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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 146 207
Rank change year-on-year -49 +61 -83
Contract jobs citing Bash 581 479 440
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.92% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.03% 5.67% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 324 314
10th Percentile £385 £373 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £722 £697
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £54.55 £26.83 £22.00
25th Percentile £57.59 £34.24 £25.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -12.21%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.06 £71.88
90th Percentile £70.41 £67.89 £74.38
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 11,542 8,446 11,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.72% 33.92% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,549 5,868 8,200
10th Percentile £360 £356 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -3.35% -3.93%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 196 497
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.09 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.88 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.33% -10.60% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +3.22%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -57 249 £513 -2.38% 56
North of England -14 144 £500 -2.44% 46
Yorkshire -22 83 £500 -6.98% 10
South East -31 73 £495 +11.86% 49
South West -28 51 £544 -9.38% 40
North West -19 48 £513 +4.06% 32
West Midlands -45 34 £477 -18.11% 5
Midlands -51 34 £477 -13.27% 14
East of England -34 17 £494 +3.95% 11
North East -26 13 £371 -23.85% 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 30 (5.16%) Confluence
2 15 (2.58%) Apache
3 14 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.07%) nginx
5 11 (1.89%) SAS
6 7 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.20%) WebSphere
7 6 (1.03%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.86%) IIS
9 4 (0.69%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.69%) WordPress
10 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.34%) CMS
11 2 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.34%) JBoss
11 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.34%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.34%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.17%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 255 (43.89%) AWS
2 216 (37.18%) Azure
3 156 (26.85%) GitHub
4 114 (19.62%) GCP
5 96 (16.52%) GitHub Actions
6 90 (15.49%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (9.64%) OpenShift
8 54 (9.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 52 (8.95%) Serverless
10 50 (8.61%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (8.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 44 (7.57%) Amazon S3
13 39 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
14 38 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
15 35 (6.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 31 (5.34%) Datadog
17 30 (5.16%) Azure AKS
18 25 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
19 20 (3.44%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 77 (13.25%) DNS
2 74 (12.74%) Firewall
3 40 (6.88%) VPN
4 37 (6.37%) TCP/IP
5 33 (5.68%) Network Security
6 18 (3.10%) SAN
7 17 (2.93%) DHCP
8 15 (2.58%) NAS
8 15 (2.58%) SSL
9 13 (2.24%) VLAN
10 12 (2.07%) HTTP
10 12 (2.07%) WAN
11 9 (1.55%) SD-WAN
12 8 (1.38%) BGP
12 8 (1.38%) Reverse Proxy
13 7 (1.20%) SNMP
14 5 (0.86%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
15 4 (0.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
1 31 (5.34%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.44%) MongoDB
3 19 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (2.75%) MySQL
5 15 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (2.41%) Redis
7 12 (2.07%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.07%) Pentaho
8 9 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.38%) Big Data
9 8 (1.38%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.38%) Oracle Database
9 8 (1.38%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (1.03%) Db2
12 5 (0.86%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 173 (29.78%) Jenkins
2 115 (19.79%) GitLab
3 100 (17.21%) Git
4 39 (6.71%) JIRA
5 13 (2.24%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.55%) Postman
7 7 (1.20%) JMeter
7 7 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.03%) Liquibase
8 6 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.86%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.69%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.69%) Selenium
11 3 (0.52%) Ant
11 3 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.52%) MLflow
11 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.52%) Spinnaker
General
1 128 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 75 (12.91%) Finance
3 57 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.06%) Banking
6 15 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (2.58%) Legal
7 14 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.20%) Law
8 7 (1.20%) Military
9 6 (1.03%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.86%) Retail
11 4 (0.69%) Publishing
12 3 (0.52%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.34%) Aviation
13 2 (0.34%) Front Office
13 2 (0.34%) Police
14 1 (0.17%) Back Office
14 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (9.47%) Senior
3 53 (9.12%) Cloud Engineer
4 49 (8.43%) AWS Engineer
5 48 (8.26%) Platform Engineer
6 41 (7.06%) Security Engineer
7 40 (6.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 35 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
9 33 (5.68%) Architect
10 31 (5.34%) Site Engineer
11 30 (5.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 30 (5.16%) Linux Engineer
12 29 (4.99%) GCP Engineer
13 27 (4.65%) Data Engineer
13 27 (4.65%) Lead
14 24 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
15 22 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 22 (3.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 21 (3.61%) GCP DevOps
17 20 (3.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.20%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (5.51%) Kafka
3 27 (4.65%) OpenTelemetry
4 26 (4.48%) YAML
5 25 (4.30%) REST
6 18 (3.10%) Middleware
7 16 (2.75%) ARM Templates
8 11 (1.89%) JSON
9 10 (1.72%) ADO
9 10 (1.72%) LDAP
9 10 (1.72%) Loki
9 10 (1.72%) SAML
10 9 (1.55%) Node.js
10 9 (1.55%) OAuth
10 9 (1.55%) Swagger
11 8 (1.38%) .NET
12 7 (1.20%) cloud-init
12 7 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (1.20%) React
12 7 (1.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 100 (17.21%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 30 (5.16%) Security Posture
4 28 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (3.96%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
7 19 (3.27%) Management Information System
8 18 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (2.93%) Replication
10 16 (2.75%) Onboarding
11 14 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (2.24%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.89%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.20%) Clustering
15 7 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
16 6 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
16 6 (1.03%) PKI
17 5 (0.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 5 (0.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 237 (40.79%) Linux
2 100 (17.21%) Windows
3 60 (10.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (7.23%) Unix
5 29 (4.99%) Windows Server
6 22 (3.79%) Ubuntu
7 14 (2.41%) VMS
8 10 (1.72%) AIX
9 8 (1.38%) CentOS
10 6 (1.03%) Solaris
11 5 (0.86%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.34%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.34%) Debian
14 2 (0.34%) Rocky
14 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (58.00%) CI/CD
2 324 (55.77%) DevOps
3 260 (44.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 170 (29.26%) Containerisation
5 136 (23.41%) Observability
6 102 (17.56%) Platform Engineering
7 101 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (17.21%) Agile
9 82 (14.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 78 (13.43%) Migration
11 71 (12.22%) High Availability
12 69 (11.88%) Configuration Management
13 68 (11.70%) Cloud Security
14 67 (11.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 65 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (10.84%) Root Cause Analysis
17 60 (10.33%) Infrastructure Automation
18 56 (9.64%) Test Automation
19 53 (9.12%) SIEM
20 49 (8.43%) AI
Programming Languages
1 504 (86.75%) Python
2 247 (42.51%) PowerShell
3 82 (14.11%) SQL
4 46 (7.92%) Go
4 46 (7.92%) Java
5 26 (4.48%) Bicep
6 22 (3.79%) Perl
7 21 (3.61%) Shell Script
8 16 (2.75%) Groovy
8 16 (2.75%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.72%) Ruby
10 9 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.20%) C
12 6 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.86%) C#
13 5 (0.86%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.69%) C++
14 4 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.69%) Scala
15 2 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 184 (31.67%) Security Cleared
2 150 (25.82%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.88%) Degree
4 36 (6.20%) Azure Certification
5 35 (6.02%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.82%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (3.27%) CISSP
8 18 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (1.89%) CCNA
11 11 (1.89%) CCNP
12 10 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.72%) RHCE
13 8 (1.38%) RHCA
14 7 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (1.03%) MCSE
16 4 (0.69%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (3.27%) QA
3 16 (2.75%) NIST
4 14 (2.41%) GDPR
5 13 (2.24%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.72%) SLA
7 9 (1.55%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.38%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.03%) GRC
9 6 (1.03%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.34%) NCSC
14 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.17%) HL7
14 1 (0.17%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 170 (29.26%) Docker
2 45 (7.75%) Virtual Machines
2 45 (7.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (6.37%) Active Directory
4 26 (4.48%) vSphere
5 22 (3.79%) Hyper-V
6 17 (2.93%) VMware NSX
7 14 (2.41%) KVM
8 11 (1.89%) Firmware
9 10 (1.72%) Squid
10 9 (1.55%) NFS
10 9 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (1.20%) Postfix
12 4 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.69%) Varnish
13 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.52%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.34%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.34%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 309 (53.18%) Terraform
2 247 (42.51%) Kubernetes
3 221 (38.04%) Ansible
4 123 (21.17%) Grafana
5 113 (19.45%) Prometheus
6 51 (8.78%) Puppet
7 42 (7.23%) Argo
8 34 (5.85%) Progress Chef
9 26 (4.48%) vCenter Server
10 21 (3.61%) Istio
11 13 (2.24%) Packer
12 9 (1.55%) NetBackup
12 9 (1.55%) Podman
13 8 (1.38%) HAProxy
14 7 (1.20%) Kibana
14 7 (1.20%) Rancher
14 7 (1.20%) Salt
14 7 (1.20%) systemd
15 6 (1.03%) IBM BigFix
15 6 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (11.88%) Red Hat
2 60 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.33%) Splunk
3 57 (9.81%) VMware
4 52 (8.95%) Google
5 41 (7.06%) Dynatrace
6 35 (6.02%) Oracle
7 23 (3.96%) IBM
8 21 (3.61%) Databricks
9 19 (3.27%) Cisco
10 17 (2.93%) Pure Storage
11 14 (2.41%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.07%) Cloudera
12 12 (2.07%) Informatica
13 11 (1.89%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.89%) Fortinet
13 11 (1.89%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.89%) Talend
13 11 (1.89%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.72%) F5