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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 150 192
Rank change year-on-year -45 +42 -80
Contract jobs citing Bash 221 229 217
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.30% 1.82% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.88% 4.64% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 148 141
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £609 £725 £625
90th Percentile £755 £798 £725
England median daily rate £500 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.38% -13.20%
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 £74.26 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +35.02% +4.76% -26.57%

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 5,701 4,935 6,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.66% 39.16% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,873 3,438 4,810
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £448 £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 £538
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 31 58
10th Percentile £26.45 £29.07 £24.28
25th Percentile £39.25 £38.18 £36.90
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.89% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.50 £59.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £67.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -30 17 £520 -5.45% 21
South London -8 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 12 (5.43%) Confluence
2 7 (3.17%) nginx
3 5 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.81%) Apache
5 3 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.36%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.45%) FileNet
7 1 (0.45%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 97 (43.89%) AWS
2 87 (39.37%) Azure
3 54 (24.43%) GitHub
4 40 (18.10%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (16.74%) GCP
6 31 (14.03%) Amazon EKS
6 31 (14.03%) Amazon S3
7 29 (13.12%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (13.12%) Serverless
8 27 (12.22%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (10.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (10.86%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (9.05%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (8.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (6.79%) Azure AKS
13 13 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (4.52%) OpenShift
15 9 (4.07%) Entra ID
16 8 (3.62%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.86%) DNS
2 22 (9.95%) Firewall
3 21 (9.50%) TCP/IP
4 13 (5.88%) VPN
5 9 (4.07%) HTTP
6 8 (3.62%) Network Security
7 7 (3.17%) VLAN
8 6 (2.71%) DHCP
9 3 (1.36%) WAN
10 2 (0.90%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.90%) Multicast
10 2 (0.90%) NAS
10 2 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.90%) SAN
10 2 (0.90%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.90%) Spanning Tree
10 2 (0.90%) SSH
10 2 (0.90%) SSL
10 2 (0.90%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.45%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (9.05%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (4.07%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.07%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (3.17%) MySQL
4 7 (3.17%) Redis
5 6 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (2.71%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.71%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.26%) Big Data
7 4 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.81%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.36%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.36%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.36%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 57 (25.79%) Jenkins
2 56 (25.34%) GitLab
3 49 (22.17%) Git
4 15 (6.79%) JIRA
5 8 (3.62%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.26%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.26%) Browser DevTools
6 5 (2.26%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.36%) Ant
7 3 (1.36%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.36%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (1.36%) Snyk
8 2 (0.90%) Appium
8 2 (0.90%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.90%) Gradle
8 2 (0.90%) MLflow
8 2 (0.90%) Selenium
8 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.45%) Poetry
9 1 (0.45%) Spinnaker
General
1 53 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.84%) Finance
3 32 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.33%) Banking
6 8 (3.62%) Retail
7 4 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.81%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.90%) Legal
8 2 (0.90%) Private Banking
8 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Games
9 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (17.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (14.03%) Platform Engineer
3 18 (8.14%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (6.79%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (6.33%) Architect
5 14 (6.33%) Lead
5 14 (6.33%) Security Engineer
6 12 (5.43%) Senior
7 11 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
7 11 (4.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 11 (4.98%) Site Engineer
7 11 (4.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 10 (4.52%) Data Engineer
9 9 (4.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.07%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.07%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (3.62%) Analyst
10 8 (3.62%) Developer
10 8 (3.62%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.14%) Kafka
2 13 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (3.62%) ARM Templates
3 8 (3.62%) YAML
4 5 (2.26%) ADO
4 5 (2.26%) OAuth
4 5 (2.26%) SAML
5 4 (1.81%) Node.js
5 4 (1.81%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.36%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.36%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.36%) LDAP
6 3 (1.36%) Middleware
6 3 (1.36%) REST
6 3 (1.36%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.90%) BREW
7 2 (0.90%) Flash
7 2 (0.90%) HTML
7 2 (0.90%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.86%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.71%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.26%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.26%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.81%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.81%) Replication
5 4 (1.81%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (0.90%) NHS
7 2 (0.90%) PACS
7 2 (0.90%) Pricing Data
7 2 (0.90%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 88 (39.82%) Linux
2 26 (11.76%) Windows
3 19 (8.60%) Unix
4 14 (6.33%) Mac OS
5 7 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.17%) VMS
6 5 (2.26%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.36%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.90%) Solaris
9 1 (0.45%) CentOS
9 1 (0.45%) Debian
9 1 (0.45%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.45%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 109 (49.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 106 (47.96%) DevOps
4 65 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 53 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (20.81%) Platform Engineering
7 40 (18.10%) Observability
8 35 (15.84%) Configuration Management
9 33 (14.93%) Agile
10 26 (11.76%) Analytics
11 24 (10.86%) AI
12 23 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (10.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (9.50%) High Availability
14 20 (9.05%) Incident Response
15 19 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
16 18 (8.14%) Cloud Security
16 18 (8.14%) Test Automation
17 16 (7.24%) Root Cause Analysis
18 15 (6.79%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 188 (85.07%) Python
2 85 (38.46%) PowerShell
3 29 (13.12%) SQL
4 14 (6.33%) Go
4 14 (6.33%) Java
5 12 (5.43%) Bicep
5 12 (5.43%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (2.71%) C
6 6 (2.71%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.71%) Perl
6 6 (2.71%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.26%) Groovy
7 5 (2.26%) Ruby
8 2 (0.90%) C#
8 2 (0.90%) C++
8 2 (0.90%) PHP
8 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.90%) Rust
8 2 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 68 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 60 (27.15%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.88%) Degree
4 12 (5.43%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.98%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.17%) CCNA
6 7 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.71%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.71%) PhD
8 5 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.26%) CCNP
9 4 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.81%) CEH
9 4 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.36%) CISSP
10 3 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.26%) NIST
2 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.36%) QA
3 2 (0.90%) GDPR
3 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.90%) SLA
4 1 (0.45%) NCSC
4 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (37.10%) Docker
2 10 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.36%) NFS
4 3 (1.36%) Squid
4 3 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.36%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.36%) vSphere
5 2 (0.90%) Ceph
5 2 (0.90%) KVM
5 2 (0.90%) Lustre
5 2 (0.90%) Postfix
5 2 (0.90%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.90%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.90%) Snort
5 2 (0.90%) Varnish
5 2 (0.90%) Xen
6 1 (0.45%) HDFS
6 1 (0.45%) iptables
6 1 (0.45%) Samba
Systems Management
1 128 (57.92%) Terraform
2 77 (34.84%) Kubernetes
3 72 (32.58%) Ansible
4 37 (16.74%) Grafana
5 32 (14.48%) Prometheus
6 14 (6.33%) Puppet
7 10 (4.52%) Argo
8 8 (3.62%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.26%) Rancher
9 5 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.81%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.81%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.36%) Istio
11 3 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.36%) Nagios
11 3 (1.36%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.90%) Knative
12 2 (0.90%) SCCM
12 2 (0.90%) Suricata
Vendors
1 32 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.95%) Splunk
3 16 (7.24%) Databricks
4 15 (6.79%) Google
5 9 (4.07%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.62%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.62%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.17%) Qualys
8 6 (2.71%) PagerDuty
8 6 (2.71%) Zscaler
9 5 (2.26%) Cisco
9 5 (2.26%) Tenable
9 5 (2.26%) VMware
10 4 (1.81%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.81%) Oracle
11 3 (1.36%) Blue Coat
11 3 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.36%) IBM
11 3 (1.36%) Netskope
11 3 (1.36%) Pure Storage