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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 172 166
Rank change year-on-year +36 -6 -15
Contract jobs citing Bash 668 424 583
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.13% 1.46% 1.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.82% 4.48% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 258 421
10th Percentile £396 £379 £406
25th Percentile £425 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £576
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -0.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £734 £700
90th Percentile £675 £810 £798
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 17
10th Percentile - £39.35 £59.20
25th Percentile £41.25 £52.50 £67.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -13.33% +2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 £94.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.70 £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -12.69% -13.33% +2.74%

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 9,799 9,467 11,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.28% 32.61% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,508 6,167 8,348
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 236 393
10th Percentile £32.50 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £51.00 £44.24 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

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 December 2025.

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 December 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 16 December 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 +38 299 £550 -9.47% 92
North of England +11 153 £513 -10.87% 94
South East +28 82 £500 +6.67% 112
Yorkshire -15 77 £490 -10.91% 40
North West -7 54 £550 -14.06% 45
Midlands -2 53 £495 +12.50% 54
West Midlands -3 42 £539 +10.12% 28
South West -10 36 £575 -10.51% 70
North East +12 26 £550 -2.65% 10
East of England -20 17 £475 -19.15% 60
East Midlands -6 11 £470 +6.82% 23
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 (4.79%) Confluence
2 17 (2.54%) OpenStack
3 12 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.65%) Apache
5 10 (1.50%) nginx
6 7 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.90%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.75%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.45%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.45%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.45%) IIS
9 3 (0.45%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.15%) CICS
11 1 (0.15%) CMS
11 1 (0.15%) Documentum
11 1 (0.15%) FileNet
11 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.15%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 8 (1.20%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Finacle
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 308 (46.11%) AWS
2 250 (37.43%) Azure
3 156 (23.35%) GCP
4 137 (20.51%) GitHub
5 80 (11.98%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (10.03%) Amazon S3
7 64 (9.58%) Amazon EC2
7 64 (9.58%) OpenShift
8 61 (9.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 59 (8.83%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (7.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 50 (7.49%) Entra ID
12 47 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 46 (6.89%) Serverless
14 42 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
15 35 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
16 34 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
17 26 (3.89%) Datadog
18 22 (3.29%) Amazon ELB
18 22 (3.29%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 115 (17.22%) Firewall
2 82 (12.28%) DNS
3 70 (10.48%) TCP/IP
4 45 (6.74%) VPN
5 37 (5.54%) Network Security
6 30 (4.49%) SSL
7 25 (3.74%) Wireshark
8 21 (3.14%) VLAN
9 20 (2.99%) BGP
10 15 (2.25%) DHCP
11 11 (1.65%) OSPF
11 11 (1.65%) SSH
12 10 (1.50%) HTTP
13 9 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
14 8 (1.20%) Ethernet
14 8 (1.20%) Multicast
15 7 (1.05%) EIGRP
15 7 (1.05%) SD-WAN
15 7 (1.05%) SMTP
15 7 (1.05%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (5.69%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.89%) MongoDB
4 22 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
4 22 (3.29%) Redis
5 21 (3.14%) MySQL
6 18 (2.69%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.80%) Big Data
7 12 (1.80%) Hadoop
8 11 (1.65%) Delta Lake
9 10 (1.50%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.35%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.05%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.90%) Oracle Exadata
12 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.75%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 188 (28.14%) Jenkins
2 142 (21.26%) GitLab
3 118 (17.66%) Git
4 48 (7.19%) JIRA
5 19 (2.84%) SonarQube
6 18 (2.69%) Metasploit
7 17 (2.54%) Burp Suite
8 14 (2.10%) CircleCI
8 14 (2.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (1.95%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.65%) Maven
11 8 (1.20%) Artifactory
11 8 (1.20%) MLflow
12 7 (1.05%) Subversion
13 6 (0.90%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.90%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.75%) Gradle
14 5 (0.75%) Mockito
15 4 (0.60%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.60%) GCC
General
1 196 (29.34%) Social Skills
2 86 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (10.63%) Public Sector
4 62 (9.28%) Finance
5 29 (4.34%) Banking
6 21 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.10%) Legal
8 10 (1.50%) Front Office
8 10 (1.50%) Retail
9 9 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.05%) Military
11 6 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.75%) Games
12 5 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.75%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.60%) Electronics
13 4 (0.60%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.60%) Law
13 4 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 116 (17.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 82 (12.28%) Senior
3 60 (8.98%) Platform Engineer
4 38 (5.69%) Developer
5 34 (5.09%) Site Engineer
6 33 (4.94%) Architect
6 33 (4.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 32 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (4.79%) Network Engineer
8 31 (4.64%) AWS DevOps
8 31 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 30 (4.49%) Administrator
9 30 (4.49%) Lead
10 25 (3.74%) Data Engineer
11 24 (3.59%) Automation Engineer
11 24 (3.59%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (3.59%) Security Engineer
12 23 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 22 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
14 21 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.28%) Elastic Stack
2 48 (7.19%) Kafka
3 29 (4.34%) REST
4 28 (4.19%) Keycloak
5 21 (3.14%) Middleware
6 20 (2.99%) Node.js
7 16 (2.40%) YAML
8 15 (2.25%) .NET
9 14 (2.10%) ARM Templates
9 14 (2.10%) Loki
10 11 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
11 10 (1.50%) SAML
12 9 (1.35%) AngularJS
12 9 (1.35%) LDAP
12 9 (1.35%) OAuth
12 9 (1.35%) Spring
12 9 (1.35%) Spring Boot
13 8 (1.20%) RESTful
14 7 (1.05%) React
14 7 (1.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.19%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.34%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (3.44%) Linux Command Line
5 22 (3.29%) PKI
6 19 (2.84%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.84%) Replication
7 15 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.10%) Private Cloud
9 13 (1.95%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.95%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.50%) Clustering
12 9 (1.35%) NHS
12 9 (1.35%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.05%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 311 (46.56%) Linux
2 114 (17.07%) Windows
3 81 (12.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 59 (8.83%) Unix
5 39 (5.84%) Mac OS
6 31 (4.64%) Windows Server
7 29 (4.34%) CentOS
8 19 (2.84%) Ubuntu
9 15 (2.25%) Solaris
10 10 (1.50%) Windows 10
11 8 (1.20%) Kali Linux
12 7 (1.05%) VMS
13 4 (0.60%) Debian
14 3 (0.45%) AIX
15 1 (0.15%) Android
15 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (53.74%) CI/CD
2 329 (49.25%) DevOps
3 297 (44.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 203 (30.39%) Containerisation
5 143 (21.41%) Problem-Solving
6 126 (18.86%) Observability
7 117 (17.51%) Agile
8 90 (13.47%) Incident Response
9 87 (13.02%) High Availability
10 86 (12.87%) Test Automation
11 84 (12.57%) Platform Engineering
12 80 (11.98%) DevSecOps
12 80 (11.98%) Infrastructure Automation
13 74 (11.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 71 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 69 (10.33%) Migration
16 67 (10.03%) Task Automation
17 62 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
18 59 (8.83%) Data Protection
19 58 (8.68%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 569 (85.18%) Python
2 244 (36.53%) PowerShell
3 72 (10.78%) SQL
4 64 (9.58%) Java
5 61 (9.13%) Go
6 56 (8.38%) Perl
7 35 (5.24%) JavaScript
7 35 (5.24%) Shell Script
8 20 (2.99%) C++
8 20 (2.99%) Groovy
9 18 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 17 (2.54%) Bicep
11 16 (2.40%) C
11 16 (2.40%) C#
12 13 (1.95%) PHP
13 9 (1.35%) TypeScript
14 7 (1.05%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.05%) PromQL
15 5 (0.75%) Tcl
15 5 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 225 (33.68%) Security Cleared
2 182 (27.25%) SC Cleared
3 44 (6.59%) Degree
4 34 (5.09%) DV Cleared
5 30 (4.49%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (3.59%) OSCP
9 19 (2.84%) CCNP
10 17 (2.54%) CCNA
10 17 (2.54%) CEH
11 15 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (2.25%) GPEN
12 14 (2.10%) CISSP
13 13 (1.95%) Azure Certification
14 12 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (1.50%) CCDP
16 9 (1.35%) Master's Degree
16 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (1.20%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (4.94%) GDPR
3 16 (2.40%) NCSC
3 16 (2.40%) NIST
4 14 (2.10%) QA
5 13 (1.95%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.80%) HIPAA
7 11 (1.65%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.65%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.60%) SLA
10 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.15%) GxP
10 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 255 (38.17%) Docker
2 87 (13.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (7.93%) Active Directory
4 28 (4.19%) vSphere
5 11 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.50%) GPFS
6 10 (1.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 9 (1.35%) KVM
7 9 (1.35%) Lustre
7 9 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.35%) VMware NSX
8 8 (1.20%) Firmware
8 8 (1.20%) zsh
9 7 (1.05%) NFS
10 5 (0.75%) Snort
10 5 (0.75%) Squid
11 4 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.60%) Veritas File System
11 4 (0.60%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 305 (45.66%) Terraform
2 291 (43.56%) Kubernetes
3 252 (37.72%) Ansible
4 134 (20.06%) Grafana
5 122 (18.26%) Prometheus
6 47 (7.04%) Puppet
7 46 (6.89%) Argo
8 23 (3.44%) NetBackup
9 21 (3.14%) Istio
9 21 (3.14%) SCCM
10 20 (2.99%) Jamf Pro
10 20 (2.99%) Nmap
11 19 (2.84%) Kibana
11 19 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
11 19 (2.84%) Progress Chef
12 16 (2.40%) Packer
13 14 (2.10%) Red Hat Satellite
14 13 (1.95%) Oracle RMAN
15 11 (1.65%) Nessus
15 11 (1.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (16.92%) VMware
2 104 (15.57%) Microsoft
3 98 (14.67%) Red Hat
4 92 (13.77%) Splunk
5 46 (6.89%) Google
6 41 (6.14%) Palo Alto
7 39 (5.84%) Cisco
8 33 (4.94%) Oracle
9 30 (4.49%) F5
10 28 (4.19%) CheckPoint
11 26 (3.89%) Citrix
12 21 (3.14%) CyberArk
12 21 (3.14%) ServiceNow
12 21 (3.14%) Veritas
13 17 (2.54%) Juniper
14 16 (2.40%) Databricks
14 16 (2.40%) Dynatrace
15 15 (2.25%) Zscaler
16 13 (1.95%) CrowdStrike
16 13 (1.95%) Qualys