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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 153 200
Rank change year-on-year -40 +47 -65
Contract jobs citing Bash 553 451 426
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.86% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.08% 5.52% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 291 300
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £417 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 10
10th Percentile £55.10 £25.25 £21.85
25th Percentile £58.01 £27.50 £22.81
Median hourly rate £62.82 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.65% +16.67% -19.10%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £69.76 £66.34 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +20.26% +16.67% -19.10%

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 10,896 8,165 10,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.43% 33.72% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,183 5,667 7,919
10th Percentile £356 £361 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 206 446
10th Percentile £40.88 £28.09 £37.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £49.53
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £79.59
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.36
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.23% +2.73%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -48 221 £516 -6.14% 99
North of England -21 135 £482 -10.33% 60
Yorkshire -16 84 £475 -13.64% 13
South East -18 77 £465 +0.43% 68
South West -34 48 £500 -16.67% 33
Midlands -36 43 £463 -19.57% 20
North West -27 41 £538 +7.50% 39
West Midlands -32 41 £465 -24.39% 9
East of England -26 15 £483 +1.58% 12
North East -16 10 £425 -22.73% 8
East Midlands -31 2 £436 +6.99% 11
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 27 (4.88%) Confluence
2 10 (1.81%) Apache
3 9 (1.63%) SAS
4 7 (1.27%) nginx
4 7 (1.27%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.08%) IIS
6 5 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.72%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.36%) CMS
8 2 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.36%) JBoss
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.18%) FileNet
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
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 (0.36%) 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
1 241 (43.58%) AWS
2 215 (38.88%) Azure
3 156 (28.21%) GitHub
4 109 (19.71%) GCP
5 89 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
6 88 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
7 70 (12.66%) OpenShift
8 46 (8.32%) Serverless
9 44 (7.96%) Amazon EKS
10 41 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 41 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (6.69%) Amazon S3
12 34 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (5.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 31 (5.61%) Azure AKS
15 30 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (4.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 21 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
17 21 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (3.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 68 (12.30%) DNS
2 67 (12.12%) Firewall
3 38 (6.87%) TCP/IP
4 35 (6.33%) VPN
5 28 (5.06%) Network Security
6 16 (2.89%) SAN
7 15 (2.71%) DHCP
8 14 (2.53%) VLAN
9 13 (2.35%) NAS
10 12 (2.17%) HTTP
11 9 (1.63%) SNMP
11 9 (1.63%) SSL
11 9 (1.63%) WAN
12 8 (1.45%) Reverse Proxy
12 8 (1.45%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.08%) SSH
14 5 (0.90%) BGP
14 5 (0.90%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.72%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (5.61%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.80%) MongoDB
4 16 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (2.71%) MySQL
5 15 (2.71%) Redis
6 14 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (1.99%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.81%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.08%) Big Data
11 6 (1.08%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.08%) DB2
12 5 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (0.90%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.90%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 160 (28.93%) Jenkins
2 118 (21.34%) GitLab
3 97 (17.54%) Git
4 38 (6.87%) JIRA
5 10 (1.81%) Artifactory
6 8 (1.45%) CircleCI
6 8 (1.45%) Postman
7 7 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.27%) JMeter
8 6 (1.08%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.90%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.90%) Selenium
10 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.72%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.72%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.54%) Appium
11 3 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.54%) Snyk
11 3 (0.54%) Spinnaker
General
1 138 (24.95%) Social Skills
2 62 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (9.76%) Finance
4 52 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.06%) Banking
6 14 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.35%) Legal
8 12 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.45%) Military
10 7 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.90%) Law
11 5 (0.90%) Retail
12 4 (0.72%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.36%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.36%) Aviation
13 2 (0.36%) Front Office
13 2 (0.36%) Police
14 1 (0.18%) Back Office
14 1 (0.18%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (19.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (8.86%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (8.86%) Platform Engineer
3 45 (8.14%) Senior
4 40 (7.23%) Security Engineer
5 39 (7.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (6.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 30 (5.42%) Architect
7 30 (5.42%) Lead
8 29 (5.24%) Site Engineer
9 28 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (4.70%) Data Engineer
10 26 (4.70%) GCP Engineer
11 24 (4.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (3.98%) Automation Engineer
13 21 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
13 21 (3.80%) Linux Engineer
14 20 (3.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 19 (3.44%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
2 37 (6.69%) Kafka
3 28 (5.06%) REST
4 27 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 22 (3.98%) YAML
6 16 (2.89%) Middleware
7 15 (2.71%) ARM Templates
8 13 (2.35%) Node.js
9 11 (1.99%) LDAP
9 11 (1.99%) Loki
10 10 (1.81%) Swagger
11 9 (1.63%) .NET
11 9 (1.63%) ADO
11 9 (1.63%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.63%) JSON
11 9 (1.63%) Keycloak
12 8 (1.45%) React
12 8 (1.45%) SAML
12 8 (1.45%) Vue
13 7 (1.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 79 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (3.98%) Data Centre
4 21 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (3.44%) Security Posture
6 18 (3.25%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.89%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.71%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.53%) Replication
10 13 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.63%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.63%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.45%) PKI
13 7 (1.27%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.08%) Clustering
15 5 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
16 4 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
16 4 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
16 4 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 212 (38.34%) Linux
2 85 (15.37%) Windows
3 45 (8.14%) Unix
4 40 (7.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (4.70%) Windows Server
6 16 (2.89%) Ubuntu
7 15 (2.71%) VMS
8 11 (1.99%) Mac OS
9 10 (1.81%) AIX
10 6 (1.08%) CentOS
11 5 (0.90%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.36%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.36%) Debian
13 2 (0.36%) Rocky
13 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (57.69%) CI/CD
2 303 (54.79%) DevOps
3 242 (43.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 164 (29.66%) Containerisation
5 134 (24.23%) Observability
6 105 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
7 96 (17.36%) Platform Engineering
8 90 (16.27%) Agile
9 77 (13.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 71 (12.84%) Configuration Management
11 69 (12.48%) Migration
12 65 (11.75%) Root Cause Analysis
13 61 (11.03%) High Availability
14 55 (9.95%) Cloud Security
14 55 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 54 (9.76%) Infrastructure Automation
16 53 (9.58%) Test Automation
17 47 (8.50%) Incident Response
18 46 (8.32%) Continuous Improvement
19 44 (7.96%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 476 (86.08%) Python
2 236 (42.68%) PowerShell
3 78 (14.10%) SQL
4 45 (8.14%) Go
5 37 (6.69%) Java
6 26 (4.70%) JavaScript
7 24 (4.34%) Bicep
8 21 (3.80%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.25%) Groovy
10 11 (1.99%) Perl
11 10 (1.81%) C#
11 10 (1.81%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.45%) C
12 8 (1.45%) Ruby
13 7 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (1.08%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.08%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.90%) C++
15 5 (0.90%) PHP
16 4 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 179 (32.37%) Security Cleared
2 145 (26.22%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.51%) Degree
4 28 (5.06%) Azure Certification
5 27 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 23 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (3.98%) AWS Certification
8 17 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (2.35%) CISSP
10 11 (1.99%) CCNP
10 11 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 10 (1.81%) CCNA
11 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.45%) RHCA
12 8 (1.45%) RHCE
13 7 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.90%) CISM
15 4 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.72%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.62%) GDPR
3 18 (3.25%) QA
4 14 (2.53%) NIST
5 12 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.81%) SLA
7 9 (1.63%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.27%) Data Quality
9 6 (1.08%) GRC
9 6 (1.08%) NCSC
10 5 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.90%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.36%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 160 (28.93%) Docker
2 46 (8.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (7.59%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (6.33%) Active Directory
5 21 (3.80%) Hyper-V
5 21 (3.80%) vSphere
6 17 (3.07%) VMware NSX
7 16 (2.89%) KVM
8 11 (1.99%) Firmware
8 11 (1.99%) Squid
9 9 (1.63%) NFS
10 6 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.72%) Postfix
12 3 (0.54%) Ceph
12 3 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.54%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.54%) Varnish
13 2 (0.36%) Lustre
13 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 281 (50.81%) Terraform
2 251 (45.39%) Kubernetes
3 219 (39.60%) Ansible
4 127 (22.97%) Grafana
5 110 (19.89%) Prometheus
6 48 (8.68%) Puppet
7 44 (7.96%) Argo
8 25 (4.52%) vCenter Server
9 23 (4.16%) Istio
10 22 (3.98%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.17%) Kibana
12 11 (1.99%) Packer
13 9 (1.63%) Podman
14 8 (1.45%) linkerd
14 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (1.45%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.45%) Rancher
14 8 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
15 7 (1.27%) SCCM
15 7 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (14.29%) Splunk
2 67 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 65 (11.75%) VMware
4 61 (11.03%) Red Hat
5 42 (7.59%) Google
6 40 (7.23%) Dynatrace
7 32 (5.79%) Oracle
8 19 (3.44%) Databricks
9 18 (3.25%) IBM
10 17 (3.07%) Cisco
11 16 (2.89%) Pure Storage
12 13 (2.35%) Palo Alto
13 12 (2.17%) AppDynamics
13 12 (2.17%) Zscaler
14 11 (1.99%) CyberArk
14 11 (1.99%) Fortinet
14 11 (1.99%) ServiceNow
15 10 (1.81%) Cloudera
15 10 (1.81%) Tenable
16 9 (1.63%) Talend