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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 150 188
Rank change year-on-year -8 +38 -45
Contract jobs citing Bash 594 460 476
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 1.77% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.78% 5.26% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 288 338
10th Percentile £381 £380 £411
25th Percentile £416 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +2.62% -6.62%
75th Percentile £598 £728 £675
90th Percentile £700 £810 £766
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 14
10th Percentile - £25.25 £58.60
25th Percentile £41.25 £27.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -23.33% +2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £78.85 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £68.38 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +18.92% -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 10,281 8,738 11,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.04% 33.54% 29.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,841 5,645 8,061
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £660
90th Percentile £730 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 202 475
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £35.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.35 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -27 247 £525 -9.48% 62
North of England -6 145 £482 -12.36% 57
South East +22 88 £475 +1.33% 58
Yorkshire -25 80 £479 -13.00% 23
Midlands -14 58 £490 -8.84% 27
North West -7 55 £550 +4.76% 23
West Midlands -13 49 £500 -17.70% 18
South West -28 28 £575 -5.35% 24
North East -4 14 £550 +12.94% 11
East of England -27 14 £444 -6.58% 13
East Midlands -22 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 26 (4.38%) Confluence
2 16 (2.69%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.68%) nginx
4 6 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.84%) Apache
6 4 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.51%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.51%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.51%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) CMS
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.17%) Documentum
9 1 (0.17%) FileNet
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (1.35%) Weka
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.17%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 261 (43.94%) AWS
2 227 (38.22%) Azure
3 142 (23.91%) GitHub
4 118 (19.87%) GCP
5 83 (13.97%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (11.28%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (11.11%) OpenShift
8 60 (10.10%) Amazon S3
9 57 (9.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 56 (9.43%) Amazon EC2
11 49 (8.25%) Serverless
12 44 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
13 41 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 39 (6.57%) Entra ID
15 34 (5.72%) Amazon ECS
15 34 (5.72%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (4.04%) Datadog
17 20 (3.37%) Azure AKS
17 20 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 90 (15.15%) Firewall
2 64 (10.77%) DNS
3 56 (9.43%) TCP/IP
4 35 (5.89%) VPN
5 31 (5.22%) Network Security
6 22 (3.70%) SSL
6 22 (3.70%) VLAN
7 21 (3.54%) Wireshark
8 19 (3.20%) BGP
9 14 (2.36%) DHCP
10 10 (1.68%) Multicast
11 9 (1.52%) OSPF
11 9 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
12 7 (1.18%) HTTP
12 7 (1.18%) SNMP
13 6 (1.01%) SSH
13 6 (1.01%) WebEx
14 5 (0.84%) DKIM
14 5 (0.84%) SMTP
15 4 (0.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.57%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (5.72%) SQL Server
4 26 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (4.04%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.37%) Redis
7 17 (2.86%) MySQL
8 13 (2.19%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.85%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.52%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.18%) Big Data
11 7 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.18%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.01%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.01%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.01%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 152 (25.59%) Jenkins
2 136 (22.90%) GitLab
3 99 (16.67%) Git
4 36 (6.06%) JIRA
5 15 (2.53%) CircleCI
6 14 (2.36%) Metasploit
7 13 (2.19%) Burp Suite
8 10 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.18%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.18%) Maven
10 6 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.84%) Gradle
11 5 (0.84%) Selenium
11 5 (0.84%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.67%) MLflow
12 4 (0.67%) ScriptRunner
12 4 (0.67%) sqlmap
12 4 (0.67%) Subversion
12 4 (0.67%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 170 (28.62%) Social Skills
2 92 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (10.44%) Public Sector
4 48 (8.08%) Finance
5 26 (4.38%) Banking
6 19 (3.20%) Legal
7 18 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.85%) Retail
9 8 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.01%) Military
11 5 (0.84%) Games
12 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.67%) Front Office
12 4 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.51%) Law
13 3 (0.51%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 106 (17.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 69 (11.62%) Platform Engineer
3 62 (10.44%) Senior
4 38 (6.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 35 (5.89%) Site Engineer
6 34 (5.72%) Architect
7 33 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (5.39%) Developer
9 31 (5.22%) Lead
10 24 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
10 24 (4.04%) Network Engineer
10 24 (4.04%) Security Engineer
11 23 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
12 20 (3.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (3.37%) Tester
13 19 (3.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 19 (3.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 18 (3.03%) Administrator
14 18 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
14 18 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (9.26%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (6.57%) Kafka
3 27 (4.55%) REST
4 18 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 18 (3.03%) Keycloak
4 18 (3.03%) Node.js
5 17 (2.86%) Middleware
6 15 (2.53%) Loki
7 13 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
7 13 (2.19%) YAML
8 9 (1.52%) LDAP
8 9 (1.52%) SAML
9 8 (1.35%) .NET
9 8 (1.35%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.35%) OAuth
10 7 (1.18%) ADO
10 7 (1.18%) Swagger
11 6 (1.01%) OAuth2
11 6 (1.01%) OpenID
11 6 (1.01%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 22 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
5 21 (3.54%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.86%) PKI
7 15 (2.53%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.36%) Replication
9 13 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.19%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.52%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.18%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.18%) NHS
13 6 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.01%) Grid Computing
13 6 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 289 (48.65%) Linux
2 104 (17.51%) Windows
3 66 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (10.94%) Unix
5 30 (5.05%) Mac OS
5 30 (5.05%) Windows Server
6 16 (2.69%) CentOS
7 14 (2.36%) Ubuntu
8 12 (2.02%) Solaris
8 12 (2.02%) VMS
9 9 (1.52%) Kali Linux
10 6 (1.01%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.84%) AIX
12 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.17%) Android
13 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (53.54%) CI/CD
2 297 (50.00%) DevOps
3 274 (46.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 198 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 138 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
6 132 (22.22%) Observability
7 101 (17.00%) Platform Engineering
8 97 (16.33%) Agile
9 87 (14.65%) Incident Response
10 80 (13.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 79 (13.30%) High Availability
12 68 (11.45%) Infrastructure Automation
13 67 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 67 (11.28%) Migration
13 67 (11.28%) Test Automation
14 63 (10.61%) DevSecOps
15 62 (10.44%) Task Automation
16 58 (9.76%) Root Cause Analysis
17 57 (9.60%) Configuration Management
18 51 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 508 (85.52%) Python
2 228 (38.38%) PowerShell
3 53 (8.92%) SQL
4 42 (7.07%) Java
5 38 (6.40%) Perl
6 34 (5.72%) Go
7 32 (5.39%) JavaScript
8 24 (4.04%) Shell Script
9 21 (3.54%) Bicep
10 16 (2.69%) C#
10 16 (2.69%) Groovy
10 16 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
11 10 (1.68%) C
11 10 (1.68%) PHP
12 9 (1.52%) C++
13 7 (1.18%) TypeScript
14 6 (1.01%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.84%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.67%) Rust
16 4 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 201 (33.84%) Security Cleared
2 163 (27.44%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.73%) Degree
4 29 (4.88%) AWS Certification
5 26 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (4.21%) DV Cleared
7 23 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (3.54%) CCNP
9 17 (2.86%) OSCP
10 16 (2.69%) GPEN
11 15 (2.53%) CCNA
12 13 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (2.19%) CEH
13 11 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.85%) CCDP
14 10 (1.68%) Azure Certification
15 7 (1.18%) Master's Degree
15 7 (1.18%) RHCE
16 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (1.01%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (3.87%) GDPR
3 14 (2.36%) QA
4 13 (2.19%) NCSC
5 11 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.85%) NIST
6 10 (1.68%) SOC 2
7 7 (1.18%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.67%) SLA
9 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 232 (39.06%) Docker
2 77 (12.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (7.41%) Active Directory
4 35 (5.89%) vSphere
5 25 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (2.86%) VMware NSX
7 15 (2.53%) Hyper-V
7 15 (2.53%) KVM
8 10 (1.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 9 (1.52%) Lustre
10 8 (1.35%) Firmware
10 8 (1.35%) GPFS
11 6 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (1.01%) zsh
12 5 (0.84%) Squid
13 4 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.67%) Postfix
13 4 (0.67%) QEMU
13 4 (0.67%) Snort
14 3 (0.51%) NFS
Systems Management
1 298 (50.17%) Terraform
2 268 (45.12%) Kubernetes
3 224 (37.71%) Ansible
4 121 (20.37%) Grafana
5 106 (17.85%) Prometheus
6 49 (8.25%) Argo
7 46 (7.74%) Puppet
8 22 (3.70%) Kibana
9 21 (3.54%) vCenter Server
10 17 (2.86%) Istio
10 17 (2.86%) Nmap
11 16 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
12 15 (2.53%) SCCM
13 14 (2.36%) Red Hat Satellite
14 13 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
14 13 (2.19%) NetBackup
14 13 (2.19%) Progress Chef
15 11 (1.85%) Kustomize
16 10 (1.68%) Oracle RMAN
16 10 (1.68%) Packer
Vendors
1 105 (17.68%) VMware
2 93 (15.66%) Splunk
3 91 (15.32%) Microsoft
4 81 (13.64%) Red Hat
5 39 (6.57%) Google
6 33 (5.56%) Palo Alto
7 29 (4.88%) Cisco
8 24 (4.04%) F5
9 23 (3.87%) Dynatrace
9 23 (3.87%) Oracle
10 21 (3.54%) CheckPoint
10 21 (3.54%) Citrix
11 20 (3.37%) Databricks
12 17 (2.86%) Pure Storage
13 15 (2.53%) ServiceNow
14 14 (2.36%) CyberArk
15 12 (2.02%) Zscaler
16 11 (1.85%) Atlassian
16 11 (1.85%) Veritas
17 10 (1.68%) Qualys