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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 150 209
Rank change year-on-year -29 +59 -82
Contract jobs citing Bash 690 520 424
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.54% 1.91% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.82% 5.77% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 343 303
10th Percentile £388 £361 £400
25th Percentile £441 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £620 £614 £638
90th Percentile £704 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 14
10th Percentile £56.35 £43.90 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £45.75 £26.75
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -19.30%
75th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £69.84
90th Percentile £100.00 £66.34 £74.06
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -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 11,861 9,013 10,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.45% 33.07% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,696 6,195 7,904
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £545
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -4.63% -0.91%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 228 408
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £35.37
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.97 £52.50
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 £82.25 £80.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% +3.09%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -55 289 £511 -2.62% 85
North of England -1 164 £500 - 34
South East -22 100 £532 +22.36% 59
Yorkshire -16 83 £504 +0.70% 7
South West -18 69 £564 -1.96% 24
North West -7 63 £538 +7.50% 23
West Midlands -43 31 £525 -2.33% 10
Midlands -44 31 £525 -4.55% 18
East of England -19 21 £483 +1.58% 13
North East -34 18 £400 -27.27% 4
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 (5.51%) Confluence
2 20 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.61%) Apache
4 12 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.59%) nginx
5 11 (1.59%) SAS
6 7 (1.01%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.87%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.72%) IIS
9 4 (0.58%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.58%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.58%) WordPress
10 3 (0.43%) JBoss
10 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.29%) CMS
11 2 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.29%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.29%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.14%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 325 (47.10%) AWS
2 294 (42.61%) Azure
3 184 (26.67%) GitHub
4 137 (19.86%) GCP
5 120 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
6 107 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (9.71%) Amazon EKS
8 62 (8.99%) Serverless
9 59 (8.55%) Amazon S3
9 59 (8.55%) OpenShift
10 58 (8.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (8.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 48 (6.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 47 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
13 40 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
13 40 (5.80%) Datadog
14 39 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
14 39 (5.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 36 (5.22%) Azure AKS
16 32 (4.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 110 (15.94%) DNS
2 105 (15.22%) Firewall
3 64 (9.28%) TCP/IP
4 50 (7.25%) VPN
5 47 (6.81%) Network Security
6 41 (5.94%) DHCP
7 17 (2.46%) SAN
8 16 (2.32%) VLAN
9 14 (2.03%) NAS
9 14 (2.03%) SSL
10 12 (1.74%) WAN
11 11 (1.59%) HTTP
11 11 (1.59%) VSAN
12 9 (1.30%) SNMP
13 8 (1.16%) BGP
13 8 (1.16%) SD-WAN
13 8 (1.16%) SSH
14 7 (1.01%) DNSSEC
14 7 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
15 4 (0.58%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 29 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (2.61%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.17%) MySQL
6 14 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (1.88%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.88%) Redis
8 11 (1.59%) Pentaho
9 10 (1.45%) Big Data
9 10 (1.45%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.30%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.30%) Metadata
11 8 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.16%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.16%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 192 (27.83%) Jenkins
2 127 (18.41%) GitLab
3 112 (16.23%) Git
4 43 (6.23%) JIRA
5 13 (1.88%) Artifactory
6 10 (1.45%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.30%) Postman
7 9 (1.30%) Selenium
8 8 (1.16%) JMeter
9 7 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.87%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.87%) Liquibase
10 6 (0.87%) MLflow
10 6 (0.87%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.72%) Browser DevTools
12 4 (0.58%) Jaeger
13 3 (0.43%) Ant
13 3 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.43%) Bugzilla
General
1 150 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 90 (13.04%) Finance
3 67 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.81%) Banking
6 19 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.61%) Legal
8 15 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.16%) Military
10 7 (1.01%) Law
11 6 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.72%) Retail
13 4 (0.58%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.58%) Front Office
13 4 (0.58%) Publishing
14 3 (0.43%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.29%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.29%) Automotive
15 2 (0.29%) Aviation
15 2 (0.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 141 (20.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (11.45%) Senior
3 65 (9.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 58 (8.41%) Platform Engineer
5 50 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
6 48 (6.96%) Security Engineer
7 45 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 43 (6.23%) Architect
9 40 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
9 40 (5.80%) Lead
9 40 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 32 (4.64%) Linux Engineer
10 32 (4.64%) Site Engineer
11 29 (4.20%) GCP Engineer
12 27 (3.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 26 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
13 26 (3.77%) Data Engineer
14 25 (3.62%) Senior DevOps
14 25 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 24 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.67%) Kafka
2 35 (5.07%) Elastic Stack
3 34 (4.93%) REST
4 33 (4.78%) YAML
5 29 (4.20%) ARM Templates
5 29 (4.20%) OpenTelemetry
6 21 (3.04%) Loki
7 17 (2.46%) Middleware
8 14 (2.03%) JSON
9 13 (1.88%) Node.js
10 12 (1.74%) LDAP
11 10 (1.45%) .NET
11 10 (1.45%) SAML
12 9 (1.30%) OAuth
12 9 (1.30%) React
12 9 (1.30%) SOAP
12 9 (1.30%) Swagger
13 8 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (1.01%) AngularJS
14 7 (1.01%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 113 (16.38%) Cloud Native
2 47 (6.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (5.51%) Security Posture
4 35 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
5 30 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
7 26 (3.77%) Data Centre
8 25 (3.62%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.90%) Replication
10 19 (2.75%) PKI
11 17 (2.46%) Public Cloud
12 16 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.74%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 9 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
16 9 (1.30%) Clustering
16 9 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
17 8 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
17 8 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 297 (43.04%) Linux
2 144 (20.87%) Windows
3 77 (11.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 47 (6.81%) Windows Server
5 40 (5.80%) Unix
6 28 (4.06%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.59%) VMS
8 10 (1.45%) AIX
9 9 (1.30%) CentOS
10 7 (1.01%) Solaris
11 4 (0.58%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.29%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.29%) Debian
13 2 (0.29%) Rocky
13 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (58.41%) CI/CD
2 378 (54.78%) DevOps
3 328 (47.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 198 (28.70%) Containerisation
5 165 (23.91%) Observability
6 128 (18.55%) Platform Engineering
7 127 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
8 120 (17.39%) Agile
9 103 (14.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 100 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 90 (13.04%) Cloud Security
12 89 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 86 (12.46%) Migration
14 82 (11.88%) High Availability
15 78 (11.30%) Configuration Management
16 77 (11.16%) Infrastructure Automation
17 76 (11.01%) DevSecOps
18 71 (10.29%) SIEM
19 70 (10.14%) Root Cause Analysis
19 70 (10.14%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 598 (86.67%) Python
2 315 (45.65%) PowerShell
3 86 (12.46%) SQL
4 58 (8.41%) Java
5 52 (7.54%) Go
6 41 (5.94%) Bicep
7 25 (3.62%) Shell Script
8 23 (3.33%) Perl
9 20 (2.90%) Groovy
10 15 (2.17%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.59%) Ruby
12 10 (1.45%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.45%) TypeScript
13 7 (1.01%) C
14 6 (0.87%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.72%) C#
15 5 (0.72%) Korn
15 5 (0.72%) Scala
16 4 (0.58%) C++
16 4 (0.58%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 244 (35.36%) Security Cleared
2 185 (26.81%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.68%) DV Cleared
4 51 (7.39%) AWS Certification
5 48 (6.96%) Azure Certification
6 46 (6.67%) Degree
7 24 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (3.48%) CISSP
8 18 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (1.88%) CCNP
11 13 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 12 (1.74%) CCNA
13 11 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.59%) RHCE
14 8 (1.16%) RHCA
15 7 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (1.01%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.77%) QA
2 25 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.46%) NIST
4 14 (2.03%) GDPR
4 14 (2.03%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.59%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.59%) SLA
6 8 (1.16%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.87%) GRC
8 5 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.72%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.29%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.29%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) HL7
12 1 (0.14%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 214 (31.01%) Docker
2 64 (9.28%) Active Directory
3 63 (9.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (6.23%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (4.78%) Hyper-V
5 33 (4.78%) vSphere
6 25 (3.62%) VMware NSX
7 13 (1.88%) KVM
8 12 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.45%) Firmware
9 10 (1.45%) NFS
9 10 (1.45%) Squid
10 7 (1.01%) Postfix
11 5 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.58%) Varnish
13 3 (0.43%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.43%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.43%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.43%) zsh
Systems Management
1 389 (56.38%) Terraform
2 301 (43.62%) Kubernetes
3 254 (36.81%) Ansible
4 145 (21.01%) Grafana
5 120 (17.39%) Prometheus
6 59 (8.55%) Puppet
7 53 (7.68%) Argo
8 44 (6.38%) Progress Chef
9 29 (4.20%) vCenter Server
10 21 (3.04%) Istio
11 12 (1.74%) Packer
12 11 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (1.59%) Podman
13 10 (1.45%) NetBackup
14 9 (1.30%) SCCM
14 9 (1.30%) systemd
15 8 (1.16%) HAProxy
16 7 (1.01%) Rancher
17 6 (0.87%) Consul
17 6 (0.87%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 101 (14.64%) Microsoft
2 82 (11.88%) VMware
3 77 (11.16%) Red Hat
4 71 (10.29%) Google
5 55 (7.97%) Splunk
6 52 (7.54%) Oracle
7 45 (6.52%) Dynatrace
8 27 (3.91%) Cisco
9 24 (3.48%) CyberArk
9 24 (3.48%) IBM
10 20 (2.90%) Databricks
11 19 (2.75%) ServiceNow
12 17 (2.46%) Pure Storage
13 14 (2.03%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.88%) Cloudera
14 13 (1.88%) SolarWinds
15 12 (1.74%) Informatica
16 11 (1.59%) Fortinet
16 11 (1.59%) Talend
16 11 (1.59%) Zscaler