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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 161 167
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 -15
Contract jobs citing Bash 605 429 533
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.94% 1.59% 1.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.33% 4.88% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 264 382
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £430 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £609 £738 £688
90th Percentile £675 £810 £776
UK median daily rate £520 £544 £570
% change year-on-year -4.41% -4.56% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 13
10th Percentile - £40.75 £58.40
25th Percentile £41.25 £58.44 £60.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 £103.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £79.43 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% -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 9,558 8,792 10,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.71% 32.63% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,355 5,659 7,933
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 207 399
10th Percentile £39.57 £25.26 £32.32
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.59 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.15
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -1.59%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +12 252 £543 -10.70% 125
North of England +12 148 £513 -14.58% 42
South East +43 87 £485 +4.86% 111
Yorkshire -15 76 £490 -14.78% 16
Midlands -3 57 £486 +13.02% 23
North West -2 54 £550 -5.58% 19
West Midlands +3 47 £519 +6.03% 7
South West -25 26 £581 -5.49% 47
North East +10 22 £550 -2.65% 7
East of England -19 14 £444 -24.47% 40
East Midlands -17 10 £470 +15.34% 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 32 (5.29%) Confluence
2 18 (2.98%) OpenStack
3 9 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.49%) nginx
4 6 (0.99%) Apache
4 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.99%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.66%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.50%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.50%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.50%) IIS
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) CICS
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Documentum
9 1 (0.17%) FileNet
9 1 (0.17%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.32%) Weka
2 1 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Finacle
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 276 (45.62%) AWS
2 234 (38.68%) Azure
3 130 (21.49%) GCP
4 128 (21.16%) GitHub
5 79 (13.06%) GitHub Actions
6 65 (10.74%) Amazon S3
7 63 (10.41%) Amazon EC2
7 63 (10.41%) OpenShift
8 56 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 56 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (8.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 46 (7.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 45 (7.44%) Serverless
12 43 (7.11%) Amazon EKS
12 43 (7.11%) Entra ID
13 33 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (4.79%) Datadog
15 23 (3.80%) Azure AKS
16 22 (3.64%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 100 (16.53%) Firewall
2 69 (11.40%) DNS
3 63 (10.41%) TCP/IP
4 41 (6.78%) VPN
5 34 (5.62%) Network Security
6 30 (4.96%) SSL
7 23 (3.80%) Wireshark
8 20 (3.31%) VLAN
9 19 (3.14%) BGP
10 14 (2.31%) DHCP
11 10 (1.65%) OSPF
12 9 (1.49%) Software-Defined Networking
12 9 (1.49%) SSH
13 8 (1.32%) Ethernet
14 7 (1.16%) HTTP
14 7 (1.16%) Multicast
14 7 (1.16%) SD-WAN
14 7 (1.16%) SNMP
15 6 (0.99%) EIGRP
15 6 (0.99%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (12.56%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (5.45%) SQL Server
4 25 (4.13%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (3.97%) Redis
6 17 (2.81%) MySQL
7 16 (2.64%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.65%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.49%) Big Data
9 9 (1.49%) Delta Lake
9 9 (1.49%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (1.16%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.16%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.83%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.83%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 169 (27.93%) Jenkins
2 141 (23.31%) GitLab
3 113 (18.68%) Git
4 45 (7.44%) JIRA
5 15 (2.48%) CircleCI
6 13 (2.15%) Metasploit
7 12 (1.98%) Burp Suite
8 11 (1.82%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.82%) Maven
8 11 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.16%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.16%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.16%) Subversion
10 6 (0.99%) MLflow
10 6 (0.99%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.83%) Gradle
11 5 (0.83%) Mockito
11 5 (0.83%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.66%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.66%) JUnit
General
1 177 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 89 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (10.41%) Public Sector
4 52 (8.60%) Finance
5 26 (4.30%) Banking
6 21 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.31%) Legal
8 9 (1.49%) Retail
9 8 (1.32%) Front Office
10 6 (0.99%) Military
10 6 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.83%) Games
11 5 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.66%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Law
13 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.50%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 105 (17.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (12.07%) Senior
3 64 (10.58%) Platform Engineer
4 38 (6.28%) Developer
5 33 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
6 31 (5.12%) Network Engineer
7 30 (4.96%) Lead
7 30 (4.96%) Site Engineer
8 29 (4.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 28 (4.63%) Architect
9 28 (4.63%) AWS DevOps
10 27 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 25 (4.13%) Automation Engineer
12 23 (3.80%) Administrator
13 22 (3.64%) Data Engineer
14 21 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.47%) Security Engineer
14 21 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
15 20 (3.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 18 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (9.59%) Elastic Stack
2 45 (7.44%) Kafka
3 27 (4.46%) REST
4 25 (4.13%) Keycloak
5 21 (3.47%) Middleware
6 20 (3.31%) Node.js
7 15 (2.48%) Loki
8 12 (1.98%) .NET
8 12 (1.98%) YAML
9 11 (1.82%) ARM Templates
9 11 (1.82%) SAML
10 10 (1.65%) OAuth
11 9 (1.49%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.49%) LDAP
12 8 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (1.32%) RESTful
12 8 (1.32%) Spring
13 7 (1.16%) OAuth2
13 7 (1.16%) OpenID
13 7 (1.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.79%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
5 19 (3.14%) PKI
6 18 (2.98%) Data Centre
6 18 (2.98%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.64%) Replication
8 15 (2.48%) Private Cloud
9 13 (2.15%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.98%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.49%) NHS
13 8 (1.32%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.16%) Clustering
15 6 (0.99%) Grid Computing
15 6 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 291 (48.10%) Linux
2 101 (16.69%) Windows
3 67 (11.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 58 (9.59%) Unix
5 32 (5.29%) Mac OS
6 27 (4.46%) Windows Server
7 18 (2.98%) CentOS
8 15 (2.48%) Solaris
9 11 (1.82%) Ubuntu
9 11 (1.82%) VMS
10 8 (1.32%) Kali Linux
10 8 (1.32%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.50%) AIX
12 1 (0.17%) Android
12 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 306 (50.58%) DevOps
3 276 (45.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 188 (31.07%) Containerisation
5 132 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
6 128 (21.16%) Observability
7 108 (17.85%) Agile
8 91 (15.04%) Platform Engineering
9 84 (13.88%) Incident Response
10 79 (13.06%) Test Automation
11 76 (12.56%) High Availability
12 74 (12.23%) DevSecOps
12 74 (12.23%) Infrastructure Automation
13 67 (11.07%) Migration
13 67 (11.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 66 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 63 (10.41%) Task Automation
16 56 (9.26%) Configuration Management
17 53 (8.76%) Root Cause Analysis
18 51 (8.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 526 (86.94%) Python
2 217 (35.87%) PowerShell
3 56 (9.26%) SQL
4 55 (9.09%) Java
5 49 (8.10%) Perl
6 45 (7.44%) Go
7 32 (5.29%) JavaScript
8 31 (5.12%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.81%) Kusto Query Language
10 16 (2.64%) Groovy
11 15 (2.48%) Bicep
11 15 (2.48%) C#
11 15 (2.48%) C++
12 10 (1.65%) C
13 9 (1.49%) PHP
14 7 (1.16%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.83%) Rust
17 4 (0.66%) Ruby
17 4 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 201 (33.22%) Security Cleared
2 166 (27.44%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.78%) Degree
4 28 (4.63%) DV Cleared
5 26 (4.30%) AWS Certification
6 25 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (2.98%) CCNP
9 17 (2.81%) OSCP
10 16 (2.64%) CCNA
11 15 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (2.48%) GPEN
12 13 (2.15%) CEH
13 11 (1.82%) Azure Certification
14 10 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (1.65%) CCDP
15 8 (1.32%) CISSP
16 7 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (1.16%) Master's Degree
16 7 (1.16%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (4.46%) GDPR
3 13 (2.15%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.15%) NCSC
3 13 (2.15%) NIST
4 12 (1.98%) QA
5 11 (1.82%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.49%) HIPAA
7 7 (1.16%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.83%) SLA
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) GxP
9 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 239 (39.50%) Docker
2 76 (12.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (7.60%) Active Directory
4 28 (4.63%) vSphere
5 11 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.65%) KVM
6 10 (1.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 9 (1.49%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.49%) Lustre
7 9 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.49%) VMware NSX
8 8 (1.32%) Firmware
8 8 (1.32%) GPFS
8 8 (1.32%) zsh
9 5 (0.83%) NFS
9 5 (0.83%) Squid
10 4 (0.66%) Postfix
10 4 (0.66%) Snort
10 4 (0.66%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.66%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 292 (48.26%) Terraform
2 275 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 244 (40.33%) Ansible
4 124 (20.50%) Grafana
5 111 (18.35%) Prometheus
6 46 (7.60%) Puppet
7 45 (7.44%) Argo
8 21 (3.47%) Istio
8 21 (3.47%) Kibana
9 18 (2.98%) NetBackup
10 17 (2.81%) SCCM
11 16 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
12 15 (2.48%) Nmap
13 14 (2.31%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (2.31%) Progress Chef
13 14 (2.31%) Red Hat Satellite
14 11 (1.82%) Packer
14 11 (1.82%) vCenter Server
15 10 (1.65%) Kustomize
15 10 (1.65%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 105 (17.36%) VMware
2 90 (14.88%) Microsoft
3 89 (14.71%) Red Hat
4 87 (14.38%) Splunk
5 40 (6.61%) Palo Alto
6 37 (6.12%) Cisco
6 37 (6.12%) Google
7 30 (4.96%) F5
8 28 (4.63%) CheckPoint
9 25 (4.13%) Oracle
10 22 (3.64%) Citrix
11 20 (3.31%) Databricks
11 20 (3.31%) Dynatrace
12 18 (2.98%) CyberArk
13 16 (2.64%) Juniper
13 16 (2.64%) Veritas
14 15 (2.48%) ServiceNow
15 14 (2.31%) Zscaler
16 12 (1.98%) Commvault
17 11 (1.82%) Qualys