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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 141 194
Rank change year-on-year -31 +53 -82
Contract jobs citing Bash 348 273 214
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.73% 2.04% 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.50% 5.29% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 188 145
10th Percentile £388 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.41% -12.77%
75th Percentile £635 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £688 £758
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £47.15 £23.30
25th Percentile £56.75 £49.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +72.31% +62.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.75 £71.88
90th Percentile - £63.05 -
England median hourly rate £69.61 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +27.72% -5.22% -20.69%

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 6,325 5,156 6,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.50% 38.52% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,242 3,591 4,763
10th Percentile £381 £375 £370
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £706
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 62 42
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.43 £25.32
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £40.06
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.70 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.46% -7.84% -19.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.06 £60.45
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £78.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -22 23 £550 -8.33% 19
South London -12 6 £535 -13.71% 5
West London -16 5 £500 +5.26% 14
East London - 3 £400 - 5
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 18 (5.17%) Confluence
2 12 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.87%) Apache
3 10 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.15%) WordPress
5 3 (0.86%) nginx
5 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.57%) CMS
6 2 (0.57%) IIS
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.29%) JBoss
7 1 (0.29%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Front Arena
1 2 (0.57%) Summit
2 1 (0.29%) Actimize
2 1 (0.29%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 166 (47.70%) AWS
2 160 (45.98%) Azure
3 104 (29.89%) GitHub
4 82 (23.56%) GitHub Actions
5 74 (21.26%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (18.10%) GCP
7 47 (13.51%) Amazon EKS
8 46 (13.22%) Amazon S3
9 41 (11.78%) Serverless
10 40 (11.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (9.48%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (9.48%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (9.48%) Datadog
12 31 (8.91%) Entra ID
13 30 (8.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (8.05%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (6.03%) Azure AKS
17 17 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
18 15 (4.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (12.64%) Firewall
2 40 (11.49%) VPN
3 39 (11.21%) DNS
4 31 (8.91%) TCP/IP
5 30 (8.62%) Network Security
6 16 (4.60%) WAN
7 11 (3.16%) VLAN
8 10 (2.87%) SD-WAN
9 9 (2.59%) SAN
10 8 (2.30%) SSL
11 7 (2.01%) BGP
11 7 (2.01%) DHCP
11 7 (2.01%) Kerberos
12 6 (1.72%) HTTP
13 5 (1.44%) MPLS
14 4 (1.15%) SSH
15 3 (0.86%) Internet
15 3 (0.86%) NAS
15 3 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
15 3 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.17%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.02%) Redis
4 13 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (3.16%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.59%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.59%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.01%) MySQL
8 6 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.72%) Delta Lake
8 6 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.72%) Metadata
8 6 (1.72%) Power BI
8 6 (1.72%) SQLite
9 5 (1.44%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.15%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 105 (30.17%) Jenkins
2 87 (25.00%) Git
3 79 (22.70%) GitLab
4 20 (5.75%) JIRA
5 12 (3.45%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.01%) JMeter
8 6 (1.72%) Postman
9 5 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.15%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.86%) Maven
11 3 (0.86%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.57%) Selenium
12 2 (0.57%) Subversion
12 2 (0.57%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.57%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.29%) Gatling
13 1 (0.29%) Liquibase
General
1 85 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 79 (22.70%) Finance
3 47 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (9.48%) Banking
5 30 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.01%) Law
8 5 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.44%) Front Office
8 5 (1.44%) Publishing
8 5 (1.44%) Retail
9 4 (1.15%) Automotive
9 4 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.15%) Military
10 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.86%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.57%) Billing
11 2 (0.57%) Marketing
11 2 (0.57%) Police
12 1 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 80 (22.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (11.78%) Senior
3 32 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
3 32 (9.20%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (7.18%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (7.18%) Lead
4 25 (7.18%) Platform Engineer
5 24 (6.90%) Security Engineer
6 21 (6.03%) Linux Engineer
7 20 (5.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.17%) Architect
8 18 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 17 (4.89%) Developer
10 16 (4.60%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 16 (4.60%) Site Engineer
11 13 (3.74%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (3.74%) Support Engineer
12 12 (3.45%) Applications Support
12 12 (3.45%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (58.91%) Terraform
2 37 (10.63%) Kafka
3 21 (6.03%) REST
4 19 (5.46%) YAML
5 18 (5.17%) ARM Templates
6 16 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (4.02%) Loki
8 11 (3.16%) JSON
8 11 (3.16%) RESTful
9 10 (2.87%) SAML
10 9 (2.59%) .NET
10 9 (2.59%) Middleware
11 8 (2.30%) OAuth
11 8 (2.30%) Spring
12 7 (2.01%) Flask
13 6 (1.72%) ADO
13 6 (1.72%) cloud-init
13 6 (1.72%) SPNEGO
13 6 (1.72%) Swagger
14 5 (1.44%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 55 (15.80%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (4.60%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
7 11 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.16%) Security Posture
8 10 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.87%) PKI
8 10 (2.87%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.01%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.72%) Equities
10 6 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.44%) Replication
11 5 (1.44%) Robotics
11 5 (1.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 138 (39.66%) Linux
2 51 (14.66%) Windows
3 29 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 22 (6.32%) Ubuntu
4 22 (6.32%) Unix
5 9 (2.59%) VMS
6 5 (1.44%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.57%) Debian
7 2 (0.57%) Solaris
7 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.29%) CentOS
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.29%) Rocky
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (63.22%) CI/CD
2 202 (58.05%) DevOps
3 187 (53.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (29.31%) Containerisation
5 89 (25.57%) Observability
6 68 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (18.97%) Platform Engineering
8 59 (16.95%) Agile
8 59 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (15.23%) AI
10 48 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
11 45 (12.93%) Infrastructure Automation
12 44 (12.64%) Cloud Security
12 44 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 43 (12.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 40 (11.49%) Configuration Management
14 40 (11.49%) Identity Access Management
15 39 (11.21%) Runbook
16 36 (10.34%) DevSecOps
17 35 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 299 (85.92%) Python
2 145 (41.67%) PowerShell
3 39 (11.21%) Java
4 37 (10.63%) SQL
5 33 (9.48%) Go
6 31 (8.91%) Bicep
7 18 (5.17%) Shell Script
8 15 (4.31%) Perl
9 13 (3.74%) Korn
10 9 (2.59%) Ruby
11 8 (2.30%) JavaScript
12 7 (2.01%) C#
12 7 (2.01%) Groovy
13 3 (0.86%) Cypher
13 3 (0.86%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.86%) SPARQL
13 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.57%) C
14 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 112 (32.18%) Security Cleared
2 96 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.91%) Azure Certification
4 22 (6.32%) Degree
5 20 (5.75%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.30%) CISSP
9 7 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.01%) CCNP
10 6 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.44%) CCNA
12 4 (1.15%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.15%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.61%) QA
2 12 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.45%) NIST
3 9 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.44%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.15%) SLA
5 4 (1.15%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.29%) NCSC
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 127 (36.49%) Docker
2 33 (9.48%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.30%) Squid
6 5 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.15%) vSphere
8 3 (0.86%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.86%) NFS
8 3 (0.86%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.86%) Postfix
8 3 (0.86%) Varnish
9 2 (0.57%) HDFS
9 2 (0.57%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.57%) zsh
10 1 (0.29%) KVM
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.29%) QEMU
10 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 155 (44.54%) Kubernetes
2 111 (31.90%) Ansible
3 99 (28.45%) Grafana
4 83 (23.85%) Prometheus
5 24 (6.90%) Puppet
6 18 (5.17%) Argo
7 12 (3.45%) systemd
8 11 (3.16%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.87%) Istio
9 10 (2.87%) Kibana
10 7 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.72%) Cilium
11 6 (1.72%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (1.44%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (1.15%) Consul
13 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.15%) Salt
13 4 (1.15%) Suricata
14 3 (0.86%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 69 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.05%) VMware
3 24 (6.90%) Google
3 24 (6.90%) Splunk
4 23 (6.61%) Dynatrace
4 23 (6.61%) Oracle
5 19 (5.46%) Databricks
6 16 (4.60%) CyberArk
7 13 (3.74%) Red Hat
8 12 (3.45%) ServiceNow
9 11 (3.16%) Cisco
9 11 (3.16%) NetApp
10 10 (2.87%) Palo Alto
10 10 (2.87%) Zscaler
11 9 (2.59%) BeyondTrust
11 9 (2.59%) WALLIX
12 7 (2.01%) Fortinet
13 6 (1.72%) Apple
14 4 (1.15%) Juniper
14 4 (1.15%) Meraki