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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 169 145
Rank change year-on-year +26 -24 +8
Contract jobs citing Bash 282 224 307
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.96% 1.49% 1.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.20% 3.89% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 137 221
10th Percentile £400 £370 £425
25th Percentile £463 £494 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +1.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £700
90th Percentile £725 £810 £810
England median daily rate £523 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.13% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £40.05 £67.40 £58.40
25th Percentile £45.75 £84.13 £59.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 £112.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +86.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile £63.55 - -
England median hourly rate £56.75 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -18.93% -6.67% +2.74%

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 5,421 5,755 6,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.64% 38.36% 36.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,639 3,870 5,006
10th Percentile £367 £371 £394
25th Percentile £429 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 39 65
10th Percentile £25.75 £35.60 £26.24
25th Percentile £35.25 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £65.25 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £97.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

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 24 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in London over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 24 December 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 -15 21 £539 +0.23% 35
South London +1 11 £530 +143.68% 7
West London - 6 £525 - 10
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 (3.90%) Confluence
2 7 (2.48%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.48%) nginx
3 5 (1.77%) Apache
4 4 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.06%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.06%) Hyperledger
5 3 (1.06%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.71%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) FileNet
7 1 (0.35%) Luigi
7 1 (0.35%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.35%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.35%) Pro Tools
1 1 (0.35%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 128 (45.39%) AWS
2 111 (39.36%) Azure
3 67 (23.76%) GCP
4 50 (17.73%) GitHub
5 35 (12.41%) Amazon S3
6 34 (12.06%) Amazon EC2
7 30 (10.64%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (9.93%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (9.57%) Serverless
10 25 (8.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 23 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (6.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (5.32%) Entra ID
16 14 (4.96%) Azure AKS
17 13 (4.61%) OpenShift
18 11 (3.90%) Datadog
18 11 (3.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 42 (14.89%) Firewall
2 39 (13.83%) DNS
3 31 (10.99%) TCP/IP
4 18 (6.38%) VPN
5 15 (5.32%) Network Security
6 13 (4.61%) SSL
7 9 (3.19%) Wireshark
8 8 (2.84%) BGP
9 7 (2.48%) HTTP
9 7 (2.48%) OSPF
9 7 (2.48%) VLAN
10 6 (2.13%) DHCP
10 6 (2.13%) EIGRP
10 6 (2.13%) tcpdump
11 5 (1.77%) HTTPS
11 5 (1.77%) IPsec
11 5 (1.77%) Multicast
12 3 (1.06%) SMTP
12 3 (1.06%) SSH
13 2 (0.71%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (17.73%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (7.09%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.96%) Redis
5 12 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.55%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.55%) MySQL
7 7 (2.48%) Delta Lake
8 6 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.13%) Big Data
8 6 (2.13%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.13%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.13%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.77%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.06%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 66 (23.40%) Jenkins
2 57 (20.21%) GitLab
3 56 (19.86%) Git
4 19 (6.74%) JIRA
5 8 (2.84%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.84%) Maven
6 7 (2.48%) Metasploit
7 6 (2.13%) Burp Suite
7 6 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (2.13%) Subversion
7 6 (2.13%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.77%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.77%) Liquibase
8 5 (1.77%) MLflow
9 4 (1.42%) Gradle
9 4 (1.42%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.42%) sqlmap
10 3 (1.06%) Chocolatey
10 3 (1.06%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.06%) ScriptRunner
General
1 78 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (13.48%) Finance
4 24 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.96%) Banking
6 10 (3.55%) Front Office
7 9 (3.19%) Retail
8 4 (1.42%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.42%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.06%) Legal
9 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.71%) Electronics
10 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.71%) Marketing
10 2 (0.71%) Military
10 2 (0.71%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.35%) German Language
11 1 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (15.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (12.06%) Senior
3 24 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
4 20 (7.09%) Developer
5 15 (5.32%) Architect
6 13 (4.61%) Data Engineer
6 13 (4.61%) Lead
6 13 (4.61%) Security Engineer
6 13 (4.61%) Site Engineer
7 12 (4.26%) Network Engineer
7 12 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 11 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
8 11 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (3.55%) Administrator
9 10 (3.55%) Analyst
10 9 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.19%) Security Analyst
11 8 (2.84%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.93%) Kafka
2 15 (5.32%) Middleware
3 14 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (3.90%) FIX Protocol
5 10 (3.55%) REST
6 7 (2.48%) Keycloak
6 7 (2.48%) YAML
7 6 (2.13%) .NET
7 6 (2.13%) Node.js
8 5 (1.77%) ARM Templates
8 5 (1.77%) Loki
8 5 (1.77%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.77%) Ultra Messaging
9 4 (1.42%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.42%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.42%) SAML
9 4 (1.42%) Spring
9 4 (1.42%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.06%) HTML
10 3 (1.06%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.87%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.38%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.61%) Replication
5 12 (4.26%) Security Posture
6 11 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.48%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.13%) PKI
10 5 (1.77%) Clustering
10 5 (1.77%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.77%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.77%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.42%) Blockchain
11 4 (1.42%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.06%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 121 (42.91%) Linux
2 35 (12.41%) Windows
3 25 (8.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (8.51%) Mac OS
5 18 (6.38%) Unix
6 10 (3.55%) CentOS
6 10 (3.55%) Solaris
7 9 (3.19%) Ubuntu
7 9 (3.19%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.42%) VMS
9 1 (0.35%) Android
9 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.35%) Debian
9 1 (0.35%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (53.19%) CI/CD
2 135 (47.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 127 (45.04%) DevOps
4 69 (24.47%) Containerisation
5 60 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (17.73%) Agile
6 50 (17.73%) Observability
7 43 (15.25%) Incident Response
8 38 (13.48%) High Availability
9 35 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (12.06%) Platform Engineering
11 31 (10.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 27 (9.57%) Infrastructure Automation
13 25 (8.87%) Analytics
13 25 (8.87%) DevSecOps
13 25 (8.87%) Test Automation
14 23 (8.16%) Mentoring
15 22 (7.80%) AI
15 22 (7.80%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (7.80%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 241 (85.46%) Python
2 107 (37.94%) PowerShell
3 38 (13.48%) SQL
4 28 (9.93%) Go
5 26 (9.22%) Java
6 23 (8.16%) Perl
7 19 (6.74%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (3.55%) Groovy
8 10 (3.55%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.19%) C++
9 9 (3.19%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.13%) C
11 5 (1.77%) Bicep
12 4 (1.42%) PHP
12 4 (1.42%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.42%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.06%) C#
13 3 (1.06%) PromQL
13 3 (1.06%) Ruby
13 3 (1.06%) Rust
Qualifications
1 68 (24.11%) Security Cleared
2 59 (20.92%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.03%) Degree
4 14 (4.96%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (3.90%) OSCP
7 9 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.84%) CEH
9 7 (2.48%) CCNP
9 7 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.48%) GPEN
9 7 (2.48%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.13%) CCNA
10 6 (2.13%) CISSP
10 6 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (2.13%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.13%) PhD
10 6 (2.13%) RHCE
11 5 (1.77%) JNCIA
11 5 (1.77%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.26%) GDPR
2 10 (3.55%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.84%) NIST
4 5 (1.77%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.77%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.06%) NCSC
6 2 (0.71%) SLA
7 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.35%) GxP
7 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (35.82%) Docker
2 18 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.96%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.84%) zsh
5 7 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.13%) Squid
7 5 (1.77%) Firmware
7 5 (1.77%) KVM
7 5 (1.77%) NFS
7 5 (1.77%) Snort
8 4 (1.42%) Veritas File System
8 4 (1.42%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.71%) Ceph
10 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.71%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.71%) vSphere
10 2 (0.71%) Xen
Systems Management
1 123 (43.62%) Terraform
2 107 (37.94%) Kubernetes
3 81 (28.72%) Ansible
4 58 (20.57%) Grafana
5 51 (18.09%) Prometheus
6 13 (4.61%) Argo
6 13 (4.61%) Puppet
7 11 (3.90%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (3.55%) ITRS Geneos
8 10 (3.55%) Nessus
9 7 (2.48%) Rancher
10 6 (2.13%) Istio
10 6 (2.13%) Nmap
10 6 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.77%) Nagios
11 5 (1.77%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (1.77%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.77%) SCCM
11 5 (1.77%) Suricata
Vendors
1 42 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.70%) Splunk
3 30 (10.64%) Google
4 23 (8.16%) Red Hat
5 21 (7.45%) VMware
6 18 (6.38%) Palo Alto
7 15 (5.32%) Cisco
8 14 (4.96%) Oracle
8 14 (4.96%) ServiceNow
9 13 (4.61%) Databricks
9 13 (4.61%) Qualys
10 11 (3.90%) CheckPoint
10 11 (3.90%) F5
11 10 (3.55%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (3.55%) Dynatrace
11 10 (3.55%) Solace
11 10 (3.55%) Zscaler
12 9 (3.19%) Apple
13 8 (2.84%) Atlassian
14 7 (2.48%) CyberArk