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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 149 164
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 -18
Contract jobs citing Bash 253 236 275
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.71% 1.70% 1.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.65% 4.40% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 140 196
10th Percentile £400 £375 £425
25th Percentile £463 £471 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £580 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% -1.28% -6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £700
90th Percentile £749 £810 £810
England median daily rate £518 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £38.75 £67.40 £58.40
25th Percentile £42.50 £84.13 £59.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £112.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.46% +86.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £58.50 - -
90th Percentile £61.65 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +2.04% -18.33% +2.74%

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 5,439 5,360 6,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.73% 38.59% 34.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,651 3,533 4,873
10th Percentile £363 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 37 71
10th Percentile £24.57 £35.00 £26.88
25th Percentile £36.00 £38.50 £38.46
Median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.94% -12.17%
75th Percentile £67.70 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 30 January 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 20 £540 -0.69% 40
South London -4 8 £530 +143.68% 13
West London - 3 - - 13
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 (4.74%) Confluence
2 7 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.37%) nginx
4 4 (1.58%) Apache
4 4 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.19%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.19%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.79%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.79%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.40%) FileNet
7 1 (0.40%) Luigi
7 1 (0.40%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.40%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.40%) Pro Tools
1 1 (0.40%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 110 (43.48%) AWS
2 89 (35.18%) Azure
3 47 (18.58%) GCP
4 43 (17.00%) GitHub
5 37 (14.62%) Amazon S3
6 34 (13.44%) Amazon EC2
7 32 (12.65%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (10.28%) Serverless
9 25 (9.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 23 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (8.30%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (8.30%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (5.93%) Entra ID
14 13 (5.14%) OpenShift
15 12 (4.74%) Azure AKS
16 10 (3.95%) IaaS
17 9 (3.56%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 31 (12.25%) Firewall
2 26 (10.28%) DNS
3 24 (9.49%) TCP/IP
4 16 (6.32%) VPN
5 15 (5.93%) Network Security
6 14 (5.53%) SSL
7 7 (2.77%) BGP
7 7 (2.77%) Wireshark
8 6 (2.37%) Multicast
8 6 (2.37%) OSPF
8 6 (2.37%) VLAN
9 5 (1.98%) EIGRP
9 5 (1.98%) HTTP
9 5 (1.98%) HTTPS
9 5 (1.98%) IPsec
10 4 (1.58%) DHCP
10 4 (1.58%) tcpdump
11 3 (1.19%) NAS
11 3 (1.19%) WAN
12 2 (0.79%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (16.21%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (6.72%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.74%) Redis
5 11 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.95%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.95%) MySQL
7 8 (3.16%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.77%) Big Data
8 7 (2.77%) Delta Lake
9 6 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.37%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.98%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.58%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.19%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 60 (23.72%) GitLab
2 57 (22.53%) Jenkins
3 53 (20.95%) Git
4 19 (7.51%) JIRA
5 9 (3.56%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.77%) Maven
7 6 (2.37%) Metasploit
8 5 (1.98%) Burp Suite
8 5 (1.98%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.98%) Gradle
8 5 (1.98%) MLflow
8 5 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.98%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.58%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.58%) sqlmap
9 4 (1.58%) Subversion
10 3 (1.19%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (1.19%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.79%) Chocolatey
11 2 (0.79%) Snyk
General
1 61 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (12.25%) Finance
4 22 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.95%) Retail
6 9 (3.56%) Banking
7 7 (2.77%) Front Office
8 4 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.58%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.19%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Military
10 2 (0.79%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 35 (13.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (11.46%) Senior
3 26 (10.28%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (6.32%) Developer
5 13 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (5.14%) Lead
5 13 (5.14%) Security Engineer
6 12 (4.74%) Architect
6 12 (4.74%) Data Engineer
7 11 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (4.35%) Network Engineer
7 11 (4.35%) Site Engineer
7 11 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 10 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (3.56%) Administrator
9 9 (3.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (2.77%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 7 (2.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.09%) Kafka
2 12 (4.74%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (4.35%) Middleware
4 7 (2.77%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (2.77%) REST
5 6 (2.37%) Keycloak
5 6 (2.37%) Node.js
6 5 (1.98%) Loki
6 5 (1.98%) PyTorch
6 5 (1.98%) YAML
7 4 (1.58%) .NET
7 4 (1.58%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.58%) FastAPI
7 4 (1.58%) SAML
7 4 (1.58%) Ultra Messaging
8 3 (1.19%) ADO
8 3 (1.19%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.19%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.19%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.19%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.32%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.74%) Replication
5 11 (4.35%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.77%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.37%) PKI
8 5 (1.98%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.58%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.58%) Clustering
9 4 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.58%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.58%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.19%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 117 (46.25%) Linux
2 29 (11.46%) Windows
3 22 (8.70%) Mac OS
3 22 (8.70%) Unix
4 19 (7.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.56%) Solaris
6 6 (2.37%) VMS
7 5 (1.98%) CentOS
8 4 (1.58%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.58%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.40%) Android
9 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (52.57%) CI/CD
2 124 (49.01%) Infrastructure as Code
3 106 (41.90%) DevOps
4 64 (25.30%) Containerisation
5 52 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (17.39%) Agile
6 44 (17.39%) Observability
7 40 (15.81%) Platform Engineering
8 38 (15.02%) Incident Response
9 34 (13.44%) High Availability
10 33 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (10.28%) Analytics
11 26 (10.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 24 (9.49%) Configuration Management
13 23 (9.09%) DevSecOps
13 23 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
14 21 (8.30%) AI
14 21 (8.30%) Root Cause Analysis
14 21 (8.30%) Test Automation
15 20 (7.91%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 214 (84.58%) Python
2 94 (37.15%) PowerShell
3 32 (12.65%) SQL
4 19 (7.51%) Java
5 18 (7.11%) Kusto Query Language
6 17 (6.72%) Perl
7 14 (5.53%) Go
8 9 (3.56%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.16%) Groovy
9 8 (3.16%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.77%) C++
11 5 (1.98%) Bicep
12 4 (1.58%) C
12 4 (1.58%) C#
12 4 (1.58%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.19%) PHP
13 3 (1.19%) Rust
13 3 (1.19%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 62 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 56 (22.13%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.14%) AWS Certification
3 13 (5.14%) Degree
4 9 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.16%) OSCP
6 7 (2.77%) CCNP
6 7 (2.77%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.77%) GPEN
7 6 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.37%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.37%) PhD
8 5 (1.98%) JNCIA
8 5 (1.98%) JNCIS
8 5 (1.98%) RHCE
9 4 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.58%) CCNA
9 4 (1.58%) CEH
9 4 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.56%) GDPR
2 8 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.77%) NIST
4 6 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.58%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.79%) NCSC
6 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) GxP
7 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.40%) QA
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (35.97%) Docker
2 12 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.37%) zsh
5 5 (1.98%) Firmware
5 5 (1.98%) KVM
5 5 (1.98%) Squid
6 4 (1.58%) NFS
6 4 (1.58%) Snort
7 3 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.19%) Veritas File System
7 3 (1.19%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 3 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.79%) Ceph
8 2 (0.79%) Lustre
8 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.79%) vSphere
8 2 (0.79%) Xen
Systems Management
1 117 (46.25%) Terraform
2 93 (36.76%) Kubernetes
3 80 (31.62%) Ansible
4 43 (17.00%) Grafana
5 40 (15.81%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.74%) Argo
6 12 (4.74%) Puppet
7 9 (3.56%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (3.16%) Nessus
9 7 (2.77%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (2.77%) Rancher
9 7 (2.77%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (2.37%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.98%) Istio
11 5 (1.98%) Nagios
11 5 (1.98%) Nmap
12 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.58%) Nexpose
12 4 (1.58%) Suricata
13 3 (1.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 38 (15.02%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.86%) Splunk
3 21 (8.30%) Google
3 21 (8.30%) Red Hat
4 17 (6.72%) Palo Alto
5 13 (5.14%) Databricks
5 13 (5.14%) F5
5 13 (5.14%) VMware
6 12 (4.74%) Cisco
7 11 (4.35%) CheckPoint
7 11 (4.35%) Qualys
7 11 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 10 (3.95%) Oracle
9 9 (3.56%) Atlassian
9 9 (3.56%) Zscaler
10 8 (3.16%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.77%) Apple
11 7 (2.77%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (2.77%) Solace
12 6 (2.37%) PagerDuty