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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 154 199
Rank change year-on-year -36 +45 -63
Contract jobs citing Bash 553 451 420
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.85% 1.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.08% 5.50% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 289 294
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £416 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £624
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 10
10th Percentile £55.10 £25.25 £21.85
25th Percentile £58.01 £27.50 £22.81
Median hourly rate £62.82 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.65% +16.67% -19.10%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £69.76 £66.34 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +20.26% +16.67% -19.10%

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 10,881 8,206 10,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.51% 33.73% 29.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,185 5,697 7,901
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.48%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 210 446
10th Percentile £41.25 £26.31 £37.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.65 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.10 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.42% -0.40% +1.46%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -54 223 £513 -4.65% 108
North of England -19 136 £476 -11.44% 56
Yorkshire -18 84 £463 -15.91% 13
South East -27 77 £469 +1.41% 66
South West -26 47 £500 -16.67% 30
North West -27 42 £538 +7.50% 34
Midlands -42 42 £460 -20.00% 21
West Midlands -32 40 £463 -24.80% 8
East of England -30 14 £494 +3.95% 13
North East -14 10 £425 -22.73% 9
East Midlands -34 2 £436 +6.99% 13
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 26 (4.70%) Confluence
2 9 (1.63%) Apache
2 9 (1.63%) SAS
3 7 (1.27%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.08%) nginx
5 5 (0.90%) IIS
5 5 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.72%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.36%) CMS
7 2 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.36%) JBoss
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.18%) FileNet
8 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.18%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.18%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 238 (43.04%) AWS
2 215 (38.88%) Azure
3 156 (28.21%) GitHub
4 109 (19.71%) GCP
5 90 (16.27%) Azure DevOps
6 89 (16.09%) GitHub Actions
7 69 (12.48%) OpenShift
8 45 (8.14%) Serverless
9 44 (7.96%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (7.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 40 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 36 (6.51%) Amazon S3
12 33 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (5.97%) Azure AKS
13 32 (5.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (4.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 21 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
16 21 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (3.44%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 66 (11.93%) DNS
2 64 (11.57%) Firewall
3 37 (6.69%) TCP/IP
4 34 (6.15%) VPN
5 27 (4.88%) Network Security
6 15 (2.71%) DHCP
6 15 (2.71%) SAN
7 14 (2.53%) VLAN
8 12 (2.17%) HTTP
8 12 (2.17%) NAS
9 10 (1.81%) SNMP
10 9 (1.63%) SD-WAN
11 8 (1.45%) Reverse Proxy
11 8 (1.45%) SSL
11 8 (1.45%) WAN
12 7 (1.27%) SSH
13 6 (1.08%) Wireshark
14 5 (0.90%) BGP
15 4 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.72%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (5.42%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.80%) MongoDB
4 16 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (2.71%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.71%) Redis
6 14 (2.53%) MySQL
7 12 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (1.99%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.81%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.27%) Big Data
10 7 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.08%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.08%) DB2
12 5 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (0.90%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.90%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 156 (28.21%) Jenkins
2 117 (21.16%) GitLab
3 96 (17.36%) Git
4 36 (6.51%) JIRA
5 10 (1.81%) Artifactory
6 8 (1.45%) CircleCI
6 8 (1.45%) Postman
7 7 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.27%) JMeter
8 6 (1.08%) Liquibase
9 5 (0.90%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.90%) Selenium
9 5 (0.90%) Spinnaker
10 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.72%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.72%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.54%) Appium
11 3 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.54%) Snyk
General
1 139 (25.14%) Social Skills
2 64 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (9.76%) Finance
4 51 (9.22%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.06%) Banking
6 14 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.17%) Legal
8 8 (1.45%) Military
8 8 (1.45%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.08%) Retail
10 5 (0.90%) Law
11 4 (0.72%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.36%) Aviation
12 2 (0.36%) Front Office
12 2 (0.36%) Police
13 1 (0.18%) Back Office
13 1 (0.18%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (19.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (9.58%) Platform Engineer
3 48 (8.68%) AWS Engineer
4 45 (8.14%) Senior
5 41 (7.41%) Security Engineer
6 38 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (6.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 30 (5.42%) Architect
9 29 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
9 29 (5.24%) Lead
10 28 (5.06%) Site Engineer
11 26 (4.70%) Data Engineer
11 26 (4.70%) GCP Engineer
12 24 (4.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (3.80%) Automation Engineer
13 21 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
13 21 (3.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 21 (3.80%) Linux Engineer
14 20 (3.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.44%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.23%) Elastic Stack
2 37 (6.69%) Kafka
3 30 (5.42%) REST
4 27 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 22 (3.98%) YAML
6 16 (2.89%) Middleware
7 15 (2.71%) ARM Templates
7 15 (2.71%) Node.js
8 12 (2.17%) Swagger
9 11 (1.99%) LDAP
9 11 (1.99%) Loki
10 9 (1.63%) .NET
10 9 (1.63%) ADO
10 9 (1.63%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.63%) JSON
10 9 (1.63%) Keycloak
11 8 (1.45%) React
11 8 (1.45%) SAML
11 8 (1.45%) Vue
12 7 (1.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 79 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (3.80%) Data Centre
3 21 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.25%) Linux Command Line
5 18 (3.25%) Security Posture
6 16 (2.89%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.71%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.53%) Replication
9 12 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.63%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.45%) PKI
11 8 (1.45%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.08%) Clustering
12 6 (1.08%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 211 (38.16%) Linux
2 84 (15.19%) Windows
3 45 (8.14%) Unix
4 38 (6.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.52%) Windows Server
6 16 (2.89%) VMS
7 15 (2.71%) Ubuntu
8 12 (2.17%) Mac OS
9 10 (1.81%) AIX
10 5 (0.90%) CentOS
10 5 (0.90%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.36%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.36%) Debian
12 2 (0.36%) Rocky
12 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.18%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (56.96%) CI/CD
2 304 (54.97%) DevOps
3 241 (43.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 163 (29.48%) Containerisation
5 133 (24.05%) Observability
6 108 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (18.08%) Platform Engineering
8 87 (15.73%) Agile
9 76 (13.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 71 (12.84%) Configuration Management
11 69 (12.48%) Migration
12 64 (11.57%) Root Cause Analysis
13 60 (10.85%) High Availability
14 54 (9.76%) Infrastructure Automation
14 54 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 53 (9.58%) Cloud Security
15 53 (9.58%) Test Automation
16 47 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 47 (8.50%) Incident Response
17 44 (7.96%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 474 (85.71%) Python
2 235 (42.50%) PowerShell
3 78 (14.10%) SQL
4 43 (7.78%) Go
5 39 (7.05%) Java
6 26 (4.70%) Bicep
6 26 (4.70%) JavaScript
7 21 (3.80%) Shell Script
8 17 (3.07%) Groovy
9 12 (2.17%) C#
10 11 (1.99%) Perl
11 10 (1.81%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.45%) C
12 8 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.45%) Ruby
13 6 (1.08%) PHP
13 6 (1.08%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.08%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.90%) C++
15 4 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 177 (32.01%) Security Cleared
2 142 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.33%) Degree
4 30 (5.42%) Azure Certification
5 27 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.98%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (2.35%) CISSP
9 11 (1.99%) CCNP
9 11 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (1.81%) CCNA
10 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.45%) RHCA
11 8 (1.45%) RHCE
12 7 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.90%) CISM
14 4 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.72%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.62%) GDPR
3 18 (3.25%) QA
4 14 (2.53%) NIST
5 12 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.81%) SLA
7 9 (1.63%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.27%) Data Quality
9 6 (1.08%) GRC
9 6 (1.08%) NCSC
10 5 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.90%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.36%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.18%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 161 (29.11%) Docker
2 46 (8.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (7.59%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (6.15%) Active Directory
5 21 (3.80%) Hyper-V
5 21 (3.80%) vSphere
6 17 (3.07%) VMware NSX
7 16 (2.89%) KVM
8 11 (1.99%) Firmware
9 10 (1.81%) Squid
10 9 (1.63%) NFS
11 6 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.54%) Ceph
12 3 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.54%) Postfix
12 3 (0.54%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.54%) Varnish
13 2 (0.36%) Lustre
13 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 278 (50.27%) Terraform
2 252 (45.57%) Kubernetes
3 215 (38.88%) Ansible
4 127 (22.97%) Grafana
5 109 (19.71%) Prometheus
6 46 (8.32%) Puppet
7 45 (8.14%) Argo
8 25 (4.52%) Istio
8 25 (4.52%) vCenter Server
9 21 (3.80%) Progress Chef
10 12 (2.17%) Kibana
11 10 (1.81%) Packer
12 9 (1.63%) Podman
12 9 (1.63%) Rancher
13 8 (1.45%) linkerd
13 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (1.45%) NetBackup
13 8 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
14 7 (1.27%) SCCM
14 7 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (14.10%) Splunk
2 68 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 65 (11.75%) VMware
4 59 (10.67%) Red Hat
5 42 (7.59%) Dynatrace
6 40 (7.23%) Google
7 32 (5.79%) Oracle
8 19 (3.44%) Databricks
9 18 (3.25%) IBM
10 17 (3.07%) Cisco
11 16 (2.89%) Pure Storage
12 12 (2.17%) AppDynamics
12 12 (2.17%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.17%) Zscaler
13 11 (1.99%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.99%) ServiceNow
14 10 (1.81%) Cloudera
14 10 (1.81%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.81%) Tenable
15 9 (1.63%) Dell