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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 141 193
Rank change year-on-year -23 +52 -49
Contract jobs citing Bash 777 543 414
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.97% 1.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.53% 6.03% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 355 282
10th Percentile £400 £377 £358
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 10
10th Percentile £56.50 £40.77 £24.93
25th Percentile £58.43 £41.25 £35.63
Median hourly rate £69.61 £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.52% -15.65% -20.69%
75th Percentile £92.81 £58.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.41 £62.35 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +40.65% -15.65% -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 11,899 9,004 10,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.87% 32.67% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,690 6,101 7,349
10th Percentile £363 £345 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
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 501 259 307
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.25 £30.95
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.92 £51.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £79.00 £80.00
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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -36 361 £513 -3.67% 476
North of England -33 145 £500 - 89
South East +6 105 £565 +25.98% 124
South West +4 86 £671 +22.05% 48
Yorkshire -24 65 £508 -0.98% 22
North West -20 58 £538 +11.98% 59
East of England -10 35 £438 -7.89% 30
West Midlands -47 28 £544 -5.39% 15
Midlands -58 28 £544 -1.09% 31
North East -34 21 £413 -20.67% 8
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 (3.86%) Confluence
2 27 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.83%) Apache
4 17 (2.19%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.67%) nginx
7 7 (0.90%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.77%) IIS
8 6 (0.77%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.77%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.51%) SAS
9 4 (0.51%) WordPress
10 3 (0.39%) JBoss
10 3 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.26%) CMS
11 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.03%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.64%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.64%) Summit
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.13%) Actimize
5 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 360 (46.33%) AWS
2 352 (45.30%) Azure
3 191 (24.58%) GitHub
4 153 (19.69%) GCP
5 138 (17.76%) GitHub Actions
6 135 (17.37%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (9.78%) Amazon EKS
8 69 (8.88%) Serverless
9 65 (8.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 64 (8.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 62 (7.98%) Azure Monitor
12 59 (7.59%) Amazon S3
13 54 (6.95%) OpenShift
14 49 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (6.31%) Azure AKS
14 49 (6.31%) Datadog
14 49 (6.31%) Entra ID
14 49 (6.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 44 (5.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 41 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 127 (16.34%) Firewall
2 124 (15.96%) DNS
3 87 (11.20%) TCP/IP
4 66 (8.49%) Network Security
4 66 (8.49%) VPN
5 60 (7.72%) DHCP
6 20 (2.57%) WAN
7 19 (2.45%) SAN
7 19 (2.45%) VSAN
8 16 (2.06%) SSL
8 16 (2.06%) VLAN
9 15 (1.93%) SSH
10 13 (1.67%) SD-WAN
11 12 (1.54%) HTTP
12 11 (1.42%) NAS
13 10 (1.29%) BGP
14 9 (1.16%) 5G
14 9 (1.16%) Kerberos
15 8 (1.03%) 4G
16 7 (0.90%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (3.86%) SQL Server
3 24 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (3.09%) Redis
4 23 (2.96%) MongoDB
5 20 (2.57%) MySQL
6 19 (2.45%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.80%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (1.29%) Big Data
9 10 (1.29%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.29%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.16%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.16%) Metadata
10 9 (1.16%) Pentaho
10 9 (1.16%) Power BI
11 8 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 194 (24.97%) Jenkins
2 160 (20.59%) GitLab
3 151 (19.43%) Git
4 39 (5.02%) JIRA
5 18 (2.32%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.80%) Selenium
6 14 (1.80%) SonarQube
7 12 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (1.42%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.03%) Postman
10 7 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.90%) JMeter
11 6 (0.77%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.77%) Maven
11 6 (0.77%) MLflow
11 6 (0.77%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.64%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.39%) Bugzilla
General
1 179 (23.04%) Social Skills
2 132 (16.99%) Finance
3 96 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.98%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.46%) Banking
6 22 (2.83%) Telecoms
7 14 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.80%) Legal
8 11 (1.42%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.42%) Law
8 11 (1.42%) Military
9 8 (1.03%) Retail
10 5 (0.64%) Front Office
10 5 (0.64%) Publishing
11 4 (0.51%) Automotive
11 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 156 (20.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 103 (13.26%) Senior
3 73 (9.40%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (9.27%) Platform Engineer
5 55 (7.08%) Azure Engineer
5 55 (7.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 54 (6.95%) Security Engineer
7 52 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
8 45 (5.79%) Lead
9 43 (5.53%) Linux Engineer
10 41 (5.28%) Architect
11 37 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 34 (4.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 32 (4.12%) Developer
13 32 (4.12%) Site Engineer
14 31 (3.99%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 29 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
16 27 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
17 26 (3.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (58.56%) Terraform
2 67 (8.62%) Kafka
3 55 (7.08%) ARM Templates
4 42 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
4 42 (5.41%) REST
5 40 (5.15%) YAML
6 21 (2.70%) Loki
7 20 (2.57%) Middleware
8 17 (2.19%) Node.js
8 17 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
9 15 (1.93%) RESTful
10 14 (1.80%) .NET
10 14 (1.80%) JSON
10 14 (1.80%) React
11 12 (1.54%) Flask
11 12 (1.54%) SAML
12 11 (1.42%) LDAP
12 11 (1.42%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (1.42%) Spring
13 10 (1.29%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 122 (15.70%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 40 (5.15%) Security Posture
4 33 (4.25%) PKI
5 32 (4.12%) Linux Command Line
5 32 (4.12%) Onboarding
6 30 (3.86%) Data Centre
6 30 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (3.86%) Management Information System
7 25 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (3.09%) Public Cloud
9 21 (2.70%) Replication
10 20 (2.57%) Product Ownership
11 16 (2.06%) Cloud Security Posture
12 14 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
13 11 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
15 9 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 9 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 371 (47.75%) Linux
2 173 (22.27%) Windows
3 96 (12.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (8.49%) Windows Server
5 51 (6.56%) Unix
6 36 (4.63%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.06%) VMS
8 14 (1.80%) CentOS
9 7 (0.90%) Rocky
9 7 (0.90%) Solaris
10 5 (0.64%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
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
13 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (59.72%) CI/CD
2 424 (54.57%) DevOps
3 410 (52.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 229 (29.47%) Containerisation
5 218 (28.06%) Observability
6 172 (22.14%) Platform Engineering
7 164 (21.11%) Agile
8 153 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 147 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
10 116 (14.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 115 (14.80%) Cloud Security
11 115 (14.80%) DevSecOps
12 101 (13.00%) Infrastructure Automation
13 100 (12.87%) Root Cause Analysis
14 97 (12.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 96 (12.36%) AI
16 92 (11.84%) Configuration Management
17 90 (11.58%) Runbook
18 86 (11.07%) Migration
19 85 (10.94%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 666 (85.71%) Python
2 378 (48.65%) PowerShell
3 103 (13.26%) SQL
4 89 (11.45%) Java
5 80 (10.30%) Bicep
6 67 (8.62%) Go
7 44 (5.66%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.60%) Perl
9 23 (2.96%) Groovy
10 20 (2.57%) JavaScript
11 18 (2.32%) Korn
12 14 (1.80%) Ruby
13 13 (1.67%) TypeScript
14 12 (1.54%) C#
15 9 (1.16%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.51%) Cypher
18 3 (0.39%) C
18 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
18 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 306 (39.38%) Security Cleared
2 226 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 82 (10.55%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.11%) Azure Certification
5 62 (7.98%) AWS Certification
6 58 (7.46%) Degree
7 34 (4.38%) CISSP
8 28 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (1.80%) VCAP
12 12 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (1.29%) CCNA
14 10 (1.29%) CCNP
15 9 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
16 7 (0.90%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.41%) QA
2 34 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (3.60%) NIST
4 16 (2.06%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.42%) GDPR
7 10 (1.29%) SLA
8 7 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.90%) NCSC
9 5 (0.64%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.64%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.51%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.26%) GRC
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 273 (35.14%) Docker
2 83 (10.68%) Active Directory
3 76 (9.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.89%) Hyper-V
5 35 (4.50%) vSphere
6 32 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (2.96%) VMware NSX
8 15 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.29%) Squid
10 9 (1.16%) NFS
11 6 (0.77%) Postfix
12 5 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.51%) Firmware
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
14 3 (0.39%) zsh
15 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 366 (47.10%) Kubernetes
2 285 (36.68%) Ansible
3 169 (21.75%) Grafana
4 142 (18.28%) Prometheus
5 54 (6.95%) Puppet
6 50 (6.44%) Progress Chef
7 42 (5.41%) Argo
8 20 (2.57%) Istio
9 17 (2.19%) Podman
10 14 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.80%) VxRail
11 12 (1.54%) SCCM
11 12 (1.54%) systemd
11 12 (1.54%) vCenter Server
12 11 (1.42%) Packer
13 10 (1.29%) Kibana
13 10 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (1.16%) Check_MK
14 9 (1.16%) Consul
15 8 (1.03%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 147 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 99 (12.74%) VMware
3 87 (11.20%) Google
4 70 (9.01%) Red Hat
5 63 (8.11%) Splunk
6 52 (6.69%) Dynatrace
6 52 (6.69%) Oracle
7 32 (4.12%) Cisco
8 30 (3.86%) CyberArk
9 25 (3.22%) Databricks
10 22 (2.83%) ServiceNow
11 16 (2.06%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.80%) IBM
13 13 (1.67%) NetApp
14 12 (1.54%) SolarWinds
15 11 (1.42%) Fortinet
16 10 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
17 9 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
17 9 (1.16%) BMC
17 9 (1.16%) Remedy