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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 151 199
Rank change year-on-year -13 +48 -58
Contract jobs citing Bash 768 518 412
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.89% 1.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.46% 5.77% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 348 286
10th Percentile £400 £367 £363
25th Percentile £450 £437 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -5.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £630 £615 £642
90th Percentile £725 £675 £707
UK median daily rate £513 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -1.44% -5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 10
10th Percentile £56.50 £41.25 £24.93
25th Percentile £58.43 £43.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £69.61 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.72% -5.22% -20.69%
75th Percentile £92.81 £60.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.41 £63.25 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +25.17% -5.22% -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 11,888 8,973 10,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.06% 32.78% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,703 6,116 7,384
10th Percentile £363 £350 £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 £520 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +3.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 269 313
10th Percentile £29.23 £30.82 £31.61
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £80.59 £79.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -23 351 £513 -2.38% 437
North of England -14 148 £500 - 85
South East -8 105 £558 +20.26% 121
South West +3 83 £671 +16.63% 70
Yorkshire -30 66 £515 +1.73% 20
North West -10 58 £525 +10.53% 53
East of England -3 32 £425 -3.68% 31
West Midlands -43 29 £525 -6.67% 15
Midlands -49 29 £525 -6.67% 29
North East -35 23 £419 -19.47% 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 30 (3.91%) Confluence
2 25 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.73%) Apache
4 15 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.56%) nginx
6 8 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.04%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.91%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.78%) IIS
8 6 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.65%) SAS
10 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.52%) WordPress
11 3 (0.39%) JBoss
12 2 (0.26%) CMS
12 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.91%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.26%) Front Arena
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.26%) Summit
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 363 (47.27%) AWS
2 349 (45.44%) Azure
3 190 (24.74%) GitHub
4 155 (20.18%) GCP
5 133 (17.32%) GitHub Actions
6 132 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (10.03%) Amazon EKS
8 71 (9.24%) Serverless
9 65 (8.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 65 (8.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (8.20%) Amazon S3
11 61 (7.94%) Azure Monitor
12 55 (7.16%) OpenShift
13 52 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
14 50 (6.51%) Entra ID
15 49 (6.38%) Datadog
15 49 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 45 (5.86%) Azure AKS
17 43 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
17 43 (5.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 129 (16.80%) Firewall
2 128 (16.67%) DNS
3 87 (11.33%) TCP/IP
4 66 (8.59%) VPN
5 64 (8.33%) Network Security
6 61 (7.94%) DHCP
7 20 (2.60%) WAN
8 19 (2.47%) SAN
8 19 (2.47%) VSAN
9 16 (2.08%) SSL
9 16 (2.08%) VLAN
10 15 (1.95%) SSH
11 13 (1.69%) HTTP
11 13 (1.69%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.43%) NAS
13 10 (1.30%) BGP
14 8 (1.04%) 5G
14 8 (1.04%) Kerberos
14 8 (1.04%) SNMP
15 7 (0.91%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 24 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (2.99%) Redis
5 22 (2.86%) MongoDB
5 22 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 19 (2.47%) MySQL
7 13 (1.69%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (1.30%) Big Data
9 10 (1.30%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.30%) Pentaho
10 9 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.17%) Metadata
10 9 (1.17%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.04%) Power BI
12 7 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 194 (25.26%) Jenkins
2 161 (20.96%) GitLab
3 145 (18.88%) Git
4 41 (5.34%) JIRA
5 14 (1.82%) Selenium
5 14 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (1.69%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.56%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.17%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.04%) Postman
10 7 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.91%) JMeter
11 6 (0.78%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.78%) MLflow
11 6 (0.78%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.65%) Maven
12 5 (0.65%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.39%) Bugzilla
14 3 (0.39%) Gatling
General
1 177 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 122 (15.89%) Finance
3 96 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.03%) Banking
6 21 (2.73%) Telecoms
7 16 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.82%) Legal
9 11 (1.43%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.30%) Law
11 9 (1.17%) Military
12 7 (0.91%) Retail
13 5 (0.65%) Front Office
13 5 (0.65%) Publishing
14 4 (0.52%) Automotive
15 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.39%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 145 (18.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 100 (13.02%) Senior
3 74 (9.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
5 58 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 52 (6.77%) AWS Engineer
6 52 (6.77%) Security Engineer
7 51 (6.64%) Azure Engineer
8 44 (5.73%) Architect
8 44 (5.73%) Lead
9 42 (5.47%) Linux Engineer
10 39 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 34 (4.43%) Site Engineer
12 31 (4.04%) Developer
12 31 (4.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 29 (3.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 27 (3.52%) AWS DevOps
14 27 (3.52%) GCP Engineer
15 25 (3.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 24 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (58.59%) Terraform
2 67 (8.72%) Kafka
3 48 (6.25%) ARM Templates
4 43 (5.60%) REST
5 41 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
5 41 (5.34%) YAML
6 21 (2.73%) Loki
7 20 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (2.21%) Middleware
9 16 (2.08%) Node.js
10 15 (1.95%) .NET
10 15 (1.95%) JSON
10 15 (1.95%) RESTful
11 13 (1.69%) React
12 12 (1.56%) Flask
12 12 (1.56%) LDAP
12 12 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (1.56%) Spring
13 11 (1.43%) SAML
14 10 (1.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 124 (16.15%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (5.34%) Security Posture
4 34 (4.43%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
6 31 (4.04%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (4.04%) PKI
7 30 (3.91%) Data Centre
8 28 (3.65%) Management Information System
9 23 (2.99%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.47%) Replication
11 18 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
13 13 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
13 13 (1.69%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 11 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (1.17%) Enterprise Storage
15 9 (1.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 362 (47.14%) Linux
2 171 (22.27%) Windows
3 92 (11.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (8.72%) Windows Server
5 51 (6.64%) Unix
6 34 (4.43%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.08%) VMS
8 12 (1.56%) CentOS
9 7 (0.91%) Solaris
10 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.65%) Rocky
11 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.26%) AIX
13 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (59.51%) CI/CD
2 415 (54.04%) DevOps
3 400 (52.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 221 (28.78%) Containerisation
5 208 (27.08%) Observability
6 169 (22.01%) Platform Engineering
7 155 (20.18%) Agile
8 146 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
9 145 (18.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 118 (15.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 111 (14.45%) Cloud Security
12 109 (14.19%) DevSecOps
13 99 (12.89%) Infrastructure Automation
13 99 (12.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 94 (12.24%) AI
14 94 (12.24%) Root Cause Analysis
15 89 (11.59%) Configuration Management
15 89 (11.59%) Migration
16 87 (11.33%) Runbook
17 85 (11.07%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 661 (86.07%) Python
2 372 (48.44%) PowerShell
3 100 (13.02%) SQL
4 87 (11.33%) Java
5 72 (9.38%) Bicep
6 65 (8.46%) Go
7 41 (5.34%) Shell Script
8 29 (3.78%) Perl
9 23 (2.99%) Groovy
10 19 (2.47%) JavaScript
11 14 (1.82%) Korn
11 14 (1.82%) Ruby
12 12 (1.56%) C#
12 12 (1.56%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.17%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.52%) Cypher
15 4 (0.52%) Scala
16 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
16 3 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 290 (37.76%) Security Cleared
2 213 (27.73%) SC Cleared
3 80 (10.42%) DV Cleared
4 64 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 61 (7.94%) AWS Certification
6 57 (7.42%) Degree
7 34 (4.43%) CISSP
8 28 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 14 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.82%) VCAP
13 12 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (1.30%) CCNA
15 10 (1.30%) CCNP
16 9 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.34%) QA
2 35 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.52%) NIST
4 15 (1.95%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.56%) GDPR
5 12 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.30%) SLA
7 7 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.78%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.78%) NCSC
8 6 (0.78%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.39%) GRC
11 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.26%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 260 (33.85%) Docker
2 87 (11.33%) Active Directory
3 78 (10.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (5.08%) Hyper-V
5 36 (4.69%) vSphere
6 32 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (3.13%) VMware NSX
8 15 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.30%) Squid
10 9 (1.17%) NFS
11 6 (0.78%) Postfix
12 5 (0.65%) Firmware
13 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.52%) zsh
14 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.39%) KVM
14 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
14 3 (0.39%) Varnish
14 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.26%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 359 (46.74%) Kubernetes
2 283 (36.85%) Ansible
3 170 (22.14%) Grafana
4 143 (18.62%) Prometheus
5 52 (6.77%) Puppet
6 50 (6.51%) Progress Chef
7 43 (5.60%) Argo
8 21 (2.73%) Istio
9 17 (2.21%) Podman
10 14 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.82%) VxRail
11 13 (1.69%) vCenter Server
12 12 (1.56%) SCCM
12 12 (1.56%) systemd
13 10 (1.30%) Kibana
13 10 (1.30%) Packer
13 10 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (1.17%) Check_MK
15 8 (1.04%) Consul
16 7 (0.91%) Cilium
Vendors
1 145 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 101 (13.15%) VMware
3 87 (11.33%) Google
4 70 (9.11%) Red Hat
5 63 (8.20%) Splunk
6 54 (7.03%) Oracle
7 52 (6.77%) Dynatrace
8 32 (4.17%) CyberArk
9 31 (4.04%) Cisco
10 24 (3.13%) Databricks
11 23 (2.99%) ServiceNow
12 15 (1.95%) IBM
12 15 (1.95%) Palo Alto
13 13 (1.69%) NetApp
14 12 (1.56%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
15 10 (1.30%) Fortinet
16 9 (1.17%) AppDynamics
16 9 (1.17%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (1.17%) WALLIX