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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 182 169
Rank change year-on-year +41 -13 -14
Contract jobs citing Bash 653 421 551
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.06% 1.46% 1.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.66% 4.49% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 256 397
10th Percentile £393 £374 £406
25th Percentile £425 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £695
90th Percentile £675 £810 £798
UK median daily rate £520 £538 £570
% change year-on-year -3.26% -5.62% -5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 13
10th Percentile - £40.75 £58.40
25th Percentile £41.25 £58.44 £60.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -6.67% +2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 £103.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £78.28 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% -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 9,809 9,370 11,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.93% 32.60% 30.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,514 6,079 8,117
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 224 388
10th Percentile £35.25 £25.56 £35.44
25th Percentile £51.88 £44.63 £46.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £69.00 £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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +34 279 £550 -9.47% 124
North of England +7 153 £513 -10.87% 83
South East +24 90 £489 +5.62% 110
Yorkshire -10 78 £489 -13.16% 36
Midlands -4 56 £479 +11.28% 60
North West -6 54 £550 -5.58% 35
West Midlands -1 45 £491 +0.41% 34
South West -13 34 £575 -10.51% 64
North East +14 25 £550 -2.65% 13
East of England -21 15 £444 -26.04% 54
East Midlands -14 11 £470 +15.34% 24
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 (4.75%) Confluence
2 18 (2.76%) OpenStack
3 12 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.53%) nginx
5 7 (1.07%) Apache
5 7 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.92%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.61%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.46%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.46%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.46%) IIS
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.31%) 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 (1.23%) 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
1 300 (45.94%) AWS
2 252 (38.59%) Azure
3 150 (22.97%) GCP
4 135 (20.67%) GitHub
5 83 (12.71%) GitHub Actions
6 68 (10.41%) Amazon S3
6 68 (10.41%) OpenShift
7 63 (9.65%) Amazon EC2
8 61 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
9 58 (8.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (8.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 48 (7.35%) Entra ID
11 48 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 45 (6.89%) Serverless
13 42 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
14 33 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
15 29 (4.44%) Datadog
16 23 (3.52%) Azure AKS
17 22 (3.37%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 113 (17.30%) Firewall
2 79 (12.10%) DNS
3 71 (10.87%) TCP/IP
4 44 (6.74%) VPN
5 35 (5.36%) Network Security
6 31 (4.75%) SSL
7 25 (3.83%) Wireshark
8 21 (3.22%) VLAN
9 19 (2.91%) BGP
10 15 (2.30%) DHCP
11 11 (1.68%) SSH
12 10 (1.53%) HTTP
12 10 (1.53%) OSPF
13 9 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
14 8 (1.23%) Ethernet
14 8 (1.23%) Multicast
15 7 (1.07%) SD-WAN
15 7 (1.07%) SMTP
15 7 (1.07%) SNMP
16 6 (0.92%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (12.10%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (5.51%) SQL Server
4 26 (3.98%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.83%) Redis
6 24 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (2.76%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.60%) MySQL
9 12 (1.84%) Big Data
9 12 (1.84%) Hadoop
10 11 (1.68%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.53%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.07%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.07%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.77%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.77%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 182 (27.87%) Jenkins
2 146 (22.36%) GitLab
3 118 (18.07%) Git
4 48 (7.35%) JIRA
5 15 (2.30%) CircleCI
6 14 (2.14%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.99%) Burp Suite
7 13 (1.99%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (1.68%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.68%) Maven
9 8 (1.23%) Artifactory
9 8 (1.23%) MLflow
10 7 (1.07%) Subversion
11 6 (0.92%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.77%) Gradle
12 5 (0.77%) Mockito
12 5 (0.77%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.61%) ScriptRunner
13 4 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 193 (29.56%) Social Skills
2 89 (13.63%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.04%) Finance
5 30 (4.59%) Banking
6 21 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.30%) Legal
8 10 (1.53%) Front Office
8 10 (1.53%) Retail
9 7 (1.07%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.92%) Military
11 5 (0.77%) Games
11 5 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.61%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.61%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.61%) Law
13 3 (0.46%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.46%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 110 (16.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (12.10%) Senior
3 63 (9.65%) Platform Engineer
4 38 (5.82%) Developer
5 34 (5.21%) Architect
5 34 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
6 32 (4.90%) Site Engineer
7 31 (4.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 31 (4.75%) Lead
7 31 (4.75%) Network Engineer
7 31 (4.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 30 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
9 25 (3.83%) Administrator
9 25 (3.83%) Automation Engineer
9 25 (3.83%) Data Engineer
9 25 (3.83%) Security Engineer
10 22 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 21 (3.22%) Senior DevOps
12 20 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
12 20 (3.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.95%) Elastic Stack
2 49 (7.50%) Kafka
3 30 (4.59%) Keycloak
4 29 (4.44%) REST
5 24 (3.68%) Middleware
6 20 (3.06%) Node.js
7 15 (2.30%) Loki
8 14 (2.14%) .NET
8 14 (2.14%) YAML
9 12 (1.84%) ARM Templates
10 11 (1.68%) FIX Protocol
10 11 (1.68%) SAML
11 10 (1.53%) OAuth
12 9 (1.38%) AngularJS
12 9 (1.38%) LDAP
13 8 (1.23%) RESTful
13 8 (1.23%) Spring
13 8 (1.23%) Spring Boot
14 7 (1.07%) OpenID
14 7 (1.07%) React
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (3.52%) Linux Command Line
5 21 (3.22%) PKI
6 18 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 17 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.60%) Replication
8 15 (2.30%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.14%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.99%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.38%) NHS
12 9 (1.38%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.23%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.23%) Clustering
14 7 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 304 (46.55%) Linux
2 109 (16.69%) Windows
3 72 (11.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 58 (8.88%) Unix
5 38 (5.82%) Mac OS
6 30 (4.59%) Windows Server
7 22 (3.37%) CentOS
8 15 (2.30%) Solaris
8 15 (2.30%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.53%) Windows 10
10 9 (1.38%) VMS
11 8 (1.23%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.46%) AIX
13 1 (0.15%) Android
13 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.15%) Debian
13 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (54.67%) CI/CD
2 327 (50.08%) DevOps
3 295 (45.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 203 (31.09%) Containerisation
5 145 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (20.52%) Observability
7 112 (17.15%) Agile
8 91 (13.94%) Incident Response
9 90 (13.78%) Platform Engineering
10 85 (13.02%) Test Automation
11 82 (12.56%) High Availability
12 81 (12.40%) Infrastructure Automation
13 79 (12.10%) DevSecOps
14 73 (11.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 71 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 70 (10.72%) Migration
17 67 (10.26%) Task Automation
18 58 (8.88%) Configuration Management
19 57 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
19 57 (8.73%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 565 (86.52%) Python
2 245 (37.52%) PowerShell
3 63 (9.65%) SQL
4 58 (8.88%) Java
5 54 (8.27%) Go
6 51 (7.81%) Perl
7 32 (4.90%) JavaScript
7 32 (4.90%) Shell Script
8 19 (2.91%) Groovy
9 18 (2.76%) Kusto Query Language
10 16 (2.45%) Bicep
10 16 (2.45%) C++
11 15 (2.30%) C#
12 11 (1.68%) C
12 11 (1.68%) PHP
13 9 (1.38%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.92%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.77%) Ruby
15 5 (0.77%) Rust
16 4 (0.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 216 (33.08%) Security Cleared
2 175 (26.80%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.20%) Degree
4 32 (4.90%) DV Cleared
5 30 (4.59%) AWS Certification
6 29 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (3.06%) OSCP
9 18 (2.76%) CCNP
9 18 (2.76%) CEH
10 17 (2.60%) CCNA
11 15 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (2.30%) CISSP
11 15 (2.30%) GPEN
12 13 (1.99%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (1.53%) CCDP
15 9 (1.38%) Master's Degree
16 8 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
16 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (4.90%) GDPR
3 17 (2.60%) NIST
4 16 (2.45%) NCSC
5 13 (1.99%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.84%) QA
7 11 (1.68%) HIPAA
7 11 (1.68%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.53%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.77%) SLA
10 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.15%) GxP
12 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 250 (38.28%) Docker
2 84 (12.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (7.81%) Active Directory
4 28 (4.29%) vSphere
5 12 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.53%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 9 (1.38%) KVM
7 9 (1.38%) Lustre
7 9 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.38%) VMware NSX
8 8 (1.23%) GPFS
8 8 (1.23%) zsh
9 7 (1.07%) Firmware
10 5 (0.77%) NFS
10 5 (0.77%) Squid
11 4 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.61%) Postfix
11 4 (0.61%) Snort
11 4 (0.61%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 308 (47.17%) Terraform
2 290 (44.41%) Kubernetes
3 257 (39.36%) Ansible
4 139 (21.29%) Grafana
5 126 (19.30%) Prometheus
6 51 (7.81%) Argo
7 45 (6.89%) Puppet
8 26 (3.98%) Istio
9 23 (3.52%) NetBackup
10 21 (3.22%) Kibana
10 21 (3.22%) SCCM
11 19 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (2.60%) Jamf Pro
13 16 (2.45%) Nmap
14 14 (2.14%) Progress Chef
14 14 (2.14%) Red Hat Satellite
15 13 (1.99%) Oracle RMAN
15 13 (1.99%) Packer
16 11 (1.68%) vCenter Server
17 10 (1.53%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 114 (17.46%) VMware
2 101 (15.47%) Microsoft
3 96 (14.70%) Red Hat
4 95 (14.55%) Splunk
5 46 (7.04%) Google
6 40 (6.13%) Palo Alto
7 37 (5.67%) Cisco
8 30 (4.59%) F5
9 29 (4.44%) Oracle
10 28 (4.29%) CheckPoint
11 26 (3.98%) Citrix
12 21 (3.22%) CyberArk
12 21 (3.22%) Veritas
13 20 (3.06%) Dynatrace
13 20 (3.06%) ServiceNow
14 18 (2.76%) Databricks
15 16 (2.45%) Juniper
16 14 (2.14%) Zscaler
17 12 (1.84%) Commvault
17 12 (1.84%) Qualys