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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 132 182
Rank change year-on-year -38 +50 -73
Contract jobs citing Bash 328 275 224
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.63% 2.05% 1.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.16% 5.32% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 189 151
10th Percentile £389 £405 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £47.15 £21.40
25th Percentile £56.75 £49.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +96.49% +42.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.75 £52.81
90th Percentile - £63.05 £71.88
England median hourly rate £71.00 £54.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +29.68% -0.45% -24.14%

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 6,360 5,170 6,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.54% 38.53% 39.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,275 3,602 4,798
10th Percentile £384 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £700 £710
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 60 42
10th Percentile £31.03 £26.31 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -7.37% -22.90%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.31 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -29 21 £550 -2.65% 10
South London -2 5 £535 -13.71% 2
West London -21 5 £500 +5.26% 12
East London - 3 £400 - 4
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 18 (5.49%) Confluence
2 11 (3.35%) Apache
3 10 (3.05%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.22%) WordPress
6 3 (0.91%) nginx
7 2 (0.61%) CMS
7 2 (0.61%) IIS
7 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.30%) JBoss
8 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.30%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Actimize
1 1 (0.30%) Front Arena
1 1 (0.30%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 1 (0.30%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 158 (48.17%) AWS
2 152 (46.34%) Azure
3 96 (29.27%) GitHub
4 75 (22.87%) GitHub Actions
5 71 (21.65%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (18.29%) GCP
7 46 (14.02%) Amazon EKS
7 46 (14.02%) Amazon S3
8 41 (12.50%) Serverless
9 38 (11.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (10.06%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (10.06%) Datadog
11 31 (9.45%) Entra ID
12 30 (9.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (9.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 25 (7.62%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (6.40%) Azure AKS
15 16 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (4.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (13.41%) Firewall
2 40 (12.20%) DNS
3 39 (11.89%) VPN
4 30 (9.15%) Network Security
5 27 (8.23%) TCP/IP
6 15 (4.57%) WAN
7 12 (3.66%) VLAN
8 10 (3.05%) SD-WAN
9 8 (2.44%) SSL
10 7 (2.13%) DHCP
11 6 (1.83%) BGP
11 6 (1.83%) HTTP
12 5 (1.52%) SAN
13 4 (1.22%) MPLS
13 4 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (0.91%) Internet
14 3 (0.91%) Kerberos
14 3 (0.91%) NAS
14 3 (0.91%) SSH
14 3 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.49%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (3.66%) Redis
5 11 (3.35%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.44%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (2.13%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.83%) Metadata
8 6 (1.83%) MySQL
9 5 (1.52%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.52%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.52%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.52%) Power BI
10 4 (1.22%) Big Data
11 3 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 101 (30.79%) Jenkins
2 83 (25.30%) Git
3 76 (23.17%) GitLab
4 20 (6.10%) JIRA
5 13 (3.96%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.13%) JMeter
8 6 (1.83%) Postman
9 5 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.91%) Maven
10 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.61%) Subversion
11 2 (0.61%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.61%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.30%) Gatling
12 1 (0.30%) Snyk
12 1 (0.30%) VersionOne
12 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 81 (24.70%) Finance
2 79 (24.09%) Social Skills
3 42 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (10.37%) Banking
5 31 (9.45%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.44%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.13%) Law
8 6 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.52%) Front Office
9 5 (1.52%) Publishing
9 5 (1.52%) Retail
10 4 (1.22%) Automotive
10 4 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.22%) Military
11 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.61%) Billing
12 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.61%) Police
13 1 (0.30%) Games
13 1 (0.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 79 (24.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (10.98%) Senior
3 33 (10.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 32 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
5 25 (7.62%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (7.62%) Platform Engineer
6 24 (7.32%) Lead
6 24 (7.32%) Security Engineer
7 20 (6.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.49%) Architect
9 17 (5.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (5.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 16 (4.88%) Linux Engineer
11 15 (4.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 15 (4.57%) Site Engineer
12 14 (4.27%) Developer
13 13 (3.96%) AWS DevOps
14 12 (3.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.66%) Network Engineer
14 12 (3.66%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (60.37%) Terraform
2 33 (10.06%) Kafka
3 20 (6.10%) REST
4 19 (5.79%) ARM Templates
5 17 (5.18%) YAML
6 13 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (3.35%) JSON
7 11 (3.35%) Loki
8 10 (3.05%) RESTful
8 10 (3.05%) SAML
9 9 (2.74%) .NET
9 9 (2.74%) Middleware
10 8 (2.44%) OAuth
11 7 (2.13%) Spring
12 6 (1.83%) ADO
12 6 (1.83%) cloud-init
12 6 (1.83%) Swagger
13 4 (1.22%) 802.1X
13 4 (1.22%) HTML
13 4 (1.22%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.77%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.66%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.35%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.05%) Legacy Applications
7 10 (3.05%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.74%) PKI
8 9 (2.74%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.83%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.83%) Equities
9 6 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.52%) Robotics
10 5 (1.52%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.22%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.22%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 131 (39.94%) Linux
2 51 (15.55%) Windows
3 27 (8.23%) Windows Server
4 25 (7.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (7.01%) Unix
6 22 (6.71%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.74%) VMS
8 6 (1.83%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.61%) Debian
9 2 (0.61%) Solaris
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.30%) CentOS
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.30%) Rocky
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (64.02%) CI/CD
2 197 (60.06%) DevOps
3 182 (55.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (29.88%) Containerisation
5 79 (24.09%) Observability
6 63 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (18.90%) Platform Engineering
8 55 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (15.55%) Agile
10 48 (14.63%) AI
11 45 (13.72%) Root Cause Analysis
12 44 (13.41%) Cloud Security
13 43 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 40 (12.20%) Configuration Management
14 40 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
15 39 (11.89%) Runbook
15 39 (11.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 38 (11.59%) Identity Access Management
17 35 (10.67%) Migration
18 34 (10.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 280 (85.37%) Python
2 141 (42.99%) PowerShell
3 33 (10.06%) Java
4 32 (9.76%) SQL
5 31 (9.45%) Bicep
6 28 (8.54%) Go
7 14 (4.27%) Shell Script
8 12 (3.66%) Perl
9 8 (2.44%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.13%) Groovy
10 7 (2.13%) Korn
11 6 (1.83%) C#
11 6 (1.83%) Ruby
12 3 (0.91%) Cypher
12 3 (0.91%) Gremlin
12 3 (0.91%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.61%) C
13 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.61%) R
13 2 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 106 (32.32%) Security Cleared
2 92 (28.05%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.84%) Azure Certification
4 20 (6.10%) Degree
5 18 (5.49%) AWS Certification
6 12 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.74%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.44%) CCNP
9 7 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.13%) CISSP
10 6 (1.83%) CCNA
11 5 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.22%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.22%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.61%) CCSP
14 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.40%) QA
2 10 (3.05%) NIST
3 9 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.83%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.22%) SLA
7 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.91%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.30%) GDPR
8 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 118 (35.98%) Docker
2 32 (9.76%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.44%) Squid
6 5 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.22%) NFS
7 4 (1.22%) Postfix
7 4 (1.22%) Varnish
7 4 (1.22%) vSphere
8 3 (0.91%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.91%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.91%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.61%) HDFS
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.61%) zsh
10 1 (0.30%) KVM
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.30%) QEMU
10 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 151 (46.04%) Kubernetes
2 107 (32.62%) Ansible
3 95 (28.96%) Grafana
4 79 (24.09%) Prometheus
5 25 (7.62%) Puppet
6 16 (4.88%) Argo
7 12 (3.66%) systemd
8 11 (3.35%) Progress Chef
9 9 (2.74%) Istio
9 9 (2.74%) Kibana
10 7 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.83%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (1.52%) Salt
13 4 (1.22%) Cilium
13 4 (1.22%) HAProxy
13 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.22%) Suricata
14 3 (0.91%) Consul
14 3 (0.91%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (19.82%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.93%) VMware
3 23 (7.01%) Google
4 22 (6.71%) Dynatrace
4 22 (6.71%) Oracle
5 20 (6.10%) Databricks
6 19 (5.79%) Splunk
7 16 (4.88%) CyberArk
8 12 (3.66%) ServiceNow
9 11 (3.35%) Cisco
9 11 (3.35%) Red Hat
10 10 (3.05%) Palo Alto
10 10 (3.05%) Zscaler
11 9 (2.74%) BeyondTrust
11 9 (2.74%) WALLIX
12 8 (2.44%) Fortinet
13 7 (2.13%) NetApp
14 6 (1.83%) Apple
15 4 (1.22%) Juniper
15 4 (1.22%) Meraki