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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 183 145
Rank change year-on-year +51 -38 +6
Contract jobs citing Bash 619 430 727
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 1.37% 1.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.68% 4.20% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 279 535
10th Percentile £378 £361 £413
25th Percentile £433 £450 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £615 £675 £700
90th Percentile £675 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 20
10th Percentile - £49.00 £66.55
25th Percentile £41.25 £51.25 £71.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 £58.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% -21.67% +2.74%
75th Percentile £66.00 £73.28 £77.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £108.55 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £58.75 £75.00
% change year-on-year -7.23% -21.67% +2.74%

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 9,272 10,235 12,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.51% 32.51% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,172 6,734 9,440
10th Percentile £344 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 273 412
10th Percentile £31.13 £30.10 £32.51
25th Percentile £42.50 £46.25 £47.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.00 £82.25
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.59% +2.40% +4.17%

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 25 October 2025.

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 25 October 2025.

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 25 October 2025. 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 +43 297 £539 -10.21% 206
North of England +27 140 £520 +4.10% 91
Yorkshire +6 69 £513 +10.81% 21
South East +40 66 £475 +2.70% 175
North West +4 50 £550 +4.76% 64
Midlands -8 44 £538 +42.57% 30
West Midlands -7 34 £550 +59.42% 20
South West -7 33 £550 -12.00% 35
North East +16 25 £550 +34.47% 7
East of England -21 16 £479 -20.21% 24
East Midlands +1 10 £475 +7.95% 10
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 27 (4.36%) Confluence
2 14 (2.26%) OpenStack
3 13 (2.10%) Apache
4 8 (1.29%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.81%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.65%) nginx
8 3 (0.48%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.48%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.48%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.32%) JBoss
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.16%) CICS
10 1 (0.16%) CMS
10 1 (0.16%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.16%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Finacle
1 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 283 (45.72%) AWS
2 237 (38.29%) Azure
3 146 (23.59%) GCP
4 117 (18.90%) GitHub
5 65 (10.50%) GitHub Actions
6 52 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (7.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 48 (7.75%) OpenShift
8 47 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
8 47 (7.59%) Amazon S3
9 46 (7.43%) Entra ID
10 42 (6.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (6.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 30 (4.85%) Serverless
13 26 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
15 22 (3.55%) Amazon ELB
15 22 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 111 (17.93%) Firewall
2 80 (12.92%) DNS
3 62 (10.02%) TCP/IP
4 49 (7.92%) VPN
5 42 (6.79%) Network Security
6 27 (4.36%) SSL
7 24 (3.88%) BGP
8 23 (3.72%) Wireshark
9 20 (3.23%) VLAN
10 15 (2.42%) OSPF
11 12 (1.94%) DHCP
12 10 (1.62%) HTTP
13 9 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
14 8 (1.29%) Multicast
14 8 (1.29%) SSH
15 7 (1.13%) EIGRP
15 7 (1.13%) tcpdump
16 6 (0.97%) Ethernet
16 6 (0.97%) HTTPS
16 6 (0.97%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (4.52%) SQL Server
3 24 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (3.72%) MongoDB
5 20 (3.23%) Redis
6 18 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (2.75%) MySQL
8 11 (1.78%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.62%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.62%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.45%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.29%) Big Data
11 8 (1.29%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.97%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.97%) Oracle Exadata
13 6 (0.97%) Power BI
13 6 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 167 (26.98%) Jenkins
2 116 (18.74%) GitLab
3 101 (16.32%) Git
4 47 (7.59%) JIRA
5 30 (4.85%) SonarQube
6 27 (4.36%) Metasploit
7 26 (4.20%) Burp Suite
8 17 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (2.10%) Maven
10 10 (1.62%) Liquibase
11 9 (1.45%) CircleCI
12 8 (1.29%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.13%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.13%) Gradle
13 7 (1.13%) MLflow
14 6 (0.97%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.81%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.81%) Mockito
15 5 (0.81%) Subversion
15 5 (0.81%) Terragrunt
General
1 181 (29.24%) Social Skills
2 78 (12.60%) Public Sector
3 77 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.37%) Finance
5 26 (4.20%) Banking
6 19 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.26%) Legal
8 12 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.78%) Front Office
10 8 (1.29%) Military
11 7 (1.13%) Law
11 7 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.97%) Marketing
12 6 (0.97%) Retail
13 5 (0.81%) Games
13 5 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.81%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.65%) Electronics
14 4 (0.65%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.48%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 126 (20.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 74 (11.95%) Senior
3 44 (7.11%) Platform Engineer
4 37 (5.98%) Developer
5 36 (5.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
7 34 (5.49%) AWS DevOps
8 33 (5.33%) Network Engineer
9 30 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 29 (4.68%) Site Engineer
11 28 (4.52%) Security Engineer
12 26 (4.20%) Architect
12 26 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 25 (4.04%) Administrator
13 25 (4.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 23 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
15 22 (3.55%) Data Engineer
16 20 (3.23%) Analyst
16 20 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 19 (3.07%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (9.05%) Elastic Stack
2 42 (6.79%) Kafka
3 27 (4.36%) Keycloak
4 21 (3.39%) REST
5 20 (3.23%) Middleware
5 20 (3.23%) YAML
6 19 (3.07%) Node.js
7 18 (2.91%) ARM Templates
8 17 (2.75%) .NET
9 12 (1.94%) Loki
10 11 (1.78%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (1.45%) ADO
11 9 (1.45%) OAuth
11 9 (1.45%) RESTful
11 9 (1.45%) SAML
12 8 (1.29%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.29%) Spring
12 8 (1.29%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.13%) cloud-init
13 7 (1.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.30%) Cloud Native
2 26 (4.20%) Product Ownership
3 22 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
4 20 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
5 17 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.75%) PKI
5 17 (2.75%) Replication
6 16 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (2.58%) Security Posture
7 15 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.26%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.62%) Clustering
10 8 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.13%) NHS
11 7 (1.13%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.97%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 273 (44.10%) Linux
2 105 (16.96%) Windows
3 72 (11.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 46 (7.43%) Unix
5 37 (5.98%) Mac OS
6 30 (4.85%) Windows Server
7 25 (4.04%) CentOS
8 14 (2.26%) Solaris
8 14 (2.26%) Ubuntu
9 8 (1.29%) Kali Linux
10 5 (0.81%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.81%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.65%) Android
11 4 (0.65%) Debian
12 3 (0.48%) AIX
12 3 (0.48%) SUSE
13 2 (0.32%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.32%) VMS
14 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (55.41%) CI/CD
2 310 (50.08%) DevOps
3 277 (44.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (27.30%) Containerisation
5 120 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
6 100 (16.16%) Observability
7 98 (15.83%) Agile
8 85 (13.73%) Test Automation
9 83 (13.41%) Incident Response
10 79 (12.76%) DevSecOps
11 73 (11.79%) Infrastructure Automation
12 67 (10.82%) Migration
13 66 (10.66%) High Availability
14 65 (10.50%) Data Protection
15 63 (10.18%) Cybersecurity
16 61 (9.85%) Platform Engineering
17 60 (9.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 56 (9.05%) Task Automation
19 52 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 50 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 526 (84.98%) Python
2 217 (35.06%) PowerShell
3 73 (11.79%) SQL
4 66 (10.66%) Go
5 56 (9.05%) Perl
6 53 (8.56%) Java
7 27 (4.36%) Shell Script
8 25 (4.04%) JavaScript
9 21 (3.39%) Bicep
9 21 (3.39%) C++
10 20 (3.23%) Groovy
11 15 (2.42%) C
11 15 (2.42%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.78%) PromQL
13 10 (1.62%) C#
14 7 (1.13%) PHP
14 7 (1.13%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.97%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.97%) Ruby
16 5 (0.81%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 212 (34.25%) Security Cleared
2 178 (28.76%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.82%) Degree
4 32 (5.17%) OSCP
5 29 (4.68%) DV Cleared
6 28 (4.52%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (4.20%) AWS Certification
8 20 (3.23%) CCNP
8 20 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (2.91%) CEH
10 16 (2.58%) CCNA
11 14 (2.26%) CREST Certified
11 14 (2.26%) GPEN
12 13 (2.10%) Tigerscheme
13 12 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (1.78%) Azure Certification
14 11 (1.78%) CISSP
15 10 (1.62%) CCDP
15 10 (1.62%) CHECK Team Member
16 8 (1.29%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (5.01%) GDPR
3 21 (3.39%) NCSC
4 18 (2.91%) NIST
5 15 (2.42%) HIPAA
6 14 (2.26%) PCI DSS
7 13 (2.10%) Data Quality
7 13 (2.10%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.62%) QA
9 9 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.65%) SLA
12 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.16%) GxP
12 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 214 (34.57%) Docker
2 73 (11.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (6.62%) Active Directory
4 29 (4.68%) vSphere
5 10 (1.62%) zsh
6 9 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.29%) Firmware
8 7 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (1.13%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.97%) GPFS
9 6 (0.97%) KVM
9 6 (0.97%) NFS
10 5 (0.81%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.65%) Lustre
11 4 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.65%) Snort
11 4 (0.65%) Squid
11 4 (0.65%) Veritas File System
11 4 (0.65%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 257 (41.52%) Terraform
2 251 (40.55%) Kubernetes
3 214 (34.57%) Ansible
4 114 (18.42%) Grafana
5 105 (16.96%) Prometheus
6 37 (5.98%) Argo
7 35 (5.65%) Puppet
8 29 (4.68%) Nmap
9 25 (4.04%) Jamf Pro
10 23 (3.72%) NetBackup
11 19 (3.07%) Istio
12 18 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
12 18 (2.91%) Packer
12 18 (2.91%) Progress Chef
13 14 (2.26%) Kibana
13 14 (2.26%) Nessus
14 13 (2.10%) Oracle RMAN
14 13 (2.10%) SCCM
15 11 (1.78%) Podman
16 9 (1.45%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 97 (15.67%) VMware
2 91 (14.70%) Red Hat
3 86 (13.89%) Microsoft
4 83 (13.41%) Splunk
5 40 (6.46%) Palo Alto
6 38 (6.14%) Cisco
6 38 (6.14%) Google
7 34 (5.49%) Oracle
8 31 (5.01%) F5
9 28 (4.52%) CheckPoint
10 23 (3.72%) ServiceNow
11 21 (3.39%) Citrix
11 21 (3.39%) CyberArk
12 20 (3.23%) Veritas
13 17 (2.75%) Apple
13 17 (2.75%) Juniper
14 16 (2.58%) Zscaler
15 15 (2.42%) Databricks
15 15 (2.42%) Qualys
15 15 (2.42%) Veracode