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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 135 205
Rank change year-on-year -52 +70 -110
Contract jobs citing Bash 276 280 215
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.43% 2.14% 1.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.57% 5.43% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 186 147
10th Percentile £398 £413 £400
25th Percentile £455 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -3.41% -15.38%
75th Percentile £625 £659 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £46.48 £21.40
25th Percentile £56.75 £47.56 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £55.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +93.86% +42.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.19 £52.81
90th Percentile - £62.83 £71.88
England median hourly rate £62.57 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +14.80% -5.22% -17.86%

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 6,044 5,152 6,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.29% 39.32% 38.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,029 3,612 5,166
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £446 £431 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £849
England median daily rate £519 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -0.16% -3.70% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 48 50
10th Percentile £33.21 £27.08 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £34.82
Median hourly rate £57.77 £41.66 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +38.67% -16.27% -17.08%
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.81 £62.23
90th Percentile £89.00 £81.88 £72.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -29 19 £525 -9.48% 30
South London -8 4 £553 -10.89% 1
West London -23 2 £500 +5.26% 6
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 15 (5.43%) Confluence
2 8 (2.90%) Apache
3 7 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.45%) WordPress
5 3 (1.09%) nginx
5 3 (1.09%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.72%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
7 1 (0.36%) IIS
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.36%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 137 (49.64%) AWS
2 108 (39.13%) Azure
3 78 (28.26%) GitHub
4 59 (21.38%) GitHub Actions
5 57 (20.65%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (14.49%) Amazon EKS
6 40 (14.49%) Amazon S3
7 38 (13.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 38 (13.77%) GCP
8 36 (13.04%) Serverless
9 32 (11.59%) Amazon EC2
10 31 (11.23%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (10.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 27 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (7.97%) Datadog
14 17 (6.16%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (5.80%) Azure AKS
15 16 (5.80%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (3.99%) Azure Key Vault
17 10 (3.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.96%) Firewall
2 31 (11.23%) DNS
3 25 (9.06%) Network Security
3 25 (9.06%) VPN
4 23 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 11 (3.99%) WAN
6 8 (2.90%) SD-WAN
6 8 (2.90%) SSL
7 7 (2.54%) HTTP
7 7 (2.54%) VLAN
8 5 (1.81%) NAS
8 5 (1.81%) SAN
9 4 (1.45%) DHCP
9 4 (1.45%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (1.09%) BGP
10 3 (1.09%) Internet
11 2 (0.72%) IPsec
11 2 (0.72%) Multicast
11 2 (0.72%) SSH
11 2 (0.72%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.62%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (3.26%) Redis
4 8 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.17%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.81%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.81%) Delta Lake
6 5 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.81%) MySQL
7 4 (1.45%) Big Data
7 4 (1.45%) Metadata
8 3 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.09%) Power BI
9 2 (0.72%) KDB
9 2 (0.72%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 77 (27.90%) Jenkins
2 67 (24.28%) Git
3 65 (23.55%) GitLab
4 15 (5.43%) JIRA
5 11 (3.99%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.54%) JMeter
7 6 (2.17%) Postman
8 5 (1.81%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.09%) Ant
9 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.09%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.72%) Selenium
10 2 (0.72%) Snyk
10 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.72%) Subversion
11 1 (0.36%) Appium
11 1 (0.36%) Gatling
11 1 (0.36%) VersionOne
General
1 55 (19.93%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.75%) Finance
3 33 (11.96%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.78%) Banking
5 23 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.54%) Law
7 5 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.81%) Retail
8 4 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.45%) Military
8 4 (1.45%) Publishing
9 3 (1.09%) Front Office
9 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.72%) Police
10 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.36%) Billing
11 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) Legal
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (26.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (10.51%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (9.78%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (9.78%) Security Engineer
4 25 (9.06%) Azure Engineer
5 23 (8.33%) Senior
6 20 (7.25%) Lead
6 20 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (6.16%) Architect
7 17 (6.16%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 16 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 15 (5.43%) Linux Engineer
10 14 (5.07%) Site Engineer
11 13 (4.71%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 12 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.62%) Lead DevOps
15 9 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.70%) Kafka
2 14 (5.07%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (4.71%) YAML
4 12 (4.35%) ARM Templates
5 11 (3.99%) REST
6 10 (3.62%) JSON
7 9 (3.26%) Middleware
8 8 (2.90%) SAML
9 7 (2.54%) Loki
9 7 (2.54%) OAuth
10 6 (2.17%) cloud-init
10 6 (2.17%) Swagger
11 5 (1.81%) ADO
12 4 (1.45%) .NET
12 4 (1.45%) LDAP
13 3 (1.09%) ModSecurity
13 3 (1.09%) WebSphere MQ
14 2 (0.72%) OpenID
14 2 (0.72%) RESTful
14 2 (0.72%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.03%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.26%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.90%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.54%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (1.45%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.09%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.09%) Equities
9 3 (1.09%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 99 (35.87%) Linux
2 32 (11.59%) Windows
3 21 (7.61%) Unix
4 17 (6.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.35%) Ubuntu
6 9 (3.26%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.81%) VMS
8 4 (1.45%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.72%) Debian
9 2 (0.72%) Solaris
9 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.36%) CentOS
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.36%) Rocky
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (65.58%) CI/CD
2 171 (61.96%) DevOps
3 157 (56.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (32.61%) Containerisation
5 63 (22.83%) Observability
6 53 (19.20%) Platform Engineering
7 49 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (14.49%) Configuration Management
8 40 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (13.04%) Cloud Security
10 33 (11.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 32 (11.59%) Agile
12 29 (10.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 29 (10.51%) Runbook
13 28 (10.14%) AI
14 26 (9.42%) Migration
14 26 (9.42%) Root Cause Analysis
15 25 (9.06%) Analytics
15 25 (9.06%) High Availability
15 25 (9.06%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 239 (86.59%) Python
2 106 (38.41%) PowerShell
3 27 (9.78%) SQL
4 20 (7.25%) Go
5 19 (6.88%) Java
6 15 (5.43%) Bicep
7 10 (3.62%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.90%) Perl
9 6 (2.17%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.17%) Ruby
10 5 (1.81%) C
11 4 (1.45%) C#
11 4 (1.45%) Groovy
11 4 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.09%) Korn
13 2 (0.72%) Cypher
13 2 (0.72%) Gremlin
13 2 (0.72%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.72%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 95 (34.42%) Security Cleared
2 85 (30.80%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.43%) Azure Certification
4 11 (3.99%) Degree
5 9 (3.26%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.17%) CCNA
9 5 (1.81%) CCNP
9 5 (1.81%) CISSP
9 5 (1.81%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.72%) CCSP
12 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.62%) QA
2 9 (3.26%) NIST
3 7 (2.54%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.81%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.09%) SLA
5 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.36%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 98 (35.51%) Docker
2 18 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 14 (5.07%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.90%) Squid
6 5 (1.81%) vSphere
7 4 (1.45%) NFS
7 4 (1.45%) Postfix
7 4 (1.45%) Varnish
7 4 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.09%) OpenSSH
8 3 (1.09%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.36%) HDFS
10 1 (0.36%) KVM
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.36%) QEMU
10 1 (0.36%) zsh
Systems Management
1 174 (63.04%) Terraform
2 114 (41.30%) Kubernetes
3 102 (36.96%) Ansible
4 70 (25.36%) Grafana
5 64 (23.19%) Prometheus
6 20 (7.25%) Puppet
7 12 (4.35%) Argo
8 10 (3.62%) Progress Chef
9 7 (2.54%) systemd
10 5 (1.81%) HAProxy
10 5 (1.81%) Salt
10 5 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.45%) Suricata
11 4 (1.45%) vCenter Server
12 3 (1.09%) Consul
12 3 (1.09%) Istio
12 3 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.09%) Kibana
12 3 (1.09%) Packer
12 3 (1.09%) yum
Vendors
1 29 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.25%) Splunk
3 16 (5.80%) Databricks
4 15 (5.43%) Dynatrace
5 13 (4.71%) Oracle
6 12 (4.35%) VMware
7 11 (3.99%) Palo Alto
7 11 (3.99%) Zscaler
8 10 (3.62%) Google
9 9 (3.26%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.90%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.81%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.81%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.45%) Dell
12 4 (1.45%) IBM
12 4 (1.45%) Tenable
13 3 (1.09%) Cisco
13 3 (1.09%) Imperva
13 3 (1.09%) OpenText
13 3 (1.09%) Sybase