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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 154 196
Rank change year-on-year -8 +42 -63
Contract jobs citing Bash 745 512 420
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.84% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.22% 5.63% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 342 298
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 £617 £638
90th Percentile £720 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.55% -10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 13
10th Percentile £56.25 £43.90 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -4.35% -19.30%
75th Percentile £98.82 £62.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.00 £66.34 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +21.82% -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 11,986 9,101 10,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.31% 32.70% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,763 6,255 7,550
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 £655
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £530
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.91% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 496 236 359
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £52.88 £37.45 £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 £84.75 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +7.96%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -44 312 £513 -2.38% 232
North of England -7 162 £510 -1.97% 73
South East -15 106 £537 +21.36% 71
South West -1 82 £650 +13.04% 52
Yorkshire -23 74 £515 +0.39% 16
North West +2 63 £544 +8.75% 43
West Midlands -34 35 £487 -0.13% 7
Midlands -38 35 £487 -0.13% 14
East of England -3 28 £450 -5.26% 22
North East -32 24 £425 -22.73% 14
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 (5.23%) Confluence
2 21 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.68%) Apache
4 13 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.61%) nginx
6 11 (1.48%) SAS
7 8 (1.07%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.81%) IIS
8 6 (0.81%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.54%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.54%) WordPress
11 3 (0.40%) JBoss
11 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.27%) CMS
12 2 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.67%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 366 (49.13%) AWS
2 334 (44.83%) Azure
3 198 (26.58%) GitHub
4 151 (20.27%) GCP
5 132 (17.72%) GitHub Actions
6 121 (16.24%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
8 65 (8.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 64 (8.59%) Serverless
10 63 (8.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 61 (8.19%) Amazon S3
12 57 (7.65%) OpenShift
13 51 (6.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 49 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
15 46 (6.17%) Azure Monitor
16 45 (6.04%) Datadog
17 43 (5.77%) Entra ID
17 43 (5.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 41 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
19 39 (5.23%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 133 (17.85%) DNS
2 127 (17.05%) Firewall
3 80 (10.74%) TCP/IP
4 61 (8.19%) VPN
5 58 (7.79%) DHCP
6 51 (6.85%) Network Security
7 18 (2.42%) VSAN
8 17 (2.28%) WAN
9 16 (2.15%) SAN
9 16 (2.15%) SSL
9 16 (2.15%) VLAN
10 15 (2.01%) HTTP
11 13 (1.74%) NAS
11 13 (1.74%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.48%) SSH
13 9 (1.21%) SNMP
14 7 (0.94%) DNSSEC
14 7 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
15 6 (0.81%) BGP
16 5 (0.67%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.97%) SQL Server
2 34 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (2.82%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.55%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.42%) MySQL
7 17 (2.28%) Redis
8 16 (2.15%) Pentaho
9 13 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (1.48%) Big Data
11 11 (1.48%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.34%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.21%) DynamoDB
13 9 (1.21%) Relational Database
14 8 (1.07%) Metadata
15 7 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.81%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 203 (27.25%) Jenkins
2 151 (20.27%) GitLab
3 121 (16.24%) Git
4 44 (5.91%) JIRA
5 13 (1.74%) Artifactory
6 12 (1.61%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.61%) Selenium
6 12 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.07%) Postman
8 7 (0.94%) JMeter
8 7 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.81%) MLflow
9 6 (0.81%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (0.67%) Liquibase
11 4 (0.54%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.54%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.54%) Spinnaker
General
1 164 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 107 (14.36%) Finance
3 85 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 49 (6.58%) Banking
6 17 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.15%) Legal
8 13 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.21%) Law
10 8 (1.07%) Military
11 7 (0.94%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.94%) Retail
12 5 (0.67%) Publishing
13 4 (0.54%) Automotive
13 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.54%) Front Office
14 2 (0.27%) Billing
14 2 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 142 (19.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 95 (12.75%) Senior
3 70 (9.40%) Cloud Engineer
3 70 (9.40%) Platform Engineer
4 55 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 54 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
6 51 (6.85%) Security Engineer
7 47 (6.31%) Azure Engineer
8 45 (6.04%) Lead
9 43 (5.77%) Architect
10 41 (5.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 34 (4.56%) Linux Engineer
12 33 (4.43%) Site Engineer
13 30 (4.03%) Data Engineer
14 28 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
14 28 (3.76%) Senior DevOps
14 28 (3.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 26 (3.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 26 (3.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.36%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.38%) Kafka
2 41 (5.50%) REST
3 39 (5.23%) Elastic Stack
4 37 (4.97%) YAML
5 34 (4.56%) ARM Templates
6 26 (3.49%) OpenTelemetry
7 19 (2.55%) Loki
8 18 (2.42%) Middleware
9 15 (2.01%) .NET
9 15 (2.01%) JSON
10 14 (1.88%) Node.js
10 14 (1.88%) SAML
11 13 (1.74%) LDAP
12 12 (1.61%) SOAP
13 11 (1.48%) OAuth
14 10 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (1.34%) React
14 10 (1.34%) RESTful
15 9 (1.21%) Spring
16 8 (1.07%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 117 (15.70%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (4.97%) Security Posture
4 33 (4.43%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (3.76%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.76%) Linux Command Line
7 27 (3.62%) PKI
8 25 (3.36%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.82%) Replication
10 20 (2.68%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
13 11 (1.48%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.34%) Cloud Security Posture
14 10 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 9 (1.21%) Clustering
15 9 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
16 8 (1.07%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 335 (44.97%) Linux
2 162 (21.74%) Windows
3 81 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 57 (7.65%) Windows Server
5 45 (6.04%) Unix
6 34 (4.56%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.61%) VMS
8 10 (1.34%) CentOS
9 7 (0.94%) AIX
9 7 (0.94%) Solaris
10 5 (0.67%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.27%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.27%) Debian
13 2 (0.27%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (58.12%) CI/CD
2 404 (54.23%) DevOps
3 368 (49.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 203 (27.25%) Containerisation
5 183 (24.56%) Observability
6 155 (20.81%) Platform Engineering
7 139 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
8 137 (18.39%) Agile
9 121 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 119 (15.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 101 (13.56%) Cloud Security
12 92 (12.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 90 (12.08%) Migration
14 89 (11.95%) DevSecOps
15 88 (11.81%) Infrastructure Automation
16 85 (11.41%) Configuration Management
17 82 (11.01%) High Availability
17 82 (11.01%) SIEM
18 80 (10.74%) AI
19 79 (10.60%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 639 (85.77%) Python
2 354 (47.52%) PowerShell
3 105 (14.09%) SQL
4 70 (9.40%) Java
5 56 (7.52%) Go
6 54 (7.25%) Bicep
7 30 (4.03%) Shell Script
8 24 (3.22%) Perl
9 23 (3.09%) Groovy
10 18 (2.42%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.48%) Ruby
12 10 (1.34%) C#
12 10 (1.34%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.34%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.94%) C
14 6 (0.81%) Korn
15 5 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.67%) Scala
15 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.54%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 270 (36.24%) Security Cleared
2 206 (27.65%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.46%) DV Cleared
4 58 (7.79%) AWS Certification
5 56 (7.52%) Azure Certification
6 53 (7.11%) Degree
7 27 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (3.49%) CISSP
9 22 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 16 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (1.74%) CCNP
12 13 (1.74%) VCAP
13 12 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.61%) CCNA
14 11 (1.48%) RHCE
15 9 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.21%) RHCA
16 7 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.16%) QA
2 29 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.95%) NIST
4 16 (2.15%) GDPR
5 15 (2.01%) PCI DSS
6 12 (1.61%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.48%) SLA
8 8 (1.07%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.67%) GRC
10 5 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.40%) 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 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 239 (32.08%) Docker
2 78 (10.47%) Active Directory
3 75 (10.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (5.23%) Hyper-V
5 35 (4.70%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (4.70%) vSphere
6 27 (3.62%) VMware NSX
7 13 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.34%) NFS
8 10 (1.34%) Squid
9 7 (0.94%) Firmware
9 7 (0.94%) KVM
9 7 (0.94%) Postfix
10 5 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.54%) Varnish
11 4 (0.54%) zsh
12 3 (0.40%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.40%) OpenSSH
12 3 (0.40%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 429 (57.58%) Terraform
2 335 (44.97%) Kubernetes
3 280 (37.58%) Ansible
4 154 (20.67%) Grafana
5 133 (17.85%) Prometheus
6 63 (8.46%) Puppet
7 49 (6.58%) Progress Chef
8 46 (6.17%) Argo
9 24 (3.22%) Istio
10 20 (2.68%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (1.88%) Podman
12 13 (1.74%) Packer
12 13 (1.74%) VxRail
13 12 (1.61%) systemd
14 11 (1.48%) NetBackup
14 11 (1.48%) SCCM
14 11 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (1.07%) HAProxy
16 7 (0.94%) Kibana
Vendors
1 122 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 97 (13.02%) VMware
3 80 (10.74%) Google
4 74 (9.93%) Red Hat
5 56 (7.52%) Oracle
6 53 (7.11%) Splunk
7 52 (6.98%) Dynatrace
8 30 (4.03%) Cisco
8 30 (4.03%) CyberArk
9 23 (3.09%) Databricks
10 22 (2.95%) IBM
11 21 (2.82%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.74%) Cloudera
12 13 (1.74%) Palo Alto
13 12 (1.61%) Informatica
13 12 (1.61%) SolarWinds
14 11 (1.48%) Pure Storage
14 11 (1.48%) Talend
14 11 (1.48%) Zscaler
15 9 (1.21%) F5