Bash Contracts in England

Bash Shell
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Bash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bash over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 204 129
Rank change year-on-year +54 -75 +47
Contract jobs citing Bash 468 437 960
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.90% 1.17% 2.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.61% 3.84% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 310 713
10th Percentile £373 £400 £430
25th Percentile £441 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £738
90th Percentile £721 £688 £835
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £600
% change year-on-year -2.05% -10.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 17
10th Percentile £26.83 £22.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £34.24 £25.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £53.50 £57.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -12.21% +42.23%
75th Percentile £57.06 £71.88 £78.00
90th Percentile £67.89 £74.38 £85.50
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £57.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -6.96% -12.21% +42.23%

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 8,338 11,366 16,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.88% 30.30% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,791 8,149 11,851
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £540 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -4.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 481 398
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.52 £29.13
25th Percentile £36.00 £49.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £79.65
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.62%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in England

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in England.

Daily rate trend for Bash in England

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in England

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in England.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in England

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 13 June 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 13 June 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 +52 244 £525 -4.55% 337
North of England +13 71 £513 +0.24% 153
South West +53 52 £600 +9.09% 61
Yorkshire +9 44 £525 +10.53% 40
South East +30 40 £450 -18.18% 202
Midlands +24 26 £550 +2.61% 43
North West +9 24 £493 -10.45% 106
East of England +23 18 £475 -13.64% 95
West Midlands +13 18 £615 +36.67% 18
East Midlands +7 8 £408 -32.08% 23
North East - 3 £550 - 7
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (4.91%) Confluence
2 16 (3.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 13 (2.78%) Apache
4 10 (2.14%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.07%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.07%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.85%) nginx
6 4 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.64%) JBoss
8 2 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.43%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.21%) Mattermost
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 196 (41.88%) AWS
2 191 (40.81%) Azure
3 85 (18.16%) GCP
4 65 (13.89%) GitHub
5 48 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (7.05%) OpenShift
7 31 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
9 27 (5.77%) Amazon S3
9 27 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (4.91%) Serverless
11 20 (4.27%) Azure AKS
12 19 (4.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 18 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (2.99%) Entra ID
15 14 (2.99%) IaaS
16 13 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
17 12 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (16.24%) DNS
2 49 (10.47%) Firewall
3 35 (7.48%) TCP/IP
4 25 (5.34%) HTTP
5 23 (4.91%) DHCP
6 20 (4.27%) VPN
7 17 (3.63%) Network Security
8 9 (1.92%) SSH
9 8 (1.71%) Kerberos
10 7 (1.50%) BGP
10 7 (1.50%) OSPF
11 6 (1.28%) 5G NR
11 6 (1.28%) SAN
12 4 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
12 4 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.85%) SpaceWire
12 4 (0.85%) SSL
12 4 (0.85%) VLAN
12 4 (0.85%) WAN
13 3 (0.64%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (4.70%) Oracle Database
3 19 (4.06%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.35%) Power BI
8 8 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.50%) Apache Hive
9 7 (1.50%) MySQL
9 7 (1.50%) Redis
10 6 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.28%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.28%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.07%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.07%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.07%) Hazelcast
11 5 (1.07%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 95 (20.30%) Jenkins
2 92 (19.66%) Git
3 65 (13.89%) GitLab
4 49 (10.47%) JIRA
5 19 (4.06%) SonarQube
6 15 (3.21%) Selenium
7 13 (2.78%) Bitbucket
8 12 (2.56%) JMeter
9 10 (2.14%) Burp Suite
9 10 (2.14%) Maven
9 10 (2.14%) Metasploit
9 10 (2.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (1.92%) LoadRunner
10 9 (1.92%) Subversion
11 7 (1.50%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.28%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.28%) MSI
13 5 (1.07%) CircleCI
13 5 (1.07%) Snyk
13 5 (1.07%) TestNG
General
1 135 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 77 (16.45%) Finance
3 55 (11.75%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.34%) Banking
6 19 (4.06%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.50%) Marketing
8 6 (1.28%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.28%) Law
8 6 (1.28%) Legal
8 6 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.07%) Electronics
9 5 (1.07%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.07%) Military
10 4 (0.85%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.64%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.43%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.21%) Front Office
13 1 (0.21%) Retail
Job Titles
1 104 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (12.39%) Senior
3 35 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
3 35 (7.48%) Linux Engineer
4 32 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
5 31 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
7 25 (5.34%) Developer
8 24 (5.13%) Analyst
9 23 (4.91%) Architect
10 22 (4.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 21 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.27%) AWS DevOps
12 20 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 19 (4.06%) Mac Engineer
14 18 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.85%) Site Engineer
15 17 (3.63%) Administrator
16 16 (3.42%) Security Engineer
17 15 (3.21%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.20%) REST
2 28 (5.98%) Elastic Stack
3 22 (4.70%) Kafka
4 21 (4.49%) ARM Templates
4 21 (4.49%) YAML
5 13 (2.78%) Node.js
6 12 (2.56%) .NET
6 12 (2.56%) RESTful
6 12 (2.56%) SOAP
7 11 (2.35%) JSON
8 10 (2.14%) ADO
9 9 (1.92%) LDAP
10 8 (1.71%) AngularJS
10 8 (1.71%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (1.71%) HTML
10 8 (1.71%) OAuth
11 7 (1.50%) PySpark
11 7 (1.50%) pytest
11 7 (1.50%) React
11 7 (1.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.91%) Linux Command Line
2 25 (5.34%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.35%) Clustering
4 8 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (1.71%) Management Information System
4 8 (1.71%) Onboarding
4 8 (1.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 7 (1.50%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.50%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.50%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.50%) Replication
6 6 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 6 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.28%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.07%) Reference Data
8 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.85%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 218 (46.58%) Linux
2 125 (26.71%) Windows
3 55 (11.75%) Windows Server
4 48 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (5.98%) Unix
6 25 (5.34%) Mac OS
7 14 (2.99%) Solaris
8 8 (1.71%) CentOS
9 7 (1.50%) VMS
10 6 (1.28%) SUSE
10 6 (1.28%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.85%) Android
12 3 (0.64%) AIX
12 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.64%) Rocky
13 2 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.21%) HPUX
14 1 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (47.01%) CI/CD
2 209 (44.66%) DevOps
3 143 (30.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (27.56%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (26.92%) Containerisation
6 92 (19.66%) Agile
7 68 (14.53%) Configuration Management
8 66 (14.10%) Task Automation
9 57 (12.18%) Microservices
10 54 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 48 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
12 47 (10.04%) High Availability
12 47 (10.04%) Test Automation
13 45 (9.62%) Migration
14 39 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
15 38 (8.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 36 (7.69%) Cloud Security
17 35 (7.48%) Cybersecurity
17 35 (7.48%) DevSecOps
18 33 (7.05%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 392 (83.76%) Python
2 188 (40.17%) PowerShell
3 74 (15.81%) SQL
4 60 (12.82%) Java
5 51 (10.90%) Perl
6 21 (4.49%) Go
7 18 (3.85%) PL/SQL
8 16 (3.42%) JavaScript
9 13 (2.78%) Bicep
10 12 (2.56%) Groovy
11 11 (2.35%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.92%) C#
12 9 (1.92%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.71%) Scala
13 8 (1.71%) VB
14 7 (1.50%) Ruby
15 6 (1.28%) C
15 6 (1.28%) C++
16 4 (0.85%) PHP
16 4 (0.85%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 163 (34.83%) Security Cleared
2 130 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 40 (8.55%) Cisco Certification
4 36 (7.69%) Degree
5 26 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 22 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.63%) AWS Certification
7 17 (3.63%) CCNP
8 12 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.56%) OSCP
8 12 (2.56%) RHCE
9 11 (2.35%) CEH
9 11 (2.35%) CISSP
9 11 (2.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (2.14%) CREST Certified
10 10 (2.14%) OCA
10 10 (2.14%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (2.14%) RHCA
11 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.71%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.69%) GDPR
2 28 (5.98%) QA
3 17 (3.63%) HIPAA
4 14 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.99%) NIST
5 12 (2.56%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.71%) NCSC
7 7 (1.50%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.85%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.43%) SLA
12 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 136 (29.06%) Docker
2 46 (9.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (7.69%) Active Directory
4 16 (3.42%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (1.92%) vSphere
8 4 (0.85%) NFS
9 3 (0.64%) Veritas File System
9 3 (0.64%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.43%) zsh
11 1 (0.21%) Btrfs
11 1 (0.21%) Firmware
11 1 (0.21%) HDFS
11 1 (0.21%) iptables
11 1 (0.21%) KVM
11 1 (0.21%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.21%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.21%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 195 (41.67%) Ansible
2 194 (41.45%) Kubernetes
3 183 (39.10%) Terraform
4 74 (15.81%) Puppet
5 54 (11.54%) Grafana
6 48 (10.26%) Prometheus
7 47 (10.04%) Progress Chef
8 21 (4.49%) Jamf Pro
9 13 (2.78%) Red Hat Satellite
10 11 (2.35%) Packer
10 11 (2.35%) vCenter Server
11 9 (1.92%) Istio
11 9 (1.92%) Nmap
11 9 (1.92%) QRadar
12 8 (1.71%) Control-M
12 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (1.50%) Nagios
13 7 (1.50%) Tivoli
14 6 (1.28%) Kibana
14 6 (1.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 68 (14.53%) VMware
2 61 (13.03%) Red Hat
3 50 (10.68%) Oracle
4 45 (9.62%) Microsoft
5 43 (9.19%) Cisco
6 38 (8.12%) Splunk
7 23 (4.91%) Google
8 20 (4.27%) ServiceNow
9 19 (4.06%) Apple
10 15 (3.21%) Qualys
11 14 (2.99%) IBM
12 12 (2.56%) Veracode
13 11 (2.35%) Atlassian
13 11 (2.35%) CyberArk
14 10 (2.14%) Fortinet
15 9 (1.92%) EMC
15 9 (1.92%) SAP
16 8 (1.71%) F5
16 8 (1.71%) SaltStack
16 8 (1.71%) SolarWinds