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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 127 194
Rank change year-on-year -33 +67 -86
Contract jobs citing Bash 367 292 214
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.80% 2.17% 1.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.75% 5.65% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 197 138
10th Percentile £387 £394 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -6.96% -8.73%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £684
90th Percentile £713 £688 £810
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £47.15 £23.30
25th Percentile £56.75 £49.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +72.31% +62.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.75 £71.88
90th Percentile - £63.05 -
England median hourly rate £69.61 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +43.52% -15.65% -20.69%

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 6,382 5,166 6,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.37% 38.46% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,287 3,551 4,661
10th Percentile £381 £369 £365
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 64 41
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.60 £25.25
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £33.07
Median hourly rate £53.75 £44.95 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.58% -5.37% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.50 £63.75 £61.43
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.13 £78.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +0.78%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 22 £550 -12.35% 25
South London -5 6 £535 -13.71% 6
West London -21 6 £519 +9.21% 12
East London - 4 £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 (4.63%) Confluence
2 14 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.72%) Apache
3 10 (2.72%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.09%) WordPress
5 3 (0.82%) nginx
5 3 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.54%) CMS
6 2 (0.54%) IIS
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.54%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Front Arena
1 5 (1.36%) Summit
2 1 (0.27%) Actimize
2 1 (0.27%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 169 (46.05%) AWS
2 156 (42.51%) Azure
3 111 (30.25%) GitHub
4 89 (24.25%) GitHub Actions
5 73 (19.89%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (16.35%) GCP
7 51 (13.90%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (12.26%) Amazon S3
9 42 (11.44%) Serverless
10 39 (10.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (9.26%) Datadog
12 32 (8.72%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (8.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (7.90%) Entra ID
15 28 (7.63%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (7.36%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (5.72%) Azure AKS
18 17 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
19 15 (4.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (12.53%) Firewall
2 41 (11.17%) VPN
3 37 (10.08%) DNS
4 33 (8.99%) Network Security
5 29 (7.90%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.36%) WAN
7 11 (3.00%) VLAN
8 10 (2.72%) SD-WAN
9 9 (2.45%) SAN
10 8 (2.18%) SSL
11 7 (1.91%) BGP
11 7 (1.91%) DHCP
11 7 (1.91%) Kerberos
12 5 (1.36%) MPLS
12 5 (1.36%) SSH
13 4 (1.09%) 4G
13 4 (1.09%) 5G
13 4 (1.09%) HTTP
14 3 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
14 3 (0.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.18%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.90%) Redis
4 15 (4.09%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (3.27%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.00%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.72%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.45%) MySQL
9 8 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.18%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.91%) Power BI
11 6 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.63%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.63%) Metadata
11 6 (1.63%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.63%) SQLite
12 4 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.09%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 109 (29.70%) Jenkins
2 92 (25.07%) Git
3 84 (22.89%) GitLab
4 20 (5.45%) JIRA
5 16 (4.36%) Artifactory
6 9 (2.45%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.45%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.91%) JMeter
8 6 (1.63%) Postman
9 5 (1.36%) Maven
10 4 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.82%) Selenium
11 3 (0.82%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.82%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.54%) Snyk
12 2 (0.54%) Subversion
12 2 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 90 (24.52%) Finance
2 86 (23.43%) Social Skills
3 49 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (10.90%) Banking
5 30 (8.17%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.54%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.18%) Law
8 6 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.63%) Retail
9 5 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.36%) Front Office
9 5 (1.36%) Publishing
10 4 (1.09%) Automotive
10 4 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.09%) Military
11 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.82%) Marketing
12 2 (0.54%) Billing
12 2 (0.54%) Police
13 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (22.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 47 (12.81%) Senior
3 31 (8.45%) Azure Engineer
3 31 (8.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (7.90%) AWS Engineer
5 28 (7.63%) Platform Engineer
6 27 (7.36%) Security Engineer
7 26 (7.08%) Lead
8 24 (6.54%) Linux Engineer
9 21 (5.72%) Developer
10 20 (5.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 18 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (4.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 17 (4.63%) Architect
13 16 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
13 16 (4.36%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 16 (4.36%) Site Engineer
14 15 (4.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 15 (4.09%) Senior DevOps
14 15 (4.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (57.22%) Terraform
2 42 (11.44%) Kafka
3 24 (6.54%) REST
4 20 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (5.45%) YAML
5 19 (5.18%) ARM Templates
6 17 (4.63%) Middleware
7 15 (4.09%) Loki
8 12 (3.27%) RESTful
9 10 (2.72%) JSON
9 10 (2.72%) Spring
10 9 (2.45%) .NET
11 8 (2.18%) Flask
12 7 (1.91%) pytest
12 7 (1.91%) SAML
13 6 (1.63%) CSS
13 6 (1.63%) Node.js
13 6 (1.63%) React
13 6 (1.63%) SPNEGO
13 6 (1.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.80%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.36%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (3.54%) Legacy Applications
5 13 (3.54%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.27%) Security Posture
7 11 (3.00%) PKI
8 10 (2.72%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.18%) Enterprise Storage
9 8 (2.18%) Replication
9 8 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.91%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.63%) Equities
11 6 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.36%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 153 (41.69%) Linux
2 57 (15.53%) Windows
3 32 (8.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (7.90%) Windows Server
5 24 (6.54%) Unix
6 21 (5.72%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.45%) VMS
8 5 (1.36%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.54%) Debian
9 2 (0.54%) Solaris
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.27%) CentOS
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.27%) Rocky
10 1 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (63.49%) CI/CD
2 214 (58.31%) DevOps
3 198 (53.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (29.16%) Containerisation
5 102 (27.79%) Observability
6 72 (19.62%) Platform Engineering
7 70 (19.07%) Agile
8 68 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (17.17%) AI
10 61 (16.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (15.53%) Root Cause Analysis
12 49 (13.35%) Infrastructure Automation
13 48 (13.08%) Cloud Security
14 47 (12.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 46 (12.53%) Configuration Management
16 45 (12.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 43 (11.72%) Runbook
18 39 (10.63%) Identity Access Management
19 38 (10.35%) DevSecOps
20 37 (10.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 318 (86.65%) Python
2 153 (41.69%) PowerShell
3 47 (12.81%) Java
4 45 (12.26%) SQL
5 37 (10.08%) Go
6 33 (8.99%) Bicep
7 22 (5.99%) Shell Script
8 18 (4.90%) Korn
9 14 (3.81%) Perl
10 9 (2.45%) Groovy
10 9 (2.45%) Ruby
11 8 (2.18%) JavaScript
12 7 (1.91%) C#
13 5 (1.36%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.82%) Cypher
14 3 (0.82%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.82%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.54%) C
15 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 122 (33.24%) Security Cleared
2 106 (28.88%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.17%) Azure Certification
4 23 (6.27%) Degree
5 20 (5.45%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.27%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.18%) CISSP
9 7 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.91%) CCNP
10 6 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.36%) CCNA
12 4 (1.09%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.09%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.54%) CISM
14 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.36%) QA
2 14 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.54%) NIST
4 8 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.09%) SLA
7 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.54%) GDPR
9 1 (0.27%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 138 (37.60%) Docker
2 30 (8.17%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.18%) Squid
6 5 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.09%) vSphere
8 3 (0.82%) NFS
8 3 (0.82%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.82%) Postfix
8 3 (0.82%) Varnish
9 2 (0.54%) HDFS
9 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.54%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.54%) zsh
10 1 (0.27%) KVM
10 1 (0.27%) QEMU
10 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 165 (44.96%) Kubernetes
2 123 (33.51%) Ansible
3 103 (28.07%) Grafana
4 87 (23.71%) Prometheus
5 24 (6.54%) Puppet
6 19 (5.18%) Argo
7 12 (3.27%) systemd
8 11 (3.00%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.72%) Kibana
10 9 (2.45%) Istio
11 7 (1.91%) Cilium
12 6 (1.63%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (1.09%) Consul
14 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (1.09%) Salt
14 4 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (1.09%) Suricata
15 3 (0.82%) HAProxy
15 3 (0.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 67 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.36%) VMware
3 26 (7.08%) Dynatrace
3 26 (7.08%) Google
4 25 (6.81%) Oracle
4 25 (6.81%) Splunk
5 19 (5.18%) Databricks
6 15 (4.09%) CyberArk
6 15 (4.09%) Red Hat
7 14 (3.81%) ServiceNow
8 13 (3.54%) Cisco
9 12 (3.27%) Palo Alto
10 11 (3.00%) NetApp
11 9 (2.45%) BeyondTrust
11 9 (2.45%) Fortinet
11 9 (2.45%) WALLIX
12 7 (1.91%) Zscaler
13 6 (1.63%) Apple
13 6 (1.63%) FIS
13 6 (1.63%) Murex