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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 137 199
Rank change year-on-year -36 +62 -101
Contract jobs citing Bash 300 275 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.50% 2.03% 1.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.83% 5.22% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 186 145
10th Percentile £391 £393 £400
25th Percentile £450 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £626 £648 £638
90th Percentile £721 £725 £740
England median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile £56.75 £45.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £54.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% +91.23% +42.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £63.25 £52.81
90th Percentile - - £71.88
England median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -19.30%

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 6,210 5,265 6,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.10% 38.77% 39.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,146 3,701 4,950
10th Percentile £384 £368 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £700 £710
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £520 £515 £548
% change year-on-year +0.97% -5.94% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 49 46
10th Percentile £34.35 £26.31 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £34.82
Median hourly rate £54.50 £43.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.29% -12.56% -17.37%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £73.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 20 £525 -7.08% 14
South London -16 5 £535 -13.71% 4
West London -17 3 £500 +5.26% 5
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 17 (5.67%) Confluence
2 10 (3.33%) Apache
3 9 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.00%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.33%) WordPress
5 3 (1.00%) nginx
5 3 (1.00%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.67%) CMS
6 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.33%) IIS
7 1 (0.33%) JBoss
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.33%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 143 (47.67%) AWS
2 134 (44.67%) Azure
3 87 (29.00%) GitHub
4 69 (23.00%) GitHub Actions
5 64 (21.33%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (16.33%) GCP
7 44 (14.67%) Amazon EKS
8 43 (14.33%) Amazon S3
9 40 (13.33%) Serverless
10 37 (12.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (11.33%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (10.00%) Datadog
13 30 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (9.67%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (7.00%) Entra ID
16 20 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (5.67%) Azure AKS
18 16 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
19 13 (4.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (14.00%) Firewall
2 38 (12.67%) DNS
3 32 (10.67%) VPN
4 27 (9.00%) Network Security
4 27 (9.00%) TCP/IP
5 11 (3.67%) VLAN
5 11 (3.67%) WAN
6 8 (2.67%) DHCP
6 8 (2.67%) SD-WAN
7 7 (2.33%) SSL
8 6 (2.00%) HTTP
9 4 (1.33%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (1.00%) BGP
10 3 (1.00%) Internet
10 3 (1.00%) NAS
10 3 (1.00%) SAN
11 2 (0.67%) IPsec
11 2 (0.67%) SSH
11 2 (0.67%) X.509
12 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (4.33%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.00%) Redis
4 8 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (2.67%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.00%) Metadata
6 6 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.67%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.67%) Delta Lake
7 5 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.33%) Big Data
8 4 (1.33%) MySQL
9 3 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.00%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 86 (28.67%) Jenkins
2 72 (24.00%) Git
3 69 (23.00%) GitLab
4 14 (4.67%) JIRA
5 12 (4.00%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.33%) JMeter
7 6 (2.00%) Postman
8 5 (1.67%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (1.33%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.00%) Ant
10 3 (1.00%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.67%) Subversion
12 1 (0.33%) Maven
12 1 (0.33%) PeopleTools
12 1 (0.33%) Selenium
12 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.33%) VersionOne
12 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 67 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.33%) Finance
3 35 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (10.00%) Banking
6 7 (2.33%) Law
7 6 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.33%) Front Office
8 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.33%) Military
8 4 (1.33%) Publishing
8 4 (1.33%) Retail
9 3 (1.00%) Automotive
9 3 (1.00%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Police
10 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Legal
11 1 (0.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 77 (25.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (10.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 32 (10.67%) Senior
3 28 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
4 26 (8.67%) Security Engineer
5 25 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (7.33%) Lead
7 21 (7.00%) Architect
8 19 (6.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 15 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 13 (4.33%) Linux Engineer
11 13 (4.33%) Site Engineer
12 11 (3.67%) Applications Support
12 11 (3.67%) AWS DevOps
12 11 (3.67%) Network Engineer
13 10 (3.33%) Lead DevOps
13 10 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.33%) Kafka
2 16 (5.33%) ARM Templates
3 14 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (4.67%) YAML
4 13 (4.33%) REST
5 11 (3.67%) JSON
6 9 (3.00%) Loki
6 9 (3.00%) Middleware
7 8 (2.67%) SAML
8 7 (2.33%) OAuth
9 6 (2.00%) cloud-init
9 6 (2.00%) Swagger
10 5 (1.67%) .NET
10 5 (1.67%) ADO
11 4 (1.33%) LDAP
11 4 (1.33%) ModSecurity
11 4 (1.33%) RESTful
12 3 (1.00%) GraphQL
12 3 (1.00%) JSON-LD
12 3 (1.00%) NetworkX
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.00%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.33%) PKI
8 5 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.33%) Equities
9 4 (1.33%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.33%) Robotics
10 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 107 (35.67%) Linux
2 41 (13.67%) Windows
3 21 (7.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (6.67%) Ubuntu
5 18 (6.00%) Unix
5 18 (6.00%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.00%) VMS
7 4 (1.33%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.67%) Debian
8 2 (0.67%) Solaris
8 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.33%) CentOS
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.33%) Rocky
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 186 (62.00%) DevOps
3 172 (57.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (31.00%) Containerisation
5 67 (22.33%) Observability
6 55 (18.33%) Platform Engineering
7 53 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (13.33%) Configuration Management
10 38 (12.67%) Agile
10 38 (12.67%) Cloud Security
10 38 (12.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 36 (12.00%) Runbook
12 35 (11.67%) AI
13 33 (11.00%) Migration
13 33 (11.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 31 (10.33%) Identity Access Management
15 29 (9.67%) DevSecOps
16 28 (9.33%) Infrastructure Automation
17 27 (9.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 255 (85.00%) Python
2 120 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 30 (10.00%) SQL
4 25 (8.33%) Java
5 23 (7.67%) Go
6 21 (7.00%) Bicep
7 11 (3.67%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.00%) Perl
9 6 (2.00%) Groovy
9 6 (2.00%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.00%) Ruby
10 5 (1.67%) C
11 3 (1.00%) C#
11 3 (1.00%) Cypher
11 3 (1.00%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.00%) Korn
11 3 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.00%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 101 (33.67%) Security Cleared
2 90 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.33%) Azure Certification
4 16 (5.33%) AWS Certification
5 15 (5.00%) Degree
6 12 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.67%) CCNP
9 7 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.33%) CCNA
10 5 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.67%) CISSP
10 5 (1.67%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.00%) JNCIP
12 3 (1.00%) JNCIS
13 2 (0.67%) CCSP
13 2 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.67%) QA
2 8 (2.67%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.67%) NIST
3 7 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.00%) SLA
5 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.33%) GDPR
6 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 105 (35.00%) Docker
2 26 (8.67%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.67%) Squid
6 5 (1.67%) vSphere
7 4 (1.33%) NFS
7 4 (1.33%) Postfix
7 4 (1.33%) Varnish
7 4 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.00%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.00%) OpenSSH
8 3 (1.00%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.67%) HDFS
9 2 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.67%) zsh
10 1 (0.33%) KVM
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.33%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 190 (63.33%) Terraform
2 129 (43.00%) Kubernetes
3 105 (35.00%) Ansible
4 80 (26.67%) Grafana
5 69 (23.00%) Prometheus
6 25 (8.33%) Puppet
7 16 (5.33%) Argo
8 11 (3.67%) Progress Chef
9 10 (3.33%) systemd
10 5 (1.67%) HAProxy
10 5 (1.67%) Istio
10 5 (1.67%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (1.67%) Kibana
10 5 (1.67%) Salt
10 5 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.33%) Suricata
11 4 (1.33%) vCenter Server
12 3 (1.00%) Consul
12 3 (1.00%) Packer
12 3 (1.00%) yum
Vendors
1 46 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.00%) VMware
3 18 (6.00%) Dynatrace
3 18 (6.00%) Oracle
4 17 (5.67%) Google
5 16 (5.33%) Databricks
5 16 (5.33%) Splunk
6 11 (3.67%) CyberArk
6 11 (3.67%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.67%) Zscaler
7 10 (3.33%) Cisco
7 10 (3.33%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.67%) Fortinet
8 8 (2.67%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
9 6 (2.00%) WALLIX
10 5 (1.67%) NetApp
11 4 (1.33%) IBM
11 4 (1.33%) Meraki
12 3 (1.00%) Imperva