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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 151 195
Rank change year-on-year -53 +44 -85
Contract jobs citing Bash 218 227 213
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.22% 1.81% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.82% 4.56% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 145 133
10th Percentile £399 £418 £375
25th Percentile £450 £455 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £623 £688 £600
90th Percentile £741 £765 £698
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £57.20 - £21.25
25th Percentile £57.88 £45.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £54.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.01% +115.84% -30.34%
75th Percentile £62.88 £63.25 £61.84
90th Percentile £63.40 - £71.88
England median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -15.13%

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 5,708 4,981 6,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 32.06% 39.63% 36.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,867 3,502 4,899
10th Percentile £363 £378 £380
25th Percentile £431 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £825
England median daily rate £507 £525 £542
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.05% -4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 31 55
10th Percentile £34.35 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.75 £35.00 £34.42
Median hourly rate £58.94 £43.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.06% -14.85% -12.17%
75th Percentile £73.00 £60.13 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £71.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.56%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -31 19 £523 -11.44% 26
South London -8 9 £530 - 1
West London - 2 £500 - 4
East London - 2 £416 - 3
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 (3.67%) Confluence
2 6 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.29%) Apache
4 4 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.38%) nginx
5 3 (1.38%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.46%) CMS
7 1 (0.46%) FileNet
7 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.46%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 98 (44.95%) AWS
2 90 (41.28%) Azure
3 54 (24.77%) GitHub
4 45 (20.64%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (16.51%) GCP
6 31 (14.22%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (13.30%) Amazon S3
8 27 (12.39%) Serverless
9 25 (11.47%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (11.47%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (10.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (10.09%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (8.72%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (8.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (6.42%) Azure AKS
15 13 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (5.05%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (4.59%) Entra ID
17 10 (4.59%) OpenShift
18 9 (4.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.39%) Firewall
2 23 (10.55%) DNS
3 20 (9.17%) TCP/IP
3 20 (9.17%) VPN
4 14 (6.42%) Network Security
5 8 (3.67%) VLAN
5 8 (3.67%) WAN
6 7 (3.21%) HTTP
6 7 (3.21%) SD-WAN
7 5 (2.29%) DHCP
8 4 (1.83%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (1.83%) SSH
8 4 (1.83%) SSL
9 3 (1.38%) NAS
9 3 (1.38%) SAN
10 2 (0.92%) IPsec
10 2 (0.92%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.92%) Multicast
10 2 (0.92%) Spanning Tree
10 2 (0.92%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.72%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.88%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (4.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (4.13%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.29%) Big Data
5 5 (2.29%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.29%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.29%) Redis
6 4 (1.83%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (1.83%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.83%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.83%) MySQL
7 3 (1.38%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.92%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.92%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 53 (24.31%) GitLab
2 52 (23.85%) Jenkins
3 51 (23.39%) Git
4 11 (5.05%) JIRA
5 6 (2.75%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.29%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.38%) Ant
7 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.38%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.38%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.38%) Snyk
8 2 (0.92%) Appium
8 2 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.92%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.92%) JMeter
8 2 (0.92%) MLflow
8 2 (0.92%) Postman
8 2 (0.92%) Selenium
8 2 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.46%) Spinnaker
General
1 45 (20.64%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.06%) Finance
3 28 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.93%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.05%) Banking
6 7 (3.21%) Retail
7 6 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.92%) Law
10 2 (0.92%) Military
10 2 (0.92%) Police
11 1 (0.46%) Back Office
11 1 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Front Office
11 1 (0.46%) Games
11 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.46%) Legal
11 1 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 37 (16.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (12.84%) Platform Engineer
3 24 (11.01%) Security Engineer
4 18 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (7.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (7.34%) Senior
6 14 (6.42%) Architect
7 11 (5.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 11 (5.05%) Site Engineer
8 10 (4.59%) Data Engineer
8 10 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (4.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.13%) Developer
9 9 (4.13%) Lead
10 8 (3.67%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (3.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.67%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (3.21%) Linux Engineer
11 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.34%) Kafka
2 11 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (4.59%) YAML
4 8 (3.67%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.21%) SAML
6 6 (2.75%) JSON
6 6 (2.75%) OAuth
7 5 (2.29%) ADO
7 5 (2.29%) REST
8 4 (1.83%) LDAP
9 3 (1.38%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.38%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.38%) Swagger
9 3 (1.38%) WebSphere MQ
10 2 (0.92%) CrewAI
10 2 (0.92%) Faiss
10 2 (0.92%) LangChain
10 2 (0.92%) pgvector
10 2 (0.92%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.92%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.30%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (2.29%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.29%) Security Posture
4 4 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.38%) PKI
6 2 (0.92%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.92%) NHS
6 2 (0.92%) PACS
6 2 (0.92%) Pricing Data
6 2 (0.92%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.92%) Reference Data
6 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 84 (38.53%) Linux
2 24 (11.01%) Windows
3 15 (6.88%) Unix
4 10 (4.59%) Mac OS
5 7 (3.21%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.21%) VMS
6 6 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.38%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.92%) CentOS
8 2 (0.92%) Debian
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.46%) Rocky
9 1 (0.46%) Solaris
9 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (58.72%) CI/CD
2 111 (50.92%) DevOps
3 107 (49.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (29.82%) Containerisation
5 49 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (21.10%) Platform Engineering
7 39 (17.89%) Observability
8 36 (16.51%) Configuration Management
9 31 (14.22%) Agile
10 27 (12.39%) Analytics
11 26 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (10.55%) Cloud Security
13 22 (10.09%) Incident Response
14 21 (9.63%) SIEM
15 20 (9.17%) Test Automation
16 19 (8.72%) High Availability
16 19 (8.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 18 (8.26%) AI
17 18 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
18 17 (7.80%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 188 (86.24%) Python
2 89 (40.83%) PowerShell
3 26 (11.93%) SQL
4 15 (6.88%) Java
5 13 (5.96%) Go
6 12 (5.50%) Bicep
7 9 (4.13%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (2.75%) C
8 6 (2.75%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.75%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.83%) Perl
9 4 (1.83%) Ruby
10 2 (0.92%) C#
10 2 (0.92%) C++
10 2 (0.92%) Groovy
10 2 (0.92%) PHP
10 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.92%) Rust
10 2 (0.92%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.46%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 65 (29.82%) Security Cleared
2 58 (26.61%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.88%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.59%) Degree
5 9 (4.13%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.21%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.75%) CCNA
9 5 (2.29%) CCNP
9 5 (2.29%) CISSP
9 5 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.92%) CEH
12 2 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.59%) NIST
2 7 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.29%) QA
4 4 (1.83%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.83%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.38%) GDPR
6 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.92%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (33.03%) Docker
2 13 (5.96%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (5.50%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.83%) Squid
6 3 (1.38%) KVM
6 3 (1.38%) NFS
6 3 (1.38%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.38%) vSphere
7 2 (0.92%) Ceph
7 2 (0.92%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.92%) Lustre
7 2 (0.92%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.92%) Postfix
7 2 (0.92%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.92%) Varnish
7 2 (0.92%) Xen
8 1 (0.46%) Samba
8 1 (0.46%) Snort
Systems Management
1 123 (56.42%) Terraform
2 78 (35.78%) Ansible
3 77 (35.32%) Kubernetes
4 41 (18.81%) Grafana
5 37 (16.97%) Prometheus
6 16 (7.34%) Puppet
7 9 (4.13%) Argo
8 8 (3.67%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.83%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.83%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.83%) Salt
11 3 (1.38%) Istio
11 3 (1.38%) Kibana
11 3 (1.38%) Nagios
11 3 (1.38%) Rancher
11 3 (1.38%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.92%) Consul
12 2 (0.92%) Knative
Vendors
1 32 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.17%) Splunk
3 14 (6.42%) Databricks
4 11 (5.05%) Google
4 11 (5.05%) Zscaler
5 9 (4.13%) Palo Alto
5 9 (4.13%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.67%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.21%) VMware
8 6 (2.75%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.75%) PagerDuty
9 5 (2.29%) Cisco
9 5 (2.29%) Oracle
9 5 (2.29%) Qualys
10 4 (1.83%) Tenable
11 3 (1.38%) Dell
11 3 (1.38%) IBM
11 3 (1.38%) Netskope
11 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.38%) Pure Storage