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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 148 197
Rank change year-on-year -13 +49 -64
Contract jobs citing Bash 746 517 416
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 1.87% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.21% 5.70% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 347 296
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 £616 £638
90th Percentile £720 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 13
10th Percentile £56.25 £43.90 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -4.35% -19.30%
75th Percentile £98.82 £62.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.00 £66.34 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +21.82% -4.35% -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 12,018 9,063 10,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.34% 32.85% 31.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,794 6,235 7,560
10th Percentile £363 £345 £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 £655
90th Percentile £738 £763 £794
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £530
% change year-on-year +1.89% -5.09% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 497 234 361
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.25 £38.33 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £84.85 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -38 312 £513 -2.61% 195
North of England -18 163 £510 -1.97% 73
South East -10 105 £537 +21.36% 64
South West +2 83 £631 +9.78% 50
Yorkshire -22 75 £515 -0.82% 19
North West 0 63 £544 +8.75% 42
Midlands -46 35 £487 -0.13% 13
West Midlands -46 35 £487 -0.13% 7
East of England -8 28 £450 -5.26% 22
North East -32 24 £425 -22.73% 12
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 (5.23%) Confluence
2 21 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.55%) Apache
4 13 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.47%) nginx
5 11 (1.47%) SAS
6 8 (1.07%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.80%) IIS
7 6 (0.80%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.54%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.54%) WordPress
10 3 (0.40%) JBoss
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.54%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 366 (49.06%) AWS
2 332 (44.50%) Azure
3 198 (26.54%) GitHub
4 150 (20.11%) GCP
5 132 (17.69%) GitHub Actions
6 120 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (10.19%) Amazon EKS
8 65 (8.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 64 (8.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 63 (8.45%) Serverless
11 62 (8.31%) Amazon S3
12 58 (7.77%) OpenShift
13 52 (6.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 49 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
15 45 (6.03%) Azure Monitor
15 45 (6.03%) Datadog
16 42 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
16 42 (5.63%) Entra ID
16 42 (5.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 38 (5.09%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 133 (17.83%) DNS
2 127 (17.02%) Firewall
3 80 (10.72%) TCP/IP
4 61 (8.18%) VPN
5 58 (7.77%) DHCP
6 51 (6.84%) Network Security
7 18 (2.41%) VSAN
8 17 (2.28%) WAN
9 16 (2.14%) SAN
9 16 (2.14%) SSL
9 16 (2.14%) VLAN
10 15 (2.01%) HTTP
11 13 (1.74%) NAS
11 13 (1.74%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.47%) SSH
13 9 (1.21%) SNMP
14 7 (0.94%) DNSSEC
14 7 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
15 6 (0.80%) BGP
16 5 (0.67%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.96%) SQL Server
2 34 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (2.82%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.55%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.41%) MySQL
7 17 (2.28%) Redis
8 16 (2.14%) Pentaho
9 13 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (1.47%) Big Data
12 10 (1.34%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.34%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.21%) DynamoDB
13 9 (1.21%) Relational Database
14 8 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.07%) Metadata
15 6 (0.80%) Delta Lake
15 6 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 205 (27.48%) Jenkins
2 151 (20.24%) GitLab
3 119 (15.95%) Git
4 43 (5.76%) JIRA
5 13 (1.74%) Artifactory
6 12 (1.61%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.61%) Selenium
6 12 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.07%) Postman
8 7 (0.94%) JMeter
8 7 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.80%) MLflow
9 6 (0.80%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (0.67%) Liquibase
11 4 (0.54%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.54%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.54%) Spinnaker
General
1 163 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 105 (14.08%) Finance
3 84 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (9.12%) Public Sector
5 48 (6.43%) Banking
6 17 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.14%) Legal
8 13 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.21%) Law
10 8 (1.07%) Military
11 7 (0.94%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.94%) Retail
12 5 (0.67%) Publishing
13 4 (0.54%) Automotive
13 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.54%) Front Office
14 2 (0.27%) Billing
14 2 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 141 (18.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 94 (12.60%) Senior
3 71 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
4 70 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 55 (7.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 54 (7.24%) AWS Engineer
7 50 (6.70%) Security Engineer
8 47 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
9 45 (6.03%) Lead
10 43 (5.76%) Architect
11 41 (5.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 34 (4.56%) Linux Engineer
13 33 (4.42%) Site Engineer
14 30 (4.02%) Data Engineer
15 27 (3.62%) AWS DevOps
15 27 (3.62%) Senior DevOps
15 27 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 25 (3.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 25 (3.35%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (7.10%) Kafka
2 40 (5.36%) REST
3 39 (5.23%) Elastic Stack
4 37 (4.96%) YAML
5 34 (4.56%) ARM Templates
6 27 (3.62%) OpenTelemetry
7 19 (2.55%) Loki
8 18 (2.41%) Middleware
9 15 (2.01%) .NET
9 15 (2.01%) JSON
10 14 (1.88%) Node.js
11 13 (1.74%) LDAP
11 13 (1.74%) SAML
12 11 (1.47%) SOAP
13 10 (1.34%) OAuth
13 10 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (1.34%) RESTful
14 9 (1.21%) React
14 9 (1.21%) Spring
15 8 (1.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 117 (15.68%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (4.96%) Security Posture
4 33 (4.42%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (3.89%) Data Centre
7 28 (3.75%) Linux Command Line
8 27 (3.62%) PKI
9 25 (3.35%) Management Information System
10 21 (2.82%) Replication
11 20 (2.68%) Public Cloud
12 16 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
14 11 (1.47%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.34%) Cloud Security Posture
15 10 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 9 (1.21%) Clustering
16 9 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
17 8 (1.07%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 336 (45.04%) Linux
2 164 (21.98%) Windows
3 80 (10.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 57 (7.64%) Windows Server
5 45 (6.03%) Unix
6 34 (4.56%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.61%) VMS
8 10 (1.34%) CentOS
9 7 (0.94%) AIX
9 7 (0.94%) Solaris
10 5 (0.67%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.27%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.27%) Debian
13 2 (0.27%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (58.04%) CI/CD
2 404 (54.16%) DevOps
3 367 (49.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 205 (27.48%) Containerisation
5 183 (24.53%) Observability
6 155 (20.78%) Platform Engineering
7 139 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
8 135 (18.10%) Agile
9 122 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 119 (15.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 101 (13.54%) Cloud Security
12 92 (12.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 89 (11.93%) DevSecOps
13 89 (11.93%) Migration
14 87 (11.66%) Infrastructure Automation
15 85 (11.39%) Configuration Management
16 83 (11.13%) High Availability
16 83 (11.13%) SIEM
17 79 (10.59%) AI
18 78 (10.46%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 640 (85.79%) Python
2 352 (47.18%) PowerShell
3 103 (13.81%) SQL
4 70 (9.38%) Java
5 56 (7.51%) Go
6 54 (7.24%) Bicep
7 30 (4.02%) Shell Script
8 24 (3.22%) Perl
9 23 (3.08%) Groovy
10 17 (2.28%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.47%) Ruby
12 10 (1.34%) C#
12 10 (1.34%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.34%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.94%) C
14 6 (0.80%) Korn
15 5 (0.67%) Scala
15 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.54%) C++
16 4 (0.54%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 271 (36.33%) Security Cleared
2 207 (27.75%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.45%) DV Cleared
4 59 (7.91%) AWS Certification
5 56 (7.51%) Azure Certification
6 53 (7.10%) Degree
7 27 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (3.49%) CISSP
9 22 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 16 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 13 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.74%) CCNP
12 13 (1.74%) VCAP
13 12 (1.61%) CCNA
14 11 (1.47%) RHCE
15 9 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.21%) RHCA
16 7 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.16%) QA
2 28 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.82%) NIST
4 16 (2.14%) GDPR
5 15 (2.01%) PCI DSS
6 12 (1.61%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.47%) SLA
8 8 (1.07%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.67%) GRC
10 5 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.27%) HL7
13 2 (0.27%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.27%) NCSC
14 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 240 (32.17%) Docker
2 77 (10.32%) Active Directory
3 76 (10.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (5.36%) Hyper-V
5 36 (4.83%) Virtual Machines
5 36 (4.83%) vSphere
6 28 (3.75%) VMware NSX
7 13 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.34%) NFS
8 10 (1.34%) Squid
9 8 (1.07%) Firmware
9 8 (1.07%) KVM
10 7 (0.94%) Postfix
11 5 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.54%) Varnish
12 4 (0.54%) zsh
13 3 (0.40%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.40%) OpenSSH
13 3 (0.40%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 429 (57.51%) Terraform
2 335 (44.91%) Kubernetes
3 281 (37.67%) Ansible
4 154 (20.64%) Grafana
5 132 (17.69%) Prometheus
6 63 (8.45%) Puppet
7 49 (6.57%) Progress Chef
8 48 (6.43%) Argo
9 23 (3.08%) Istio
10 21 (2.82%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (1.88%) Podman
12 13 (1.74%) Packer
12 13 (1.74%) VxRail
13 12 (1.61%) systemd
14 11 (1.47%) NetBackup
14 11 (1.47%) SCCM
14 11 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (1.07%) HAProxy
16 7 (0.94%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 121 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 99 (13.27%) VMware
3 80 (10.72%) Google
4 74 (9.92%) Red Hat
5 56 (7.51%) Oracle
5 56 (7.51%) Splunk
6 52 (6.97%) Dynatrace
7 30 (4.02%) Cisco
7 30 (4.02%) CyberArk
8 22 (2.95%) Databricks
8 22 (2.95%) IBM
9 21 (2.82%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.74%) Cloudera
10 13 (1.74%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.61%) Informatica
11 12 (1.61%) Pure Storage
11 12 (1.61%) SolarWinds
12 11 (1.47%) Talend
12 11 (1.47%) Zscaler
13 9 (1.21%) F5