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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 127 180
Rank change year-on-year -34 +53 -64
Contract jobs citing Bash 379 290 227
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 2.17% 1.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.93% 5.59% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 195 144
10th Percentile £377 £391 £400
25th Percentile £450 £457 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £639 £700
90th Percentile £725 £688 £810
England median daily rate £534 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.63% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £47.15 £45.00
25th Percentile £56.75 £49.25 £65.63
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% -18.55% +243.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.75 £112.00
90th Percentile - £63.05 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £42.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +67.06% -27.66% -21.67%

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 6,388 5,191 6,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.42% 38.82% 39.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,331 3,544 4,503
10th Percentile £375 £375 £370
25th Percentile £447 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £545
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 65 46
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.25 £25.99
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £37.58
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.90 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.51% -7.43% -17.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.25 £71.66
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.00 £97.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -34 21 £550 -12.00% 32
South London -4 6 £535 -13.71% 3
West London -23 6 £519 +9.21% 12
East London - 3 £400 - 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 21 (5.54%) Confluence
2 15 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.64%) Apache
5 4 (1.06%) WordPress
6 3 (0.79%) nginx
6 3 (0.79%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.53%) CMS
7 2 (0.53%) IIS
7 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.32%) Front Arena
1 5 (1.32%) Summit
2 1 (0.26%) Actimize
2 1 (0.26%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 180 (47.49%) AWS
2 163 (43.01%) Azure
3 112 (29.55%) GitHub
4 86 (22.69%) GitHub Actions
5 71 (18.73%) Azure DevOps
6 64 (16.89%) GCP
7 55 (14.51%) Amazon EKS
8 47 (12.40%) Amazon S3
9 43 (11.35%) Serverless
10 42 (11.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
11 36 (9.50%) Datadog
12 33 (8.71%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (8.18%) Entra ID
13 31 (8.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 30 (7.92%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (6.86%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
17 16 (4.22%) Azure AKS
18 15 (3.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (11.35%) Firewall
2 38 (10.03%) VPN
3 33 (8.71%) Network Security
4 32 (8.44%) DNS
5 25 (6.60%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.22%) WAN
7 10 (2.64%) SD-WAN
8 9 (2.37%) Kerberos
8 9 (2.37%) SAN
9 8 (2.11%) SSL
9 8 (2.11%) VLAN
10 7 (1.85%) BGP
10 7 (1.85%) DHCP
10 7 (1.85%) SSH
11 5 (1.32%) MPLS
12 4 (1.06%) 4G
12 4 (1.06%) 5G
12 4 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (1.06%) Cisco Firepower
13 3 (0.79%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (5.80%) SQL Server
3 20 (5.28%) Redis
4 16 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (3.43%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.90%) MySQL
7 11 (2.90%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.11%) Delta Lake
8 8 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.11%) Metadata
9 7 (1.85%) Power BI
9 7 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.58%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.58%) SQLite
11 5 (1.32%) Big Data
12 4 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 112 (29.55%) Jenkins
2 99 (26.12%) Git
3 82 (21.64%) GitLab
4 24 (6.33%) JIRA
5 16 (4.22%) Artifactory
6 11 (2.90%) Bitbucket
7 10 (2.64%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.85%) JMeter
9 6 (1.58%) Maven
9 6 (1.58%) Postman
9 6 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.06%) Subversion
11 4 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (1.06%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.79%) Selenium
12 3 (0.79%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.53%) Snyk
13 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 100 (26.39%) Finance
2 86 (22.69%) Social Skills
3 53 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (12.40%) Banking
5 32 (8.44%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.43%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.11%) Law
8 7 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.58%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.58%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.58%) Retail
10 5 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.32%) Front Office
10 5 (1.32%) Publishing
11 4 (1.06%) Automotive
11 4 (1.06%) Marketing
11 4 (1.06%) Military
12 2 (0.53%) Billing
12 2 (0.53%) Police
13 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (22.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (13.19%) Senior
3 32 (8.44%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
4 30 (7.92%) Azure Engineer
5 29 (7.65%) Platform Engineer
6 27 (7.12%) Lead
6 27 (7.12%) Security Engineer
7 25 (6.60%) Linux Engineer
8 24 (6.33%) Developer
9 20 (5.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 20 (5.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 19 (5.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (5.01%) Senior DevOps
11 18 (4.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 18 (4.75%) Site Engineer
12 17 (4.49%) Architect
12 17 (4.49%) Automation Engineer
12 17 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
12 17 (4.49%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (56.99%) Terraform
2 46 (12.14%) Kafka
3 29 (7.65%) REST
4 23 (6.07%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (5.54%) Middleware
6 17 (4.49%) YAML
7 16 (4.22%) ARM Templates
8 15 (3.96%) Loki
8 15 (3.96%) RESTful
9 14 (3.69%) JSON
10 11 (2.90%) .NET
10 11 (2.90%) Flask
11 10 (2.64%) Spring
12 9 (2.37%) CSS
12 9 (2.37%) HTML
12 9 (2.37%) React
13 8 (2.11%) pytest
14 7 (1.85%) ADO
14 7 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
14 7 (1.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.30%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.33%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (5.28%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.69%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (3.43%) Legacy Applications
6 13 (3.43%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.17%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.17%) Security Posture
8 11 (2.90%) PKI
9 9 (2.37%) Replication
10 8 (2.11%) Enterprise Storage
10 8 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.58%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.58%) Equities
11 6 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.32%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 173 (45.65%) Linux
2 62 (16.36%) Windows
3 35 (9.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (8.44%) Windows Server
5 30 (7.92%) Unix
6 21 (5.54%) Ubuntu
7 10 (2.64%) VMS
8 6 (1.58%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.53%) Debian
9 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.26%) CentOS
10 1 (0.26%) Solaris
10 1 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (63.32%) CI/CD
2 218 (57.52%) DevOps
3 205 (54.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 106 (27.97%) Containerisation
5 105 (27.70%) Observability
6 76 (20.05%) Agile
7 70 (18.47%) Platform Engineering
8 69 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
9 66 (17.41%) AI
10 64 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (16.36%) Root Cause Analysis
12 52 (13.72%) Infrastructure Automation
13 51 (13.46%) Cloud Security
14 48 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 48 (12.66%) Runbook
14 48 (12.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 44 (11.61%) Configuration Management
15 44 (11.61%) Migration
16 42 (11.08%) Stakeholder Management
17 41 (10.82%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 323 (85.22%) Python
2 158 (41.69%) PowerShell
3 52 (13.72%) SQL
4 50 (13.19%) Java
5 39 (10.29%) Go
6 32 (8.44%) Bicep
7 28 (7.39%) Shell Script
8 19 (5.01%) Korn
9 15 (3.96%) Perl
10 12 (3.17%) Groovy
10 12 (3.17%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.11%) Ruby
12 7 (1.85%) C#
12 7 (1.85%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.79%) Cypher
13 3 (0.79%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.79%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.53%) R
14 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (31.66%) Security Cleared
2 103 (27.18%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.60%) Degree
4 24 (6.33%) Azure Certification
5 20 (5.28%) AWS Certification
6 17 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.17%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.37%) CISSP
9 6 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.06%) CCNP
10 4 (1.06%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.06%) JNCIS
11 3 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.53%) CISM
12 2 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.53%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.39%) QA
2 17 (4.49%) NIST
3 15 (3.96%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.06%) SLA
7 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.79%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.53%) GDPR
9 1 (0.26%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 140 (36.94%) Docker
2 32 (8.44%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.11%) Squid
6 5 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.06%) vSphere
8 3 (0.79%) HDFS
8 3 (0.79%) NFS
8 3 (0.79%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.79%) Postfix
8 3 (0.79%) Varnish
8 3 (0.79%) zsh
9 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.53%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.26%) KVM
10 1 (0.26%) QEMU
10 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 171 (45.12%) Kubernetes
2 126 (33.25%) Ansible
3 107 (28.23%) Grafana
4 89 (23.48%) Prometheus
5 21 (5.54%) Puppet
6 19 (5.01%) Argo
7 12 (3.17%) systemd
8 11 (2.90%) Kibana
9 10 (2.64%) Istio
10 7 (1.85%) Cilium
11 6 (1.58%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (1.58%) Progress Chef
12 5 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (1.06%) Consul
13 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.06%) Salt
13 4 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.06%) Suricata
14 3 (0.79%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.79%) yum
Vendors
1 70 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.92%) Dynatrace
2 30 (7.92%) Google
3 27 (7.12%) Splunk
3 27 (7.12%) VMware
4 25 (6.60%) Oracle
5 19 (5.01%) ServiceNow
6 17 (4.49%) CyberArk
6 17 (4.49%) Databricks
7 15 (3.96%) Red Hat
8 14 (3.69%) Cisco
9 13 (3.43%) Palo Alto
10 11 (2.90%) NetApp
11 10 (2.64%) Fortinet
12 9 (2.37%) BeyondTrust
12 9 (2.37%) WALLIX
13 7 (1.85%) Murex
13 7 (1.85%) Zscaler
14 6 (1.58%) Apple
14 6 (1.58%) FIS