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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 148 204
Rank change year-on-year -50 +56 -75
Contract jobs citing Bash 576 468 437
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.90% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.06% 5.61% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 315 310
10th Percentile £375 £373 £400
25th Percentile £425 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £681 £721 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £54.55 £26.83 £22.00
25th Percentile £57.59 £34.24 £25.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -12.21%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.06 £71.88
90th Percentile £70.41 £67.89 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -12.21%

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 11,391 8,339 11,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.68% 33.90% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,459 5,790 8,149
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% -3.24% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 517 197 481
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.00 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.30 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -52 245 £525 - 76
North of England -5 139 £471 -8.10% 50
Yorkshire -21 81 £500 -4.76% 13
South East -26 75 £470 +4.44% 48
South West -23 50 £538 -10.42% 45
North West -14 46 £513 +4.06% 33
West Midlands -32 39 £467 -24.07% 7
Midlands -44 39 £467 -15.09% 19
East of England -29 16 £494 +3.95% 11
North East -25 12 £413 -25.00% 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 31 (5.38%) Confluence
2 13 (2.26%) Apache
3 11 (1.91%) nginx
3 11 (1.91%) SAS
4 8 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.22%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.04%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.87%) IIS
8 4 (0.69%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.52%) WordPress
10 2 (0.35%) CMS
10 2 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) JBoss
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.17%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 254 (44.10%) AWS
2 222 (38.54%) Azure
3 163 (28.30%) GitHub
4 116 (20.14%) GCP
5 102 (17.71%) GitHub Actions
6 89 (15.45%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (10.24%) OpenShift
8 54 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 52 (9.03%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (8.33%) Serverless
11 46 (7.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 41 (7.12%) Amazon S3
13 38 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 37 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (6.08%) Datadog
15 35 (6.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 30 (5.21%) Azure AKS
17 24 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (13.54%) DNS
2 74 (12.85%) Firewall
3 39 (6.77%) VPN
4 38 (6.60%) TCP/IP
5 31 (5.38%) Network Security
6 18 (3.13%) SAN
7 15 (2.60%) DHCP
7 15 (2.60%) NAS
7 15 (2.60%) SSL
8 13 (2.26%) VLAN
9 11 (1.91%) HTTP
9 11 (1.91%) WAN
10 9 (1.56%) SD-WAN
11 8 (1.39%) Reverse Proxy
12 7 (1.22%) BGP
12 7 (1.22%) SNMP
13 5 (0.87%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (0.69%) Multicast
14 4 (0.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (5.21%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.99%) MongoDB
4 19 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (2.95%) Redis
6 14 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (2.43%) MySQL
7 13 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (2.08%) Pentaho
9 11 (1.91%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.39%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.39%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.22%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (1.04%) Big Data
13 6 (1.04%) Db2
14 5 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.87%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 174 (30.21%) Jenkins
2 115 (19.97%) GitLab
3 101 (17.53%) Git
4 43 (7.47%) JIRA
5 12 (2.08%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.56%) Postman
7 7 (1.22%) JMeter
7 7 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.04%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.04%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.87%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.87%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.69%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.69%) Selenium
10 4 (0.69%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.52%) Ant
11 3 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.52%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.52%) Gradle
General
1 135 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 74 (12.85%) Finance
3 60 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.47%) Banking
6 16 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.60%) Legal
8 12 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.74%) Law
10 7 (1.22%) Military
11 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.69%) Publishing
12 4 (0.69%) Retail
13 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.35%) Aviation
13 2 (0.35%) Front Office
13 2 (0.35%) Police
14 1 (0.17%) Back Office
14 1 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (21.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (9.03%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (9.03%) Cloud Engineer
2 52 (9.03%) Senior
3 47 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
4 44 (7.64%) Security Engineer
5 38 (6.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 32 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 30 (5.21%) Lead
8 29 (5.03%) Architect
8 29 (5.03%) GCP Engineer
8 29 (5.03%) Linux Engineer
8 29 (5.03%) Site Engineer
9 28 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (4.69%) Data Engineer
11 24 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
12 23 (3.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.65%) GCP DevOps
14 20 (3.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (6.60%) Kafka
2 36 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (4.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 25 (4.34%) REST
5 23 (3.99%) YAML
6 21 (3.65%) Middleware
7 16 (2.78%) ARM Templates
8 11 (1.91%) Loki
8 11 (1.91%) SAML
9 10 (1.74%) ADO
9 10 (1.74%) JSON
9 10 (1.74%) LDAP
9 10 (1.74%) Node.js
9 10 (1.74%) OAuth
9 10 (1.74%) Swagger
10 8 (1.39%) .NET
10 8 (1.39%) Keycloak
11 7 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.22%) SOAP
12 6 (1.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 99 (17.19%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (5.03%) Security Posture
4 27 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (3.99%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (3.47%) Linux Command Line
8 19 (3.30%) Management Information System
9 17 (2.95%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.78%) Replication
11 13 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (2.26%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.91%) Product Ownership
13 8 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.22%) Clustering
14 7 (1.22%) PKI
15 6 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
16 5 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
16 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
16 5 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 232 (40.28%) Linux
2 100 (17.36%) Windows
3 59 (10.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 45 (7.81%) Unix
5 29 (5.03%) Windows Server
6 22 (3.82%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.91%) VMS
8 10 (1.74%) AIX
9 8 (1.39%) CentOS
10 6 (1.04%) Mac OS
10 6 (1.04%) Solaris
11 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.35%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.35%) Debian
13 2 (0.35%) Rocky
13 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (58.68%) CI/CD
2 330 (57.29%) DevOps
3 258 (44.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (29.34%) Containerisation
5 150 (26.04%) Observability
6 103 (17.88%) Platform Engineering
7 101 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (16.67%) Agile
9 83 (14.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 78 (13.54%) Migration
11 71 (12.33%) Configuration Management
12 69 (11.98%) Root Cause Analysis
13 66 (11.46%) Cloud Security
13 66 (11.46%) High Availability
14 64 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 62 (10.76%) Infrastructure Automation
16 58 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 55 (9.55%) Test Automation
18 53 (9.20%) SIEM
19 47 (8.16%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 500 (86.81%) Python
2 254 (44.10%) PowerShell
3 81 (14.06%) SQL
4 48 (8.33%) Go
5 46 (7.99%) Java
6 26 (4.51%) Bicep
7 22 (3.82%) Shell Script
8 21 (3.65%) Perl
9 16 (2.78%) Groovy
10 15 (2.60%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.74%) Ruby
12 9 (1.56%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.22%) C
14 6 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.87%) C#
15 5 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.69%) C++
16 4 (0.69%) Scala
16 4 (0.69%) TypeScript
17 2 (0.35%) Jython
Qualifications
1 183 (31.77%) Security Cleared
2 150 (26.04%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.12%) Degree
4 36 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 35 (6.08%) AWS Certification
6 27 (4.69%) DV Cleared
7 21 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (3.13%) CISSP
10 13 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 11 (1.91%) CCNA
12 11 (1.91%) CCNP
13 10 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.74%) RHCE
14 8 (1.39%) RHCA
15 7 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (1.04%) MCSE
17 5 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (3.30%) QA
3 17 (2.95%) NIST
4 14 (2.43%) GDPR
5 13 (2.26%) PCI DSS
5 13 (2.26%) SLA
6 8 (1.39%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.39%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.04%) GRC
7 6 (1.04%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.87%) NCSC
9 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.17%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 167 (28.99%) Docker
2 45 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (7.47%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (6.42%) Active Directory
5 25 (4.34%) vSphere
6 22 (3.82%) Hyper-V
7 17 (2.95%) VMware NSX
8 14 (2.43%) KVM
9 11 (1.91%) Firmware
9 11 (1.91%) Squid
10 9 (1.56%) NFS
10 9 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (1.22%) Postfix
12 4 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.69%) Varnish
13 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.52%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.35%) zsh
Systems Management
1 307 (53.30%) Terraform
2 252 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 225 (39.06%) Ansible
4 133 (23.09%) Grafana
5 120 (20.83%) Prometheus
6 51 (8.85%) Puppet
7 46 (7.99%) Argo
8 33 (5.73%) Progress Chef
9 26 (4.51%) Istio
9 26 (4.51%) vCenter Server
10 13 (2.26%) Packer
11 9 (1.56%) NetBackup
11 9 (1.56%) Podman
12 8 (1.39%) HAProxy
12 8 (1.39%) Kibana
12 8 (1.39%) linkerd
13 7 (1.22%) Rancher
13 7 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (1.04%) IBM BigFix
14 6 (1.04%) systemd
Vendors
1 72 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 69 (11.98%) Splunk
3 61 (10.59%) VMware
4 58 (10.07%) Microsoft
5 46 (7.99%) Google
6 45 (7.81%) Dynatrace
7 37 (6.42%) Oracle
8 22 (3.82%) IBM
9 19 (3.30%) Cisco
9 19 (3.30%) Databricks
10 17 (2.95%) Pure Storage
11 13 (2.26%) Palo Alto
11 13 (2.26%) ServiceNow
12 12 (2.08%) AppDynamics
12 12 (2.08%) Informatica
13 11 (1.91%) Cloudera
13 11 (1.91%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.91%) Talend
13 11 (1.91%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.74%) Fortinet