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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 194 108
Rank change year-on-year +43 -86 +51
Contract jobs citing Bash 227 208 643
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.81% 1.17% 2.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.58% 3.23% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 131 487
10th Percentile £419 £375 £475
25th Percentile £456 £454 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £692 £600 £775
90th Percentile £775 £700 £835
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £21.10 -
25th Percentile £45.75 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £22.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +147.73% -39.31% -53.97%
75th Percentile £63.25 £31.75 £60.94
90th Percentile - £55.83 £73.88
England median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.90% -19.85% +3.52%

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 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +19 37 £590 +4.42% 31
South London 0 4 - - 1
North London - 2 £270 -
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 12 (5.29%) Confluence
2 11 (4.85%) Apache
2 11 (4.85%) Apache Spark
3 10 (4.41%) nginx
4 6 (2.64%) Jupyter
5 5 (2.20%) Traefik
6 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.32%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.44%) JBoss
7 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 96 (42.29%) AWS
2 88 (38.77%) Azure
3 38 (16.74%) GCP
4 29 (12.78%) GitHub
5 25 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (9.69%) Amazon S3
7 20 (8.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 19 (8.37%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (7.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (7.49%) Serverless
11 14 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (5.29%) Azure AKS
13 10 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.41%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (4.41%) OpenShift
14 9 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (3.96%) IaaS
14 9 (3.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (13.22%) DNS
2 25 (11.01%) Firewall
3 21 (9.25%) TCP/IP
4 14 (6.17%) VPN
5 9 (3.96%) HTTP
6 8 (3.52%) Network Security
6 8 (3.52%) SSH
7 6 (2.64%) BGP
7 6 (2.64%) OSPF
8 5 (2.20%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.76%) DHCP
9 4 (1.76%) SSL
10 3 (1.32%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.32%) FIX Connectivity
10 3 (1.32%) Kerberos
10 3 (1.32%) Multicast
10 3 (1.32%) SAN
11 2 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 2 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (0.88%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.93%) MongoDB
3 16 (7.05%) SQL Server
4 13 (5.73%) Apache Cassandra
5 12 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (5.29%) MySQL
6 9 (3.96%) Apache Hive
6 9 (3.96%) Power BI
7 8 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (3.52%) Delta Lake
8 6 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.76%) Redis
11 3 (1.32%) Big Data
11 3 (1.32%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.32%) Hazelcast
11 3 (1.32%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.88%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 53 (23.35%) Git
2 47 (20.70%) Jenkins
3 43 (18.94%) GitLab
4 24 (10.57%) JIRA
5 11 (4.85%) JUnit
6 10 (4.41%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.96%) Jasmine
7 9 (3.96%) JMeter
7 9 (3.96%) LoadRunner
8 8 (3.52%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.52%) Subversion
8 8 (3.52%) TeamCity
9 6 (2.64%) Maven
9 6 (2.64%) RStudio
9 6 (2.64%) Snyk
9 6 (2.64%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.88%) Gradle
11 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.44%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 61 (26.87%) Finance
2 53 (23.35%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.01%) Banking
5 22 (9.69%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.20%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.76%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.76%) Military
7 4 (1.76%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.32%) Multimedia
9 2 (0.88%) Electronics
9 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.88%) Legal
9 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.88%) Marketing
10 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 62 (27.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (16.74%) Senior
3 20 (8.81%) Analyst
4 19 (8.37%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (8.37%) Azure Engineer
4 19 (8.37%) Lead
5 17 (7.49%) Linux Engineer
6 15 (6.61%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (6.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 15 (6.61%) Senior DevOps
7 13 (5.73%) Architect
7 13 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (5.73%) Data Engineer
7 13 (5.73%) Developer
7 13 (5.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 11 (4.85%) Administrator
8 11 (4.85%) Mac Engineer
8 11 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.41%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.61%) Kafka
2 14 (6.17%) Spring
3 13 (5.73%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (5.73%) JSON
4 12 (5.29%) YAML
5 11 (4.85%) FIX Protocol
5 11 (4.85%) RESTful
6 10 (4.41%) ARM Templates
6 10 (4.41%) REST
6 10 (4.41%) Spring Batch
6 10 (4.41%) Spring Boot
6 10 (4.41%) Spring Security
7 9 (3.96%) OpenAPI
7 9 (3.96%) Swagger
8 8 (3.52%) pydantic
8 8 (3.52%) PySpark
9 5 (2.20%) cloud-init
9 5 (2.20%) Keycloak
10 4 (1.76%) LDAP
11 3 (1.32%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.85%) Clustering
1 11 (4.85%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (4.41%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.41%) Data Structures
2 10 (4.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 10 (4.41%) Replication
3 8 (3.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 7 (3.08%) Reference Data
5 5 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.20%) PKI
6 4 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.76%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.76%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.76%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.32%) Eurex
7 3 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.32%) Podcast
8 2 (0.88%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 104 (45.81%) Linux
2 36 (15.86%) Windows
3 34 (14.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (8.81%) Unix
5 14 (6.17%) CentOS
6 13 (5.73%) Mac OS
7 11 (4.85%) Windows Server
8 10 (4.41%) Solaris
9 6 (2.64%) Rocky
10 5 (2.20%) SUSE
10 5 (2.20%) Ubuntu
10 5 (2.20%) VMS
11 2 (0.88%) Debian
12 1 (0.44%) AIX
12 1 (0.44%) Android
12 1 (0.44%) Fedora
12 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.44%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (51.98%) DevOps
2 109 (48.02%) CI/CD
3 68 (29.96%) Containerisation
4 67 (29.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (26.43%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (15.86%) High Availability
7 34 (14.98%) Configuration Management
7 34 (14.98%) Task Automation
8 29 (12.78%) Continuous Integration
9 28 (12.33%) Agile
9 28 (12.33%) Cloud Security
10 24 (10.57%) Microservices
11 23 (10.13%) Computer Science
12 22 (9.69%) Software Engineering
13 20 (8.81%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (8.81%) OWASP
14 19 (8.37%) Test Automation
15 17 (7.49%) Mentoring
16 16 (7.05%) Data Security
17 15 (6.61%) Kernel Tuning
Programming Languages
1 201 (88.55%) Python
2 70 (30.84%) PowerShell
3 32 (14.10%) Java
3 32 (14.10%) SQL
4 22 (9.69%) Perl
5 16 (7.05%) Go
6 11 (4.85%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.41%) Scala
8 8 (3.52%) VB
9 7 (3.08%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.08%) Ruby
10 6 (2.64%) Groovy
11 3 (1.32%) Bicep
11 3 (1.32%) C++
11 3 (1.32%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.88%) PHP
13 1 (0.44%) C#
13 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (23.79%) Security Cleared
2 49 (21.59%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.33%) Degree
4 20 (8.81%) AWS Certification
5 16 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.52%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.52%) CISSP
7 7 (3.08%) CEH
7 7 (3.08%) SANS
8 6 (2.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.20%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.76%) CCNP
10 4 (1.76%) CISM
11 3 (1.32%) ACSP
11 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.32%) CCNA
11 3 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.32%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.01%) GDPR
2 20 (8.81%) QA
3 10 (4.41%) NIST
4 8 (3.52%) HIPAA
4 8 (3.52%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.64%) Accessibility
7 5 (2.20%) NCSC
8 4 (1.76%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 69 (30.40%) Docker
2 10 (4.41%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.08%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.32%) NFS
5 3 (1.32%) Veritas File System
5 3 (1.32%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (0.44%) HDFS
6 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.44%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.44%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.44%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 102 (44.93%) Kubernetes
2 95 (41.85%) Terraform
3 89 (39.21%) Ansible
4 30 (13.22%) Prometheus
4 30 (13.22%) Puppet
5 26 (11.45%) Grafana
6 20 (8.81%) Progress Chef
7 17 (7.49%) Jamf Pro
8 12 (5.29%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (4.85%) Istio
10 10 (4.41%) Packer
11 9 (3.96%) ZABBIX
12 8 (3.52%) QRadar
13 6 (2.64%) Rundeck
13 6 (2.64%) Tivoli
14 5 (2.20%) Control-M
14 5 (2.20%) EMC NetWorker
14 5 (2.20%) HAProxy
14 5 (2.20%) Nagios
14 5 (2.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 28 (12.33%) Red Hat
2 25 (11.01%) VMware
3 21 (9.25%) Splunk
4 16 (7.05%) Apple
5 15 (6.61%) Microsoft
6 11 (4.85%) Google
6 11 (4.85%) Oracle
6 11 (4.85%) Qualys
7 9 (3.96%) CyberArk
8 8 (3.52%) Databricks
9 7 (3.08%) IBM
9 7 (3.08%) SaltStack
9 7 (3.08%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.64%) Cisco
10 6 (2.64%) EMC
10 6 (2.64%) F5
10 6 (2.64%) Okta
10 6 (2.64%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.20%) ESET
11 5 (2.20%) Veracode