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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 155 194
Rank change year-on-year -8 +39 -64
Contract jobs citing Bash 739 519 419
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 1.88% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.16% 5.72% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 348 297
10th Percentile £400 £364 £375
25th Percentile £450 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £616 £638
90th Percentile £719 £689 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.55% -10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 13
10th Percentile £56.30 £43.90 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £67.61 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% -4.35% -19.30%
75th Percentile £96.62 £62.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.88 £66.34 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £67.61 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +22.92% -4.35% -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 11,994 9,079 10,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.34% 32.86% 31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,765 6,252 7,601
10th Percentile £363 £345 £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 £656
90th Percentile £738 £763 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +2.35% -5.52% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 501 230 361
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.06 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.25 £40.00 £51.25
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 £80.00 £84.55 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -41 309 £513 -2.61% 193
North of England -11 162 £504 -3.17% 69
South East -5 103 £539 +21.69% 61
South West -8 82 £613 +6.52% 49
Yorkshire -28 73 £511 -2.76% 17
North West -8 64 £544 +8.75% 42
West Midlands -39 35 £487 -0.13% 7
Midlands -42 35 £487 -0.13% 14
East of England -7 28 £450 -5.26% 22
North East -31 24 £425 -22.73% 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 39 (5.28%) Confluence
2 21 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.57%) Apache
4 13 (1.76%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.49%) nginx
5 11 (1.49%) SAS
6 8 (1.08%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.81%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.68%) IIS
8 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.54%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.54%) WordPress
10 3 (0.41%) JBoss
10 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.54%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.14%) Actimize
4 1 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 364 (49.26%) AWS
2 331 (44.79%) Azure
3 196 (26.52%) GitHub
4 151 (20.43%) GCP
5 131 (17.73%) GitHub Actions
6 120 (16.24%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (10.28%) Amazon EKS
8 65 (8.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 64 (8.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 64 (8.66%) Serverless
10 62 (8.39%) Amazon S3
11 56 (7.58%) OpenShift
12 52 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 49 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (6.09%) Azure Monitor
14 45 (6.09%) Datadog
15 42 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
15 42 (5.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 40 (5.41%) Entra ID
17 39 (5.28%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 130 (17.59%) DNS
2 124 (16.78%) Firewall
3 78 (10.55%) TCP/IP
4 57 (7.71%) VPN
5 56 (7.58%) DHCP
6 51 (6.90%) Network Security
7 17 (2.30%) VSAN
8 16 (2.17%) SAN
8 16 (2.17%) SSL
8 16 (2.17%) VLAN
9 15 (2.03%) HTTP
10 14 (1.89%) WAN
11 13 (1.76%) NAS
12 11 (1.49%) SSH
13 10 (1.35%) SD-WAN
14 9 (1.22%) SNMP
15 7 (0.95%) BGP
15 7 (0.95%) DNSSEC
15 7 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
16 5 (0.68%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.87%) SQL Server
2 32 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (2.84%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.57%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.44%) MySQL
7 17 (2.30%) Redis
8 16 (2.17%) Pentaho
9 13 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.35%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.22%) Big Data
12 9 (1.22%) DynamoDB
12 9 (1.22%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.08%) Metadata
14 6 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (0.81%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 201 (27.20%) Jenkins
2 151 (20.43%) GitLab
3 120 (16.24%) Git
4 43 (5.82%) JIRA
5 13 (1.76%) Artifactory
6 12 (1.62%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.62%) Selenium
6 12 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.08%) Postman
8 7 (0.95%) JMeter
8 7 (0.95%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.81%) MLflow
9 6 (0.81%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.68%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (0.68%) Liquibase
11 4 (0.54%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.54%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.54%) Spinnaker
General
1 164 (22.19%) Social Skills
2 105 (14.21%) Finance
3 80 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 48 (6.50%) Banking
6 18 (2.44%) Legal
7 17 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.22%) Law
11 8 (1.08%) Military
12 7 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.68%) Publishing
13 5 (0.68%) Retail
14 4 (0.54%) Automotive
14 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.54%) Front Office
15 2 (0.27%) Billing
15 2 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 142 (19.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 94 (12.72%) Senior
3 70 (9.47%) Cloud Engineer
3 70 (9.47%) Platform Engineer
4 55 (7.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 54 (7.31%) AWS Engineer
6 50 (6.77%) Security Engineer
7 47 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
8 44 (5.95%) Architect
9 43 (5.82%) Lead
10 41 (5.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 34 (4.60%) Linux Engineer
12 33 (4.47%) Site Engineer
13 30 (4.06%) Data Engineer
14 27 (3.65%) AWS DevOps
14 27 (3.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 27 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
14 27 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.38%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.90%) Kafka
2 40 (5.41%) REST
3 39 (5.28%) Elastic Stack
4 37 (5.01%) YAML
5 35 (4.74%) ARM Templates
6 27 (3.65%) OpenTelemetry
7 19 (2.57%) Loki
8 18 (2.44%) Middleware
9 15 (2.03%) .NET
9 15 (2.03%) JSON
10 14 (1.89%) Node.js
11 13 (1.76%) LDAP
11 13 (1.76%) SAML
12 11 (1.49%) SOAP
13 10 (1.35%) OAuth
13 10 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (1.22%) React
15 8 (1.08%) cloud-init
15 8 (1.08%) RESTful
15 8 (1.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 117 (15.83%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (5.14%) Security Posture
4 33 (4.47%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (4.06%) Data Centre
7 26 (3.52%) Linux Command Line
7 26 (3.52%) PKI
8 23 (3.11%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.84%) Replication
10 19 (2.57%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.62%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
15 10 (1.35%) Cloud Security Posture
15 10 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 9 (1.22%) Clustering
16 9 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
17 8 (1.08%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 330 (44.65%) Linux
2 160 (21.65%) Windows
3 80 (10.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 56 (7.58%) Windows Server
5 43 (5.82%) Unix
6 34 (4.60%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.49%) VMS
8 10 (1.35%) CentOS
9 7 (0.95%) AIX
9 7 (0.95%) Solaris
10 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.27%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.27%) Debian
12 2 (0.27%) Rocky
12 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (58.59%) CI/CD
2 402 (54.40%) DevOps
3 364 (49.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 206 (27.88%) Containerisation
5 181 (24.49%) Observability
6 152 (20.57%) Platform Engineering
7 138 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
8 134 (18.13%) Agile
9 120 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 117 (15.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 99 (13.40%) Cloud Security
12 90 (12.18%) Migration
13 89 (12.04%) DevSecOps
14 88 (11.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 86 (11.64%) Infrastructure Automation
16 84 (11.37%) Configuration Management
17 83 (11.23%) High Availability
18 82 (11.10%) SIEM
19 80 (10.83%) AI
20 76 (10.28%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 634 (85.79%) Python
2 349 (47.23%) PowerShell
3 101 (13.67%) SQL
4 66 (8.93%) Java
5 56 (7.58%) Bicep
5 56 (7.58%) Go
6 30 (4.06%) Shell Script
7 25 (3.38%) Perl
8 23 (3.11%) Groovy
9 17 (2.30%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.49%) Ruby
11 10 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.35%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.08%) C#
13 7 (0.95%) C
14 5 (0.68%) Korn
14 5 (0.68%) Scala
14 5 (0.68%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.54%) C++
15 4 (0.54%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 269 (36.40%) Security Cleared
2 205 (27.74%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.39%) DV Cleared
4 58 (7.85%) AWS Certification
5 56 (7.58%) Azure Certification
6 53 (7.17%) Degree
7 28 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (3.52%) CISSP
9 22 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (2.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (1.89%) CCNP
12 13 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.76%) CCNA
13 12 (1.62%) VCAP
14 11 (1.49%) RHCE
15 9 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.22%) RHCA
16 7 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.19%) QA
2 28 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.71%) NIST
4 16 (2.17%) GDPR
5 14 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 12 (1.62%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.49%) SLA
8 8 (1.08%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.68%) GRC
10 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.41%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.27%) HL7
13 2 (0.27%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.27%) NCSC
14 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.14%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 238 (32.21%) Docker
2 76 (10.28%) Active Directory
3 74 (10.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (5.28%) Hyper-V
5 36 (4.87%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (4.74%) vSphere
7 27 (3.65%) VMware NSX
8 12 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.35%) NFS
9 10 (1.35%) Squid
10 8 (1.08%) Firmware
10 8 (1.08%) KVM
11 7 (0.95%) Postfix
12 5 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.54%) Varnish
13 4 (0.54%) zsh
14 3 (0.41%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.41%) OpenSSH
14 3 (0.41%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 426 (57.65%) Terraform
2 331 (44.79%) Kubernetes
3 279 (37.75%) Ansible
4 151 (20.43%) Grafana
5 129 (17.46%) Prometheus
6 63 (8.53%) Puppet
7 49 (6.63%) Progress Chef
8 48 (6.50%) Argo
9 23 (3.11%) Istio
10 21 (2.84%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.89%) Podman
12 13 (1.76%) Packer
13 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
13 12 (1.62%) systemd
13 12 (1.62%) VxRail
14 11 (1.49%) NetBackup
14 11 (1.49%) SCCM
15 9 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
16 8 (1.08%) HAProxy
17 7 (0.95%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 120 (16.24%) Microsoft
2 97 (13.13%) VMware
3 79 (10.69%) Google
4 74 (10.01%) Red Hat
5 56 (7.58%) Oracle
5 56 (7.58%) Splunk
6 52 (7.04%) Dynatrace
7 30 (4.06%) CyberArk
8 29 (3.92%) Cisco
9 22 (2.98%) Databricks
9 22 (2.98%) IBM
10 21 (2.84%) ServiceNow
11 13 (1.76%) Cloudera
11 13 (1.76%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.62%) Informatica
12 12 (1.62%) Pure Storage
12 12 (1.62%) SolarWinds
13 11 (1.49%) Talend
13 11 (1.49%) Zscaler
14 9 (1.22%) F5