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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 145 199
Rank change year-on-year -46 +54 -73
Contract jobs citing Bash 572 470 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.92% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.10% 5.64% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 316 308
10th Percentile £375 £373 £393
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 £715 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 12
10th Percentile £54.55 £26.83 £22.00
25th Percentile £57.59 £34.24 £24.44
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 £74.69
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 11,223 8,326 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.57% 34.03% 30.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,354 5,778 8,132
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £524 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -3.06% -4.00%
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 508 198 478
10th Percentile £36.43 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.06 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -5.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.23 £85.00 £77.65
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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -67 241 £525 - 72
North of England -14 138 £465 -11.43% 46
Yorkshire -19 80 £500 -6.98% 13
South East -34 76 £473 +2.16% 46
South West -26 48 £538 -10.42% 27
North West -16 46 £525 +6.60% 28
Midlands -49 41 £465 -17.33% 23
West Midlands -32 39 £467 -23.13% 9
East of England -26 16 £494 +3.95% 13
North East -14 12 £413 -25.00% 5
East Midlands -33 2 £436 +6.99% 14
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 (5.24%) Confluence
2 13 (2.27%) Apache
3 11 (1.92%) nginx
3 11 (1.92%) SAS
4 8 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.40%) IIS
5 7 (1.22%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.05%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.87%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.70%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
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
10 2 (0.35%) WordPress
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%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 255 (44.58%) AWS
2 222 (38.81%) Azure
3 158 (27.62%) GitHub
4 115 (20.10%) GCP
5 98 (17.13%) GitHub Actions
6 87 (15.21%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (10.49%) OpenShift
8 53 (9.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 51 (8.92%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (8.39%) Serverless
11 46 (8.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 40 (6.99%) Amazon S3
13 38 (6.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 36 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
16 33 (5.77%) Datadog
16 33 (5.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 29 (5.07%) Azure AKS
18 24 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
19 20 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (13.29%) DNS
2 71 (12.41%) Firewall
3 38 (6.64%) TCP/IP
3 38 (6.64%) VPN
4 29 (5.07%) Network Security
5 18 (3.15%) SAN
6 15 (2.62%) DHCP
6 15 (2.62%) NAS
7 14 (2.45%) SSL
7 14 (2.45%) VLAN
8 11 (1.92%) HTTP
8 11 (1.92%) WAN
9 9 (1.57%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.40%) Reverse Proxy
11 7 (1.22%) BGP
11 7 (1.22%) SNMP
12 5 (0.87%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (0.70%) Multicast
13 4 (0.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (5.77%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 19 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (2.80%) Redis
6 15 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (2.45%) MySQL
8 12 (2.10%) Pentaho
9 11 (1.92%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.92%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.40%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.22%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (1.05%) Big Data
13 6 (1.05%) Db2
14 5 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.87%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 168 (29.37%) Jenkins
2 114 (19.93%) GitLab
3 98 (17.13%) Git
4 42 (7.34%) JIRA
5 12 (2.10%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.57%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.57%) Postman
7 7 (1.22%) JMeter
8 6 (1.05%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.05%) Liquibase
8 6 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.87%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.70%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.70%) Selenium
10 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.52%) Ant
11 3 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.52%) Snyk
11 3 (0.52%) Spinnaker
12 2 (0.35%) REST Assured
General
1 138 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 72 (12.59%) Finance
3 60 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (8.92%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.17%) Banking
6 16 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.62%) Legal
8 12 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.75%) Law
10 7 (1.22%) Military
11 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.70%) Retail
13 3 (0.52%) Publishing
14 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.35%) Aviation
14 2 (0.35%) Front Office
14 2 (0.35%) Police
15 1 (0.17%) Back Office
15 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (20.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 51 (8.92%) Cloud Engineer
4 50 (8.74%) Senior
5 46 (8.04%) Platform Engineer
6 45 (7.87%) Security Engineer
7 36 (6.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 31 (5.42%) Azure Engineer
8 31 (5.42%) Lead
9 30 (5.24%) Architect
10 28 (4.90%) Linux Engineer
11 27 (4.72%) Data Engineer
11 27 (4.72%) GCP Engineer
11 27 (4.72%) Site Engineer
12 25 (4.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 23 (4.02%) AWS DevOps
14 22 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.67%) GCP DevOps
16 19 (3.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 19 (3.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (6.64%) Kafka
2 35 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
3 28 (4.90%) REST
4 27 (4.72%) OpenTelemetry
5 23 (4.02%) YAML
6 20 (3.50%) Middleware
7 16 (2.80%) ARM Templates
8 11 (1.92%) Loki
9 10 (1.75%) ADO
9 10 (1.75%) JSON
9 10 (1.75%) LDAP
9 10 (1.75%) SAML
9 10 (1.75%) Swagger
10 9 (1.57%) Node.js
10 9 (1.57%) OAuth
11 8 (1.40%) .NET
11 8 (1.40%) AngularJS
11 8 (1.40%) Keycloak
11 8 (1.40%) React
11 8 (1.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 98 (17.13%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (4.90%) Security Posture
4 26 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (4.02%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (3.32%) Management Information System
8 18 (3.15%) Linux Command Line
9 17 (2.97%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.80%) Replication
11 13 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (2.27%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.92%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.22%) Clustering
13 7 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (1.05%) PKI
15 5 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
15 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
15 5 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 228 (39.86%) Linux
2 106 (18.53%) Windows
3 59 (10.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (7.69%) Unix
5 32 (5.59%) Windows Server
6 21 (3.67%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.10%) VMS
8 10 (1.75%) AIX
9 9 (1.57%) Mac OS
10 8 (1.40%) CentOS
11 6 (1.05%) Solaris
12 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.52%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.35%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.35%) Debian
14 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (58.04%) CI/CD
2 323 (56.47%) DevOps
3 251 (43.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 166 (29.02%) Containerisation
5 145 (25.35%) Observability
6 100 (17.48%) Platform Engineering
7 98 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (16.96%) Agile
9 79 (13.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 76 (13.29%) Migration
11 71 (12.41%) Configuration Management
12 69 (12.06%) Root Cause Analysis
13 66 (11.54%) Cloud Security
14 64 (11.19%) High Availability
15 62 (10.84%) Infrastructure Automation
16 60 (10.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 57 (9.97%) Continuous Improvement
18 55 (9.62%) Test Automation
19 53 (9.27%) SIEM
20 46 (8.04%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 493 (86.19%) Python
2 257 (44.93%) PowerShell
3 82 (14.34%) SQL
4 47 (8.22%) Java
5 46 (8.04%) Go
6 26 (4.55%) Bicep
7 22 (3.85%) Shell Script
8 19 (3.32%) Perl
9 18 (3.15%) JavaScript
10 16 (2.80%) Groovy
11 10 (1.75%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.75%) Ruby
12 8 (1.40%) C
12 8 (1.40%) C#
13 6 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.70%) C++
15 4 (0.70%) Scala
15 4 (0.70%) TypeScript
16 3 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 182 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 151 (26.40%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.17%) Degree
4 36 (6.29%) Azure Certification
5 35 (6.12%) AWS Certification
6 25 (4.37%) DV Cleared
7 21 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (3.15%) CISSP
10 13 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 11 (1.92%) CCNA
12 11 (1.92%) CCNP
13 10 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.75%) RHCE
14 8 (1.40%) RHCA
15 7 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (1.05%) MCSE
17 4 (0.70%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (3.32%) QA
3 18 (3.15%) NIST
4 17 (2.97%) GDPR
5 13 (2.27%) PCI DSS
5 13 (2.27%) SLA
6 8 (1.40%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.40%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.05%) GRC
7 6 (1.05%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.87%) NCSC
9 4 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.17%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 165 (28.85%) Docker
2 48 (8.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 41 (7.17%) Active Directory
5 24 (4.20%) vSphere
6 22 (3.85%) Hyper-V
7 17 (2.97%) VMware NSX
8 15 (2.62%) 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
1 299 (52.27%) Terraform
2 248 (43.36%) Kubernetes
3 221 (38.64%) Ansible
4 129 (22.55%) Grafana
5 115 (20.10%) Prometheus
6 50 (8.74%) Puppet
7 45 (7.87%) Argo
8 33 (5.77%) Progress Chef
9 26 (4.55%) vCenter Server
10 24 (4.20%) Istio
11 13 (2.27%) Packer
12 9 (1.57%) NetBackup
12 9 (1.57%) Podman
13 8 (1.40%) HAProxy
13 8 (1.40%) Kibana
14 7 (1.22%) linkerd
14 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (1.22%) Rancher
14 7 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (1.05%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 73 (12.76%) Red Hat
2 68 (11.89%) Splunk
3 64 (11.19%) VMware
4 61 (10.66%) Microsoft
5 48 (8.39%) Google
6 42 (7.34%) Dynatrace
7 38 (6.64%) Oracle
8 22 (3.85%) IBM
9 18 (3.15%) Cisco
9 18 (3.15%) Databricks
10 17 (2.97%) Pure Storage
11 13 (2.27%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.10%) AppDynamics
12 12 (2.10%) Informatica
12 12 (2.10%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.92%) Cloudera
13 11 (1.92%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.92%) Talend
13 11 (1.92%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.75%) Fortinet