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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 155 197
Rank change year-on-year -43 +42 -87
Contract jobs citing Bash 218 225 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.77% 1.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.80% 4.49% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 146 135
10th Percentile £400 £412 £375
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £618 £698 £600
90th Percentile £750 £781 £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £40.35 - £21.25
25th Percentile £46.50 £45.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £54.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% +115.84% -68.44%
75th Percentile £62.00 £63.25 £52.94
90th Percentile £63.05 - £60.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +15.84% +3.81% -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 5,742 5,010 6,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.02% 39.43% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,895 3,508 4,834
10th Percentile £363 £375 £381
25th Percentile £425 £447 £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 £825
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 28 55
10th Percentile £32.30 £29.07 £25.47
25th Percentile £41.56 £35.00 £36.96
Median hourly rate £58.72 £44.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.21% -11.39% -12.17%
75th Percentile £69.43 £60.94 £60.88
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.75 £68.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% +1.35%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -33 18 £520 -10.34% 32
South London -10 9 £530 - 2
West London - 2 £500 - 4
East London - 2 £416 - 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 13 (5.96%) Confluence
2 8 (3.67%) nginx
3 5 (2.29%) Apache
3 5 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.38%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.46%) CMS
6 1 (0.46%) FileNet
6 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.46%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 102 (46.79%) AWS
2 88 (40.37%) Azure
3 53 (24.31%) GitHub
4 42 (19.27%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (16.51%) GCP
6 31 (14.22%) Amazon S3
7 28 (12.84%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (12.39%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (12.39%) Serverless
9 25 (11.47%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (10.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (10.09%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (9.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 19 (8.72%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (5.96%) Azure AKS
14 12 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (4.59%) Entra ID
15 10 (4.59%) OpenShift
16 9 (4.13%) Azure Key Vault
16 9 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.01%) DNS
1 24 (11.01%) Firewall
2 20 (9.17%) TCP/IP
3 15 (6.88%) VPN
4 10 (4.59%) Network Security
5 8 (3.67%) HTTP
5 8 (3.67%) VLAN
6 5 (2.29%) DHCP
7 4 (1.83%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.83%) SSH
7 4 (1.83%) WAN
8 3 (1.38%) NAS
8 3 (1.38%) SAN
8 3 (1.38%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.92%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.92%) Multicast
9 2 (0.92%) Spanning Tree
9 2 (0.92%) SSL
9 2 (0.92%) X.509
10 1 (0.46%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.93%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.80%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (4.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (4.13%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.13%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (3.21%) MySQL
6 6 (2.75%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.75%) Redis
7 5 (2.29%) Big Data
7 5 (2.29%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.83%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.83%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.38%) Data Vault
9 3 (1.38%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.92%) ImageNet
Development Applications
1 58 (26.61%) GitLab
2 55 (25.23%) Jenkins
3 52 (23.85%) Git
4 16 (7.34%) JIRA
5 9 (4.13%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.75%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.29%) Browser DevTools
7 5 (2.29%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.38%) Ant
8 3 (1.38%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.38%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (1.38%) Snyk
9 2 (0.92%) Appium
9 2 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.92%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.92%) MLflow
9 2 (0.92%) Selenium
9 2 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.46%) Poetry
10 1 (0.46%) Spinnaker
General
1 50 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.60%) Finance
3 28 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.01%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.05%) Banking
6 8 (3.67%) Retail
7 6 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.92%) Law
10 2 (0.92%) Legal
10 2 (0.92%) Military
10 2 (0.92%) Police
11 1 (0.46%) Back Office
11 1 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Games
11 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 37 (16.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (14.22%) Platform Engineer
3 18 (8.26%) Security Engineer
4 17 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (6.88%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (6.88%) Senior
6 13 (5.96%) Architect
7 11 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (5.05%) Lead
7 11 (5.05%) Site Engineer
8 10 (4.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (4.59%) Data Engineer
8 10 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (4.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.13%) Developer
10 8 (3.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.67%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (3.21%) Analyst
11 7 (3.21%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.26%) Kafka
2 12 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (4.59%) YAML
4 8 (3.67%) ARM Templates
5 6 (2.75%) OAuth
5 6 (2.75%) SAML
6 5 (2.29%) ADO
6 5 (2.29%) JSON
6 5 (2.29%) REST
7 3 (1.38%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.38%) LDAP
7 3 (1.38%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.38%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (0.92%) CrewAI
8 2 (0.92%) Faiss
8 2 (0.92%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.92%) LangChain
8 2 (0.92%) pgvector
8 2 (0.92%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.92%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.47%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (2.29%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.29%) Security Posture
4 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.83%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.38%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.38%) PKI
5 3 (1.38%) Replication
6 2 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.92%) NHS
6 2 (0.92%) PACS
6 2 (0.92%) Pricing Data
6 2 (0.92%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 88 (40.37%) Linux
2 26 (11.93%) Windows
3 18 (8.26%) Unix
4 11 (5.05%) Mac OS
5 7 (3.21%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.21%) VMS
6 6 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.38%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.92%) CentOS
8 2 (0.92%) Debian
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.46%) Rocky
9 1 (0.46%) Solaris
9 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (55.50%) CI/CD
2 107 (49.08%) DevOps
3 105 (48.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (28.90%) Containerisation
5 50 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (21.56%) Platform Engineering
7 37 (16.97%) Observability
8 36 (16.51%) Configuration Management
9 31 (14.22%) Agile
10 25 (11.47%) Analytics
11 24 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (10.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (9.63%) AI
14 19 (8.72%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (8.72%) Incident Response
14 19 (8.72%) Test Automation
15 18 (8.26%) High Availability
16 17 (7.80%) SIEM
17 16 (7.34%) Root Cause Analysis
18 15 (6.88%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 187 (85.78%) Python
2 85 (38.99%) PowerShell
3 29 (13.30%) SQL
4 15 (6.88%) Go
5 14 (6.42%) Java
6 11 (5.05%) Bicep
7 10 (4.59%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (2.75%) C
8 6 (2.75%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.75%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.29%) Perl
9 5 (2.29%) Ruby
10 3 (1.38%) Groovy
11 2 (0.92%) C#
11 2 (0.92%) C++
11 2 (0.92%) PHP
11 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.92%) Rust
11 2 (0.92%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.46%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 69 (31.65%) Security Cleared
2 62 (28.44%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.96%) Azure Certification
4 11 (5.05%) Degree
5 9 (4.13%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.21%) CCNA
7 7 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.21%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.29%) CCNP
8 5 (2.29%) CISSP
9 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.38%) CEH
10 3 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.67%) NIST
2 5 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.29%) QA
3 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.38%) GDPR
3 3 (1.38%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.92%) SLA
5 1 (0.46%) NCSC
5 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (36.24%) Docker
2 12 (5.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.50%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.83%) Squid
5 3 (1.38%) KVM
5 3 (1.38%) NFS
5 3 (1.38%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.38%) vSphere
6 2 (0.92%) Ceph
6 2 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.92%) Lustre
6 2 (0.92%) OpenSSH
6 2 (0.92%) Postfix
6 2 (0.92%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.92%) Varnish
6 2 (0.92%) Xen
7 1 (0.46%) Samba
7 1 (0.46%) Snort
Systems Management
1 126 (57.80%) Terraform
2 78 (35.78%) Ansible
2 78 (35.78%) Kubernetes
3 38 (17.43%) Grafana
4 35 (16.06%) Prometheus
5 16 (7.34%) Puppet
6 9 (4.13%) Argo
7 8 (3.67%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.83%) HAProxy
9 4 (1.83%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.83%) Rancher
9 4 (1.83%) Salt
10 3 (1.38%) Istio
10 3 (1.38%) Kibana
10 3 (1.38%) Nagios
10 3 (1.38%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.92%) Knative
11 2 (0.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.63%) Splunk
3 14 (6.42%) Databricks
4 13 (5.96%) Google
5 9 (4.13%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.67%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.67%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.21%) VMware
7 7 (3.21%) Zscaler
8 6 (2.75%) PagerDuty
9 5 (2.29%) Cisco
9 5 (2.29%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.29%) Qualys
10 4 (1.83%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.83%) Oracle
10 4 (1.83%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.83%) Tenable
11 3 (1.38%) Netskope
11 3 (1.38%) Pure Storage
11 3 (1.38%) SolarWinds