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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 152 202
Rank change year-on-year -46 +50 -102
Contract jobs citing Bash 223 224 209
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.24% 1.79% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.94% 4.57% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 143 132
10th Percentile £398 £425 £378
25th Percentile £450 £456 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -2.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £600 £678 £600
90th Percentile £731 £770 £699
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £57.20 - £21.40
25th Percentile £57.88 £45.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £54.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.01% +91.23% +42.50%
75th Percentile £62.88 £63.25 £52.81
90th Percentile £63.40 - £71.88
England median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +20.26% +16.67% -19.10%

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 5,660 4,905 6,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.53% 39.21% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,802 3,458 4,902
10th Percentile £363 £380 £380
25th Percentile £434 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £831
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 29 50
10th Percentile £32.93 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £41.56 £33.25 £40.77
Median hourly rate £58.94 £42.82 £51.13
Median % change year-on-year +37.65% -16.25% -14.79%
75th Percentile £73.00 £58.75 £64.02
90th Percentile £88.75 £71.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -29 18 £525 -4.55% 29
South London -7 6 £530 - 2
West London - 3 £500 - 4
East London - 2 £416 - 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 8 (3.59%) Confluence
2 7 (3.14%) Apache
3 6 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.35%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.90%) nginx
7 1 (0.45%) CMS
7 1 (0.45%) FileNet
7 1 (0.45%) IIS
7 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.45%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 101 (45.29%) AWS
2 85 (38.12%) Azure
3 53 (23.77%) GitHub
4 46 (20.63%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (14.80%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (13.45%) GCP
7 26 (11.66%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (11.66%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (11.21%) Serverless
9 24 (10.76%) Amazon S3
10 21 (9.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (9.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (8.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (6.73%) Azure AKS
13 14 (6.28%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (4.48%) Azure Key Vault
16 9 (4.04%) Entra ID
17 8 (3.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.00%) Firewall
2 23 (10.31%) DNS
2 23 (10.31%) TCP/IP
3 19 (8.52%) VPN
4 18 (8.07%) Network Security
5 8 (3.59%) VLAN
5 8 (3.59%) WAN
6 7 (3.14%) HTTP
6 7 (3.14%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.69%) DHCP
8 4 (1.79%) NAS
8 4 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (1.79%) SAN
8 4 (1.79%) SSH
8 4 (1.79%) SSL
9 2 (0.90%) Internet
9 2 (0.90%) IPsec
9 2 (0.90%) Multicast
9 2 (0.90%) Spanning Tree
9 2 (0.90%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (3.14%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.14%) Redis
4 7 (3.14%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.24%) Big Data
5 5 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.24%) MySQL
6 4 (1.79%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (1.79%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.79%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.79%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.35%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.90%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 57 (25.56%) GitLab
2 54 (24.22%) Jenkins
3 53 (23.77%) Git
4 12 (5.38%) JIRA
5 9 (4.04%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.69%) JMeter
6 6 (2.69%) Postman
7 5 (2.24%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.35%) Ant
8 3 (1.35%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.35%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.35%) Snyk
9 2 (0.90%) Appium
9 2 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.90%) MLflow
9 2 (0.90%) Selenium
9 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.45%) Spinnaker
General
1 42 (18.83%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.45%) Finance
3 26 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (11.66%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.28%) Banking
5 6 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.69%) Retail
6 4 (1.79%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.35%) Military
7 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.90%) Law
8 2 (0.90%) Police
9 1 (0.45%) Back Office
9 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Front Office
9 1 (0.45%) Games
9 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (19.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (11.66%) Security Engineer
3 25 (11.21%) Platform Engineer
4 23 (10.31%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (9.87%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (8.07%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (7.17%) Senior
8 11 (4.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 10 (4.48%) Architect
9 10 (4.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (4.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) Lead
10 9 (4.04%) Linux Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) Site Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) Data Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) Developer
11 8 (3.59%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.62%) Kafka
2 12 (5.38%) YAML
3 11 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (4.04%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.14%) JSON
5 7 (3.14%) SAML
5 7 (3.14%) Swagger
6 6 (2.69%) OAuth
6 6 (2.69%) REST
7 5 (2.24%) ADO
7 5 (2.24%) LDAP
8 4 (1.79%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.35%) WebSphere MQ
10 2 (0.90%) .NET
10 2 (0.90%) HTML
10 2 (0.90%) Middleware
10 2 (0.90%) Node.js
10 2 (0.90%) NumPy
10 2 (0.90%) RESTful
10 2 (0.90%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.90%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (2.69%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.24%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.24%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.35%) PKI
7 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (0.90%) PACS
7 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.90%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 82 (36.77%) Linux
2 23 (10.31%) Windows
3 17 (7.62%) Unix
4 8 (3.59%) Ubuntu
4 8 (3.59%) VMS
5 7 (3.14%) Mac OS
6 6 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.35%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.90%) CentOS
8 2 (0.90%) Debian
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.45%) Rocky
9 1 (0.45%) Solaris
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (60.99%) CI/CD
2 121 (54.26%) DevOps
3 109 (48.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (26.91%) Containerisation
5 45 (20.18%) Platform Engineering
6 42 (18.83%) Observability
7 41 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (14.80%) Configuration Management
9 26 (11.66%) Agile
10 25 (11.21%) Cloud Security
11 24 (10.76%) Analytics
12 22 (9.87%) SIEM
12 22 (9.87%) Test Automation
13 21 (9.42%) Validation
14 20 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (8.52%) Incident Response
16 18 (8.07%) AI
17 17 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
18 16 (7.17%) Root Cause Analysis
18 16 (7.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 190 (85.20%) Python
2 92 (41.26%) PowerShell
3 27 (12.11%) SQL
4 14 (6.28%) Go
4 14 (6.28%) Java
5 13 (5.83%) Bicep
6 8 (3.59%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (3.59%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.69%) C
7 6 (2.69%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.24%) Perl
8 5 (2.24%) Ruby
9 3 (1.35%) C#
9 3 (1.35%) Groovy
10 2 (0.90%) C++
10 2 (0.90%) PHP
10 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.90%) Rust
10 2 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.45%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 75 (33.63%) Security Cleared
2 65 (29.15%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.28%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.04%) Degree
5 7 (3.14%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.69%) CCNA
6 6 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.69%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.24%) CCNP
7 5 (2.24%) CISSP
8 4 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.90%) CEH
9 2 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.45%) CISA
10 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.48%) NIST
2 6 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.24%) QA
4 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.90%) GDPR
5 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.90%) SLA
5 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (30.49%) Docker
2 15 (6.73%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.83%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (4.04%) Squid
5 6 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.79%) NFS
7 3 (1.35%) KVM
7 3 (1.35%) Postfix
7 3 (1.35%) Sendmail
7 3 (1.35%) Varnish
8 2 (0.90%) Ceph
8 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.90%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.90%) Xen
9 1 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.45%) iptables
9 1 (0.45%) Lustre
9 1 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 123 (55.16%) Terraform
2 80 (35.87%) Ansible
2 80 (35.87%) Kubernetes
3 49 (21.97%) Grafana
4 45 (20.18%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.38%) Puppet
6 9 (4.04%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.69%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.24%) Argo
8 5 (2.24%) HAProxy
8 5 (2.24%) Suricata
9 3 (1.35%) Istio
9 3 (1.35%) Kibana
9 3 (1.35%) Rancher
9 3 (1.35%) Salt
10 2 (0.90%) Consul
10 2 (0.90%) Knative
10 2 (0.90%) Nagios
10 2 (0.90%) Packer
10 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 30 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.62%) Splunk
3 14 (6.28%) Databricks
4 11 (4.93%) Zscaler
5 10 (4.48%) Google
6 9 (4.04%) Dynatrace
6 9 (4.04%) Palo Alto
7 7 (3.14%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.69%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.69%) Oracle
8 6 (2.69%) VMware
9 5 (2.24%) Cisco
9 5 (2.24%) Qualys
10 4 (1.79%) Tenable
11 3 (1.35%) Dell
11 3 (1.35%) IBM
11 3 (1.35%) Netskope
11 3 (1.35%) OpenText
11 3 (1.35%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.90%) Blue Coat