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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 174 119
Rank change year-on-year +45 -55 +33
Contract jobs citing Bash 300 231 445
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.24% 1.46% 2.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.86% 3.69% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 145 341
10th Percentile £384 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% +0.40%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £750
90th Percentile £693 £810 £823
England median daily rate £520 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile £47.15 £43.75 £17.84
25th Percentile £49.25 £58.59 £18.65
Median hourly rate £56.00 £68.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.55% +243.75% -42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £101.97 £39.00
90th Percentile £63.05 £112.00 £50.40
England median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -15.65% -23.33% +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 5,117 6,267 7,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.21% 39.57% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,450 4,342 5,890
10th Percentile £375 £370 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -3.83% -2.08%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £713
90th Percentile £800 £840 £825
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 46 70
10th Percentile £24.83 £30.88 £25.09
25th Percentile £32.50 £38.89 £36.32
Median hourly rate £44.90 £48.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -11.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63.25 £71.66 £67.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £85.16
England median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.23% +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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025. 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 -2 24 £538 -14.00% 65
West London 0 6 £475 +18.75% 8
South London -4 3 £620 +148.00%
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 (2.67%) Apache
2 5 (1.67%) Confluence
3 4 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.00%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.00%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.00%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.67%) JBoss
5 2 (0.67%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.67%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.33%) CICS
6 1 (0.33%) Luigi
6 1 (0.33%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.33%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) Traefik
6 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.33%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 144 (48.00%) AWS
2 132 (44.00%) Azure
3 78 (26.00%) GCP
4 57 (19.00%) GitHub
5 32 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (7.67%) Amazon S3
9 21 (7.00%) Serverless
10 19 (6.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (5.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (5.33%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (5.00%) Entra ID
14 13 (4.33%) Azure AKS
15 11 (3.67%) OpenShift
16 10 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 9 (3.00%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 47 (15.67%) Firewall
2 44 (14.67%) DNS
3 32 (10.67%) TCP/IP
4 24 (8.00%) Network Security
5 23 (7.67%) VPN
6 14 (4.67%) SSL
7 11 (3.67%) BGP
8 10 (3.33%) OSPF
9 8 (2.67%) Wireshark
10 7 (2.33%) DHCP
10 7 (2.33%) EIGRP
10 7 (2.33%) HTTP
11 6 (2.00%) HTTPS
11 6 (2.00%) IPsec
11 6 (2.00%) tcpdump
11 6 (2.00%) VLAN
12 5 (1.67%) Multicast
13 4 (1.33%) NAS
14 3 (1.00%) SAN
14 3 (1.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (3.67%) Redis
4 10 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.67%) Delta Lake
5 8 (2.67%) Oracle Database
6 7 (2.33%) MySQL
7 6 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.67%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.67%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.67%) Oracle Exadata
8 5 (1.67%) Power BI
9 4 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.00%) Big Data
10 3 (1.00%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.00%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (20.33%) Jenkins
2 50 (16.67%) Git
3 42 (14.00%) GitLab
4 20 (6.67%) Metasploit
5 19 (6.33%) Burp Suite
5 19 (6.33%) SonarQube
6 18 (6.00%) JIRA
7 11 (3.67%) Maven
8 10 (3.33%) Liquibase
8 10 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (2.00%) Gradle
9 6 (2.00%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.67%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.67%) Subversion
11 4 (1.33%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.33%) Clang
11 4 (1.33%) GCC
11 4 (1.33%) MLflow
11 4 (1.33%) sqlmap
12 3 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 91 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 44 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (14.00%) Finance
4 36 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.33%) Banking
6 11 (3.67%) Front Office
7 7 (2.33%) Law
8 6 (2.00%) Marketing
8 6 (2.00%) Retail
9 5 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.33%) Electronics
10 4 (1.33%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.33%) Military
11 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Legal
12 2 (0.67%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (21.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (11.67%) Senior
3 24 (8.00%) Security Engineer
4 23 (7.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (6.67%) Developer
6 19 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (5.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 16 (5.33%) Architect
9 16 (5.33%) Site Engineer
10 15 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 15 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (4.67%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (4.67%) Network Engineer
12 12 (4.00%) Analyst
12 12 (4.00%) Security Analyst
13 11 (3.67%) Administrator
13 11 (3.67%) Data Engineer
13 11 (3.67%) Mac Engineer
14 10 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.33%) Kafka
2 17 (5.67%) Middleware
3 15 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (4.67%) ARM Templates
5 13 (4.33%) REST
6 12 (4.00%) YAML
7 11 (3.67%) .NET
7 11 (3.67%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (2.67%) ADO
9 5 (1.67%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.67%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.67%) Loki
9 5 (1.67%) Node.js
9 5 (1.67%) PyTorch
9 5 (1.67%) SAML
9 5 (1.67%) Ultra Messaging
10 4 (1.33%) OAuth
10 4 (1.33%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.33%) OpenID
10 4 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.33%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.00%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.00%) Replication
4 12 (4.00%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.33%) Clustering
6 7 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.33%) PKI
7 5 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.67%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.33%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.33%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 113 (37.67%) Linux
2 40 (13.33%) Windows
3 31 (10.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (7.67%) Mac OS
5 19 (6.33%) Unix
6 12 (4.00%) CentOS
7 11 (3.67%) Solaris
8 10 (3.33%) Windows Server
9 9 (3.00%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.33%) Android
10 4 (1.33%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.67%) Debian
11 2 (0.67%) SUSE
11 2 (0.67%) VMS
12 1 (0.33%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (57.00%) CI/CD
2 153 (51.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 141 (47.00%) DevOps
4 61 (20.33%) Containerisation
5 57 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (14.67%) Agile
6 44 (14.67%) DevSecOps
6 44 (14.67%) Observability
7 42 (14.00%) Incident Response
8 38 (12.67%) Cybersecurity
9 37 (12.33%) Cloud Security
9 37 (12.33%) High Availability
10 32 (10.67%) Infrastructure Automation
10 32 (10.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 31 (10.33%) Data Protection
12 30 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
13 27 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (9.00%) Test Automation
14 25 (8.33%) Zero Trust
15 24 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 254 (84.67%) Python
2 109 (36.33%) PowerShell
3 46 (15.33%) SQL
4 39 (13.00%) Go
5 27 (9.00%) Perl
6 23 (7.67%) Java
7 14 (4.67%) C++
8 12 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (3.67%) Bicep
9 11 (3.67%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.67%) PromQL
9 11 (3.67%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.33%) Groovy
11 7 (2.33%) C
11 7 (2.33%) C#
12 5 (1.67%) PHP
13 4 (1.33%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.00%) Scala
15 2 (0.67%) AWK
Qualifications
1 84 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 75 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.67%) OSCP
4 16 (5.33%) Degree
5 15 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.67%) CREST Certified
7 13 (4.33%) Tigerscheme
8 12 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (3.33%) CHECK Team Member
10 9 (3.00%) CCNP
11 8 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.33%) CEH
12 7 (2.33%) GPEN
13 6 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.00%) DV Cleared
13 6 (2.00%) JNCIA
13 6 (2.00%) JNCIS
13 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (2.00%) RHCE
14 5 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.33%) GDPR
2 13 (4.33%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.67%) NCSC
4 10 (3.33%) NIST
5 8 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (2.33%) HIPAA
6 7 (2.33%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.67%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.67%) SLA
9 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.33%) GxP
9 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 96 (32.00%) Docker
2 19 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.67%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.33%) zsh
5 8 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.00%) Firmware
6 6 (2.00%) NFS
7 4 (1.33%) Snort
7 4 (1.33%) Squid
7 4 (1.33%) Veritas File System
7 4 (1.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.00%) KVM
8 3 (1.00%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.67%) GPFS
9 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.33%) iptables
10 1 (0.33%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 113 (37.67%) Kubernetes
2 108 (36.00%) Terraform
3 65 (21.67%) Ansible
4 54 (18.00%) Grafana
5 49 (16.33%) Prometheus
6 19 (6.33%) Nmap
7 13 (4.33%) Jamf Pro
8 12 (4.00%) Nessus
9 10 (3.33%) Argo
9 10 (3.33%) Puppet
10 8 (2.67%) ITRS Geneos
11 7 (2.33%) Progress Chef
12 6 (2.00%) Istio
12 6 (2.00%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (1.67%) AirWatch
13 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (1.67%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (1.33%) NetBackup
14 4 (1.33%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 43 (14.33%) Splunk
2 36 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 24 (8.00%) VMware
5 23 (7.67%) Google
6 20 (6.67%) Oracle
7 18 (6.00%) ServiceNow
8 17 (5.67%) Cisco
8 17 (5.67%) Palo Alto
9 15 (5.00%) Qualys
9 15 (5.00%) Veracode
10 13 (4.33%) Databricks
10 13 (4.33%) F5
11 12 (4.00%) Apple
11 12 (4.00%) Zscaler
12 11 (3.67%) CheckPoint
12 11 (3.67%) SAP
13 10 (3.33%) Solace
14 9 (3.00%) CyberArk
15 8 (2.67%) CrowdStrike