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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 143 212
Rank change year-on-year -37 +69 -78
Contract jobs citing Bash 569 466 400
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.91% 1.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.21% 5.64% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 303 273
10th Percentile £393 £376 £400
25th Percentile £416 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -14.00%
75th Percentile £575 £673 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.90% -10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 9
10th Percentile £52.35 £25.25 £21.70
25th Percentile £58.43 £31.99 £22.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% +3.81% -28.08%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £77.50 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £68.70 £54.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +26.05% +3.81% -28.08%

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 10,920 8,259 10,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.86% 33.86% 28.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,280 5,686 7,810
10th Percentile £352 £362 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.61%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 519 212 426
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.31 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.40 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.32
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.03% -3.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -51 220 £513 -6.82% 94
North of England -19 149 £500 -9.09% 41
South East -7 85 £470 +1.51% 54
Yorkshire -33 77 £470 -14.55% 11
North West -8 63 £550 +2.56% 18
Midlands -35 46 £463 -19.57% 17
West Midlands -31 43 £465 -28.60% 10
South West -38 41 £531 -11.46% 23
North East -11 13 £550 -1.35% 12
East of England -31 11 £413 -13.16% 19
East Midlands -32 3 £436 +10.38% 7
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 (5.45%) Confluence
2 14 (2.46%) OpenStack
3 11 (1.93%) nginx
4 8 (1.41%) SAS
5 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.05%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.88%) Apache
7 5 (0.88%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.53%) IIS
10 2 (0.35%) CMS
10 2 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.35%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.18%) FileNet
11 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Weka
2 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 256 (44.99%) AWS
2 223 (39.19%) Azure
3 156 (27.42%) GitHub
4 109 (19.16%) GCP
5 87 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
6 83 (14.59%) GitHub Actions
7 73 (12.83%) OpenShift
8 57 (10.02%) Serverless
9 54 (9.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 51 (8.96%) Amazon S3
11 46 (8.08%) Amazon EKS
12 43 (7.56%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (5.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 32 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (5.10%) Azure AKS
17 27 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
18 25 (4.39%) Entra ID
19 22 (3.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 21 (3.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 80 (14.06%) Firewall
2 68 (11.95%) DNS
3 42 (7.38%) TCP/IP
4 28 (4.92%) VPN
5 20 (3.51%) Network Security
5 20 (3.51%) VLAN
6 15 (2.64%) DHCP
7 13 (2.28%) HTTP
8 12 (2.11%) BGP
9 10 (1.76%) SNMP
10 8 (1.41%) SAN
10 8 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (1.41%) SSH
10 8 (1.41%) SSL
11 7 (1.23%) NAS
11 7 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
12 6 (1.05%) WebEx
12 6 (1.05%) Wireshark
13 5 (0.88%) SMTP
14 4 (0.70%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (10.72%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (5.80%) SQL Server
3 30 (5.27%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (3.87%) MongoDB
5 19 (3.34%) NoSQL
6 16 (2.81%) MySQL
6 16 (2.81%) Redis
7 15 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.76%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.58%) Big Data
10 9 (1.58%) Pentaho
11 8 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.23%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.05%) DB2
14 5 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
14 5 (0.88%) Data Vault
14 5 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 162 (28.47%) Jenkins
2 118 (20.74%) GitLab
3 94 (16.52%) Git
4 40 (7.03%) JIRA
5 13 (2.28%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.76%) CircleCI
7 8 (1.41%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.05%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.88%) Selenium
10 4 (0.70%) ScriptRunner
10 4 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.70%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.53%) Ant
11 3 (0.53%) Appium
11 3 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.53%) Jaeger
11 3 (0.53%) Snyk
12 2 (0.35%) Introscope
General
1 154 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 81 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (9.67%) Finance
4 51 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.75%) Banking
6 20 (3.51%) Legal
7 14 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.58%) Retail
10 8 (1.41%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.05%) Military
12 5 (0.88%) Law
13 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.53%) Private Banking
15 2 (0.35%) Aviation
15 2 (0.35%) Billing
15 2 (0.35%) Games
15 2 (0.35%) Police
15 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (17.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (13.88%) Platform Engineer
3 48 (8.44%) Senior
4 41 (7.21%) Architect
5 37 (6.50%) AWS Engineer
6 33 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 30 (5.27%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (5.10%) Security Engineer
8 29 (5.10%) Site Engineer
9 28 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (4.57%) Lead
11 25 (4.39%) Data Engineer
12 23 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (3.87%) GCP Engineer
14 21 (3.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 20 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 19 (3.34%) Linux Engineer
17 18 (3.16%) Automation Engineer
17 18 (3.16%) AWS DevOps
18 17 (2.99%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.38%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (6.85%) Kafka
3 33 (5.80%) REST
4 25 (4.39%) OpenTelemetry
5 21 (3.69%) YAML
6 20 (3.51%) ARM Templates
7 16 (2.81%) Node.js
8 13 (2.28%) LDAP
9 12 (2.11%) Keycloak
9 12 (2.11%) Loki
10 11 (1.93%) Middleware
10 11 (1.93%) OAuth
11 10 (1.76%) SAML
12 9 (1.58%) .NET
12 9 (1.58%) ADO
12 9 (1.58%) AngularJS
13 7 (1.23%) SOAP
14 6 (1.05%) JSON
14 6 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (1.05%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 73 (12.83%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (4.39%) Data Centre
3 25 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.81%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (2.64%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.64%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.46%) Replication
9 12 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.11%) PKI
10 11 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.76%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.05%) Clustering
14 5 (0.88%) Grid Computing
15 4 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 245 (43.06%) Linux
2 107 (18.80%) Windows
3 56 (9.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (8.61%) Unix
5 35 (6.15%) Windows Server
6 18 (3.16%) Mac OS
7 16 (2.81%) Ubuntu
8 15 (2.64%) VMS
9 10 (1.76%) AIX
10 7 (1.23%) CentOS
11 5 (0.88%) Solaris
11 5 (0.88%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.18%) Debian
14 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (54.83%) CI/CD
2 298 (52.37%) DevOps
3 255 (44.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 190 (33.39%) Containerisation
5 139 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
6 128 (22.50%) Observability
7 123 (21.62%) Platform Engineering
8 102 (17.93%) Agile
9 79 (13.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 74 (13.01%) High Availability
11 67 (11.78%) Configuration Management
12 63 (11.07%) Infrastructure Automation
13 62 (10.90%) Migration
14 58 (10.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 54 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 54 (9.49%) Test Automation
16 53 (9.31%) Root Cause Analysis
17 52 (9.14%) DevSecOps
18 51 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
19 50 (8.79%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 485 (85.24%) Python
2 243 (42.71%) PowerShell
3 69 (12.13%) SQL
4 35 (6.15%) Java
5 31 (5.45%) Go
6 28 (4.92%) Bicep
7 27 (4.75%) Perl
8 24 (4.22%) JavaScript
9 17 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 15 (2.64%) Groovy
11 14 (2.46%) C#
12 11 (1.93%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (1.58%) PHP
14 8 (1.41%) C
14 8 (1.41%) Ruby
15 7 (1.23%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.05%) C++
16 6 (1.05%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.70%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.53%) Korn
Qualifications
1 195 (34.27%) Security Cleared
2 162 (28.47%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.68%) Degree
4 30 (5.27%) AWS Certification
5 27 (4.75%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.39%) Azure Certification
7 23 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.34%) CCNP
9 18 (3.16%) CCNA
10 11 (1.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (1.58%) CCDP
11 9 (1.58%) CISSP
12 7 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.88%) RHCA
14 5 (0.88%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.34%) GDPR
2 18 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.46%) QA
4 11 (1.93%) NIST
5 10 (1.76%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.58%) SLA
7 8 (1.41%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.41%) NCSC
8 7 (1.23%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.23%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.88%) GRC
10 4 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 201 (35.33%) Docker
2 68 (11.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (7.73%) Active Directory
4 39 (6.85%) vSphere
5 35 (6.15%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (4.39%) VMware NSX
7 24 (4.22%) Hyper-V
8 15 (2.64%) KVM
9 9 (1.58%) Firmware
10 8 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (1.23%) Lustre
11 7 (1.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (1.05%) GPFS
12 6 (1.05%) Postfix
13 4 (0.70%) NFS
14 3 (0.53%) Ceph
14 3 (0.53%) Squid
15 2 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.35%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 299 (52.55%) Terraform
2 268 (47.10%) Kubernetes
3 211 (37.08%) Ansible
4 118 (20.74%) Grafana
5 102 (17.93%) Prometheus
6 58 (10.19%) Argo
7 47 (8.26%) Puppet
8 34 (5.98%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.22%) Istio
10 19 (3.34%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.11%) Kibana
12 11 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (1.93%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (1.76%) Rancher
14 8 (1.41%) linkerd
14 8 (1.41%) NetBackup
14 8 (1.41%) Packer
14 8 (1.41%) SCCM
15 7 (1.23%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (1.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 93 (16.34%) VMware
2 85 (14.94%) Microsoft
3 81 (14.24%) Red Hat
4 77 (13.53%) Splunk
5 38 (6.68%) Google
6 27 (4.75%) Dynatrace
7 25 (4.39%) Cisco
8 24 (4.22%) Pure Storage
9 23 (4.04%) Databricks
10 22 (3.87%) Oracle
11 15 (2.64%) Citrix
12 13 (2.28%) IBM
13 12 (2.11%) Atlassian
13 12 (2.11%) Dell
14 11 (1.93%) AppDynamics
14 11 (1.93%) CyberArk
14 11 (1.93%) F5
14 11 (1.93%) Palo Alto
14 11 (1.93%) ServiceNow
15 9 (1.58%) PagerDuty