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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 154 188
Rank change year-on-year -43 +34 -70
Contract jobs citing Bash 221 235 228
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.34% 1.84% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.91% 4.71% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 146 150
10th Percentile £404 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +1.36% -12.35%
75th Percentile £631 £738 £645
90th Percentile £754 £804 £725
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
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% -27.50%
75th Percentile £58.50 £112.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.65 - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +32.02% -13.46% -4.06%

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 5,658 4,986 6,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 34.42% 39.01% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,822 3,431 4,817
10th Percentile £363 £375 £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 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £813
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.42% -6.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 33 61
10th Percentile £18.81 £29.91 £25.79
25th Percentile £39.42 £38.25 £39.85
Median hourly rate £54.50 £46.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.20% -7.92% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.50 £63.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £93.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -40 15 £515 -4.19% 32
South London -9 9 £530 -
West London - 1 - - 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 13 (5.88%) Confluence
2 7 (3.17%) nginx
3 5 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.36%) Apache
4 3 (1.36%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.36%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.36%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) FileNet
6 1 (0.45%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.45%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 95 (42.99%) AWS
2 78 (35.29%) Azure
3 50 (22.62%) GitHub
4 37 (16.74%) GCP
5 34 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (14.93%) Amazon EKS
7 32 (14.48%) Amazon S3
8 30 (13.57%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (13.57%) Serverless
9 25 (11.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (11.31%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (10.86%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (9.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (9.50%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (6.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (4.52%) Azure AKS
14 10 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (4.52%) OpenShift
15 9 (4.07%) Snowflake
16 8 (3.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.95%) TCP/IP
2 20 (9.05%) Firewall
3 19 (8.60%) DNS
4 10 (4.52%) Network Security
4 10 (4.52%) VPN
5 7 (3.17%) HTTP
5 7 (3.17%) VLAN
6 6 (2.71%) DHCP
6 6 (2.71%) Multicast
6 6 (2.71%) Wireshark
7 4 (1.81%) tcpdump
8 3 (1.36%) SSL
8 3 (1.36%) WAN
9 2 (0.90%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.90%) NAS
9 2 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.90%) SAN
9 2 (0.90%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.90%) Spanning Tree
9 2 (0.90%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.67%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (9.95%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (4.98%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.52%) Redis
5 9 (4.07%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.07%) MySQL
5 9 (4.07%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.17%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.71%) Delta Lake
8 5 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.26%) Big Data
8 5 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.81%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.36%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 55 (24.89%) Jenkins
2 53 (23.98%) GitLab
3 49 (22.17%) Git
4 17 (7.69%) JIRA
5 9 (4.07%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.26%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.26%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.81%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (1.81%) MLflow
8 3 (1.36%) Ant
8 3 (1.36%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.36%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (1.36%) Snyk
9 2 (0.90%) Appium
9 2 (0.90%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.90%) Gradle
9 2 (0.90%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.90%) Selenium
9 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.45%) Spinnaker
General
1 57 (25.79%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.38%) Finance
3 31 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (13.57%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.88%) Banking
6 10 (4.52%) Retail
7 4 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.81%) Front Office
7 4 (1.81%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.90%) Private Banking
8 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Games
9 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (14.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (14.03%) Platform Engineer
3 19 (8.60%) Senior
4 16 (7.24%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (6.79%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (6.79%) Lead
6 13 (5.88%) Architect
7 12 (5.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
8 11 (4.98%) Security Engineer
9 10 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (4.52%) Site Engineer
9 10 (4.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (4.07%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.07%) Data Engineer
11 8 (3.62%) Analyst
11 8 (3.62%) Developer
11 8 (3.62%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (3.62%) Microsoft Engineer
11 8 (3.62%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.14%) Kafka
2 11 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (3.17%) Middleware
4 5 (2.26%) ADO
4 5 (2.26%) FastAPI
5 4 (1.81%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.81%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (1.81%) Node.js
5 4 (1.81%) OAuth
5 4 (1.81%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.81%) PyTorch
5 4 (1.81%) SAML
5 4 (1.81%) Ultra Messaging
5 4 (1.81%) YAML
6 3 (1.36%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.36%) LDAP
6 3 (1.36%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (0.90%) CrewAI
7 2 (0.90%) LangChain
7 2 (0.90%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.05%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.71%) Algorithms
3 6 (2.71%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.26%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.26%) Replication
5 4 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.81%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.81%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.36%) Blockchain
6 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.36%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (0.90%) NHS
7 2 (0.90%) PACS
7 2 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 92 (41.63%) Linux
2 27 (12.22%) Windows
3 18 (8.14%) Mac OS
3 18 (8.14%) Unix
4 8 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.17%) VMS
6 4 (1.81%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.81%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.90%) Solaris
8 1 (0.45%) CentOS
8 1 (0.45%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.45%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 110 (49.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 99 (44.80%) DevOps
4 64 (28.96%) Containerisation
5 51 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (19.91%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (17.19%) Observability
8 31 (14.03%) Agile
9 30 (13.57%) Configuration Management
9 30 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (12.67%) Incident Response
11 26 (11.76%) Analytics
12 25 (11.31%) High Availability
13 24 (10.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (10.41%) AI
15 19 (8.60%) Roadmaps
16 18 (8.14%) Test Automation
17 17 (7.69%) Cloud Security
17 17 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
17 17 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 185 (83.71%) Python
2 83 (37.56%) PowerShell
3 30 (13.57%) SQL
4 15 (6.79%) Java
5 12 (5.43%) Go
5 12 (5.43%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (3.62%) Bicep
6 8 (3.62%) Perl
7 6 (2.71%) C
7 6 (2.71%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.26%) Groovy
8 5 (2.26%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.36%) C#
9 3 (1.36%) PHP
10 2 (0.90%) C++
10 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.90%) Ruby
10 2 (0.90%) Rust
10 2 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (31.67%) Security Cleared
2 61 (27.60%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.43%) Degree
4 10 (4.52%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.17%) CCNA
5 7 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.71%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.71%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.71%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.71%) PhD
7 5 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.26%) CCNP
8 4 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.81%) CEH
8 4 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.36%) CISSP
9 3 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.71%) NIST
2 4 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.36%) GDPR
4 2 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.90%) QA
5 1 (0.45%) NCSC
5 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 81 (36.65%) Docker
2 9 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.36%) Squid
5 3 (1.36%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.36%) vSphere
6 2 (0.90%) Ceph
6 2 (0.90%) KVM
6 2 (0.90%) Lustre
6 2 (0.90%) NFS
6 2 (0.90%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.90%) Snort
6 2 (0.90%) Xen
7 1 (0.45%) GPFS
7 1 (0.45%) HDFS
7 1 (0.45%) iptables
7 1 (0.45%) Samba
7 1 (0.45%) Varnish
7 1 (0.45%) zsh
Systems Management
1 124 (56.11%) Terraform
2 75 (33.94%) Kubernetes
3 72 (32.58%) Ansible
4 39 (17.65%) Grafana
5 34 (15.38%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.52%) Puppet
7 9 (4.07%) Argo
8 8 (3.62%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (3.62%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (2.26%) Rancher
10 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.81%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.36%) HAProxy
11 3 (1.36%) Istio
11 3 (1.36%) Nagios
11 3 (1.36%) SCCM
11 3 (1.36%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.90%) Knative
12 2 (0.90%) Suricata
Vendors
1 34 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.95%) Splunk
3 17 (7.69%) Google
4 12 (5.43%) Databricks
5 9 (4.07%) Atlassian
5 9 (4.07%) Dynatrace
5 9 (4.07%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.17%) Qualys
7 6 (2.71%) Apple
7 6 (2.71%) PagerDuty
7 6 (2.71%) Tenable
7 6 (2.71%) VMware
7 6 (2.71%) Zscaler
8 5 (2.26%) Cisco
8 5 (2.26%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.81%) Oracle
9 4 (1.81%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.81%) Solace
9 4 (1.81%) TIBCO