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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 126 178
Rank change year-on-year -25 +52 -63
Contract jobs citing Bash 396 298 226
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.95% 2.22% 1.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.16% 5.74% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 196 143
10th Percentile £382 £384 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £536 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -10.63% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £700
90th Percentile £725 £688 £810
England median daily rate £537 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.00% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £47.15 £45.00
25th Percentile - £49.25 £65.63
Median hourly rate - £56.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - -18.55% +243.75%
75th Percentile - £62.75 £112.00
90th Percentile - £63.05 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £42.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +67.06% -27.66% -21.67%

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 6,426 5,194 6,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.57% 38.76% 39.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,370 3,518 4,478
10th Percentile £375 £375 £370
25th Percentile £447 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £574
Median % change year-on-year - -4.14% -4.38%
75th Percentile £668 £685 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £543
% change year-on-year +2.14% -5.25% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 67 47
10th Percentile £26.51 £26.05 £25.99
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £53.75 £44.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.72% -5.48% -19.49%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.50 £71.44
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.50 £97.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% -

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -32 22 £550 - 37
South London -6 6 £535 -13.71% 1
West London -17 6 £519 +9.21% 8
East London - 2 £415 - 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 23 (5.81%) Confluence
2 16 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.03%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.53%) Apache
5 4 (1.01%) nginx
5 4 (1.01%) WordPress
6 3 (0.76%) IIS
6 3 (0.76%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.51%) CMS
7 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) JBoss
8 1 (0.25%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.26%) Front Arena
1 5 (1.26%) Summit
2 1 (0.25%) Actimize
2 1 (0.25%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 194 (48.99%) AWS
2 176 (44.44%) Azure
3 119 (30.05%) GitHub
4 91 (22.98%) GitHub Actions
5 73 (18.43%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (18.43%) GCP
6 63 (15.91%) Amazon EKS
7 50 (12.63%) Amazon S3
8 45 (11.36%) Serverless
9 43 (10.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 37 (9.34%) AWS Lambda
11 36 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
11 36 (9.09%) Datadog
12 35 (8.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 34 (8.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (7.83%) Entra ID
15 27 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (4.80%) Azure AKS
17 19 (4.80%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 45 (11.36%) Firewall
2 38 (9.60%) VPN
3 34 (8.59%) Network Security
4 32 (8.08%) DNS
5 26 (6.57%) TCP/IP
6 17 (4.29%) WAN
7 11 (2.78%) SD-WAN
8 9 (2.27%) Kerberos
8 9 (2.27%) SAN
9 8 (2.02%) BGP
9 8 (2.02%) SSL
9 8 (2.02%) VLAN
10 7 (1.77%) DHCP
10 7 (1.77%) SSH
11 5 (1.26%) MPLS
11 5 (1.26%) X.509
12 4 (1.01%) 4G
12 4 (1.01%) 5G
12 4 (1.01%) Internet
12 4 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (5.81%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.30%) Redis
4 19 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.04%) MongoDB
6 14 (3.54%) Data Lake
7 13 (3.28%) MySQL
8 12 (3.03%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.02%) Metadata
10 8 (2.02%) Power BI
10 8 (2.02%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.77%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.52%) Big Data
12 6 (1.52%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.52%) SQLite
13 4 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.01%) Apache Hive
13 4 (1.01%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 122 (30.81%) Jenkins
2 108 (27.27%) Git
3 88 (22.22%) GitLab
4 26 (6.57%) JIRA
5 17 (4.29%) Artifactory
6 12 (3.03%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.78%) SonarQube
8 9 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.77%) JMeter
9 7 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.52%) Maven
10 6 (1.52%) Postman
11 5 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (1.01%) Subversion
12 4 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (1.01%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.76%) Selenium
13 3 (0.76%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.76%) Terragrunt
14 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
General
1 108 (27.27%) Finance
2 98 (24.75%) Social Skills
3 57 (14.39%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (13.13%) Banking
5 33 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.54%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.02%) Law
8 7 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.52%) Retail
10 5 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.26%) Front Office
10 5 (1.26%) Publishing
11 4 (1.01%) Automotive
11 4 (1.01%) Marketing
11 4 (1.01%) Military
12 3 (0.76%) Billing
12 3 (0.76%) Police
13 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 97 (24.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (13.13%) Senior
3 33 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 32 (8.08%) Azure Engineer
5 31 (7.83%) AWS Engineer
6 30 (7.58%) Lead
7 29 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
8 28 (7.07%) Security Engineer
9 26 (6.57%) Developer
10 25 (6.31%) Linux Engineer
11 22 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 21 (5.30%) Senior DevOps
13 20 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (5.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 20 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 19 (4.80%) AWS DevOps
15 18 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 18 (4.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 17 (4.29%) Automation Engineer
16 17 (4.29%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (57.58%) Terraform
2 51 (12.88%) Kafka
3 31 (7.83%) REST
4 22 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (5.30%) Middleware
6 18 (4.55%) Loki
7 17 (4.29%) RESTful
8 16 (4.04%) ARM Templates
9 15 (3.79%) YAML
10 14 (3.54%) JSON
11 12 (3.03%) .NET
11 12 (3.03%) Flask
12 11 (2.78%) Spring
13 10 (2.53%) CSS
13 10 (2.53%) HTML
13 10 (2.53%) pytest
13 10 (2.53%) React
14 8 (2.02%) ADO
14 8 (2.02%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.02%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 66 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.05%) PKI
5 16 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (3.28%) Legacy Applications
7 13 (3.28%) Management Information System
8 12 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.03%) Security Posture
9 9 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
9 9 (2.27%) Replication
10 8 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.77%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.52%) Equities
12 6 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.26%) Robotics
13 5 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 187 (47.22%) Linux
2 68 (17.17%) Windows
3 37 (9.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 32 (8.08%) Unix
6 22 (5.56%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.27%) VMS
8 6 (1.52%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.25%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Solaris
10 1 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (64.90%) CI/CD
2 234 (59.09%) DevOps
3 215 (54.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (29.04%) Containerisation
5 111 (28.03%) Observability
6 82 (20.71%) Agile
7 74 (18.69%) Platform Engineering
8 73 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (17.42%) AI
9 69 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 63 (15.91%) Root Cause Analysis
11 54 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 52 (13.13%) Cloud Security
12 52 (13.13%) Infrastructure Automation
12 52 (13.13%) Runbook
13 50 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 49 (12.37%) DevSecOps
14 49 (12.37%) Migration
15 45 (11.36%) Identity Access Management
16 43 (10.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 337 (85.10%) Python
2 166 (41.92%) PowerShell
3 55 (13.89%) SQL
4 53 (13.38%) Java
5 40 (10.10%) Go
6 32 (8.08%) Bicep
7 29 (7.32%) Shell Script
8 20 (5.05%) Korn
9 15 (3.79%) Perl
10 13 (3.28%) JavaScript
11 12 (3.03%) Groovy
12 9 (2.27%) C#
13 7 (1.77%) TypeScript
14 6 (1.52%) Ruby
15 3 (0.76%) Cypher
15 3 (0.76%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.76%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.51%) C
16 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (32.07%) Security Cleared
2 110 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.82%) Degree
4 23 (5.81%) AWS Certification
4 23 (5.81%) Azure Certification
5 19 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.27%) CISSP
9 8 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.01%) CCNP
11 4 (1.01%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.01%) JNCIS
12 3 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.51%) CISM
13 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.32%) QA
2 18 (4.55%) NIST
3 15 (3.79%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.02%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.76%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.51%) GDPR
7 2 (0.51%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.25%) GLBA
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 156 (39.39%) Docker
2 35 (8.84%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.02%) Squid
6 5 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.01%) HDFS
7 4 (1.01%) vSphere
8 3 (0.76%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.76%) zsh
9 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.51%) NFS
9 2 (0.51%) Postfix
9 2 (0.51%) Varnish
9 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.25%) QEMU
10 1 (0.25%) Samba
10 1 (0.25%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 192 (48.48%) Kubernetes
2 134 (33.84%) Ansible
3 113 (28.54%) Grafana
4 93 (23.48%) Prometheus
5 25 (6.31%) Puppet
6 24 (6.06%) Argo
7 12 (3.03%) Kibana
7 12 (3.03%) systemd
8 11 (2.78%) Istio
9 8 (2.02%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.77%) Cilium
11 6 (1.52%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (1.01%) Consul
13 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.01%) Salt
13 4 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.01%) Suricata
14 3 (0.76%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.76%) yum
Vendors
1 77 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.59%) Google
3 30 (7.58%) Dynatrace
4 29 (7.32%) Oracle
5 28 (7.07%) Splunk
6 26 (6.57%) VMware
7 21 (5.30%) ServiceNow
8 18 (4.55%) CyberArk
8 18 (4.55%) Databricks
9 16 (4.04%) Red Hat
10 13 (3.28%) Cisco
10 13 (3.28%) Palo Alto
11 11 (2.78%) NetApp
12 9 (2.27%) BeyondTrust
12 9 (2.27%) Fortinet
12 9 (2.27%) WALLIX
13 8 (2.02%) Murex
14 7 (1.77%) Zscaler
15 6 (1.52%) Apple
15 6 (1.52%) FIS