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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 151 193
Rank change year-on-year -15 +42 -60
Contract jobs citing Bash 760 518 434
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.87% 1.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.34% 5.74% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 346 307
10th Percentile £400 £374 £375
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 £614 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 13
10th Percentile £56.30 £43.90 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £69.61 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.56% -4.35% -20.69%
75th Percentile £96.62 £62.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £99.88 £66.34 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £69.61 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +26.56% -4.35% -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 11,995 9,021 10,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.31% 32.64% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,780 6,180 7,555
10th Percentile £363 £345 £358
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 £653
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +1.98% -4.76% -3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 495 245 358
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.26
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 £79.00 £83.88 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% +8.33%

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 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 14 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 14 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 -31 318 £525 - 410
North of England -12 165 £500 -3.85% 88
South East -13 110 £540 +20.00% 110
South West -2 85 £670 +16.52% 61
Yorkshire -21 74 £515 +0.39% 18
North West +3 66 £538 +7.50% 54
West Midlands -37 35 £487 -0.13% 8
Midlands -38 35 £487 -0.13% 23
East of England -5 28 £450 -5.26% 28
North East -33 24 £425 -22.73% 16
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 37 (4.87%) Confluence
2 21 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.63%) Apache
4 13 (1.71%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.58%) nginx
6 11 (1.45%) SAS
7 6 (0.79%) IIS
7 6 (0.79%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.79%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.53%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.53%) WordPress
10 3 (0.39%) JBoss
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.26%) CMS
11 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.79%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.13%) Summit
4 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 374 (49.21%) AWS
2 338 (44.47%) Azure
3 194 (25.53%) GitHub
4 157 (20.66%) GCP
5 131 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
6 121 (15.92%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (10.13%) Amazon EKS
8 67 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 64 (8.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 64 (8.42%) Serverless
10 62 (8.16%) Amazon S3
11 58 (7.63%) OpenShift
12 52 (6.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 49 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (6.18%) Datadog
14 47 (6.18%) Entra ID
15 46 (6.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 45 (5.92%) Azure Monitor
17 42 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
18 40 (5.26%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 133 (17.50%) DNS
2 129 (16.97%) Firewall
3 80 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 64 (8.42%) VPN
5 59 (7.76%) DHCP
6 55 (7.24%) Network Security
7 19 (2.50%) VSAN
7 19 (2.50%) WAN
8 16 (2.11%) SAN
8 16 (2.11%) SSL
8 16 (2.11%) VLAN
9 15 (1.97%) HTTP
10 13 (1.71%) NAS
10 13 (1.71%) SD-WAN
11 12 (1.58%) SSH
12 9 (1.18%) BGP
12 9 (1.18%) SNMP
13 7 (0.92%) DNSSEC
13 7 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
14 5 (0.66%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 35 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (2.76%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.37%) MySQL
7 17 (2.24%) Redis
8 16 (2.11%) Pentaho
9 13 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (1.45%) Big Data
11 11 (1.45%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.32%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.18%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.18%) Metadata
13 9 (1.18%) Relational Database
14 8 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.05%) DynamoDB
15 7 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 204 (26.84%) Jenkins
2 156 (20.53%) GitLab
3 126 (16.58%) Git
4 43 (5.66%) JIRA
5 14 (1.84%) Artifactory
6 13 (1.71%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.58%) Selenium
7 12 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.05%) Postman
9 7 (0.92%) JMeter
9 7 (0.92%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.79%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.79%) MLflow
10 6 (0.79%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
12 4 (0.53%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.53%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.53%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.39%) Gatling
General
1 169 (22.24%) Social Skills
2 118 (15.53%) Finance
3 89 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 53 (6.97%) Banking
6 17 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.97%) Legal
7 15 (1.97%) Telecoms
8 13 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.32%) Law
10 8 (1.05%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.05%) Military
11 7 (0.92%) Retail
12 5 (0.66%) Publishing
13 4 (0.53%) Automotive
13 4 (0.53%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.53%) Front Office
14 2 (0.26%) Billing
14 2 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 139 (18.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 99 (13.03%) Senior
3 75 (9.87%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (9.47%) Platform Engineer
5 56 (7.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 55 (7.24%) AWS Engineer
7 53 (6.97%) Security Engineer
8 46 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
9 44 (5.79%) Architect
9 44 (5.79%) Lead
10 40 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 37 (4.87%) Linux Engineer
12 34 (4.47%) Site Engineer
13 29 (3.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 28 (3.68%) AWS DevOps
14 28 (3.68%) Data Engineer
14 28 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
14 28 (3.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 27 (3.55%) GCP Engineer
16 26 (3.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.37%) Kafka
2 42 (5.53%) REST
3 39 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
4 38 (5.00%) YAML
5 35 (4.61%) ARM Templates
6 25 (3.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 19 (2.50%) Loki
8 17 (2.24%) .NET
8 17 (2.24%) Middleware
9 15 (1.97%) JSON
10 14 (1.84%) Node.js
10 14 (1.84%) SAML
11 13 (1.71%) SOAP
12 12 (1.58%) LDAP
13 11 (1.45%) OAuth
13 11 (1.45%) RESTful
14 10 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (1.32%) React
14 10 (1.32%) Spring
15 8 (1.05%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 123 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (5.39%) Security Posture
4 33 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (4.34%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.95%) Data Centre
6 29 (3.82%) PKI
7 28 (3.68%) Linux Command Line
8 27 (3.55%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.89%) Public Cloud
10 21 (2.76%) Replication
11 16 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.84%) Cloud Security Posture
14 12 (1.58%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 11 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
17 9 (1.18%) Clustering
17 9 (1.18%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 349 (45.92%) Linux
2 168 (22.11%) Windows
3 83 (10.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 60 (7.89%) Windows Server
5 45 (5.92%) Unix
6 34 (4.47%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.58%) CentOS
8 11 (1.45%) VMS
9 7 (0.92%) AIX
9 7 (0.92%) Solaris
10 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.53%) 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%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.26%) Debian
13 2 (0.26%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (57.50%) CI/CD
2 408 (53.68%) DevOps
3 379 (49.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 205 (26.97%) Containerisation
5 193 (25.39%) Observability
6 159 (20.92%) Platform Engineering
7 140 (18.42%) Agile
8 139 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
9 128 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 119 (15.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 108 (14.21%) Cloud Security
12 98 (12.89%) DevSecOps
13 97 (12.76%) Infrastructure Automation
14 94 (12.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 91 (11.97%) Migration
16 88 (11.58%) Configuration Management
17 86 (11.32%) SIEM
18 85 (11.18%) Runbook
19 84 (11.05%) AI
20 83 (10.92%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 654 (86.05%) Python
2 368 (48.42%) PowerShell
3 104 (13.68%) SQL
4 75 (9.87%) Java
5 62 (8.16%) Go
6 60 (7.89%) Bicep
7 32 (4.21%) Shell Script
8 24 (3.16%) Perl
9 21 (2.76%) Groovy
10 16 (2.11%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.45%) C#
11 11 (1.45%) Ruby
12 10 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.32%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.92%) Korn
14 5 (0.66%) C
14 5 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.66%) Scala
14 5 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 280 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 211 (27.76%) SC Cleared
3 72 (9.47%) DV Cleared
4 61 (8.03%) AWS Certification
5 59 (7.76%) Azure Certification
6 52 (6.84%) Degree
7 32 (4.21%) CISSP
8 29 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 16 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.84%) VCAP
13 13 (1.71%) CCNP
14 12 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (1.45%) CCNA
15 11 (1.45%) RHCE
16 10 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (1.18%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (4.08%) QA
3 26 (3.42%) NIST
4 16 (2.11%) GDPR
4 16 (2.11%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.58%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.45%) SLA
7 8 (1.05%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.66%) GRC
9 5 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.39%) NCSC
12 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
12 2 (0.26%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 240 (31.58%) Docker
2 83 (10.92%) Active Directory
3 76 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 34 (4.47%) vSphere
6 33 (4.34%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (3.42%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.32%) NFS
9 10 (1.32%) Squid
10 7 (0.92%) Firmware
10 7 (0.92%) KVM
10 7 (0.92%) Postfix
11 5 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.53%) Varnish
12 4 (0.53%) zsh
13 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.39%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 438 (57.63%) Terraform
2 348 (45.79%) Kubernetes
3 285 (37.50%) Ansible
4 156 (20.53%) Grafana
5 136 (17.89%) Prometheus
6 61 (8.03%) Puppet
7 51 (6.71%) Progress Chef
8 45 (5.92%) Argo
9 25 (3.29%) Istio
10 18 (2.37%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.84%) Podman
11 14 (1.84%) VxRail
12 13 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (1.71%) Packer
13 12 (1.58%) SCCM
13 12 (1.58%) systemd
14 11 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (1.18%) NetBackup
16 8 (1.05%) HAProxy
16 8 (1.05%) Kibana
Vendors
1 129 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 99 (13.03%) VMware
3 84 (11.05%) Google
4 72 (9.47%) Red Hat
5 57 (7.50%) Oracle
6 55 (7.24%) Splunk
7 52 (6.84%) Dynatrace
8 34 (4.47%) CyberArk
9 32 (4.21%) Cisco
10 24 (3.16%) Databricks
11 22 (2.89%) ServiceNow
12 20 (2.63%) IBM
13 14 (1.84%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.71%) Cloudera
15 12 (1.58%) Informatica
15 12 (1.58%) SolarWinds
16 11 (1.45%) Talend
17 10 (1.32%) Fortinet
17 10 (1.32%) Zscaler
18 9 (1.18%) Pure Storage