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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 150 192
Rank change year-on-year -42 +42 -79
Contract jobs citing Bash 227 232 223
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 1.83% 1.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.00% 4.67% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 151 147
10th Percentile £405 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £444 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £613 £731 £641
90th Percentile £752 £798 £725
England median daily rate £500 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -13.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £38.75 £46.80 £21.10
25th Percentile £42.50 £48.38 £22.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £56.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -3.45% -38.95%
75th Percentile £58.50 £62.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.65 £62.80 -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +35.02% -8.33% -16.08%

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 5,669 4,972 6,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.99% 39.31% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,826 3,450 4,808
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £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 £813
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 32 58
10th Percentile £23.43 £29.07 £25.67
25th Percentile £40.25 £38.22 £40.09
Median hourly rate £54.50 £45.75 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -12.23% -9.35%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.94 £61.31
90th Percentile £73.50 £67.25 £70.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -4.38%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -36 16 £510 -6.21% 21
South London -12 9 £530 - 1
West London - 1 - - 2
East London - 1 £432 - 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 13 (5.73%) Confluence
2 7 (3.08%) nginx
3 5 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.76%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.32%) Apache
5 3 (1.32%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.32%) Hyperledger
5 3 (1.32%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.88%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.44%) FileNet
7 1 (0.44%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.44%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 99 (43.61%) AWS
2 85 (37.44%) Azure
3 56 (24.67%) GitHub
4 41 (18.06%) GCP
5 39 (17.18%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (14.10%) Amazon EKS
6 32 (14.10%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (13.66%) Amazon S3
7 31 (13.66%) Serverless
8 29 (12.78%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (10.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (10.57%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (9.25%) Amazon ECS
10 21 (9.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (6.17%) Azure AKS
13 11 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (4.41%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (4.41%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.01%) TCP/IP
2 23 (10.13%) DNS
3 22 (9.69%) Firewall
4 13 (5.73%) VPN
5 9 (3.96%) Network Security
6 8 (3.52%) HTTP
7 7 (3.08%) VLAN
8 6 (2.64%) DHCP
8 6 (2.64%) Multicast
8 6 (2.64%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.76%) tcpdump
10 3 (1.32%) SSL
10 3 (1.32%) WAN
11 2 (0.88%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.88%) NAS
11 2 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.88%) SAN
11 2 (0.88%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.88%) Spanning Tree
11 2 (0.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.45%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.25%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (4.41%) Redis
4 9 (3.96%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.96%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.52%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.52%) MySQL
6 7 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.64%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.20%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.76%) Big Data
10 3 (1.32%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.32%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.88%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 61 (26.87%) Jenkins
2 60 (26.43%) GitLab
3 49 (21.59%) Git
4 17 (7.49%) JIRA
5 9 (3.96%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.20%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.20%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.76%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (1.76%) MLflow
8 3 (1.32%) Ant
8 3 (1.32%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.32%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (1.32%) Snyk
9 2 (0.88%) Appium
9 2 (0.88%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.88%) Gradle
9 2 (0.88%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.88%) Selenium
9 2 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.44%) Spinnaker
General
1 61 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.74%) Finance
3 30 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.33%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.73%) Banking
6 10 (4.41%) Retail
7 4 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.76%) Front Office
7 4 (1.76%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.88%) Private Banking
8 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Games
9 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.44%) Legal
9 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (17.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (14.10%) Platform Engineer
3 17 (7.49%) Senior
4 16 (7.05%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (6.61%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (6.61%) Lead
6 13 (5.73%) Architect
6 13 (5.73%) Security Engineer
7 12 (5.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (4.41%) Site Engineer
9 10 (4.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (3.96%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.96%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (3.96%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (3.52%) Analyst
11 8 (3.52%) Data Engineer
11 8 (3.52%) Developer
11 8 (3.52%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.49%) Kafka
2 11 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (3.52%) ARM Templates
3 8 (3.52%) YAML
4 7 (3.08%) Middleware
5 5 (2.20%) ADO
5 5 (2.20%) FastAPI
6 4 (1.76%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (1.76%) Node.js
6 4 (1.76%) OAuth
6 4 (1.76%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.76%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.76%) SAML
6 4 (1.76%) Ultra Messaging
7 3 (1.32%) Keycloak
7 3 (1.32%) LDAP
7 3 (1.32%) REST
7 3 (1.32%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (0.88%) LangChain
8 2 (0.88%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.57%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.64%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.20%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.20%) Replication
5 4 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.76%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.76%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.32%) Blockchain
6 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (0.88%) NHS
7 2 (0.88%) PACS
7 2 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 90 (39.65%) Linux
2 26 (11.45%) Windows
3 18 (7.93%) Unix
4 16 (7.05%) Mac OS
5 7 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.08%) VMS
6 4 (1.76%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.88%) Solaris
9 1 (0.44%) CentOS
9 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.44%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (55.07%) CI/CD
2 117 (51.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 108 (47.58%) DevOps
4 69 (30.40%) Containerisation
5 54 (23.79%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (22.03%) Platform Engineering
7 43 (18.94%) Observability
8 34 (14.98%) Configuration Management
9 32 (14.10%) Agile
10 31 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (12.33%) Incident Response
12 26 (11.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 25 (11.01%) Analytics
13 25 (11.01%) High Availability
14 24 (10.57%) AI
15 20 (8.81%) Cybersecurity
16 19 (8.37%) Roadmaps
17 18 (7.93%) DevSecOps
17 18 (7.93%) Test Automation
18 17 (7.49%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 193 (85.02%) Python
2 87 (38.33%) PowerShell
3 29 (12.78%) SQL
4 14 (6.17%) Java
5 13 (5.73%) Go
6 12 (5.29%) Bicep
6 12 (5.29%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (2.64%) C
7 6 (2.64%) Perl
8 5 (2.20%) Groovy
8 5 (2.20%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.20%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.32%) PHP
9 3 (1.32%) Ruby
10 2 (0.88%) C#
10 2 (0.88%) C++
10 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.88%) Rust
10 2 (0.88%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 71 (31.28%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.31%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.29%) Azure Certification
3 12 (5.29%) Degree
4 11 (4.85%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.08%) CCNA
5 7 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.64%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.64%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.64%) PhD
7 5 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.20%) CCNP
8 4 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.76%) CEH
8 4 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.32%) CISSP
9 3 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.64%) NIST
2 4 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.32%) GDPR
3 3 (1.32%) QA
4 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.44%) NCSC
5 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.44%) SLA
5 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 88 (38.77%) Docker
2 9 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.32%) Squid
4 3 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.32%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.32%) vSphere
5 2 (0.88%) Ceph
5 2 (0.88%) KVM
5 2 (0.88%) Lustre
5 2 (0.88%) NFS
5 2 (0.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.88%) Snort
5 2 (0.88%) Xen
6 1 (0.44%) GPFS
6 1 (0.44%) HDFS
6 1 (0.44%) iptables
6 1 (0.44%) Postfix
6 1 (0.44%) Samba
6 1 (0.44%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 132 (58.15%) Terraform
2 80 (35.24%) Kubernetes
3 76 (33.48%) Ansible
4 43 (18.94%) Grafana
5 38 (16.74%) Prometheus
6 14 (6.17%) Puppet
7 10 (4.41%) Argo
8 8 (3.52%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (3.52%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.64%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (2.20%) Rancher
11 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.32%) HAProxy
12 3 (1.32%) Istio
12 3 (1.32%) Nagios
12 3 (1.32%) SCCM
12 3 (1.32%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.88%) Knative
13 2 (0.88%) Suricata
Vendors
1 35 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.69%) Splunk
3 18 (7.93%) Google
4 15 (6.61%) Databricks
5 9 (3.96%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.96%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.52%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.08%) Qualys
8 6 (2.64%) PagerDuty
8 6 (2.64%) Tenable
8 6 (2.64%) Zscaler
9 5 (2.20%) VMware
10 4 (1.76%) Apple
10 4 (1.76%) Cisco
10 4 (1.76%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.76%) Oracle
10 4 (1.76%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.76%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.76%) Solace
10 4 (1.76%) TIBCO