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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 141 191
Rank change year-on-year -38 +50 -90
Contract jobs citing Bash 312 275 208
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.54% 2.03% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.96% 5.24% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 188 142
10th Percentile £388 £411 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.32% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £47.15 £21.40
25th Percentile £56.75 £49.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +96.49% +42.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.75 £52.81
90th Percentile - £63.05 £71.88
England median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +21.82% -4.35% -19.30%

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 6,294 5,244 6,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.16% 38.67% 39.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,217 3,675 4,816
10th Percentile £381 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 55 42
10th Percentile £34.35 £26.75 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% -6.32% -20.97%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.38 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 7 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 7 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 -22 22 £538 -7.33% 19
South London -16 5 £535 -13.71% 4
West London -18 4 £500 +5.26% 5
East London - 2 £416 - 1
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 19 (6.09%) Confluence
2 11 (3.53%) Apache
3 10 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.21%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.28%) nginx
4 4 (1.28%) WordPress
5 3 (0.96%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.64%) CMS
6 2 (0.64%) IIS
6 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.64%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.32%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.32%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Actimize
1 1 (0.32%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 154 (49.36%) AWS
2 145 (46.47%) Azure
3 91 (29.17%) GitHub
4 72 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 69 (22.12%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (17.31%) GCP
7 47 (15.06%) Amazon EKS
8 44 (14.10%) Amazon S3
9 39 (12.50%) Serverless
10 38 (12.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (10.58%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (10.26%) Datadog
13 30 (9.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (9.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (8.97%) Entra ID
15 23 (7.37%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (5.45%) Azure AKS
17 16 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
18 15 (4.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (15.06%) Firewall
2 42 (13.46%) DNS
3 37 (11.86%) VPN
4 29 (9.29%) Network Security
5 27 (8.65%) TCP/IP
6 13 (4.17%) WAN
7 12 (3.85%) VLAN
8 10 (3.21%) SD-WAN
9 9 (2.88%) DHCP
10 8 (2.56%) SSL
11 6 (1.92%) HTTP
12 5 (1.60%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.96%) BGP
13 3 (0.96%) Internet
13 3 (0.96%) NAS
13 3 (0.96%) SAN
13 3 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
14 2 (0.64%) HTTPS
14 2 (0.64%) IPsec
14 2 (0.64%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (3.21%) Redis
4 9 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.56%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.92%) Delta Lake
8 5 (1.60%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (1.60%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.60%) Metadata
8 5 (1.60%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.28%) Big Data
9 4 (1.28%) MySQL
9 4 (1.28%) Power BI
9 4 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 91 (29.17%) Jenkins
2 72 (23.08%) Git
2 72 (23.08%) GitLab
3 16 (5.13%) JIRA
4 12 (3.85%) Artifactory
5 7 (2.24%) JMeter
6 6 (1.92%) Postman
7 5 (1.60%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.60%) Browser DevTools
7 5 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.96%) Ant
8 3 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.96%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.64%) Maven
9 2 (0.64%) Snyk
9 2 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.64%) Subversion
9 2 (0.64%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.32%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.32%) VersionOne
General
1 70 (22.44%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.79%) Finance
3 36 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 30 (9.62%) Banking
6 7 (2.24%) Law
7 6 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.60%) Publishing
8 5 (1.60%) Retail
9 4 (1.28%) Automotive
9 4 (1.28%) Front Office
9 4 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.28%) Military
9 4 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.64%) Billing
11 2 (0.64%) Police
12 1 (0.32%) Back Office
12 1 (0.32%) Games
12 1 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 77 (24.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (11.54%) Senior
3 32 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
3 32 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 26 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 26 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 25 (8.01%) Security Engineer
6 23 (7.37%) Lead
7 20 (6.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.77%) Architect
9 17 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 15 (4.81%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 14 (4.49%) Site Engineer
13 13 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
15 11 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.53%) Developer
15 11 (3.53%) Network Engineer
15 11 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.33%) Kafka
2 17 (5.45%) ARM Templates
3 14 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (4.49%) REST
3 14 (4.49%) YAML
4 11 (3.53%) JSON
5 10 (3.21%) Loki
5 10 (3.21%) Middleware
6 9 (2.88%) SAML
7 7 (2.24%) .NET
7 7 (2.24%) OAuth
8 6 (1.92%) cloud-init
8 6 (1.92%) RESTful
8 6 (1.92%) Swagger
9 5 (1.60%) LDAP
9 5 (1.60%) Spring
10 4 (1.28%) 802.1X
10 4 (1.28%) ADO
10 4 (1.28%) ModSecurity
11 3 (0.96%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (4.49%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.53%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.21%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.88%) Legacy Applications
7 9 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.88%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.56%) PKI
9 6 (1.92%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.60%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.60%) Equities
10 5 (1.60%) Robotics
10 5 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.60%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.28%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.96%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 117 (37.50%) Linux
2 48 (15.38%) Windows
3 23 (7.37%) Windows Server
4 22 (7.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (7.05%) Ubuntu
5 20 (6.41%) Unix
6 7 (2.24%) VMS
7 5 (1.60%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.64%) Debian
8 2 (0.64%) Solaris
8 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.32%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.32%) Rocky
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (63.78%) CI/CD
2 192 (61.54%) DevOps
3 176 (56.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (28.85%) Containerisation
5 73 (23.40%) Observability
6 58 (18.59%) Platform Engineering
7 54 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (13.78%) Agile
9 43 (13.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 42 (13.46%) AI
10 42 (13.46%) Cloud Security
11 40 (12.82%) Configuration Management
12 39 (12.50%) Runbook
13 38 (12.18%) Identity Access Management
14 36 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 31 (9.94%) Migration
16 30 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
16 30 (9.62%) Root Cause Analysis
17 28 (8.97%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 262 (83.97%) Python
2 127 (40.71%) PowerShell
3 32 (10.26%) SQL
4 29 (9.29%) Java
5 24 (7.69%) Go
6 23 (7.37%) Bicep
7 12 (3.85%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.21%) Perl
9 7 (2.24%) Groovy
9 7 (2.24%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.92%) Ruby
11 5 (1.60%) C
11 5 (1.60%) C#
12 4 (1.28%) Korn
13 3 (0.96%) Cypher
13 3 (0.96%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.96%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.64%) R
15 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 102 (32.69%) Security Cleared
2 91 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.01%) Azure Certification
4 17 (5.45%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.45%) Degree
5 13 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.88%) CCNP
8 7 (2.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.24%) CCNA
9 6 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.60%) CISSP
10 5 (1.60%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.28%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.28%) JNCIS
12 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.64%) CCSP
13 2 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.81%) QA
2 9 (2.88%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.88%) NIST
3 7 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.96%) SLA
5 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.32%) GDPR
6 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 112 (35.90%) Docker
2 30 (9.62%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.81%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.56%) Squid
6 5 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.28%) NFS
7 4 (1.28%) Postfix
7 4 (1.28%) Varnish
7 4 (1.28%) vSphere
8 3 (0.96%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.96%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.96%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.64%) HDFS
9 2 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.64%) zsh
10 1 (0.32%) KVM
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.32%) QEMU
10 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 196 (62.82%) Terraform
2 135 (43.27%) Kubernetes
3 109 (34.94%) Ansible
4 84 (26.92%) Grafana
5 74 (23.72%) Prometheus
6 25 (8.01%) Puppet
7 15 (4.81%) Argo
8 12 (3.85%) systemd
9 11 (3.53%) Progress Chef
10 7 (2.24%) Kibana
10 7 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.60%) HAProxy
11 5 (1.60%) Istio
11 5 (1.60%) Salt
12 4 (1.28%) ITRS Geneos
12 4 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.28%) Suricata
13 3 (0.96%) Consul
13 3 (0.96%) Packer
Vendors
1 55 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.69%) VMware
3 22 (7.05%) Google
4 21 (6.73%) Dynatrace
5 20 (6.41%) Oracle
6 18 (5.77%) Databricks
7 15 (4.81%) Splunk
8 13 (4.17%) CyberArk
9 11 (3.53%) Cisco
9 11 (3.53%) Red Hat
9 11 (3.53%) Zscaler
10 10 (3.21%) Palo Alto
10 10 (3.21%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.56%) BeyondTrust
11 8 (2.56%) Fortinet
11 8 (2.56%) WALLIX
12 5 (1.60%) Apple
12 5 (1.60%) IBM
12 5 (1.60%) NetApp
13 4 (1.28%) Juniper