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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 144 187
Rank change year-on-year -45 +43 -68
Contract jobs citing Bash 218 243 235
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.88% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.88% 4.81% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 150 156
10th Percentile £407 £398 £409
25th Percentile £452 £452 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +4.55% -12.35%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £650
90th Percentile £755 £810 £725
England median daily rate £500 £565 £543
% change year-on-year -11.50% +4.15% -9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £38.75 £48.90 £21.10
25th Percentile £42.50 £53.63 £22.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £84.75 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.82% +46.12% -20.00%
75th Percentile £58.50 £112.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.65 - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £55.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +35.02% -26.67% +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 5,614 5,055 6,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 34.77% 39.05% 34.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,809 3,455 4,841
10th Percentile £363 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £776 £825 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 35 66
10th Percentile £18.72 £30.74 £26.02
25th Percentile £40.01 £37.43 £40.09
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £51.13
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -11.98% -11.09%
75th Percentile £66.50 £62.38 £62.31
90th Percentile £73.75 £93.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 11 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in London over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

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 11 March 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 -45 15 £515 -4.19% 13
South London -9 9 £530 -
West London - 1 - - 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 11 (5.05%) Confluence
2 7 (3.21%) nginx
3 5 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.38%) Apache
4 3 (1.38%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.38%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.92%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.92%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.46%) FileNet
6 1 (0.46%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.46%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 95 (43.58%) AWS
2 76 (34.86%) Azure
3 47 (21.56%) GitHub
4 36 (16.51%) GCP
5 33 (15.14%) Amazon EKS
6 32 (14.68%) Amazon S3
6 32 (14.68%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (13.76%) Amazon EC2
7 30 (13.76%) Serverless
8 24 (11.01%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (10.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (10.09%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (10.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (9.63%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (5.05%) Azure AKS
14 9 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (4.13%) Snowflake
15 8 (3.67%) Entra ID
15 8 (3.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.09%) TCP/IP
2 19 (8.72%) DNS
2 19 (8.72%) Firewall
3 9 (4.13%) Network Security
3 9 (4.13%) VPN
4 7 (3.21%) HTTP
5 6 (2.75%) DHCP
5 6 (2.75%) Multicast
5 6 (2.75%) VLAN
5 6 (2.75%) Wireshark
6 4 (1.83%) tcpdump
7 3 (1.38%) SSL
7 3 (1.38%) WAN
8 2 (0.92%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.92%) NAS
8 2 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.92%) SAN
8 2 (0.92%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.92%) Spanning Tree
8 2 (0.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.76%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (10.09%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (5.50%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.59%) Data Lake
4 10 (4.59%) Redis
5 9 (4.13%) MySQL
5 9 (4.13%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.21%) Delta Lake
6 7 (3.21%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.29%) Big Data
8 5 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.83%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.38%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.38%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.92%) ImageNet
Development Applications
1 53 (24.31%) GitLab
1 53 (24.31%) Jenkins
2 47 (21.56%) Git
3 15 (6.88%) JIRA
4 9 (4.13%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.29%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.83%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.83%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (1.83%) MLflow
7 3 (1.38%) Gradle
7 3 (1.38%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (1.38%) Snyk
8 2 (0.92%) Appium
8 2 (0.92%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.92%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.92%) Maven
8 2 (0.92%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.92%) Selenium
8 2 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.92%) Subversion
General
1 54 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (14.68%) Finance
3 28 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.50%) Banking
5 10 (4.59%) Retail
6 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.83%) Front Office
6 4 (1.83%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.92%) Private Banking
7 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.46%) Games
8 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.46%) Legal
8 1 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (13.76%) DevOps Engineer
1 30 (13.76%) Platform Engineer
2 22 (10.09%) Senior
3 17 (7.80%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (6.42%) Architect
4 14 (6.42%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (6.42%) Lead
5 12 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (5.05%) AWS DevOps
6 11 (5.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 11 (5.05%) Security Engineer
7 10 (4.59%) Data Engineer
7 10 (4.59%) Developer
7 10 (4.59%) Site Engineer
7 10 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (4.13%) Support Engineer
9 8 (3.67%) Analyst
9 8 (3.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (3.67%) Microsoft Engineer
9 8 (3.67%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.26%) Kafka
2 11 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (3.21%) Middleware
4 5 (2.29%) ADO
4 5 (2.29%) FastAPI
5 4 (1.83%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (1.83%) Node.js
5 4 (1.83%) OAuth
5 4 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.83%) PyTorch
5 4 (1.83%) REST
5 4 (1.83%) SAML
5 4 (1.83%) Ultra Messaging
5 4 (1.83%) YAML
6 3 (1.38%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.38%) LDAP
7 2 (0.92%) CrewAI
7 2 (0.92%) LangChain
7 2 (0.92%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.67%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.21%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.75%) Replication
6 5 (2.29%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.83%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.38%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.92%) Clustering
9 2 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.92%) NHS
9 2 (0.92%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 92 (42.20%) Linux
2 26 (11.93%) Windows
3 19 (8.72%) Mac OS
4 18 (8.26%) Unix
5 9 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.21%) VMS
7 4 (1.83%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.38%) Solaris
9 1 (0.46%) CentOS
9 1 (0.46%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (54.13%) CI/CD
2 109 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 96 (44.04%) DevOps
4 62 (28.44%) Containerisation
5 52 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (19.72%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (17.43%) Observability
8 30 (13.76%) Agile
8 30 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (13.30%) Configuration Management
10 28 (12.84%) Analytics
10 28 (12.84%) Incident Response
11 25 (11.47%) High Availability
12 23 (10.55%) AI
12 23 (10.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 20 (9.17%) Roadmaps
14 18 (8.26%) Mentoring
14 18 (8.26%) Project Delivery
15 17 (7.80%) Cloud Security
16 16 (7.34%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 181 (83.03%) Python
2 82 (37.61%) PowerShell
3 31 (14.22%) SQL
4 15 (6.88%) Java
5 12 (5.50%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (5.05%) Go
7 9 (4.13%) Perl
8 7 (3.21%) Bicep
9 6 (2.75%) C
9 6 (2.75%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.29%) Groovy
11 4 (1.83%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.38%) C#
12 3 (1.38%) PHP
13 2 (0.92%) C++
13 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.92%) Ruby
13 2 (0.92%) Rust
13 2 (0.92%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 66 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.15%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.50%) Degree
4 11 (5.05%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.75%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.75%) CCNA
5 6 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.75%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.75%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.75%) PhD
6 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.83%) CCNP
6 4 (1.83%) CEH
6 4 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.38%) CISSP
7 3 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.75%) NIST
2 5 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.83%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.83%) GDPR
4 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.92%) QA
4 2 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.46%) NCSC
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
5 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (35.32%) Docker
2 9 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.38%) NFS
5 3 (1.38%) Squid
5 3 (1.38%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.38%) vSphere
6 2 (0.92%) Ceph
6 2 (0.92%) KVM
6 2 (0.92%) Lustre
6 2 (0.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.92%) Snort
6 2 (0.92%) Xen
6 2 (0.92%) zsh
7 1 (0.46%) GPFS
7 1 (0.46%) HDFS
7 1 (0.46%) iptables
7 1 (0.46%) Samba
7 1 (0.46%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 119 (54.59%) Terraform
2 77 (35.32%) Kubernetes
3 71 (32.57%) Ansible
4 38 (17.43%) Grafana
5 33 (15.14%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.59%) Puppet
7 9 (4.13%) Argo
7 9 (4.13%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (3.67%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (2.29%) Rancher
10 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.83%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.38%) HAProxy
11 3 (1.38%) Istio
11 3 (1.38%) Nagios
11 3 (1.38%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (1.38%) SCCM
11 3 (1.38%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.92%) Suricata
Vendors
1 36 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.55%) Splunk
3 17 (7.80%) Google
4 11 (5.05%) Databricks
5 10 (4.59%) Red Hat
6 9 (4.13%) Atlassian
7 8 (3.67%) Dynatrace
7 8 (3.67%) Qualys
7 8 (3.67%) VMware
8 7 (3.21%) Apple
9 6 (2.75%) PagerDuty
9 6 (2.75%) Tenable
9 6 (2.75%) Zscaler
10 5 (2.29%) Cisco
10 5 (2.29%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.83%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.83%) Solace
11 4 (1.83%) TIBCO
12 3 (1.38%) CrowdStrike