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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 142 209
Rank change year-on-year -53 +67 -85
Contract jobs citing Bash 595 498 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.37% 1.98% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.13% 5.84% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 333 312
10th Percentile £390 £374 £400
25th Percentile £430 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £626
90th Percentile £675 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 14
10th Percentile £54.55 £27.05 £22.00
25th Percentile £57.59 £36.48 £26.75
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -17.86%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £69.84
90th Percentile £70.41 £66.34 £74.06
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -17.86%

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 11,605 8,533 11,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.73% 33.99% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,570 5,922 8,174
10th Percentile £362 £355 £350
25th Percentile £424 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 520 201 492
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.70% +0.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.08 £85.00 £77.38
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.32% -12.10% -

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -60 256 £513 -2.38% 46
North of England -9 148 £500 -2.44% 45
Yorkshire -16 85 £500 -6.98% 10
South East -27 77 £500 +12.99% 50
South West -45 51 £544 -9.38% 19
North West -12 49 £525 +6.60% 28
West Midlands -45 32 £500 -14.16% 5
Midlands -52 32 £500 -13.04% 11
East of England -28 17 £494 +3.95% 11
North East -25 14 £400 -17.95% 7
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 (5.04%) Confluence
2 16 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (2.52%) Apache
4 12 (2.02%) nginx
5 11 (1.85%) SAS
6 9 (1.51%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.18%) WebSphere
8 6 (1.01%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.84%) IIS
10 4 (0.67%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.67%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.67%) WordPress
11 3 (0.50%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.34%) CMS
12 2 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.34%) JBoss
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.34%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.34%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.17%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 267 (44.87%) AWS
2 227 (38.15%) Azure
3 161 (27.06%) GitHub
4 124 (20.84%) GCP
5 98 (16.47%) GitHub Actions
6 93 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (9.58%) OpenShift
8 53 (8.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 53 (8.91%) Serverless
9 51 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (8.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 47 (7.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 44 (7.39%) Amazon S3
13 39 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
14 38 (6.39%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 31 (5.21%) Datadog
17 30 (5.04%) Azure AKS
18 25 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
19 20 (3.36%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 83 (13.95%) DNS
2 79 (13.28%) Firewall
3 43 (7.23%) TCP/IP
4 40 (6.72%) VPN
5 33 (5.55%) Network Security
6 20 (3.36%) DHCP
7 18 (3.03%) SAN
8 15 (2.52%) NAS
8 15 (2.52%) SSL
9 13 (2.18%) VLAN
10 12 (2.02%) HTTP
10 12 (2.02%) WAN
11 9 (1.51%) SD-WAN
12 8 (1.34%) BGP
12 8 (1.34%) Reverse Proxy
13 7 (1.18%) DNSSEC
13 7 (1.18%) SNMP
14 5 (0.84%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.67%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (5.21%) SQL Server
3 20 (3.36%) MongoDB
4 19 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (2.86%) MySQL
6 16 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (2.35%) Redis
9 13 (2.18%) NoSQL
10 12 (2.02%) Pentaho
11 9 (1.51%) Big Data
12 8 (1.34%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.34%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.34%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (1.01%) Db2
14 6 (1.01%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 179 (30.08%) Jenkins
2 120 (20.17%) GitLab
3 101 (16.97%) Git
4 39 (6.55%) JIRA
5 13 (2.18%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.51%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.51%) Postman
7 7 (1.18%) JMeter
7 7 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.01%) Liquibase
8 6 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.84%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.84%) MLflow
10 4 (0.67%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.67%) Selenium
11 3 (0.50%) Ant
11 3 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.50%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.50%) Gradle
11 3 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 127 (21.34%) Social Skills
2 78 (13.11%) Finance
3 57 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.08%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.06%) Banking
6 16 (2.69%) Legal
7 15 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.18%) Law
8 7 (1.18%) Military
9 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.84%) Retail
11 4 (0.67%) Publishing
12 3 (0.50%) Front Office
12 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.34%) Aviation
13 2 (0.34%) Police
14 1 (0.17%) Back Office
14 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (21.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (9.41%) Senior
3 53 (8.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 50 (8.40%) AWS Engineer
5 47 (7.90%) Platform Engineer
6 43 (7.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 42 (7.06%) Security Engineer
8 37 (6.22%) Architect
9 36 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
10 34 (5.71%) Site Engineer
11 31 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 30 (5.04%) Linux Engineer
13 29 (4.87%) GCP Engineer
14 28 (4.71%) Lead
15 27 (4.54%) Data Engineer
16 25 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
17 24 (4.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 23 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 21 (3.53%) GCP DevOps
20 19 (3.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.05%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (5.88%) Kafka
3 28 (4.71%) YAML
4 27 (4.54%) OpenTelemetry
5 26 (4.37%) REST
6 17 (2.86%) ARM Templates
7 16 (2.69%) Middleware
8 11 (1.85%) JSON
9 10 (1.68%) LDAP
9 10 (1.68%) SAML
10 9 (1.51%) .NET
10 9 (1.51%) Loki
10 9 (1.51%) Node.js
10 9 (1.51%) OAuth
10 9 (1.51%) Swagger
11 8 (1.34%) ADO
11 8 (1.34%) React
12 7 (1.18%) cloud-init
12 7 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (1.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 100 (16.81%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.04%) Security Posture
5 22 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (3.03%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.86%) Replication
9 16 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (2.52%) Public Cloud
11 14 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.85%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 9 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.18%) Clustering
15 7 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
15 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
16 6 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
16 6 (1.01%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 242 (40.67%) Linux
2 103 (17.31%) Windows
3 61 (10.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (7.06%) Unix
5 29 (4.87%) Windows Server
6 22 (3.70%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.85%) VMS
8 10 (1.68%) AIX
9 8 (1.34%) CentOS
10 6 (1.01%) Solaris
11 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.34%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.34%) Debian
13 2 (0.34%) Rocky
13 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (57.65%) CI/CD
2 333 (55.97%) DevOps
3 273 (45.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 173 (29.08%) Containerisation
5 138 (23.19%) Observability
6 108 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
7 102 (17.14%) Agile
7 102 (17.14%) Platform Engineering
8 88 (14.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 78 (13.11%) Migration
10 75 (12.61%) High Availability
11 73 (12.27%) Cloud Security
12 71 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 68 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 67 (11.26%) Configuration Management
15 66 (11.09%) Root Cause Analysis
16 61 (10.25%) Infrastructure Automation
17 56 (9.41%) Test Automation
18 53 (8.91%) Load Balancing
18 53 (8.91%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 520 (87.39%) Python
2 257 (43.19%) PowerShell
3 83 (13.95%) SQL
4 50 (8.40%) Go
5 47 (7.90%) Java
6 28 (4.71%) Bicep
7 22 (3.70%) Perl
8 21 (3.53%) Shell Script
9 19 (3.19%) Groovy
10 17 (2.86%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.68%) Ruby
12 9 (1.51%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.18%) C
14 6 (1.01%) C#
14 6 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.84%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.67%) C++
16 4 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.67%) Scala
17 2 (0.34%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 194 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 159 (26.72%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.72%) Degree
4 36 (6.05%) Azure Certification
5 35 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 29 (4.87%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (3.19%) CISSP
8 17 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (1.85%) CCNA
11 11 (1.85%) CCNP
11 11 (1.85%) RHCE
12 10 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (1.34%) RHCA
14 7 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (1.01%) MCSE
16 4 (0.67%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (2.86%) QA
3 16 (2.69%) NIST
4 14 (2.35%) GDPR
5 13 (2.18%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.68%) SLA
7 9 (1.51%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.34%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.01%) GRC
9 6 (1.01%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.34%) NCSC
14 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.17%) HL7
14 1 (0.17%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 173 (29.08%) Docker
2 45 (7.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (7.39%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (6.22%) Active Directory
5 26 (4.37%) vSphere
6 22 (3.70%) Hyper-V
7 17 (2.86%) VMware NSX
8 14 (2.35%) KVM
9 11 (1.85%) Firmware
10 10 (1.68%) Squid
11 9 (1.51%) NFS
11 9 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (1.18%) Postfix
13 4 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.67%) Varnish
14 3 (0.50%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.50%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.34%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.34%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 323 (54.29%) Terraform
2 257 (43.19%) Kubernetes
3 221 (37.14%) Ansible
4 123 (20.67%) Grafana
5 114 (19.16%) Prometheus
6 50 (8.40%) Puppet
7 41 (6.89%) Argo
8 35 (5.88%) Progress Chef
9 26 (4.37%) vCenter Server
10 21 (3.53%) Istio
11 13 (2.18%) Packer
12 9 (1.51%) NetBackup
12 9 (1.51%) Podman
13 8 (1.34%) HAProxy
14 7 (1.18%) Rancher
14 7 (1.18%) Salt
14 7 (1.18%) systemd
15 6 (1.01%) IBM BigFix
15 6 (1.01%) Kibana
15 6 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (11.76%) Red Hat
2 66 (11.09%) Microsoft
3 62 (10.42%) Google
4 60 (10.08%) Splunk
5 57 (9.58%) VMware
6 44 (7.39%) Dynatrace
7 36 (6.05%) Oracle
8 23 (3.87%) IBM
9 22 (3.70%) Databricks
10 19 (3.19%) Cisco
11 17 (2.86%) Pure Storage
12 14 (2.35%) Palo Alto
13 12 (2.02%) Cloudera
13 12 (2.02%) Informatica
14 11 (1.85%) CyberArk
14 11 (1.85%) Fortinet
14 11 (1.85%) ServiceNow
14 11 (1.85%) Talend
14 11 (1.85%) Zscaler
15 10 (1.68%) SolarWinds