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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 144 199
Rank change year-on-year -23 +55 -55
Contract jobs citing Bash 767 547 414
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.97% 1.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.39% 5.99% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 361 284
10th Percentile £400 £375 £360
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 10
10th Percentile £56.50 - £24.93
25th Percentile £58.43 £41.25 £35.63
Median hourly rate £69.61 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.72% -5.22% -20.69%
75th Percentile £92.81 £60.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.41 £63.25 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +25.17% -5.22% -20.69%

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 12,008 9,125 10,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.93% 32.83% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,763 6,191 7,318
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 264 302
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.25 £30.58
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £50.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.88 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £79.92
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 10 September 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 September 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 September 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 -40 354 £513 -2.61% 427
North of England -28 145 £500 - 70
South East -6 105 £554 +15.90% 117
South West 0 82 £671 +19.22% 46
Yorkshire -34 65 £515 +3.00% 17
North West -21 57 £531 +11.84% 45
East of England -11 32 £425 -10.53% 25
West Midlands -42 29 £525 -8.70% 14
Midlands -59 29 £525 -8.70% 27
North East -40 22 £413 -20.67% 8
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 (3.91%) Confluence
2 27 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.74%) Apache
4 16 (2.09%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.56%) nginx
6 9 (1.17%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.04%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.91%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.78%) IIS
9 6 (0.78%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.65%) SAS
11 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
11 4 (0.52%) WordPress
12 3 (0.39%) JBoss
13 2 (0.26%) CMS
13 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
13 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.04%) Remedy AR System
3 4 (0.52%) Front Arena
3 4 (0.52%) Summit
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.13%) Actimize
5 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 358 (46.68%) AWS
2 348 (45.37%) Azure
3 192 (25.03%) GitHub
4 153 (19.95%) GCP
5 135 (17.60%) GitHub Actions
6 132 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
7 74 (9.65%) Amazon EKS
8 68 (8.87%) Serverless
9 65 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 64 (8.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 63 (8.21%) Azure Monitor
12 61 (7.95%) Amazon S3
13 54 (7.04%) OpenShift
14 49 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (6.39%) Datadog
15 48 (6.26%) Entra ID
15 48 (6.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 47 (6.13%) Azure AKS
17 44 (5.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 41 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 127 (16.56%) DNS
1 127 (16.56%) Firewall
2 87 (11.34%) TCP/IP
3 65 (8.47%) Network Security
3 65 (8.47%) VPN
4 60 (7.82%) DHCP
5 20 (2.61%) WAN
6 19 (2.48%) SAN
6 19 (2.48%) VSAN
7 16 (2.09%) SSL
7 16 (2.09%) VLAN
8 15 (1.96%) SSH
9 13 (1.69%) HTTP
9 13 (1.69%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.43%) NAS
11 10 (1.30%) BGP
12 9 (1.17%) 5G
13 8 (1.04%) 4G
13 8 (1.04%) Kerberos
14 7 (0.91%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (3.00%) Redis
4 22 (2.87%) MongoDB
4 22 (2.87%) NoSQL
5 19 (2.48%) MySQL
6 15 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 12 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (1.43%) Big Data
9 10 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (1.30%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.30%) Pentaho
10 9 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.17%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.17%) Metadata
10 9 (1.17%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 191 (24.90%) Jenkins
2 161 (20.99%) GitLab
3 144 (18.77%) Git
4 40 (5.22%) JIRA
5 14 (1.83%) Artifactory
5 14 (1.83%) Selenium
6 13 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.43%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.04%) Postman
9 7 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.91%) JMeter
10 6 (0.78%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.78%) Maven
10 6 (0.78%) MLflow
10 6 (0.78%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.65%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.39%) Bugzilla
13 3 (0.39%) Terragrunt
General
1 178 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 126 (16.43%) Finance
3 96 (12.52%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.82%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.17%) Banking
6 22 (2.87%) Telecoms
7 16 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.83%) Legal
9 11 (1.43%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.43%) Law
10 10 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.17%) Military
12 8 (1.04%) Retail
13 5 (0.65%) Front Office
13 5 (0.65%) Publishing
14 4 (0.52%) Automotive
15 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.39%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 144 (18.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 103 (13.43%) Senior
3 72 (9.39%) Cloud Engineer
3 72 (9.39%) Platform Engineer
4 56 (7.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 52 (6.78%) Security Engineer
6 51 (6.65%) Azure Engineer
7 50 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
8 44 (5.74%) Architect
8 44 (5.74%) Lead
9 42 (5.48%) Linux Engineer
10 37 (4.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 32 (4.17%) Developer
11 32 (4.17%) Site Engineer
12 31 (4.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 29 (3.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 26 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
14 26 (3.39%) GCP Engineer
15 25 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
15 25 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 447 (58.28%) Terraform
2 67 (8.74%) Kafka
3 49 (6.39%) ARM Templates
4 42 (5.48%) REST
5 40 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
5 40 (5.22%) YAML
6 21 (2.74%) Loki
7 18 (2.35%) Middleware
7 18 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (2.22%) Node.js
9 15 (1.96%) RESTful
10 14 (1.83%) .NET
10 14 (1.83%) JSON
10 14 (1.83%) React
11 13 (1.69%) Spring
12 12 (1.56%) Flask
12 12 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (1.43%) LDAP
13 11 (1.43%) SAML
14 10 (1.30%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 125 (16.30%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (5.35%) Security Posture
4 32 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
4 32 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 32 (4.17%) PKI
5 30 (3.91%) Data Centre
6 29 (3.78%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.00%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (2.48%) Replication
10 16 (2.09%) Cloud Security Posture
11 15 (1.96%) Product Ownership
12 14 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
13 11 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 11 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
14 9 (1.17%) Enterprise Storage
14 9 (1.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 362 (47.20%) Linux
2 171 (22.29%) Windows
3 92 (11.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (8.74%) Windows Server
5 51 (6.65%) Unix
6 33 (4.30%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.09%) VMS
8 12 (1.56%) CentOS
9 7 (0.91%) Solaris
10 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.65%) Rocky
11 4 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.26%) Debian
13 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (59.32%) CI/CD
2 415 (54.11%) DevOps
3 397 (51.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 223 (29.07%) Containerisation
5 210 (27.38%) Observability
6 168 (21.90%) Platform Engineering
7 156 (20.34%) Agile
8 146 (19.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 146 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
9 114 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 111 (14.47%) Cloud Security
11 109 (14.21%) DevSecOps
12 98 (12.78%) AI
12 98 (12.78%) Infrastructure Automation
12 98 (12.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 96 (12.52%) Root Cause Analysis
14 89 (11.60%) Runbook
15 88 (11.47%) Configuration Management
16 87 (11.34%) Migration
17 84 (10.95%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 661 (86.18%) Python
2 372 (48.50%) PowerShell
3 105 (13.69%) SQL
4 91 (11.86%) Java
5 75 (9.78%) Bicep
6 65 (8.47%) Go
7 43 (5.61%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.65%) Perl
9 21 (2.74%) Groovy
10 19 (2.48%) JavaScript
11 16 (2.09%) Korn
12 14 (1.83%) Ruby
13 13 (1.69%) TypeScript
14 11 (1.43%) C#
15 9 (1.17%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.52%) Cypher
17 4 (0.52%) Scala
18 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
18 3 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 294 (38.33%) Security Cleared
2 217 (28.29%) SC Cleared
3 80 (10.43%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.21%) Azure Certification
5 61 (7.95%) AWS Certification
6 57 (7.43%) Degree
7 34 (4.43%) CISSP
8 28 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 14 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.83%) VCAP
13 12 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (1.30%) CCNA
15 10 (1.30%) CCNP
16 9 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.48%) QA
2 34 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.52%) NIST
4 17 (2.22%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.43%) GDPR
5 11 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.30%) SLA
7 7 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.78%) NCSC
8 6 (0.78%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.65%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.26%) GRC
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 263 (34.29%) Docker
2 84 (10.95%) Active Directory
3 77 (10.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.95%) Hyper-V
5 36 (4.69%) vSphere
6 32 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (3.13%) VMware NSX
8 15 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.30%) Squid
10 9 (1.17%) NFS
11 6 (0.78%) Postfix
12 4 (0.52%) Firmware
12 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.39%) KVM
13 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.39%) Varnish
13 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.39%) zsh
14 2 (0.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 358 (46.68%) Kubernetes
2 281 (36.64%) Ansible
3 167 (21.77%) Grafana
4 139 (18.12%) Prometheus
5 52 (6.78%) Puppet
6 50 (6.52%) Progress Chef
7 43 (5.61%) Argo
8 19 (2.48%) Istio
9 17 (2.22%) Podman
10 14 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.83%) VxRail
11 13 (1.69%) vCenter Server
12 12 (1.56%) SCCM
12 12 (1.56%) systemd
13 10 (1.30%) Kibana
13 10 (1.30%) Packer
13 10 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (1.17%) Check_MK
15 8 (1.04%) Cilium
15 8 (1.04%) Consul
Vendors
1 144 (18.77%) Microsoft
2 100 (13.04%) VMware
3 87 (11.34%) Google
4 71 (9.26%) Red Hat
5 64 (8.34%) Splunk
6 54 (7.04%) Oracle
7 52 (6.78%) Dynatrace
8 31 (4.04%) Cisco
8 31 (4.04%) CyberArk
9 26 (3.39%) Databricks
10 21 (2.74%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.96%) IBM
11 15 (1.96%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.69%) NetApp
13 12 (1.56%) SolarWinds
14 10 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
14 10 (1.30%) Fortinet
15 9 (1.17%) AppDynamics
15 9 (1.17%) BeyondTrust
15 9 (1.17%) WALLIX