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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 146 175
Rank change year-on-year -29 +29 -54
Contract jobs citing Bash 247 243 241
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.56% 1.81% 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.40% 4.64% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 147 165
10th Percentile £400 £374 £413
25th Percentile £459 £448 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -9.38%
75th Percentile £650 £744 £688
90th Percentile £750 £810 £765
England median daily rate £509 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -10.79% +3.64% -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 5,616 5,236 6,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.37% 38.98% 34.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,791 3,495 4,817
10th Percentile £363 £374 £388
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £696 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 38 69
10th Percentile £19.19 £32.43 £25.78
25th Percentile £39.42 £38.15 £37.08
Median hourly rate £55.00 £47.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% -6.93% -12.17%
75th Percentile £67.10 £64.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £94.88 £72.10
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -32 16 £538 - 20
South London -11 9 £530 -
West London - 3 - - 2
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 (4.86%) Confluence
2 7 (2.83%) nginx
3 5 (2.02%) Apache
3 5 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.21%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.21%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.81%) Traefik
5 2 (0.81%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.81%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.40%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.40%) Pro Tools
1 1 (0.40%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 107 (43.32%) AWS
2 88 (35.63%) Azure
3 50 (20.24%) GitHub
4 45 (18.22%) GCP
5 36 (14.57%) Amazon S3
6 34 (13.77%) Amazon EKS
7 33 (13.36%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (12.15%) Serverless
9 27 (10.93%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (10.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 24 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (8.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (8.50%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (5.26%) Entra ID
16 11 (4.45%) Azure AKS
16 11 (4.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 10 (4.05%) OpenShift
18 9 (3.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.93%) DNS
2 26 (10.53%) Firewall
3 25 (10.12%) TCP/IP
4 15 (6.07%) VPN
5 13 (5.26%) Network Security
6 10 (4.05%) SSL
7 8 (3.24%) VLAN
8 7 (2.83%) Wireshark
9 6 (2.43%) DHCP
9 6 (2.43%) HTTP
9 6 (2.43%) Multicast
10 4 (1.62%) BGP
10 4 (1.62%) tcpdump
11 3 (1.21%) NAS
11 3 (1.21%) OSPF
11 3 (1.21%) WAN
12 2 (0.81%) EIGRP
12 2 (0.81%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.81%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.17%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (9.31%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (5.67%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.45%) Data Lake
4 11 (4.45%) Redis
5 9 (3.64%) MySQL
5 9 (3.64%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.24%) Delta Lake
7 7 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.43%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.02%) Big Data
9 5 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.62%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.62%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.62%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (25.91%) GitLab
2 58 (23.48%) Jenkins
3 54 (21.86%) Git
4 19 (7.69%) JIRA
5 9 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.43%) Metasploit
7 5 (2.02%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.02%) Burp Suite
7 5 (2.02%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.02%) Gradle
7 5 (2.02%) Maven
8 4 (1.62%) MLflow
8 4 (1.62%) sqlmap
9 3 (1.21%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (1.21%) Snyk
9 3 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.21%) Spinnaker
9 3 (1.21%) Subversion
10 2 (0.81%) Ant
10 2 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 59 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (12.55%) Finance
4 28 (11.34%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.45%) Banking
6 10 (4.05%) Retail
7 4 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.62%) Front Office
7 4 (1.62%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.81%) Private Banking
9 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.40%) Games
10 1 (0.40%) Legal
10 1 (0.40%) Local Government
10 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (16.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (11.34%) Platform Engineer
3 27 (10.93%) Senior
4 17 (6.88%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (6.07%) Architect
5 15 (6.07%) Developer
6 14 (5.67%) Security Engineer
7 12 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (4.86%) Lead
8 11 (4.45%) AWS DevOps
8 11 (4.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.45%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.45%) Network Engineer
8 11 (4.45%) Site Engineer
8 11 (4.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 10 (4.05%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (3.64%) Analyst
10 9 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.24%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.83%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.10%) Kafka
2 10 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (3.64%) Middleware
4 6 (2.43%) REST
5 5 (2.02%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.02%) FastAPI
5 5 (2.02%) Node.js
5 5 (2.02%) YAML
6 4 (1.62%) ADO
6 4 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (1.62%) Keycloak
6 4 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.62%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.62%) Ultra Messaging
7 3 (1.21%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.21%) HTML
7 3 (1.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 3 (1.21%) SAML
8 2 (0.81%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.81%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.93%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.86%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (4.45%) Security Posture
5 10 (4.05%) Replication
6 7 (2.83%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.62%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.62%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.21%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.21%) Clustering
9 3 (1.21%) PKI
9 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.81%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 107 (43.32%) Linux
2 29 (11.74%) Windows
3 24 (9.72%) Unix
4 20 (8.10%) Mac OS
5 15 (6.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.83%) Solaris
6 7 (2.83%) VMS
7 5 (2.02%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.62%) CentOS
9 3 (1.21%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (53.04%) CI/CD
2 124 (50.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 109 (44.13%) DevOps
4 70 (28.34%) Containerisation
5 55 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (16.60%) Observability
6 41 (16.60%) Platform Engineering
7 40 (16.19%) Agile
8 38 (15.38%) Incident Response
9 31 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (12.15%) High Availability
11 28 (11.34%) Configuration Management
12 26 (10.53%) Analytics
13 24 (9.72%) AI
13 24 (9.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (9.31%) DevSecOps
15 20 (8.10%) Cloud Security
15 20 (8.10%) Infrastructure Automation
15 20 (8.10%) Root Cause Analysis
15 20 (8.10%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 208 (84.21%) Python
2 88 (35.63%) PowerShell
3 33 (13.36%) SQL
4 17 (6.88%) Java
5 16 (6.48%) Go
6 15 (6.07%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (4.45%) Perl
8 9 (3.64%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.83%) Groovy
10 6 (2.43%) Bicep
10 6 (2.43%) C
10 6 (2.43%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.62%) C++
13 3 (1.21%) C#
13 3 (1.21%) PHP
13 3 (1.21%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.81%) Ruby
14 2 (0.81%) Rust
14 2 (0.81%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 73 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 64 (25.91%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.67%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.86%) Degree
5 8 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.24%) OSCP
6 7 (2.83%) GPEN
7 6 (2.43%) CCNA
7 6 (2.43%) CCNP
7 6 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.43%) PhD
8 4 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.62%) CEH
8 4 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.62%) RHCE
9 3 (1.21%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.83%) GDPR
1 7 (2.83%) NIST
2 6 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.81%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.40%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.40%) QA
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 92 (37.25%) Docker
2 11 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.62%) NFS
5 4 (1.62%) Squid
5 4 (1.62%) zsh
6 3 (1.21%) KVM
6 3 (1.21%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.21%) Snort
6 3 (1.21%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.21%) vSphere
7 2 (0.81%) Ceph
7 2 (0.81%) Firmware
7 2 (0.81%) Lustre
7 2 (0.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.81%) Veritas File System
7 2 (0.81%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.81%) Xen
Systems Management
1 127 (51.42%) Terraform
2 91 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 82 (33.20%) Ansible
4 41 (16.60%) Grafana
5 37 (14.98%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.45%) Argo
6 11 (4.45%) Puppet
7 9 (3.64%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (3.24%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (2.83%) Nessus
10 5 (2.02%) Istio
10 5 (2.02%) Nagios
10 5 (2.02%) Nmap
10 5 (2.02%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.02%) Rancher
10 5 (2.02%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.21%) Data Guard
12 3 (1.21%) HAProxy
12 3 (1.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.74%) Splunk
3 21 (8.50%) Google
4 16 (6.48%) Red Hat
5 12 (4.86%) Databricks
6 10 (4.05%) Palo Alto
6 10 (4.05%) Qualys
6 10 (4.05%) VMware
7 9 (3.64%) Atlassian
7 9 (3.64%) Dynatrace
7 9 (3.64%) Oracle
7 9 (3.64%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.24%) Cisco
9 7 (2.83%) Apple
9 7 (2.83%) F5
10 6 (2.43%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (2.43%) PagerDuty
10 6 (2.43%) Tenable
10 6 (2.43%) Zscaler
11 5 (2.02%) CheckPoint