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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 180 166
Rank change year-on-year +41 -14 -12
Contract jobs citing Bash 659 420 560
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.08% 1.47% 1.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.71% 4.50% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 255 405
10th Percentile £397 £375 £406
25th Percentile £432 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £605 £738 £695
90th Percentile £675 £810 £798
UK median daily rate £520 £538 £568
% change year-on-year -3.26% -5.41% -5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 13
10th Percentile - £40.75 £58.40
25th Percentile £41.25 £58.44 £60.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.67% +2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 £103.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.70 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -18.93% -6.67% +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 9,825 9,336 11,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.08% 32.59% 30.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,514 6,063 8,183
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% -1.46% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 223 381
10th Percentile £35.03 £25.46 £35.00
25th Percentile £51.63 £44.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £68.88 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 +31 287 £550 -9.47% 158
North of England +12 153 £513 -10.87% 113
South East +37 88 £496 +7.24% 161
Yorkshire -11 78 £489 -13.16% 49
North West -1 54 £550 -5.58% 55
Midlands -6 53 £486 +10.45% 76
West Midlands -1 42 £519 +6.03% 39
South West -2 35 £575 -10.51% 88
North East +11 25 £550 -2.65% 10
East of England -21 16 £444 -26.04% 79
East Midlands -11 11 £470 +11.90% 33
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 31 (4.70%) Confluence
2 18 (2.73%) OpenStack
3 12 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.52%) nginx
5 7 (1.06%) Apache
5 7 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.61%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.46%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.46%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.46%) IIS
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) CICS
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Documentum
10 1 (0.15%) FileNet
10 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.21%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Finacle
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 305 (46.28%) AWS
2 250 (37.94%) Azure
3 151 (22.91%) GCP
4 140 (21.24%) GitHub
5 85 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
6 68 (10.32%) Amazon S3
6 68 (10.32%) OpenShift
7 64 (9.71%) Amazon EC2
8 61 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 59 (8.95%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (8.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 48 (7.28%) Entra ID
11 48 (7.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 46 (6.98%) Serverless
13 44 (6.68%) Amazon EKS
14 34 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (5.01%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (4.10%) Datadog
17 23 (3.49%) Azure AKS
18 22 (3.34%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 115 (17.45%) Firewall
2 80 (12.14%) DNS
3 71 (10.77%) TCP/IP
4 44 (6.68%) VPN
5 35 (5.31%) Network Security
6 31 (4.70%) SSL
7 25 (3.79%) Wireshark
8 21 (3.19%) VLAN
9 19 (2.88%) BGP
10 15 (2.28%) DHCP
11 11 (1.67%) SSH
12 10 (1.52%) HTTP
12 10 (1.52%) OSPF
13 9 (1.37%) Software-Defined Networking
14 8 (1.21%) Ethernet
14 8 (1.21%) Multicast
15 7 (1.06%) SD-WAN
15 7 (1.06%) SMTP
15 7 (1.06%) SNMP
16 6 (0.91%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (12.14%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (5.46%) SQL Server
4 26 (3.95%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.79%) Redis
6 23 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (2.73%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.58%) MySQL
9 12 (1.82%) Big Data
9 12 (1.82%) Hadoop
10 11 (1.67%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.52%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.06%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.06%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.76%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 185 (28.07%) Jenkins
2 146 (22.15%) GitLab
3 120 (18.21%) Git
4 48 (7.28%) JIRA
5 15 (2.28%) CircleCI
5 15 (2.28%) Metasploit
6 14 (2.12%) Burp Suite
6 14 (2.12%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (1.67%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.67%) Maven
9 8 (1.21%) Artifactory
9 8 (1.21%) MLflow
10 7 (1.06%) Subversion
11 6 (0.91%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.76%) Gradle
12 5 (0.76%) Liquibase
12 5 (0.76%) Mockito
12 5 (0.76%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.61%) ScriptRunner
General
1 193 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 89 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (10.02%) Public Sector
4 59 (8.95%) Finance
5 30 (4.55%) Banking
6 21 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.28%) Legal
8 10 (1.52%) Front Office
8 10 (1.52%) Retail
9 7 (1.06%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.91%) Military
10 6 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.76%) Games
11 5 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.61%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.61%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.61%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.61%) Law
13 3 (0.46%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 114 (17.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (12.29%) Senior
3 60 (9.10%) Platform Engineer
4 38 (5.77%) Developer
5 35 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (5.31%) Site Engineer
6 34 (5.16%) Architect
6 34 (5.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 31 (4.70%) AWS DevOps
7 31 (4.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 31 (4.70%) Lead
7 31 (4.70%) Network Engineer
8 26 (3.95%) Security Engineer
9 25 (3.79%) Administrator
9 25 (3.79%) Automation Engineer
9 25 (3.79%) Data Engineer
10 23 (3.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 22 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
12 21 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (9.71%) Elastic Stack
2 50 (7.59%) Kafka
3 30 (4.55%) Keycloak
4 29 (4.40%) REST
5 22 (3.34%) Middleware
6 20 (3.03%) Node.js
7 15 (2.28%) Loki
8 14 (2.12%) .NET
8 14 (2.12%) YAML
9 12 (1.82%) ARM Templates
10 11 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
10 11 (1.67%) SAML
11 10 (1.52%) OAuth
12 9 (1.37%) AngularJS
12 9 (1.37%) LDAP
13 8 (1.21%) RESTful
13 8 (1.21%) Spring
13 8 (1.21%) Spring Boot
14 7 (1.06%) OpenID
14 7 (1.06%) React
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.44%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
5 21 (3.19%) PKI
6 18 (2.73%) Data Centre
7 17 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.58%) Replication
8 15 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (2.28%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.12%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.97%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.37%) NHS
12 9 (1.37%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.21%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.21%) Clustering
14 7 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 304 (46.13%) Linux
2 109 (16.54%) Windows
3 73 (11.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 57 (8.65%) Unix
5 38 (5.77%) Mac OS
6 31 (4.70%) Windows Server
7 23 (3.49%) CentOS
8 16 (2.43%) Ubuntu
9 15 (2.28%) Solaris
10 10 (1.52%) Windows 10
11 8 (1.21%) Kali Linux
12 7 (1.06%) VMS
13 3 (0.46%) AIX
14 1 (0.15%) Android
14 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.15%) Debian
14 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (54.63%) CI/CD
2 330 (50.08%) DevOps
3 298 (45.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 204 (30.96%) Containerisation
5 147 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (20.33%) Observability
7 113 (17.15%) Agile
8 92 (13.96%) Incident Response
9 87 (13.20%) Platform Engineering
10 86 (13.05%) Test Automation
11 85 (12.90%) High Availability
12 83 (12.59%) Infrastructure Automation
13 80 (12.14%) DevSecOps
14 76 (11.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 72 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 69 (10.47%) Migration
17 67 (10.17%) Task Automation
18 59 (8.95%) Cybersecurity
18 59 (8.95%) Data Protection
19 58 (8.80%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 571 (86.65%) Python
2 245 (37.18%) PowerShell
3 68 (10.32%) SQL
4 60 (9.10%) Go
4 60 (9.10%) Java
5 52 (7.89%) Perl
6 32 (4.86%) JavaScript
6 32 (4.86%) Shell Script
7 19 (2.88%) Groovy
7 19 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
8 16 (2.43%) Bicep
8 16 (2.43%) C++
9 15 (2.28%) C#
10 12 (1.82%) C
11 11 (1.67%) PHP
12 9 (1.37%) TypeScript
13 7 (1.06%) PromQL
14 6 (0.91%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.76%) Tcl
15 5 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 217 (32.93%) Security Cleared
2 176 (26.71%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.98%) Degree
4 32 (4.86%) DV Cleared
5 31 (4.70%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (3.19%) OSCP
9 18 (2.73%) CCNP
9 18 (2.73%) CEH
10 17 (2.58%) CCNA
11 15 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (2.28%) CISSP
11 15 (2.28%) GPEN
12 13 (1.97%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (1.52%) CCDP
15 9 (1.37%) Master's Degree
16 8 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
16 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (4.86%) GDPR
3 17 (2.58%) NCSC
3 17 (2.58%) NIST
4 13 (1.97%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.82%) QA
6 11 (1.67%) HIPAA
6 11 (1.67%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.76%) SLA
9 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.15%) GxP
11 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 249 (37.78%) Docker
2 85 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (7.89%) Active Directory
4 28 (4.25%) vSphere
5 12 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.67%) Hyper-V
7 10 (1.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 9 (1.37%) KVM
8 9 (1.37%) Lustre
8 9 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (1.37%) VMware NSX
9 8 (1.21%) GPFS
9 8 (1.21%) zsh
10 7 (1.06%) Firmware
11 6 (0.91%) Squid
12 5 (0.76%) NFS
12 5 (0.76%) Snort
13 4 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.61%) Postfix
13 4 (0.61%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 310 (47.04%) Terraform
2 295 (44.76%) Kubernetes
3 257 (39.00%) Ansible
4 141 (21.40%) Grafana
5 128 (19.42%) Prometheus
6 51 (7.74%) Argo
7 44 (6.68%) Puppet
8 26 (3.95%) Istio
9 23 (3.49%) NetBackup
10 21 (3.19%) SCCM
11 20 (3.03%) Kibana
12 19 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (2.58%) Jamf Pro
13 17 (2.58%) Nmap
14 14 (2.12%) Progress Chef
14 14 (2.12%) Red Hat Satellite
15 13 (1.97%) Oracle RMAN
15 13 (1.97%) Packer
16 11 (1.67%) vCenter Server
17 10 (1.52%) logstash
Vendors
1 115 (17.45%) VMware
2 102 (15.48%) Microsoft
3 97 (14.72%) Red Hat
3 97 (14.72%) Splunk
4 47 (7.13%) Google
5 41 (6.22%) Palo Alto
6 38 (5.77%) Cisco
7 30 (4.55%) F5
8 29 (4.40%) Oracle
9 28 (4.25%) CheckPoint
10 26 (3.95%) Citrix
11 21 (3.19%) CyberArk
11 21 (3.19%) Veritas
12 20 (3.03%) ServiceNow
13 18 (2.73%) Dynatrace
14 16 (2.43%) Databricks
14 16 (2.43%) Juniper
15 15 (2.28%) Zscaler
16 13 (1.97%) CrowdStrike
16 13 (1.97%) Qualys