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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 141 199
Rank change year-on-year -27 +58 -52
Contract jobs citing Bash 794 566 421
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 2.03% 1.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.56% 6.13% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 371 279
10th Percentile £399 £378 £355
25th Percentile £450 £438 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £681 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.05% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 10
10th Percentile £56.45 £40.30 £47.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £41.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £42.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +67.06% -27.66% -21.67%
75th Percentile £93.75 £59.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £99.53 £62.45 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £69.61 £42.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +63.78% -27.66% -21.67%

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 12,101 9,227 10,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.99% 33.02% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,837 6,209 7,054
10th Percentile £363 £350 £355
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 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 262 300
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £48.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% +1.56%
75th Percentile £70.75 £67.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.13 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.59%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -23 384 £525 -2.78% 366
North of England -39 141 £500 - 82
South East -4 108 £568 +27.07% 101
South West +11 86 £673 +22.39% 77
Yorkshire -33 62 £500 -1.23% 17
North West -23 56 £525 +10.53% 54
East of England -13 31 £425 -11.92% 44
West Midlands -43 25 £525 -9.68% 18
Midlands -65 25 £525 -6.67% 36
North East -33 22 £419 -19.08% 11
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 37 (4.66%) Confluence
2 28 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (3.15%) Apache
4 18 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.76%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.64%) nginx
7 9 (1.13%) IIS
7 9 (1.13%) Tomcat
8 8 (1.01%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.88%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.63%) SAS
11 4 (0.50%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.50%) WordPress
12 3 (0.38%) JBoss
13 2 (0.25%) CMS
13 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
14 1 (0.13%) Camunda
14 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.13%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.01%) Remedy AR System
3 5 (0.63%) Front Arena
3 5 (0.63%) Summit
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.13%) Actimize
5 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 374 (47.10%) AWS
2 362 (45.59%) Azure
3 185 (23.30%) GitHub
4 158 (19.90%) GCP
5 133 (16.75%) GitHub Actions
6 132 (16.62%) Azure DevOps
7 81 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
8 65 (8.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 65 (8.19%) Serverless
9 62 (7.81%) Amazon S3
9 62 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 61 (7.68%) Azure Monitor
11 54 (6.80%) Entra ID
12 51 (6.42%) Datadog
13 50 (6.30%) OpenShift
14 49 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (6.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 44 (5.54%) Azure AKS
16 43 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
16 43 (5.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 124 (15.62%) Firewall
2 112 (14.11%) DNS
3 83 (10.45%) TCP/IP
4 69 (8.69%) Network Security
5 65 (8.19%) VPN
6 59 (7.43%) DHCP
7 20 (2.52%) WAN
8 19 (2.39%) SSH
9 17 (2.14%) SAN
9 17 (2.14%) VSAN
10 14 (1.76%) SSL
11 13 (1.64%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.64%) VLAN
12 11 (1.39%) Kerberos
13 10 (1.26%) 5G
13 10 (1.26%) BGP
13 10 (1.26%) HTTP
14 9 (1.13%) 4G
14 9 (1.13%) NAS
15 7 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (4.28%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.53%) Redis
4 26 (3.27%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.15%) MySQL
6 24 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (2.77%) NoSQL
8 15 (1.89%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.51%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.39%) Big Data
10 11 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.39%) Metadata
10 11 (1.39%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (1.13%) Delta Lake
12 9 (1.13%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.13%) Pentaho
12 9 (1.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 196 (24.69%) Jenkins
2 164 (20.65%) Git
3 162 (20.40%) GitLab
4 44 (5.54%) JIRA
5 19 (2.39%) Artifactory
6 16 (2.02%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 15 (1.89%) Selenium
7 15 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.01%) Maven
8 8 (1.01%) Postman
9 7 (0.88%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.88%) JMeter
10 6 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.76%) MLflow
10 6 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.63%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.63%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.63%) Subversion
12 4 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 179 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 149 (18.77%) Finance
3 106 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (8.44%) Banking
5 64 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.02%) Telecoms
7 14 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.76%) Legal
8 12 (1.51%) Military
9 11 (1.39%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.39%) Law
10 8 (1.01%) Retail
11 7 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.76%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.63%) Front Office
13 5 (0.63%) Publishing
14 4 (0.50%) Automotive
14 4 (0.50%) Marketing
15 3 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 159 (20.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 106 (13.35%) Senior
3 72 (9.07%) Cloud Engineer
3 72 (9.07%) Platform Engineer
4 57 (7.18%) Security Engineer
5 55 (6.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 53 (6.68%) Azure Engineer
7 51 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
8 45 (5.67%) Linux Engineer
9 43 (5.42%) Lead
10 42 (5.29%) Developer
11 39 (4.91%) Architect
11 39 (4.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 34 (4.28%) Site Engineer
13 33 (4.16%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 33 (4.16%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 31 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (3.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 29 (3.65%) AWS DevOps
16 29 (3.65%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 459 (57.81%) Terraform
2 73 (9.19%) Kafka
3 53 (6.68%) ARM Templates
4 52 (6.55%) REST
5 45 (5.67%) Elastic Stack
6 39 (4.91%) YAML
7 29 (3.65%) Middleware
8 22 (2.77%) RESTful
9 21 (2.64%) Loki
10 20 (2.52%) JSON
10 20 (2.52%) React
11 18 (2.27%) Flask
11 18 (2.27%) Node.js
12 16 (2.02%) .NET
12 16 (2.02%) AngularJS
13 15 (1.89%) CSS
13 15 (1.89%) HTML
13 15 (1.89%) LDAP
14 14 (1.76%) OpenTelemetry
15 13 (1.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 120 (15.11%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 44 (5.54%) Security Posture
4 36 (4.53%) Onboarding
5 35 (4.41%) PKI
6 32 (4.03%) Linux Command Line
7 31 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
8 30 (3.78%) Data Centre
8 30 (3.78%) Management Information System
9 26 (3.27%) Public Cloud
10 21 (2.64%) Product Ownership
11 18 (2.27%) Replication
12 17 (2.14%) Cloud Security Posture
13 14 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
14 10 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (1.26%) Enterprise Storage
15 9 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 9 (1.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 403 (50.76%) Linux
2 183 (23.05%) Windows
3 101 (12.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (8.44%) Windows Server
5 62 (7.81%) Unix
6 38 (4.79%) Ubuntu
7 17 (2.14%) CentOS
8 15 (1.89%) VMS
9 6 (0.76%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.76%) Rocky
9 6 (0.76%) Solaris
10 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.25%) AIX
12 2 (0.25%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.25%) Debian
12 2 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (60.58%) CI/CD
2 431 (54.28%) DevOps
3 419 (52.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 230 (28.97%) Containerisation
5 221 (27.83%) Observability
6 172 (21.66%) Agile
7 164 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 164 (20.65%) Platform Engineering
8 147 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
9 121 (15.24%) DevSecOps
10 120 (15.11%) Cloud Security
11 117 (14.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 108 (13.60%) Infrastructure Automation
13 107 (13.48%) Root Cause Analysis
14 102 (12.85%) Runbook
15 100 (12.59%) AI
16 98 (12.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 95 (11.96%) Configuration Management
18 91 (11.46%) Migration
19 89 (11.21%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 671 (84.51%) Python
2 387 (48.74%) PowerShell
3 112 (14.11%) SQL
4 96 (12.09%) Java
5 78 (9.82%) Bicep
6 71 (8.94%) Go
7 54 (6.80%) Shell Script
8 28 (3.53%) Perl
9 27 (3.40%) JavaScript
10 25 (3.15%) Groovy
11 20 (2.52%) Korn
12 17 (2.14%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.51%) C#
14 11 (1.39%) Ruby
15 8 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.76%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.50%) Cypher
19 3 (0.38%) MATLAB
19 3 (0.38%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 306 (38.54%) Security Cleared
2 225 (28.34%) SC Cleared
3 84 (10.58%) DV Cleared
4 63 (7.93%) Degree
5 61 (7.68%) AWS Certification
6 57 (7.18%) Azure Certification
7 35 (4.41%) CISSP
8 33 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.51%) VCAP
12 12 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.88%) CCNP
16 6 (0.76%) CCNA
16 6 (0.76%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.92%) QA
2 34 (4.28%) NIST
3 33 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.64%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.26%) SLA
7 8 (1.01%) GDPR
8 7 (0.88%) NCSC
9 6 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.63%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.50%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.25%) HL7
14 1 (0.13%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
14 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 287 (36.15%) Docker
2 87 (10.96%) Active Directory
3 69 (8.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (4.66%) Hyper-V
5 30 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (3.65%) vSphere
7 17 (2.14%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (1.13%) NFS
9 9 (1.13%) Squid
10 6 (0.76%) Postfix
11 4 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.50%) zsh
12 3 (0.38%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.38%) Firmware
12 3 (0.38%) HDFS
12 3 (0.38%) KVM
12 3 (0.38%) OpenSSH
12 3 (0.38%) Varnish
12 3 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 372 (46.85%) Kubernetes
2 289 (36.40%) Ansible
3 173 (21.79%) Grafana
4 147 (18.51%) Prometheus
5 51 (6.42%) Puppet
6 47 (5.92%) Progress Chef
7 34 (4.28%) Argo
8 21 (2.64%) Istio
9 16 (2.02%) Podman
10 15 (1.89%) Kibana
10 15 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (1.76%) VxRail
12 13 (1.64%) SCCM
13 12 (1.51%) systemd
14 11 (1.39%) Packer
15 10 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (1.13%) Check_MK
16 9 (1.13%) Consul
17 8 (1.01%) Cilium
17 8 (1.01%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 155 (19.52%) Microsoft
2 94 (11.84%) Google
3 92 (11.59%) VMware
4 62 (7.81%) Splunk
5 61 (7.68%) Red Hat
6 55 (6.93%) Dynatrace
7 51 (6.42%) Oracle
8 32 (4.03%) Cisco
8 32 (4.03%) CyberArk
9 28 (3.53%) ServiceNow
10 22 (2.77%) Databricks
11 17 (2.14%) IBM
11 17 (2.14%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.64%) NetApp
13 12 (1.51%) Fortinet
13 12 (1.51%) SolarWinds
14 11 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
15 10 (1.26%) BMC
16 9 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
16 9 (1.13%) Remedy