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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 186 104
Rank change year-on-year +59 -82 +52
Contract jobs citing Bash 291 217 517
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.16% 1.33% 2.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.61% 3.31% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 141 400
10th Percentile £393 £400 £450
25th Percentile £450 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £575 £630
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% -8.73% +4.13%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £798
90th Percentile £688 £810 £835
England median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £47.15 £23.30 £18.11
25th Percentile £49.25 £25.25 £19.33
Median hourly rate £56.00 £32.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.31% +62.50% -30.43%
75th Percentile £62.75 £71.88 £28.44
90th Percentile £63.05 - £43.63
England median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -15.65% -20.69% -0.68%

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 5,186 6,553 8,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.57% 40.23% 37.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,566 4,698 6,182
10th Percentile £372 £364 £400
25th Percentile £426 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 42 72
10th Percentile £26.71 £25.32 £25.80
25th Percentile £33.25 £33.99 £39.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -20.83% +13.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.45 £72.13
90th Percentile £87.00 £78.50 £86.40
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Bash 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 18 September 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
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 18 September 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 +1 28 £628 +2.45% 17
West London +1 6 £475 +18.75% 4
South London -12 3 £620 +9.35% 3
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (4.47%) Apache
2 9 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.72%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.37%) Confluence
4 4 (1.37%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.69%) JBoss
5 2 (0.69%) nginx
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.69%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) CICS
6 1 (0.34%) Luigi
6 1 (0.34%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.34%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.34%) Traefik
6 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.34%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 150 (51.55%) AWS
2 139 (47.77%) Azure
3 80 (27.49%) GCP
4 54 (18.56%) GitHub
5 32 (11.00%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (7.56%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (7.22%) Amazon S3
9 17 (5.84%) Serverless
10 16 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (4.81%) Azure AKS
12 14 (4.81%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (4.81%) Entra ID
13 13 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (3.44%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.09%) Power Platform
15 9 (3.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (15.81%) Firewall
2 42 (14.43%) DNS
3 26 (8.93%) TCP/IP
4 23 (7.90%) VPN
5 22 (7.56%) Network Security
6 14 (4.81%) SSL
7 10 (3.44%) BGP
7 10 (3.44%) OSPF
8 8 (2.75%) HTTP
9 7 (2.41%) EIGRP
10 6 (2.06%) DHCP
10 6 (2.06%) HTTPS
10 6 (2.06%) IPsec
10 6 (2.06%) SSH
11 4 (1.37%) NAS
11 4 (1.37%) VLAN
12 3 (1.03%) SAN
12 3 (1.03%) Wireshark
13 2 (0.69%) Kerberos
13 2 (0.69%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.40%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (7.56%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.44%) Delta Lake
4 9 (3.09%) Power BI
5 8 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (2.75%) Oracle Database
6 7 (2.41%) Redis
7 6 (2.06%) Apache Hive
7 6 (2.06%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.06%) MySQL
8 5 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.72%) Oracle Exadata
8 5 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.37%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.03%) Big Data
10 3 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.03%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.03%) Metadata
10 3 (1.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 60 (20.62%) Jenkins
2 52 (17.87%) Git
3 42 (14.43%) GitLab
4 21 (7.22%) JIRA
5 19 (6.53%) Burp Suite
5 19 (6.53%) Metasploit
5 19 (6.53%) SonarQube
6 12 (4.12%) Maven
6 12 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (3.44%) Liquibase
8 6 (2.06%) Gradle
8 6 (2.06%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.72%) Subversion
10 4 (1.37%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.37%) Clang
10 4 (1.37%) GCC
10 4 (1.37%) RStudio
10 4 (1.37%) sqlmap
11 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 82 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
2 43 (14.78%) Finance
3 30 (10.31%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.12%) Banking
5 8 (2.75%) Law
6 7 (2.41%) Front Office
7 6 (2.06%) Marketing
8 5 (1.72%) Military
8 5 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.37%) Electronics
9 4 (1.37%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.37%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Retail
11 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Legal
12 1 (0.34%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 69 (23.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (11.00%) Senior
3 27 (9.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (8.59%) Security Engineer
5 21 (7.22%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (6.87%) Developer
7 19 (6.53%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (6.53%) Site Engineer
7 19 (6.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 17 (5.84%) Architect
9 16 (5.50%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (5.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 14 (4.81%) Data Engineer
11 13 (4.47%) Analyst
11 13 (4.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.12%) Administrator
13 11 (3.78%) Network Engineer
13 11 (3.78%) Security Analyst
14 10 (3.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.25%) Kafka
2 18 (6.19%) YAML
3 17 (5.84%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (5.15%) ARM Templates
5 13 (4.47%) REST
6 12 (4.12%) .NET
6 12 (4.12%) Middleware
7 8 (2.75%) ADO
7 8 (2.75%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (2.75%) JSON
8 6 (2.06%) pydantic
8 6 (2.06%) PySpark
9 5 (1.72%) Loki
9 5 (1.72%) React
9 5 (1.72%) SAML
9 5 (1.72%) Spring
10 4 (1.37%) CSS
10 4 (1.37%) HTML
10 4 (1.37%) LDAP
10 4 (1.37%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.90%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.56%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (4.81%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (4.81%) Security Posture
4 10 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.44%) Replication
5 8 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.75%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.41%) Clustering
6 7 (2.41%) PKI
7 6 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.72%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.72%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.03%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 110 (37.80%) Linux
2 37 (12.71%) Windows
3 30 (10.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (6.53%) Unix
5 15 (5.15%) Mac OS
6 12 (4.12%) CentOS
7 11 (3.78%) Solaris
8 9 (3.09%) Ubuntu
9 8 (2.75%) Windows Server
10 4 (1.37%) Android
10 4 (1.37%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.69%) Debian
11 2 (0.69%) SUSE
12 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (56.01%) CI/CD
2 146 (50.17%) DevOps
3 136 (46.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (20.62%) Containerisation
5 58 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (17.53%) Agile
7 39 (13.40%) DevSecOps
8 37 (12.71%) Cybersecurity
8 37 (12.71%) Observability
9 36 (12.37%) Cloud Security
10 35 (12.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 34 (11.68%) High Availability
12 33 (11.34%) Incident Response
13 31 (10.65%) Infrastructure Automation
14 29 (9.97%) Penetration Testing
15 28 (9.62%) Data Protection
16 25 (8.59%) Migration
16 25 (8.59%) Test Automation
17 24 (8.25%) Continuous Integration
18 23 (7.90%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 251 (86.25%) Python
2 98 (33.68%) PowerShell
3 48 (16.49%) SQL
4 42 (14.43%) Go
5 25 (8.59%) Java
6 24 (8.25%) Perl
7 16 (5.50%) C++
8 14 (4.81%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.78%) Groovy
9 11 (3.78%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.78%) PromQL
10 10 (3.44%) Bicep
10 10 (3.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (3.09%) Scala
12 7 (2.41%) C
13 6 (2.06%) C#
13 6 (2.06%) PHP
13 6 (2.06%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.72%) Ruby
15 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (26.12%) Security Cleared
2 69 (23.71%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.90%) OSCP
4 17 (5.84%) Degree
5 15 (5.15%) AWS Certification
5 15 (5.15%) CREST Certified
6 13 (4.47%) Tigerscheme
7 12 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (3.44%) CHECK Team Member
9 9 (3.09%) CEH
9 9 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.41%) CCNP
11 6 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.06%) CISSP
11 6 (2.06%) DV Cleared
11 6 (2.06%) GPEN
11 6 (2.06%) JNCIA
11 6 (2.06%) JNCIS
11 6 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.06%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.25%) GDPR
2 14 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.78%) NCSC
4 11 (3.78%) NIST
5 10 (3.44%) HIPAA
5 10 (3.44%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (2.75%) QA
7 7 (2.41%) SOC 2
8 5 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.34%) GxP
9 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (30.93%) Docker
2 18 (6.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.47%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.09%) zsh
5 7 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.06%) Firmware
6 6 (2.06%) NFS
7 4 (1.37%) Veritas File System
7 4 (1.37%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.03%) KVM
8 3 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (1.03%) Snort
8 3 (1.03%) Squid
9 2 (0.69%) GPFS
9 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.34%) iptables
10 1 (0.34%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 116 (39.86%) Kubernetes
2 103 (35.40%) Terraform
3 65 (22.34%) Ansible
4 49 (16.84%) Grafana
5 46 (15.81%) Prometheus
6 18 (6.19%) Nmap
7 13 (4.47%) Puppet
8 12 (4.12%) Nessus
9 10 (3.44%) Argo
9 10 (3.44%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.75%) Istio
11 6 (2.06%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (1.72%) AirWatch
12 5 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
13 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.37%) NetBackup
13 4 (1.37%) QRadar
Vendors
1 42 (14.43%) Splunk
2 31 (10.65%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.59%) Red Hat
4 23 (7.90%) Google
5 21 (7.22%) Oracle
5 21 (7.22%) VMware
6 16 (5.50%) ServiceNow
7 15 (5.15%) Cisco
7 15 (5.15%) Databricks
8 14 (4.81%) Palo Alto
8 14 (4.81%) Qualys
8 14 (4.81%) Veracode
9 12 (4.12%) F5
10 11 (3.78%) SAP
10 11 (3.78%) Zscaler
11 10 (3.44%) CheckPoint
12 8 (2.75%) CyberArk
13 7 (2.41%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (2.41%) Juniper
14 6 (2.06%) Okta