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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 170 131
Rank change year-on-year +39 -39 +22
Contract jobs citing Bash 321 228 386
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.27% 1.45% 1.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.89% 3.72% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 147 293
10th Percentile £400 £378 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.61%
75th Percentile £650 £744 £713
90th Percentile £725 £810 £810
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £39.10 £67.40 £58.40
25th Percentile £43.38 £84.13 £59.00
Median hourly rate £55.25 £112.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.67% +86.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile £62.95 - -
England median hourly rate £55.25 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -7.92% -20.00% +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 5,451 6,126 7,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.56% 38.96% 36.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,667 4,179 5,456
10th Percentile £369 £365 £393
25th Percentile £427 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £573 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% -1.29% -3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £813
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 73
10th Percentile £22.52 £35.00 £25.88
25th Percentile £31.61 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £46.00 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.50 £65.11
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £77.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.87% +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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 -6 28 £550 -13.73% 85
South London -2 8 £530 +112.00% 2
West London -8 6 £475 +18.75% 3
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 (3.74%) Confluence
2 7 (2.18%) nginx
3 6 (1.87%) Apache
4 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.93%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.93%) Hyperledger
4 3 (0.93%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.62%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.31%) CICS
6 1 (0.31%) JBoss
6 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.31%) Luigi
6 1 (0.31%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.31%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.31%) Traefik
6 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.31%) Pro Tools
1 1 (0.31%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 157 (48.91%) AWS
2 140 (43.61%) Azure
3 85 (26.48%) GCP
4 69 (21.50%) GitHub
5 33 (10.28%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (9.97%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (9.66%) Amazon EC2
7 31 (9.66%) Amazon S3
8 28 (8.72%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (7.17%) Serverless
10 22 (6.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (6.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (5.92%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (4.67%) Azure AKS
15 15 (4.67%) Entra ID
16 14 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (4.36%) OpenShift
17 12 (3.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (14.02%) DNS
2 43 (13.40%) Firewall
3 32 (9.97%) TCP/IP
4 21 (6.54%) Network Security
5 20 (6.23%) VPN
6 12 (3.74%) SSL
7 9 (2.80%) BGP
8 8 (2.49%) OSPF
8 8 (2.49%) Wireshark
9 7 (2.18%) DHCP
9 7 (2.18%) EIGRP
9 7 (2.18%) HTTP
10 6 (1.87%) HTTPS
10 6 (1.87%) IPsec
10 6 (1.87%) tcpdump
10 6 (1.87%) VLAN
11 5 (1.56%) Multicast
12 4 (1.25%) NAS
13 3 (0.93%) SAN
13 3 (0.93%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (16.82%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (6.85%) SQL Server
3 20 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (4.05%) Redis
5 11 (3.43%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.12%) MySQL
7 8 (2.49%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.49%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.18%) Delta Lake
8 7 (2.18%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.87%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.56%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.25%) Power BI
12 3 (0.93%) Big Data
12 3 (0.93%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (23.36%) Jenkins
2 61 (19.00%) Git
3 49 (15.26%) GitLab
4 22 (6.85%) JIRA
5 20 (6.23%) Metasploit
6 19 (5.92%) Burp Suite
7 18 (5.61%) SonarQube
8 11 (3.43%) Bitbucket
8 11 (3.43%) Maven
9 9 (2.80%) Liquibase
9 9 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (2.18%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.87%) Gradle
11 6 (1.87%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.56%) Subversion
13 4 (1.25%) Clang
13 4 (1.25%) GCC
13 4 (1.25%) MLflow
13 4 (1.25%) sqlmap
14 3 (0.93%) ScriptRunner
General
1 98 (30.53%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.95%) Finance
3 44 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.67%) Banking
6 11 (3.43%) Front Office
7 8 (2.49%) Retail
8 6 (1.87%) Law
8 6 (1.87%) Marketing
9 4 (1.25%) Electronics
9 4 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.25%) Military
9 4 (1.25%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.93%) Legal
10 3 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.62%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (18.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (10.90%) Senior
3 21 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (6.54%) Platform Engineer
3 21 (6.54%) Security Engineer
3 21 (6.54%) Site Engineer
4 20 (6.23%) Architect
4 20 (6.23%) Developer
4 20 (6.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 17 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
7 15 (4.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 12 (3.74%) Administrator
8 12 (3.74%) Data Engineer
8 12 (3.74%) Network Engineer
9 11 (3.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 11 (3.43%) Lead
9 11 (3.43%) Mac Engineer
10 10 (3.12%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.03%) Kafka
2 16 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (4.98%) Middleware
3 14 (4.36%) ARM Templates
4 12 (3.74%) REST
5 11 (3.43%) FIX Protocol
5 11 (3.43%) YAML
6 10 (3.12%) .NET
7 8 (2.49%) ADO
8 7 (2.18%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.56%) Loki
9 5 (1.56%) Node.js
9 5 (1.56%) PyTorch
9 5 (1.56%) Ultra Messaging
10 4 (1.25%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (1.25%) SAML
10 4 (1.25%) Spring
10 4 (1.25%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.93%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.30%) Data Protection Act
2 17 (5.30%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (4.67%) Replication
4 11 (3.43%) Security Posture
5 9 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.18%) Clustering
6 7 (2.18%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.18%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.18%) PKI
7 6 (1.87%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.87%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.56%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.25%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.93%) Legacy Code
10 3 (0.93%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 125 (38.94%) Linux
2 45 (14.02%) Windows
3 30 (9.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (8.41%) Mac OS
5 22 (6.85%) Unix
6 12 (3.74%) CentOS
7 11 (3.43%) Solaris
7 11 (3.43%) Windows Server
8 9 (2.80%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.25%) Android
9 4 (1.25%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.62%) Debian
10 2 (0.62%) VMS
11 1 (0.31%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (56.39%) CI/CD
2 165 (51.40%) Infrastructure as Code
3 150 (46.73%) DevOps
4 73 (22.74%) Containerisation
5 67 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (16.82%) Agile
7 52 (16.20%) Observability
8 44 (13.71%) DevSecOps
8 44 (13.71%) Incident Response
9 42 (13.08%) High Availability
10 41 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 38 (11.84%) Cybersecurity
12 34 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (10.59%) Infrastructure Automation
13 32 (9.97%) Cloud Security
13 32 (9.97%) Data Protection
14 30 (9.35%) Test Automation
15 29 (9.03%) Penetration Testing
15 29 (9.03%) Platform Engineering
16 28 (8.72%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 274 (85.36%) Python
2 115 (35.83%) PowerShell
3 49 (15.26%) SQL
4 40 (12.46%) Go
5 28 (8.72%) Perl
6 25 (7.79%) Java
7 15 (4.67%) Kusto Query Language
8 13 (4.05%) C++
9 11 (3.43%) Bicep
9 11 (3.43%) Groovy
9 11 (3.43%) PromQL
10 10 (3.12%) JavaScript
10 10 (3.12%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.18%) C
11 7 (2.18%) C#
12 5 (1.56%) PHP
13 4 (1.25%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.93%) Ruby
15 2 (0.62%) AWK
Qualifications
1 90 (28.04%) Security Cleared
2 81 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.48%) OSCP
4 17 (5.30%) Degree
5 14 (4.36%) AWS Certification
5 14 (4.36%) CREST Certified
6 13 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (4.05%) Tigerscheme
7 10 (3.12%) CHECK Team Member
8 9 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (2.80%) CCNP
9 7 (2.18%) CEH
9 7 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.18%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.18%) GPEN
10 6 (1.87%) JNCIA
10 6 (1.87%) JNCIS
10 6 (1.87%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.87%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.36%) GDPR
2 13 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.74%) NCSC
4 8 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (1.87%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.87%) NIST
5 6 (1.87%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
7 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) GxP
8 1 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 109 (33.96%) Docker
2 20 (6.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.05%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.12%) zsh
5 9 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.87%) Firmware
6 6 (1.87%) NFS
7 4 (1.25%) Snort
7 4 (1.25%) Squid
7 4 (1.25%) Veritas File System
7 4 (1.25%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.93%) GPFS
8 3 (0.93%) KVM
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.62%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.62%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.62%) vSphere
10 1 (0.31%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 128 (39.88%) Terraform
2 123 (38.32%) Kubernetes
3 73 (22.74%) Ansible
4 62 (19.31%) Grafana
5 54 (16.82%) Prometheus
6 19 (5.92%) Nmap
7 15 (4.67%) Puppet
8 13 (4.05%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (3.74%) Argo
10 11 (3.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 11 (3.43%) Nessus
11 8 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (2.18%) Progress Chef
13 6 (1.87%) Istio
13 6 (1.87%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (1.56%) AirWatch
14 5 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (1.56%) Rancher
14 5 (1.56%) SCCM
15 4 (1.25%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 44 (13.71%) Splunk
2 41 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 28 (8.72%) Google
4 27 (8.41%) Red Hat
5 25 (7.79%) VMware
6 19 (5.92%) ServiceNow
7 18 (5.61%) Oracle
8 17 (5.30%) Palo Alto
9 15 (4.67%) Cisco
9 15 (4.67%) Veracode
10 12 (3.74%) Apple
10 12 (3.74%) Databricks
10 12 (3.74%) Qualys
10 12 (3.74%) Zscaler
11 11 (3.43%) CheckPoint
11 11 (3.43%) F5
12 10 (3.12%) Solace
13 9 (2.80%) Atlassian
13 9 (2.80%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (2.80%) Dynatrace