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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 127 179
Rank change year-on-year -30 +52 -70
Contract jobs citing Bash 393 296 226
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.94% 2.21% 1.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.14% 5.70% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 195 143
10th Percentile £381 £384 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -10.42% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £700
90th Percentile £725 £688 £810
England median daily rate £550 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +5.17% -5.00% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £47.15 £45.00
25th Percentile - £49.25 £65.63
Median hourly rate - £56.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - -18.55% +243.75%
75th Percentile - £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 6,397 5,191 6,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.65% 38.75% 39.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,352 3,510 4,508
10th Percentile £375 £375 £370
25th Percentile £447 £432 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 67 47
10th Percentile £26.51 £26.05 £25.99
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% -5.48% -18.10%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.50 £71.44
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.50 £97.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% -

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -24 21 £550 - 39
South London -5 6 £535 -13.71% 1
West London -17 6 £519 +9.21% 8
East London - 2 £415 - 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 23 (5.85%) Confluence
2 16 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.05%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.54%) Apache
5 4 (1.02%) nginx
5 4 (1.02%) WordPress
6 3 (0.76%) IIS
6 3 (0.76%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.51%) CMS
7 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) JBoss
8 1 (0.25%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Front Arena
1 5 (1.27%) Summit
2 1 (0.25%) Actimize
2 1 (0.25%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 191 (48.60%) AWS
2 174 (44.27%) Azure
3 119 (30.28%) GitHub
4 91 (23.16%) GitHub Actions
5 74 (18.83%) GCP
6 70 (17.81%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (16.28%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (12.47%) Amazon S3
9 44 (11.20%) Serverless
10 43 (10.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (9.16%) AWS Lambda
12 35 (8.91%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (8.91%) Datadog
12 35 (8.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 33 (8.40%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (7.89%) Entra ID
15 27 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
16 20 (5.09%) Azure AKS
17 19 (4.83%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 44 (11.20%) Firewall
2 38 (9.67%) VPN
3 34 (8.65%) Network Security
4 33 (8.40%) DNS
5 26 (6.62%) TCP/IP
6 17 (4.33%) WAN
7 11 (2.80%) SD-WAN
8 9 (2.29%) Kerberos
8 9 (2.29%) SAN
9 8 (2.04%) BGP
9 8 (2.04%) SSL
9 8 (2.04%) VLAN
10 7 (1.78%) DHCP
11 5 (1.27%) MPLS
11 5 (1.27%) SSH
12 4 (1.02%) 4G
12 4 (1.02%) 5G
12 4 (1.02%) Internet
12 4 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (5.85%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.34%) Redis
4 19 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.07%) MongoDB
6 14 (3.56%) Data Lake
7 13 (3.31%) MySQL
8 12 (3.05%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.04%) Metadata
10 8 (2.04%) Power BI
10 8 (2.04%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.78%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.53%) Big Data
12 6 (1.53%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.53%) SQLite
13 4 (1.02%) Apache Hive
13 4 (1.02%) Data Mart
13 4 (1.02%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 121 (30.79%) Jenkins
2 109 (27.74%) Git
3 88 (22.39%) GitLab
4 25 (6.36%) JIRA
5 17 (4.33%) Artifactory
6 12 (3.05%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.80%) SonarQube
8 9 (2.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.78%) JMeter
9 7 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.53%) Maven
10 6 (1.53%) Postman
11 5 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (1.02%) Subversion
12 4 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (1.02%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.76%) Selenium
13 3 (0.76%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.76%) Terragrunt
14 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
General
1 109 (27.74%) Finance
2 98 (24.94%) Social Skills
3 58 (14.76%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (13.23%) Banking
5 33 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.56%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.04%) Law
8 7 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.78%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.53%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.53%) Retail
10 5 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.27%) Front Office
10 5 (1.27%) Publishing
11 4 (1.02%) Automotive
11 4 (1.02%) Marketing
11 4 (1.02%) Military
12 3 (0.76%) Billing
12 3 (0.76%) Police
13 1 (0.25%) German Language
Job Titles
1 97 (24.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (13.23%) Senior
3 33 (8.40%) Cloud Engineer
4 31 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
4 31 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
5 30 (7.63%) Lead
6 28 (7.12%) Platform Engineer
6 28 (7.12%) Security Engineer
7 26 (6.62%) Developer
8 25 (6.36%) Linux Engineer
9 21 (5.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 21 (5.34%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (5.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (5.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 20 (5.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 19 (4.83%) AWS DevOps
12 18 (4.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.58%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 17 (4.33%) Automation Engineer
13 17 (4.33%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (57.25%) Terraform
2 52 (13.23%) Kafka
3 31 (7.89%) REST
4 22 (5.60%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (5.34%) Middleware
6 18 (4.58%) Loki
7 17 (4.33%) RESTful
8 16 (4.07%) ARM Templates
9 15 (3.82%) YAML
10 12 (3.05%) .NET
10 12 (3.05%) Flask
10 12 (3.05%) JSON
11 11 (2.80%) React
11 11 (2.80%) Spring
12 10 (2.54%) CSS
12 10 (2.54%) HTML
12 10 (2.54%) pytest
13 9 (2.29%) ADO
13 9 (2.29%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.04%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 66 (16.79%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.38%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.09%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.58%) PKI
6 16 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (3.82%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (3.31%) Legacy Applications
8 13 (3.31%) Management Information System
9 12 (3.05%) Public Cloud
9 12 (3.05%) Security Posture
10 9 (2.29%) Enterprise Storage
10 9 (2.29%) Replication
11 7 (1.78%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.53%) Equities
12 6 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.27%) Robotics
13 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 188 (47.84%) Linux
2 68 (17.30%) Windows
3 37 (9.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (8.40%) Unix
4 33 (8.40%) Windows Server
5 22 (5.60%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.29%) VMS
7 6 (1.53%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Debian
9 1 (0.25%) Solaris
9 1 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (64.63%) CI/CD
2 230 (58.52%) DevOps
3 212 (53.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (29.52%) Containerisation
5 111 (28.24%) Observability
6 81 (20.61%) Agile
7 74 (18.83%) Platform Engineering
7 74 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (17.56%) AI
8 69 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (16.03%) Root Cause Analysis
10 54 (13.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 53 (13.49%) Infrastructure Automation
12 52 (13.23%) Cloud Security
12 52 (13.23%) Runbook
13 50 (12.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 50 (12.72%) Migration
14 49 (12.47%) DevSecOps
15 45 (11.45%) Identity Access Management
16 43 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 333 (84.73%) Python
2 164 (41.73%) PowerShell
3 56 (14.25%) SQL
4 53 (13.49%) Java
5 38 (9.67%) Go
6 32 (8.14%) Bicep
7 29 (7.38%) Shell Script
8 20 (5.09%) Korn
9 15 (3.82%) Perl
10 13 (3.31%) JavaScript
11 12 (3.05%) Groovy
12 9 (2.29%) C#
13 7 (1.78%) TypeScript
14 6 (1.53%) Ruby
15 3 (0.76%) Cypher
15 3 (0.76%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.76%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.51%) C
16 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 126 (32.06%) Security Cleared
2 109 (27.74%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.12%) Degree
4 23 (5.85%) AWS Certification
5 22 (5.60%) Azure Certification
6 20 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.56%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.29%) CISSP
10 8 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.02%) CCNP
12 4 (1.02%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.02%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.51%) CISM
14 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.38%) QA
2 16 (4.07%) NIST
3 15 (3.82%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.04%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.76%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.51%) GDPR
7 2 (0.51%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.25%) GLBA
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 156 (39.69%) Docker
2 34 (8.65%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.04%) Squid
6 5 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.02%) HDFS
7 4 (1.02%) vSphere
8 3 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.76%) zsh
9 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.51%) NFS
9 2 (0.51%) Postfix
9 2 (0.51%) Varnish
9 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.25%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.25%) QEMU
10 1 (0.25%) Samba
10 1 (0.25%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 190 (48.35%) Kubernetes
2 131 (33.33%) Ansible
3 113 (28.75%) Grafana
4 92 (23.41%) Prometheus
5 25 (6.36%) Puppet
6 24 (6.11%) Argo
7 12 (3.05%) Istio
7 12 (3.05%) Kibana
7 12 (3.05%) systemd
8 8 (2.04%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.78%) Cilium
10 6 (1.53%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.02%) Control-M
12 4 (1.02%) Salt
12 4 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.02%) Suricata
13 3 (0.76%) Nagios
13 3 (0.76%) Rancher
13 3 (0.76%) yum
Vendors
1 78 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.65%) Google
3 30 (7.63%) Dynatrace
4 29 (7.38%) Oracle
5 28 (7.12%) Splunk
6 26 (6.62%) VMware
7 22 (5.60%) ServiceNow
8 18 (4.58%) CyberArk
8 18 (4.58%) Databricks
9 16 (4.07%) Red Hat
10 13 (3.31%) Cisco
11 12 (3.05%) Palo Alto
12 11 (2.80%) NetApp
13 9 (2.29%) BeyondTrust
13 9 (2.29%) Murex
13 9 (2.29%) WALLIX
14 8 (2.04%) Fortinet
15 7 (1.78%) Zscaler
16 6 (1.53%) Apple
16 6 (1.53%) FIS