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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 143 204
Rank change year-on-year -23 +61 -61
Contract jobs citing Bash 778 545 417
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.96% 1.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.46% 5.97% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 357 286
10th Percentile £400 £376 £363
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 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 10
10th Percentile £56.50 - £24.93
25th Percentile £58.43 £41.25 £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 12,038 9,131 10,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.95% 32.82% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,784 6,184 7,375
10th Percentile £363 £349 £354
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 499 265 303
10th Percentile £28.40 £31.25 £30.65
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £50.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.25 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -40 357 £513 -2.61% 202
North of England -29 145 £500 - 46
South East +2 106 £562 +18.21% 82
South West +1 87 £671 +19.22% 28
Yorkshire -30 65 £508 +1.50% 12
North West -9 57 £531 +11.84% 30
East of England -12 35 £438 -7.89% 18
West Midlands -46 29 £525 -8.70% 9
Midlands -54 29 £525 -6.67% 19
North East -40 22 £413 -20.67% 4
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 32 (4.11%) Confluence
2 27 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.83%) Apache
4 16 (2.06%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.54%) nginx
7 7 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.90%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.77%) IIS
8 6 (0.77%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.64%) SAS
10 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.51%) WordPress
11 3 (0.39%) JBoss
11 3 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.26%) CMS
12 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 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 4 (0.51%) Front Arena
3 4 (0.51%) 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
1 361 (46.40%) AWS
2 354 (45.50%) Azure
3 193 (24.81%) GitHub
4 154 (19.79%) GCP
5 138 (17.74%) Azure DevOps
5 138 (17.74%) GitHub Actions
6 75 (9.64%) Amazon EKS
7 70 (9.00%) Serverless
8 65 (8.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 64 (8.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 63 (8.10%) Azure Monitor
11 61 (7.84%) Amazon S3
12 55 (7.07%) OpenShift
13 50 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (6.43%) Azure AKS
14 49 (6.30%) Datadog
15 48 (6.17%) Entra ID
15 48 (6.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 44 (5.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 41 (5.27%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 127 (16.32%) Firewall
2 125 (16.07%) DNS
3 86 (11.05%) TCP/IP
4 66 (8.48%) Network Security
4 66 (8.48%) VPN
5 60 (7.71%) DHCP
6 20 (2.57%) WAN
7 19 (2.44%) SAN
7 19 (2.44%) 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 (1.41%) 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 40 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.11%) SQL Server
3 24 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (3.08%) Redis
4 22 (2.83%) MongoDB
5 21 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 20 (2.57%) MySQL
7 15 (1.93%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (1.41%) Big Data
10 10 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.29%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.29%) Pentaho
11 9 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.16%) Delta Lake
11 9 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.16%) Metadata
11 9 (1.16%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 194 (24.94%) Jenkins
2 162 (20.82%) GitLab
3 154 (19.79%) Git
4 41 (5.27%) JIRA
5 18 (2.31%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.80%) Selenium
7 13 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (1.41%) 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
14 3 (0.39%) Bugzilla
14 3 (0.39%) Gatling
General
1 180 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 129 (16.58%) Finance
3 96 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.71%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.20%) Banking
6 22 (2.83%) Telecoms
7 16 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.80%) Legal
9 11 (1.41%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.41%) Law
10 9 (1.16%) Military
11 8 (1.03%) Retail
12 5 (0.64%) Front Office
12 5 (0.64%) Publishing
13 4 (0.51%) Automotive
13 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.39%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 154 (19.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 102 (13.11%) Senior
3 73 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
4 72 (9.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 57 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 55 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
7 53 (6.81%) Security Engineer
8 51 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
9 44 (5.66%) Lead
10 43 (5.53%) Linux Engineer
11 42 (5.40%) Architect
12 37 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 34 (4.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 32 (4.11%) Developer
14 32 (4.11%) Site Engineer
15 31 (3.98%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 27 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
17 26 (3.34%) GCP Engineer
17 26 (3.34%) Network Engineer
18 25 (3.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 456 (58.61%) Terraform
2 67 (8.61%) Kafka
3 55 (7.07%) ARM Templates
4 42 (5.40%) REST
5 41 (5.27%) Elastic Stack
6 40 (5.14%) YAML
7 21 (2.70%) Loki
8 19 (2.44%) Middleware
9 17 (2.19%) Node.js
9 17 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
10 15 (1.93%) RESTful
11 14 (1.80%) .NET
11 14 (1.80%) JSON
11 14 (1.80%) React
12 12 (1.54%) Flask
12 12 (1.54%) LDAP
12 12 (1.54%) SAML
12 12 (1.54%) Spring
13 11 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (1.29%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 123 (15.81%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 40 (5.14%) Security Posture
4 32 (4.11%) Linux Command Line
4 32 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 32 (4.11%) PKI
5 31 (3.98%) Data Centre
5 31 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (3.73%) Management Information System
7 24 (3.08%) Public Cloud
8 23 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
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 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 9 (1.16%) Enterprise Storage
15 9 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 368 (47.30%) Linux
2 173 (22.24%) Windows
3 95 (12.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (8.61%) Windows Server
5 50 (6.43%) Unix
6 36 (4.63%) Ubuntu
7 16 (2.06%) VMS
8 13 (1.67%) 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 (59.64%) CI/CD
2 425 (54.63%) DevOps
3 407 (52.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 229 (29.43%) Containerisation
5 217 (27.89%) Observability
6 171 (21.98%) Platform Engineering
7 162 (20.82%) Agile
8 152 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 149 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (15.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 114 (14.65%) DevSecOps
12 111 (14.27%) Cloud Security
13 100 (12.85%) Infrastructure Automation
14 98 (12.60%) AI
14 98 (12.60%) Root Cause Analysis
15 97 (12.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 91 (11.70%) Configuration Management
17 90 (11.57%) Runbook
18 86 (11.05%) Migration
19 84 (10.80%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 667 (85.73%) Python
2 379 (48.71%) PowerShell
3 105 (13.50%) SQL
4 90 (11.57%) Java
5 81 (10.41%) Bicep
6 65 (8.35%) Go
7 43 (5.53%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.60%) Perl
9 24 (3.08%) Groovy
10 19 (2.44%) JavaScript
11 16 (2.06%) Korn
12 14 (1.80%) Ruby
13 13 (1.67%) TypeScript
14 11 (1.41%) C#
15 9 (1.16%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.51%) Cypher
17 4 (0.51%) Scala
18 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
18 3 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 303 (38.95%) Security Cleared
2 224 (28.79%) SC Cleared
3 82 (10.54%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.10%) Azure Certification
5 61 (7.84%) AWS Certification
6 58 (7.46%) Degree
7 34 (4.37%) 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 (1.41%) 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 (5.40%) QA
2 34 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (3.60%) NIST
4 17 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.41%) GDPR
7 10 (1.29%) SLA
8 7 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.77%) NCSC
10 5 (0.64%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.64%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.51%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.26%) GRC
13 2 (0.26%) HL7
14 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 273 (35.09%) Docker
2 84 (10.80%) Active Directory
3 76 (9.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.88%) Hyper-V
5 35 (4.50%) vSphere
6 33 (4.24%) 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 4 (0.51%) Firmware
12 4 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.39%) KVM
13 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.39%) Varnish
13 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.39%) zsh
14 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 364 (46.79%) Kubernetes
2 285 (36.63%) Ansible
3 169 (21.72%) Grafana
4 142 (18.25%) Prometheus
5 54 (6.94%) Puppet
6 50 (6.43%) Progress Chef
7 42 (5.40%) Argo
8 19 (2.44%) 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 10 (1.29%) Kibana
12 10 (1.29%) Packer
12 10 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (1.16%) Check_MK
14 8 (1.03%) Cilium
14 8 (1.03%) Consul
Vendors
1 149 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 99 (12.72%) VMware
3 88 (11.31%) Google
4 71 (9.13%) Red Hat
5 63 (8.10%) Splunk
6 53 (6.81%) Dynatrace
6 53 (6.81%) Oracle
7 32 (4.11%) Cisco
8 31 (3.98%) CyberArk
9 26 (3.34%) Databricks
10 22 (2.83%) ServiceNow
11 16 (2.06%) Palo Alto
12 15 (1.93%) IBM
13 13 (1.67%) NetApp
14 12 (1.54%) SolarWinds
15 11 (1.41%) Fortinet
16 10 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
17 9 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
17 9 (1.16%) BMC
17 9 (1.16%) Remedy