Bash Contract Job Trends in London

Bash Shell
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 138 202
Rank change year-on-year -62 +64 -110
Contract jobs citing Bash 244 244 212
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.30% 1.99% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.13% 5.03% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 166 139
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £440 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £605 £655 £625
90th Percentile £738 £744 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile £56.75 £45.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £54.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% +91.23% +42.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £63.25 £52.81
90th Percentile - - £71.88
England median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -12.21%

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 5,906 4,855 6,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.42% 39.66% 37.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,941 3,403 5,050
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £440 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £706 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £524 £540
% change year-on-year -2.10% -3.06% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 40 53
10th Percentile £32.66 £28.84 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £40.75
Median hourly rate £58.50 £39.06 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.79% -22.66% -15.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £55.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £89.25 £86.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £62.50
% change year-on-year +10.40% -5.80% -

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bash relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Bash job vacancy trend in London

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Bash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Bash

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in London over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in London

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Bash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Bash

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 11 June 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
Central London -33 20 £525 -2.33% 20
South London -11 3 £513 - 1
West London -21 3 £500 +17.65% 5
East London - 2 £416 - 3
Bash
England

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 11 (4.51%) Confluence
2 6 (2.46%) Apache
3 4 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.23%) nginx
4 3 (1.23%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.23%) WordPress
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.41%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 113 (46.31%) AWS
2 90 (36.89%) Azure
3 63 (25.82%) GitHub
4 49 (20.08%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (18.44%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (13.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 32 (13.11%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (12.70%) GCP
9 29 (11.89%) Serverless
10 28 (11.48%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (11.48%) Amazon S3
10 28 (11.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (10.25%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (9.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (6.97%) Datadog
14 16 (6.56%) Azure AKS
15 15 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (4.51%) Azure Key Vault
17 9 (3.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 32 (13.11%) Firewall
2 30 (12.30%) DNS
3 24 (9.84%) VPN
4 23 (9.43%) TCP/IP
5 20 (8.20%) Network Security
6 9 (3.69%) SSL
6 9 (3.69%) WAN
7 8 (3.28%) SD-WAN
7 8 (3.28%) VLAN
8 7 (2.87%) HTTP
9 6 (2.46%) DHCP
10 5 (2.05%) NAS
10 5 (2.05%) SAN
11 4 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (1.23%) Internet
13 2 (0.82%) BGP
13 2 (0.82%) IPsec
13 2 (0.82%) Multicast
13 2 (0.82%) SSH
13 2 (0.82%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.69%) Amazon Athena
1 9 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (3.69%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.28%) Redis
3 7 (2.87%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.05%) Amazon QuickSight
5 5 (2.05%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.05%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.23%) Power BI
8 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.82%) Big Data
8 2 (0.82%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.82%) MySQL
8 2 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 68 (27.87%) Jenkins
2 60 (24.59%) GitLab
3 57 (23.36%) Git
4 15 (6.15%) JIRA
5 10 (4.10%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.46%) JMeter
6 6 (2.46%) Postman
7 5 (2.05%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.23%) Ant
8 3 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.23%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.23%) Snyk
9 2 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.82%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.41%) Maven
10 1 (0.41%) Selenium
10 1 (0.41%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.41%) TestComplete
General
1 46 (18.85%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.62%) Finance
3 31 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.66%) Banking
5 21 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.87%) Law
7 5 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.64%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.64%) Military
8 4 (1.64%) Publishing
8 4 (1.64%) Retail
9 2 (0.82%) Front Office
9 2 (0.82%) Police
9 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.41%) Back Office
10 1 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Games
10 1 (0.41%) Legal
10 1 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 60 (24.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (11.89%) Security Engineer
3 26 (10.66%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (10.25%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (9.02%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (8.61%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (7.79%) Senior
8 15 (6.15%) Linux Engineer
9 14 (5.74%) Architect
10 12 (4.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.92%) Lead
11 11 (4.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
13 9 (3.69%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (3.69%) Site Engineer
14 8 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.28%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.38%) Kafka
2 12 (4.92%) YAML
3 11 (4.51%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (4.10%) ARM Templates
5 9 (3.69%) SAML
6 8 (3.28%) JSON
6 8 (3.28%) OAuth
6 8 (3.28%) REST
7 7 (2.87%) Middleware
7 7 (2.87%) Swagger
8 6 (2.46%) ADO
9 5 (2.05%) cloud-init
10 4 (1.64%) LDAP
11 3 (1.23%) .NET
11 3 (1.23%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.23%) OpenID
11 3 (1.23%) WebSphere MQ
12 2 (0.82%) FastAPI
12 2 (0.82%) RESTful
12 2 (0.82%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.80%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.28%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.87%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.46%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.23%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.23%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.23%) PKI
6 3 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.82%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.82%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 89 (36.48%) Linux
2 30 (12.30%) Windows
3 20 (8.20%) Unix
4 16 (6.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.51%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.87%) VMS
6 7 (2.87%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.46%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.82%) Debian
8 2 (0.82%) Solaris
8 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.41%) CentOS
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.41%) Rocky
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (63.93%) CI/CD
2 148 (60.66%) DevOps
3 129 (52.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (30.74%) Containerisation
5 52 (21.31%) Observability
5 52 (21.31%) Platform Engineering
6 38 (15.57%) Configuration Management
6 38 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (12.70%) Cloud Security
8 28 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (11.07%) Agile
10 25 (10.25%) Root Cause Analysis
10 25 (10.25%) SIEM
11 24 (9.84%) Migration
11 24 (9.84%) Validation
12 22 (9.02%) AI
12 22 (9.02%) Analytics
12 22 (9.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (8.61%) Test Automation
14 20 (8.20%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 206 (84.43%) Python
2 99 (40.57%) PowerShell
3 22 (9.02%) SQL
4 17 (6.97%) Go
5 15 (6.15%) Bicep
6 13 (5.33%) Java
7 8 (3.28%) Perl
7 8 (3.28%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.46%) C
8 6 (2.46%) Ruby
9 5 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.64%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.23%) C#
11 3 (1.23%) Groovy
12 2 (0.82%) Korn
12 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.41%) C++
13 1 (0.41%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (31.97%) Security Cleared
2 71 (29.10%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.56%) Azure Certification
4 11 (4.51%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.10%) Degree
6 8 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.46%) CCNA
8 6 (2.46%) CISSP
9 5 (2.05%) CCNP
10 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.82%) CCSP
12 2 (0.82%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.41%) CEH
13 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.51%) NIST
2 8 (3.28%) QA
3 7 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.05%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.64%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.23%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.82%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) GDPR
8 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 76 (31.15%) Docker
2 19 (7.79%) Active Directory
3 14 (5.74%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.69%) Squid
4 9 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.64%) Postfix
5 4 (1.64%) Varnish
5 4 (1.64%) vSphere
6 3 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.23%) NFS
6 3 (1.23%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.82%) KVM
7 2 (0.82%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.41%) Ceph
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.41%) QEMU
8 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.41%) zsh
Systems Management
1 147 (60.25%) Terraform
2 93 (38.11%) Kubernetes
3 91 (37.30%) Ansible
4 56 (22.95%) Prometheus
5 55 (22.54%) Grafana
6 15 (6.15%) Puppet
7 10 (4.10%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.46%) systemd
9 5 (2.05%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.64%) Argo
10 4 (1.64%) Istio
10 4 (1.64%) Salt
10 4 (1.64%) Suricata
11 3 (1.23%) Consul
11 3 (1.23%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.23%) Kibana
11 3 (1.23%) Packer
11 3 (1.23%) yum
12 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 24 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.56%) Splunk
3 14 (5.74%) Databricks
4 13 (5.33%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.51%) Zscaler
6 10 (4.10%) Palo Alto
6 10 (4.10%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.69%) VMware
8 8 (3.28%) Google
9 7 (2.87%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.46%) Oracle
11 4 (1.64%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.64%) IBM
11 4 (1.64%) Qualys
11 4 (1.64%) Tenable
12 3 (1.23%) Cisco
12 3 (1.23%) Dell
12 3 (1.23%) Imperva
12 3 (1.23%) Netskope
12 3 (1.23%) OpenText