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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 154 188
Rank change year-on-year -45 +34 -76
Contract jobs citing Bash 226 230 218
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.31% 1.82% 1.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.94% 4.62% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 151 141
10th Percentile £400 £410 £375
25th Percentile £450 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £613 £725 £620
90th Percentile £750 £798 £725
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £40.35 £46.80 £21.25
25th Percentile £46.50 £48.38 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +121.78% -73.42%
75th Percentile £62.00 £62.13 £52.94
90th Percentile £63.05 £62.80 £60.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +14.79% +4.76% -28.08%

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 5,729 4,976 6,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.12% 39.28% 35.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,891 3,465 4,814
10th Percentile £363 £375 £381
25th Percentile £425 £449 £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 £822
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -4.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 30 58
10th Percentile £26.97 £29.07 £24.28
25th Percentile £40.75 £38.15 £36.90
Median hourly rate £56.38 £45.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.24% -9.41% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.80 £60.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.38 £65.25 £67.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -36 19 £515 -6.36% 21
South London -15 9 £530 - 1
East London - 2 £416 - 2
West London - 1 - - 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 13 (5.75%) Confluence
2 7 (3.10%) nginx
3 5 (2.21%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.77%) Apache
5 3 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.33%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.88%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.44%) CMS
7 1 (0.44%) FileNet
7 1 (0.44%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 104 (46.02%) AWS
2 87 (38.50%) Azure
3 54 (23.89%) GitHub
4 44 (19.47%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (15.93%) GCP
6 33 (14.60%) Amazon S3
7 31 (13.72%) Serverless
8 30 (13.27%) Amazon EKS
9 29 (12.83%) Amazon EC2
9 29 (12.83%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (11.50%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (10.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (9.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (8.41%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (6.64%) Azure AKS
15 12 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (4.87%) Entra ID
17 10 (4.42%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (4.42%) OpenShift
18 9 (3.98%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.62%) DNS
1 24 (10.62%) Firewall
2 21 (9.29%) TCP/IP
3 13 (5.75%) VPN
4 9 (3.98%) HTTP
5 8 (3.54%) Network Security
6 7 (3.10%) VLAN
7 6 (2.65%) DHCP
8 4 (1.77%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (1.77%) SSH
9 3 (1.33%) WAN
10 2 (0.88%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.88%) Multicast
10 2 (0.88%) NAS
10 2 (0.88%) SAN
10 2 (0.88%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.88%) Spanning Tree
10 2 (0.88%) SSL
10 2 (0.88%) X.509
11 1 (0.44%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.95%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.41%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (3.98%) NoSQL
3 9 (3.98%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (3.10%) MySQL
5 7 (3.10%) Redis
6 6 (2.65%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.65%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.21%) Big Data
8 4 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.77%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.77%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.33%) Data Vault
9 3 (1.33%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 59 (26.11%) GitLab
1 59 (26.11%) Jenkins
2 53 (23.45%) Git
3 16 (7.08%) JIRA
4 8 (3.54%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.10%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.21%) Browser DevTools
6 5 (2.21%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.33%) Ant
7 3 (1.33%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.33%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (1.33%) Snyk
8 2 (0.88%) Appium
8 2 (0.88%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.88%) Gradle
8 2 (0.88%) MLflow
8 2 (0.88%) Selenium
8 2 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.44%) Poetry
9 1 (0.44%) Spinnaker
General
1 52 (23.01%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.04%) Finance
3 31 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.75%) Banking
6 8 (3.54%) Retail
7 5 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.88%) Law
10 2 (0.88%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Military
10 2 (0.88%) Police
10 2 (0.88%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Games
11 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (17.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (14.16%) Platform Engineer
3 19 (8.41%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (6.19%) Architect
5 14 (6.19%) Security Engineer
5 14 (6.19%) Senior
6 11 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (4.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 11 (4.87%) Lead
6 11 (4.87%) Site Engineer
6 11 (4.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 10 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (4.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 10 (4.42%) Data Engineer
8 9 (3.98%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 9 (3.98%) Developer
8 9 (3.98%) Integration Engineer
9 8 (3.54%) Microsoft Engineer
10 7 (3.10%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.41%) Kafka
2 13 (5.75%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (4.42%) YAML
4 8 (3.54%) ARM Templates
5 6 (2.65%) REST
6 5 (2.21%) ADO
6 5 (2.21%) JSON
6 5 (2.21%) OAuth
6 5 (2.21%) SAML
7 4 (1.77%) Node.js
7 4 (1.77%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.33%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.33%) Keycloak
8 3 (1.33%) LDAP
8 3 (1.33%) Middleware
8 3 (1.33%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (0.88%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.88%) BREW
9 2 (0.88%) Flash
9 2 (0.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.50%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (2.21%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.21%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.77%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.77%) Replication
4 4 (1.77%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.33%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.33%) PKI
6 2 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.88%) NHS
6 2 (0.88%) PACS
6 2 (0.88%) Pricing Data
6 2 (0.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 89 (39.38%) Linux
2 27 (11.95%) Windows
3 20 (8.85%) Unix
4 13 (5.75%) Mac OS
5 8 (3.54%) VMS
6 7 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (2.21%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.33%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.88%) Solaris
10 1 (0.44%) CentOS
10 1 (0.44%) Debian
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.44%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (55.75%) CI/CD
2 113 (50.00%) DevOps
3 111 (49.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (29.20%) Containerisation
5 53 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (21.24%) Platform Engineering
7 40 (17.70%) Observability
8 35 (15.49%) Configuration Management
9 34 (15.04%) Agile
10 26 (11.50%) Analytics
11 24 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (10.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 22 (9.73%) AI
14 21 (9.29%) High Availability
14 21 (9.29%) Test Automation
15 20 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
16 19 (8.41%) Incident Response
17 18 (7.96%) Cloud Security
18 16 (7.08%) Root Cause Analysis
19 15 (6.64%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 193 (85.40%) Python
2 87 (38.50%) PowerShell
3 29 (12.83%) SQL
4 15 (6.64%) Go
4 15 (6.64%) Java
5 12 (5.31%) Bicep
6 11 (4.87%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (2.65%) C
7 6 (2.65%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.65%) Perl
7 6 (2.65%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.21%) Groovy
8 5 (2.21%) Ruby
9 2 (0.88%) C#
9 2 (0.88%) C++
9 2 (0.88%) PHP
9 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.88%) Rust
9 2 (0.88%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 71 (31.42%) Security Cleared
2 63 (27.88%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.75%) Azure Certification
4 11 (4.87%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.42%) Degree
6 7 (3.10%) CCNA
6 7 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.10%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.21%) CCNP
8 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.33%) CEH
9 3 (1.33%) CISSP
9 3 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.10%) NIST
2 4 (1.77%) QA
3 3 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.88%) GDPR
4 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.88%) SLA
5 1 (0.44%) NCSC
5 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (36.73%) Docker
2 13 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.87%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.33%) NFS
5 3 (1.33%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.33%) vSphere
6 2 (0.88%) Ceph
6 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.88%) KVM
6 2 (0.88%) Lustre
6 2 (0.88%) OpenSSH
6 2 (0.88%) Postfix
6 2 (0.88%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.88%) Squid
6 2 (0.88%) Varnish
6 2 (0.88%) Xen
7 1 (0.44%) Samba
7 1 (0.44%) Snort
Systems Management
1 131 (57.96%) Terraform
2 81 (35.84%) Kubernetes
3 78 (34.51%) Ansible
4 39 (17.26%) Grafana
5 35 (15.49%) Prometheus
6 16 (7.08%) Puppet
7 10 (4.42%) Argo
8 8 (3.54%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.21%) Rancher
9 5 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.77%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.77%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.77%) Salt
11 3 (1.33%) Istio
11 3 (1.33%) Kibana
11 3 (1.33%) Nagios
11 3 (1.33%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.88%) Knative
12 2 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.29%) Splunk
3 16 (7.08%) Databricks
4 14 (6.19%) Google
5 9 (3.98%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.54%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.54%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.10%) VMware
8 6 (2.65%) PagerDuty
8 6 (2.65%) Qualys
9 5 (2.21%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.21%) Tenable
9 5 (2.21%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.77%) Cisco
10 4 (1.77%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.77%) Oracle
11 3 (1.33%) IBM
11 3 (1.33%) OpenText
11 3 (1.33%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.33%) SolarWinds