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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 143 192
Rank change year-on-year -34 +49 -90
Contract jobs citing Bash 323 271 220
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.61% 2.02% 1.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.13% 5.24% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 187 151
10th Percentile £392 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £727 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £47.15 £21.40
25th Percentile £56.75 £49.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +96.49% +42.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.75 £52.81
90th Percentile - £63.05 £71.88
England median hourly rate £71.00 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +29.09% -4.35% -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 6,302 5,169 6,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.41% 38.48% 39.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,238 3,609 4,799
10th Percentile £383 £370 £375
25th Percentile £450 £427 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 59 42
10th Percentile £31.03 £26.31 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £32.50 £31.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £43.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -8.42% -24.60%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.38 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% +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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -21 21 £550 -2.65% 11
South London -3 5 £535 -13.71% 1
West London -20 5 £500 +5.26% 8
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 18 (5.57%) Confluence
2 11 (3.41%) Apache
3 10 (3.10%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.24%) WordPress
6 3 (0.93%) nginx
7 2 (0.62%) CMS
7 2 (0.62%) IIS
7 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.62%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.31%) JBoss
8 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.31%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Actimize
1 1 (0.31%) Front Arena
1 1 (0.31%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 1 (0.31%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 157 (48.61%) AWS
2 150 (46.44%) Azure
3 95 (29.41%) GitHub
4 74 (22.91%) GitHub Actions
5 69 (21.36%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (17.96%) GCP
7 46 (14.24%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (13.93%) Amazon S3
9 40 (12.38%) Serverless
10 38 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (10.22%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (10.22%) Datadog
12 32 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (9.60%) Entra ID
14 30 (9.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 30 (9.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 23 (7.12%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (6.50%) Azure AKS
17 16 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
18 15 (4.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (13.62%) Firewall
2 40 (12.38%) DNS
3 38 (11.76%) VPN
4 30 (9.29%) Network Security
5 27 (8.36%) TCP/IP
6 15 (4.64%) WAN
7 12 (3.72%) VLAN
8 10 (3.10%) SD-WAN
9 8 (2.48%) SSL
10 7 (2.17%) DHCP
11 6 (1.86%) BGP
11 6 (1.86%) HTTP
12 5 (1.55%) SAN
13 4 (1.24%) MPLS
13 4 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (0.93%) Internet
14 3 (0.93%) Kerberos
14 3 (0.93%) NAS
14 3 (0.93%) SSH
14 3 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.57%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (3.72%) Redis
5 11 (3.41%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.48%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (2.17%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.86%) Metadata
8 6 (1.86%) MySQL
9 5 (1.55%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.55%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.55%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.55%) Power BI
10 4 (1.24%) Big Data
11 3 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 100 (30.96%) Jenkins
2 81 (25.08%) Git
3 76 (23.53%) GitLab
4 20 (6.19%) JIRA
5 13 (4.02%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.48%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.17%) JMeter
8 6 (1.86%) Postman
9 5 (1.55%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.93%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.62%) Maven
11 2 (0.62%) Subversion
11 2 (0.62%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.62%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.31%) Gatling
12 1 (0.31%) Snyk
12 1 (0.31%) VersionOne
12 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 81 (25.08%) Finance
2 76 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 42 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (10.53%) Banking
5 30 (9.29%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.48%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.17%) Law
8 6 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.55%) Front Office
9 5 (1.55%) Publishing
9 5 (1.55%) Retail
10 4 (1.24%) Automotive
10 4 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.24%) Military
11 3 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.62%) Billing
12 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.62%) Police
13 1 (0.31%) Games
13 1 (0.31%) Legal
Job Titles
1 77 (23.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (11.46%) Senior
3 33 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 32 (9.91%) Azure Engineer
5 25 (7.74%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (7.74%) Platform Engineer
6 24 (7.43%) Lead
6 24 (7.43%) Security Engineer
7 20 (6.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.57%) Architect
9 17 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 16 (4.95%) Linux Engineer
11 15 (4.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 15 (4.64%) Site Engineer
12 13 (4.02%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (4.02%) Developer
13 12 (3.72%) Applications Support
13 12 (3.72%) Network Engineer
13 12 (3.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (60.37%) Terraform
2 31 (9.60%) Kafka
3 19 (5.88%) ARM Templates
3 19 (5.88%) REST
4 17 (5.26%) YAML
5 14 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (3.41%) JSON
7 10 (3.10%) Loki
7 10 (3.10%) RESTful
7 10 (3.10%) SAML
8 9 (2.79%) .NET
8 9 (2.79%) Middleware
9 8 (2.48%) OAuth
10 6 (1.86%) cloud-init
10 6 (1.86%) Spring
10 6 (1.86%) Swagger
11 4 (1.24%) 802.1X
11 4 (1.24%) ADO
11 4 (1.24%) HTML
11 4 (1.24%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.72%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (4.95%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.72%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.41%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.10%) Legacy Applications
7 10 (3.10%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.79%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.48%) PKI
10 6 (1.86%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.86%) Equities
10 6 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.55%) Robotics
11 5 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.24%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.24%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 131 (40.56%) Linux
2 51 (15.79%) Windows
3 27 (8.36%) Windows Server
4 25 (7.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (7.12%) Unix
6 22 (6.81%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.79%) VMS
8 5 (1.55%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.62%) Debian
9 2 (0.62%) Solaris
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.31%) CentOS
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.31%) Rocky
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (63.78%) CI/CD
2 194 (60.06%) DevOps
3 179 (55.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (29.10%) Containerisation
5 78 (24.15%) Observability
6 62 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (18.58%) Platform Engineering
8 54 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (14.86%) Agile
10 47 (14.55%) AI
11 43 (13.31%) Cloud Security
11 43 (13.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 41 (12.69%) Root Cause Analysis
13 39 (12.07%) Configuration Management
13 39 (12.07%) Runbook
14 38 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
14 38 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
14 38 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 34 (10.53%) Migration
16 33 (10.22%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 274 (84.83%) Python
2 138 (42.72%) PowerShell
3 32 (9.91%) Java
3 32 (9.91%) SQL
4 29 (8.98%) Bicep
5 27 (8.36%) Go
6 14 (4.33%) Shell Script
7 12 (3.72%) Perl
8 8 (2.48%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.17%) Groovy
9 7 (2.17%) Korn
10 6 (1.86%) C#
10 6 (1.86%) Ruby
11 3 (0.93%) Cypher
11 3 (0.93%) Gremlin
11 3 (0.93%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.62%) C
12 2 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.62%) R
13 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (31.89%) Security Cleared
2 89 (27.55%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.36%) Azure Certification
4 19 (5.88%) Degree
5 18 (5.57%) AWS Certification
6 12 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.48%) CCNP
9 7 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.17%) CISSP
10 6 (1.86%) CCNA
11 5 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.24%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.24%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.62%) CCSP
14 2 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.88%) QA
2 10 (3.10%) NIST
3 9 (2.79%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.86%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.93%) SLA
6 3 (0.93%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 115 (35.60%) Docker
2 32 (9.91%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.48%) Squid
6 5 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.24%) NFS
7 4 (1.24%) Postfix
7 4 (1.24%) Varnish
7 4 (1.24%) vSphere
8 3 (0.93%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.93%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.93%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.62%) HDFS
9 2 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.62%) zsh
10 1 (0.31%) KVM
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.31%) QEMU
10 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 148 (45.82%) Kubernetes
2 107 (33.13%) Ansible
3 93 (28.79%) Grafana
4 78 (24.15%) Prometheus
5 25 (7.74%) Puppet
6 16 (4.95%) Argo
7 12 (3.72%) systemd
8 11 (3.41%) Progress Chef
9 9 (2.79%) Istio
9 9 (2.79%) Kibana
10 7 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.86%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (1.55%) Salt
13 4 (1.24%) HAProxy
13 4 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.24%) Suricata
14 3 (0.93%) Consul
14 3 (0.93%) Packer
14 3 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (19.20%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.05%) VMware
3 23 (7.12%) Dynatrace
4 22 (6.81%) Google
4 22 (6.81%) Oracle
5 20 (6.19%) Databricks
6 18 (5.57%) Splunk
7 16 (4.95%) CyberArk
8 11 (3.41%) Cisco
8 11 (3.41%) Red Hat
8 11 (3.41%) ServiceNow
9 10 (3.10%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.10%) Zscaler
10 9 (2.79%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (2.79%) WALLIX
11 8 (2.48%) Fortinet
12 7 (2.17%) NetApp
13 5 (1.55%) Apple
14 4 (1.24%) Juniper
14 4 (1.24%) Meraki