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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 131 186
Rank change year-on-year -34 +55 -76
Contract jobs citing Bash 363 298 219
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.79% 2.21% 1.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.68% 5.73% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 202 143
10th Percentile £388 £387 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £526 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -8.48% -11.54%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £681
90th Percentile £713 £688 £810
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 £69.61 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +27.72% -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 6,390 5,201 6,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.44% 38.55% 40.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,286 3,583 4,722
10th Percentile £381 £369 £368
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 65 40
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.71 £25.11
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £32.62
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% -5.48% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.50 £63.75 £63.26
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.00 £78.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -25 21 £550 -12.00% 21
South London -5 6 £535 -13.71% 5
West London -24 5 £500 +5.26% 9
East London - 4 £416 - 7
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 (4.96%) Confluence
2 14 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.75%) Apache
3 10 (2.75%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.10%) WordPress
5 3 (0.83%) nginx
5 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.55%) CMS
6 2 (0.55%) IIS
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.55%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.55%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.28%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.38%) Front Arena
1 5 (1.38%) Summit
2 1 (0.28%) Actimize
2 1 (0.28%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 168 (46.28%) AWS
2 156 (42.98%) Azure
3 113 (31.13%) GitHub
4 90 (24.79%) GitHub Actions
5 75 (20.66%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (15.98%) GCP
7 51 (14.05%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (12.40%) Amazon S3
9 42 (11.57%) Serverless
10 40 (11.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (9.37%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (9.09%) Datadog
13 32 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (8.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 30 (8.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (7.99%) Entra ID
16 28 (7.71%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (5.79%) Azure AKS
18 17 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
19 15 (4.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (12.67%) Firewall
2 41 (11.29%) VPN
3 36 (9.92%) DNS
4 33 (9.09%) Network Security
5 28 (7.71%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.41%) WAN
7 11 (3.03%) VLAN
8 10 (2.75%) SD-WAN
9 9 (2.48%) SAN
10 8 (2.20%) SSL
11 7 (1.93%) BGP
11 7 (1.93%) DHCP
11 7 (1.93%) Kerberos
12 5 (1.38%) MPLS
13 4 (1.10%) SSH
14 3 (0.83%) HTTP
14 3 (0.83%) Internet
14 3 (0.83%) NAS
14 3 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.23%) SQL Server
3 17 (4.68%) Redis
4 15 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (3.03%) Data Lake
5 11 (3.03%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.48%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.20%) Delta Lake
7 8 (2.20%) MySQL
8 7 (1.93%) Power BI
9 6 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.65%) Metadata
9 6 (1.65%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.65%) SQLite
10 5 (1.38%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 108 (29.75%) Jenkins
2 92 (25.34%) Git
3 82 (22.59%) GitLab
4 21 (5.79%) JIRA
5 16 (4.41%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.20%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.20%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.93%) JMeter
8 6 (1.65%) Postman
9 4 (1.10%) Maven
9 4 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.83%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.55%) Selenium
11 2 (0.55%) Snyk
11 2 (0.55%) Subversion
11 2 (0.55%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.55%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.28%) PeopleTools
General
1 87 (23.97%) Finance
1 87 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 48 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (10.74%) Banking
4 32 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.31%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.20%) Law
7 6 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.65%) Retail
8 5 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.38%) Front Office
8 5 (1.38%) Publishing
9 4 (1.10%) Automotive
9 4 (1.10%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.10%) Military
10 3 (0.83%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.83%) Marketing
11 2 (0.55%) Billing
11 2 (0.55%) Police
12 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (23.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (12.40%) Senior
3 32 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
4 31 (8.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 29 (7.99%) AWS Engineer
6 27 (7.44%) Platform Engineer
7 26 (7.16%) Lead
7 26 (7.16%) Security Engineer
8 22 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
9 21 (5.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 19 (5.23%) Developer
11 18 (4.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 17 (4.68%) Architect
12 17 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
13 16 (4.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 16 (4.41%) Site Engineer
14 15 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 14 (3.86%) Network Engineer
16 13 (3.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (58.13%) Terraform
2 40 (11.02%) Kafka
3 22 (6.06%) REST
4 19 (5.23%) ARM Templates
4 19 (5.23%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (5.23%) YAML
5 15 (4.13%) Loki
6 14 (3.86%) Middleware
7 11 (3.03%) RESTful
8 10 (2.75%) JSON
9 9 (2.48%) .NET
9 9 (2.48%) Spring
10 7 (1.93%) Flask
10 7 (1.93%) SAML
11 6 (1.65%) cloud-init
11 6 (1.65%) pytest
11 6 (1.65%) React
11 6 (1.65%) SPNEGO
11 6 (1.65%) Swagger
12 5 (1.38%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 56 (15.43%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (3.58%) Legacy Applications
7 13 (3.58%) Management Information System
8 12 (3.31%) Security Posture
9 11 (3.03%) PKI
10 10 (2.75%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.20%) Enterprise Storage
11 8 (2.20%) Replication
11 8 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.93%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.65%) Equities
13 6 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
14 5 (1.38%) Robotics
14 5 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 148 (40.77%) Linux
2 54 (14.88%) Windows
3 30 (8.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (7.99%) Windows Server
5 23 (6.34%) Unix
6 21 (5.79%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.48%) VMS
8 5 (1.38%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.55%) Debian
9 2 (0.55%) Solaris
9 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.28%) CentOS
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.28%) Rocky
10 1 (0.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (63.09%) CI/CD
2 212 (58.40%) DevOps
3 194 (53.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 106 (29.20%) Containerisation
5 101 (27.82%) Observability
6 70 (19.28%) Platform Engineering
7 68 (18.73%) Agile
8 67 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (17.08%) AI
10 60 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 55 (15.15%) Root Cause Analysis
12 47 (12.95%) Cloud Security
12 47 (12.95%) Infrastructure Automation
13 46 (12.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 45 (12.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 43 (11.85%) Configuration Management
16 39 (10.74%) Identity Access Management
16 39 (10.74%) Runbook
17 38 (10.47%) DevSecOps
17 38 (10.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 314 (86.50%) Python
2 151 (41.60%) PowerShell
3 45 (12.40%) Java
4 44 (12.12%) SQL
5 34 (9.37%) Go
6 33 (9.09%) Bicep
7 21 (5.79%) Shell Script
8 17 (4.68%) Korn
9 14 (3.86%) Perl
10 9 (2.48%) Ruby
11 8 (2.20%) Groovy
11 8 (2.20%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.65%) C#
13 4 (1.10%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.83%) Cypher
14 3 (0.83%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.83%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.55%) C
15 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 122 (33.61%) Security Cleared
2 106 (29.20%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.26%) Azure Certification
4 22 (6.06%) Degree
5 20 (5.51%) AWS Certification
6 14 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.31%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.20%) CISSP
9 7 (1.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.93%) CCNP
10 6 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.38%) CCNA
12 4 (1.10%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.10%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.55%) CCSP
14 2 (0.55%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.61%) QA
2 14 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.58%) NIST
4 8 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.65%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.10%) SLA
7 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.83%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.55%) GDPR
9 1 (0.28%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 136 (37.47%) Docker
2 30 (8.26%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.20%) Squid
6 5 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.10%) vSphere
8 3 (0.83%) NFS
8 3 (0.83%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.83%) Postfix
8 3 (0.83%) Varnish
9 2 (0.55%) HDFS
9 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.55%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.55%) zsh
10 1 (0.28%) KVM
10 1 (0.28%) QEMU
10 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 162 (44.63%) Kubernetes
2 120 (33.06%) Ansible
3 102 (28.10%) Grafana
4 86 (23.69%) Prometheus
5 24 (6.61%) Puppet
6 19 (5.23%) Argo
7 12 (3.31%) systemd
8 11 (3.03%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.75%) Kibana
10 9 (2.48%) Istio
11 7 (1.93%) Cilium
12 6 (1.65%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (1.10%) Consul
14 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (1.10%) Salt
14 4 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (1.10%) Suricata
15 3 (0.83%) HAProxy
15 3 (0.83%) yum
Vendors
1 67 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.44%) VMware
3 26 (7.16%) Dynatrace
4 25 (6.89%) Splunk
5 24 (6.61%) Google
5 24 (6.61%) Oracle
6 20 (5.51%) Databricks
7 15 (4.13%) CyberArk
8 14 (3.86%) Red Hat
8 14 (3.86%) ServiceNow
9 13 (3.58%) Cisco
10 12 (3.31%) Palo Alto
11 11 (3.03%) NetApp
12 9 (2.48%) BeyondTrust
12 9 (2.48%) Fortinet
12 9 (2.48%) WALLIX
13 7 (1.93%) Zscaler
14 6 (1.65%) Apple
14 6 (1.65%) FIS
14 6 (1.65%) Murex