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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 172 148
Rank change year-on-year +38 -24 +11
Contract jobs citing Bash 299 224 322
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 1.48% 1.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.51% 3.85% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 138 237
10th Percentile £404 £371 £413
25th Percentile £463 £495 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +1.25% -2.64%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £700
90th Percentile £725 £810 £810
England median daily rate £520 £575 £576
% change year-on-year -9.57% -0.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £40.05 £67.40 £58.40
25th Percentile £45.75 £84.13 £59.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 £112.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +86.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile £63.55 - -
England median hourly rate £56.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% -13.33% +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 5,428 5,824 6,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.80% 38.46% 36.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,648 3,933 5,149
10th Percentile £370 £375 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 39 67
10th Percentile £25.29 £35.60 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.88 £40.06 £36.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £97.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 -8 24 £545 -0.91% 22
South London +3 10 £530 +143.68% 4
West London - 5 £525 - 8
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 11 (3.68%) Confluence
2 7 (2.34%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.34%) nginx
3 6 (2.01%) Apache
4 4 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.00%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.00%) Hyperledger
5 3 (1.00%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.67%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.33%) CICS
7 1 (0.33%) FileNet
7 1 (0.33%) Luigi
7 1 (0.33%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.33%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.33%) Pro Tools
1 1 (0.33%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 140 (46.82%) AWS
2 118 (39.46%) Azure
3 73 (24.41%) GCP
4 59 (19.73%) GitHub
5 34 (11.37%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (11.37%) Amazon S3
6 31 (10.37%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (10.03%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (9.03%) Serverless
10 24 (8.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (6.69%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (5.35%) Entra ID
15 14 (4.68%) Azure AKS
16 13 (4.35%) OpenShift
17 11 (3.68%) Datadog
17 11 (3.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (14.05%) Firewall
2 40 (13.38%) DNS
3 31 (10.37%) TCP/IP
4 18 (6.02%) VPN
5 17 (5.69%) Network Security
6 12 (4.01%) SSL
7 9 (3.01%) BGP
7 9 (3.01%) Wireshark
8 8 (2.68%) OSPF
9 7 (2.34%) EIGRP
9 7 (2.34%) HTTP
9 7 (2.34%) VLAN
10 6 (2.01%) HTTPS
10 6 (2.01%) IPsec
10 6 (2.01%) tcpdump
11 5 (1.67%) DHCP
11 5 (1.67%) Multicast
12 3 (1.00%) SMTP
12 3 (1.00%) SSH
13 2 (0.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (17.73%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (7.36%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (7.36%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.68%) Redis
4 12 (4.01%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.68%) MySQL
6 10 (3.34%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.68%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.34%) Delta Lake
9 6 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.01%) Big Data
9 6 (2.01%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.01%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.67%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.67%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 69 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 58 (19.40%) Git
3 56 (18.73%) GitLab
4 19 (6.35%) JIRA
5 11 (3.68%) Metasploit
6 10 (3.34%) Burp Suite
7 9 (3.01%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.01%) SonarQube
8 8 (2.68%) Maven
9 6 (2.01%) Liquibase
9 6 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (2.01%) Subversion
9 6 (2.01%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.67%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.67%) MLflow
11 4 (1.34%) Clang
11 4 (1.34%) GCC
11 4 (1.34%) Gradle
11 4 (1.34%) sqlmap
12 3 (1.00%) CircleCI
General
1 87 (29.10%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
2 42 (14.05%) Finance
3 27 (9.03%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.68%) Banking
5 10 (3.34%) Front Office
6 9 (3.01%) Retail
7 5 (1.67%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.34%) Electronics
8 4 (1.34%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.34%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.34%) Marketing
9 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.00%) Legal
9 3 (1.00%) Military
10 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.67%) Law
10 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (16.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (12.37%) Senior
3 22 (7.36%) Platform Engineer
4 20 (6.69%) Developer
5 17 (5.69%) Site Engineer
6 16 (5.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 15 (5.02%) Architect
8 14 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (4.68%) Security Engineer
9 13 (4.35%) Administrator
9 13 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (4.35%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.35%) Network Engineer
10 12 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (4.01%) Lead
11 11 (3.68%) Mac Engineer
12 10 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.01%) Analyst
13 9 (3.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.01%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.70%) Kafka
2 15 (5.02%) Middleware
3 14 (4.68%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (3.68%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (3.01%) REST
6 8 (2.68%) YAML
7 7 (2.34%) .NET
7 7 (2.34%) ARM Templates
7 7 (2.34%) Keycloak
8 5 (1.67%) Loki
8 5 (1.67%) Node.js
8 5 (1.67%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.67%) Ultra Messaging
9 4 (1.34%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.34%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.34%) Spring
9 4 (1.34%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.00%) HTML
10 3 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (1.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.36%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.02%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (5.02%) Replication
4 12 (4.01%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (3.68%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.34%) Clustering
7 7 (2.34%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.01%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.01%) PKI
9 5 (1.67%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.67%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.34%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.34%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.00%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 125 (41.81%) Linux
2 38 (12.71%) Windows
3 29 (9.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (8.36%) Mac OS
5 20 (6.69%) Unix
6 12 (4.01%) CentOS
7 10 (3.34%) Solaris
7 10 (3.34%) Ubuntu
8 9 (3.01%) Windows Server
9 4 (1.34%) VMS
10 2 (0.67%) Debian
11 1 (0.33%) Android
11 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.33%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (52.84%) CI/CD
2 142 (47.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 134 (44.82%) DevOps
4 74 (24.75%) Containerisation
5 61 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (17.39%) Observability
7 50 (16.72%) Agile
8 44 (14.72%) Incident Response
9 42 (14.05%) High Availability
10 35 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (11.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 31 (10.37%) DevSecOps
11 31 (10.37%) Platform Engineering
12 29 (9.70%) Cybersecurity
13 28 (9.36%) Infrastructure Automation
14 26 (8.70%) Analytics
14 26 (8.70%) Test Automation
15 24 (8.03%) Cloud Security
15 24 (8.03%) Mentoring
16 23 (7.69%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 251 (83.95%) Python
2 107 (35.79%) PowerShell
3 45 (15.05%) SQL
4 33 (11.04%) Go
5 28 (9.36%) Java
6 26 (8.70%) Perl
7 18 (6.02%) Kusto Query Language
8 13 (4.35%) C++
9 12 (4.01%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.68%) JavaScript
11 10 (3.34%) Groovy
12 9 (3.01%) C
13 7 (2.34%) PromQL
14 6 (2.01%) Bicep
15 5 (1.67%) PHP
16 4 (1.34%) C#
16 4 (1.34%) PL/SQL
16 4 (1.34%) TypeScript
17 3 (1.00%) Ruby
17 3 (1.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 78 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 68 (22.74%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.69%) Degree
4 15 (5.02%) OSCP
5 14 (4.68%) AWS Certification
6 13 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.68%) CCNP
9 7 (2.34%) CEH
9 7 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.34%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.34%) GPEN
9 7 (2.34%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.01%) CCNA
10 6 (2.01%) JNCIA
10 6 (2.01%) JNCIS
10 6 (2.01%) PhD
10 6 (2.01%) RHCE
11 5 (1.67%) CISSP
11 5 (1.67%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.35%) GDPR
2 10 (3.34%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.34%) NIST
4 6 (2.01%) HIPAA
4 6 (2.01%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.67%) NCSC
5 5 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.67%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.33%) GxP
8 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.33%) QA
8 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 107 (35.79%) Docker
2 19 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.02%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.68%) zsh
5 7 (2.34%) NFS
5 7 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.01%) Firmware
7 5 (1.67%) KVM
7 5 (1.67%) Snort
7 5 (1.67%) Squid
8 4 (1.34%) Veritas File System
8 4 (1.34%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (1.00%) GPFS
9 3 (1.00%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.67%) Ceph
10 2 (0.67%) Lustre
10 2 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 125 (41.81%) Terraform
2 114 (38.13%) Kubernetes
3 81 (27.09%) Ansible
4 61 (20.40%) Grafana
5 54 (18.06%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.68%) Puppet
7 13 (4.35%) Argo
7 13 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (3.68%) Nessus
9 10 (3.34%) ITRS Geneos
9 10 (3.34%) Nmap
10 7 (2.34%) Rancher
11 6 (2.01%) Nagios
11 6 (2.01%) Progress Chef
11 6 (2.01%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (1.67%) AirWatch
12 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.67%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.67%) SCCM
12 5 (1.67%) Suricata
Vendors
1 43 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.37%) Splunk
3 29 (9.70%) Google
4 27 (9.03%) Red Hat
5 22 (7.36%) VMware
6 18 (6.02%) Palo Alto
7 17 (5.69%) Oracle
8 16 (5.35%) Cisco
9 15 (5.02%) ServiceNow
10 13 (4.35%) Qualys
11 12 (4.01%) Apple
11 12 (4.01%) Databricks
12 11 (3.68%) CheckPoint
12 11 (3.68%) F5
13 10 (3.34%) CrowdStrike
13 10 (3.34%) Solace
13 10 (3.34%) Zscaler
14 9 (3.01%) Dynatrace
15 8 (2.68%) Atlassian
16 7 (2.34%) CyberArk