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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 130 198
Rank change year-on-year -52 +68 -100
Contract jobs citing Bash 294 278 216
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.48% 2.05% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.80% 5.29% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 184 149
10th Percentile £394 £390 £400
25th Percentile £452 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £625 £643 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £730
England median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.14% -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile £56.75 £45.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £54.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% +91.23% +42.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £63.25 £52.81
90th Percentile - - £71.88
England median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -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 6,126 5,258 6,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 30.91% 38.77% 39.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,078 3,686 4,995
10th Percentile £381 £368 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £706
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £520 £516 £545
% change year-on-year +0.78% -5.32% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 48 46
10th Percentile £34.35 £27.08 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £34.82
Median hourly rate £54.50 £43.16 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.28% -10.09% -20.14%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.13 £62.23
90th Percentile £88.75 £81.88 £72.19
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 22 July 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 July 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 -31 20 £525 -7.08% 15
South London -13 5 £535 -13.71% 4
West London -12 3 £500 +5.26% 2
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 17 (5.78%) Confluence
2 10 (3.40%) Apache
3 9 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.36%) WordPress
5 3 (1.02%) nginx
5 3 (1.02%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.68%) CMS
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.34%) IIS
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.34%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 143 (48.64%) AWS
2 129 (43.88%) Azure
3 86 (29.25%) GitHub
4 68 (23.13%) GitHub Actions
5 63 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (15.65%) GCP
7 43 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
7 43 (14.63%) Amazon S3
8 39 (13.27%) Serverless
9 36 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (11.22%) AWS Lambda
11 31 (10.54%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (10.20%) Datadog
13 28 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 27 (9.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (6.80%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (6.80%) Entra ID
16 17 (5.78%) Azure AKS
17 16 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
18 13 (4.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (14.29%) Firewall
2 38 (12.93%) DNS
3 32 (10.88%) VPN
4 28 (9.52%) TCP/IP
5 27 (9.18%) Network Security
6 11 (3.74%) VLAN
6 11 (3.74%) WAN
7 8 (2.72%) DHCP
7 8 (2.72%) SD-WAN
8 7 (2.38%) SSL
9 6 (2.04%) HTTP
10 4 (1.36%) NAS
10 4 (1.36%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (1.36%) SAN
11 3 (1.02%) BGP
11 3 (1.02%) Internet
12 2 (0.68%) IPsec
12 2 (0.68%) SSH
12 2 (0.68%) X.509
13 1 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.06%) Redis
3 8 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (2.72%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.38%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.04%) Metadata
5 6 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.70%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (1.70%) Big Data
6 5 (1.70%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.70%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.36%) MySQL
8 3 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.02%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.02%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 85 (28.91%) Jenkins
2 71 (24.15%) Git
3 69 (23.47%) GitLab
4 15 (5.10%) JIRA
5 12 (4.08%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.38%) JMeter
7 6 (2.04%) Postman
8 5 (1.70%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.02%) Ant
10 3 (1.02%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.68%) Subversion
12 1 (0.34%) Maven
12 1 (0.34%) PeopleTools
12 1 (0.34%) Selenium
12 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.34%) VersionOne
12 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 64 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 56 (19.05%) Finance
3 35 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (9.86%) Banking
6 7 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.38%) Law
7 4 (1.36%) Front Office
7 4 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.36%) Military
7 4 (1.36%) Publishing
7 4 (1.36%) Retail
8 3 (1.02%) Automotive
8 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.68%) Police
9 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Billing
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Legal
Job Titles
1 78 (26.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (10.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 31 (10.54%) Senior
4 28 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 26 (8.84%) Security Engineer
6 25 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
7 22 (7.48%) Lead
7 22 (7.48%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (6.46%) Architect
8 19 (6.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.10%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 15 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 13 (4.42%) Linux Engineer
11 13 (4.42%) Site Engineer
12 11 (3.74%) Applications Support
12 11 (3.74%) AWS DevOps
12 11 (3.74%) Network Engineer
13 10 (3.40%) Lead DevOps
13 10 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.82%) Kafka
2 16 (5.44%) ARM Templates
3 14 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (4.76%) YAML
4 12 (4.08%) REST
5 11 (3.74%) JSON
6 9 (3.06%) Loki
6 9 (3.06%) Middleware
7 8 (2.72%) SAML
8 7 (2.38%) OAuth
9 6 (2.04%) cloud-init
9 6 (2.04%) Swagger
10 5 (1.70%) .NET
10 5 (1.70%) ADO
11 4 (1.36%) LDAP
11 4 (1.36%) ModSecurity
12 3 (1.02%) Apache NiFi
12 3 (1.02%) GraphQL
12 3 (1.02%) JSON-LD
12 3 (1.02%) NetworkX
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.99%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.74%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.40%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.06%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (2.38%) PKI
9 5 (1.70%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.36%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.36%) Equities
10 4 (1.36%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.36%) Robotics
11 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.02%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 108 (36.73%) Linux
2 40 (13.61%) Windows
3 21 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (6.80%) Ubuntu
5 19 (6.46%) Unix
6 17 (5.78%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.04%) VMS
8 4 (1.36%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.68%) Debian
9 2 (0.68%) Solaris
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.34%) CentOS
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.34%) Rocky
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (64.63%) CI/CD
2 184 (62.59%) DevOps
3 167 (56.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (30.95%) Containerisation
5 64 (21.77%) Observability
6 53 (18.03%) Platform Engineering
7 52 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (13.61%) Configuration Management
10 38 (12.93%) Cloud Security
11 37 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 35 (11.90%) Agile
12 35 (11.90%) Runbook
13 34 (11.56%) AI
14 32 (10.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 31 (10.54%) Migration
16 29 (9.86%) Identity Access Management
17 28 (9.52%) DevSecOps
17 28 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
18 27 (9.18%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 252 (85.71%) Python
2 118 (40.14%) PowerShell
3 29 (9.86%) SQL
4 23 (7.82%) Java
5 22 (7.48%) Go
6 20 (6.80%) Bicep
7 11 (3.74%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.06%) Perl
9 6 (2.04%) Groovy
9 6 (2.04%) Ruby
10 5 (1.70%) C
10 5 (1.70%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.02%) C#
11 3 (1.02%) Cypher
11 3 (1.02%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.02%) Korn
11 3 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.02%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.34%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 99 (33.67%) Security Cleared
2 88 (29.93%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.48%) Azure Certification
4 15 (5.10%) Degree
5 14 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.72%) CCNP
9 7 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.38%) CCNA
10 5 (1.70%) CISSP
10 5 (1.70%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.02%) JNCIP
12 3 (1.02%) JNCIS
13 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.68%) CCSP
13 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.76%) QA
2 8 (2.72%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.72%) NIST
3 7 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.70%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.02%) SLA
5 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.34%) GDPR
6 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 105 (35.71%) Docker
2 25 (8.50%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.72%) Squid
6 5 (1.70%) vSphere
7 4 (1.36%) NFS
7 4 (1.36%) Postfix
7 4 (1.36%) Varnish
7 4 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.02%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.02%) OpenSSH
8 3 (1.02%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.68%) HDFS
9 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.68%) zsh
10 1 (0.34%) KVM
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.34%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 187 (63.61%) Terraform
2 123 (41.84%) Kubernetes
3 106 (36.05%) Ansible
4 79 (26.87%) Grafana
5 68 (23.13%) Prometheus
6 25 (8.50%) Puppet
7 14 (4.76%) Argo
8 11 (3.74%) Progress Chef
9 10 (3.40%) systemd
10 5 (1.70%) HAProxy
10 5 (1.70%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (1.70%) Kibana
10 5 (1.70%) Salt
10 5 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.36%) Suricata
11 4 (1.36%) vCenter Server
12 3 (1.02%) Consul
12 3 (1.02%) Istio
12 3 (1.02%) Packer
12 3 (1.02%) yum
Vendors
1 45 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.80%) VMware
3 18 (6.12%) Oracle
4 17 (5.78%) Dynatrace
5 16 (5.44%) Databricks
5 16 (5.44%) Google
5 16 (5.44%) Splunk
6 12 (4.08%) Red Hat
7 11 (3.74%) Zscaler
8 10 (3.40%) Cisco
8 10 (3.40%) CyberArk
8 10 (3.40%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.72%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.72%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.70%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (1.70%) NetApp
10 5 (1.70%) WALLIX
11 4 (1.36%) IBM
11 4 (1.36%) Meraki
12 3 (1.02%) Imperva