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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 148 198
Rank change year-on-year -18 +50 -59
Contract jobs citing Bash 760 525 428
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.90% 1.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.39% 5.82% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 351 297
10th Percentile £400 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £626 £616 £638
90th Percentile £725 £681 £700
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.62% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 10
10th Percentile £56.40 £41.25 £24.93
25th Percentile £58.43 £43.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £71.00 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% -5.22% -20.69%
75th Percentile £95.02 £60.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.65 £63.25 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +30.28% -5.22% -20.69%

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 11,900 9,021 10,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.03% 32.69% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,713 6,160 7,486
10th Percentile £363 £345 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +3.70% -5.57% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 266 329
10th Percentile £29.99 £29.67 £31.25
25th Percentile £51.31 £41.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.38 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +5.11%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -24 339 £502 -4.33% 438
North of England -25 151 £500 -2.44% 91
South East -6 100 £550 +15.79% 124
South West 0 86 £671 +16.74% 65
Yorkshire -37 68 £518 +0.98% 20
North West -13 59 £525 +6.60% 56
East of England -5 32 £425 -10.53% 31
West Midlands -39 31 £506 -8.01% 18
Midlands -49 31 £506 -8.01% 32
North East -33 23 £419 -19.47% 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 (4.21%) Confluence
2 22 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.63%) Apache
4 14 (1.84%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.58%) nginx
6 8 (1.05%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.79%) IIS
8 6 (0.79%) SAS
8 6 (0.79%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.53%) WordPress
10 3 (0.39%) JBoss
11 2 (0.26%) CMS
11 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.79%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.13%) Summit
4 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 362 (47.63%) AWS
2 345 (45.39%) Azure
3 190 (25.00%) GitHub
4 156 (20.53%) GCP
5 131 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
6 130 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
7 74 (9.74%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (8.82%) Serverless
9 65 (8.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 64 (8.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 63 (8.29%) Amazon S3
12 54 (7.11%) Azure Monitor
13 52 (6.84%) OpenShift
14 49 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
15 47 (6.18%) Datadog
15 47 (6.18%) Entra ID
15 47 (6.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 46 (6.05%) Azure AKS
17 42 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
18 40 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 129 (16.97%) DNS
2 121 (15.92%) Firewall
3 88 (11.58%) TCP/IP
4 62 (8.16%) Network Security
5 61 (8.03%) VPN
6 60 (7.89%) DHCP
7 20 (2.63%) SAN
7 20 (2.63%) WAN
8 19 (2.50%) VSAN
9 16 (2.11%) HTTP
9 16 (2.11%) SSL
9 16 (2.11%) VLAN
10 15 (1.97%) SSH
11 13 (1.71%) SD-WAN
12 12 (1.58%) NAS
13 10 (1.32%) BGP
14 9 (1.18%) SNMP
15 8 (1.05%) 5G
15 8 (1.05%) Kerberos
16 7 (0.92%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.21%) SQL Server
3 25 (3.29%) MongoDB
4 23 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 21 (2.76%) Redis
6 18 (2.37%) MySQL
7 11 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (1.45%) Big Data
7 11 (1.45%) Data Lake
7 11 (1.45%) Pentaho
8 10 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.32%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.32%) Oracle Database
9 9 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.18%) Metadata
10 8 (1.05%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 198 (26.05%) Jenkins
2 161 (21.18%) GitLab
3 141 (18.55%) Git
4 41 (5.39%) JIRA
5 14 (1.84%) Selenium
6 13 (1.71%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.58%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.05%) Postman
9 7 (0.92%) JMeter
9 7 (0.92%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.79%) MLflow
10 6 (0.79%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.66%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
12 4 (0.53%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.39%) Bugzilla
13 3 (0.39%) Maven
General
1 174 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 122 (16.05%) Finance
3 97 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.11%) Banking
6 21 (2.76%) Telecoms
7 16 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.97%) Legal
9 10 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.32%) Law
10 9 (1.18%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.92%) Military
11 7 (0.92%) Retail
12 5 (0.66%) Front Office
12 5 (0.66%) Publishing
13 4 (0.53%) Automotive
13 4 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.39%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.26%) Billing
Job Titles
1 144 (18.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 97 (12.76%) Senior
3 71 (9.34%) Cloud Engineer
3 71 (9.34%) Platform Engineer
4 58 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 51 (6.71%) AWS Engineer
6 50 (6.58%) Azure Engineer
7 49 (6.45%) Security Engineer
8 44 (5.79%) Lead
9 41 (5.39%) Architect
9 41 (5.39%) Linux Engineer
10 39 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 34 (4.47%) Site Engineer
12 29 (3.82%) Developer
12 29 (3.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 28 (3.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 27 (3.55%) AWS DevOps
15 25 (3.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
15 25 (3.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 439 (57.76%) Terraform
2 66 (8.68%) Kafka
3 47 (6.18%) REST
4 46 (6.05%) ARM Templates
5 40 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
5 40 (5.26%) YAML
6 22 (2.89%) OpenTelemetry
7 19 (2.50%) Loki
8 17 (2.24%) Middleware
9 15 (1.97%) .NET
9 15 (1.97%) JSON
9 15 (1.97%) Node.js
9 15 (1.97%) RESTful
10 14 (1.84%) SAML
11 13 (1.71%) SOAP
12 12 (1.58%) LDAP
12 12 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (1.58%) React
12 12 (1.58%) Spring
13 11 (1.45%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 118 (15.53%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (4.87%) Security Posture
4 34 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (4.34%) Onboarding
6 31 (4.08%) Data Centre
6 31 (4.08%) PKI
7 29 (3.82%) Linux Command Line
8 25 (3.29%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.76%) Public Cloud
10 20 (2.63%) Replication
11 17 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (2.11%) Product Ownership
13 14 (1.84%) Cloud Security Posture
13 14 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
15 11 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 10 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
16 10 (1.32%) Enterprise Storage
17 9 (1.18%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 352 (46.32%) Linux
2 166 (21.84%) Windows
3 86 (11.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 62 (8.16%) Windows Server
5 46 (6.05%) Unix
6 35 (4.61%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.84%) VMS
8 13 (1.71%) CentOS
9 7 (0.92%) Solaris
10 6 (0.79%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.39%) AIX
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.26%) Debian
13 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (58.95%) CI/CD
2 407 (53.55%) DevOps
3 389 (51.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 216 (28.42%) Containerisation
5 201 (26.45%) Observability
6 168 (22.11%) Platform Engineering
7 147 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (18.95%) Agile
9 143 (18.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 120 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 107 (14.08%) Cloud Security
12 104 (13.68%) DevSecOps
13 101 (13.29%) Infrastructure Automation
14 97 (12.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 90 (11.84%) Configuration Management
15 90 (11.84%) Root Cause Analysis
16 89 (11.71%) Migration
17 87 (11.45%) AI
17 87 (11.45%) Runbook
18 83 (10.92%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 656 (86.32%) Python
2 371 (48.82%) PowerShell
3 96 (12.63%) SQL
4 80 (10.53%) Java
5 71 (9.34%) Bicep
6 64 (8.42%) Go
7 34 (4.47%) Shell Script
8 30 (3.95%) Perl
9 21 (2.76%) Groovy
10 18 (2.37%) JavaScript
11 13 (1.71%) Korn
11 13 (1.71%) Ruby
12 12 (1.58%) C#
13 11 (1.45%) TypeScript
14 10 (1.32%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.66%) Scala
17 4 (0.53%) C
17 4 (0.53%) Cypher
18 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 275 (36.18%) Security Cleared
2 202 (26.58%) SC Cleared
3 77 (10.13%) DV Cleared
4 62 (8.16%) Azure Certification
5 61 (8.03%) AWS Certification
6 55 (7.24%) Degree
7 31 (4.08%) CISSP
8 27 (3.55%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.84%) VCAP
11 14 (1.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 13 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (1.32%) CCNA
14 10 (1.32%) CCNP
15 9 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
16 7 (0.92%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.39%) QA
2 33 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (3.16%) NIST
4 14 (1.84%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.71%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.45%) GDPR
6 11 (1.45%) SLA
7 7 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.79%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.53%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.53%) NCSC
10 4 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.39%) GRC
12 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 248 (32.63%) Docker
2 83 (10.92%) Active Directory
3 77 (10.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (5.13%) Hyper-V
5 34 (4.47%) vSphere
6 30 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (3.16%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.32%) Squid
10 9 (1.18%) NFS
11 7 (0.92%) Firmware
12 6 (0.79%) Postfix
13 5 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.53%) KVM
14 4 (0.53%) zsh
15 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
15 3 (0.39%) Varnish
15 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
16 2 (0.26%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 353 (46.45%) Kubernetes
2 279 (36.71%) Ansible
3 164 (21.58%) Grafana
4 140 (18.42%) Prometheus
5 55 (7.24%) Puppet
6 50 (6.58%) Progress Chef
7 41 (5.39%) Argo
8 21 (2.76%) Istio
9 14 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.84%) Podman
9 14 (1.84%) VxRail
10 13 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (1.71%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.58%) SCCM
11 12 (1.58%) systemd
12 10 (1.32%) Kibana
12 10 (1.32%) Packer
13 8 (1.05%) Consul
14 7 (0.92%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.92%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 140 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 99 (13.03%) VMware
3 81 (10.66%) Google
4 65 (8.55%) Red Hat
5 63 (8.29%) Splunk
6 55 (7.24%) Oracle
7 51 (6.71%) Dynatrace
8 32 (4.21%) CyberArk
9 31 (4.08%) Cisco
10 26 (3.42%) Databricks
11 23 (3.03%) ServiceNow
12 16 (2.11%) IBM
13 14 (1.84%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.71%) NetApp
15 12 (1.58%) SolarWinds
16 10 (1.32%) Zscaler
17 9 (1.18%) BeyondTrust
17 9 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
17 9 (1.18%) Fortinet
17 9 (1.18%) WALLIX