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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 147 206
Rank change year-on-year -49 +59 -75
Contract jobs citing Bash 541 467 412
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.92% 1.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.94% 5.66% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 299 283
10th Percentile £383 £400 £400
25th Percentile £415 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £673 £625
90th Percentile £691 £750 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 9
10th Percentile £56.20 £25.25 £21.70
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -12.21%
75th Percentile £72.65 £61.19 £71.88
90th Percentile £80.60 £66.37 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -12.21%

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 10,948 8,256 10,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.05% 33.87% 29.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,270 5,726 7,931
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -4.36%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 218 440
10th Percentile £42.33 £25.26 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.74 £48.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% +2.67%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -64 215 £516 -6.14% 108
North of England -30 132 £475 -13.64% 55
Yorkshire -30 80 £460 -16.36% 14
South East -20 78 £460 -3.16% 66
Midlands -46 45 £467 -20.51% 28
South West -31 43 £531 -13.27% 24
West Midlands -32 42 £469 -27.98% 13
North West -27 41 £538 +7.50% 31
East of England -38 15 £450 -5.26% 26
North East -13 11 £425 -23.77% 10
East Midlands -36 3 £436 +6.99% 15
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 27 (4.99%) Confluence
2 8 (1.48%) nginx
2 8 (1.48%) OpenStack
2 8 (1.48%) SAS
3 7 (1.29%) Apache
3 7 (1.29%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.74%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.55%) IIS
7 2 (0.37%) CMS
7 2 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.37%) JBoss
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.37%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.18%) FileNet
8 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Weka
2 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 244 (45.10%) AWS
2 217 (40.11%) Azure
3 156 (28.84%) GitHub
4 109 (20.15%) GCP
5 87 (16.08%) Azure DevOps
6 85 (15.71%) GitHub Actions
7 70 (12.94%) OpenShift
8 51 (9.43%) Serverless
9 50 (9.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (8.50%) Amazon S3
11 45 (8.32%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 37 (6.84%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (5.55%) Azure AKS
16 30 (5.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 20 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (3.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 64 (11.83%) DNS
2 62 (11.46%) Firewall
3 39 (7.21%) TCP/IP
4 31 (5.73%) VPN
5 19 (3.51%) Network Security
6 13 (2.40%) DHCP
7 12 (2.22%) HTTP
7 12 (2.22%) VLAN
8 10 (1.85%) SNMP
9 9 (1.66%) SAN
10 8 (1.48%) NAS
10 8 (1.48%) Reverse Proxy
11 7 (1.29%) SSL
12 6 (1.11%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.11%) SSH
12 6 (1.11%) Wireshark
13 5 (0.92%) BGP
13 5 (0.92%) WAN
14 4 (0.74%) DKIM
14 4 (0.74%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (6.28%) SQL Server
3 28 (5.18%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 17 (3.14%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (2.77%) Redis
7 14 (2.59%) MySQL
8 13 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (2.03%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.66%) Pentaho
11 7 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.29%) Big Data
11 7 (1.29%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.11%) DB2
13 5 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (0.92%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.92%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 150 (27.73%) Jenkins
2 113 (20.89%) GitLab
3 94 (17.38%) Git
4 36 (6.65%) JIRA
5 9 (1.66%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.48%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.29%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.11%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.92%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.92%) Selenium
10 4 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.74%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.74%) Postman
10 4 (0.74%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.74%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.55%) Ant
11 3 (0.55%) Appium
11 3 (0.55%) JMeter
11 3 (0.55%) Snyk
General
1 139 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 64 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (10.72%) Finance
4 49 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.44%) Banking
6 13 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.03%) Legal
8 8 (1.48%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.29%) Retail
10 6 (1.11%) Military
11 5 (0.92%) Law
12 4 (0.74%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.37%) Aviation
14 2 (0.37%) Police
15 1 (0.18%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.18%) Front Office
15 1 (0.18%) Games
15 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (18.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (10.72%) Platform Engineer
3 46 (8.50%) Senior
4 42 (7.76%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (6.84%) Security Engineer
6 35 (6.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 33 (6.10%) Architect
8 31 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 30 (5.55%) Site Engineer
10 28 (5.18%) Azure Engineer
10 28 (5.18%) Lead
11 26 (4.81%) Data Engineer
12 25 (4.62%) GCP Engineer
13 23 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (4.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 21 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
16 20 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
17 19 (3.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 19 (3.51%) Linux Engineer
18 18 (3.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
2 38 (7.02%) Kafka
3 30 (5.55%) REST
4 29 (5.36%) OpenTelemetry
5 20 (3.70%) YAML
6 16 (2.96%) Node.js
7 14 (2.59%) ARM Templates
8 13 (2.40%) Middleware
9 12 (2.22%) LDAP
10 11 (2.03%) Keycloak
10 11 (2.03%) Loki
11 9 (1.66%) ADO
12 8 (1.48%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.48%) SAML
12 8 (1.48%) Swagger
13 7 (1.29%) .NET
13 7 (1.29%) OAuth
13 7 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (1.29%) SOAP
13 7 (1.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 77 (14.23%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 16 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 16 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (2.96%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.59%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.59%) Replication
8 12 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.22%) PKI
9 9 (1.66%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.66%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.48%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.11%) Clustering
12 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.74%) Grid Computing
12 4 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 215 (39.74%) Linux
2 85 (15.71%) Windows
3 44 (8.13%) Unix
4 39 (7.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.62%) Windows Server
6 17 (3.14%) Ubuntu
7 15 (2.77%) Mac OS
7 15 (2.77%) VMS
8 8 (1.48%) AIX
9 7 (1.29%) CentOS
10 5 (0.92%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.37%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.37%) Debian
12 2 (0.37%) Solaris
12 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (56.38%) CI/CD
2 290 (53.60%) DevOps
3 243 (44.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 173 (31.98%) Containerisation
5 128 (23.66%) Observability
6 115 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (19.59%) Platform Engineering
8 97 (17.93%) Agile
9 77 (14.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 75 (13.86%) Configuration Management
11 68 (12.57%) High Availability
12 63 (11.65%) Migration
13 62 (11.46%) Root Cause Analysis
14 55 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 54 (9.98%) Infrastructure Automation
16 52 (9.61%) Continuous Improvement
16 52 (9.61%) Test Automation
17 51 (9.43%) DevSecOps
18 47 (8.69%) Cloud Security
19 46 (8.50%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 466 (86.14%) Python
2 225 (41.59%) PowerShell
3 74 (13.68%) SQL
4 38 (7.02%) Go
4 38 (7.02%) Java
5 25 (4.62%) Bicep
6 24 (4.44%) JavaScript
7 19 (3.51%) Shell Script
8 17 (3.14%) Groovy
9 11 (2.03%) Perl
10 10 (1.85%) C#
11 9 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.48%) C
12 8 (1.48%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.48%) TypeScript
13 7 (1.29%) Ruby
13 7 (1.29%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.11%) PHP
15 5 (0.92%) C++
16 4 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 168 (31.05%) Security Cleared
2 138 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.21%) Degree
4 27 (4.99%) AWS Certification
4 27 (4.99%) Azure Certification
5 26 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.81%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (2.22%) CISSP
7 12 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (2.03%) CCNP
9 10 (1.85%) CCNA
10 8 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.48%) RHCA
11 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.29%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (1.29%) RHCE
12 5 (0.92%) CISM
12 5 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.07%) GDPR
1 22 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (3.14%) QA
3 13 (2.40%) NIST
4 12 (2.22%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.66%) HIPAA
5 9 (1.66%) SLA
6 7 (1.29%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.29%) NCSC
7 6 (1.11%) GRC
8 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.37%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 173 (31.98%) Docker
2 49 (9.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (7.21%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (5.73%) Active Directory
5 24 (4.44%) Hyper-V
6 23 (4.25%) vSphere
7 19 (3.51%) VMware NSX
8 15 (2.77%) KVM
9 9 (1.66%) Firmware
10 7 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (1.11%) Postfix
12 5 (0.92%) Lustre
12 5 (0.92%) NFS
12 5 (0.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.92%) Squid
13 4 (0.74%) GPFS
14 3 (0.55%) Ceph
14 3 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.37%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 279 (51.57%) Terraform
2 257 (47.50%) Kubernetes
3 212 (39.19%) Ansible
4 121 (22.37%) Grafana
5 105 (19.41%) Prometheus
6 51 (9.43%) Puppet
7 48 (8.87%) Argo
8 28 (5.18%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.44%) Istio
10 20 (3.70%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.22%) Kibana
12 11 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (1.85%) Rancher
14 8 (1.48%) linkerd
14 8 (1.48%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.48%) Podman
14 8 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (1.48%) SCCM
15 7 (1.29%) Packer
15 7 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (14.79%) Splunk
2 75 (13.86%) Microsoft
3 67 (12.38%) VMware
4 61 (11.28%) Red Hat
5 39 (7.21%) Google
6 35 (6.47%) Dynatrace
7 28 (5.18%) Oracle
8 19 (3.51%) Databricks
9 18 (3.33%) Pure Storage
10 15 (2.77%) Cisco
10 15 (2.77%) IBM
11 11 (2.03%) AppDynamics
11 11 (2.03%) CyberArk
11 11 (2.03%) Dell
11 11 (2.03%) ServiceNow
12 10 (1.85%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.66%) Cloudera
13 9 (1.66%) PagerDuty
13 9 (1.66%) Palo Alto
13 9 (1.66%) Zscaler