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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 131 198
Rank change year-on-year -55 +67 -106
Contract jobs citing Bash 289 279 216
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.46% 2.06% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.73% 5.31% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 185 149
10th Percentile £392 £391 £400
25th Percentile £455 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £625 £641 £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 6,110 5,259 6,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 30.89% 38.79% 39.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,059 3,686 4,995
10th Percentile £380 £368 £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 £656 £700 £706
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £520 £520 £545
% change year-on-year +0.05% -4.63% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 48 46
10th Percentile £34.50 £27.08 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £34.82
Median hourly rate £54.75 £43.16 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.86% -10.09% -20.00%
75th Percentile £73.50 £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 21 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 21 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 -32 20 £525 -7.08% 12
South London -12 5 £535 -13.71% 4
West London -14 2 £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 16 (5.54%) Confluence
2 10 (3.46%) Apache
3 9 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.11%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.38%) WordPress
5 3 (1.04%) nginx
5 3 (1.04%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.69%) CMS
6 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) IIS
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.35%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 140 (48.44%) AWS
2 126 (43.60%) Azure
3 82 (28.37%) GitHub
4 65 (22.49%) GitHub Actions
5 62 (21.45%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (14.88%) Amazon S3
7 42 (14.53%) GCP
8 41 (14.19%) Amazon EKS
9 39 (13.49%) Serverless
10 36 (12.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (11.42%) AWS Lambda
12 31 (10.73%) Amazon EC2
13 28 (9.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 27 (9.34%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (9.34%) Datadog
15 19 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
15 19 (6.57%) Entra ID
16 17 (5.88%) Azure AKS
17 16 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
18 12 (4.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (13.84%) Firewall
2 36 (12.46%) DNS
3 29 (10.03%) VPN
4 26 (9.00%) Network Security
4 26 (9.00%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.46%) VLAN
5 10 (3.46%) WAN
6 7 (2.42%) DHCP
6 7 (2.42%) SD-WAN
6 7 (2.42%) SSL
7 6 (2.08%) HTTP
8 4 (1.38%) NAS
8 4 (1.38%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (1.38%) SAN
9 3 (1.04%) BGP
9 3 (1.04%) Internet
10 2 (0.69%) IPsec
10 2 (0.69%) SSH
10 2 (0.69%) X.509
11 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (4.15%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.11%) Redis
3 8 (2.77%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (2.77%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.42%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.08%) Metadata
5 6 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.73%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (1.73%) Big Data
6 5 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.73%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.38%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.38%) MySQL
8 3 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.04%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.04%) Power BI
8 3 (1.04%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 81 (28.03%) Jenkins
2 69 (23.88%) Git
3 65 (22.49%) GitLab
4 14 (4.84%) JIRA
5 12 (4.15%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.42%) JMeter
7 6 (2.08%) Postman
8 5 (1.73%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.04%) Ant
9 3 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.04%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.69%) Subversion
11 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.35%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.35%) Gatling
11 1 (0.35%) Maven
11 1 (0.35%) PeopleTools
11 1 (0.35%) Selenium
11 1 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 64 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.03%) Finance
3 35 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 30 (10.38%) Banking
5 29 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.42%) Law
7 4 (1.38%) Front Office
7 4 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.38%) Military
7 4 (1.38%) Publishing
7 4 (1.38%) Retail
8 3 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.69%) Automotive
9 2 (0.69%) Police
10 1 (0.35%) Billing
10 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Games
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 78 (26.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (11.07%) Cloud Engineer
3 28 (9.69%) Senior
4 27 (9.34%) Azure Engineer
5 26 (9.00%) Security Engineer
6 25 (8.65%) AWS Engineer
7 22 (7.61%) Lead
8 21 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (6.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 18 (6.23%) Architect
11 15 (5.19%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 15 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (4.84%) Linux Engineer
13 12 (4.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (3.81%) Applications Support
14 11 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
14 11 (3.81%) Site Engineer
15 10 (3.46%) Network Engineer
15 10 (3.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.46%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.96%) Kafka
2 16 (5.54%) ARM Templates
3 14 (4.84%) YAML
4 12 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (4.15%) REST
5 11 (3.81%) JSON
6 9 (3.11%) Loki
6 9 (3.11%) Middleware
7 8 (2.77%) SAML
8 7 (2.42%) OAuth
9 6 (2.08%) cloud-init
9 6 (2.08%) Swagger
10 5 (1.73%) .NET
10 5 (1.73%) ADO
11 4 (1.38%) LDAP
11 4 (1.38%) ModSecurity
12 3 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
12 3 (1.04%) GraphQL
12 3 (1.04%) JSON-LD
12 3 (1.04%) NetworkX
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.92%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.46%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.46%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.46%) Security Posture
5 9 (3.11%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.77%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (2.08%) PKI
9 5 (1.73%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.73%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.38%) Equities
10 4 (1.38%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.04%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 105 (36.33%) Linux
2 39 (13.49%) Windows
3 20 (6.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (6.92%) Unix
4 17 (5.88%) Ubuntu
4 17 (5.88%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.08%) VMS
6 4 (1.38%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.69%) Debian
7 2 (0.69%) Solaris
7 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.35%) CentOS
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Rocky
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (64.01%) CI/CD
2 180 (62.28%) DevOps
3 163 (56.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (31.49%) Containerisation
5 63 (21.80%) Observability
6 52 (17.99%) Platform Engineering
6 52 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (14.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (13.15%) Configuration Management
9 37 (12.80%) Cloud Security
9 37 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 34 (11.76%) Agile
10 34 (11.76%) Runbook
11 32 (11.07%) AI
12 30 (10.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 29 (10.03%) Migration
14 28 (9.69%) DevSecOps
15 27 (9.34%) Identity Access Management
15 27 (9.34%) Root Cause Analysis
16 26 (9.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 246 (85.12%) Python
2 115 (39.79%) PowerShell
3 26 (9.00%) SQL
4 20 (6.92%) Java
5 19 (6.57%) Bicep
5 19 (6.57%) Go
6 11 (3.81%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.77%) Perl
8 6 (2.08%) Ruby
9 5 (1.73%) C
9 5 (1.73%) Groovy
9 5 (1.73%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.04%) C#
10 3 (1.04%) Cypher
10 3 (1.04%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.04%) Korn
10 3 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.04%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.35%) C++
11 1 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 99 (34.26%) Security Cleared
2 88 (30.45%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.27%) Azure Certification
4 15 (5.19%) Degree
5 14 (4.84%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.42%) CCNA
8 7 (2.42%) CCNP
9 5 (1.73%) CISSP
9 5 (1.73%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.69%) CCSP
12 2 (0.69%) JNCIP
12 2 (0.69%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.50%) QA
2 8 (2.77%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.77%) NIST
3 7 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.73%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.04%) SLA
5 3 (1.04%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 103 (35.64%) Docker
2 25 (8.65%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.77%) Squid
6 5 (1.73%) vSphere
7 4 (1.38%) NFS
7 4 (1.38%) Postfix
7 4 (1.38%) Varnish
7 4 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.04%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.04%) OpenSSH
8 3 (1.04%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.69%) HDFS
9 2 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.69%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.69%) zsh
10 1 (0.35%) KVM
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.35%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 182 (62.98%) Terraform
2 119 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 103 (35.64%) Ansible
4 76 (26.30%) Grafana
5 65 (22.49%) Prometheus
6 25 (8.65%) Puppet
7 14 (4.84%) Argo
8 11 (3.81%) Progress Chef
9 9 (3.11%) systemd
10 5 (1.73%) HAProxy
10 5 (1.73%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (1.73%) Kibana
10 5 (1.73%) Salt
10 5 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.38%) Suricata
11 4 (1.38%) vCenter Server
12 3 (1.04%) Consul
12 3 (1.04%) Istio
12 3 (1.04%) Packer
12 3 (1.04%) yum
Vendors
1 43 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.23%) Oracle
2 18 (6.23%) VMware
3 16 (5.54%) Databricks
3 16 (5.54%) Dynatrace
4 15 (5.19%) Splunk
5 14 (4.84%) Google
6 12 (4.15%) Red Hat
7 11 (3.81%) Zscaler
8 10 (3.46%) CyberArk
8 10 (3.46%) Palo Alto
9 9 (3.11%) Cisco
10 8 (2.77%) Fortinet
10 8 (2.77%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.73%) BeyondTrust
11 5 (1.73%) NetApp
11 5 (1.73%) WALLIX
12 4 (1.38%) IBM
12 4 (1.38%) Meraki
13 3 (1.04%) Imperva