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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 147 196
Rank change year-on-year -22 +49 -59
Contract jobs citing Bash 751 531 426
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.91% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.31% 5.84% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 355 296
10th Percentile £400 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £630 £615 £638
90th Percentile £725 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 10
10th Percentile £56.35 £40.77 £24.93
25th Percentile £58.43 £47.13 £35.63
Median hourly rate £71.00 £54.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.68% -4.78% -20.69%
75th Percentile £94.41 £61.44 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.76 £64.80 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £54.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +29.68% -4.78% -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 11,903 9,100 10,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.06% 32.80% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,704 6,210 7,496
10th Percentile £363 £345 £356
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 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £516 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +2.16% -4.72% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 501 263 335
10th Percentile £30.50 £29.46 £31.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.75 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.14%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -33 327 £508 -3.33% 74
North of England -24 152 £500 -3.15% 39
South East -15 101 £550 +18.92% 64
South West -1 89 £663 +15.22% 41
Yorkshire -28 67 £518 +0.98% 11
North West -9 61 £544 +10.41% 22
West Midlands -37 31 £506 -8.01% 7
Midlands -43 31 £506 -8.01% 14
East of England -8 30 £438 -7.89% 10
North East -30 23 £419 -23.86% 6
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 33 (4.39%) Confluence
2 21 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.66%) Apache
4 13 (1.73%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.46%) nginx
6 7 (0.93%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.80%) IIS
7 6 (0.80%) SAS
7 6 (0.80%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.80%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.53%) WordPress
10 3 (0.40%) JBoss
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.80%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.27%) 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
1 361 (48.07%) AWS
2 344 (45.81%) Azure
3 190 (25.30%) GitHub
4 160 (21.30%) GCP
5 131 (17.44%) GitHub Actions
6 130 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (10.12%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (8.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 66 (8.79%) Serverless
10 63 (8.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 63 (8.39%) Amazon S3
11 53 (7.06%) Azure Monitor
12 51 (6.79%) OpenShift
13 49 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (6.39%) Azure AKS
14 48 (6.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 47 (6.26%) Datadog
15 47 (6.26%) Entra ID
16 44 (5.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 42 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 132 (17.58%) DNS
2 124 (16.51%) Firewall
3 83 (11.05%) TCP/IP
4 65 (8.66%) VPN
5 61 (8.12%) Network Security
6 60 (7.99%) DHCP
7 20 (2.66%) WAN
8 19 (2.53%) VSAN
9 17 (2.26%) VLAN
10 16 (2.13%) SAN
10 16 (2.13%) SSL
11 15 (2.00%) HTTP
12 13 (1.73%) SD-WAN
12 13 (1.73%) SSH
13 12 (1.60%) NAS
14 10 (1.33%) BGP
15 9 (1.20%) SNMP
16 7 (0.93%) DNSSEC
17 6 (0.80%) MPLS
18 5 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (3.06%) MongoDB
4 21 (2.80%) NoSQL
5 19 (2.53%) Redis
6 17 (2.26%) MySQL
7 11 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (1.46%) Big Data
7 11 (1.46%) Pentaho
8 10 (1.33%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.33%) Oracle Database
9 9 (1.20%) Metadata
10 8 (1.07%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 200 (26.63%) Jenkins
2 157 (20.91%) GitLab
3 140 (18.64%) Git
4 42 (5.59%) JIRA
5 15 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.73%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.60%) Selenium
7 12 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.07%) Postman
9 7 (0.93%) JMeter
9 7 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.80%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.80%) MLflow
10 6 (0.80%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (0.67%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.53%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.40%) Gatling
13 3 (0.40%) Liquibase
General
1 172 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 119 (15.85%) Finance
3 92 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (7.72%) Public Sector
5 52 (6.92%) Banking
6 18 (2.40%) Telecoms
7 16 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.00%) Legal
9 10 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.33%) Law
10 9 (1.20%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.93%) Military
11 7 (0.93%) Retail
12 5 (0.67%) Front Office
12 5 (0.67%) Publishing
13 4 (0.53%) Automotive
14 3 (0.40%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.27%) Billing
15 2 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 145 (19.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 95 (12.65%) Senior
3 72 (9.59%) Cloud Engineer
4 71 (9.45%) Platform Engineer
5 59 (7.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 50 (6.66%) AWS Engineer
6 50 (6.66%) Azure Engineer
6 50 (6.66%) Security Engineer
7 43 (5.73%) Lead
8 42 (5.59%) Architect
9 38 (5.06%) Linux Engineer
9 38 (5.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 33 (4.39%) Site Engineer
11 29 (3.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 28 (3.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 27 (3.60%) GCP Engineer
14 26 (3.46%) AWS DevOps
14 26 (3.46%) Developer
15 25 (3.33%) Network Engineer
15 25 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (58.19%) Terraform
2 61 (8.12%) Kafka
3 46 (6.13%) ARM Templates
3 46 (6.13%) REST
4 38 (5.06%) YAML
5 36 (4.79%) Elastic Stack
6 21 (2.80%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (2.40%) Loki
8 17 (2.26%) Middleware
9 15 (2.00%) .NET
9 15 (2.00%) JSON
9 15 (2.00%) Node.js
10 14 (1.86%) RESTful
10 14 (1.86%) SAML
10 14 (1.86%) SOAP
11 12 (1.60%) LDAP
11 12 (1.60%) React
12 11 (1.46%) OAuth
12 11 (1.46%) Spring
13 10 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 119 (15.85%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (4.93%) Security Posture
4 33 (4.39%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (3.99%) Data Centre
6 30 (3.99%) PKI
7 28 (3.73%) Linux Command Line
8 25 (3.33%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.93%) Public Cloud
10 20 (2.66%) Replication
11 17 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (2.00%) Product Ownership
13 14 (1.86%) Cloud Security Posture
13 14 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
15 11 (1.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 11 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
16 9 (1.20%) Private Cloud
17 8 (1.07%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 343 (45.67%) Linux
2 168 (22.37%) Windows
3 82 (10.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 62 (8.26%) Windows Server
5 44 (5.86%) Unix
6 35 (4.66%) Ubuntu
7 14 (1.86%) VMS
8 12 (1.60%) CentOS
9 7 (0.93%) Solaris
10 6 (0.80%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.40%) AIX
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 (0.27%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.27%) Debian
13 2 (0.27%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (58.46%) CI/CD
2 403 (53.66%) DevOps
3 384 (51.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 215 (28.63%) Containerisation
5 193 (25.70%) Observability
6 163 (21.70%) Platform Engineering
7 146 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (19.17%) Agile
9 137 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 122 (16.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 107 (14.25%) Cloud Security
12 106 (14.11%) DevSecOps
12 106 (14.11%) Infrastructure Automation
13 93 (12.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 90 (11.98%) Configuration Management
14 90 (11.98%) Migration
15 86 (11.45%) Root Cause Analysis
16 85 (11.32%) AI
16 85 (11.32%) Runbook
17 84 (11.19%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 648 (86.28%) Python
2 371 (49.40%) PowerShell
3 92 (12.25%) SQL
4 75 (9.99%) Java
5 73 (9.72%) Bicep
6 61 (8.12%) Go
7 32 (4.26%) Shell Script
8 26 (3.46%) Perl
9 21 (2.80%) Groovy
10 18 (2.40%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.46%) C#
11 11 (1.46%) Ruby
11 11 (1.46%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.33%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.07%) Korn
14 5 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.67%) Scala
15 4 (0.53%) C
15 4 (0.53%) Cypher
16 3 (0.40%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 278 (37.02%) Security Cleared
2 206 (27.43%) SC Cleared
3 75 (9.99%) DV Cleared
4 64 (8.52%) Azure Certification
5 62 (8.26%) AWS Certification
6 54 (7.19%) Degree
7 31 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (4.13%) CISSP
8 24 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (2.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (1.86%) CCNP
10 14 (1.86%) VCAP
11 12 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (1.46%) CCNA
13 10 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (1.20%) RHCA
14 9 (1.20%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.06%) QA
2 33 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (3.20%) NIST
4 13 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.73%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.46%) GDPR
5 11 (1.46%) SLA
6 7 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.80%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.53%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.53%) NCSC
9 4 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.40%) GRC
11 2 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.27%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
12 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 246 (32.76%) Docker
2 83 (11.05%) Active Directory
3 77 (10.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (5.19%) Hyper-V
5 34 (4.53%) vSphere
6 30 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (3.20%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.33%) NFS
9 10 (1.33%) Squid
10 7 (0.93%) Firmware
10 7 (0.93%) Postfix
11 5 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.53%) KVM
12 4 (0.53%) Varnish
12 4 (0.53%) zsh
13 3 (0.40%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.40%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.40%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 350 (46.60%) Kubernetes
2 277 (36.88%) Ansible
3 161 (21.44%) Grafana
4 136 (18.11%) Prometheus
5 58 (7.72%) Puppet
6 53 (7.06%) Progress Chef
7 43 (5.73%) Argo
8 23 (3.06%) Istio
9 14 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.86%) Podman
9 14 (1.86%) VxRail
10 13 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (1.73%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.60%) SCCM
11 12 (1.60%) systemd
12 10 (1.33%) Packer
13 9 (1.20%) Kibana
14 7 (0.93%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.93%) Consul
14 7 (0.93%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 139 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 99 (13.18%) VMware
3 84 (11.19%) Google
4 65 (8.66%) Red Hat
5 59 (7.86%) Splunk
6 53 (7.06%) Oracle
7 50 (6.66%) Dynatrace
8 32 (4.26%) CyberArk
9 31 (4.13%) Cisco
10 25 (3.33%) Databricks
11 23 (3.06%) ServiceNow
12 16 (2.13%) IBM
13 14 (1.86%) Palo Alto
14 12 (1.60%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.33%) Zscaler
16 9 (1.20%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
16 9 (1.20%) Fortinet
16 9 (1.20%) NetApp
16 9 (1.20%) WALLIX