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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 147 211
Rank change year-on-year -42 +64 -90
Contract jobs citing Bash 618 499 427
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.41% 1.95% 1.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.27% 5.77% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 329 307
10th Percentile £380 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £628
90th Percentile £675 £710 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile £54.75 £27.05 £22.00
25th Percentile £56.63 £36.48 £26.75
Median hourly rate £62.57 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.80% -5.22% -17.86%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £69.84
90th Percentile £69.76 £66.34 £74.06
UK median hourly rate £62.57 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +14.80% -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 11,717 8,649 11,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.73% 33.74% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,622 5,974 8,150
10th Percentile £360 £354 £350
25th Percentile £424 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £543
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.15% -2.25%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 213 484
10th Percentile £35.25 £28.18 £35.60
25th Percentile £55.25 £36.25 £50.47
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -12.02% +3.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £82.37 £75.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -60 266 £505 -4.31% 121
North of England -4 150 £496 -0.75% 58
South East -25 86 £525 +16.67% 69
Yorkshire -12 84 £504 -4.10% 11
North West -9 51 £513 +5.67% 39
South West -25 51 £544 -5.43% 49
West Midlands -40 32 £500 -14.16% 10
Midlands -51 32 £500 -13.04% 21
East of England -21 18 £505 +6.32% 11
North East -21 15 £400 -17.95% 8
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 29 (4.69%) Confluence
2 17 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.59%) Apache
4 12 (1.94%) nginx
5 11 (1.78%) SAS
6 10 (1.62%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.13%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.97%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.81%) IIS
10 4 (0.65%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.65%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.65%) WordPress
11 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.32%) CMS
12 2 (0.32%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.32%) JBoss
12 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.32%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.16%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.32%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.16%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.16%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.16%) Shopify
3 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 282 (45.63%) AWS
2 239 (38.67%) Azure
3 164 (26.54%) GitHub
4 128 (20.71%) GCP
5 100 (16.18%) GitHub Actions
6 96 (15.53%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (9.55%) Serverless
8 57 (9.22%) OpenShift
9 56 (9.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 52 (8.41%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (8.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 49 (7.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 48 (7.77%) Amazon S3
14 43 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
15 40 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
16 35 (5.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 33 (5.34%) Datadog
18 31 (5.02%) Azure AKS
19 26 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
20 21 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 83 (13.43%) DNS
2 79 (12.78%) Firewall
3 43 (6.96%) TCP/IP
4 40 (6.47%) VPN
5 37 (5.99%) Network Security
6 19 (3.07%) DHCP
7 18 (2.91%) SAN
8 15 (2.43%) NAS
8 15 (2.43%) SSL
9 13 (2.10%) VLAN
9 13 (2.10%) WAN
10 12 (1.94%) HTTP
11 9 (1.46%) SD-WAN
12 8 (1.29%) BGP
12 8 (1.29%) Reverse Proxy
12 8 (1.29%) SNMP
13 7 (1.13%) DNSSEC
14 5 (0.81%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
15 4 (0.65%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
1 31 (5.02%) SQL Server
2 21 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (3.24%) MongoDB
4 17 (2.75%) MySQL
5 16 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (2.27%) Redis
8 13 (2.10%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.94%) Pentaho
10 9 (1.46%) Big Data
10 9 (1.46%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.29%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.29%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.13%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.13%) Metadata
13 6 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (0.97%) Db2
Development Applications
1 182 (29.45%) Jenkins
2 123 (19.90%) GitLab
3 108 (17.48%) Git
4 39 (6.31%) JIRA
5 13 (2.10%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.46%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.46%) Postman
7 8 (1.29%) JMeter
8 7 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.97%) Liquibase
9 6 (0.97%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.81%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (0.81%) MLflow
10 5 (0.81%) Selenium
11 4 (0.65%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.49%) Ant
12 3 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.49%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.49%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.49%) Spinnaker
General
1 131 (21.20%) Social Skills
2 80 (12.94%) Finance
3 57 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 42 (6.80%) Banking
6 17 (2.75%) Legal
7 15 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.13%) Law
8 7 (1.13%) Military
9 6 (0.97%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.81%) Retail
11 4 (0.65%) Publishing
12 3 (0.49%) Front Office
12 3 (0.49%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.32%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.32%) Aviation
13 2 (0.32%) Police
14 1 (0.16%) Back Office
14 1 (0.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (21.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 60 (9.71%) Senior
3 55 (8.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 51 (8.25%) AWS Engineer
5 48 (7.77%) Platform Engineer
6 43 (6.96%) Security Engineer
6 43 (6.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 41 (6.63%) Architect
8 36 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
9 34 (5.50%) Site Engineer
10 31 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 30 (4.85%) Linux Engineer
12 29 (4.69%) GCP Engineer
12 29 (4.69%) Lead
13 27 (4.37%) Data Engineer
14 26 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
15 25 (4.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 24 (3.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 21 (3.40%) GCP DevOps
18 19 (3.07%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.96%) Kafka
2 37 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
3 29 (4.69%) OpenTelemetry
3 29 (4.69%) REST
3 29 (4.69%) YAML
4 19 (3.07%) ARM Templates
5 16 (2.59%) Middleware
6 12 (1.94%) JSON
7 10 (1.62%) LDAP
7 10 (1.62%) Loki
7 10 (1.62%) Node.js
7 10 (1.62%) SAML
8 9 (1.46%) .NET
8 9 (1.46%) OAuth
8 9 (1.46%) SOAP
8 9 (1.46%) Swagger
9 8 (1.29%) React
10 7 (1.13%) cloud-init
10 7 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (0.97%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 104 (16.83%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 33 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (5.18%) Security Posture
5 22 (3.56%) Linux Command Line
6 21 (3.40%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.75%) Replication
9 15 (2.43%) Public Cloud
10 14 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.78%) Product Ownership
12 10 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 9 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.13%) Clustering
14 7 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (1.13%) PKI
15 6 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 253 (40.94%) Linux
2 103 (16.67%) Windows
3 63 (10.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (6.80%) Unix
5 30 (4.85%) Windows Server
6 22 (3.56%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.62%) AIX
7 10 (1.62%) VMS
8 8 (1.29%) CentOS
9 7 (1.13%) Solaris
10 4 (0.65%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.32%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.32%) Debian
12 2 (0.32%) Rocky
12 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (57.93%) CI/CD
2 350 (56.63%) DevOps
3 279 (45.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 181 (29.29%) Containerisation
5 143 (23.14%) Observability
6 113 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (17.15%) Platform Engineering
8 104 (16.83%) Agile
9 90 (14.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 83 (13.43%) Migration
11 79 (12.78%) Cloud Security
12 78 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 77 (12.46%) High Availability
14 71 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 68 (11.00%) Configuration Management
16 67 (10.84%) Root Cause Analysis
17 64 (10.36%) Infrastructure Automation
18 61 (9.87%) AI
19 58 (9.39%) Test Automation
20 57 (9.22%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 542 (87.70%) Python
2 267 (43.20%) PowerShell
3 84 (13.59%) SQL
4 51 (8.25%) Go
5 50 (8.09%) Java
6 27 (4.37%) Bicep
7 23 (3.72%) Shell Script
8 22 (3.56%) Perl
9 19 (3.07%) Groovy
10 18 (2.91%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.78%) Ruby
12 9 (1.46%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.13%) C
13 7 (1.13%) C#
14 6 (0.97%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.81%) Scala
15 5 (0.81%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.65%) C++
16 4 (0.65%) Korn
16 4 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 204 (33.01%) Security Cleared
2 167 (27.02%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.47%) Degree
4 37 (5.99%) Azure Certification
5 36 (5.83%) AWS Certification
6 31 (5.02%) DV Cleared
7 21 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (3.40%) CISSP
8 17 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (1.78%) CCNA
11 11 (1.78%) CCNP
11 11 (1.78%) RHCE
12 10 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (1.29%) RHCA
14 7 (1.13%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.97%) MCSE
16 5 (0.81%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (3.07%) QA
3 18 (2.91%) NIST
4 14 (2.27%) GDPR
5 13 (2.10%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.62%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.62%) SLA
7 8 (1.29%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.97%) GRC
8 6 (0.97%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.32%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.32%) NCSC
13 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.16%) HL7
13 1 (0.16%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 181 (29.29%) Docker
2 46 (7.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (6.96%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (5.99%) Active Directory
5 26 (4.21%) vSphere
6 21 (3.40%) Hyper-V
7 18 (2.91%) VMware NSX
8 13 (2.10%) KVM
9 11 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (1.62%) Firmware
10 10 (1.62%) NFS
10 10 (1.62%) Squid
11 7 (1.13%) Postfix
12 4 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.65%) Varnish
13 3 (0.49%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.49%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.49%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.32%) zsh
Systems Management
1 334 (54.05%) Terraform
2 272 (44.01%) Kubernetes
3 227 (36.73%) Ansible
4 127 (20.55%) Grafana
5 118 (19.09%) Prometheus
6 51 (8.25%) Puppet
7 41 (6.63%) Argo
8 35 (5.66%) Progress Chef
9 28 (4.53%) vCenter Server
10 21 (3.40%) Istio
11 13 (2.10%) Packer
12 9 (1.46%) NetBackup
12 9 (1.46%) Podman
13 8 (1.29%) HAProxy
14 7 (1.13%) Rancher
14 7 (1.13%) Salt
14 7 (1.13%) systemd
15 6 (0.97%) Consul
15 6 (0.97%) IBM BigFix
15 6 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (11.33%) Red Hat
2 69 (11.17%) Microsoft
3 64 (10.36%) Google
4 61 (9.87%) Splunk
5 58 (9.39%) VMware
6 45 (7.28%) Dynatrace
7 39 (6.31%) Oracle
8 23 (3.72%) IBM
9 21 (3.40%) Databricks
10 19 (3.07%) Cisco
11 17 (2.75%) Pure Storage
12 14 (2.27%) Palo Alto
12 14 (2.27%) ServiceNow
13 12 (1.94%) Cloudera
13 12 (1.94%) Informatica
13 12 (1.94%) SolarWinds
14 11 (1.78%) CyberArk
14 11 (1.78%) Fortinet
14 11 (1.78%) Talend
14 11 (1.78%) Zscaler