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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 151 204
Rank change year-on-year -13 +53 -61
Contract jobs citing Bash 768 521 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.91% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.46% 5.85% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 349 285
10th Percentile £400 £368 £361
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £688 £708
UK median daily rate £513 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -1.44% -5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 10
10th Percentile £56.50 £40.77 £24.93
25th Percentile £58.43 £41.25 £35.63
Median hourly rate £69.61 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.72% -5.22% -20.69%
75th Percentile £92.81 £61.44 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.41 £64.80 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +25.17% -5.22% -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 11,885 8,910 10,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.04% 32.74% 32.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,698 6,070 7,343
10th Percentile £363 £347 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -6.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 262 307
10th Percentile £29.67 £31.25 £32.34
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.31 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £80.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 4 September 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 September 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 September 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 -34 352 £510 -2.86% 460
North of England -29 147 £500 - 85
South East -9 104 £554 +23.11% 127
South West +2 84 £671 +19.22% 64
Yorkshire -31 65 £515 +3.00% 21
North West -11 58 £525 +10.53% 53
East of England +1 32 £425 -3.68% 36
West Midlands -43 29 £525 -8.70% 15
Midlands -50 29 £525 -8.70% 28
North East -30 23 £419 -19.47% 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 30 (3.91%) Confluence
2 27 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.73%) Apache
4 16 (2.08%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.56%) nginx
6 9 (1.17%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.04%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.91%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.78%) IIS
9 6 (0.78%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.65%) SAS
11 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
11 4 (0.52%) WordPress
12 3 (0.39%) JBoss
13 2 (0.26%) CMS
13 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
13 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.91%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.26%) Front Arena
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.26%) Summit
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 362 (47.14%) AWS
2 353 (45.96%) Azure
3 191 (24.87%) GitHub
4 155 (20.18%) GCP
5 136 (17.71%) Azure DevOps
6 134 (17.45%) GitHub Actions
7 75 (9.77%) Amazon EKS
8 69 (8.98%) Serverless
9 65 (8.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 64 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 64 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
11 61 (7.94%) Amazon S3
12 55 (7.16%) OpenShift
13 50 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (6.51%) Entra ID
14 49 (6.38%) Datadog
15 48 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 47 (6.12%) Azure AKS
17 43 (5.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 41 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 128 (16.67%) Firewall
2 127 (16.54%) DNS
3 87 (11.33%) TCP/IP
4 66 (8.59%) VPN
5 64 (8.33%) Network Security
6 60 (7.81%) DHCP
7 20 (2.60%) WAN
8 19 (2.47%) SAN
8 19 (2.47%) VSAN
9 16 (2.08%) SSL
9 16 (2.08%) VLAN
10 15 (1.95%) SSH
11 13 (1.69%) HTTP
11 13 (1.69%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.43%) NAS
13 10 (1.30%) BGP
14 8 (1.04%) 5G
14 8 (1.04%) Kerberos
15 7 (0.91%) 4G
15 7 (0.91%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 24 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (3.13%) Redis
4 22 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 22 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 19 (2.47%) MySQL
6 15 (1.95%) Data Lake
7 12 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (1.43%) Big Data
9 10 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (1.30%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.30%) Pentaho
10 9 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.17%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.17%) Metadata
10 9 (1.17%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 193 (25.13%) Jenkins
2 161 (20.96%) GitLab
3 146 (19.01%) Git
4 40 (5.21%) JIRA
5 14 (1.82%) Selenium
6 13 (1.69%) Artifactory
6 13 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (1.56%) Bitbucket
8 10 (1.30%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.04%) Postman
10 7 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.91%) JMeter
11 6 (0.78%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.78%) MLflow
11 6 (0.78%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.65%) Maven
12 5 (0.65%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.39%) Bugzilla
14 3 (0.39%) Gatling
General
1 177 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 122 (15.89%) Finance
3 96 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.03%) Banking
6 21 (2.73%) Telecoms
7 16 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.82%) Legal
9 11 (1.43%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.30%) Law
11 9 (1.17%) Military
12 8 (1.04%) Retail
13 5 (0.65%) Front Office
13 5 (0.65%) Publishing
14 4 (0.52%) Automotive
15 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.39%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 146 (19.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 102 (13.28%) Senior
3 73 (9.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 71 (9.24%) Platform Engineer
5 58 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 52 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (6.77%) Security Engineer
7 51 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
8 44 (5.73%) Architect
8 44 (5.73%) Lead
9 42 (5.47%) Linux Engineer
10 38 (4.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 33 (4.30%) Site Engineer
12 31 (4.04%) Developer
12 31 (4.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 30 (3.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 27 (3.52%) AWS DevOps
14 27 (3.52%) GCP Engineer
15 25 (3.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 451 (58.72%) Terraform
2 67 (8.72%) Kafka
3 49 (6.38%) ARM Templates
4 43 (5.60%) REST
5 41 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
5 41 (5.34%) YAML
6 20 (2.60%) Loki
7 18 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (2.21%) Middleware
9 16 (2.08%) Node.js
10 15 (1.95%) JSON
10 15 (1.95%) RESTful
11 14 (1.82%) .NET
12 13 (1.69%) React
13 12 (1.56%) Flask
13 12 (1.56%) LDAP
13 12 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (1.56%) Spring
14 11 (1.43%) SAML
15 10 (1.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 125 (16.28%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 40 (5.21%) Security Posture
4 32 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.04%) Linux Command Line
5 31 (4.04%) PKI
6 30 (3.91%) Data Centre
7 28 (3.65%) Management Information System
8 23 (2.99%) Public Cloud
9 19 (2.47%) Replication
10 18 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
12 14 (1.82%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
14 11 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 11 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (1.17%) Enterprise Storage
15 9 (1.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 360 (46.88%) Linux
2 171 (22.27%) Windows
3 92 (11.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (8.72%) Windows Server
5 51 (6.64%) Unix
6 34 (4.43%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.08%) VMS
8 12 (1.56%) CentOS
9 7 (0.91%) Solaris
10 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.65%) Rocky
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%) AIX
13 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (59.64%) CI/CD
2 418 (54.43%) DevOps
3 401 (52.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 222 (28.91%) Containerisation
5 210 (27.34%) Observability
6 168 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
7 157 (20.44%) Agile
8 147 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
9 146 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 117 (15.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 112 (14.58%) Cloud Security
12 110 (14.32%) DevSecOps
13 100 (13.02%) Infrastructure Automation
14 98 (12.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 96 (12.50%) AI
16 93 (12.11%) Root Cause Analysis
17 89 (11.59%) Configuration Management
18 88 (11.46%) Migration
19 87 (11.33%) Runbook
20 85 (11.07%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 660 (85.94%) Python
2 372 (48.44%) PowerShell
3 101 (13.15%) SQL
4 87 (11.33%) Java
5 75 (9.77%) Bicep
6 64 (8.33%) Go
7 41 (5.34%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.65%) Perl
9 23 (2.99%) Groovy
10 19 (2.47%) JavaScript
11 14 (1.82%) Korn
11 14 (1.82%) Ruby
12 12 (1.56%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.43%) C#
14 9 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.52%) Cypher
16 4 (0.52%) Scala
17 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
17 3 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 290 (37.76%) Security Cleared
2 213 (27.73%) SC Cleared
3 80 (10.42%) DV Cleared
4 65 (8.46%) Azure Certification
5 61 (7.94%) AWS Certification
6 57 (7.42%) Degree
7 34 (4.43%) CISSP
8 28 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 14 (1.82%) VCAP
13 13 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 11 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (1.30%) CCNA
16 10 (1.30%) CCNP
17 9 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 9 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
18 7 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.34%) QA
2 35 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.52%) NIST
4 17 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.43%) GDPR
5 11 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.30%) SLA
7 7 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.78%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.78%) NCSC
8 6 (0.78%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.26%) GRC
11 2 (0.26%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 262 (34.11%) Docker
2 87 (11.33%) Active Directory
3 78 (10.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (5.08%) Hyper-V
5 36 (4.69%) vSphere
6 32 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (3.13%) VMware NSX
8 15 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.30%) Squid
10 9 (1.17%) NFS
11 6 (0.78%) Postfix
12 4 (0.52%) Firmware
12 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.52%) zsh
13 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.39%) KVM
13 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.39%) Varnish
13 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.26%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 360 (46.88%) Kubernetes
2 282 (36.72%) Ansible
3 169 (22.01%) Grafana
4 141 (18.36%) Prometheus
5 52 (6.77%) Puppet
6 50 (6.51%) Progress Chef
7 43 (5.60%) Argo
8 20 (2.60%) Istio
9 17 (2.21%) Podman
10 14 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.82%) VxRail
11 13 (1.69%) vCenter Server
12 12 (1.56%) SCCM
12 12 (1.56%) systemd
13 10 (1.30%) Kibana
13 10 (1.30%) Packer
13 10 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (1.17%) Check_MK
15 8 (1.04%) Consul
16 7 (0.91%) Cilium
Vendors
1 146 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 101 (13.15%) VMware
3 87 (11.33%) Google
4 70 (9.11%) Red Hat
5 63 (8.20%) Splunk
6 54 (7.03%) Oracle
7 52 (6.77%) Dynatrace
8 32 (4.17%) CyberArk
9 31 (4.04%) Cisco
10 26 (3.39%) Databricks
11 22 (2.86%) ServiceNow
12 15 (1.95%) IBM
12 15 (1.95%) Palo Alto
13 13 (1.69%) NetApp
14 12 (1.56%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
15 10 (1.30%) Fortinet
16 9 (1.17%) AppDynamics
16 9 (1.17%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (1.17%) WALLIX