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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 139 195
Rank change year-on-year -39 +56 -95
Contract jobs citing Bash 311 283 208
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.54% 2.08% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.96% 5.36% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 196 143
10th Percentile £398 £403 £400
25th Percentile £452 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -2.50% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £641
90th Percentile £728 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile £56.75 £45.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £55.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +93.86% +42.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £63.25 £52.81
90th Percentile - - £71.88
England median hourly rate £68.70 £54.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +25.47% -4.78% -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 6,276 5,275 6,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.14% 38.68% 39.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,200 3,719 4,880
10th Percentile £385 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £661 £700 £710
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £521 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.07% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 50 42
10th Percentile £34.50 £26.31 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £53.50 £44.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -5.79% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.06 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
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 1 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 1 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 -22 22 £538 -7.33% 25
South London -13 5 £535 -13.71% 4
West London -16 4 £500 +5.26% 5
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 19 (6.11%) Confluence
2 11 (3.54%) Apache
3 10 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.22%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.29%) nginx
4 4 (1.29%) WordPress
5 3 (0.96%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.64%) CMS
6 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.64%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.32%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.32%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Actimize
1 1 (0.32%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 153 (49.20%) AWS
2 145 (46.62%) Azure
3 94 (30.23%) GitHub
4 74 (23.79%) GitHub Actions
5 70 (22.51%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (17.36%) GCP
7 47 (15.11%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (14.47%) Amazon S3
9 40 (12.86%) Serverless
10 38 (12.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (10.93%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (10.61%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (10.29%) Datadog
14 31 (9.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 30 (9.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (7.72%) Entra ID
17 22 (7.07%) Azure Monitor
18 17 (5.47%) Azure AKS
19 16 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
20 14 (4.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (14.47%) Firewall
2 42 (13.50%) DNS
3 34 (10.93%) VPN
4 28 (9.00%) Network Security
5 27 (8.68%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.86%) VLAN
7 11 (3.54%) WAN
8 9 (2.89%) DHCP
9 8 (2.57%) SD-WAN
9 8 (2.57%) SSL
10 6 (1.93%) HTTP
11 5 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.96%) BGP
12 3 (0.96%) Internet
12 3 (0.96%) NAS
12 3 (0.96%) SAN
13 2 (0.64%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.64%) IPsec
13 2 (0.64%) SSH
13 2 (0.64%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.22%) Redis
3 8 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (2.57%) Data Lake
3 8 (2.57%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.93%) Delta Lake
5 6 (1.93%) Metadata
6 5 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (1.61%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.61%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.29%) Big Data
7 4 (1.29%) MySQL
7 4 (1.29%) Power BI
7 4 (1.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 92 (29.58%) Jenkins
2 75 (24.12%) Git
3 74 (23.79%) GitLab
4 16 (5.14%) JIRA
5 12 (3.86%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.25%) JMeter
7 6 (1.93%) Postman
8 5 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.61%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.96%) Ant
9 3 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.96%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.64%) Maven
10 2 (0.64%) Subversion
10 2 (0.64%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.32%) Selenium
11 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 65 (20.90%) Finance
3 36 (11.58%) Public Sector
4 34 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (9.97%) Banking
6 7 (2.25%) Law
7 6 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.61%) Publishing
9 4 (1.29%) Automotive
9 4 (1.29%) Front Office
9 4 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.29%) Military
10 3 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.96%) Retail
11 2 (0.64%) Billing
11 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.64%) Police
11 2 (0.64%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 76 (24.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (11.25%) Senior
3 32 (10.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (9.65%) Azure Engineer
5 27 (8.68%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (8.36%) Security Engineer
7 25 (8.04%) AWS Engineer
8 23 (7.40%) Lead
9 21 (6.75%) Architect
10 19 (6.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (5.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 16 (5.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (4.50%) Site Engineer
14 13 (4.18%) Linux Engineer
15 12 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
16 11 (3.54%) Network Engineer
17 10 (3.22%) Applications Support
17 10 (3.22%) Lead DevOps
17 10 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.72%) Kafka
2 17 (5.47%) ARM Templates
3 15 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (4.82%) YAML
4 13 (4.18%) REST
5 11 (3.54%) JSON
6 10 (3.22%) Loki
6 10 (3.22%) Middleware
7 9 (2.89%) SAML
8 7 (2.25%) .NET
8 7 (2.25%) OAuth
9 6 (1.93%) cloud-init
9 6 (1.93%) Swagger
10 5 (1.61%) ADO
10 5 (1.61%) LDAP
11 4 (1.29%) 802.1X
11 4 (1.29%) ModSecurity
11 4 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (1.29%) RESTful
12 3 (0.96%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.72%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (4.50%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.54%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.22%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (3.22%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.89%) Legacy Applications
7 9 (2.89%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.57%) PKI
9 6 (1.93%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.61%) Equities
10 5 (1.61%) Robotics
10 5 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.61%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.29%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.96%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 114 (36.66%) Linux
2 44 (14.15%) Windows
3 22 (7.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (7.07%) Ubuntu
4 21 (6.75%) Windows Server
5 18 (5.79%) Unix
6 6 (1.93%) VMS
7 3 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.64%) Debian
8 2 (0.64%) Solaris
8 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.32%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.32%) Rocky
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (64.95%) CI/CD
2 195 (62.70%) DevOps
3 179 (57.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (30.23%) Containerisation
5 73 (23.47%) Observability
6 59 (18.97%) Platform Engineering
7 52 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (14.15%) AI
10 43 (13.83%) Agile
11 41 (13.18%) Configuration Management
11 41 (13.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 40 (12.86%) Cloud Security
13 39 (12.54%) Runbook
14 35 (11.25%) Identity Access Management
14 35 (11.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 34 (10.93%) Migration
16 30 (9.65%) DevSecOps
17 29 (9.32%) Infrastructure Automation
17 29 (9.32%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 264 (84.89%) Python
2 125 (40.19%) PowerShell
3 33 (10.61%) SQL
4 27 (8.68%) Java
5 25 (8.04%) Go
6 23 (7.40%) Bicep
7 12 (3.86%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.22%) Perl
9 7 (2.25%) Groovy
9 7 (2.25%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.93%) Ruby
11 5 (1.61%) C
11 5 (1.61%) C#
12 3 (0.96%) Cypher
12 3 (0.96%) Gremlin
12 3 (0.96%) Korn
12 3 (0.96%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.64%) R
14 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 105 (33.76%) Security Cleared
2 93 (29.90%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.40%) Azure Certification
4 17 (5.47%) AWS Certification
5 16 (5.14%) Degree
6 13 (4.18%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.89%) CCNP
7 9 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.25%) CCNA
9 6 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.61%) CISSP
10 5 (1.61%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.29%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.29%) JNCIS
11 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.82%) QA
2 9 (2.89%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.89%) NIST
3 7 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.61%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.96%) SLA
5 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.32%) GDPR
6 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 111 (35.69%) Docker
2 28 (9.00%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.57%) Squid
6 5 (1.61%) vSphere
7 4 (1.29%) NFS
7 4 (1.29%) Postfix
7 4 (1.29%) Varnish
7 4 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.96%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.96%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.96%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.64%) HDFS
9 2 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.64%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.64%) zsh
10 1 (0.32%) KVM
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.32%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 199 (63.99%) Terraform
2 136 (43.73%) Kubernetes
3 111 (35.69%) Ansible
4 85 (27.33%) Grafana
5 74 (23.79%) Prometheus
6 25 (8.04%) Puppet
7 17 (5.47%) Argo
8 12 (3.86%) systemd
9 11 (3.54%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.61%) HAProxy
10 5 (1.61%) Istio
10 5 (1.61%) Kibana
10 5 (1.61%) Salt
10 5 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.29%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (1.29%) Suricata
11 4 (1.29%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.96%) Consul
12 3 (0.96%) Packer
12 3 (0.96%) yum
Vendors
1 52 (16.72%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.40%) VMware
3 21 (6.75%) Dynatrace
4 20 (6.43%) Google
4 20 (6.43%) Oracle
5 18 (5.79%) Databricks
6 16 (5.14%) Splunk
7 12 (3.86%) CyberArk
7 12 (3.86%) Red Hat
8 11 (3.54%) Cisco
8 11 (3.54%) Zscaler
9 10 (3.22%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.22%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.57%) Fortinet
11 7 (2.25%) BeyondTrust
11 7 (2.25%) WALLIX
12 5 (1.61%) IBM
12 5 (1.61%) NetApp
13 4 (1.29%) Juniper
13 4 (1.29%) Meraki