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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 151 204
Rank change year-on-year -39 +53 -76
Contract jobs citing Bash 569 464 433
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.92% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.07% 5.64% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 312 303
10th Percentile £376 £376 £400
25th Percentile £424 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £587 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £715 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 12
10th Percentile £54.55 £26.83 £22.00
25th Percentile £57.59 £34.24 £24.44
Median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -15.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.06 £71.88
90th Percentile £70.41 £67.89 £74.69
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -15.13%

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 11,233 8,221 11,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.63% 34.00% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,371 5,694 8,040
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -2.87% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 193 471
10th Percentile £37.25 £28.23 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.00 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £85.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.25
% change year-on-year +14.54% -8.84% -0.40%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -60 237 £525 - 107
North of England -8 143 £453 -13.71% 50
Yorkshire -24 82 £493 -8.37% 12
South East -30 72 £469 +1.41% 57
North West -17 49 £477 -3.15% 33
South West -27 48 £500 -16.67% 31
Midlands -40 41 £465 -15.45% 25
West Midlands -36 39 £467 -22.17% 11
East of England -28 16 £494 +3.95% 12
North East -17 12 £413 -25.00% 5
East Midlands -30 2 £436 +6.99% 14
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 (5.27%) Confluence
2 12 (2.11%) Apache
3 11 (1.93%) nginx
4 10 (1.76%) SAS
5 8 (1.41%) IIS
6 7 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.23%) WebSphere
7 6 (1.05%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.70%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.35%) CMS
11 2 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.35%) JBoss
11 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.18%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.18%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 252 (44.29%) AWS
2 221 (38.84%) Azure
3 159 (27.94%) GitHub
4 117 (20.56%) GCP
5 98 (17.22%) GitHub Actions
6 88 (15.47%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (11.07%) OpenShift
8 53 (9.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 50 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
10 47 (8.26%) Serverless
11 46 (8.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 39 (6.85%) Amazon S3
12 39 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 35 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (5.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 31 (5.45%) Datadog
17 28 (4.92%) Azure AKS
18 24 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
19 21 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (13.01%) DNS
2 71 (12.48%) Firewall
3 38 (6.68%) TCP/IP
4 36 (6.33%) VPN
5 31 (5.45%) Network Security
6 18 (3.16%) SAN
7 15 (2.64%) DHCP
7 15 (2.64%) NAS
8 14 (2.46%) VLAN
9 12 (2.11%) HTTP
9 12 (2.11%) SSL
10 11 (1.93%) WAN
11 9 (1.58%) SD-WAN
12 8 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
13 7 (1.23%) BGP
13 7 (1.23%) SNMP
14 5 (0.88%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.70%) Multicast
15 4 (0.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (5.80%) SQL Server
3 22 (3.87%) MongoDB
4 19 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (2.81%) Redis
6 15 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (2.46%) MySQL
8 13 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (1.93%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.93%) Pentaho
9 11 (1.93%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.41%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.23%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (1.05%) Db2
14 5 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.88%) Big Data
14 5 (0.88%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 168 (29.53%) Jenkins
2 114 (20.04%) GitLab
3 98 (17.22%) Git
4 42 (7.38%) JIRA
5 12 (2.11%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.58%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.58%) Postman
7 7 (1.23%) JMeter
8 6 (1.05%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.05%) Liquibase
8 6 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.88%) Selenium
10 4 (0.70%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.53%) Appium
11 3 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.53%) Snyk
11 3 (0.53%) Spinnaker
General
1 139 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 72 (12.65%) Finance
3 57 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.21%) Banking
6 16 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.64%) Legal
8 12 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.76%) Law
10 7 (1.23%) Military
11 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.70%) Retail
13 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.35%) Aviation
13 2 (0.35%) Front Office
13 2 (0.35%) Police
14 1 (0.18%) Back Office
14 1 (0.18%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (20.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (9.31%) AWS Engineer
3 49 (8.61%) Cloud Engineer
4 47 (8.26%) Platform Engineer
5 46 (8.08%) Security Engineer
6 45 (7.91%) Senior
7 37 (6.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 33 (5.80%) Architect
8 33 (5.80%) Lead
9 30 (5.27%) Azure Engineer
10 28 (4.92%) Site Engineer
11 27 (4.75%) GCP Engineer
12 26 (4.57%) Data Engineer
12 26 (4.57%) Linux Engineer
13 25 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
15 22 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 21 (3.69%) GCP DevOps
17 19 (3.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 19 (3.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.85%) Kafka
2 38 (6.68%) Elastic Stack
3 28 (4.92%) REST
4 27 (4.75%) OpenTelemetry
5 23 (4.04%) YAML
6 19 (3.34%) Middleware
7 16 (2.81%) ARM Templates
8 11 (1.93%) Loki
8 11 (1.93%) Node.js
9 10 (1.76%) ADO
9 10 (1.76%) JSON
9 10 (1.76%) LDAP
9 10 (1.76%) SAML
9 10 (1.76%) Swagger
10 9 (1.58%) OAuth
11 8 (1.41%) .NET
11 8 (1.41%) AngularJS
11 8 (1.41%) Keycloak
11 8 (1.41%) React
11 8 (1.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 95 (16.70%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (4.75%) Security Posture
4 26 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (4.04%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (3.51%) Management Information System
8 18 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
9 17 (2.99%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.81%) Replication
11 13 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (2.28%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.58%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.23%) Clustering
14 6 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (1.05%) PKI
15 5 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
15 5 (0.88%) Private Cloud
16 4 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 227 (39.89%) Linux
2 101 (17.75%) Windows
3 58 (10.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 46 (8.08%) Unix
5 32 (5.62%) Windows Server
6 21 (3.69%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.11%) VMS
8 11 (1.93%) Mac OS
9 10 (1.76%) AIX
10 9 (1.58%) CentOS
11 6 (1.05%) Solaris
12 5 (0.88%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.35%) CoreOS
15 2 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.35%) Debian
15 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (58.88%) CI/CD
2 325 (57.12%) DevOps
3 247 (43.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 164 (28.82%) Containerisation
5 144 (25.31%) Observability
6 100 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
7 98 (17.22%) Platform Engineering
8 97 (17.05%) Agile
9 79 (13.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 75 (13.18%) Migration
11 70 (12.30%) Configuration Management
12 69 (12.13%) Root Cause Analysis
13 68 (11.95%) Cloud Security
14 65 (11.42%) High Availability
15 63 (11.07%) Infrastructure Automation
16 59 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 56 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
18 55 (9.67%) Test Automation
19 51 (8.96%) SIEM
20 46 (8.08%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 490 (86.12%) Python
2 254 (44.64%) PowerShell
3 80 (14.06%) SQL
4 46 (8.08%) Go
4 46 (8.08%) Java
5 26 (4.57%) Bicep
6 23 (4.04%) Shell Script
7 21 (3.69%) JavaScript
8 16 (2.81%) Groovy
9 15 (2.64%) Perl
10 10 (1.76%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.76%) Ruby
11 9 (1.58%) C
12 8 (1.41%) C#
13 6 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.88%) C++
14 5 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.70%) Scala
15 4 (0.70%) TypeScript
16 3 (0.53%) Korn
Qualifications
1 179 (31.46%) Security Cleared
2 151 (26.54%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.38%) Degree
4 36 (6.33%) Azure Certification
5 32 (5.62%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (3.87%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (3.16%) CISSP
9 12 (2.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 11 (1.93%) CCNA
10 11 (1.93%) CCNP
11 10 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.76%) RHCE
12 8 (1.41%) RHCA
13 7 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.70%) OCP
16 3 (0.53%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (3.34%) GDPR
3 18 (3.16%) QA
4 16 (2.81%) NIST
5 13 (2.28%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.11%) SLA
7 8 (1.41%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.41%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.05%) GRC
8 6 (1.05%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.88%) NCSC
10 4 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 165 (29.00%) Docker
2 50 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (7.56%) Virtual Machines
4 42 (7.38%) Active Directory
5 23 (4.04%) vSphere
6 22 (3.87%) Hyper-V
7 17 (2.99%) VMware NSX
8 15 (2.64%) KVM
9 11 (1.93%) Firmware
9 11 (1.93%) Squid
10 9 (1.58%) NFS
10 9 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (1.23%) Postfix
12 4 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.70%) Varnish
13 3 (0.53%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.53%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.35%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.35%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 296 (52.02%) Terraform
2 251 (44.11%) Kubernetes
3 220 (38.66%) Ansible
4 129 (22.67%) Grafana
5 115 (20.21%) Prometheus
6 45 (7.91%) Argo
6 45 (7.91%) Puppet
7 29 (5.10%) Progress Chef
8 26 (4.57%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.22%) Istio
10 13 (2.28%) Packer
11 9 (1.58%) Kibana
11 9 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (1.58%) NetBackup
11 9 (1.58%) Podman
12 8 (1.41%) HAProxy
13 7 (1.23%) linkerd
13 7 (1.23%) Rancher
13 7 (1.23%) SCCM
13 7 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (13.18%) Red Hat
2 69 (12.13%) Splunk
3 68 (11.95%) VMware
4 61 (10.72%) Microsoft
5 50 (8.79%) Google
6 42 (7.38%) Dynatrace
7 37 (6.50%) Oracle
8 22 (3.87%) IBM
9 18 (3.16%) Cisco
9 18 (3.16%) Databricks
10 17 (2.99%) Pure Storage
11 13 (2.28%) Palo Alto
11 13 (2.28%) ServiceNow
12 12 (2.11%) AppDynamics
12 12 (2.11%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.93%) Cloudera
13 11 (1.93%) Informatica
13 11 (1.93%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.76%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.76%) Talend