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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 137 200
Rank change year-on-year -48 +63 -108
Contract jobs citing Bash 288 281 214
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 2.07% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.67% 5.34% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 187 147
10th Percentile £393 £394 £400
25th Percentile £450 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £641
90th Percentile £725 £730 £725
England median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile £56.75 £45.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £54.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% +91.23% +42.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £63.25 £52.81
90th Percentile - - £71.88
England median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.84% -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 6,164 5,259 6,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 30.99% 38.78% 39.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,109 3,687 5,070
10th Percentile £380 £368 £375
25th Percentile £450 £431 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £520 £518 £540
% change year-on-year +0.48% -4.17% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 49 50
10th Percentile £34.65 £27.18 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £34.82
Median hourly rate £55.00 £43.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.44% -9.38% -22.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 £62.50 £60.45
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £71.94
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +3.59%

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 18 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 18 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 20 £525 -7.08% 12
South London -12 5 £535 -13.71% 3
West London -14 2 £500 +5.26% 2
East London - 2 £416 - 4
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 16 (5.56%) Confluence
2 10 (3.47%) Apache
3 9 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.39%) WordPress
5 3 (1.04%) nginx
5 3 (1.04%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.69%) CMS
6 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) IIS
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 140 (48.61%) AWS
2 122 (42.36%) Azure
3 81 (28.13%) GitHub
4 64 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 62 (21.53%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (14.58%) Amazon S3
6 42 (14.58%) GCP
7 40 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
8 39 (13.54%) Serverless
9 36 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (11.46%) AWS Lambda
11 31 (10.76%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (9.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 27 (9.38%) Datadog
14 18 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (5.90%) Azure AKS
16 16 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (5.56%) Entra ID
17 12 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (13.19%) Firewall
2 35 (12.15%) DNS
3 28 (9.72%) VPN
4 26 (9.03%) Network Security
5 25 (8.68%) TCP/IP
6 10 (3.47%) VLAN
6 10 (3.47%) WAN
7 7 (2.43%) SD-WAN
7 7 (2.43%) SSL
8 6 (2.08%) DHCP
8 6 (2.08%) HTTP
9 4 (1.39%) NAS
9 4 (1.39%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.39%) SAN
10 3 (1.04%) BGP
10 3 (1.04%) Internet
11 2 (0.69%) IPsec
11 2 (0.69%) SSH
11 2 (0.69%) X.509
12 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (3.82%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.13%) Redis
4 8 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (2.43%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.08%) Metadata
7 5 (1.74%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.74%) Big Data
7 5 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.74%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.39%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.39%) MySQL
9 3 (1.04%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.04%) Power BI
9 3 (1.04%) Stardog
9 3 (1.04%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 81 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 70 (24.31%) Git
3 64 (22.22%) GitLab
4 15 (5.21%) JIRA
5 12 (4.17%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.43%) JMeter
7 6 (2.08%) Postman
8 5 (1.74%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (1.39%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.04%) Ant
10 3 (1.04%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.69%) Maven
11 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.69%) Subversion
12 1 (0.35%) Gatling
12 1 (0.35%) Gradle
12 1 (0.35%) Selenium
12 1 (0.35%) Snyk
12 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 62 (21.53%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.10%) Finance
3 33 (11.46%) Public Sector
4 29 (10.07%) Banking
5 28 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.43%) Law
7 6 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.39%) Military
8 4 (1.39%) Publishing
8 4 (1.39%) Retail
9 3 (1.04%) Front Office
9 3 (1.04%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Automotive
10 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.69%) Police
10 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 78 (27.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
3 27 (9.38%) Senior
4 25 (8.68%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (8.68%) Security Engineer
5 21 (7.29%) Lead
6 20 (6.94%) Platform Engineer
7 19 (6.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 18 (6.25%) Architect
9 16 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
10 15 (5.21%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 14 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (4.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (4.17%) Site Engineer
14 11 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
15 10 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.47%) Lead DevOps
15 10 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.99%) Kafka
2 15 (5.21%) ARM Templates
3 14 (4.86%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (4.86%) YAML
4 12 (4.17%) REST
5 11 (3.82%) JSON
6 9 (3.13%) Middleware
7 8 (2.78%) Loki
7 8 (2.78%) SAML
8 7 (2.43%) OAuth
9 6 (2.08%) cloud-init
9 6 (2.08%) Swagger
10 5 (1.74%) .NET
10 5 (1.74%) ADO
11 4 (1.39%) LDAP
11 4 (1.39%) ModSecurity
12 3 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
12 3 (1.04%) GraphQL
12 3 (1.04%) JSON-LD
12 3 (1.04%) NetworkX
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.47%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.47%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.47%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.43%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.08%) PKI
8 5 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.74%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.39%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.39%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.04%) Equities
10 3 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 106 (36.81%) Linux
2 37 (12.85%) Windows
3 20 (6.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (6.94%) Unix
4 16 (5.56%) Ubuntu
5 15 (5.21%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.08%) VMS
7 3 (1.04%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.69%) Debian
8 2 (0.69%) Solaris
8 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.35%) CentOS
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.35%) Rocky
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (63.89%) CI/CD
2 178 (61.81%) DevOps
3 161 (55.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (31.94%) Containerisation
5 63 (21.88%) Observability
6 52 (18.06%) Platform Engineering
7 51 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (13.54%) Configuration Management
10 37 (12.85%) Cloud Security
11 36 (12.50%) Agile
12 35 (12.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 32 (11.11%) AI
13 32 (11.11%) Runbook
14 31 (10.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 29 (10.07%) Migration
16 27 (9.38%) DevSecOps
17 26 (9.03%) Infrastructure Automation
17 26 (9.03%) Root Cause Analysis
17 26 (9.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 246 (85.42%) Python
2 113 (39.24%) PowerShell
3 26 (9.03%) SQL
4 20 (6.94%) Java
5 19 (6.60%) Go
6 18 (6.25%) Bicep
7 11 (3.82%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.78%) Perl
9 6 (2.08%) Ruby
10 5 (1.74%) C
10 5 (1.74%) Groovy
10 5 (1.74%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.04%) C#
11 3 (1.04%) Cypher
11 3 (1.04%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.04%) Korn
11 3 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.04%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 100 (34.72%) Security Cleared
2 90 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.29%) Azure Certification
4 14 (4.86%) AWS Certification
5 13 (4.51%) Degree
6 11 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.43%) CCNA
8 7 (2.43%) CCNP
9 5 (1.74%) CISSP
10 4 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.69%) CCSP
12 2 (0.69%) JNCIP
12 2 (0.69%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.86%) QA
2 8 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.78%) NIST
3 7 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.74%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.04%) SLA
5 3 (1.04%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 103 (35.76%) Docker
2 22 (7.64%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.78%) Squid
6 5 (1.74%) vSphere
7 4 (1.39%) NFS
7 4 (1.39%) Postfix
7 4 (1.39%) Varnish
7 4 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.04%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.04%) OpenSSH
8 3 (1.04%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.69%) HDFS
9 2 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.69%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.35%) KVM
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.35%) QEMU
10 1 (0.35%) zsh
Systems Management
1 180 (62.50%) Terraform
2 119 (41.32%) Kubernetes
3 105 (36.46%) Ansible
4 76 (26.39%) Grafana
5 66 (22.92%) Prometheus
6 25 (8.68%) Puppet
7 13 (4.51%) Argo
8 11 (3.82%) Progress Chef
9 9 (3.13%) systemd
10 5 (1.74%) HAProxy
10 5 (1.74%) Kibana
10 5 (1.74%) Salt
10 5 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.39%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (1.39%) Suricata
11 4 (1.39%) vCenter Server
12 3 (1.04%) Consul
12 3 (1.04%) Istio
12 3 (1.04%) Packer
12 3 (1.04%) yum
Vendors
1 39 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.90%) Oracle
2 17 (5.90%) Splunk
2 17 (5.90%) VMware
3 16 (5.56%) Databricks
3 16 (5.56%) Dynatrace
4 14 (4.86%) Google
5 11 (3.82%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.82%) Zscaler
6 10 (3.47%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.13%) CyberArk
8 8 (2.78%) Cisco
8 8 (2.78%) Fortinet
8 8 (2.78%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.39%) BeyondTrust
9 4 (1.39%) IBM
9 4 (1.39%) NetApp
9 4 (1.39%) WALLIX
10 3 (1.04%) Netskope
10 3 (1.04%) Tenable