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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 138 199
Rank change year-on-year -36 +61 -62
Contract jobs citing Bash 581 467 437
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.92% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.42% 5.67% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 301 302
10th Percentile £391 £375 £400
25th Percentile £413 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -14.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £625
90th Percentile £686 £780 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £537
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.47% -10.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 10
10th Percentile £56.05 £25.25 £21.85
25th Percentile £61.25 £32.06 £52.94
Median hourly rate £74.26 £54.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.63% -8.75% -16.08%
75th Percentile - £64.56 £76.15
90th Percentile £81.20 £77.62 £77.75
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £54.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +35.63% -8.75% -14.29%

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 10,713 8,232 10,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.61% 33.85% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,137 5,604 7,879
10th Percentile £352 £360 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -2.33% -5.70%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £770
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 466 216 442
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.05
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £75.00
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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -41 226 £520 -5.45% 68
North of England -14 158 £500 -9.09% 49
South East -9 88 £472 -0.63% 41
Yorkshire -36 83 £482 -12.36% 15
North West +4 65 £550 -3.93% 20
Midlands -33 49 £463 -21.28% 19
West Midlands -27 45 £465 -28.60% 11
South West -42 35 £544 -9.38% 37
North East -8 14 £550 -1.35% 14
East of England -33 10 £413 -13.16% 15
East Midlands -32 4 £436 +6.99% 8
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 35 (6.02%) Confluence
2 15 (2.58%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.72%) nginx
4 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.20%) SAS
5 6 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.86%) Apache
6 5 (0.86%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.69%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.52%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.52%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.52%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) FileNet
9 1 (0.17%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.17%) Traefik
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (1.38%) Weka
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 246 (42.34%) AWS
2 219 (37.69%) Azure
3 169 (29.09%) GitHub
4 109 (18.76%) GCP
5 95 (16.35%) GitHub Actions
6 88 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (13.77%) OpenShift
8 56 (9.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 54 (9.29%) Serverless
10 50 (8.61%) Amazon S3
11 49 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (7.57%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (6.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (5.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
17 28 (4.82%) Azure AKS
18 25 (4.30%) Entra ID
19 24 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
19 24 (4.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 79 (13.60%) Firewall
2 64 (11.02%) DNS
3 45 (7.75%) TCP/IP
4 28 (4.82%) VPN
5 23 (3.96%) Network Security
6 18 (3.10%) VLAN
7 16 (2.75%) Wireshark
8 15 (2.58%) DHCP
9 12 (2.07%) BGP
10 10 (1.72%) HTTP
11 9 (1.55%) SNMP
11 9 (1.55%) SSL
12 8 (1.38%) Multicast
12 8 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (1.03%) SSH
13 6 (1.03%) WebEx
14 5 (0.86%) SAN
14 5 (0.86%) SMTP
15 4 (0.69%) Kerberos
15 4 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (9.98%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (5.51%) SQL Server
3 31 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (3.44%) Redis
5 19 (3.27%) MongoDB
6 16 (2.75%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (2.24%) MySQL
9 11 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.89%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.55%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.38%) Big Data
11 8 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.38%) Pentaho
12 7 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.20%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.03%) DB2
14 5 (0.86%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 175 (30.12%) Jenkins
2 123 (21.17%) GitLab
3 99 (17.04%) Git
4 43 (7.40%) JIRA
5 14 (2.41%) Bitbucket
6 13 (2.24%) CircleCI
7 8 (1.38%) Metasploit
8 7 (1.20%) Artifactory
8 7 (1.20%) Burp Suite
9 6 (1.03%) Liquibase
10 5 (0.86%) Selenium
11 4 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.69%) MLflow
11 4 (0.69%) ScriptRunner
11 4 (0.69%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.52%) Appium
12 3 (0.52%) Jaeger
12 3 (0.52%) Snyk
12 3 (0.52%) Spinnaker
General
1 169 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 83 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 58 (9.98%) Finance
5 29 (4.99%) Banking
6 20 (3.44%) Legal
7 12 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.89%) Retail
9 6 (1.03%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.69%) Front Office
10 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.69%) Military
11 3 (0.52%) Games
11 3 (0.52%) Law
11 3 (0.52%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.34%) Billing
12 2 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (18.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (13.60%) Platform Engineer
3 55 (9.47%) Senior
4 39 (6.71%) Architect
5 38 (6.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 36 (6.20%) AWS Engineer
7 34 (5.85%) Site Engineer
8 30 (5.16%) Lead
9 27 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
9 27 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (4.30%) Security Engineer
11 24 (4.13%) Data Engineer
11 24 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (3.79%) AWS DevOps
12 22 (3.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 22 (3.79%) GCP Engineer
13 21 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
14 19 (3.27%) Network Engineer
15 18 (3.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.10%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (7.92%) Elastic Stack
2 34 (5.85%) Kafka
3 32 (5.51%) REST
4 25 (4.30%) OpenTelemetry
5 20 (3.44%) ARM Templates
6 19 (3.27%) YAML
7 16 (2.75%) Loki
7 16 (2.75%) Middleware
8 14 (2.41%) Keycloak
9 12 (2.07%) Node.js
10 10 (1.72%) LDAP
11 9 (1.55%) .NET
11 9 (1.55%) OAuth
11 9 (1.55%) SAML
12 8 (1.38%) ADO
13 7 (1.20%) SOAP
14 6 (1.03%) AngularJS
14 6 (1.03%) OpenAPI
14 6 (1.03%) Swagger
14 6 (1.03%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 74 (12.74%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.13%) Data Centre
5 18 (3.10%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.93%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (2.58%) Security Posture
9 14 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.24%) Replication
11 12 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (2.07%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.89%) PKI
12 11 (1.89%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.89%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.89%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.03%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.03%) Grid Computing
14 5 (0.86%) Clustering
14 5 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 259 (44.58%) Linux
2 102 (17.56%) Windows
3 58 (9.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (8.43%) Unix
5 34 (5.85%) Windows Server
6 22 (3.79%) Mac OS
7 12 (2.07%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.07%) VMS
8 10 (1.72%) AIX
9 8 (1.38%) CentOS
10 7 (1.20%) Kali Linux
11 6 (1.03%) Solaris
12 5 (0.86%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.17%) Rocky
14 1 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 315 (54.22%) DevOps
3 275 (47.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 196 (33.73%) Containerisation
5 142 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (23.92%) Observability
7 122 (21.00%) Platform Engineering
8 107 (18.42%) Agile
9 87 (14.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 82 (14.11%) High Availability
11 73 (12.56%) Infrastructure Automation
12 68 (11.70%) Configuration Management
13 66 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 66 (11.36%) Incident Response
14 63 (10.84%) DevSecOps
15 62 (10.67%) Test Automation
16 60 (10.33%) Migration
17 56 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 55 (9.47%) Root Cause Analysis
19 48 (8.26%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 501 (86.23%) Python
2 242 (41.65%) PowerShell
3 65 (11.19%) SQL
4 36 (6.20%) Java
5 29 (4.99%) Bicep
5 29 (4.99%) Go
6 27 (4.65%) Perl
7 20 (3.44%) JavaScript
8 18 (3.10%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.93%) Groovy
10 15 (2.58%) C#
11 12 (2.07%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (1.72%) PHP
13 7 (1.20%) C
13 7 (1.20%) C++
14 5 (0.86%) Ruby
14 5 (0.86%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.86%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 203 (34.94%) Security Cleared
2 168 (28.92%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.88%) Degree
4 32 (5.51%) AWS Certification
5 24 (4.13%) Azure Certification
6 22 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (3.61%) DV Cleared
8 19 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.93%) CCNP
10 14 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (2.41%) CCNA
11 10 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.72%) CEH
12 9 (1.55%) CCDP
12 9 (1.55%) CISSP
12 9 (1.55%) OSCP
13 8 (1.38%) GPEN
14 7 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (1.20%) Master's Degree
14 7 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.93%) GDPR
2 15 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (2.58%) QA
3 11 (1.89%) NIST
4 10 (1.72%) NCSC
5 8 (1.38%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.20%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.03%) SLA
8 5 (0.86%) GRC
9 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 216 (37.18%) Docker
2 67 (11.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (7.23%) vSphere
4 39 (6.71%) Active Directory
5 30 (5.16%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (4.13%) VMware NSX
7 21 (3.61%) Hyper-V
8 16 (2.75%) KVM
9 9 (1.55%) Lustre
9 9 (1.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 8 (1.38%) Firmware
10 8 (1.38%) GPFS
11 5 (0.86%) Postfix
12 4 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.52%) Ceph
13 3 (0.52%) Squid
14 2 (0.34%) NFS
14 2 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.34%) Xen
14 2 (0.34%) zsh
Systems Management
1 314 (54.04%) Terraform
2 277 (47.68%) Kubernetes
3 218 (37.52%) Ansible
4 133 (22.89%) Grafana
5 115 (19.79%) Prometheus
6 60 (10.33%) Argo
7 51 (8.78%) Puppet
8 31 (5.34%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.13%) Istio
10 19 (3.27%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.07%) Kibana
12 11 (1.89%) Kustomize
12 11 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (1.89%) NetBackup
12 11 (1.89%) Rancher
12 11 (1.89%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (1.72%) SCCM
14 9 (1.55%) Nmap
14 9 (1.55%) Packer
15 8 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 94 (16.18%) VMware
2 89 (15.32%) Microsoft
3 88 (15.15%) Red Hat
4 82 (14.11%) Splunk
5 39 (6.71%) Google
6 28 (4.82%) Dynatrace
7 24 (4.13%) Databricks
7 24 (4.13%) Pure Storage
8 22 (3.79%) Cisco
9 18 (3.10%) Oracle
10 15 (2.58%) Citrix
11 14 (2.41%) F5
11 14 (2.41%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.07%) IBM
12 12 (2.07%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.89%) Atlassian
14 10 (1.72%) AppDynamics
14 10 (1.72%) Commvault
14 10 (1.72%) Dell
14 10 (1.72%) Tenable