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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 148 197
Rank change year-on-year -22 +49 -63
Contract jobs citing Bash 722 523 421
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 1.89% 1.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.07% 5.78% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 351 300
10th Percentile £399 £364 £375
25th Percentile £450 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £56.25 £44.82 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £47.13 £25.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.37% -4.78% -19.30%
75th Percentile £98.82 £63.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.00 £64.80 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £54.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +22.37% -4.78% -17.86%

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 11,903 9,056 10,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.37% 32.80% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,713 6,248 7,619
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 £651
90th Percentile £738 £763 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 495 228 360
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.53 £40.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.80 £83.42 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -37 307 £519 -3.04% 203
North of England -8 155 £513 -1.44% 79
South East -14 103 £539 +21.69% 63
South West -10 80 £631 +9.78% 69
Yorkshire -25 70 £514 +0.29% 18
North West -8 64 £544 +8.75% 51
West Midlands -41 34 £493 +1.22% 8
Midlands -42 34 £493 +1.22% 16
East of England -9 24 £483 +1.58% 17
North East -35 20 £406 -26.14% 10
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 39 (5.40%) Confluence
2 21 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.63%) Apache
4 13 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.52%) nginx
5 11 (1.52%) SAS
6 7 (0.97%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.83%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.69%) IIS
9 4 (0.55%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.55%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.55%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.55%) WordPress
10 3 (0.42%) JBoss
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.28%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.55%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.14%) Actimize
4 1 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 357 (49.45%) AWS
2 325 (45.01%) Azure
3 192 (26.59%) GitHub
4 151 (20.91%) GCP
5 128 (17.73%) GitHub Actions
6 118 (16.34%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (10.11%) Amazon EKS
8 64 (8.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 62 (8.59%) Serverless
10 60 (8.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 60 (8.31%) Amazon S3
11 55 (7.62%) OpenShift
12 50 (6.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 47 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (6.23%) Datadog
15 42 (5.82%) Azure Monitor
15 42 (5.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 41 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (5.26%) Entra ID
18 36 (4.99%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 122 (16.90%) DNS
2 120 (16.62%) Firewall
3 73 (10.11%) TCP/IP
4 56 (7.76%) VPN
5 54 (7.48%) DHCP
6 50 (6.93%) Network Security
7 17 (2.35%) VSAN
8 16 (2.22%) SAN
8 16 (2.22%) VLAN
9 15 (2.08%) SSL
10 14 (1.94%) WAN
11 13 (1.80%) NAS
12 11 (1.52%) HTTP
13 10 (1.39%) SD-WAN
14 9 (1.25%) SNMP
15 8 (1.11%) SSH
16 7 (0.97%) BGP
16 7 (0.97%) DNSSEC
16 7 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
17 4 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.85%) SQL Server
2 29 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (2.49%) MongoDB
5 16 (2.22%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.08%) MySQL
6 15 (2.08%) Pentaho
7 14 (1.94%) Redis
8 13 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.39%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.39%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.25%) Big Data
11 9 (1.25%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.11%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.11%) Metadata
13 6 (0.83%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 196 (27.15%) Jenkins
2 142 (19.67%) GitLab
3 115 (15.93%) Git
4 43 (5.96%) JIRA
5 13 (1.80%) Artifactory
6 12 (1.66%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (1.39%) Selenium
9 8 (1.11%) Postman
10 7 (0.97%) JMeter
11 6 (0.83%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.83%) MLflow
11 6 (0.83%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.83%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
12 5 (0.69%) Liquibase
13 4 (0.55%) Claude Code
13 4 (0.55%) Jaeger
14 3 (0.42%) Bugzilla
General
1 162 (22.44%) Social Skills
2 101 (13.99%) Finance
3 78 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.51%) Banking
6 17 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (2.35%) Legal
7 12 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.11%) Law
8 8 (1.11%) Military
8 8 (1.11%) Telecoms
9 7 (0.97%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.69%) Publishing
10 5 (0.69%) Retail
11 4 (0.55%) Automotive
11 4 (0.55%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.55%) Front Office
12 2 (0.28%) Billing
12 2 (0.28%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 136 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 92 (12.74%) Senior
3 69 (9.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 69 (9.56%) Platform Engineer
4 53 (7.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 51 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
5 51 (7.06%) Security Engineer
6 45 (6.23%) Azure Engineer
7 44 (6.09%) Architect
8 43 (5.96%) Lead
9 41 (5.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 34 (4.71%) Linux Engineer
11 33 (4.57%) Site Engineer
12 29 (4.02%) Data Engineer
13 26 (3.60%) AWS DevOps
13 26 (3.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 26 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
13 26 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 25 (3.46%) GCP Engineer
15 24 (3.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (6.79%) Kafka
2 37 (5.12%) Elastic Stack
3 36 (4.99%) REST
3 36 (4.99%) YAML
4 34 (4.71%) ARM Templates
5 27 (3.74%) OpenTelemetry
6 19 (2.63%) Loki
7 18 (2.49%) Middleware
8 15 (2.08%) JSON
9 14 (1.94%) .NET
9 14 (1.94%) Node.js
10 13 (1.80%) LDAP
11 12 (1.66%) SAML
12 11 (1.52%) SOAP
13 10 (1.39%) OAuth
14 9 (1.25%) React
15 8 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (1.11%) Swagger
16 7 (0.97%) AngularJS
16 7 (0.97%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 114 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (5.26%) Security Posture
4 32 (4.43%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (4.16%) Data Centre
7 26 (3.60%) Linux Command Line
7 26 (3.60%) PKI
8 24 (3.32%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.91%) Replication
10 19 (2.63%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.66%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
15 10 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
15 10 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 9 (1.25%) Clustering
16 9 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
17 8 (1.11%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 319 (44.18%) Linux
2 157 (21.75%) Windows
3 79 (10.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 54 (7.48%) Windows Server
5 40 (5.54%) Unix
6 34 (4.71%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.52%) VMS
8 9 (1.25%) CentOS
9 7 (0.97%) AIX
9 7 (0.97%) Solaris
10 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.28%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.28%) Debian
12 2 (0.28%) Rocky
12 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (58.17%) CI/CD
2 390 (54.02%) DevOps
3 353 (48.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 202 (27.98%) Containerisation
5 175 (24.24%) Observability
6 147 (20.36%) Platform Engineering
7 136 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
8 130 (18.01%) Agile
9 115 (15.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 114 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 97 (13.43%) Cloud Security
12 89 (12.33%) DevSecOps
12 89 (12.33%) Migration
13 88 (12.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 83 (11.50%) Infrastructure Automation
15 82 (11.36%) SIEM
16 81 (11.22%) Configuration Management
16 81 (11.22%) High Availability
17 78 (10.80%) AI
18 74 (10.25%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 619 (85.73%) Python
2 341 (47.23%) PowerShell
3 96 (13.30%) SQL
4 65 (9.00%) Java
5 55 (7.62%) Bicep
5 55 (7.62%) Go
6 26 (3.60%) Shell Script
7 25 (3.46%) Perl
8 22 (3.05%) Groovy
9 17 (2.35%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.52%) Ruby
11 10 (1.39%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.39%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.11%) C#
13 7 (0.97%) C
14 5 (0.69%) Korn
14 5 (0.69%) Scala
14 5 (0.69%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.55%) C++
15 4 (0.55%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 263 (36.43%) Security Cleared
2 203 (28.12%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.45%) DV Cleared
4 56 (7.76%) AWS Certification
5 52 (7.20%) Azure Certification
6 50 (6.93%) Degree
7 28 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (3.60%) CISSP
9 19 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (2.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (1.94%) CCNP
12 13 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.80%) CCNA
13 12 (1.66%) VCAP
14 11 (1.52%) RHCE
15 9 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.25%) RHCA
16 7 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 28 (3.88%) QA
2 20 (2.77%) NIST
3 15 (2.08%) GDPR
4 14 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.66%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.52%) SLA
7 8 (1.11%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.69%) GRC
9 5 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.28%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.28%) NCSC
13 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.14%) HL7
13 1 (0.14%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 229 (31.72%) Docker
2 75 (10.39%) Active Directory
3 72 (9.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (5.12%) Hyper-V
5 36 (4.99%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (4.71%) vSphere
7 27 (3.74%) VMware NSX
8 12 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.39%) NFS
9 10 (1.39%) Squid
10 8 (1.11%) Firmware
10 8 (1.11%) KVM
11 7 (0.97%) Postfix
12 5 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.55%) Varnish
13 4 (0.55%) zsh
14 3 (0.42%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.42%) OpenSSH
14 3 (0.42%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 415 (57.48%) Terraform
2 322 (44.60%) Kubernetes
3 273 (37.81%) Ansible
4 145 (20.08%) Grafana
5 124 (17.17%) Prometheus
6 62 (8.59%) Puppet
7 47 (6.51%) Argo
7 47 (6.51%) Progress Chef
8 23 (3.19%) Istio
9 21 (2.91%) vCenter Server
10 14 (1.94%) Podman
11 12 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (1.66%) Packer
11 12 (1.66%) systemd
11 12 (1.66%) VxRail
12 11 (1.52%) NetBackup
12 11 (1.52%) SCCM
13 8 (1.11%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.97%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.97%) Rancher
Vendors
1 118 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 94 (13.02%) VMware
3 79 (10.94%) Google
4 74 (10.25%) Red Hat
5 55 (7.62%) Oracle
6 54 (7.48%) Splunk
7 50 (6.93%) Dynatrace
8 29 (4.02%) Cisco
9 28 (3.88%) CyberArk
10 22 (3.05%) Databricks
10 22 (3.05%) IBM
11 21 (2.91%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.80%) Cloudera
12 13 (1.80%) Palo Alto
13 12 (1.66%) Informatica
13 12 (1.66%) Pure Storage
13 12 (1.66%) SolarWinds
14 11 (1.52%) Talend
14 11 (1.52%) Zscaler
15 9 (1.25%) F5