Bash Contracts in England

Bash Shell
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Bash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bash over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 208 119
Rank change year-on-year +61 -89 +50
Contract jobs citing Bash 506 428 998
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.96% 1.15% 2.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.81% 3.73% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 308 737
10th Percentile £366 £400 £425
25th Percentile £440 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £738
90th Percentile £708 £700 £835
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 21
10th Percentile £27.28 £22.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £38.80 £26.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -17.86% +52.00%
75th Percentile £58.00 £69.84 £75.00
90th Percentile £64.80 £74.06 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.22% -17.86% +52.00%

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 8,704 11,480 16,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.69% 30.75% 34.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,016 8,213 11,758
10th Percentile £353 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £543 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% -2.25% +0.18%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 482 407
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.59 £28.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £81.78 £77.38 £80.55
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in England

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in England.

Daily rate trend for Bash in England

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in England

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in England.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in England

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 2025. 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 +65 280 £531 -3.41% 944
North of England +1 68 £500 -2.20% 234
South West +44 47 £575 -4.17% 134
South East +46 44 £450 -18.18% 337
Yorkshire -9 43 £525 +10.53% 76
Midlands +17 25 £575 +16.46% 91
North West +10 21 £485 -11.82% 145
West Midlands +23 20 £583 +80.62% 48
East of England +20 18 £475 -13.64% 170
East Midlands +1 5 £575 -2.13% 43
North East - 4 £488 - 13
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (4.74%) Confluence
2 18 (3.56%) Apache
3 14 (2.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 11 (2.17%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.99%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.99%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.79%) nginx
7 3 (0.59%) JBoss
7 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.59%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.40%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.20%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.20%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 220 (43.48%) AWS
2 203 (40.12%) Azure
3 105 (20.75%) GCP
4 78 (15.42%) GitHub
5 51 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (7.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 33 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
9 28 (5.53%) OpenShift
10 27 (5.34%) Amazon S3
11 24 (4.74%) Serverless
12 21 (4.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 20 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (3.75%) Azure AKS
14 19 (3.75%) Entra ID
15 17 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
17 15 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (2.96%) IaaS
18 12 (2.37%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 70 (13.83%) DNS
2 62 (12.25%) Firewall
3 27 (5.34%) TCP/IP
4 22 (4.35%) VPN
5 19 (3.75%) HTTP
5 19 (3.75%) Network Security
6 17 (3.36%) DHCP
7 8 (1.58%) BGP
7 8 (1.58%) Kerberos
7 8 (1.58%) OSPF
7 8 (1.58%) SSH
8 6 (1.19%) 5G NR
9 5 (0.99%) SAN
9 5 (0.99%) SpaceWire
10 4 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.79%) SSL
10 4 (0.79%) VLAN
10 4 (0.79%) WAN
11 3 (0.59%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (4.74%) SQL Server
3 22 (4.35%) Oracle Database
4 13 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (2.57%) MongoDB
5 12 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (2.17%) Power BI
7 10 (1.98%) MySQL
8 9 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.78%) Redis
9 7 (1.38%) Apache Hive
10 6 (1.19%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.19%) Delta Lake
10 6 (1.19%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (0.99%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.99%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 106 (20.95%) Jenkins
2 92 (18.18%) Git
3 70 (13.83%) GitLab
4 50 (9.88%) JIRA
5 26 (5.14%) SonarQube
6 15 (2.96%) Bitbucket
6 15 (2.96%) Burp Suite
6 15 (2.96%) Metasploit
6 15 (2.96%) Selenium
7 12 (2.37%) JMeter
8 11 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (1.98%) Maven
10 9 (1.78%) LoadRunner
11 7 (1.38%) Liquibase
11 7 (1.38%) Subversion
12 6 (1.19%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.19%) MSI
13 5 (0.99%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.99%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.99%) TestNG
General
1 151 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 75 (14.82%) Finance
3 61 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (11.46%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.73%) Banking
6 20 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 9 (1.78%) Marketing
7 9 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.58%) Law
8 8 (1.58%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.38%) Electronics
9 7 (1.38%) Military
10 6 (1.19%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.19%) Legal
11 3 (0.59%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.59%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.59%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.40%) Arabic Language
12 2 (0.40%) French Language
Job Titles
1 110 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 60 (11.86%) Senior
3 37 (7.31%) Cloud Engineer
4 36 (7.11%) Azure Engineer
5 34 (6.72%) Linux Engineer
6 31 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 29 (5.73%) Analyst
9 27 (5.34%) Architect
10 26 (5.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 25 (4.94%) Site Engineer
12 24 (4.74%) Developer
13 23 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 22 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
14 22 (4.35%) Security Engineer
15 21 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
16 20 (3.95%) Administrator
17 19 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 16 (3.16%) Cybersecurity Engineer
18 16 (3.16%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.32%) Elastic Stack
2 29 (5.73%) Kafka
3 28 (5.53%) REST
4 25 (4.94%) YAML
5 23 (4.55%) ARM Templates
6 16 (3.16%) .NET
7 14 (2.77%) Node.js
8 13 (2.57%) ADO
8 13 (2.57%) SOAP
9 12 (2.37%) JSON
10 11 (2.17%) RESTful
11 9 (1.78%) LDAP
11 9 (1.78%) React
12 8 (1.58%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.58%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (1.58%) HTML
12 8 (1.58%) OAuth
13 7 (1.38%) CSS
13 7 (1.38%) pytest
13 7 (1.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.92%) Linux Command Line
2 25 (4.94%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.17%) Clustering
4 10 (1.98%) Management Information System
5 9 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (1.78%) Data Centre
5 9 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (1.78%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 7 (1.38%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.38%) Replication
7 7 (1.38%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.19%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (0.99%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 225 (44.47%) Linux
2 121 (23.91%) Windows
3 49 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 47 (9.29%) Windows Server
5 33 (6.52%) Unix
6 26 (5.14%) Mac OS
7 13 (2.57%) CentOS
8 11 (2.17%) Solaris
8 11 (2.17%) Ubuntu
9 8 (1.58%) VMS
10 6 (1.19%) SUSE
11 4 (0.79%) Android
11 4 (0.79%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.79%) Debian
12 3 (0.59%) Rocky
13 2 (0.40%) AIX
13 2 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.40%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (48.02%) CI/CD
2 228 (45.06%) DevOps
3 168 (33.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 139 (27.47%) Containerisation
5 134 (26.48%) Problem-Solving
6 102 (20.16%) Agile
7 69 (13.64%) Configuration Management
8 65 (12.85%) Task Automation
9 56 (11.07%) Continuous Integration
10 54 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 54 (10.67%) Microservices
11 50 (9.88%) Test Automation
12 49 (9.68%) High Availability
13 47 (9.29%) Cybersecurity
13 47 (9.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 44 (8.70%) DevSecOps
14 44 (8.70%) Migration
15 41 (8.10%) Cloud Security
16 40 (7.91%) Infrastructure Automation
17 36 (7.11%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 413 (81.62%) Python
2 195 (38.54%) PowerShell
3 84 (16.60%) SQL
4 62 (12.25%) Java
5 52 (10.28%) Perl
6 35 (6.92%) Go
7 19 (3.75%) JavaScript
8 17 (3.36%) PL/SQL
9 16 (3.16%) Bicep
10 13 (2.57%) Groovy
10 13 (2.57%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.17%) C
11 11 (2.17%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.98%) C#
12 10 (1.98%) C++
12 10 (1.98%) Scala
13 8 (1.58%) PHP
13 8 (1.58%) Ruby
13 8 (1.58%) VB
14 5 (0.99%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 181 (35.77%) Security Cleared
2 148 (29.25%) SC Cleared
3 41 (8.10%) Cisco Certification
3 41 (8.10%) Degree
4 26 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.94%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.56%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.56%) CCNP
7 17 (3.36%) OSCP
8 15 (2.96%) CREST Certified
9 14 (2.77%) Azure Certification
9 14 (2.77%) CEH
10 13 (2.57%) CISSP
10 13 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (2.57%) Tigerscheme
11 12 (2.37%) RHCE
12 11 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (1.98%) OCA
13 10 (1.98%) Oracle Certification
13 10 (1.98%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.91%) GDPR
2 32 (6.32%) QA
3 20 (3.95%) HIPAA
4 18 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.96%) NIST
5 15 (2.96%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.37%) NCSC
7 8 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (1.38%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.79%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.40%) SLA
11 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 150 (29.64%) Docker
2 47 (9.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (8.10%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.78%) vSphere
7 5 (0.99%) NFS
8 2 (0.40%) GPFS
8 2 (0.40%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 2 (0.40%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.40%) Veritas File System
8 2 (0.40%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 2 (0.40%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.40%) zsh
9 1 (0.20%) Btrfs
9 1 (0.20%) HDFS
9 1 (0.20%) iptables
9 1 (0.20%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.20%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 204 (40.32%) Kubernetes
2 190 (37.55%) Ansible
3 189 (37.35%) Terraform
4 67 (13.24%) Puppet
5 65 (12.85%) Grafana
6 59 (11.66%) Prometheus
7 50 (9.88%) Progress Chef
8 20 (3.95%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (2.96%) Packer
10 14 (2.77%) Nmap
11 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (2.17%) Red Hat Satellite
12 10 (1.98%) vCenter Server
13 9 (1.78%) Istio
14 8 (1.58%) Control-M
14 8 (1.58%) Nagios
14 8 (1.58%) Nessus
15 7 (1.38%) QRadar
15 7 (1.38%) Salt
15 7 (1.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 67 (13.24%) VMware
2 57 (11.26%) Oracle
3 55 (10.87%) Red Hat
4 54 (10.67%) Microsoft
5 47 (9.29%) Splunk
6 43 (8.50%) Cisco
7 29 (5.73%) Google
8 21 (4.15%) ServiceNow
9 19 (3.75%) Apple
10 17 (3.36%) Veracode
11 15 (2.96%) IBM
11 15 (2.96%) Qualys
12 13 (2.57%) SAP
13 12 (2.37%) CyberArk
14 11 (2.17%) Atlassian
15 10 (1.98%) Fortinet
16 9 (1.78%) Databricks
17 8 (1.58%) EMC
17 8 (1.58%) F5
17 8 (1.58%) SolarWinds