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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 146 205
Rank change year-on-year -45 +59 -78
Contract jobs citing Bash 576 475 439
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.91% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.03% 5.66% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 321 313
10th Percentile £375 £373 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £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 £675 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.19% -10.54%
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 11,454 8,399 11,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.65% 33.85% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,487 5,832 8,173
10th Percentile £360 £356 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £522 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -2.97% -3.93%
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 520 198 491
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.13 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -42 249 £513 -2.38% 67
North of England -10 142 £493 -3.90% 45
Yorkshire -22 82 £504 -6.33% 9
South East -27 70 £470 +6.21% 55
South West -26 51 £544 -9.38% 22
North West -12 47 £500 +1.52% 31
West Midlands -34 35 £473 -23.09% 6
Midlands -45 35 £473 -14.00% 16
East of England -28 17 £494 +3.95% 12
North East -27 13 £371 -23.85% 5
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 15 (2.60%) Apache
3 11 (1.91%) nginx
3 11 (1.91%) SAS
4 10 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.22%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.04%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.87%) IIS
8 4 (0.69%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (0.69%) WordPress
9 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
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
1 248 (43.06%) AWS
2 216 (37.50%) Azure
3 156 (27.08%) GitHub
4 113 (19.62%) GCP
5 96 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 92 (15.97%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (9.72%) OpenShift
8 54 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 51 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
9 51 (8.85%) Serverless
10 49 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 43 (7.47%) Amazon S3
12 38 (6.60%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
13 36 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 35 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 32 (5.56%) Azure AKS
15 32 (5.56%) Datadog
16 25 (4.34%) Azure Monitor
17 20 (3.47%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 75 (13.02%) DNS
2 72 (12.50%) Firewall
3 40 (6.94%) VPN
4 35 (6.08%) TCP/IP
5 33 (5.73%) Network Security
6 18 (3.13%) SAN
7 16 (2.78%) SSL
8 15 (2.60%) DHCP
8 15 (2.60%) NAS
9 13 (2.26%) VLAN
10 12 (2.08%) HTTP
10 12 (2.08%) WAN
11 9 (1.56%) SD-WAN
12 8 (1.39%) BGP
12 8 (1.39%) Reverse Proxy
13 7 (1.22%) SNMP
14 5 (0.87%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
15 4 (0.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
1 31 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.47%) MongoDB
3 19 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (2.78%) MySQL
5 15 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (2.26%) Redis
7 12 (2.08%) Pentaho
8 11 (1.91%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.39%) Oracle Database
9 8 (1.39%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.22%) Amazon QuickSight
10 7 (1.22%) Big Data
10 7 (1.22%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.04%) Db2
12 5 (0.87%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 175 (30.38%) Jenkins
2 113 (19.62%) GitLab
3 102 (17.71%) Git
4 40 (6.94%) JIRA
5 13 (2.26%) 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%) Liquibase
8 6 (1.04%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.87%) Browser DevTools
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%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 128 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 74 (12.85%) Finance
3 56 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.12%) Banking
6 15 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (2.60%) Legal
7 12 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.22%) Law
8 7 (1.22%) Military
9 6 (1.04%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.87%) Retail
11 4 (0.69%) Publishing
12 3 (0.52%) Investment Banking
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
1 122 (21.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (9.38%) Senior
3 53 (9.20%) Cloud Engineer
4 49 (8.51%) AWS Engineer
5 47 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
6 40 (6.94%) Security Engineer
7 38 (6.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 35 (6.08%) Azure Engineer
9 31 (5.38%) Architect
10 30 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 30 (5.21%) Linux Engineer
11 29 (5.03%) GCP Engineer
11 29 (5.03%) Lead
11 29 (5.03%) Site Engineer
12 27 (4.69%) Data Engineer
13 24 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
14 22 (3.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.65%) GCP DevOps
16 20 (3.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (5.56%) Kafka
3 27 (4.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 26 (4.51%) REST
5 23 (3.99%) YAML
6 19 (3.30%) Middleware
7 16 (2.78%) ARM Templates
8 11 (1.91%) JSON
8 11 (1.91%) SAML
9 10 (1.74%) ADO
9 10 (1.74%) LDAP
9 10 (1.74%) Loki
9 10 (1.74%) Node.js
9 10 (1.74%) OAuth
9 10 (1.74%) Swagger
10 8 (1.39%) .NET
11 7 (1.22%) cloud-init
11 7 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.22%) SOAP
12 6 (1.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 100 (17.36%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 30 (5.21%) Security Posture
4 28 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (3.99%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.65%) Linux Command Line
7 19 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (3.30%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.95%) Replication
9 16 (2.78%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (2.26%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.91%) Product Ownership
13 9 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.22%) Clustering
14 7 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (1.22%) PKI
15 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
15 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
15 5 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 232 (40.28%) Linux
2 98 (17.01%) Windows
3 61 (10.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (7.29%) Unix
5 29 (5.03%) Windows Server
6 23 (3.99%) Ubuntu
7 14 (2.43%) VMS
8 10 (1.74%) AIX
9 8 (1.39%) CentOS
10 6 (1.04%) Solaris
11 5 (0.87%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.35%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.35%) Debian
14 2 (0.35%) Rocky
14 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (58.51%) CI/CD
2 327 (56.77%) DevOps
3 256 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 168 (29.17%) Containerisation
5 139 (24.13%) Observability
6 102 (17.71%) Platform Engineering
7 99 (17.19%) Agile
8 98 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (13.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 78 (13.54%) Migration
11 70 (12.15%) Configuration Management
12 68 (11.81%) High Availability
13 67 (11.63%) Cloud Security
14 66 (11.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 62 (10.76%) Root Cause Analysis
16 61 (10.59%) Infrastructure Automation
17 60 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 57 (9.90%) Test Automation
19 54 (9.38%) SIEM
20 48 (8.33%) AI
Programming Languages
1 499 (86.63%) Python
2 248 (43.06%) PowerShell
3 82 (14.24%) SQL
4 47 (8.16%) Go
5 46 (7.99%) Java
6 26 (4.51%) Bicep
7 22 (3.82%) Perl
8 21 (3.65%) Shell Script
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#
16 4 (0.69%) C++
16 4 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.69%) Scala
16 4 (0.69%) TypeScript
17 2 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 183 (31.77%) Security Cleared
2 149 (25.87%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.77%) Degree
4 37 (6.42%) Azure Certification
5 35 (6.08%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.86%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (3.30%) CISSP
8 18 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (1.91%) CCNA
11 11 (1.91%) CCNP
12 10 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.74%) RHCE
13 8 (1.39%) RHCA
14 7 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (1.04%) MCSE
16 4 (0.69%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (3.30%) QA
3 16 (2.78%) NIST
4 14 (2.43%) GDPR
5 13 (2.26%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.74%) SLA
7 9 (1.56%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.39%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.04%) GRC
9 6 (1.04%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.35%) NCSC
14 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.17%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 170 (29.51%) Docker
2 45 (7.81%) Virtual Machines
2 45 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (6.60%) Active Directory
4 26 (4.51%) vSphere
5 22 (3.82%) Hyper-V
6 17 (2.95%) VMware NSX
7 14 (2.43%) KVM
8 11 (1.91%) Firmware
8 11 (1.91%) Squid
9 9 (1.56%) NFS
9 9 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (1.22%) Postfix
11 4 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.69%) Varnish
12 3 (0.52%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.52%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.35%) OpenSSH
13 2 (0.35%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 307 (53.30%) Terraform
2 246 (42.71%) Kubernetes
3 220 (38.19%) Ansible
4 126 (21.88%) Grafana
5 116 (20.14%) Prometheus
6 50 (8.68%) Puppet
7 42 (7.29%) Argo
8 34 (5.90%) Progress Chef
9 26 (4.51%) vCenter Server
10 22 (3.82%) Istio
11 13 (2.26%) Packer
12 9 (1.56%) NetBackup
12 9 (1.56%) Podman
13 8 (1.39%) HAProxy
14 7 (1.22%) Kibana
14 7 (1.22%) Rancher
14 7 (1.22%) Salt
14 7 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (1.22%) systemd
15 6 (1.04%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 69 (11.98%) Red Hat
2 61 (10.59%) Splunk
3 58 (10.07%) Microsoft
4 57 (9.90%) VMware
5 47 (8.16%) Google
6 43 (7.47%) Dynatrace
7 35 (6.08%) Oracle
8 23 (3.99%) IBM
9 21 (3.65%) Databricks
10 19 (3.30%) Cisco
11 17 (2.95%) Pure Storage
12 14 (2.43%) Palo Alto
13 12 (2.08%) Informatica
14 11 (1.91%) Cloudera
14 11 (1.91%) CyberArk
14 11 (1.91%) Fortinet
14 11 (1.91%) ServiceNow
14 11 (1.91%) Talend
14 11 (1.91%) Zscaler
15 10 (1.74%) F5