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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 146 193
Rank change year-on-year -22 +47 -48
Contract jobs citing Bash 810 581 429
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.73% 2.06% 1.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.62% 6.33% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 378 279
10th Percentile £400 £377 £368
25th Percentile £456 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £675
90th Percentile £725 £675 £802
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 11
10th Percentile £58.43 - £48.75
25th Percentile £62.12 £41.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.39% -15.65% -23.33%
75th Percentile £96.29 £59.81 £71.88
90th Percentile £99.76 £62.55 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +46.39% -15.65% -23.33%

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 12,238 9,172 10,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.13% 32.58% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,911 6,135 6,913
10th Percentile £363 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.53% -1.36%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.93% -3.79% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 530 263 290
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £48.16 £42.25 £47.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £78.75 £75.00
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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -19 398 £535 -0.93% 388
North of England -48 140 £500 - 82
South East -14 114 £575 +28.64% 97
South West +11 88 £653 +18.64% 69
Yorkshire -41 63 £500 - 20
North West -25 54 £525 +10.53% 48
East of England -17 28 £425 -11.23% 42
West Midlands -50 25 £506 -10.06% 18
Midlands -65 25 £506 -8.01% 29
North East -33 22 £419 -19.47% 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 38 (4.69%) Confluence
2 29 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.21%) Apache
4 21 (2.59%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.73%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.60%) nginx
7 10 (1.23%) IIS
8 9 (1.11%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.86%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.86%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.49%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.49%) SAS
10 4 (0.49%) WordPress
11 3 (0.37%) JBoss
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.12%) Camunda
13 1 (0.12%) CMS
13 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.12%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.99%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.62%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.62%) Summit
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.12%) Actimize
5 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 376 (46.42%) Azure
2 373 (46.05%) AWS
3 199 (24.57%) GitHub
4 161 (19.88%) GCP
5 145 (17.90%) GitHub Actions
6 139 (17.16%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (8.89%) Azure Monitor
9 66 (8.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 66 (8.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (7.78%) Serverless
11 60 (7.41%) Amazon S3
12 59 (7.28%) Entra ID
13 55 (6.79%) OpenShift
14 50 (6.17%) Azure AKS
14 50 (6.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 49 (6.05%) Datadog
16 47 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
17 45 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 41 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 132 (16.30%) Firewall
2 122 (15.06%) DNS
3 92 (11.36%) TCP/IP
4 75 (9.26%) Network Security
5 70 (8.64%) VPN
6 66 (8.15%) DHCP
7 22 (2.72%) WAN
8 19 (2.35%) SSH
9 16 (1.98%) SAN
9 16 (1.98%) VSAN
10 15 (1.85%) SD-WAN
10 15 (1.85%) SSL
11 14 (1.73%) VLAN
12 12 (1.48%) BGP
13 11 (1.36%) HTTP
13 11 (1.36%) Kerberos
14 10 (1.23%) 5G
15 9 (1.11%) 4G
16 8 (0.99%) NAS
17 7 (0.86%) DNSSEC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (4.20%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.46%) Redis
4 25 (3.09%) MongoDB
5 24 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (2.84%) MySQL
7 21 (2.59%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.22%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.60%) Big Data
9 13 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.48%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (1.48%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.36%) Metadata
12 10 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
12 10 (1.23%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.23%) Power BI
13 9 (1.11%) Delta Lake
14 8 (0.99%) Pentaho
15 7 (0.86%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 213 (26.30%) Jenkins
2 181 (22.35%) Git
3 169 (20.86%) GitLab
4 46 (5.68%) JIRA
5 20 (2.47%) Artifactory
6 17 (2.10%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.98%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
8 15 (1.85%) Selenium
9 10 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (1.11%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.99%) Maven
11 8 (0.99%) Postman
12 7 (0.86%) JMeter
12 7 (0.86%) MLflow
13 6 (0.74%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.74%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (0.62%) Subversion
15 4 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 194 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 163 (20.12%) Finance
3 103 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (8.89%) Banking
5 67 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.72%) Telecoms
7 13 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (1.60%) Legal
8 11 (1.36%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.36%) Military
9 9 (1.11%) Law
10 8 (0.99%) Retail
11 7 (0.86%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.74%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.62%) Front Office
13 5 (0.62%) Publishing
14 4 (0.49%) Automotive
14 4 (0.49%) Marketing
15 3 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 178 (21.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 111 (13.70%) Senior
3 75 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
4 73 (9.01%) Cloud Engineer
5 61 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 59 (7.28%) Azure Engineer
7 58 (7.16%) Security Engineer
8 50 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
9 46 (5.68%) Linux Engineer
10 45 (5.56%) Lead
11 40 (4.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 38 (4.69%) Developer
13 37 (4.57%) Architect
13 37 (4.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 35 (4.32%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 34 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
15 34 (4.20%) Site Engineer
16 33 (4.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 31 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
17 31 (3.83%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (60.12%) Terraform
2 74 (9.14%) Kafka
3 58 (7.16%) ARM Templates
4 55 (6.79%) REST
5 43 (5.31%) Elastic Stack
6 38 (4.69%) YAML
7 29 (3.58%) Middleware
8 24 (2.96%) Loki
9 21 (2.59%) RESTful
10 19 (2.35%) .NET
10 19 (2.35%) React
11 18 (2.22%) Flask
11 18 (2.22%) JSON
12 15 (1.85%) CSS
12 15 (1.85%) HTML
12 15 (1.85%) Node.js
13 14 (1.73%) AngularJS
13 14 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (1.73%) pytest
13 14 (1.73%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 126 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (5.31%) Security Posture
4 41 (5.06%) Onboarding
4 41 (5.06%) PKI
5 32 (3.95%) Data Centre
5 32 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (3.83%) Management Information System
7 30 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
8 26 (3.21%) Public Cloud
9 21 (2.59%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.10%) Cloud Security Posture
10 17 (2.10%) Replication
11 14 (1.73%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (1.48%) ARM Cortex
13 11 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 418 (51.60%) Linux
2 191 (23.58%) Windows
3 103 (12.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 74 (9.14%) Windows Server
5 60 (7.41%) Unix
6 37 (4.57%) Ubuntu
7 18 (2.22%) CentOS
8 14 (1.73%) VMS
9 6 (0.74%) macOS
9 6 (0.74%) Rocky
9 6 (0.74%) Solaris
10 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.25%) AIX
12 2 (0.25%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.12%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (62.10%) CI/CD
2 457 (56.42%) DevOps
3 437 (53.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 241 (29.75%) Containerisation
5 232 (28.64%) Observability
6 181 (22.35%) Platform Engineering
7 177 (21.85%) Agile
8 171 (21.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 151 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
10 134 (16.54%) DevSecOps
11 126 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 125 (15.43%) Cloud Security
13 116 (14.32%) Infrastructure Automation
14 107 (13.21%) Root Cause Analysis
15 106 (13.09%) Runbook
15 106 (13.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 102 (12.59%) AI
17 96 (11.85%) Configuration Management
17 96 (11.85%) Migration
18 87 (10.74%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 682 (84.20%) Python
2 402 (49.63%) PowerShell
3 112 (13.83%) SQL
4 97 (11.98%) Java
5 86 (10.62%) Bicep
6 72 (8.89%) Go
7 55 (6.79%) Shell Script
8 27 (3.33%) Perl
9 26 (3.21%) Groovy
10 25 (3.09%) JavaScript
11 21 (2.59%) Korn
12 17 (2.10%) TypeScript
13 15 (1.85%) C#
14 9 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.99%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.99%) Ruby
16 4 (0.49%) Cypher
16 4 (0.49%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.37%) Scala
17 3 (0.37%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 319 (39.38%) Security Cleared
2 230 (28.40%) SC Cleared
3 90 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 65 (8.02%) AWS Certification
5 62 (7.65%) Degree
6 55 (6.79%) Azure Certification
7 36 (4.44%) CISSP
8 32 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.48%) VCAP
13 11 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 7 (0.86%) CCNP
16 6 (0.74%) CCSP
16 6 (0.74%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.68%) QA
2 34 (4.20%) NIST
3 29 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.47%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.86%) GDPR
6 7 (0.86%) NCSC
7 6 (0.74%) SLA
8 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.62%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.12%) GLBA
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 307 (37.90%) Docker
2 90 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 64 (7.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (4.20%) Hyper-V
5 27 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (3.21%) vSphere
7 17 (2.10%) VMware NSX
8 10 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (1.11%) Squid
10 7 (0.86%) NFS
11 5 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.62%) Postfix
12 4 (0.49%) HDFS
12 4 (0.49%) zsh
13 3 (0.37%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.37%) Firmware
13 3 (0.37%) KVM
13 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 391 (48.27%) Kubernetes
2 300 (37.04%) Ansible
3 175 (21.60%) Grafana
4 146 (18.02%) Prometheus
5 49 (6.05%) Progress Chef
5 49 (6.05%) Puppet
6 38 (4.69%) Argo
7 23 (2.84%) Istio
8 19 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (2.35%) SCCM
9 14 (1.73%) Kibana
9 14 (1.73%) VxRail
10 13 (1.60%) Podman
11 12 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.48%) systemd
12 11 (1.36%) Packer
13 9 (1.11%) Check_MK
14 8 (0.99%) Cilium
15 7 (0.86%) Consul
15 7 (0.86%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 168 (20.74%) Microsoft
2 98 (12.10%) Google
3 86 (10.62%) VMware
4 64 (7.90%) Splunk
5 63 (7.78%) Red Hat
6 57 (7.04%) Dynatrace
7 55 (6.79%) Oracle
8 34 (4.20%) ServiceNow
9 31 (3.83%) CyberArk
10 29 (3.58%) Cisco
11 27 (3.33%) Databricks
12 17 (2.10%) IBM
13 16 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
13 16 (1.98%) Palo Alto
14 12 (1.48%) NetApp
15 11 (1.36%) SolarWinds
16 10 (1.23%) BeyondTrust
16 10 (1.23%) BMC
17 9 (1.11%) Remedy
17 9 (1.11%) WALLIX