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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 147 194
Rank change year-on-year -51 +47 -87
Contract jobs citing Bash 223 223 213
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.79% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.92% 4.54% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 143 134
10th Percentile £400 £425 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £609 £684 £600
90th Percentile £738 £770 £697
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £57.20 - £21.25
25th Percentile £57.88 £45.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £54.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.01% +115.84% -30.34%
75th Percentile £62.88 £63.25 £61.84
90th Percentile £63.40 - £71.88
England median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -15.13%

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 5,691 4,913 6,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.83% 39.39% 36.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,836 3,466 4,915
10th Percentile £363 £380 £381
25th Percentile £431 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £832 £825
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 30 53
10th Percentile £34.50 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £46.00 £35.00 £40.75
Median hourly rate £58.94 £43.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.71% -13.37% -15.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £60.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £69.38 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.17%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -24 19 £523 -5.00% 33
South London -9 10 £530 - 1
West London - 3 £500 - 4
East London - 2 £416 - 2
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 8 (3.59%) Confluence
2 6 (2.69%) Apache
2 6 (2.69%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.35%) nginx
4 3 (1.35%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) FileNet
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 104 (46.64%) AWS
2 89 (39.91%) Azure
3 55 (24.66%) GitHub
4 45 (20.18%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (14.35%) GCP
5 32 (14.35%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (13.00%) Amazon S3
7 28 (12.56%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (12.56%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (12.11%) Serverless
9 23 (10.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (9.87%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (8.97%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (8.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 17 (7.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (6.28%) Azure AKS
15 12 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (4.93%) IaaS
17 10 (4.48%) Azure Key Vault
18 9 (4.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.66%) Firewall
2 24 (10.76%) DNS
3 21 (9.42%) TCP/IP
4 19 (8.52%) VPN
5 15 (6.73%) Network Security
6 8 (3.59%) VLAN
6 8 (3.59%) WAN
7 7 (3.14%) HTTP
7 7 (3.14%) SD-WAN
8 6 (2.69%) DHCP
9 4 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.79%) SSH
9 4 (1.79%) SSL
10 3 (1.35%) NAS
10 3 (1.35%) SAN
11 2 (0.90%) IPsec
11 2 (0.90%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.90%) Multicast
11 2 (0.90%) Spanning Tree
11 2 (0.90%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.52%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.73%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (4.48%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (2.69%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.69%) Redis
7 5 (2.24%) Big Data
7 5 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.24%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.79%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.79%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.79%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.79%) MySQL
9 3 (1.35%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.35%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.90%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.90%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 56 (25.11%) GitLab
2 55 (24.66%) Jenkins
3 52 (23.32%) Git
4 12 (5.38%) JIRA
5 7 (3.14%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.24%) Browser DevTools
6 5 (2.24%) JMeter
6 5 (2.24%) Postman
7 3 (1.35%) Ant
7 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.35%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.35%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.35%) Snyk
8 2 (0.90%) Appium
8 2 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.90%) MLflow
8 2 (0.90%) Selenium
8 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.45%) Chocolatey
9 1 (0.45%) Spinnaker
General
1 42 (18.83%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.25%) Finance
3 28 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.38%) Banking
6 7 (3.14%) Retail
7 6 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.35%) Military
9 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.90%) Law
10 2 (0.90%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Back Office
11 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Front Office
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.45%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (17.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (12.11%) Platform Engineer
3 25 (11.21%) Security Engineer
4 19 (8.52%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (8.52%) Azure Engineer
4 19 (8.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (7.17%) Senior
6 13 (5.83%) Architect
7 12 (5.38%) Site Engineer
7 12 (5.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 11 (4.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (4.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.04%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.59%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.59%) Developer
10 8 (3.59%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (3.59%) Lead
11 7 (3.14%) Linux Engineer
11 7 (3.14%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.62%) Kafka
2 11 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (4.93%) YAML
3 9 (4.04%) ARM Templates
4 7 (3.14%) SAML
5 6 (2.69%) JSON
5 6 (2.69%) OAuth
5 6 (2.69%) Swagger
6 5 (2.24%) ADO
6 5 (2.24%) REST
7 4 (1.79%) LDAP
8 3 (1.35%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.35%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (0.90%) CrewAI
9 2 (0.90%) Faiss
9 2 (0.90%) LangChain
9 2 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.90%) pgvector
9 2 (0.90%) PyTorch
9 2 (0.90%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.35%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (2.69%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.24%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.35%) PKI
7 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.90%) NHS
7 2 (0.90%) PACS
7 2 (0.90%) Pricing Data
7 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 85 (38.12%) Linux
2 23 (10.31%) Windows
3 16 (7.17%) Unix
4 9 (4.04%) Mac OS
5 8 (3.59%) VMS
6 7 (3.14%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.35%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.90%) CentOS
9 2 (0.90%) Debian
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.45%) Rocky
10 1 (0.45%) Solaris
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (60.09%) CI/CD
2 116 (52.02%) DevOps
3 110 (49.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (30.49%) Containerisation
5 46 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (20.18%) Platform Engineering
7 43 (19.28%) Observability
8 39 (17.49%) Configuration Management
9 31 (13.90%) Agile
10 28 (12.56%) Analytics
11 25 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (10.31%) Cloud Security
13 22 (9.87%) Incident Response
13 22 (9.87%) Test Automation
14 21 (9.42%) SIEM
14 21 (9.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 20 (8.97%) Validation
16 19 (8.52%) High Availability
16 19 (8.52%) Root Cause Analysis
17 18 (8.07%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 191 (85.65%) Python
2 91 (40.81%) PowerShell
3 27 (12.11%) SQL
4 17 (7.62%) Java
5 13 (5.83%) Bicep
5 13 (5.83%) Go
6 9 (4.04%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (3.14%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.69%) C
8 6 (2.69%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.24%) Perl
9 5 (2.24%) Ruby
10 2 (0.90%) C#
10 2 (0.90%) C++
10 2 (0.90%) Groovy
10 2 (0.90%) PHP
10 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.90%) Rust
10 2 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.45%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 71 (31.84%) Security Cleared
2 63 (28.25%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.28%) Azure Certification
4 11 (4.93%) Degree
5 9 (4.04%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.14%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.69%) CCNA
9 5 (2.24%) CCNP
9 5 (2.24%) CISSP
10 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.90%) CEH
12 2 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.45%) GIAC
13 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.48%) NIST
2 6 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.24%) QA
4 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.90%) GDPR
5 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.90%) SLA
5 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 73 (32.74%) Docker
2 13 (5.83%) Active Directory
3 12 (5.38%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.24%) Squid
6 4 (1.79%) NFS
7 3 (1.35%) KVM
7 3 (1.35%) Postfix
7 3 (1.35%) Sendmail
7 3 (1.35%) Varnish
8 2 (0.90%) Ceph
8 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.90%) Lustre
8 2 (0.90%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.90%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.90%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.90%) vSphere
8 2 (0.90%) Xen
9 1 (0.45%) Samba
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 123 (55.16%) Terraform
2 82 (36.77%) Ansible
3 80 (35.87%) Kubernetes
4 48 (21.52%) Grafana
5 43 (19.28%) Prometheus
6 17 (7.62%) Puppet
7 9 (4.04%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.14%) Argo
9 6 (2.69%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (2.24%) HAProxy
11 4 (1.79%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (1.79%) Kibana
11 4 (1.79%) Salt
12 3 (1.35%) Istio
12 3 (1.35%) Rancher
13 2 (0.90%) Consul
13 2 (0.90%) Knative
13 2 (0.90%) logstash
13 2 (0.90%) Suricata
13 2 (0.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.07%) Splunk
3 14 (6.28%) Databricks
4 11 (4.93%) Zscaler
5 10 (4.48%) Google
6 9 (4.04%) Palo Alto
7 8 (3.59%) Dynatrace
7 8 (3.59%) Red Hat
8 7 (3.14%) PagerDuty
9 6 (2.69%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.69%) VMware
10 5 (2.24%) Cisco
10 5 (2.24%) Oracle
10 5 (2.24%) Qualys
11 4 (1.79%) Tenable
12 3 (1.35%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.35%) Dell
12 3 (1.35%) IBM
12 3 (1.35%) Netskope
12 3 (1.35%) OpenText