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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 141 206
Rank change year-on-year -39 +65 -85
Contract jobs citing Bash 671 523 424
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.50% 1.93% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.63% 5.82% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 345 306
10th Percentile £388 £362 £400
25th Percentile £434 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £611 £619 £638
90th Percentile £691 £700 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 14
10th Percentile £56.35 £27.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £41.12 £26.75
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -17.86%
75th Percentile £98.82 £61.13 £69.84
90th Percentile £100.00 £63.25 £74.06
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -17.86%

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 11,916 8,990 11,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.63% 33.13% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,755 6,198 8,153
10th Percentile £362 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £511 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.14% -3.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 501 234 461
10th Percentile £34.01 £28.25 £35.64
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.74 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £82.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -49 285 £513 -2.38% 82
North of England -2 158 £500 -2.44% 70
South East -21 93 £525 +20.69% 82
Yorkshire -18 84 £507 -3.43% 15
South West -17 65 £553 -3.91% 53
North West -8 57 £538 +10.82% 44
Midlands -50 33 £525 -4.55% 34
West Midlands -53 33 £525 -4.55% 19
East of England -19 21 £483 +1.58% 27
North East -30 17 £400 -27.27% 11
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 38 (5.66%) Confluence
2 19 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.53%) Apache
4 12 (1.79%) nginx
5 11 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.64%) SAS
6 7 (1.04%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.89%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.75%) IIS
9 4 (0.60%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.60%) WordPress
10 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.30%) CMS
11 2 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.30%) JBoss
11 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.30%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.15%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.30%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.15%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.15%) Shopify
3 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 315 (46.94%) AWS
2 274 (40.83%) Azure
3 180 (26.83%) GitHub
4 134 (19.97%) GCP
5 117 (17.44%) GitHub Actions
6 105 (15.65%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (9.24%) Amazon EKS
8 60 (8.94%) OpenShift
9 59 (8.79%) Serverless
10 57 (8.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 56 (8.35%) Amazon S3
12 54 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 46 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 43 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
15 39 (5.81%) Datadog
16 38 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (5.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 33 (4.92%) Azure AKS
19 30 (4.47%) Azure Monitor
20 22 (3.28%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 98 (14.61%) DNS
2 94 (14.01%) Firewall
3 54 (8.05%) TCP/IP
4 43 (6.41%) Network Security
5 42 (6.26%) VPN
6 31 (4.62%) DHCP
7 18 (2.68%) SAN
8 15 (2.24%) NAS
8 15 (2.24%) SSL
9 14 (2.09%) VLAN
10 13 (1.94%) WAN
11 11 (1.64%) HTTP
12 9 (1.34%) SD-WAN
12 9 (1.34%) SNMP
12 9 (1.34%) VSAN
13 8 (1.19%) BGP
14 7 (1.04%) DNSSEC
14 7 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
15 4 (0.60%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.60%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.07%) SQL Server
2 30 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (2.83%) MongoDB
5 16 (2.38%) MySQL
6 14 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (1.94%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.94%) Redis
8 12 (1.79%) Pentaho
9 10 (1.49%) Big Data
9 10 (1.49%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.34%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.19%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.19%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.04%) Metadata
13 6 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (0.89%) Db2
Development Applications
1 190 (28.32%) Jenkins
2 129 (19.23%) GitLab
3 112 (16.69%) Git
4 43 (6.41%) JIRA
5 12 (1.79%) Artifactory
6 10 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.49%) Selenium
7 9 (1.34%) Postman
8 8 (1.19%) JMeter
9 7 (1.04%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.89%) Liquibase
10 6 (0.89%) MLflow
11 5 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (0.75%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.75%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.60%) Jaeger
13 3 (0.45%) Gatling
13 3 (0.45%) Spinnaker
General
1 145 (21.61%) Social Skills
2 86 (12.82%) Finance
3 65 (9.69%) Public Sector
4 63 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.86%) Banking
6 19 (2.83%) Legal
7 18 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.04%) Law
9 7 (1.04%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.89%) Military
11 4 (0.60%) Publishing
11 4 (0.60%) Retail
12 3 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.45%) Front Office
12 3 (0.45%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.30%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.30%) Aviation
13 2 (0.30%) Police
14 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 139 (20.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 71 (10.58%) Senior
3 62 (9.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 52 (7.75%) Platform Engineer
5 49 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
6 44 (6.56%) Security Engineer
7 42 (6.26%) Architect
7 42 (6.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 39 (5.81%) Lead
9 38 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
9 38 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (5.07%) Site Engineer
11 32 (4.77%) Linux Engineer
12 29 (4.32%) GCP Engineer
13 27 (4.02%) Data Engineer
14 26 (3.87%) AWS DevOps
14 26 (3.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 24 (3.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 24 (3.58%) Senior DevOps
15 24 (3.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.41%) Kafka
2 38 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
3 32 (4.77%) REST
3 32 (4.77%) YAML
4 29 (4.32%) OpenTelemetry
5 21 (3.13%) ARM Templates
6 20 (2.98%) Loki
7 16 (2.38%) Middleware
8 12 (1.79%) JSON
8 12 (1.79%) LDAP
8 12 (1.79%) Node.js
9 10 (1.49%) SAML
10 9 (1.34%) .NET
10 9 (1.34%) OAuth
10 9 (1.34%) React
10 9 (1.34%) SOAP
10 9 (1.34%) Swagger
11 7 (1.04%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.04%) cloud-init
11 7 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 109 (16.24%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 35 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (5.07%) Security Posture
5 25 (3.73%) Data Centre
5 25 (3.73%) Linux Command Line
6 24 (3.58%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.98%) Replication
8 19 (2.83%) Management Information System
9 16 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (2.38%) PKI
9 16 (2.38%) Public Cloud
10 14 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.94%) Product Ownership
12 10 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 9 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (1.19%) Clustering
14 8 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
15 7 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 280 (41.73%) Linux
2 126 (18.78%) Windows
3 71 (10.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (6.11%) Unix
5 36 (5.37%) Windows Server
6 26 (3.87%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.49%) AIX
7 10 (1.49%) VMS
8 8 (1.19%) CentOS
9 7 (1.04%) Solaris
10 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.45%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.30%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.30%) Debian
12 2 (0.30%) Rocky
12 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (58.42%) CI/CD
2 365 (54.40%) DevOps
3 314 (46.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 198 (29.51%) Containerisation
5 158 (23.55%) Observability
6 127 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
7 120 (17.88%) Platform Engineering
8 118 (17.59%) Agile
9 92 (13.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 90 (13.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 89 (13.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 86 (12.82%) Cloud Security
13 85 (12.67%) Migration
14 81 (12.07%) High Availability
15 77 (11.48%) Configuration Management
16 69 (10.28%) DevSecOps
16 69 (10.28%) Infrastructure Automation
17 67 (9.99%) Root Cause Analysis
17 67 (9.99%) Runbook
17 67 (9.99%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 587 (87.48%) Python
2 298 (44.41%) PowerShell
3 87 (12.97%) SQL
4 54 (8.05%) Java
5 52 (7.75%) Go
6 29 (4.32%) Bicep
7 24 (3.58%) Shell Script
8 23 (3.43%) Perl
9 20 (2.98%) Groovy
10 18 (2.68%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.64%) Ruby
12 10 (1.49%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.34%) TypeScript
14 7 (1.04%) C
14 7 (1.04%) C#
15 6 (0.89%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.75%) Korn
16 5 (0.75%) Scala
17 4 (0.60%) C++
18 3 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 234 (34.87%) Security Cleared
2 184 (27.42%) SC Cleared
3 45 (6.71%) AWS Certification
4 44 (6.56%) Azure Certification
4 44 (6.56%) DV Cleared
5 41 (6.11%) Degree
6 23 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (3.13%) CISSP
8 17 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 14 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 12 (1.79%) CCNA
11 12 (1.79%) CCNP
12 11 (1.64%) RHCE
13 10 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (1.19%) RHCA
15 7 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.89%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.87%) QA
2 25 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.53%) NIST
4 14 (2.09%) GDPR
4 14 (2.09%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.64%) SLA
6 10 (1.49%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.19%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.89%) GRC
9 5 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.30%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.30%) NCSC
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 208 (31.00%) Docker
2 60 (8.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (7.45%) Active Directory
4 44 (6.56%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (4.77%) Hyper-V
6 31 (4.62%) vSphere
7 23 (3.43%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.94%) KVM
9 12 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (1.49%) Firmware
10 10 (1.49%) NFS
10 10 (1.49%) Squid
11 7 (1.04%) Postfix
12 5 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.60%) Varnish
14 3 (0.45%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.45%) OpenSSH
14 3 (0.45%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.30%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 370 (55.14%) Terraform
2 291 (43.37%) Kubernetes
3 248 (36.96%) Ansible
4 141 (21.01%) Grafana
5 120 (17.88%) Prometheus
6 59 (8.79%) Puppet
7 51 (7.60%) Argo
8 43 (6.41%) Progress Chef
9 29 (4.32%) vCenter Server
10 21 (3.13%) Istio
11 12 (1.79%) Packer
12 11 (1.64%) Podman
13 10 (1.49%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.19%) HAProxy
14 8 (1.19%) systemd
15 7 (1.04%) Rancher
16 6 (0.89%) Consul
16 6 (0.89%) IBM BigFix
16 6 (0.89%) Salt
16 6 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 77 (11.48%) VMware
3 73 (10.88%) Red Hat
4 71 (10.58%) Google
5 59 (8.79%) Splunk
6 50 (7.45%) Oracle
7 44 (6.56%) Dynatrace
8 24 (3.58%) IBM
9 22 (3.28%) Cisco
10 21 (3.13%) CyberArk
11 20 (2.98%) Databricks
12 17 (2.53%) Pure Storage
13 16 (2.38%) ServiceNow
14 14 (2.09%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.94%) Cloudera
15 13 (1.94%) SolarWinds
16 12 (1.79%) Informatica
17 11 (1.64%) Talend
17 11 (1.64%) Zscaler
18 10 (1.49%) F5