Bash Contracts in London

Bash Shell
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 200 96
Rank change year-on-year +65 -104 +68
Contract jobs citing Bash 282 214 682
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.13% 1.21% 2.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.42% 3.15% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 146 522
10th Percentile £413 £400 £463
25th Percentile £446 £475 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £648
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -15.06% +7.92%
75th Percentile £658 £638 £798
90th Percentile £738 £725 £835
England median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £46.48 £21.40 £18.38
25th Percentile £47.56 £22.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.25 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.86% +42.50% -30.43%
75th Percentile £62.19 £52.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.83 £71.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £54.50 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.22% -17.86% +52.00%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,203 6,802 10,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.35% 38.60% 39.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,653 5,159 7,620
10th Percentile £370 £375 £406
25th Percentile £431 £461 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £850 £835
England median daily rate £521 £540 £555
% change year-on-year -3.61% -2.70% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 50 77
10th Percentile £27.08 £23.80 £25.55
25th Percentile £33.25 £34.82 £48.60
Median hourly rate £41.66 £49.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -17.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58.81 £62.23 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £72.75 £87.94
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.99%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in London

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Bash in London

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in London

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Bash in London

Bash
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the London region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Central London +17 37 £580 -3.33% 122
South London -5 6 £620 +9.35% 4
West London +10 4 £475 +90.00% 25
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 13 (4.61%) Apache
2 9 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.77%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.42%) Confluence
5 3 (1.06%) JBoss
5 3 (1.06%) nginx
6 2 (0.71%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 135 (47.87%) AWS
2 129 (45.74%) Azure
3 67 (23.76%) GCP
4 53 (18.79%) GitHub
5 33 (11.70%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (7.80%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (7.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (7.45%) Amazon S3
8 19 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (6.03%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (5.67%) Serverless
11 14 (4.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (4.61%) Azure AKS
13 11 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (3.90%) OpenShift
14 9 (3.19%) Azure Storage
14 9 (3.19%) IaaS
15 8 (2.84%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (2.84%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.77%) Firewall
2 30 (10.64%) DNS
3 16 (5.67%) TCP/IP
3 16 (5.67%) VPN
4 15 (5.32%) Network Security
5 7 (2.48%) DHCP
5 7 (2.48%) HTTP
5 7 (2.48%) SSH
6 6 (2.13%) BGP
6 6 (2.13%) OSPF
7 4 (1.42%) Kerberos
8 3 (1.06%) EIGRP
8 3 (1.06%) IPsec
8 3 (1.06%) Multicast
8 3 (1.06%) SAN
8 3 (1.06%) SSL
9 2 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.71%) HSRP
9 2 (0.71%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.32%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (2.84%) Power BI
5 7 (2.48%) Apache Hive
6 6 (2.13%) Delta Lake
6 6 (2.13%) MySQL
7 5 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.42%) MariaDB
8 4 (1.42%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.42%) Redis
9 3 (1.06%) Big Data
9 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.06%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.06%) Hazelcast
9 3 (1.06%) Metadata
9 3 (1.06%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 54 (19.15%) Jenkins
2 48 (17.02%) Git
3 37 (13.12%) GitLab
4 21 (7.45%) SonarQube
5 19 (6.74%) JIRA
6 15 (5.32%) Burp Suite
6 15 (5.32%) Metasploit
7 10 (3.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (3.19%) JMeter
8 9 (3.19%) LoadRunner
8 9 (3.19%) Maven
9 7 (2.48%) Liquibase
10 4 (1.42%) Gradle
10 4 (1.42%) RStudio
10 4 (1.42%) Snyk
10 4 (1.42%) Subversion
10 4 (1.42%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.06%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.06%) GCC
11 3 (1.06%) JUnit
General
1 80 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 62 (21.99%) Finance
3 44 (15.60%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.87%) Banking
6 8 (2.84%) Law
7 7 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.77%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.77%) Marketing
8 5 (1.77%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.06%) Electronics
9 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.06%) Military
9 3 (1.06%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Legal
10 2 (0.71%) Retail
11 1 (0.35%) Front Office
11 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (24.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (12.41%) Senior
3 29 (10.28%) Azure Engineer
4 28 (9.93%) Cloud Engineer
5 24 (8.51%) AWS Engineer
6 23 (8.16%) Analyst
7 21 (7.45%) Architect
7 21 (7.45%) Security Engineer
8 19 (6.74%) Site Engineer
8 19 (6.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 18 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
10 17 (6.03%) Linux Engineer
11 16 (5.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 14 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.96%) Security Analyst
13 13 (4.61%) Developer
14 11 (3.90%) Mac Engineer
15 10 (3.55%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.74%) Kafka
2 18 (6.38%) ARM Templates
3 17 (6.03%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (6.03%) YAML
4 11 (3.90%) JSON
5 10 (3.55%) REST
6 9 (3.19%) .NET
7 8 (2.84%) ADO
7 8 (2.84%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (2.13%) LDAP
8 6 (2.13%) pydantic
8 6 (2.13%) PySpark
8 6 (2.13%) Spring
9 4 (1.42%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.42%) Middleware
9 4 (1.42%) OAuth
9 4 (1.42%) React
9 4 (1.42%) RESTful
10 3 (1.06%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (1.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (3.55%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.84%) Clustering
3 8 (2.84%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (2.84%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 7 (2.48%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.13%) Replication
6 5 (1.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (1.77%) Reference Data
6 5 (1.77%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.06%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.06%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.06%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 105 (37.23%) Linux
2 43 (15.25%) Windows
3 25 (8.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (6.03%) Mac OS
4 17 (6.03%) Unix
5 8 (2.84%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.48%) CentOS
6 7 (2.48%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.13%) Solaris
7 6 (2.13%) VMS
8 4 (1.42%) Android
8 4 (1.42%) SUSE
9 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.06%) Rocky
10 2 (0.71%) Debian
11 1 (0.35%) AIX
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (50.35%) CI/CD
2 138 (48.94%) DevOps
3 111 (39.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (26.24%) Containerisation
5 70 (24.82%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (13.83%) Cloud Security
6 39 (13.83%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (12.41%) Agile
8 33 (11.70%) Configuration Management
8 33 (11.70%) DevSecOps
9 32 (11.35%) High Availability
10 31 (10.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 31 (10.99%) Task Automation
11 30 (10.64%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (8.16%) Microservices
12 23 (8.16%) OWASP
12 23 (8.16%) Secure Coding
13 22 (7.80%) Penetration Testing
14 21 (7.45%) Computer Science
14 21 (7.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 243 (86.17%) Python
2 97 (34.40%) PowerShell
3 36 (12.77%) SQL
4 33 (11.70%) Java
5 30 (10.64%) Go
6 23 (8.16%) Perl
7 11 (3.90%) Bicep
8 10 (3.55%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.19%) C++
9 9 (3.19%) Scala
10 8 (2.84%) Groovy
10 8 (2.84%) VB
11 7 (2.48%) JavaScript
11 7 (2.48%) Ruby
12 6 (2.13%) PHP
13 5 (1.77%) C
14 4 (1.42%) C#
14 4 (1.42%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.71%) sed
Qualifications
1 77 (27.30%) Security Cleared
2 69 (24.47%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.22%) Degree
4 17 (6.03%) OSCP
5 15 (5.32%) AWS Certification
5 15 (5.32%) CREST Certified
6 14 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.61%) Tigerscheme
8 10 (3.55%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.55%) CEH
8 10 (3.55%) CHECK Team Member
9 9 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.84%) CISSP
11 7 (2.48%) DV Cleared
11 7 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (1.77%) CCNP
12 5 (1.77%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.42%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.16%) GDPR
2 20 (7.09%) QA
3 12 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.26%) NIST
4 11 (3.90%) PCI DSS
5 10 (3.55%) HIPAA
5 10 (3.55%) NCSC
6 8 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (2.13%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.06%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 86 (30.50%) Docker
2 13 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.06%) NFS
6 2 (0.71%) GPFS
6 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.71%) zsh
7 1 (0.35%) Firmware
7 1 (0.35%) HDFS
7 1 (0.35%) iptables
7 1 (0.35%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.35%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.35%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.35%) Snort
7 1 (0.35%) Veritas File System
7 1 (0.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.35%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 117 (41.49%) Kubernetes
2 107 (37.94%) Terraform
3 82 (29.08%) Ansible
4 36 (12.77%) Grafana
5 35 (12.41%) Prometheus
6 30 (10.64%) Puppet
7 22 (7.80%) Progress Chef
8 14 (4.96%) Nmap
9 12 (4.26%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (2.84%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (2.13%) Argo
11 6 (2.13%) Istio
12 5 (1.77%) Nessus
12 5 (1.77%) Packer
12 5 (1.77%) Salt
13 4 (1.42%) AirWatch
13 4 (1.42%) Control-M
13 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.42%) Nagios
13 4 (1.42%) QRadar
Vendors
1 30 (10.64%) Splunk
2 25 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.87%) VMware
3 22 (7.80%) Red Hat
4 19 (6.74%) Google
5 17 (6.03%) Oracle
5 17 (6.03%) Veracode
6 13 (4.61%) ServiceNow
7 12 (4.26%) Apple
8 11 (3.90%) Qualys
9 9 (3.19%) CyberArk
9 9 (3.19%) SAP
10 8 (2.84%) Cisco
10 8 (2.84%) Databricks
11 6 (2.13%) Okta
12 5 (1.77%) IBM
12 5 (1.77%) SaltStack
12 5 (1.77%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.42%) F5
13 4 (1.42%) Salesforce