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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 146 193
Rank change year-on-year -26 +47 -56
Contract jobs citing Bash 580 469 457
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.92% 1.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.43% 5.68% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 297 316
10th Percentile £392 £375 £400
25th Percentile £414 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £537
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.47% -10.54%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £625
90th Percentile £685 £777 £719
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.61% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 11
10th Percentile £56.05 £25.48 £22.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £41.19 £54.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 £56.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.02% -6.25% -11.44%
75th Percentile - £77.80 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.20 £108.67 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +32.02% -6.25% -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 10,684 8,262 10,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.76% 33.81% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,137 5,579 7,896
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.42% -6.03%
75th Percentile £613 £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 457 218 445
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.20
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.69 £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 £67.50
90th Percentile £76.55 £85.30 £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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -43 223 £520 -5.45% 76
North of England -15 159 £500 -9.09% 61
South East -12 90 £465 -2.21% 51
Yorkshire -32 83 £482 -12.36% 21
North West +5 65 £550 -3.93% 24
Midlands -31 48 £463 -21.28% 21
West Midlands -31 44 £465 -28.60% 13
South West -39 35 £544 -9.38% 34
North East -4 15 £550 -1.35% 16
East of England -27 9 £413 -13.16% 21
East Midlands -36 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 (6.03%) Confluence
2 15 (2.59%) OpenStack
3 10 (1.72%) nginx
4 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.21%) 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
1 247 (42.59%) AWS
2 214 (36.90%) Azure
3 165 (28.45%) GitHub
4 108 (18.62%) GCP
5 89 (15.34%) GitHub Actions
6 83 (14.31%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (13.62%) OpenShift
8 57 (9.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (9.14%) Serverless
10 51 (8.79%) Amazon S3
11 50 (8.62%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (7.76%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (6.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 31 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (4.48%) Entra ID
18 24 (4.14%) Azure AKS
19 23 (3.97%) Datadog
19 23 (3.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 80 (13.79%) Firewall
2 65 (11.21%) DNS
3 45 (7.76%) TCP/IP
4 26 (4.48%) VPN
5 23 (3.97%) Network Security
6 20 (3.45%) VLAN
7 18 (3.10%) Wireshark
8 15 (2.59%) DHCP
9 13 (2.24%) BGP
10 10 (1.72%) HTTP
11 9 (1.55%) SNMP
11 9 (1.55%) Software-Defined Networking
11 9 (1.55%) SSL
12 8 (1.38%) Multicast
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 59 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (5.69%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.62%) MongoDB
4 20 (3.45%) Redis
5 16 (2.76%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (2.41%) MySQL
8 11 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.90%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.55%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.38%) Big Data
10 8 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.38%) Pentaho
11 7 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.21%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.03%) DB2
13 5 (0.86%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.86%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 171 (29.48%) Jenkins
2 118 (20.34%) GitLab
3 97 (16.72%) Git
4 43 (7.41%) JIRA
5 14 (2.41%) Bitbucket
5 14 (2.41%) CircleCI
6 10 (1.72%) Metasploit
7 9 (1.55%) Burp Suite
8 7 (1.21%) Artifactory
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 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 84 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 55 (9.48%) Finance
5 29 (5.00%) Banking
6 20 (3.45%) Legal
7 12 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.90%) 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%) Aviation
12 2 (0.34%) Billing
12 2 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 103 (17.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 78 (13.45%) Platform Engineer
3 55 (9.48%) Senior
4 39 (6.72%) Architect
5 38 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
5 38 (6.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 34 (5.86%) Site Engineer
7 33 (5.69%) Lead
8 26 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
8 26 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (4.31%) Security Engineer
10 24 (4.14%) Data Engineer
11 23 (3.97%) AWS DevOps
12 22 (3.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 21 (3.62%) Automation Engineer
13 21 (3.62%) GCP Engineer
14 19 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 19 (3.28%) Network Engineer
15 17 (2.93%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (7.76%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (6.03%) Kafka
3 32 (5.52%) REST
4 25 (4.31%) OpenTelemetry
5 16 (2.76%) ARM Templates
5 16 (2.76%) Loki
5 16 (2.76%) Middleware
6 15 (2.59%) Keycloak
6 15 (2.59%) YAML
7 12 (2.07%) Node.js
8 10 (1.72%) LDAP
9 9 (1.55%) .NET
9 9 (1.55%) OAuth
9 9 (1.55%) SAML
10 8 (1.38%) ADO
11 7 (1.21%) SOAP
12 6 (1.03%) AngularJS
12 6 (1.03%) OpenAPI
12 6 (1.03%) Swagger
12 6 (1.03%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 73 (12.59%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.14%) Data Centre
5 18 (3.10%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.93%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.59%) Security Posture
8 14 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.24%) Replication
10 12 (2.07%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.07%) PKI
11 11 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.90%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.90%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.90%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.03%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.03%) Grid Computing
12 6 (1.03%) NHS
13 5 (0.86%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 262 (45.17%) Linux
2 103 (17.76%) Windows
3 59 (10.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (8.62%) Unix
5 35 (6.03%) Windows Server
6 23 (3.97%) Mac OS
7 12 (2.07%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.07%) VMS
8 10 (1.72%) AIX
9 9 (1.55%) CentOS
9 9 (1.55%) Kali Linux
10 6 (1.03%) Solaris
11 5 (0.86%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.17%) Rocky
13 1 (0.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (56.55%) CI/CD
2 310 (53.45%) DevOps
3 271 (46.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 192 (33.10%) Containerisation
5 139 (23.97%) Observability
6 138 (23.79%) Problem-Solving
7 117 (20.17%) Platform Engineering
8 105 (18.10%) Agile
9 85 (14.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 82 (14.14%) High Availability
11 72 (12.41%) Infrastructure Automation
12 67 (11.55%) Incident Response
13 66 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 63 (10.86%) Configuration Management
14 63 (10.86%) DevSecOps
14 63 (10.86%) Test Automation
15 59 (10.17%) Migration
16 56 (9.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 54 (9.31%) Root Cause Analysis
18 48 (8.28%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 499 (86.03%) Python
2 240 (41.38%) PowerShell
3 65 (11.21%) SQL
4 36 (6.21%) Java
5 30 (5.17%) Go
6 28 (4.83%) Perl
7 25 (4.31%) Bicep
8 21 (3.62%) JavaScript
9 19 (3.28%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.93%) Groovy
11 15 (2.59%) C#
12 12 (2.07%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.72%) PHP
14 7 (1.21%) C
14 7 (1.21%) C++
15 5 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.86%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.69%) Ruby
17 3 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 206 (35.52%) Security Cleared
2 171 (29.48%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.90%) Degree
4 31 (5.34%) AWS Certification
5 22 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (3.62%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.28%) Azure Certification
7 19 (3.28%) CCNP
8 16 (2.76%) CCNA
9 13 (2.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (2.07%) CEH
11 11 (1.90%) CCDP
11 11 (1.90%) OSCP
12 10 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.72%) GPEN
13 9 (1.55%) CISSP
14 7 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (1.21%) Master's Degree
14 7 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.76%) GDPR
2 14 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.41%) QA
3 11 (1.90%) NCSC
3 11 (1.90%) NIST
4 8 (1.38%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.21%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.21%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.03%) SLA
7 5 (0.86%) GRC
8 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.34%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 210 (36.21%) Docker
2 68 (11.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (7.24%) vSphere
4 39 (6.72%) Active Directory
5 30 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (4.14%) VMware NSX
7 21 (3.62%) Hyper-V
8 16 (2.76%) 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
1 310 (53.45%) Terraform
2 273 (47.07%) Kubernetes
3 215 (37.07%) Ansible
4 132 (22.76%) Grafana
5 115 (19.83%) Prometheus
6 60 (10.34%) Argo
7 47 (8.10%) Puppet
8 31 (5.34%) vCenter Server
9 24 (4.14%) Istio
10 15 (2.59%) Progress Chef
11 12 (2.07%) Kibana
12 11 (1.90%) Kustomize
12 11 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (1.90%) NetBackup
12 11 (1.90%) Nmap
12 11 (1.90%) Rancher
13 10 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (1.72%) Packer
13 10 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (1.72%) SCCM
Vendors
1 95 (16.38%) VMware
2 89 (15.34%) Microsoft
3 88 (15.17%) Red Hat
4 82 (14.14%) Splunk
5 38 (6.55%) Google
6 28 (4.83%) Dynatrace
7 24 (4.14%) Pure Storage
8 23 (3.97%) Cisco
9 20 (3.45%) Databricks
10 18 (3.10%) Oracle
11 16 (2.76%) Citrix
12 15 (2.59%) Palo Alto
13 14 (2.41%) F5
14 12 (2.07%) IBM
14 12 (2.07%) ServiceNow
15 11 (1.90%) Atlassian
16 10 (1.72%) AppDynamics
16 10 (1.72%) Commvault
16 10 (1.72%) Dell
16 10 (1.72%) Tenable