Bash Contracts in England

Bash Shell
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Bash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bash over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 213 133
Rank change year-on-year +64 -80 +33
Contract jobs citing Bash 465 408 997
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.91% 1.10% 1.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.66% 3.74% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 281 734
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £738
90th Percentile £750 £690 £810
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 15
10th Percentile £25.25 £21.70 £21.00
25th Percentile £29.75 £22.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -19.85% +3.52%
75th Percentile £61.19 £71.88 £74.50
90th Percentile £66.37 £76.00 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.90% -19.85% +13.91%

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 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in England

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in England.

Daily rate trend for Bash in England

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in England

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in England.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in England

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +43 227 £550 - 286
North of England +43 90 £550 +4.76% 85
Yorkshire +25 55 £550 +11.11% 16
South West +69 49 £613 +11.36% 51
South East +31 40 £475 -12.64% 141
North West +21 30 £500 -9.09% 62
Midlands +23 21 £588 +9.46% 39
East of England +28 16 £475 -13.64% 79
West Midlands +17 15 £651 +30.25% 29
East Midlands +8 6 £408 -32.08% 6
North East - 5 £558 - 7
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (8.60%) Confluence
2 17 (3.66%) nginx
3 16 (3.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 12 (2.58%) Apache
4 12 (2.58%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.58%) Traefik
5 6 (1.29%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.65%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.22%) JBoss
9 1 (0.22%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 183 (39.35%) AWS
2 161 (34.62%) Azure
3 69 (14.84%) GCP
4 49 (10.54%) GitHub
5 47 (10.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 45 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (7.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 29 (6.24%) Amazon S3
9 28 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
9 28 (6.02%) OpenShift
10 26 (5.59%) Serverless
11 23 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
11 23 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (4.73%) Entra ID
13 19 (4.09%) Cloud Computing
13 19 (4.09%) Slack
14 18 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (3.66%) AWS Fargate
15 17 (3.66%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (20.00%) DNS
2 49 (10.54%) TCP/IP
3 43 (9.25%) Firewall
4 31 (6.67%) HTTP
5 24 (5.16%) DHCP
6 18 (3.87%) VPN
7 10 (2.15%) Network Security
7 10 (2.15%) SSH
8 7 (1.51%) Kerberos
8 7 (1.51%) SAN
8 7 (1.51%) SSL
9 6 (1.29%) 5G NR
9 6 (1.29%) BGP
9 6 (1.29%) Cisco ISE
9 6 (1.29%) OSPF
9 6 (1.29%) Wireshark
10 5 (1.08%) BIG-IP
11 4 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (0.86%) NAS
11 4 (0.86%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.68%) MongoDB
2 42 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (5.59%) MySQL
4 25 (5.38%) Apache Cassandra
5 24 (5.16%) SQL Server
6 23 (4.95%) Oracle Database
7 15 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.37%) Power BI
10 9 (1.94%) Apache Hive
11 8 (1.72%) Delta Lake
12 7 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.08%) Hazelcast
14 5 (1.08%) Redis
15 4 (0.86%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.86%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.65%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 112 (24.09%) Git
2 109 (23.44%) Jenkins
3 84 (18.06%) GitLab
4 62 (13.33%) JIRA
5 21 (4.52%) JUnit
6 20 (4.30%) Cucumber
7 19 (4.09%) Jasmine
8 16 (3.44%) Selenium
9 12 (2.58%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.58%) JMeter
10 11 (2.37%) SonarQube
10 11 (2.37%) Subversion
11 9 (1.94%) LoadRunner
11 9 (1.94%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.51%) Maven
13 6 (1.29%) MSI
13 6 (1.29%) RStudio
13 6 (1.29%) Snyk
13 6 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (1.08%) TestNG
General
1 118 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 79 (16.99%) Finance
3 67 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 49 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (6.02%) Banking
6 18 (3.87%) Telecoms
7 9 (1.94%) Electronics
7 9 (1.94%) Manufacturing
7 9 (1.94%) Marketing
7 9 (1.94%) Military
8 7 (1.51%) Legal
9 6 (1.29%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.65%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.43%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.43%) Aviation
13 1 (0.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 111 (23.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 86 (18.49%) Senior
3 38 (8.17%) Linux Engineer
4 36 (7.74%) Senior DevOps
5 33 (7.10%) Developer
5 33 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 26 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
7 26 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
8 25 (5.38%) Lead
9 21 (4.52%) Administrator
9 21 (4.52%) Analyst
9 21 (4.52%) Architect
10 19 (4.09%) Java Developer
11 18 (3.87%) AWS DevOps
11 18 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 18 (3.87%) Linux Administrator
11 18 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (3.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 17 (3.66%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.45%) Kafka
2 27 (5.81%) REST
3 26 (5.59%) RESTful
3 26 (5.59%) Spring
4 22 (4.73%) cloud-init
4 22 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (4.73%) Spring Boot
5 21 (4.52%) Spring Security
6 20 (4.30%) Spring Batch
7 18 (3.87%) Swagger
8 17 (3.66%) OpenAPI
9 15 (3.23%) ARM Templates
9 15 (3.23%) Keycloak
9 15 (3.23%) YAML
10 13 (2.80%) JSON
11 12 (2.58%) SOAP
12 11 (2.37%) FIX Protocol
13 9 (1.94%) PySpark
14 8 (1.72%) Node.js
14 8 (1.72%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.53%) Linux Command Line
2 22 (4.73%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 14 (3.01%) Clustering
4 14 (3.01%) PKI
5 11 (2.37%) Replication
6 10 (2.15%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 7 (1.51%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.51%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.86%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.65%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 252 (54.19%) Linux
2 125 (26.88%) Windows
3 94 (20.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 58 (12.47%) Windows Server
5 54 (11.61%) Unix
6 38 (8.17%) CentOS
7 20 (4.30%) Mac OS
8 19 (4.09%) Solaris
9 10 (2.15%) Ubuntu
10 7 (1.51%) VMS
11 6 (1.29%) AIX
11 6 (1.29%) Rocky
12 5 (1.08%) SUSE
13 4 (0.86%) HPUX
14 2 (0.43%) Debian
14 2 (0.43%) Fedora
15 1 (0.22%) Android
15 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (46.88%) CI/CD
2 210 (45.16%) DevOps
3 133 (28.60%) Containerisation
4 128 (27.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 126 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
6 91 (19.57%) Agile
7 74 (15.91%) Continuous Integration
8 70 (15.05%) Configuration Management
8 70 (15.05%) Task Automation
9 66 (14.19%) Microservices
10 60 (12.90%) High Availability
11 53 (11.40%) Test Automation
12 52 (11.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 42 (9.03%) Cloud Security
13 42 (9.03%) Software Engineering
14 40 (8.60%) Migration
15 36 (7.74%) Deployment Automation
16 34 (7.31%) Infrastructure Automation
17 33 (7.10%) Computer Science
18 32 (6.88%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 381 (81.94%) Python
2 173 (37.20%) PowerShell
3 86 (18.49%) SQL
4 73 (15.70%) Java
5 54 (11.61%) Perl
6 36 (7.74%) Go
7 19 (4.09%) PL/SQL
8 16 (3.44%) JavaScript
9 15 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.15%) Scala
11 9 (1.94%) Ruby
12 8 (1.72%) Groovy
12 8 (1.72%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.72%) VB
13 7 (1.51%) Bicep
14 6 (1.29%) C#
15 4 (0.86%) C
15 4 (0.86%) C++
15 4 (0.86%) Korn
15 4 (0.86%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 181 (38.92%) Security Cleared
2 150 (32.26%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.03%) Degree
4 41 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
5 31 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 26 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (4.30%) DV Cleared
8 17 (3.66%) CCNP
9 14 (3.01%) CISSP
10 13 (2.80%) RHCE
11 12 (2.58%) CEH
12 11 (2.37%) Azure Certification
12 11 (2.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (2.15%) OCA
13 10 (2.15%) Oracle Certification
13 10 (2.15%) RHCA
14 8 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (1.51%) SANS
16 6 (1.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.53%) GDPR
2 28 (6.02%) QA
3 15 (3.23%) HIPAA
3 15 (3.23%) NCSC
4 12 (2.58%) NIST
5 10 (2.15%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.29%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.86%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.43%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 141 (30.32%) Docker
2 53 (11.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (8.82%) Active Directory
4 18 (3.87%) Hyper-V
5 16 (3.44%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.08%) NFS
8 4 (0.86%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.86%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (0.86%) vSphere
9 2 (0.43%) KVM
10 1 (0.22%) Firmware
10 1 (0.22%) HDFS
10 1 (0.22%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.22%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.22%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 195 (41.94%) Kubernetes
2 194 (41.72%) Ansible
3 180 (38.71%) Terraform
4 77 (16.56%) Puppet
5 55 (11.83%) Prometheus
6 54 (11.61%) Grafana
7 49 (10.54%) Progress Chef
8 32 (6.88%) Packer
9 31 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
10 22 (4.73%) Istio
11 21 (4.52%) ZABBIX
12 15 (3.23%) Consul
12 15 (3.23%) Red Hat Satellite
13 14 (3.01%) linkerd
13 14 (3.01%) Rancher
14 13 (2.80%) HAProxy
15 12 (2.58%) vCenter Server
16 11 (2.37%) QRadar
17 8 (1.72%) Kibana
17 8 (1.72%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 76 (16.34%) VMware
2 71 (15.27%) Red Hat
3 50 (10.75%) Oracle
4 46 (9.89%) Cisco
5 40 (8.60%) Splunk
6 31 (6.67%) Microsoft
7 27 (5.81%) Apple
8 21 (4.52%) Google
9 15 (3.23%) F5
9 15 (3.23%) IBM
9 15 (3.23%) Okta
9 15 (3.23%) ServiceNow
10 14 (3.01%) Qualys
11 13 (2.80%) ESET
12 12 (2.58%) SAP
13 11 (2.37%) Atlassian
13 11 (2.37%) CyberArk
14 10 (2.15%) EMC
15 8 (1.72%) Fortinet
15 8 (1.72%) SolarWinds