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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 150 192
Rank change year-on-year -7 +42 -58
Contract jobs citing Bash 604 463 468
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 1.81% 1.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.77% 5.40% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 293 322
10th Percentile £395 £375 £411
25th Percentile £421 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £650
90th Percentile £700 £798 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 16
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.25 £36.63
25th Percentile £51.13 £27.50 £59.50
Median hourly rate £74.26 £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.15% -23.33% +2.74%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +29.15% -23.33% +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 10,477 8,581 11,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.59% 33.61% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,996 5,638 7,960
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 448 212 476
10th Percentile £41.49 £25.25 £35.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -5.51%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -28 241 £525 -8.70% 83
North of England -6 157 £500 -12.66% 74
South East +9 93 £455 -2.93% 104
Yorkshire -24 85 £482 -12.36% 28
North West -9 63 £550 -14.06% 31
Midlands -12 57 £467 -6.60% 39
West Midlands -15 48 £465 -22.58% 24
South West -36 30 £550 -8.33% 62
North East -5 13 £550 - 15
East of England -36 12 £444 -6.58% 34
East Midlands -19 9 £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 (5.30%) Confluence
2 15 (2.48%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.66%) nginx
4 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.99%) Apache
5 6 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.83%) SAS
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%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.33%) Traefik
8 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) FileNet
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.32%) Weka
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 269 (44.54%) AWS
2 226 (37.42%) Azure
3 146 (24.17%) GitHub
4 122 (20.20%) GCP
5 82 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
6 73 (12.09%) OpenShift
7 71 (11.75%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (9.93%) Amazon S3
9 56 (9.27%) Amazon EC2
10 55 (9.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 50 (8.28%) Serverless
12 48 (7.95%) Amazon EKS
13 46 (7.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 46 (7.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 38 (6.29%) Entra ID
15 35 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
16 33 (5.46%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (4.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 23 (3.81%) Azure AKS
19 22 (3.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 94 (15.56%) Firewall
2 69 (11.42%) DNS
3 56 (9.27%) TCP/IP
4 40 (6.62%) VPN
5 31 (5.13%) Network Security
6 22 (3.64%) VLAN
7 21 (3.48%) SSL
8 20 (3.31%) Wireshark
9 17 (2.81%) BGP
10 15 (2.48%) DHCP
11 9 (1.49%) Multicast
11 9 (1.49%) Software-Defined Networking
12 8 (1.32%) HTTP
13 7 (1.16%) SNMP
14 6 (0.99%) OSPF
14 6 (0.99%) SSH
14 6 (0.99%) WebEx
15 5 (0.83%) DKIM
15 5 (0.83%) SMTP
16 4 (0.66%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (6.13%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (3.64%) MongoDB
4 19 (3.15%) MySQL
4 19 (3.15%) Redis
5 14 (2.32%) NoSQL
6 11 (1.82%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.49%) Delta Lake
7 9 (1.49%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.16%) Big Data
10 6 (0.99%) DB2
10 6 (0.99%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.99%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.99%) Pentaho
11 5 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 169 (27.98%) Jenkins
2 134 (22.19%) GitLab
3 104 (17.22%) Git
4 42 (6.95%) JIRA
5 15 (2.48%) CircleCI
6 14 (2.32%) Metasploit
7 13 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.15%) Burp Suite
8 7 (1.16%) Artifactory
8 7 (1.16%) Maven
9 6 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.83%) Gradle
10 5 (0.83%) Selenium
10 5 (0.83%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.83%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.66%) Liquibase
11 4 (0.66%) MLflow
11 4 (0.66%) ScriptRunner
11 4 (0.66%) sqlmap
12 3 (0.50%) Appium
General
1 173 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 89 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (11.09%) Public Sector
4 56 (9.27%) Finance
5 27 (4.47%) Banking
6 19 (3.15%) Legal
7 17 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.82%) Retail
9 7 (1.16%) Military
9 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.66%) Front Office
10 4 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.66%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.50%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.50%) Games
11 3 (0.50%) Law
11 3 (0.50%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.33%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 113 (18.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 70 (11.59%) Platform Engineer
3 67 (11.09%) Senior
4 40 (6.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 38 (6.29%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (5.96%) Architect
6 36 (5.96%) Site Engineer
7 30 (4.97%) Lead
8 27 (4.47%) Security Engineer
9 26 (4.30%) Network Engineer
10 25 (4.14%) AWS DevOps
11 24 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (3.97%) Developer
11 24 (3.97%) Senior DevOps
11 24 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 23 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (3.64%) Data Engineer
14 21 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.48%) GCP Engineer
14 21 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (8.44%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (5.79%) Kafka
3 29 (4.80%) REST
4 17 (2.81%) ARM Templates
4 17 (2.81%) Loki
4 17 (2.81%) Middleware
5 16 (2.65%) Node.js
5 16 (2.65%) OpenTelemetry
6 15 (2.48%) Keycloak
6 15 (2.48%) YAML
7 10 (1.66%) .NET
8 8 (1.32%) LDAP
8 8 (1.32%) SAML
9 7 (1.16%) ADO
9 7 (1.16%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.16%) OAuth
10 6 (0.99%) .NET Core
10 6 (0.99%) OpenAPI
10 6 (0.99%) Swagger
10 6 (0.99%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.42%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.81%) Data Centre
4 23 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
5 22 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.48%) Security Posture
7 15 (2.48%) PKI
8 14 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.32%) Replication
9 12 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.99%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.82%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.66%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.66%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.16%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.16%) Clustering
12 7 (1.16%) NHS
13 6 (0.99%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 284 (47.02%) Linux
2 110 (18.21%) Windows
3 66 (10.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 63 (10.43%) Unix
5 34 (5.63%) Windows Server
6 29 (4.80%) Mac OS
7 14 (2.32%) CentOS
7 14 (2.32%) Ubuntu
8 12 (1.99%) VMS
9 10 (1.66%) Solaris
10 9 (1.49%) AIX
10 9 (1.49%) Kali Linux
11 6 (0.99%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (54.14%) CI/CD
2 314 (51.99%) DevOps
3 278 (46.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 196 (32.45%) Containerisation
5 136 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
6 135 (22.35%) Observability
7 108 (17.88%) Agile
8 102 (16.89%) Platform Engineering
9 84 (13.91%) Incident Response
10 82 (13.58%) High Availability
10 82 (13.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 78 (12.91%) Infrastructure Automation
12 71 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 68 (11.26%) DevSecOps
14 64 (10.60%) Migration
15 63 (10.43%) Test Automation
16 62 (10.26%) Configuration Management
17 61 (10.10%) Root Cause Analysis
18 56 (9.27%) Task Automation
19 51 (8.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 516 (85.43%) Python
2 240 (39.74%) PowerShell
3 63 (10.43%) SQL
4 37 (6.13%) Java
5 33 (5.46%) Perl
6 32 (5.30%) Go
7 28 (4.64%) JavaScript
8 23 (3.81%) Shell Script
9 22 (3.64%) Bicep
10 16 (2.65%) C#
11 15 (2.48%) Groovy
12 14 (2.32%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.66%) PHP
14 9 (1.49%) C++
15 8 (1.32%) C
16 6 (0.99%) TypeScript
17 5 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.83%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.66%) Korn
18 4 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 213 (35.26%) Security Cleared
2 176 (29.14%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.12%) Degree
4 36 (5.96%) AWS Certification
5 25 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (3.64%) CCNP
8 20 (3.31%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.81%) Azure Certification
9 17 (2.81%) OSCP
10 16 (2.65%) CCNA
10 16 (2.65%) GPEN
11 14 (2.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (1.99%) CEH
14 11 (1.82%) CCDP
14 11 (1.82%) RHCE
15 9 (1.49%) CISSP
16 8 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
17 7 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.30%) GDPR
2 22 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (2.15%) NIST
3 13 (2.15%) QA
4 12 (1.99%) NCSC
5 9 (1.49%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.32%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.99%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.83%) SLA
9 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.50%) GRC
10 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.33%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 231 (38.25%) Docker
2 73 (12.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (7.45%) Active Directory
4 37 (6.13%) vSphere
5 28 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (3.15%) Hyper-V
6 19 (3.15%) KVM
6 19 (3.15%) VMware NSX
7 10 (1.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 9 (1.49%) Lustre
9 8 (1.32%) GPFS
10 7 (1.16%) Firmware
11 6 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.83%) Postfix
13 4 (0.66%) Squid
13 4 (0.66%) zsh
14 3 (0.50%) Ceph
14 3 (0.50%) NFS
14 3 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.50%) Snort
Systems Management
1 308 (50.99%) Terraform
2 283 (46.85%) Kubernetes
3 233 (38.58%) Ansible
4 122 (20.20%) Grafana
5 106 (17.55%) Prometheus
6 54 (8.94%) Argo
7 52 (8.61%) Puppet
8 26 (4.30%) vCenter Server
9 24 (3.97%) Istio
10 19 (3.15%) Progress Chef
11 18 (2.98%) Kibana
12 16 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
12 16 (2.65%) Nmap
13 15 (2.48%) SCCM
14 12 (1.99%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (1.99%) NetBackup
14 12 (1.99%) Red Hat Satellite
15 11 (1.82%) Kustomize
15 11 (1.82%) Packer
16 9 (1.49%) Rancher
Vendors
1 101 (16.72%) VMware
2 95 (15.73%) Microsoft
3 89 (14.74%) Splunk
4 86 (14.24%) Red Hat
5 43 (7.12%) Google
6 29 (4.80%) Palo Alto
7 26 (4.30%) Cisco
7 26 (4.30%) F5
8 24 (3.97%) Dynatrace
9 21 (3.48%) Citrix
9 21 (3.48%) Oracle
10 19 (3.15%) Pure Storage
11 18 (2.98%) CheckPoint
11 18 (2.98%) Databricks
12 13 (2.15%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.82%) Atlassian
14 10 (1.66%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.66%) IBM
14 10 (1.66%) Veritas
14 10 (1.66%) Zscaler