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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 153 203
Rank change year-on-year -41 +50 -73
Contract jobs citing Bash 548 452 426
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.32% 1.89% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.01% 5.56% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 299 299
10th Percentile £388 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £579 £640 £625
90th Percentile £673 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £536
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.28% -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% -27.57%
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% -27.57%

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 10,931 8,126 10,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.41% 33.90% 30.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,180 5,652 7,990
10th Percentile £356 £360 £350
25th Percentile £417 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -4.37% -2.40%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 189 454
10th Percentile £38.95 £28.14 £37.51
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.00 £49.28
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £79.04
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

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 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 25 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 25 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 -59 221 £520 -5.45% 81
North of England -19 135 £482 -12.36% 57
Yorkshire -19 84 £479 -13.00% 13
South East -25 74 £469 +1.41% 46
South West -32 48 £500 -16.67% 32
Midlands -45 42 £465 -15.45% 18
North West -29 41 £538 +7.50% 37
West Midlands -41 40 £467 -22.17% 6
East of England -34 15 £483 +1.58% 11
North East -19 10 £425 -22.73% 7
East Midlands -29 2 £436 +6.99% 12
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 (4.93%) Confluence
2 10 (1.82%) Apache
3 9 (1.64%) SAS
4 7 (1.28%) nginx
4 7 (1.28%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.09%) IIS
6 4 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.73%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.36%) CMS
7 2 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.36%) JBoss
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.18%) FileNet
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) PowerExchange
8 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
1 240 (43.80%) AWS
2 212 (38.69%) Azure
3 153 (27.92%) GitHub
4 108 (19.71%) GCP
5 86 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
5 86 (15.69%) GitHub Actions
6 71 (12.96%) OpenShift
7 44 (8.03%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (7.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 41 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 41 (7.48%) Serverless
10 36 (6.57%) Amazon S3
11 34 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 28 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (5.11%) Azure AKS
14 26 (4.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 22 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (4.01%) Datadog
16 20 (3.65%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 70 (12.77%) DNS
2 65 (11.86%) Firewall
3 38 (6.93%) TCP/IP
4 35 (6.39%) VPN
5 28 (5.11%) Network Security
6 16 (2.92%) SAN
7 14 (2.55%) DHCP
8 13 (2.37%) NAS
8 13 (2.37%) VLAN
9 12 (2.19%) HTTP
10 10 (1.82%) SSL
11 8 (1.46%) Reverse Proxy
12 7 (1.28%) SNMP
12 7 (1.28%) WAN
13 6 (1.09%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.91%) BGP
15 4 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.73%) Multicast
16 3 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
16 3 (0.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (5.84%) SQL Server
3 22 (4.01%) MongoDB
4 16 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (2.92%) Redis
5 15 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (2.55%) MySQL
7 13 (2.37%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (2.01%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.82%) Pentaho
11 8 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.28%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.09%) DB2
13 6 (1.09%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
14 5 (0.91%) Big Data
14 5 (0.91%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 158 (28.83%) Jenkins
2 115 (20.99%) GitLab
3 95 (17.34%) Git
4 38 (6.93%) JIRA
5 10 (1.82%) Artifactory
6 8 (1.46%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.46%) CircleCI
6 8 (1.46%) Postman
7 7 (1.28%) JMeter
8 6 (1.09%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.73%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.73%) Selenium
10 4 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.55%) Ant
11 3 (0.55%) Appium
11 3 (0.55%) Snyk
11 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.55%) Spinnaker
General
1 138 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 62 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (10.22%) Finance
4 48 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.84%) Banking
6 14 (2.55%) Legal
7 13 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.46%) Military
9 6 (1.09%) Law
10 5 (0.91%) Retail
10 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.36%) Aviation
12 2 (0.36%) Front Office
12 2 (0.36%) Police
13 1 (0.18%) Back Office
13 1 (0.18%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (19.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (8.94%) AWS Engineer
3 48 (8.76%) Platform Engineer
4 45 (8.21%) Senior
5 40 (7.30%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (7.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 38 (6.93%) Security Engineer
8 30 (5.47%) Architect
8 30 (5.47%) Lead
8 30 (5.47%) Site Engineer
9 28 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (4.93%) GCP Engineer
11 26 (4.74%) Data Engineer
12 23 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (4.01%) Automation Engineer
13 22 (4.01%) Linux Engineer
14 21 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
15 20 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 20 (3.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 19 (3.47%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.30%) Elastic Stack
2 38 (6.93%) Kafka
3 27 (4.93%) OpenTelemetry
4 26 (4.74%) REST
5 21 (3.83%) YAML
6 16 (2.92%) Middleware
7 15 (2.74%) ARM Templates
8 11 (2.01%) Loki
8 11 (2.01%) Node.js
9 10 (1.82%) LDAP
9 10 (1.82%) Swagger
10 9 (1.64%) ADO
10 9 (1.64%) JSON
10 9 (1.64%) Keycloak
11 8 (1.46%) AngularJS
11 8 (1.46%) React
11 8 (1.46%) SAML
11 8 (1.46%) Vue
12 7 (1.28%) .NET
12 7 (1.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 78 (14.23%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.83%) Data Centre
4 21 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (3.47%) Security Posture
6 17 (3.10%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.92%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.74%) Replication
9 13 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.64%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.46%) PKI
12 7 (1.28%) Clustering
13 6 (1.09%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
15 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
15 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
15 4 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 212 (38.69%) Linux
2 85 (15.51%) Windows
3 46 (8.39%) Unix
4 44 (8.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (4.93%) Windows Server
6 16 (2.92%) Ubuntu
7 14 (2.55%) VMS
8 11 (2.01%) Mac OS
9 10 (1.82%) AIX
10 6 (1.09%) CentOS
11 5 (0.91%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.55%) 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
1 316 (57.66%) CI/CD
2 302 (55.11%) DevOps
3 240 (43.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 157 (28.65%) Containerisation
5 133 (24.27%) Observability
6 104 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
7 95 (17.34%) Platform Engineering
8 88 (16.06%) Agile
9 79 (14.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 71 (12.96%) Migration
11 70 (12.77%) Configuration Management
12 68 (12.41%) Root Cause Analysis
13 59 (10.77%) High Availability
14 54 (9.85%) Cloud Security
14 54 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 53 (9.67%) Infrastructure Automation
16 50 (9.12%) Test Automation
17 47 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
18 46 (8.39%) Incident Response
19 42 (7.66%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 474 (86.50%) Python
2 232 (42.34%) PowerShell
3 78 (14.23%) SQL
4 45 (8.21%) Go
5 35 (6.39%) Java
6 24 (4.38%) Bicep
7 22 (4.01%) JavaScript
8 21 (3.83%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.10%) Groovy
10 13 (2.37%) Perl
11 10 (1.82%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.82%) Ruby
12 8 (1.46%) C
12 8 (1.46%) C#
13 7 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (1.09%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.91%) C++
15 5 (0.91%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.73%) Korn
16 4 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 179 (32.66%) Security Cleared
2 148 (27.01%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.39%) Degree
4 27 (4.93%) Azure Certification
5 25 (4.56%) DV Cleared
6 22 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (3.83%) AWS Certification
8 17 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (2.37%) CISSP
10 11 (2.01%) CCNP
10 11 (2.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 10 (1.82%) CCNA
11 10 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.64%) RHCE
13 8 (1.46%) RHCA
14 7 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
15 5 (0.91%) CISM
16 4 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.73%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.65%) GDPR
3 18 (3.28%) QA
4 14 (2.55%) NIST
5 12 (2.19%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.82%) SLA
7 9 (1.64%) HIPAA
8 8 (1.46%) Data Quality
9 6 (1.09%) GRC
9 6 (1.09%) NCSC
10 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.91%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.36%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 155 (28.28%) Docker
2 45 (8.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (7.48%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (6.20%) Active Directory
5 21 (3.83%) vSphere
6 20 (3.65%) Hyper-V
7 17 (3.10%) VMware NSX
8 15 (2.74%) KVM
9 11 (2.01%) Firmware
9 11 (2.01%) Squid
10 8 (1.46%) NFS
11 6 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.91%) Postfix
13 4 (0.73%) Varnish
14 3 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.55%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.36%) Ceph
15 2 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.36%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 280 (51.09%) Terraform
2 247 (45.07%) Kubernetes
3 219 (39.96%) Ansible
4 128 (23.36%) Grafana
5 111 (20.26%) Prometheus
6 48 (8.76%) Puppet
7 44 (8.03%) Argo
8 25 (4.56%) vCenter Server
9 23 (4.20%) Istio
10 22 (4.01%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.19%) Kibana
12 11 (2.01%) Packer
13 9 (1.64%) Podman
14 8 (1.46%) linkerd
14 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (1.46%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.46%) Rancher
14 8 (1.46%) Red Hat Satellite
15 7 (1.28%) SCCM
15 7 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (14.05%) Splunk
2 65 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 64 (11.68%) VMware
4 63 (11.50%) Red Hat
5 42 (7.66%) Google
6 40 (7.30%) Dynatrace
7 32 (5.84%) Oracle
8 19 (3.47%) IBM
9 18 (3.28%) Databricks
10 16 (2.92%) Pure Storage
11 15 (2.74%) Cisco
12 13 (2.37%) Palo Alto
13 12 (2.19%) AppDynamics
13 12 (2.19%) Zscaler
14 11 (2.01%) CyberArk
14 11 (2.01%) Fortinet
14 11 (2.01%) ServiceNow
15 10 (1.82%) Cloudera
15 10 (1.82%) Informatica
15 10 (1.82%) Tenable