1.39%) RHCA
14 7 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (1.04%) MCSE
16 5 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.12%) QA
3 17 (2.95%) NIST
4 14 (2.43%) GDPR
5 13 (2.25%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.91%) SLA
7 9 (1.56%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.39%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.04%) GRC
9 6 (1.04%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.52%) NCSC
13 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.17%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 170 (29.46%) Docker
2 45 (7.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (7.63%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (6.41%) Active Directory
5 26 (4.51%) vSphere
6 22 (3.81%) Hyper-V
7 17 (2.95%) VMware NSX
8 14 (2.43%) KVM
9 11 (1.91%) Firmware
9 11 (1.91%) Squid
10 9 (1.56%) NFS
10 9 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (1.21%) Postfix
12 4 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.69%) Varnish
13 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.52%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.35%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.35%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 308 (53.38%) Terraform
2 248 (42.98%) Kubernetes
3 220 (38.13%) Ansible
4 127 (22.01%) Grafana
5 116 (20.10%) Prometheus
6 49 (8.49%) Puppet
7 43 (7.45%) Argo
8 34 (5.89%) Progress Chef
9 26 (4.51%) vCenter Server
10 23 (3.99%) Istio
11 13 (2.25%) Packer
12 9 (1.56%) NetBackup
12 9 (1.56%) Podman
13 8 (1.39%) HAProxy
14 7 (1.21%) Kibana
14 7 (1.21%) Rancher
14 7 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (1.21%) systemd
15 6 (1.04%) IBM BigFix
15 6 (1.04%) Salt
Vendors
1 70 (12.13%) Red Hat
2 61 (10.57%) Splunk
3 58 (10.05%) Microsoft
3 58 (10.05%) VMware
4 48 (8.32%) Google
5 42 (7.28%) Dynatrace
6 36 (6.24%) Oracle
7 22 (3.81%) IBM
8 21 (3.64%) Databricks
9 19 (3.29%) Cisco
10 17 (2.95%) Pure Storage
11 13 (2.25%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.08%) Informatica
12 12 (2.08%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.91%) Cloudera
13 11 (1.91%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.91%) Talend
13 11 (1.91%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.73%) F5
14 10 (1.73%) Fortinet