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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 145 198
Rank change year-on-year -22 +53 -56
Contract jobs citing Bash 774 552 432
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.98% 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.44% 6.02% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 360 287
10th Percentile £400 £382 £364
25th Percentile £453 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -4.55% -10.57%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £729 £682 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 11
10th Percentile £56.45 £40.30 £31.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £41.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £71.00 £42.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.06% -26.09% -23.33%
75th Percentile £93.75 £59.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £99.53 £62.45 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £69.61 £42.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +63.78% -26.09% -23.33%

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 12,027 9,170 10,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.94% 32.84% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,804 6,185 7,158
10th Percentile £363 £349 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.88% -3.74% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 260 309
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.44 £48.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -
75th Percentile £70.88 £67.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.13 £76.50 £79.34
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -27 370 £525 -4.55% 361
North of England -35 138 £500 - 87
South East -10 108 £568 +27.07% 124
South West +14 83 £675 +22.73% 74
Yorkshire -43 59 £500 -1.23% 22
North West -23 56 £525 +10.53% 56
East of England -3 32 £438 -8.62% 44
West Midlands -50 25 £525 -9.68% 18
Midlands -52 25 £525 -6.67% 33
North East -33 22 £419 -19.08% 10
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 34 (4.39%) Confluence
2 28 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.84%) Apache
4 18 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.68%) nginx
7 8 (1.03%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.90%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.78%) IIS
9 6 (0.78%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.65%) SAS
11 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.52%) WordPress
12 3 (0.39%) JBoss
13 2 (0.26%) CMS
13 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
14 1 (0.13%) Camunda
14 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.13%) Traefik
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 5 (0.65%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.65%) 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
1 363 (46.90%) AWS
2 350 (45.22%) Azure
3 182 (23.51%) GitHub
4 152 (19.64%) GCP
5 132 (17.05%) GitHub Actions
6 129 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (10.21%) Amazon EKS
8 66 (8.53%) Serverless
9 64 (8.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 62 (8.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 61 (7.88%) Amazon S3
11 61 (7.88%) Azure Monitor
12 53 (6.85%) Entra ID
13 50 (6.46%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (6.46%) Datadog
13 50 (6.46%) OpenShift
14 48 (6.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 44 (5.68%) Azure AKS
16 42 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
16 42 (5.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 124 (16.02%) Firewall
2 113 (14.60%) DNS
3 83 (10.72%) TCP/IP
4 69 (8.91%) Network Security
5 65 (8.40%) VPN
6 59 (7.62%) DHCP
7 20 (2.58%) WAN
8 17 (2.20%) SAN
8 17 (2.20%) SSH
8 17 (2.20%) VSAN
9 15 (1.94%) SSL
10 13 (1.68%) SD-WAN
10 13 (1.68%) VLAN
11 10 (1.29%) 5G
11 10 (1.29%) BGP
11 10 (1.29%) HTTP
11 10 (1.29%) Kerberos
12 9 (1.16%) 4G
12 9 (1.16%) NAS
13 7 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.36%) Redis
4 22 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (2.84%) MongoDB
4 22 (2.84%) MySQL
5 20 (2.58%) NoSQL
6 15 (1.94%) Data Lake
7 12 (1.55%) BigQuery
7 12 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.42%) Big Data
9 10 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.29%) Metadata
9 10 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.16%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.16%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.16%) Pentaho
10 9 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 190 (24.55%) Jenkins
2 158 (20.41%) Git
2 158 (20.41%) GitLab
3 41 (5.30%) JIRA
4 19 (2.45%) Artifactory
5 15 (1.94%) Selenium
5 15 (1.94%) SonarQube
6 14 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (1.68%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.03%) Postman
9 7 (0.90%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.90%) JMeter
9 7 (0.90%) Maven
10 6 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.78%) MLflow
11 5 (0.65%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.65%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.52%) Subversion
12 4 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 173 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 142 (18.35%) Finance
3 100 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (8.14%) Banking
5 62 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.97%) Telecoms
7 14 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.81%) Legal
8 12 (1.55%) Military
9 11 (1.42%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.42%) Law
10 8 (1.03%) Retail
11 6 (0.78%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.65%) Front Office
12 5 (0.65%) Publishing
13 4 (0.52%) Automotive
13 4 (0.52%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.52%) Marketing
14 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (19.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 104 (13.44%) Senior
3 73 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
5 56 (7.24%) Security Engineer
6 55 (7.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 52 (6.72%) AWS Engineer
8 51 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
9 44 (5.68%) Linux Engineer
10 43 (5.56%) Lead
11 39 (5.04%) Architect
12 38 (4.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 37 (4.78%) Developer
14 33 (4.26%) Site Engineer
15 32 (4.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 31 (4.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 29 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
17 29 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
17 29 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
17 29 (3.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (58.14%) Terraform
2 67 (8.66%) Kafka
3 52 (6.72%) ARM Templates
4 48 (6.20%) REST
5 43 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
6 37 (4.78%) YAML
7 26 (3.36%) Middleware
8 21 (2.71%) Loki
9 18 (2.33%) JSON
9 18 (2.33%) Node.js
9 18 (2.33%) RESTful
10 17 (2.20%) React
11 15 (1.94%) .NET
11 15 (1.94%) Flask
12 14 (1.81%) OpenTelemetry
13 13 (1.68%) AngularJS
14 12 (1.55%) CSS
14 12 (1.55%) HTML
14 12 (1.55%) LDAP
14 12 (1.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 115 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 51 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 44 (5.68%) Security Posture
4 35 (4.52%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.26%) PKI
6 32 (4.13%) Linux Command Line
7 30 (3.88%) Data Centre
7 30 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (3.88%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (3.10%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.45%) Product Ownership
11 18 (2.33%) Replication
12 17 (2.20%) Cloud Security Posture
13 14 (1.81%) Legacy Applications
14 10 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
15 9 (1.16%) Private Cloud
15 9 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 387 (50.00%) Linux
2 177 (22.87%) Windows
3 98 (12.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 65 (8.40%) Windows Server
5 56 (7.24%) Unix
6 36 (4.65%) Ubuntu
7 17 (2.20%) CentOS
8 14 (1.81%) VMS
9 6 (0.78%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.78%) Rocky
9 6 (0.78%) Solaris
10 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.26%) AIX
12 2 (0.26%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.26%) Debian
12 2 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (60.08%) CI/CD
2 418 (54.01%) DevOps
3 409 (52.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 222 (28.68%) Containerisation
5 219 (28.29%) Observability
6 164 (21.19%) Agile
7 163 (21.06%) Platform Engineering
8 159 (20.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 145 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (15.25%) Cloud Security
10 118 (15.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 114 (14.73%) DevSecOps
12 105 (13.57%) Infrastructure Automation
13 102 (13.18%) Root Cause Analysis
14 98 (12.66%) AI
15 97 (12.53%) Runbook
16 96 (12.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 95 (12.27%) Configuration Management
18 88 (11.37%) Migration
18 88 (11.37%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 657 (84.88%) Python
2 380 (49.10%) PowerShell
3 110 (14.21%) SQL
4 93 (12.02%) Java
5 76 (9.82%) Bicep
6 70 (9.04%) Go
7 50 (6.46%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.62%) Perl
9 25 (3.23%) Groovy
10 24 (3.10%) JavaScript
11 20 (2.58%) Korn
12 16 (2.07%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.55%) C#
14 11 (1.42%) Ruby
15 8 (1.03%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.65%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.52%) Cypher
19 3 (0.39%) C
19 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 300 (38.76%) Security Cleared
2 220 (28.42%) SC Cleared
3 82 (10.59%) DV Cleared
4 61 (7.88%) Degree
5 60 (7.75%) AWS Certification
6 57 (7.36%) Azure Certification
7 34 (4.39%) CISSP
8 31 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.55%) VCAP
12 12 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 7 (0.90%) CCNP
17 6 (0.78%) CCNA
17 6 (0.78%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.81%) QA
2 33 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (4.26%) NIST
3 17 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.68%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.29%) SLA
6 8 (1.03%) GDPR
7 7 (0.90%) NCSC
8 6 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.65%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 276 (35.66%) Docker
2 84 (10.85%) Active Directory
3 69 (8.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (4.78%) Hyper-V
5 29 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (3.75%) vSphere
6 17 (2.20%) VMware NSX
7 13 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.29%) Squid
9 9 (1.16%) NFS
10 6 (0.78%) Postfix
11 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.52%) zsh
12 3 (0.39%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.39%) Firmware
12 3 (0.39%) HDFS
12 3 (0.39%) KVM
12 3 (0.39%) OpenSSH
12 3 (0.39%) Varnish
12 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 359 (46.38%) Kubernetes
2 283 (36.56%) Ansible
3 165 (21.32%) Grafana
4 142 (18.35%) Prometheus
5 49 (6.33%) Puppet
6 47 (6.07%) Progress Chef
7 33 (4.26%) Argo
8 20 (2.58%) Istio
9 16 (2.07%) Podman
10 14 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (1.81%) VxRail
11 13 (1.68%) Kibana
12 12 (1.55%) SCCM
12 12 (1.55%) systemd
13 11 (1.42%) Packer
14 10 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (1.16%) Check_MK
15 9 (1.16%) Consul
16 8 (1.03%) Cilium
16 8 (1.03%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 153 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 92 (11.89%) VMware
3 91 (11.76%) Google
4 61 (7.88%) Red Hat
5 59 (7.62%) Splunk
6 55 (7.11%) Dynatrace
7 51 (6.59%) Oracle
8 32 (4.13%) Cisco
9 31 (4.01%) CyberArk
10 25 (3.23%) ServiceNow
11 22 (2.84%) Databricks
12 17 (2.20%) IBM
12 17 (2.20%) Palo Alto
13 13 (1.68%) NetApp
14 12 (1.55%) Fortinet
14 12 (1.55%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.29%) BMC
15 10 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
16 9 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (1.16%) Remedy