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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 142 183
Rank change year-on-year -33 +41 -60
Contract jobs citing Bash 243 242 234
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.51% 1.84% 1.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.29% 4.71% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 146 155
10th Percentile £400 £378 £413
25th Percentile £461 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £578 £565
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.21% -9.96%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £688
90th Percentile £750 £810 £738
England median daily rate £511 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -11.09% +4.55% -8.33%
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 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +29.15% -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 5,663 5,138 6,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.25% 39.05% 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,831 3,452 4,784
10th Percentile £363 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -4.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £699 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £801
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 35 67
10th Percentile £19.09 £31.60 £26.06
25th Percentile £39.34 £37.43 £38.46
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.89% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.50 £62.38 £62.13
90th Percentile £79.63 £93.75 £71.00
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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -37 16 £538 -1.15% 25
South London -10 9 £530 - 3
West London - 3 - - 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 12 (4.94%) Confluence
2 7 (2.88%) nginx
3 5 (2.06%) Apache
3 5 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.23%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.23%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.82%) Traefik
5 2 (0.82%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.82%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.41%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.41%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 106 (43.62%) AWS
2 84 (34.57%) Azure
3 51 (20.99%) GitHub
4 44 (18.11%) GCP
5 36 (14.81%) Amazon S3
6 34 (13.99%) Amazon EKS
7 33 (13.58%) Amazon EC2
8 31 (12.76%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (12.35%) Serverless
10 28 (11.52%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (10.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 24 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (9.05%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (7.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (5.35%) Entra ID
17 12 (4.94%) Azure AKS
18 11 (4.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 10 (4.12%) OpenShift
20 9 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.70%) DNS
1 26 (10.70%) Firewall
2 24 (9.88%) TCP/IP
3 15 (6.17%) VPN
4 13 (5.35%) Network Security
5 10 (4.12%) SSL
6 8 (3.29%) VLAN
7 7 (2.88%) Wireshark
8 6 (2.47%) DHCP
8 6 (2.47%) HTTP
8 6 (2.47%) Multicast
9 4 (1.65%) BGP
9 4 (1.65%) tcpdump
10 3 (1.23%) OSPF
10 3 (1.23%) WAN
11 2 (0.82%) EIGRP
11 2 (0.82%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.82%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.82%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.40%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (9.47%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (5.35%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.53%) Data Lake
4 11 (4.53%) Redis
5 9 (3.70%) MySQL
5 9 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.29%) Delta Lake
7 7 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.88%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.06%) Big Data
9 5 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.65%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.65%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.23%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 64 (26.34%) GitLab
2 59 (24.28%) Jenkins
3 53 (21.81%) Git
4 19 (7.82%) JIRA
5 9 (3.70%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.47%) Metasploit
7 5 (2.06%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.06%) Burp Suite
7 5 (2.06%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.06%) Gradle
7 5 (2.06%) Maven
8 4 (1.65%) MLflow
8 4 (1.65%) sqlmap
9 3 (1.23%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (1.23%) Snyk
9 3 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.23%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.82%) Chocolatey
10 2 (0.82%) Selenium
10 2 (0.82%) Subversion
General
1 58 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (13.99%) Finance
3 28 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.94%) Banking
5 10 (4.12%) Retail
6 4 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.65%) Front Office
6 4 (1.65%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.82%) Private Banking
8 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.41%) Games
9 1 (0.41%) Legal
9 1 (0.41%) Local Government
9 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (16.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (12.35%) Platform Engineer
3 27 (11.11%) Senior
4 18 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (6.17%) Architect
6 14 (5.76%) Developer
7 13 (5.35%) Lead
7 13 (5.35%) Security Engineer
8 12 (4.94%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (4.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.53%) Network Engineer
9 11 (4.53%) Site Engineer
9 11 (4.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 10 (4.12%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.12%) GCP Engineer
11 9 (3.70%) Analyst
11 9 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (3.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.29%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.23%) Kafka
2 10 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (3.70%) Middleware
4 6 (2.47%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.06%) FastAPI
5 5 (2.06%) Node.js
5 5 (2.06%) YAML
6 4 (1.65%) ADO
6 4 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (1.65%) Keycloak
6 4 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.65%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.65%) REST
6 4 (1.65%) Ultra Messaging
7 3 (1.23%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.23%) HTML
7 3 (1.23%) SAML
8 2 (0.82%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.82%) OpenID
8 2 (0.82%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.52%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.53%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (4.53%) Security Posture
4 7 (2.88%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.88%) Replication
5 6 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.65%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.65%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.23%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.23%) PKI
7 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.82%) Clustering
8 2 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.82%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.82%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 106 (43.62%) Linux
2 29 (11.93%) Windows
3 24 (9.88%) Unix
4 20 (8.23%) Mac OS
5 14 (5.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.88%) VMS
7 6 (2.47%) Solaris
8 5 (2.06%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.65%) CentOS
10 3 (1.23%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.41%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (53.91%) CI/CD
2 125 (51.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 111 (45.68%) DevOps
4 69 (28.40%) Containerisation
5 56 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (18.11%) Platform Engineering
7 41 (16.87%) Observability
8 38 (15.64%) Agile
9 37 (15.23%) Incident Response
10 31 (12.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (12.76%) High Availability
11 29 (11.93%) Configuration Management
12 27 (11.11%) Analytics
13 25 (10.29%) AI
14 24 (9.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (9.47%) DevSecOps
16 21 (8.64%) Infrastructure Automation
16 21 (8.64%) Test Automation
17 20 (8.23%) Cloud Security
17 20 (8.23%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 205 (84.36%) Python
2 87 (35.80%) PowerShell
3 31 (12.76%) SQL
4 17 (7.00%) Java
5 16 (6.58%) Go
6 14 (5.76%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (4.53%) Perl
8 8 (3.29%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.88%) Bicep
9 7 (2.88%) Groovy
10 6 (2.47%) C
10 6 (2.47%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.65%) C++
12 3 (1.23%) C#
12 3 (1.23%) PHP
12 3 (1.23%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.82%) Ruby
13 2 (0.82%) Rust
13 2 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 72 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 63 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.76%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.94%) Degree
5 8 (3.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.29%) OSCP
6 7 (2.88%) GPEN
7 6 (2.47%) CCNA
7 6 (2.47%) CCNP
7 6 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.47%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.47%) PhD
8 4 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.65%) CEH
8 4 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.65%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.88%) NIST
2 6 (2.47%) GDPR
3 5 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.82%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.82%) QA
6 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.41%) NCSC
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.41%) SLA
6 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 92 (37.86%) Docker
2 11 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.65%) Squid
6 3 (1.23%) KVM
6 3 (1.23%) NFS
6 3 (1.23%) Snort
6 3 (1.23%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.23%) vSphere
6 3 (1.23%) zsh
7 2 (0.82%) Ceph
7 2 (0.82%) Firmware
7 2 (0.82%) Lustre
7 2 (0.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.82%) Xen
8 1 (0.41%) GPFS
8 1 (0.41%) HDFS
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.41%) Samba
Systems Management
1 129 (53.09%) Terraform
2 91 (37.45%) Kubernetes
3 82 (33.74%) Ansible
4 42 (17.28%) Grafana
5 38 (15.64%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.53%) Argo
6 11 (4.53%) Puppet
7 9 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (3.29%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (2.88%) Nessus
10 5 (2.06%) Istio
10 5 (2.06%) Nagios
10 5 (2.06%) Nmap
10 5 (2.06%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.06%) Rancher
11 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.65%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (1.23%) HAProxy
12 3 (1.23%) SCCM
12 3 (1.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.52%) Splunk
3 20 (8.23%) Google
4 15 (6.17%) Red Hat
5 12 (4.94%) Databricks
6 10 (4.12%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.70%) Atlassian
7 9 (3.70%) Qualys
7 9 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.70%) VMware
8 8 (3.29%) Cisco
8 8 (3.29%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.88%) Apple
9 7 (2.88%) F5
9 7 (2.88%) Oracle
10 6 (2.47%) PagerDuty
10 6 (2.47%) Tenable
10 6 (2.47%) Zscaler
11 5 (2.06%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.06%) CrowdStrike