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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 140 194
Rank change year-on-year -36 +54 -56
Contract jobs citing Bash 575 471 463
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.92% 1.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.39% 5.68% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 301 317
10th Percentile £393 £380 £400
25th Percentile £415 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £575 £689 £625
90th Percentile £694 £798 £705
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.61% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 12
10th Percentile £56.05 £25.48 £24.93
25th Percentile £61.25 £41.19 £56.31
Median hourly rate £74.26 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.02% -13.46% -4.06%
75th Percentile - £77.80 £76.77
90th Percentile £81.20 £108.67 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +32.02% -13.46% -7.14%

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 10,659 8,295 10,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.86% 33.85% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,088 5,593 7,919
10th Percentile £351 £360 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -6.44%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 216 449
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.22 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £76.40 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -43 219 £520 -7.96% 79
North of England -6 156 £500 -9.09% 48
South East -1 92 £460 -3.16% 56
Yorkshire -31 80 £482 -12.36% 15
North West +4 65 £550 -3.93% 19
Midlands -27 48 £454 -22.65% 24
West Midlands -23 44 £460 -29.37% 15
South West -36 34 £544 -9.38% 31
North East -1 15 £550 -1.35% 14
East of England -29 9 £413 -13.16% 19
East Midlands -38 4 £436 +6.99% 9
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 34 (5.91%) Confluence
2 15 (2.61%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.74%) nginx
4 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.22%) SAS
5 6 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.87%) Apache
7 4 (0.70%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.52%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.52%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.52%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) FileNet
9 1 (0.17%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (1.39%) Weka
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 245 (42.61%) AWS
2 212 (36.87%) Azure
3 159 (27.65%) GitHub
4 107 (18.61%) GCP
5 86 (14.96%) GitHub Actions
6 81 (14.09%) Azure DevOps
7 78 (13.57%) OpenShift
8 56 (9.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (8.87%) Amazon S3
9 51 (8.87%) Serverless
10 50 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (7.83%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (6.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (6.26%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (6.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 32 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (4.52%) Entra ID
16 24 (4.17%) Azure AKS
17 23 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
17 23 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 78 (13.57%) Firewall
2 60 (10.43%) DNS
3 44 (7.65%) TCP/IP
4 25 (4.35%) VPN
5 22 (3.83%) Network Security
6 19 (3.30%) VLAN
7 18 (3.13%) Wireshark
8 15 (2.61%) DHCP
9 13 (2.26%) BGP
10 10 (1.74%) HTTP
11 9 (1.57%) SNMP
11 9 (1.57%) Software-Defined Networking
11 9 (1.57%) SSL
12 8 (1.39%) Multicast
13 6 (1.04%) SSH
13 6 (1.04%) WebEx
14 5 (0.87%) SAN
14 5 (0.87%) SMTP
15 4 (0.70%) Kerberos
15 4 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.91%) SQL Server
3 33 (5.74%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (3.83%) MongoDB
5 19 (3.30%) Redis
6 18 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (2.96%) NoSQL
8 15 (2.61%) MySQL
9 11 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.91%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.74%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.57%) Big Data
11 9 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.39%) Pentaho
13 7 (1.22%) Delta Lake
14 6 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.04%) DB2
14 6 (1.04%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.87%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 165 (28.70%) Jenkins
2 116 (20.17%) GitLab
3 95 (16.52%) Git
4 42 (7.30%) JIRA
5 14 (2.43%) Bitbucket
5 14 (2.43%) CircleCI
6 10 (1.74%) Metasploit
7 9 (1.57%) Burp Suite
8 7 (1.22%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.04%) Liquibase
10 5 (0.87%) Selenium
11 4 (0.70%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.70%) MLflow
11 4 (0.70%) ScriptRunner
11 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.52%) Appium
12 3 (0.52%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.52%) Snyk
12 3 (0.52%) Spinnaker
General
1 168 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 85 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 54 (9.39%) Finance
5 28 (4.87%) Banking
6 20 (3.48%) Legal
7 14 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.91%) Retail
9 10 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.04%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.70%) Front Office
11 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.70%) Military
12 3 (0.52%) Games
12 3 (0.52%) Law
12 3 (0.52%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.35%) Billing
13 2 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 77 (13.39%) Platform Engineer
3 54 (9.39%) Senior
4 39 (6.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 37 (6.43%) Architect
5 37 (6.43%) AWS Engineer
6 35 (6.09%) Site Engineer
7 33 (5.74%) Lead
8 26 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (4.35%) Security Engineer
10 24 (4.17%) Data Engineer
11 22 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
12 21 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
12 21 (3.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 21 (3.65%) GCP Engineer
13 19 (3.30%) Network Engineer
14 18 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 17 (2.96%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.17%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (6.09%) Kafka
3 32 (5.57%) REST
4 23 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 16 (2.78%) ARM Templates
5 16 (2.78%) Loki
5 16 (2.78%) Middleware
6 15 (2.61%) YAML
7 14 (2.43%) Keycloak
8 12 (2.09%) Node.js
9 10 (1.74%) .NET
9 10 (1.74%) LDAP
10 9 (1.57%) OAuth
10 9 (1.57%) SAML
11 8 (1.39%) ADO
12 7 (1.22%) SOAP
13 6 (1.04%) .NET Core
13 6 (1.04%) OpenAPI
13 6 (1.04%) Swagger
13 6 (1.04%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (11.83%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 19 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.61%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.26%) Replication
10 12 (2.09%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.09%) PKI
11 11 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.91%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.91%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.74%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.04%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.04%) Clustering
13 6 (1.04%) Grid Computing
13 6 (1.04%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 263 (45.74%) Linux
2 103 (17.91%) Windows
3 58 (10.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (8.87%) Unix
5 35 (6.09%) Windows Server
6 24 (4.17%) Mac OS
7 12 (2.09%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.09%) VMS
8 10 (1.74%) AIX
9 9 (1.57%) CentOS
9 9 (1.57%) Kali Linux
10 6 (1.04%) Solaris
11 5 (0.87%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.17%) Rocky
13 1 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (55.83%) CI/CD
2 303 (52.70%) DevOps
3 267 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 188 (32.70%) Containerisation
5 138 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (23.83%) Observability
7 113 (19.65%) Platform Engineering
8 104 (18.09%) Agile
9 84 (14.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 79 (13.74%) High Availability
11 71 (12.35%) Infrastructure Automation
12 66 (11.48%) Incident Response
13 64 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 62 (10.78%) Configuration Management
14 62 (10.78%) Test Automation
15 60 (10.43%) DevSecOps
15 60 (10.43%) Migration
16 57 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 55 (9.57%) Root Cause Analysis
18 51 (8.87%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 493 (85.74%) Python
2 239 (41.57%) PowerShell
3 66 (11.48%) SQL
4 37 (6.43%) Java
5 29 (5.04%) Perl
6 28 (4.87%) Go
7 25 (4.35%) Bicep
8 23 (4.00%) JavaScript
9 19 (3.30%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.78%) C#
10 16 (2.78%) Groovy
11 12 (2.09%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (1.74%) PHP
13 7 (1.22%) C
13 7 (1.22%) C++
14 5 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.87%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.70%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.70%) Ruby
16 3 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 203 (35.30%) Security Cleared
2 169 (29.39%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.13%) Degree
4 32 (5.57%) AWS Certification
5 23 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (3.48%) Azure Certification
6 20 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.13%) CCNP
8 15 (2.61%) CCNA
9 13 (2.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (2.09%) CEH
11 11 (1.91%) CCDP
11 11 (1.91%) OSCP
12 10 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.74%) GPEN
13 9 (1.57%) CISSP
14 7 (1.22%) Master's Degree
14 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.96%) GDPR
2 16 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.43%) QA
4 11 (1.91%) NCSC
4 11 (1.91%) NIST
5 8 (1.39%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.22%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.22%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.04%) SLA
8 5 (0.87%) GRC
9 4 (0.70%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 209 (36.35%) Docker
2 66 (11.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (6.96%) vSphere
4 39 (6.78%) Active Directory
5 30 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (3.83%) VMware NSX
7 21 (3.65%) Hyper-V
8 16 (2.78%) KVM
9 9 (1.57%) Lustre
9 9 (1.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 8 (1.39%) Firmware
10 8 (1.39%) GPFS
11 5 (0.87%) Postfix
12 4 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.52%) Ceph
13 3 (0.52%) Squid
14 2 (0.35%) NFS
14 2 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.35%) Xen
14 2 (0.35%) zsh
Systems Management
1 304 (52.87%) Terraform
2 270 (46.96%) Kubernetes
3 214 (37.22%) Ansible
4 126 (21.91%) Grafana
5 112 (19.48%) Prometheus
6 56 (9.74%) Argo
7 47 (8.17%) Puppet
8 29 (5.04%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.17%) Istio
10 15 (2.61%) Progress Chef
11 14 (2.43%) Kibana
12 11 (1.91%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (1.91%) Kustomize
12 11 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (1.91%) Nmap
13 10 (1.74%) NetBackup
13 10 (1.74%) Packer
13 10 (1.74%) Rancher
13 10 (1.74%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (1.74%) SCCM
Vendors
1 94 (16.35%) VMware
2 90 (15.65%) Microsoft
3 83 (14.43%) Red Hat
4 81 (14.09%) Splunk
5 39 (6.78%) Google
6 27 (4.70%) Dynatrace
7 23 (4.00%) Cisco
8 22 (3.83%) Pure Storage
9 19 (3.30%) Databricks
9 19 (3.30%) Oracle
10 16 (2.78%) Citrix
11 15 (2.61%) Palo Alto
12 14 (2.43%) F5
13 12 (2.09%) IBM
14 11 (1.91%) Atlassian
14 11 (1.91%) ServiceNow
15 10 (1.74%) AppDynamics
15 10 (1.74%) Dell
15 10 (1.74%) Tenable
16 9 (1.57%) Commvault