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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 141 189
Rank change year-on-year -24 +48 -82
Contract jobs citing Bash 339 270 215
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.69% 2.02% 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.37% 5.25% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 187 143
10th Percentile £388 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% -7.41% -12.77%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £47.15 £23.30
25th Percentile £56.75 £49.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +72.31% +62.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.75 £71.88
90th Percentile - £63.05 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +30.28% -5.22% -20.69%

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 6,316 5,145 6,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.42% 38.44% 39.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,237 3,591 4,775
10th Percentile £382 £375 £373
25th Percentile £450 £427 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £694 £710
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 61 40
10th Percentile £27.87 £26.32 £25.11
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £38.31
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% -6.32% -22.90%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £75.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -26 23 £550 -6.78% 17
West London -19 5 £500 +5.26% 20
South London -11 4 £568 -8.47% 5
East London - 3 £400 - 5
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 18 (5.31%) Confluence
2 10 (2.95%) Apache
2 10 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.18%) WordPress
4 3 (0.88%) nginx
5 2 (0.59%) CMS
5 2 (0.59%) IIS
5 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.59%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) JBoss
6 1 (0.29%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Actimize
1 1 (0.29%) Front Arena
1 1 (0.29%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 1 (0.29%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 160 (47.20%) AWS
2 154 (45.43%) Azure
3 98 (28.91%) GitHub
4 77 (22.71%) GitHub Actions
5 72 (21.24%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (17.99%) GCP
7 46 (13.57%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (13.27%) Amazon S3
9 40 (11.80%) Serverless
10 39 (11.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (9.73%) Datadog
12 32 (9.44%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (9.44%) AWS Lambda
13 30 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (8.85%) Entra ID
14 29 (8.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (7.37%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (6.19%) Azure AKS
17 16 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
18 14 (4.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (12.09%) Firewall
2 38 (11.21%) DNS
2 38 (11.21%) VPN
3 31 (9.14%) TCP/IP
4 30 (8.85%) Network Security
5 16 (4.72%) WAN
6 11 (3.24%) VLAN
7 10 (2.95%) SD-WAN
8 9 (2.65%) SAN
9 8 (2.36%) SSL
10 7 (2.06%) BGP
10 7 (2.06%) DHCP
10 7 (2.06%) Kerberos
11 6 (1.77%) HTTP
12 5 (1.47%) MPLS
13 4 (1.18%) SSH
14 3 (0.88%) Internet
14 3 (0.88%) NAS
14 3 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.31%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (3.83%) Redis
4 12 (3.54%) MongoDB
5 9 (2.65%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.06%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.06%) MySQL
7 6 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.77%) Metadata
7 6 (1.77%) SQLite
8 5 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (1.47%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.47%) Delta Lake
8 5 (1.47%) Power BI
9 4 (1.18%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.18%) Big Data
9 4 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 105 (30.97%) Jenkins
2 87 (25.66%) Git
3 78 (23.01%) GitLab
4 20 (5.90%) JIRA
5 12 (3.54%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.36%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.06%) JMeter
8 6 (1.77%) Postman
9 5 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.88%) Maven
11 3 (0.88%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.59%) Selenium
12 2 (0.59%) Subversion
12 2 (0.59%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.59%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.29%) Snyk
13 1 (0.29%) VersionOne
13 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 82 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 81 (23.89%) Finance
3 47 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (10.03%) Banking
5 29 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.24%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.06%) Law
8 5 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.47%) Front Office
8 5 (1.47%) Publishing
8 5 (1.47%) Retail
9 4 (1.18%) Automotive
9 4 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.18%) Military
10 3 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.88%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.59%) Billing
11 2 (0.59%) Police
12 1 (0.29%) Games
12 1 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 79 (23.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (11.80%) Senior
3 32 (9.44%) Azure Engineer
3 32 (9.44%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (7.37%) Lead
4 25 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
5 24 (7.08%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (7.08%) Security Engineer
6 21 (6.19%) Linux Engineer
7 20 (5.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (5.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 17 (5.01%) Architect
10 16 (4.72%) Developer
10 16 (4.72%) Site Engineer
11 15 (4.42%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 13 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (3.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (58.70%) Terraform
2 36 (10.62%) Kafka
3 21 (6.19%) REST
4 19 (5.60%) ARM Templates
5 18 (5.31%) YAML
6 16 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (3.54%) Loki
8 11 (3.24%) JSON
8 11 (3.24%) RESTful
9 10 (2.95%) SAML
10 9 (2.65%) .NET
10 9 (2.65%) Middleware
11 8 (2.36%) OAuth
11 8 (2.36%) Spring
12 6 (1.77%) ADO
12 6 (1.77%) cloud-init
12 6 (1.77%) Flask
12 6 (1.77%) SPNEGO
12 6 (1.77%) Swagger
13 5 (1.47%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.93%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (4.72%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.54%) Legacy Applications
5 12 (3.54%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (2.95%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.95%) PKI
6 10 (2.95%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.95%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.06%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (1.77%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.77%) Equities
9 6 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.47%) Replication
10 5 (1.47%) Robotics
10 5 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 138 (40.71%) Linux
2 51 (15.04%) Windows
3 29 (8.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (8.26%) Windows Server
5 22 (6.49%) Ubuntu
5 22 (6.49%) Unix
6 9 (2.65%) VMS
7 6 (1.77%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.59%) Debian
8 2 (0.59%) Solaris
8 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.29%) CentOS
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.29%) Rocky
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (64.31%) CI/CD
2 199 (58.70%) DevOps
3 184 (54.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (29.20%) Containerisation
5 84 (24.78%) Observability
6 67 (19.76%) Platform Engineering
6 67 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (16.52%) Agile
9 49 (14.45%) AI
10 46 (13.57%) Root Cause Analysis
11 44 (12.98%) Cloud Security
11 44 (12.98%) Infrastructure Automation
12 43 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 42 (12.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 40 (11.80%) Configuration Management
15 38 (11.21%) Identity Access Management
15 38 (11.21%) Runbook
16 36 (10.62%) Test Automation
17 35 (10.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 290 (85.55%) Python
2 143 (42.18%) PowerShell
3 37 (10.91%) Java
4 33 (9.73%) SQL
5 31 (9.14%) Bicep
5 31 (9.14%) Go
6 16 (4.72%) Perl
6 16 (4.72%) Shell Script
7 12 (3.54%) Korn
8 8 (2.36%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.36%) Ruby
9 7 (2.06%) C#
9 7 (2.06%) Groovy
10 3 (0.88%) Cypher
10 3 (0.88%) Gremlin
10 3 (0.88%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.59%) C
11 2 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.59%) R
11 2 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 105 (30.97%) Security Cleared
2 90 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.85%) Azure Certification
4 22 (6.49%) Degree
5 20 (5.90%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (3.24%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.06%) CCNP
8 7 (2.06%) CISSP
9 6 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.47%) CCNA
11 4 (1.18%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.18%) JNCIS
12 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.59%) CCSP
13 2 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.78%) QA
2 10 (2.95%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.95%) NIST
3 7 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.77%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.18%) SLA
6 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.88%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 121 (35.69%) Docker
2 31 (9.14%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.36%) Squid
6 5 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.18%) vSphere
8 3 (0.88%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.88%) NFS
8 3 (0.88%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.88%) Postfix
8 3 (0.88%) Varnish
9 2 (0.59%) HDFS
9 2 (0.59%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.59%) zsh
10 1 (0.29%) KVM
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.29%) QEMU
10 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 153 (45.13%) Kubernetes
2 109 (32.15%) Ansible
3 97 (28.61%) Grafana
4 82 (24.19%) Prometheus
5 24 (7.08%) Puppet
6 16 (4.72%) Argo
7 12 (3.54%) systemd
8 11 (3.24%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.95%) Istio
9 10 (2.95%) Kibana
10 7 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.77%) Cilium
11 6 (1.77%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (1.18%) Consul
13 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.18%) Salt
13 4 (1.18%) Suricata
14 3 (0.88%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 67 (19.76%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.26%) VMware
3 23 (6.78%) Dynatrace
3 23 (6.78%) Google
3 23 (6.78%) Splunk
4 22 (6.49%) Oracle
5 20 (5.90%) Databricks
6 16 (4.72%) CyberArk
7 12 (3.54%) Red Hat
7 12 (3.54%) ServiceNow
8 11 (3.24%) Cisco
8 11 (3.24%) NetApp
9 10 (2.95%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.95%) Zscaler
10 9 (2.65%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (2.65%) WALLIX
11 7 (2.06%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.77%) Apple
13 4 (1.18%) Juniper
13 4 (1.18%) New Relic