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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 150 200
Rank change year-on-year -49 +50 -77
Contract jobs citing Bash 573 470 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.90% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.02% 5.62% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 316 310
10th Percentile £378 £373 £400
25th Percentile £425 £442 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £625
90th Percentile £684 £725 £691
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 11,412 8,364 11,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.63% 33.87% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,460 5,798 8,122
10th Percentile £359 £356 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -3.30% -4.31%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 197 488
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.00 £49.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -59 245 £525 - 82
North of England -11 140 £477 -9.14% 45
Yorkshire -20 81 £500 -6.98% 10
South East -24 74 £470 +4.44% 58
South West -29 50 £538 -10.42% 25
North West -17 47 £500 +1.52% 32
West Midlands -40 36 £473 -23.09% 9
Midlands -47 36 £473 -14.00% 21
East of England -32 16 £494 +3.95% 13
North East -24 12 £413 -25.00% 3
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 (5.41%) Confluence
2 13 (2.27%) Apache
3 11 (1.92%) nginx
3 11 (1.92%) SAS
4 8 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.22%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.05%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.87%) IIS
8 4 (0.70%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.52%) WordPress
10 2 (0.35%) CMS
10 2 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) JBoss
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) 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 (0.35%) 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
1 251 (43.80%) AWS
2 218 (38.05%) Azure
3 161 (28.10%) GitHub
4 113 (19.72%) GCP
5 100 (17.45%) GitHub Actions
6 89 (15.53%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (10.30%) OpenShift
8 53 (9.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 52 (9.08%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (8.38%) Serverless
11 47 (8.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 41 (7.16%) Amazon S3
13 37 (6.46%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (6.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 36 (6.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 35 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
16 32 (5.58%) Datadog
17 30 (5.24%) Azure AKS
18 25 (4.36%) Azure Monitor
19 19 (3.32%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.26%) DNS
2 73 (12.74%) Firewall
3 39 (6.81%) VPN
4 36 (6.28%) TCP/IP
5 31 (5.41%) Network Security
6 18 (3.14%) SAN
7 15 (2.62%) DHCP
7 15 (2.62%) NAS
7 15 (2.62%) SSL
8 13 (2.27%) VLAN
9 11 (1.92%) HTTP
9 11 (1.92%) WAN
10 9 (1.57%) SD-WAN
11 8 (1.40%) Reverse Proxy
12 7 (1.22%) BGP
12 7 (1.22%) SNMP
13 5 (0.87%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (0.70%) Multicast
14 4 (0.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (5.24%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.66%) MongoDB
4 20 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (2.97%) Redis
6 15 (2.62%) MySQL
7 14 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (2.09%) Pentaho
10 11 (1.92%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.40%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.40%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.22%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (1.05%) Big Data
14 6 (1.05%) Db2
15 5 (0.87%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 174 (30.37%) Jenkins
2 114 (19.90%) GitLab
3 100 (17.45%) Git
4 41 (7.16%) JIRA
5 12 (2.09%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.57%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.57%) Postman
7 7 (1.22%) JMeter
7 7 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.05%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.87%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.87%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.70%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.70%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.70%) Selenium
10 4 (0.70%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.52%) Ant
11 3 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 130 (22.69%) Social Skills
2 72 (12.57%) Finance
3 57 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.08%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.16%) Banking
6 16 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.62%) Legal
8 12 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.40%) Law
10 7 (1.22%) Military
11 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.70%) Publishing
12 4 (0.70%) Retail
13 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.35%) Aviation
13 2 (0.35%) Front Office
13 2 (0.35%) Police
14 1 (0.17%) Back Office
14 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (21.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (9.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 52 (9.08%) Senior
4 51 (8.90%) AWS Engineer
5 47 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
6 44 (7.68%) Security Engineer
7 39 (6.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 32 (5.58%) Azure Engineer
9 30 (5.24%) Site Engineer
10 29 (5.06%) Architect
10 29 (5.06%) GCP Engineer
10 29 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 28 (4.89%) Lead
11 28 (4.89%) Linux Engineer
12 27 (4.71%) Data Engineer
13 23 (4.01%) AWS DevOps
14 22 (3.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.66%) GCP DevOps
16 20 (3.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 20 (3.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.46%) Elastic Stack
2 36 (6.28%) Kafka
3 27 (4.71%) OpenTelemetry
4 25 (4.36%) REST
5 23 (4.01%) YAML
6 18 (3.14%) Middleware
7 16 (2.79%) ARM Templates
8 11 (1.92%) SAML
9 10 (1.75%) ADO
9 10 (1.75%) JSON
9 10 (1.75%) LDAP
9 10 (1.75%) Loki
9 10 (1.75%) Node.js
9 10 (1.75%) OAuth
9 10 (1.75%) Swagger
10 8 (1.40%) .NET
10 8 (1.40%) Keycloak
11 7 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.22%) SOAP
12 6 (1.05%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 98 (17.10%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 30 (5.24%) Security Posture
4 27 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (4.01%) Data Centre
6 20 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
6 20 (3.49%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.97%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.97%) Replication
9 14 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (2.27%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.92%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.22%) Clustering
13 7 (1.22%) PKI
14 6 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
15 5 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
15 5 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 232 (40.49%) Linux
2 99 (17.28%) Windows
3 60 (10.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (7.33%) Unix
5 29 (5.06%) Windows Server
6 22 (3.84%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.92%) VMS
8 10 (1.75%) AIX
9 8 (1.40%) CentOS
10 6 (1.05%) Mac OS
10 6 (1.05%) Solaris
11 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.35%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.35%) Debian
13 2 (0.35%) Rocky
13 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (58.46%) CI/CD
2 326 (56.89%) DevOps
3 256 (44.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 167 (29.14%) Containerisation
5 145 (25.31%) Observability
6 104 (18.15%) Platform Engineering
7 100 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (17.10%) Agile
9 81 (14.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 78 (13.61%) Migration
11 70 (12.22%) Configuration Management
12 67 (11.69%) Cloud Security
13 66 (11.52%) High Availability
14 65 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 63 (10.99%) Root Cause Analysis
16 61 (10.65%) Infrastructure Automation
17 58 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 56 (9.77%) Test Automation
19 54 (9.42%) SIEM
20 47 (8.20%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 498 (86.91%) Python
2 250 (43.63%) PowerShell
3 79 (13.79%) SQL
4 48 (8.38%) Go
5 45 (7.85%) Java
6 26 (4.54%) Bicep
7 21 (3.66%) Perl
8 20 (3.49%) Shell Script
9 16 (2.79%) Groovy
10 15 (2.62%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.75%) Ruby
12 9 (1.57%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.22%) C
14 6 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.87%) C#
15 5 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.70%) C++
16 4 (0.70%) Scala
16 4 (0.70%) TypeScript
17 2 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 180 (31.41%) Security Cleared
2 148 (25.83%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.33%) Degree
4 37 (6.46%) Azure Certification
5 36 (6.28%) AWS Certification
6 27 (4.71%) DV Cleared
7 21 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (3.32%) CISSP
9 13 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (1.92%) CCNA
11 11 (1.92%) CCNP
12 10 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.75%) RHCE
13 8 (1.40%) RHCA
14 7 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (1.05%) MCSE
16 5 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.14%) QA
3 17 (2.97%) NIST
4 14 (2.44%) GDPR
5 13 (2.27%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.92%) SLA
7 8 (1.40%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.40%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.05%) GRC
8 6 (1.05%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.87%) NCSC
10 4 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.17%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 163 (28.45%) Docker
2 45 (7.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (6.46%) Active Directory
5 25 (4.36%) vSphere
6 22 (3.84%) Hyper-V
7 17 (2.97%) VMware NSX
8 14 (2.44%) KVM
9 11 (1.92%) Firmware
9 11 (1.92%) Squid
10 9 (1.57%) NFS
10 9 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (1.22%) Postfix
12 4 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.70%) Varnish
13 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.52%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.35%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.35%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 306 (53.40%) Terraform
2 248 (43.28%) Kubernetes
3 222 (38.74%) Ansible
4 129 (22.51%) Grafana
5 118 (20.59%) Prometheus
6 50 (8.73%) Puppet
7 46 (8.03%) Argo
8 34 (5.93%) Progress Chef
9 26 (4.54%) Istio
9 26 (4.54%) vCenter Server
10 13 (2.27%) Packer
11 9 (1.57%) NetBackup
11 9 (1.57%) Podman
12 8 (1.40%) HAProxy
12 8 (1.40%) Kibana
12 8 (1.40%) linkerd
13 7 (1.22%) Rancher
13 7 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (1.05%) Salt
14 6 (1.05%) systemd
Vendors
1 73 (12.74%) Red Hat
2 64 (11.17%) Splunk
3 61 (10.65%) VMware
4 57 (9.95%) Microsoft
5 48 (8.38%) Google
6 42 (7.33%) Dynatrace
7 35 (6.11%) Oracle
8 22 (3.84%) IBM
9 19 (3.32%) Cisco
9 19 (3.32%) Databricks
10 17 (2.97%) Pure Storage
11 13 (2.27%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.09%) Informatica
13 11 (1.92%) Cloudera
13 11 (1.92%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.92%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.92%) Talend
13 11 (1.92%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.75%) F5
14 10 (1.75%) Fortinet