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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 149 205
Rank change year-on-year -25 +56 -79
Contract jobs citing Bash 697 517 424
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.89% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.87% 5.73% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 341 303
10th Percentile £388 £361 £400
25th Percentile £445 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £621 £613 £638
90th Percentile £705 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 14
10th Percentile £56.40 £43.90 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £45.75 £26.75
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -19.30%
75th Percentile £95.37 £63.25 £69.84
90th Percentile £100.00 £66.34 £74.06
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -17.86%

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 11,875 9,020 10,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.47% 33.04% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,716 6,204 7,905
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £516 £545
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -5.32% -0.91%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 228 407
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £35.31
25th Percentile £54.53 £38.97 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £62.50
% change year-on-year +15.30% -9.80% +3.09%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -52 294 £511 -2.62% 99
North of England -9 165 £500 - 44
South East -11 100 £532 +22.36% 61
Yorkshire -11 83 £504 +0.70% 10
South West -18 69 £564 -1.96% 27
North West -7 64 £538 +7.50% 29
West Midlands -42 32 £525 - 9
Midlands -48 32 £525 -2.33% 18
East of England -17 21 £483 +1.58% 11
North East -28 18 £400 -27.27% 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 39 (5.60%) Confluence
2 20 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.58%) Apache
4 12 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.58%) nginx
5 11 (1.58%) SAS
6 7 (1.00%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.86%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.72%) IIS
9 4 (0.57%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.57%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.57%) WordPress
10 3 (0.43%) JBoss
10 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.29%) CMS
11 2 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.29%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.29%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.14%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 329 (47.20%) AWS
2 298 (42.75%) Azure
3 190 (27.26%) GitHub
4 141 (20.23%) GCP
5 124 (17.79%) GitHub Actions
6 109 (15.64%) Azure DevOps
7 69 (9.90%) Amazon EKS
8 62 (8.90%) Serverless
9 59 (8.46%) Amazon S3
9 59 (8.46%) OpenShift
10 58 (8.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (8.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 48 (6.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 47 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (6.17%) Datadog
14 42 (6.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 40 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (5.74%) Azure Monitor
16 36 (5.16%) Azure AKS
17 33 (4.73%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 113 (16.21%) DNS
2 108 (15.49%) Firewall
3 67 (9.61%) TCP/IP
4 54 (7.75%) VPN
5 49 (7.03%) Network Security
6 43 (6.17%) DHCP
7 17 (2.44%) SAN
7 17 (2.44%) VLAN
8 14 (2.01%) NAS
8 14 (2.01%) SSL
8 14 (2.01%) WAN
9 11 (1.58%) HTTP
9 11 (1.58%) VSAN
10 10 (1.43%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.29%) BGP
11 9 (1.29%) SNMP
12 8 (1.15%) SSH
13 7 (1.00%) DNSSEC
13 7 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.16%) SQL Server
2 29 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (2.58%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.15%) MySQL
5 15 (2.15%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (1.87%) Redis
8 11 (1.58%) Pentaho
9 10 (1.43%) Big Data
9 10 (1.43%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.29%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.29%) Metadata
11 8 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.15%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.15%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.86%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 197 (28.26%) Jenkins
2 132 (18.94%) GitLab
3 115 (16.50%) Git
4 44 (6.31%) JIRA
5 13 (1.87%) Artifactory
6 11 (1.58%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.29%) Postman
7 9 (1.29%) Selenium
7 9 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.15%) JMeter
9 7 (1.00%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.86%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.86%) Liquibase
10 6 (0.86%) MLflow
10 6 (0.86%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.72%) Browser DevTools
12 4 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.57%) Jaeger
13 3 (0.43%) Ant
13 3 (0.43%) Bugzilla
General
1 152 (21.81%) Social Skills
2 91 (13.06%) Finance
3 71 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 46 (6.60%) Banking
6 19 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.58%) Legal
8 15 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.15%) Military
10 7 (1.00%) Law
10 7 (1.00%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.72%) Retail
12 4 (0.57%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.57%) Front Office
12 4 (0.57%) Publishing
13 3 (0.43%) Automotive
14 2 (0.29%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.29%) Aviation
14 2 (0.29%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 141 (20.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 82 (11.76%) Senior
3 65 (9.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 59 (8.46%) Platform Engineer
5 50 (7.17%) AWS Engineer
6 48 (6.89%) Security Engineer
7 46 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 44 (6.31%) Architect
9 42 (6.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 41 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
11 40 (5.74%) Lead
12 34 (4.88%) Site Engineer
13 31 (4.45%) Linux Engineer
14 29 (4.16%) GCP Engineer
15 27 (3.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
16 26 (3.73%) Data Engineer
17 25 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
17 25 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 24 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.60%) Kafka
2 37 (5.31%) Elastic Stack
3 35 (5.02%) REST
4 34 (4.88%) YAML
5 29 (4.16%) ARM Templates
5 29 (4.16%) OpenTelemetry
6 21 (3.01%) Loki
7 17 (2.44%) Middleware
8 15 (2.15%) JSON
9 13 (1.87%) Node.js
10 12 (1.72%) LDAP
11 10 (1.43%) .NET
11 10 (1.43%) SAML
12 9 (1.29%) OAuth
12 9 (1.29%) React
12 9 (1.29%) SOAP
12 9 (1.29%) Swagger
13 8 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (1.00%) AngularJS
14 7 (1.00%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 114 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (5.45%) Security Posture
4 35 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
5 30 (4.30%) Onboarding
6 28 (4.02%) Linux Command Line
7 26 (3.73%) Data Centre
8 25 (3.59%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.87%) PKI
9 20 (2.87%) Replication
10 18 (2.58%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.72%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 9 (1.29%) Cloud Security Posture
15 9 (1.29%) Clustering
15 9 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 302 (43.33%) Linux
2 147 (21.09%) Windows
3 78 (11.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (7.03%) Windows Server
5 40 (5.74%) Unix
6 31 (4.45%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.58%) VMS
8 10 (1.43%) AIX
9 9 (1.29%) CentOS
10 7 (1.00%) Solaris
11 4 (0.57%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.29%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.29%) Debian
13 2 (0.29%) Rocky
13 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (58.68%) CI/CD
2 383 (54.95%) DevOps
3 334 (47.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 199 (28.55%) Containerisation
5 167 (23.96%) Observability
6 129 (18.51%) Platform Engineering
6 129 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
7 122 (17.50%) Agile
8 105 (15.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 103 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 92 (13.20%) Cloud Security
11 91 (13.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 88 (12.63%) Migration
13 84 (12.05%) High Availability
14 81 (11.62%) Configuration Management
15 80 (11.48%) Infrastructure Automation
16 77 (11.05%) DevSecOps
17 71 (10.19%) Root Cause Analysis
17 71 (10.19%) Runbook
17 71 (10.19%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 606 (86.94%) Python
2 320 (45.91%) PowerShell
3 89 (12.77%) SQL
4 61 (8.75%) Java
5 55 (7.89%) Go
6 42 (6.03%) Bicep
7 25 (3.59%) Shell Script
8 24 (3.44%) Perl
9 21 (3.01%) Groovy
10 15 (2.15%) JavaScript
11 11 (1.58%) Ruby
12 10 (1.43%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.43%) TypeScript
13 7 (1.00%) C
14 6 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.72%) C#
15 5 (0.72%) Korn
15 5 (0.72%) Scala
16 4 (0.57%) C++
16 4 (0.57%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 246 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 187 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.75%) DV Cleared
4 51 (7.32%) AWS Certification
5 49 (7.03%) Azure Certification
6 46 (6.60%) Degree
7 27 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (3.44%) CISSP
9 18 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (2.15%) CCNP
12 14 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 14 (2.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 13 (1.87%) CCNA
14 11 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.58%) RHCE
15 9 (1.29%) RHCA
16 7 (1.00%) MCSE
16 7 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
16 7 (1.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.87%) QA
2 26 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.44%) NIST
4 14 (2.01%) GDPR
4 14 (2.01%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.58%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.58%) SLA
6 8 (1.15%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.86%) GRC
8 5 (0.72%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.29%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.29%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) HL7
12 1 (0.14%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 218 (31.28%) Docker
2 67 (9.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (9.18%) Active Directory
4 43 (6.17%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (4.88%) Hyper-V
6 33 (4.73%) vSphere
7 26 (3.73%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.87%) KVM
9 12 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (1.43%) Firmware
10 10 (1.43%) NFS
10 10 (1.43%) Squid
11 7 (1.00%) Postfix
12 5 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.57%) Varnish
14 3 (0.43%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.43%) OpenSSH
14 3 (0.43%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.43%) zsh
Systems Management
1 396 (56.81%) Terraform
2 307 (44.05%) Kubernetes
3 259 (37.16%) Ansible
4 148 (21.23%) Grafana
5 123 (17.65%) Prometheus
6 60 (8.61%) Puppet
7 53 (7.60%) Argo
8 45 (6.46%) Progress Chef
9 29 (4.16%) vCenter Server
10 21 (3.01%) Istio
11 12 (1.72%) Packer
11 12 (1.72%) Podman
12 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (1.43%) NetBackup
13 10 (1.43%) systemd
14 9 (1.29%) SCCM
15 8 (1.15%) HAProxy
16 7 (1.00%) Rancher
17 6 (0.86%) Consul
17 6 (0.86%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 104 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 86 (12.34%) VMware
3 77 (11.05%) Red Hat
4 73 (10.47%) Google
5 56 (8.03%) Splunk
6 53 (7.60%) Oracle
7 46 (6.60%) Dynatrace
8 30 (4.30%) Cisco
9 24 (3.44%) CyberArk
9 24 (3.44%) IBM
10 20 (2.87%) Databricks
11 19 (2.73%) ServiceNow
12 17 (2.44%) Pure Storage
13 15 (2.15%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.87%) Cloudera
14 13 (1.87%) SolarWinds
15 12 (1.72%) Informatica
16 11 (1.58%) Fortinet
16 11 (1.58%) Talend
16 11 (1.58%) Zscaler