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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 144 182
Rank change year-on-year -21 +38 -48
Contract jobs citing Bash 762 521 435
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.89% 1.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.38% 5.75% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 352 307
10th Percentile £400 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £630 £611 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 13
10th Percentile £56.35 £43.90 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% -4.35% -20.69%
75th Percentile £94.41 £62.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.76 £66.34 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +29.09% -4.35% -20.69%

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 11,950 9,065 10,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.18% 32.85% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,760 6,202 7,534
10th Percentile £363 £344 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £653
90th Percentile £738 £762 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £503 £535
% change year-on-year +2.99% -6.07% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 255 347
10th Percentile £30.98 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £37.13 £50.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.08 £80.00 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -34 323 £510 -2.86% 65
North of England -10 160 £500 -3.15% 39
South East +4 110 £550 +22.11% 60
South West +8 89 £663 +17.78% 34
Yorkshire -29 70 £518 +0.98% 7
North West +5 64 £538 +9.14% 24
East of England -3 30 £438 -7.89% 10
West Midlands -44 30 £525 -4.55% 7
Midlands -51 30 £525 -4.55% 13
North East -27 25 £425 -22.73% 8
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 36 (4.72%) Confluence
2 21 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.62%) Apache
4 13 (1.71%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.44%) nginx
6 7 (0.92%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.79%) IIS
7 6 (0.79%) SAS
7 6 (0.79%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.79%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.52%) WordPress
10 3 (0.39%) JBoss
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.26%) CMS
11 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.79%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.13%) Summit
4 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 372 (48.82%) AWS
2 350 (45.93%) Azure
3 194 (25.46%) GitHub
4 159 (20.87%) GCP
5 133 (17.45%) GitHub Actions
6 129 (16.93%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (10.10%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (8.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 66 (8.66%) Serverless
10 65 (8.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 63 (8.27%) Amazon S3
12 57 (7.48%) OpenShift
13 50 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
13 50 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 49 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
15 48 (6.30%) Entra ID
16 47 (6.17%) Azure AKS
16 47 (6.17%) Datadog
17 44 (5.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 43 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 132 (17.32%) DNS
2 128 (16.80%) Firewall
3 83 (10.89%) TCP/IP
4 63 (8.27%) VPN
5 61 (8.01%) Network Security
6 60 (7.87%) DHCP
7 19 (2.49%) VSAN
7 19 (2.49%) WAN
8 18 (2.36%) SAN
9 16 (2.10%) SSL
9 16 (2.10%) VLAN
10 15 (1.97%) HTTP
11 13 (1.71%) NAS
11 13 (1.71%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.71%) SSH
12 10 (1.31%) BGP
13 9 (1.18%) SNMP
14 7 (0.92%) DNSSEC
15 6 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
16 5 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.99%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (4.72%) SQL Server
3 24 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (3.15%) MongoDB
4 22 (2.89%) NoSQL
5 19 (2.49%) MySQL
5 19 (2.49%) Redis
6 12 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (1.44%) Big Data
7 11 (1.44%) Pentaho
8 10 (1.31%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.31%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.31%) Oracle Database
9 9 (1.18%) Metadata
10 8 (1.05%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.05%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 207 (27.17%) Jenkins
2 162 (21.26%) GitLab
3 136 (17.85%) Git
4 45 (5.91%) JIRA
5 15 (1.97%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.84%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.57%) Selenium
7 12 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.05%) Postman
8 8 (1.05%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.92%) JMeter
10 6 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.79%) MLflow
10 6 (0.79%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (0.66%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.52%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.52%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.39%) Gatling
General
1 172 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 122 (16.01%) Finance
3 92 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.09%) Banking
6 17 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (2.23%) Telecoms
7 15 (1.97%) Legal
8 10 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.31%) Law
9 9 (1.18%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.05%) Military
11 7 (0.92%) Retail
12 5 (0.66%) Front Office
12 5 (0.66%) Publishing
13 4 (0.52%) Automotive
13 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.26%) Billing
14 2 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 146 (19.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 101 (13.25%) Senior
3 74 (9.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 73 (9.58%) Platform Engineer
5 59 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 53 (6.96%) AWS Engineer
6 53 (6.96%) Security Engineer
7 51 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
8 43 (5.64%) Architect
8 43 (5.64%) Lead
9 41 (5.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 38 (4.99%) Linux Engineer
11 35 (4.59%) Site Engineer
12 29 (3.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 29 (3.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 28 (3.67%) AWS DevOps
13 28 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
13 28 (3.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 27 (3.54%) GCP Engineer
15 26 (3.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (58.01%) Terraform
2 59 (7.74%) Kafka
3 45 (5.91%) REST
4 44 (5.77%) ARM Templates
5 40 (5.25%) YAML
6 39 (5.12%) Elastic Stack
7 24 (3.15%) OpenTelemetry
8 19 (2.49%) Loki
9 17 (2.23%) .NET
9 17 (2.23%) Middleware
10 15 (1.97%) JSON
11 14 (1.84%) Node.js
11 14 (1.84%) RESTful
11 14 (1.84%) SAML
12 13 (1.71%) SOAP
13 12 (1.57%) LDAP
13 12 (1.57%) React
14 11 (1.44%) OAuth
15 10 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (1.31%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 121 (15.88%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (5.38%) Security Posture
4 34 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (4.46%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.07%) Data Centre
6 30 (3.94%) PKI
7 29 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
8 27 (3.54%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.89%) Public Cloud
10 21 (2.76%) Replication
11 17 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.97%) Cloud Security Posture
12 15 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.97%) Product Ownership
13 12 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
14 11 (1.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 11 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (1.18%) Clustering
15 9 (1.18%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 354 (46.46%) Linux
2 169 (22.18%) Windows
3 85 (11.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 61 (8.01%) Windows Server
5 45 (5.91%) Unix
6 34 (4.46%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.84%) VMS
8 12 (1.57%) CentOS
9 7 (0.92%) Solaris
10 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.52%) AIX
11 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.26%) Debian
13 2 (0.26%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (58.53%) CI/CD
2 413 (54.20%) DevOps
3 388 (50.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 216 (28.35%) Containerisation
5 198 (25.98%) Observability
6 163 (21.39%) Platform Engineering
7 146 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (18.77%) Agile
9 137 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 122 (16.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 108 (14.17%) Cloud Security
11 108 (14.17%) DevSecOps
12 102 (13.39%) Infrastructure Automation
13 96 (12.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 91 (11.94%) Configuration Management
15 90 (11.81%) Migration
16 87 (11.42%) Runbook
17 86 (11.29%) High Availability
17 86 (11.29%) SIEM
18 85 (11.15%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 655 (85.96%) Python
2 375 (49.21%) PowerShell
3 95 (12.47%) SQL
4 74 (9.71%) Java
5 69 (9.06%) Bicep
6 64 (8.40%) Go
7 34 (4.46%) Shell Script
8 26 (3.41%) Perl
9 21 (2.76%) Groovy
10 18 (2.36%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.44%) C#
11 11 (1.44%) Ruby
12 10 (1.31%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.31%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.18%) Korn
14 5 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.66%) Scala
15 4 (0.52%) C
15 4 (0.52%) Cypher
15 4 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 281 (36.88%) Security Cleared
2 210 (27.56%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.71%) DV Cleared
4 62 (8.14%) AWS Certification
5 61 (8.01%) Azure Certification
6 55 (7.22%) Degree
7 34 (4.46%) CISSP
8 31 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (2.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (1.84%) CCNP
11 14 (1.84%) VCAP
12 12 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.44%) CCNA
13 11 (1.44%) RHCE
14 10 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.18%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.59%) QA
2 33 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (3.41%) NIST
4 16 (2.10%) GDPR
4 16 (2.10%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.71%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.31%) SLA
7 8 (1.05%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.66%) GRC
9 5 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.52%) NCSC
10 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 250 (32.81%) Docker
2 85 (11.15%) Active Directory
3 77 (10.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.99%) Hyper-V
5 34 (4.46%) vSphere
6 30 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (3.15%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.31%) NFS
9 10 (1.31%) Squid
10 7 (0.92%) Firmware
10 7 (0.92%) Postfix
11 5 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.52%) KVM
12 4 (0.52%) Varnish
12 4 (0.52%) zsh
13 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.39%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 359 (47.11%) Kubernetes
2 285 (37.40%) Ansible
3 163 (21.39%) Grafana
4 139 (18.24%) Prometheus
5 60 (7.87%) Puppet
6 53 (6.96%) Progress Chef
7 43 (5.64%) Argo
8 25 (3.28%) Istio
9 14 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.84%) Podman
9 14 (1.84%) VxRail
10 13 (1.71%) Packer
10 13 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (1.71%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.57%) SCCM
11 12 (1.57%) systemd
12 9 (1.18%) Kibana
13 8 (1.05%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.92%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.92%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 138 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 100 (13.12%) VMware
3 84 (11.02%) Google
4 70 (9.19%) Red Hat
5 58 (7.61%) Splunk
6 54 (7.09%) Oracle
7 53 (6.96%) Dynatrace
8 34 (4.46%) CyberArk
9 32 (4.20%) Cisco
10 25 (3.28%) Databricks
11 22 (2.89%) ServiceNow
12 17 (2.23%) IBM
13 14 (1.84%) Palo Alto
14 12 (1.57%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.31%) Fortinet
15 10 (1.31%) Zscaler
16 9 (1.18%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (1.18%) Dell
16 9 (1.18%) NetApp
16 9 (1.18%) WALLIX