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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 154 191
Rank change year-on-year -14 +37 -59
Contract jobs citing Bash 756 510 427
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.84% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.31% 5.66% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 339 302
10th Percentile £400 £371 £378
25th Percentile £450 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £699
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 13
10th Percentile £56.35 £43.90 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £68.22 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.03% -4.35% -20.69%
75th Percentile £94.41 £62.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.76 £66.34 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +24.03% -4.35% -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 11,981 9,011 10,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.29% 32.59% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,773 6,183 7,551
10th Percentile £363 £345 £358
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £530
% change year-on-year +2.49% -5.19% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 497 240 360
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.53 £37.45 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £84.55 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +8.33%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -42 320 £513 -2.38% 198
North of England -11 162 £500 -3.85% 63
South East -5 108 £539 +20.47% 71
South West +5 83 £655 +13.91% 46
Yorkshire -24 73 £515 +0.39% 13
North West -1 64 £538 +7.50% 37
West Midlands -27 35 £487 -0.13% 4
Midlands -43 35 £487 -0.13% 11
East of England -6 28 £450 -5.26% 21
North East -32 24 £425 -22.73% 13
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 (5.03%) Confluence
2 22 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.65%) Apache
4 13 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.59%) nginx
6 11 (1.46%) SAS
7 8 (1.06%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.79%) IIS
8 6 (0.79%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.53%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.53%) WordPress
11 3 (0.40%) JBoss
11 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.26%) CMS
12 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.79%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.13%) Summit
4 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 373 (49.34%) AWS
2 336 (44.44%) Azure
3 196 (25.93%) GitHub
4 155 (20.50%) GCP
5 132 (17.46%) GitHub Actions
6 121 (16.01%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (10.19%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (8.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 64 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 64 (8.47%) Serverless
10 62 (8.20%) Amazon S3
11 56 (7.41%) OpenShift
12 52 (6.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 49 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (6.22%) Entra ID
15 46 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
15 46 (6.08%) Datadog
15 46 (6.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 42 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
17 40 (5.29%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 131 (17.33%) DNS
2 127 (16.80%) Firewall
3 78 (10.32%) TCP/IP
4 61 (8.07%) VPN
5 58 (7.67%) DHCP
6 54 (7.14%) Network Security
7 18 (2.38%) VSAN
7 18 (2.38%) WAN
8 16 (2.12%) SAN
8 16 (2.12%) SSL
9 15 (1.98%) HTTP
9 15 (1.98%) VLAN
10 13 (1.72%) NAS
10 13 (1.72%) SD-WAN
11 12 (1.59%) SSH
12 9 (1.19%) SNMP
13 7 (0.93%) BGP
13 7 (0.93%) DNSSEC
13 7 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
14 5 (0.66%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.03%) SQL Server
2 35 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (2.78%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.51%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.38%) MySQL
6 18 (2.38%) Redis
7 16 (2.12%) Pentaho
8 13 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
9 12 (1.59%) Data Lake
10 11 (1.46%) Big Data
11 10 (1.32%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.19%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.19%) Metadata
12 9 (1.19%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.06%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 204 (26.98%) Jenkins
2 153 (20.24%) GitLab
3 122 (16.14%) Git
4 43 (5.69%) JIRA
5 13 (1.72%) Artifactory
6 12 (1.59%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.59%) Selenium
6 12 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.06%) Postman
8 7 (0.93%) JMeter
8 7 (0.93%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.79%) MLflow
9 6 (0.79%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (0.66%) Liquibase
11 4 (0.53%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.53%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.53%) Spinnaker
General
1 169 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 115 (15.21%) Finance
3 88 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 51 (6.75%) Banking
6 17 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.98%) Legal
8 14 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.32%) Law
11 8 (1.06%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.06%) Military
12 7 (0.93%) Retail
13 5 (0.66%) Publishing
14 4 (0.53%) Automotive
14 4 (0.53%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.53%) Front Office
15 2 (0.26%) Billing
15 2 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 140 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 98 (12.96%) Senior
3 75 (9.92%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
5 56 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 55 (7.28%) AWS Engineer
7 52 (6.88%) Security Engineer
8 46 (6.08%) Azure Engineer
9 44 (5.82%) Lead
10 43 (5.69%) Architect
11 40 (5.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 36 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
13 34 (4.50%) Site Engineer
14 30 (3.97%) Data Engineer
15 28 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
15 28 (3.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 28 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
15 28 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 27 (3.57%) GCP Engineer
17 26 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.41%) Kafka
2 42 (5.56%) REST
3 39 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
4 37 (4.89%) YAML
5 35 (4.63%) ARM Templates
6 25 (3.31%) OpenTelemetry
7 19 (2.51%) Loki
8 18 (2.38%) Middleware
9 16 (2.12%) .NET
10 15 (1.98%) JSON
11 14 (1.85%) Node.js
11 14 (1.85%) SAML
12 13 (1.72%) SOAP
13 12 (1.59%) LDAP
14 11 (1.46%) OAuth
14 11 (1.46%) RESTful
15 10 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (1.32%) React
15 10 (1.32%) Spring
16 8 (1.06%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 120 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (5.42%) Security Posture
4 33 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (4.37%) Onboarding
5 28 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 28 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
6 27 (3.57%) PKI
7 25 (3.31%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.78%) Replication
9 20 (2.65%) Public Cloud
10 16 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
13 11 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
13 11 (1.46%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 10 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (1.19%) Clustering
16 8 (1.06%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 342 (45.24%) Linux
2 165 (21.83%) Windows
3 81 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 58 (7.67%) Windows Server
5 45 (5.95%) Unix
6 32 (4.23%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.59%) VMS
8 10 (1.32%) CentOS
9 7 (0.93%) AIX
9 7 (0.93%) Solaris
10 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.26%) Debian
13 2 (0.26%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (57.94%) CI/CD
2 409 (54.10%) DevOps
3 375 (49.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 204 (26.98%) Containerisation
5 191 (25.26%) Observability
6 159 (21.03%) Platform Engineering
7 139 (18.39%) Agile
8 138 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
9 127 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 118 (15.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 105 (13.89%) Cloud Security
12 96 (12.70%) DevSecOps
13 94 (12.43%) Infrastructure Automation
13 94 (12.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 90 (11.90%) Migration
15 87 (11.51%) Configuration Management
16 85 (11.24%) SIEM
17 84 (11.11%) AI
18 83 (10.98%) High Availability
18 83 (10.98%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 648 (85.71%) Python
2 363 (48.02%) PowerShell
3 105 (13.89%) SQL
4 74 (9.79%) Java
5 61 (8.07%) Go
6 60 (7.94%) Bicep
7 31 (4.10%) Shell Script
8 24 (3.17%) Perl
9 21 (2.78%) Groovy
10 16 (2.12%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.46%) C#
11 11 (1.46%) Ruby
12 10 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.32%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.93%) Korn
14 5 (0.66%) C
14 5 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.66%) Scala
14 5 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 279 (36.90%) Security Cleared
2 211 (27.91%) SC Cleared
3 68 (8.99%) DV Cleared
4 59 (7.80%) AWS Certification
5 58 (7.67%) Azure Certification
6 51 (6.75%) Degree
7 30 (3.97%) CISSP
8 27 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 16 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.72%) VCAP
13 12 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.59%) CCNP
14 11 (1.46%) CCNA
14 11 (1.46%) RHCE
15 9 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.19%) RHCA
16 8 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.10%) QA
2 30 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.31%) NIST
4 16 (2.12%) GDPR
5 15 (1.98%) PCI DSS
6 13 (1.72%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.46%) SLA
8 8 (1.06%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.66%) GRC
10 5 (0.66%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.40%) NCSC
13 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 2 (0.26%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 241 (31.88%) Docker
2 81 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 75 (9.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (5.29%) Hyper-V
5 33 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (4.37%) vSphere
6 25 (3.31%) VMware NSX
7 13 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.32%) NFS
8 10 (1.32%) Squid
9 7 (0.93%) Firmware
9 7 (0.93%) KVM
9 7 (0.93%) Postfix
10 5 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.53%) Varnish
11 4 (0.53%) zsh
12 3 (0.40%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.40%) OpenSSH
12 3 (0.40%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 436 (57.67%) Terraform
2 343 (45.37%) Kubernetes
3 281 (37.17%) Ansible
4 155 (20.50%) Grafana
5 135 (17.86%) Prometheus
6 62 (8.20%) Puppet
7 50 (6.61%) Progress Chef
8 45 (5.95%) Argo
9 24 (3.17%) Istio
10 18 (2.38%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.85%) Podman
12 13 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (1.72%) Packer
12 13 (1.72%) VxRail
13 12 (1.59%) SCCM
13 12 (1.59%) systemd
14 11 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (1.32%) NetBackup
16 8 (1.06%) HAProxy
16 8 (1.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 126 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 97 (12.83%) VMware
3 82 (10.85%) Google
4 73 (9.66%) Red Hat
5 56 (7.41%) Oracle
6 52 (6.88%) Splunk
7 50 (6.61%) Dynatrace
8 34 (4.50%) CyberArk
9 30 (3.97%) Cisco
10 25 (3.31%) Databricks
11 22 (2.91%) IBM
12 21 (2.78%) ServiceNow
13 13 (1.72%) Cloudera
13 13 (1.72%) Palo Alto
14 12 (1.59%) Informatica
14 12 (1.59%) SolarWinds
15 11 (1.46%) Talend
16 10 (1.32%) Zscaler
17 9 (1.19%) BeyondTrust
17 9 (1.19%) WALLIX