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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 146 220
Rank change year-on-year -44 +74 -91
Contract jobs citing Bash 563 465 401
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.42% 1.89% 1.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.13% 5.60% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 303 276
10th Percentile £392 £388 £400
25th Percentile £416 £457 £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 £689 £750 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 9
10th Percentile £52.35 £25.25 £21.70
25th Percentile £58.43 £31.99 £22.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% +3.81% -22.51%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £77.50 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £68.70 £54.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +26.05% +3.81% -22.51%

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 10,971 8,301 10,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.63% 33.78% 29.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,291 5,731 7,898
10th Percentile £353 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -4.42%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 212 432
10th Percentile £42.50 £25.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.97 £47.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.18
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +0.92% -0.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -1.54%

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 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -46 220 £520 -5.45% 84
North of England -21 143 £500 -9.09% 46
South East -10 82 £450 -5.26% 57
Yorkshire -27 78 £460 -16.36% 9
North West -10 54 £550 +10.00% 22
South West -38 45 £525 -12.50% 21
Midlands -38 44 £467 -20.51% 26
West Midlands -34 41 £469 -27.98% 13
North East -9 15 £525 -5.83% 15
East of England -26 13 £425 -10.53% 28
East Midlands -36 3 £436 +6.99% 13
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 33 (5.86%) Confluence
2 13 (2.31%) nginx
3 10 (1.78%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.42%) SAS
5 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.24%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.07%) Apache
6 6 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.53%) IIS
9 2 (0.36%) CMS
9 2 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.36%) JBoss
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.18%) FileNet
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.89%) 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
1 251 (44.58%) AWS
2 221 (39.25%) Azure
3 155 (27.53%) GitHub
4 109 (19.36%) GCP
5 89 (15.81%) Azure DevOps
6 84 (14.92%) GitHub Actions
7 71 (12.61%) OpenShift
8 55 (9.77%) Serverless
9 48 (8.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (8.35%) Amazon S3
11 43 (7.64%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 32 (5.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 29 (5.15%) Azure AKS
17 28 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
18 25 (4.44%) Entra ID
19 23 (4.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 21 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 70 (12.43%) Firewall
2 65 (11.55%) DNS
3 40 (7.10%) TCP/IP
4 28 (4.97%) VPN
5 22 (3.91%) Network Security
6 21 (3.73%) VLAN
7 14 (2.49%) DHCP
8 13 (2.31%) HTTP
9 12 (2.13%) BGP
10 9 (1.60%) SAN
10 9 (1.60%) SSL
11 8 (1.42%) NAS
11 8 (1.42%) Reverse Proxy
11 8 (1.42%) SNMP
11 8 (1.42%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (1.07%) SSH
12 6 (1.07%) WebEx
12 6 (1.07%) Wireshark
13 5 (0.89%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.89%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (11.01%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (6.04%) SQL Server
3 29 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (4.09%) MongoDB
5 21 (3.73%) NoSQL
6 16 (2.84%) MySQL
6 16 (2.84%) Redis
7 15 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (1.95%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (1.60%) Big Data
11 9 (1.60%) Pentaho
12 8 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.07%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.07%) DB2
14 5 (0.89%) Amazon QuickSight
14 5 (0.89%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 159 (28.24%) Jenkins
2 119 (21.14%) GitLab
3 98 (17.41%) Git
4 42 (7.46%) JIRA
5 15 (2.66%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.78%) CircleCI
7 8 (1.42%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.07%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.89%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.89%) Selenium
9 5 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.71%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.71%) ScriptRunner
10 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.71%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.53%) Ant
11 3 (0.53%) Appium
11 3 (0.53%) Postman
11 3 (0.53%) Snyk
General
1 149 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 78 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (10.48%) Finance
4 50 (8.88%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.26%) Banking
6 20 (3.55%) Legal
7 13 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.60%) Retail
10 8 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.07%) Military
12 5 (0.89%) Law
13 4 (0.71%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.36%) Aviation
15 2 (0.36%) Billing
15 2 (0.36%) Police
16 1 (0.18%) Financial Institution
16 1 (0.18%) Games
16 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (17.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (12.97%) Platform Engineer
3 49 (8.70%) Senior
4 39 (6.93%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (6.04%) Architect
5 34 (6.04%) Security Engineer
6 32 (5.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 30 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
7 30 (5.33%) Lead
8 29 (5.15%) Site Engineer
9 28 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (4.62%) GCP Engineer
11 24 (4.26%) Data Engineer
12 23 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (3.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 21 (3.73%) Linux Engineer
14 20 (3.55%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (3.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.37%) Automation Engineer
16 18 (3.20%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.46%) Elastic Stack
2 40 (7.10%) Kafka
3 33 (5.86%) REST
4 27 (4.80%) OpenTelemetry
5 20 (3.55%) YAML
6 18 (3.20%) ARM Templates
7 15 (2.66%) Node.js
8 13 (2.31%) Middleware
9 12 (2.13%) Keycloak
10 11 (1.95%) LDAP
11 10 (1.78%) .NET
11 10 (1.78%) Loki
11 10 (1.78%) OAuth
11 10 (1.78%) SAML
12 9 (1.60%) ADO
13 8 (1.42%) AngularJS
14 7 (1.24%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (1.24%) SOAP
14 7 (1.24%) Swagger
14 7 (1.24%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 73 (12.97%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.73%) Data Centre
4 21 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
6 18 (3.20%) Security Posture
7 16 (2.84%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.66%) Replication
9 14 (2.49%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.13%) PKI
11 11 (1.95%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.95%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.07%) Clustering
14 5 (0.89%) Grid Computing
14 5 (0.89%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 232 (41.21%) Linux
2 99 (17.58%) Windows
3 55 (9.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (8.70%) Unix
5 36 (6.39%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.20%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.84%) Mac OS
8 15 (2.66%) VMS
9 8 (1.42%) AIX
9 8 (1.42%) CentOS
10 5 (0.89%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.53%) Solaris
11 3 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.36%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.36%) Debian
12 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (55.06%) CI/CD
2 293 (52.04%) DevOps
3 246 (43.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 179 (31.79%) Containerisation
5 132 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
6 127 (22.56%) Observability
7 118 (20.96%) Platform Engineering
8 100 (17.76%) Agile
9 76 (13.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 75 (13.32%) High Availability
11 70 (12.43%) Configuration Management
12 64 (11.37%) Migration
13 58 (10.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 58 (10.30%) Root Cause Analysis
14 57 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 56 (9.95%) DevSecOps
15 56 (9.95%) Infrastructure Automation
16 54 (9.59%) Test Automation
17 50 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
18 47 (8.35%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 482 (85.61%) Python
2 243 (43.16%) PowerShell
3 73 (12.97%) SQL
4 36 (6.39%) Go
4 36 (6.39%) Java
5 25 (4.44%) Bicep
5 25 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 24 (4.26%) Perl
7 20 (3.55%) Shell Script
8 18 (3.20%) Groovy
9 13 (2.31%) C#
10 10 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (1.60%) PHP
12 8 (1.42%) C
12 8 (1.42%) Ruby
13 7 (1.24%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.24%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.07%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.89%) C++
16 3 (0.53%) Korn
Qualifications
1 191 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 159 (28.24%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.46%) Degree
4 29 (5.15%) DV Cleared
5 27 (4.80%) AWS Certification
6 26 (4.62%) Azure Certification
7 25 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (3.37%) CCNP
10 18 (3.20%) CCNA
11 13 (2.31%) CISSP
12 11 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 9 (1.60%) CCDP
14 8 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (1.24%) RHCA
15 7 (1.24%) RHCE
16 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.09%) GDPR
2 20 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (3.02%) QA
4 12 (2.13%) NIST
5 11 (1.95%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.60%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.60%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.60%) SLA
7 8 (1.42%) NCSC
8 6 (1.07%) GRC
9 5 (0.89%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.36%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 185 (32.86%) Docker
2 54 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (7.46%) Active Directory
4 37 (6.57%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (4.44%) vSphere
6 23 (4.09%) Hyper-V
7 19 (3.37%) VMware NSX
8 16 (2.84%) KVM
9 9 (1.60%) Firmware
10 8 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (1.07%) Lustre
11 6 (1.07%) Postfix
11 6 (1.07%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.89%) GPFS
12 5 (0.89%) Squid
13 4 (0.71%) Ceph
13 4 (0.71%) NFS
14 3 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.36%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 287 (50.98%) Terraform
2 265 (47.07%) Kubernetes
3 212 (37.66%) Ansible
4 120 (21.31%) Grafana
5 106 (18.83%) Prometheus
6 51 (9.06%) Argo
7 48 (8.53%) Puppet
8 28 (4.97%) vCenter Server
9 25 (4.44%) Istio
10 20 (3.55%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.13%) Kibana
11 12 (2.13%) Rancher
12 11 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (1.78%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (1.42%) linkerd
14 8 (1.42%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.42%) SCCM
15 7 (1.24%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (1.24%) Packer
15 7 (1.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 86 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 79 (14.03%) Splunk
3 77 (13.68%) VMware
4 76 (13.50%) Red Hat
5 40 (7.10%) Google
6 32 (5.68%) Dynatrace
7 26 (4.62%) Oracle
8 22 (3.91%) Cisco
9 20 (3.55%) Databricks
10 18 (3.20%) Pure Storage
11 15 (2.66%) Citrix
11 15 (2.66%) IBM
12 12 (2.13%) Atlassian
12 12 (2.13%) Dell
12 12 (2.13%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.95%) AppDynamics
13 11 (1.95%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.78%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.78%) Palo Alto
15 9 (1.60%) PagerDuty