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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 149 193
Rank change year-on-year -15 +44 -58
Contract jobs citing Bash 611 462 460
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.84% 1.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.76% 5.45% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 292 314
10th Percentile £395 £380 £412
25th Percentile £421 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £584 £715 £649
90th Percentile £700 £798 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 16
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.25 £36.63
25th Percentile £51.13 £27.50 £59.50
Median hourly rate £74.26 £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.15% -23.33% +2.74%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +29.15% -23.33% +2.74%

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 10,611 8,474 10,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.51% 33.66% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,090 5,585 7,876
10th Percentile £351 £358 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -5.22%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £663
90th Percentile £727 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 448 209 469
10th Percentile £41.49 £25.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £76.72
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.51%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -33 243 £525 -9.09% 79
North of England -5 158 £500 -12.66% 69
South East +15 93 £455 -2.93% 94
Yorkshire -27 85 £482 -12.36% 26
North West -7 64 £550 -14.06% 28
Midlands -21 59 £465 -7.00% 27
West Midlands -20 50 £460 -23.33% 17
South West -36 32 £550 -8.33% 42
North East -6 13 £550 - 15
East of England -32 12 £444 -6.58% 28
East Midlands -25 9 £470 +15.34% 10
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 32 (5.24%) Confluence
2 15 (2.45%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.64%) nginx
4 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.98%) Apache
5 6 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.98%) SAS
5 6 (0.98%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.49%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.49%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.49%) IIS
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.33%) Traefik
8 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) FileNet
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.31%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 272 (44.52%) AWS
2 226 (36.99%) Azure
3 150 (24.55%) GitHub
4 123 (20.13%) GCP
5 85 (13.91%) GitHub Actions
6 73 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (11.95%) OpenShift
7 60 (9.82%) Amazon S3
8 57 (9.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 56 (9.17%) Amazon EC2
10 50 (8.18%) Serverless
11 48 (7.86%) Amazon EKS
12 47 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 46 (7.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 38 (6.22%) Entra ID
15 35 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
16 34 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (4.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 24 (3.93%) Azure AKS
19 22 (3.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 94 (15.38%) Firewall
2 69 (11.29%) DNS
3 56 (9.17%) TCP/IP
4 40 (6.55%) VPN
5 31 (5.07%) Network Security
6 22 (3.60%) VLAN
7 21 (3.44%) SSL
8 20 (3.27%) Wireshark
9 17 (2.78%) BGP
10 15 (2.45%) DHCP
11 9 (1.47%) Multicast
11 9 (1.47%) Software-Defined Networking
12 8 (1.31%) HTTP
13 7 (1.15%) SNMP
14 6 (0.98%) OSPF
14 6 (0.98%) SSH
14 6 (0.98%) WebEx
15 5 (0.82%) DKIM
15 5 (0.82%) SAN
15 5 (0.82%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (5.89%) SQL Server
4 24 (3.93%) MongoDB
5 22 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (3.11%) MySQL
6 19 (3.11%) Redis
7 14 (2.29%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.80%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.47%) Delta Lake
9 9 (1.47%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.15%) Big Data
11 7 (1.15%) Pentaho
12 6 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (0.98%) DB2
12 6 (0.98%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.98%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 173 (28.31%) Jenkins
2 135 (22.09%) GitLab
3 104 (17.02%) Git
4 42 (6.87%) JIRA
5 15 (2.45%) CircleCI
6 14 (2.29%) Metasploit
7 13 (2.13%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.13%) Burp Suite
8 7 (1.15%) Artifactory
8 7 (1.15%) Maven
9 6 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.82%) Gradle
10 5 (0.82%) Selenium
10 5 (0.82%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.82%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.65%) Liquibase
11 4 (0.65%) MLflow
11 4 (0.65%) ScriptRunner
11 4 (0.65%) sqlmap
12 3 (0.49%) Appium
General
1 174 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 89 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (10.97%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.66%) Finance
5 28 (4.58%) Banking
6 19 (3.11%) Legal
7 17 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.80%) Retail
9 7 (1.15%) Military
9 7 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.65%) Front Office
10 4 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.49%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.49%) Games
11 3 (0.49%) Law
11 3 (0.49%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.33%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 116 (18.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (11.78%) Platform Engineer
3 68 (11.13%) Senior
4 41 (6.71%) AWS Engineer
5 40 (6.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 36 (5.89%) Architect
6 36 (5.89%) Site Engineer
7 31 (5.07%) Lead
8 27 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
8 27 (4.42%) Security Engineer
9 26 (4.26%) Network Engineer
10 25 (4.09%) Senior DevOps
10 25 (4.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 24 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (3.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 23 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (3.60%) Data Engineer
13 22 (3.60%) Developer
13 22 (3.60%) GCP Engineer
13 22 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (8.35%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (5.73%) Kafka
3 31 (5.07%) REST
4 18 (2.95%) ARM Templates
5 17 (2.78%) Loki
5 17 (2.78%) Middleware
6 16 (2.62%) OpenTelemetry
7 15 (2.45%) Keycloak
7 15 (2.45%) Node.js
7 15 (2.45%) YAML
8 10 (1.64%) .NET
9 8 (1.31%) LDAP
9 8 (1.31%) SAML
10 7 (1.15%) ADO
10 7 (1.15%) AngularJS
10 7 (1.15%) OAuth
11 6 (0.98%) .NET Core
11 6 (0.98%) OpenAPI
11 6 (0.98%) Swagger
11 6 (0.98%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.46%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.93%) Data Centre
5 22 (3.60%) Linux Command Line
5 22 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.44%) Security Posture
7 15 (2.45%) PKI
7 15 (2.45%) Replication
8 14 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.96%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.64%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.64%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.15%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.15%) Clustering
11 7 (1.15%) NHS
12 6 (0.98%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 285 (46.64%) Linux
2 111 (18.17%) Windows
3 66 (10.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 63 (10.31%) Unix
5 34 (5.56%) Windows Server
6 30 (4.91%) Mac OS
7 14 (2.29%) CentOS
7 14 (2.29%) Ubuntu
8 12 (1.96%) VMS
9 10 (1.64%) AIX
9 10 (1.64%) Solaris
10 9 (1.47%) Kali Linux
11 6 (0.98%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (54.17%) CI/CD
2 319 (52.21%) DevOps
3 282 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 197 (32.24%) Containerisation
5 139 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (22.26%) Observability
7 109 (17.84%) Agile
8 106 (17.35%) Platform Engineering
9 86 (14.08%) High Availability
10 83 (13.58%) Incident Response
11 82 (13.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 81 (13.26%) Infrastructure Automation
13 72 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 69 (11.29%) DevSecOps
15 66 (10.80%) Test Automation
16 65 (10.64%) Migration
17 63 (10.31%) Configuration Management
18 61 (9.98%) Root Cause Analysis
19 56 (9.17%) Task Automation
20 53 (8.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 523 (85.60%) Python
2 244 (39.93%) PowerShell
3 64 (10.47%) SQL
4 37 (6.06%) Java
5 34 (5.56%) Perl
6 32 (5.24%) Go
7 27 (4.42%) JavaScript
8 24 (3.93%) Bicep
9 23 (3.76%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.62%) C#
11 15 (2.45%) Groovy
12 14 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.64%) PHP
14 9 (1.47%) C
14 9 (1.47%) C++
15 6 (0.98%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.82%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.82%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.65%) Korn
17 4 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 213 (34.86%) Security Cleared
2 176 (28.81%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.04%) Degree
4 36 (5.89%) AWS Certification
5 25 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (3.60%) CCNP
8 20 (3.27%) DV Cleared
9 18 (2.95%) Azure Certification
10 17 (2.78%) OSCP
11 16 (2.62%) CCNA
11 16 (2.62%) GPEN
12 14 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (1.96%) CEH
15 11 (1.80%) CCDP
15 11 (1.80%) RHCE
16 9 (1.47%) CISSP
17 8 (1.31%) Oracle Certification
18 7 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.26%) GDPR
2 22 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.29%) QA
4 13 (2.13%) NIST
5 12 (1.96%) NCSC
6 8 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.31%) SOC 2
7 7 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.98%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.98%) SLA
9 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.49%) GRC
10 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.33%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 233 (38.13%) Docker
2 73 (11.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (7.36%) Active Directory
4 37 (6.06%) vSphere
5 28 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (3.11%) Hyper-V
6 19 (3.11%) KVM
6 19 (3.11%) VMware NSX
7 10 (1.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 9 (1.47%) Lustre
9 8 (1.31%) Firmware
9 8 (1.31%) GPFS
10 6 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.82%) Postfix
12 4 (0.65%) Squid
13 3 (0.49%) Ceph
13 3 (0.49%) NFS
13 3 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.49%) Snort
13 3 (0.49%) zsh
Systems Management
1 312 (51.06%) Terraform
2 285 (46.64%) Kubernetes
3 235 (38.46%) Ansible
4 124 (20.29%) Grafana
5 109 (17.84%) Prometheus
6 55 (9.00%) Argo
7 52 (8.51%) Puppet
8 26 (4.26%) vCenter Server
9 24 (3.93%) Istio
10 19 (3.11%) Progress Chef
11 18 (2.95%) Kibana
12 16 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
12 16 (2.62%) Nmap
13 15 (2.45%) SCCM
14 12 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (1.96%) NetBackup
14 12 (1.96%) Red Hat Satellite
15 11 (1.80%) Kustomize
15 11 (1.80%) Packer
16 9 (1.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 102 (16.69%) VMware
2 96 (15.71%) Microsoft
3 90 (14.73%) Splunk
4 86 (14.08%) Red Hat
5 42 (6.87%) Google
6 29 (4.75%) Palo Alto
7 27 (4.42%) Cisco
8 26 (4.26%) F5
9 24 (3.93%) Dynatrace
10 22 (3.60%) Oracle
11 21 (3.44%) Citrix
12 19 (3.11%) Pure Storage
13 18 (2.95%) CheckPoint
13 18 (2.95%) Databricks
14 13 (2.13%) ServiceNow
15 11 (1.80%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.80%) IBM
16 10 (1.64%) CyberArk
16 10 (1.64%) Veritas
16 10 (1.64%) Zscaler