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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 140 194
Rank change year-on-year -30 +54 -47
Contract jobs citing Bash 779 548 419
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.99% 1.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.48% 6.04% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 356 277
10th Percentile £400 £381 £354
25th Percentile £454 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £726 £684 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £541
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 10
10th Percentile £56.45 £40.30 £47.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £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 £93.75 £59.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £99.53 £62.45 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £69.61 £42.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +63.78% -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 12,027 9,074 10,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.96% 32.93% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,798 6,118 7,066
10th Percentile £363 £350 £354
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.86% -3.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 258 300
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.81 £48.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.38 £67.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.13 £77.00 £80.00
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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -34 376 £525 -4.55% 346
North of England -45 138 £500 - 76
South East -12 108 £568 +27.07% 88
South West +6 83 £675 +22.73% 70
Yorkshire -38 59 £500 -1.23% 17
North West -21 56 £525 +10.53% 51
East of England -11 31 £425 -11.23% 39
West Midlands -49 25 £525 -9.68% 18
Midlands -57 25 £525 -6.67% 35
North East -36 22 £419 -19.08% 9
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 34 (4.36%) Confluence
2 28 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.82%) Apache
4 18 (2.31%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.67%) nginx
7 8 (1.03%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.90%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.77%) IIS
9 6 (0.77%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.64%) SAS
11 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.51%) WordPress
12 3 (0.39%) JBoss
13 2 (0.26%) CMS
13 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
14 1 (0.13%) Camunda
14 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.13%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.03%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.64%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.64%) 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
1 367 (47.11%) AWS
2 355 (45.57%) Azure
3 183 (23.49%) GitHub
4 155 (19.90%) GCP
5 133 (17.07%) GitHub Actions
6 131 (16.82%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
8 65 (8.34%) Serverless
9 64 (8.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 62 (7.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 61 (7.83%) Azure Monitor
12 60 (7.70%) Amazon S3
13 54 (6.93%) Entra ID
14 50 (6.42%) OpenShift
15 49 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
15 49 (6.29%) Datadog
16 47 (6.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 44 (5.65%) Azure AKS
18 42 (5.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 41 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 123 (15.79%) Firewall
2 112 (14.38%) DNS
3 83 (10.65%) TCP/IP
4 69 (8.86%) Network Security
5 65 (8.34%) VPN
6 59 (7.57%) DHCP
7 20 (2.57%) WAN
8 18 (2.31%) SSH
9 17 (2.18%) SAN
9 17 (2.18%) VSAN
10 14 (1.80%) SSL
11 13 (1.67%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.67%) VLAN
12 11 (1.41%) Kerberos
13 10 (1.28%) 5G
13 10 (1.28%) BGP
13 10 (1.28%) HTTP
14 9 (1.16%) 4G
14 9 (1.16%) NAS
15 7 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.01%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.24%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.47%) Redis
4 23 (2.95%) MongoDB
5 22 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (2.82%) MySQL
6 21 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 15 (1.93%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.54%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (1.41%) Big Data
9 11 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (1.41%) Metadata
10 10 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.28%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.16%) Delta Lake
11 9 (1.16%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.16%) Pentaho
11 9 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 192 (24.65%) Jenkins
2 160 (20.54%) GitLab
3 159 (20.41%) Git
4 41 (5.26%) JIRA
5 19 (2.44%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.93%) Selenium
6 15 (1.93%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.80%) Bitbucket
7 14 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.03%) Postman
9 7 (0.90%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.90%) JMeter
9 7 (0.90%) Maven
10 6 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.77%) MLflow
11 5 (0.64%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.64%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.51%) Subversion
12 4 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 175 (22.46%) Social Skills
2 145 (18.61%) Finance
3 101 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (8.47%) Banking
5 63 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.95%) Telecoms
7 14 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.80%) Legal
8 12 (1.54%) Military
9 11 (1.41%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.41%) Law
10 8 (1.03%) Retail
11 6 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.64%) Front Office
12 5 (0.64%) Publishing
13 4 (0.51%) Automotive
13 4 (0.51%) Marketing
14 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 155 (19.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 105 (13.48%) Senior
3 72 (9.24%) Cloud Engineer
3 72 (9.24%) Platform Engineer
4 57 (7.32%) Security Engineer
5 55 (7.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 52 (6.68%) Azure Engineer
7 51 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
8 44 (5.65%) Linux Engineer
9 43 (5.52%) Lead
10 39 (5.01%) Architect
11 38 (4.88%) Developer
11 38 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 33 (4.24%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 33 (4.24%) Site Engineer
13 32 (4.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
14 30 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 29 (3.72%) Automation Engineer
15 29 (3.72%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 453 (58.15%) Terraform
2 69 (8.86%) Kafka
3 53 (6.80%) ARM Templates
4 50 (6.42%) REST
5 45 (5.78%) Elastic Stack
6 38 (4.88%) YAML
7 26 (3.34%) Middleware
8 21 (2.70%) Loki
9 19 (2.44%) RESTful
10 18 (2.31%) JSON
10 18 (2.31%) Node.js
10 18 (2.31%) React
11 16 (2.05%) Flask
12 15 (1.93%) .NET
13 14 (1.80%) AngularJS
13 14 (1.80%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (1.67%) CSS
14 13 (1.67%) HTML
14 13 (1.67%) LDAP
15 12 (1.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 116 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 51 (6.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 44 (5.65%) Security Posture
4 36 (4.62%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.24%) PKI
6 32 (4.11%) Linux Command Line
7 30 (3.85%) Data Centre
7 30 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (3.85%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (3.08%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.44%) Product Ownership
11 18 (2.31%) Replication
12 17 (2.18%) Cloud Security Posture
13 14 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
14 10 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
15 9 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 9 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 391 (50.19%) Linux
2 178 (22.85%) Windows
3 99 (12.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (8.47%) Windows Server
5 57 (7.32%) Unix
6 36 (4.62%) Ubuntu
7 17 (2.18%) CentOS
8 14 (1.80%) VMS
9 6 (0.77%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.77%) Rocky
9 6 (0.77%) Solaris
10 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.26%) AIX
12 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.26%) Debian
12 2 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (60.33%) CI/CD
2 421 (54.04%) DevOps
3 413 (53.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 224 (28.75%) Containerisation
5 218 (27.98%) Observability
6 166 (21.31%) Agile
7 163 (20.92%) Platform Engineering
8 160 (20.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 145 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
10 120 (15.40%) Cloud Security
11 117 (15.02%) DevSecOps
11 117 (15.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 107 (13.74%) Infrastructure Automation
13 103 (13.22%) Root Cause Analysis
14 99 (12.71%) AI
15 98 (12.58%) Runbook
16 96 (12.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 95 (12.20%) Configuration Management
18 90 (11.55%) Migration
19 88 (11.30%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 662 (84.98%) Python
2 381 (48.91%) PowerShell
3 110 (14.12%) SQL
4 94 (12.07%) Java
5 77 (9.88%) Bicep
6 70 (8.99%) Go
7 51 (6.55%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.59%) Perl
9 25 (3.21%) JavaScript
10 24 (3.08%) Groovy
11 20 (2.57%) Korn
12 16 (2.05%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.54%) C#
14 11 (1.41%) Ruby
15 8 (1.03%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.64%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.51%) Cypher
19 3 (0.39%) C
19 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 301 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 221 (28.37%) SC Cleared
3 82 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 61 (7.83%) AWS Certification
4 61 (7.83%) Degree
5 57 (7.32%) Azure Certification
6 35 (4.49%) CISSP
7 31 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 12 (1.54%) VCAP
11 12 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 10 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.90%) CCNP
15 6 (0.77%) CCNA
15 6 (0.77%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.91%) QA
2 34 (4.36%) NIST
3 33 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.28%) SLA
7 8 (1.03%) GDPR
8 7 (0.90%) NCSC
9 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.64%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.64%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.51%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.26%) HL7
14 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 279 (35.82%) Docker
2 84 (10.78%) Active Directory
3 69 (8.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (4.75%) Hyper-V
5 29 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (3.72%) vSphere
6 17 (2.18%) VMware NSX
7 13 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (1.16%) NFS
8 9 (1.16%) Squid
9 6 (0.77%) Postfix
10 4 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.51%) zsh
11 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.39%) Firmware
11 3 (0.39%) HDFS
11 3 (0.39%) KVM
11 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
11 3 (0.39%) Varnish
11 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 364 (46.73%) Kubernetes
2 284 (36.46%) Ansible
3 167 (21.44%) Grafana
4 143 (18.36%) Prometheus
5 49 (6.29%) Puppet
6 47 (6.03%) Progress Chef
7 34 (4.36%) Argo
8 21 (2.70%) Istio
9 16 (2.05%) Podman
10 14 (1.80%) Kibana
10 14 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.80%) VxRail
11 12 (1.54%) SCCM
11 12 (1.54%) systemd
12 11 (1.41%) Packer
13 10 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (1.16%) Check_MK
14 9 (1.16%) Consul
15 8 (1.03%) Cilium
15 8 (1.03%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 153 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 92 (11.81%) Google
2 92 (11.81%) VMware
3 61 (7.83%) Red Hat
4 60 (7.70%) Splunk
5 55 (7.06%) Dynatrace
6 51 (6.55%) Oracle
7 32 (4.11%) Cisco
7 32 (4.11%) CyberArk
8 25 (3.21%) ServiceNow
9 22 (2.82%) Databricks
10 17 (2.18%) IBM
10 17 (2.18%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.67%) NetApp
12 12 (1.54%) Fortinet
12 12 (1.54%) SolarWinds
13 10 (1.28%) BMC
13 10 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
14 9 (1.16%) Remedy