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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 142 191
Rank change year-on-year -20 +49 -49
Contract jobs citing Bash 804 578 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 2.06% 1.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.67% 6.28% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 372 276
10th Percentile £400 £376 £366
25th Percentile £456 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £661
90th Percentile £725 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £541
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.84% -8.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 10
10th Percentile £58.43 £40.30 £47.00
25th Percentile £62.12 £41.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £42.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +67.06% -27.66% -21.67%
75th Percentile £96.29 £59.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £99.76 £62.45 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £42.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +67.06% -27.66% -21.67%

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 12,053 9,204 10,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.08% 32.76% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,799 6,160 7,025
10th Percentile £363 £345 £351
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £543
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
75th Percentile £637 £633 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 265 300
10th Percentile £22.75 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £49.75 £41.94 £47.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -
75th Percentile £71.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.63 £78.75 £78.79
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -30 391 £533 -0.93% 476
North of England -47 138 £500 - 86
South East -9 113 £574 +28.30% 114
South West +23 90 £655 +19.09% 76
Yorkshire -34 62 £500 -1.23% 17
North West -27 53 £525 +10.53% 54
East of England -16 30 £425 -11.92% 53
West Midlands -49 24 £525 -9.68% 18
Midlands -58 24 £525 -6.67% 32
North East -36 22 £419 -19.08% 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 38 (4.73%) Confluence
2 29 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (3.11%) Apache
4 19 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.74%) nginx
5 14 (1.74%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.24%) IIS
7 9 (1.12%) Tomcat
8 8 (1.00%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.87%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.50%) SAS
10 4 (0.50%) WordPress
11 3 (0.37%) JBoss
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.12%) Camunda
13 1 (0.12%) CMS
13 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.12%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.00%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.62%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.62%) Summit
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.12%) Actimize
5 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 376 (46.77%) Azure
2 374 (46.52%) AWS
3 192 (23.88%) GitHub
4 165 (20.52%) GCP
5 138 (17.16%) GitHub Actions
6 134 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (10.95%) Amazon EKS
8 69 (8.58%) Azure Monitor
9 66 (8.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 65 (8.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 64 (7.96%) Serverless
12 60 (7.46%) Amazon S3
13 58 (7.21%) Entra ID
14 52 (6.47%) OpenShift
15 49 (6.09%) Azure AKS
15 49 (6.09%) Datadog
15 49 (6.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 47 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
17 45 (5.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 41 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 131 (16.29%) Firewall
2 121 (15.05%) DNS
3 92 (11.44%) TCP/IP
4 74 (9.20%) Network Security
5 69 (8.58%) VPN
6 66 (8.21%) DHCP
7 21 (2.61%) WAN
8 19 (2.36%) SSH
9 16 (1.99%) SAN
9 16 (1.99%) VSAN
10 15 (1.87%) SSL
11 14 (1.74%) SD-WAN
11 14 (1.74%) VLAN
12 11 (1.37%) BGP
12 11 (1.37%) HTTP
12 11 (1.37%) Kerberos
13 10 (1.24%) 5G
14 9 (1.12%) 4G
15 8 (1.00%) NAS
16 7 (0.87%) DNSSEC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.48%) Redis
4 26 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (2.99%) MySQL
7 22 (2.74%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.11%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.49%) Big Data
10 12 (1.49%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (1.49%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.37%) Metadata
12 10 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
12 10 (1.24%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.24%) Power BI
13 8 (1.00%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.00%) Pentaho
14 7 (0.87%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 206 (25.62%) Jenkins
2 176 (21.89%) Git
3 167 (20.77%) GitLab
4 46 (5.72%) JIRA
5 19 (2.36%) Artifactory
6 17 (2.11%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.99%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
8 15 (1.87%) Selenium
9 10 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (1.00%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.00%) Maven
10 8 (1.00%) Postman
11 7 (0.87%) JMeter
11 7 (0.87%) MLflow
12 6 (0.75%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.75%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.62%) Subversion
14 4 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 188 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 159 (19.78%) Finance
3 104 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (8.83%) Banking
5 65 (8.08%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.74%) Telecoms
7 14 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.62%) Legal
9 11 (1.37%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.37%) Military
10 9 (1.12%) Law
11 8 (1.00%) Retail
12 7 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.75%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.62%) Front Office
14 5 (0.62%) Publishing
15 4 (0.50%) Automotive
15 4 (0.50%) Marketing
16 3 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 173 (21.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 109 (13.56%) Senior
3 73 (9.08%) Platform Engineer
4 71 (8.83%) Cloud Engineer
5 60 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 57 (7.09%) Security Engineer
7 56 (6.97%) Azure Engineer
8 49 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
9 45 (5.60%) Lead
10 44 (5.47%) Linux Engineer
11 41 (5.10%) Developer
12 39 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 37 (4.60%) Architect
14 35 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 35 (4.35%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 33 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
15 33 (4.10%) Site Engineer
16 32 (3.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 31 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
18 30 (3.73%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 475 (59.08%) Terraform
2 74 (9.20%) Kafka
3 58 (7.21%) ARM Templates
4 54 (6.72%) REST
5 42 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
6 38 (4.73%) YAML
7 29 (3.61%) Middleware
8 24 (2.99%) Loki
9 21 (2.61%) React
9 21 (2.61%) RESTful
10 18 (2.24%) .NET
10 18 (2.24%) Flask
10 18 (2.24%) JSON
10 18 (2.24%) Node.js
11 17 (2.11%) AngularJS
12 15 (1.87%) CSS
12 15 (1.87%) HTML
13 14 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (1.74%) SAML
14 13 (1.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 123 (15.30%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (5.35%) Security Posture
4 41 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 41 (5.10%) PKI
5 33 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
7 31 (3.86%) Data Centre
7 31 (3.86%) Management Information System
8 30 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (3.23%) Public Cloud
10 21 (2.61%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.11%) Cloud Security Posture
11 17 (2.11%) Replication
12 14 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
13 12 (1.49%) ARM Cortex
14 11 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
15 10 (1.24%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 413 (51.37%) Linux
2 191 (23.76%) Windows
3 100 (12.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 74 (9.20%) Windows Server
5 60 (7.46%) Unix
6 36 (4.48%) Ubuntu
7 17 (2.11%) CentOS
8 14 (1.74%) VMS
9 6 (0.75%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.75%) Rocky
9 6 (0.75%) Solaris
10 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.25%) AIX
12 2 (0.25%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.12%) Android
13 1 (0.12%) Debian
13 1 (0.12%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (61.57%) CI/CD
2 448 (55.72%) DevOps
3 430 (53.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 239 (29.73%) Containerisation
5 228 (28.36%) Observability
6 176 (21.89%) Agile
7 174 (21.64%) Platform Engineering
8 167 (20.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 150 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
10 131 (16.29%) DevSecOps
11 125 (15.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 123 (15.30%) Cloud Security
13 110 (13.68%) Infrastructure Automation
14 106 (13.18%) Root Cause Analysis
15 104 (12.94%) Runbook
16 103 (12.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 102 (12.69%) AI
18 96 (11.94%) Migration
19 95 (11.82%) Configuration Management
20 87 (10.82%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 673 (83.71%) Python
2 401 (49.88%) PowerShell
3 113 (14.05%) SQL
4 97 (12.06%) Java
5 83 (10.32%) Bicep
6 70 (8.71%) Go
7 55 (6.84%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.48%) Perl
9 27 (3.36%) JavaScript
10 25 (3.11%) Groovy
11 21 (2.61%) Korn
12 17 (2.11%) TypeScript
13 15 (1.87%) C#
14 9 (1.12%) Ruby
15 8 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (1.00%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.62%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.50%) Cypher
18 3 (0.37%) Gremlin
18 3 (0.37%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 317 (39.43%) Security Cleared
2 231 (28.73%) SC Cleared
3 90 (11.19%) DV Cleared
4 64 (7.96%) AWS Certification
4 64 (7.96%) Degree
5 54 (6.72%) Azure Certification
6 36 (4.48%) CISSP
7 33 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 12 (1.49%) VCAP
12 11 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (1.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (0.87%) CCNP
15 6 (0.75%) CCSP
15 6 (0.75%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.72%) QA
2 33 (4.10%) NIST
3 30 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.74%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.87%) GDPR
6 7 (0.87%) NCSC
7 6 (0.75%) SLA
8 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.62%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 303 (37.69%) Docker
2 91 (11.32%) Active Directory
3 64 (7.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (4.23%) Hyper-V
5 27 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (3.23%) vSphere
7 17 (2.11%) VMware NSX
8 10 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (1.12%) Squid
10 7 (0.87%) NFS
11 5 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.62%) Postfix
12 4 (0.50%) HDFS
12 4 (0.50%) zsh
13 3 (0.37%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.37%) Firmware
13 3 (0.37%) KVM
13 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 387 (48.13%) Kubernetes
2 299 (37.19%) Ansible
3 172 (21.39%) Grafana
4 144 (17.91%) Prometheus
5 51 (6.34%) Puppet
6 49 (6.09%) Progress Chef
7 39 (4.85%) Argo
8 23 (2.86%) Istio
9 19 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (2.36%) SCCM
10 15 (1.87%) Podman
11 14 (1.74%) Kibana
11 14 (1.74%) VxRail
12 12 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (1.49%) systemd
13 11 (1.37%) Packer
14 9 (1.12%) Check_MK
15 8 (1.00%) Cilium
15 8 (1.00%) Consul
16 7 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 168 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 99 (12.31%) Google
3 86 (10.70%) VMware
4 64 (7.96%) Splunk
5 61 (7.59%) Red Hat
6 56 (6.97%) Dynatrace
7 55 (6.84%) Oracle
8 33 (4.10%) ServiceNow
9 32 (3.98%) CyberArk
10 29 (3.61%) Cisco
11 23 (2.86%) Databricks
12 17 (2.11%) IBM
13 16 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
13 16 (1.99%) Palo Alto
14 12 (1.49%) NetApp
15 11 (1.37%) SolarWinds
16 10 (1.24%) BeyondTrust
16 10 (1.24%) BMC
17 9 (1.12%) Murex
17 9 (1.12%) WALLIX