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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 138 187
Rank change year-on-year -36 +49 -87
Contract jobs citing Bash 317 275 219
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.58% 2.03% 1.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.04% 5.28% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 188 151
10th Percentile £388 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £733 £708 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £47.15 £21.40
25th Percentile £56.75 £49.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +96.49% +42.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.75 £52.81
90th Percentile - £63.05 £71.88
England median hourly rate £69.61 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +26.56% -4.35% -20.69%

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 6,287 5,208 6,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.30% 38.40% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,215 3,637 4,805
10th Percentile £381 £370 £375
25th Percentile £450 £427 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 56 42
10th Percentile £31.03 £26.86 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -7.37% -24.60%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -21 21 £550 -5.17% 8
South London -6 5 £535 -13.71% 2
West London -17 5 £500 +5.26% 7
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 18 (5.68%) Confluence
2 11 (3.47%) Apache
3 10 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.26%) WordPress
5 3 (0.95%) nginx
6 2 (0.63%) CMS
6 2 (0.63%) IIS
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.32%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Actimize
1 1 (0.32%) Front Arena
1 1 (0.32%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 1 (0.32%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 156 (49.21%) AWS
2 145 (45.74%) Azure
3 94 (29.65%) GitHub
4 74 (23.34%) GitHub Actions
5 66 (20.82%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (17.98%) GCP
7 47 (14.83%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (14.20%) Amazon S3
9 39 (12.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 39 (12.30%) Serverless
10 33 (10.41%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (10.41%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (10.41%) Datadog
11 31 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 31 (9.78%) Entra ID
11 31 (9.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (6.62%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (5.68%) Azure AKS
14 17 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (4.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (14.51%) Firewall
2 41 (12.93%) DNS
3 38 (11.99%) VPN
4 29 (9.15%) Network Security
5 25 (7.89%) TCP/IP
6 15 (4.73%) WAN
7 12 (3.79%) VLAN
8 10 (3.15%) SD-WAN
9 8 (2.52%) SSL
10 7 (2.21%) DHCP
11 6 (1.89%) HTTP
12 5 (1.58%) BGP
13 4 (1.26%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (0.95%) Internet
14 3 (0.95%) MPLS
14 3 (0.95%) NAS
14 3 (0.95%) SAN
14 3 (0.95%) SSH
14 3 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
15 2 (0.63%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.15%) Redis
5 8 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (2.52%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.52%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.89%) Delta Lake
7 6 (1.89%) Metadata
8 5 (1.58%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (1.58%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.58%) MySQL
8 5 (1.58%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.58%) Power BI
9 4 (1.26%) Big Data
9 4 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 94 (29.65%) Jenkins
2 73 (23.03%) Git
2 73 (23.03%) GitLab
3 17 (5.36%) JIRA
4 13 (4.10%) Artifactory
5 7 (2.21%) JMeter
6 6 (1.89%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.89%) Postman
7 5 (1.58%) Browser DevTools
7 5 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.63%) Maven
9 2 (0.63%) Snyk
9 2 (0.63%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.63%) Subversion
9 2 (0.63%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.63%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.32%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.32%) Gatling
10 1 (0.32%) Liquibase
General
1 76 (23.97%) Finance
2 72 (22.71%) Social Skills
3 40 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.41%) Banking
5 31 (9.78%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.21%) Law
7 6 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.89%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.58%) Front Office
8 5 (1.58%) Publishing
8 5 (1.58%) Retail
9 4 (1.26%) Automotive
9 4 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.26%) Military
10 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.63%) Billing
11 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.63%) Police
12 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (23.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (11.67%) Senior
3 33 (10.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
5 26 (8.20%) AWS Engineer
6 25 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
6 25 (7.89%) Security Engineer
7 24 (7.57%) Lead
8 18 (5.68%) Architect
8 18 (5.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 16 (5.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 15 (4.73%) Linux Engineer
11 15 (4.73%) Site Engineer
12 13 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.79%) Network Engineer
13 12 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (3.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.15%) Kafka
2 16 (5.05%) ARM Templates
2 16 (5.05%) REST
3 14 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (4.42%) YAML
4 11 (3.47%) JSON
5 10 (3.15%) Loki
5 10 (3.15%) SAML
6 9 (2.84%) .NET
6 9 (2.84%) Middleware
7 8 (2.52%) OAuth
8 7 (2.21%) RESTful
9 6 (1.89%) cloud-init
9 6 (1.89%) Spring
9 6 (1.89%) Swagger
10 4 (1.26%) 802.1X
10 4 (1.26%) ADO
10 4 (1.26%) LDAP
10 4 (1.26%) ModSecurity
11 3 (0.95%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 54 (17.03%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.47%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.84%) Legacy Applications
7 9 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.84%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.52%) PKI
9 6 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.89%) Equities
9 6 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.58%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.58%) Robotics
10 5 (1.58%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.26%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.26%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 124 (39.12%) Linux
2 50 (15.77%) Windows
3 26 (8.20%) Windows Server
4 23 (7.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (6.94%) Ubuntu
6 21 (6.62%) Unix
7 6 (1.89%) VMS
8 5 (1.58%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.63%) Debian
9 2 (0.63%) Solaris
9 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.32%) CentOS
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.32%) Rocky
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (63.09%) CI/CD
2 190 (59.94%) DevOps
3 179 (56.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (28.08%) Containerisation
5 78 (24.61%) Observability
6 58 (18.30%) Platform Engineering
7 57 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (14.83%) AI
10 44 (13.88%) Agile
10 44 (13.88%) Cloud Security
11 43 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 40 (12.62%) Runbook
13 39 (12.30%) Configuration Management
14 38 (11.99%) Identity Access Management
14 38 (11.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 35 (11.04%) Root Cause Analysis
16 34 (10.73%) Infrastructure Automation
16 34 (10.73%) Migration
17 30 (9.46%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 267 (84.23%) Python
2 136 (42.90%) PowerShell
3 33 (10.41%) Java
4 32 (10.09%) SQL
5 26 (8.20%) Bicep
5 26 (8.20%) Go
6 12 (3.79%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.15%) Perl
8 7 (2.21%) Groovy
9 6 (1.89%) C#
9 6 (1.89%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.89%) Ruby
10 5 (1.58%) Korn
11 3 (0.95%) Cypher
11 3 (0.95%) Gremlin
11 3 (0.95%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.63%) C
12 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.63%) R
13 1 (0.32%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 101 (31.86%) Security Cleared
2 88 (27.76%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.20%) Azure Certification
4 18 (5.68%) AWS Certification
5 17 (5.36%) Degree
6 12 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.52%) CCNP
8 8 (2.52%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.21%) CISSP
10 6 (1.89%) CCNA
11 5 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.26%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.26%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.63%) CCSP
14 2 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.73%) QA
2 11 (3.47%) NIST
3 9 (2.84%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.95%) SLA
6 3 (0.95%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 109 (34.38%) Docker
2 32 (10.09%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.52%) Squid
6 5 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.26%) NFS
7 4 (1.26%) Postfix
7 4 (1.26%) Varnish
7 4 (1.26%) vSphere
8 3 (0.95%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.95%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.95%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.63%) HDFS
9 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.63%) zsh
10 1 (0.32%) KVM
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.32%) QEMU
10 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 195 (61.51%) Terraform
2 141 (44.48%) Kubernetes
3 107 (33.75%) Ansible
4 88 (27.76%) Grafana
5 77 (24.29%) Prometheus
6 25 (7.89%) Puppet
7 16 (5.05%) Argo
8 12 (3.79%) systemd
9 11 (3.47%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.52%) Istio
10 8 (2.52%) Kibana
11 7 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.89%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (1.58%) Salt
14 4 (1.26%) HAProxy
14 4 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (1.26%) Suricata
15 3 (0.95%) Consul
15 3 (0.95%) Packer
Vendors
1 58 (18.30%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.89%) VMware
3 23 (7.26%) Dynatrace
3 23 (7.26%) Google
4 22 (6.94%) Oracle
5 19 (5.99%) Databricks
6 16 (5.05%) CyberArk
7 15 (4.73%) Splunk
8 11 (3.47%) Cisco
8 11 (3.47%) Red Hat
8 11 (3.47%) ServiceNow
9 10 (3.15%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.15%) Zscaler
10 9 (2.84%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (2.84%) WALLIX
11 8 (2.52%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.58%) Apple
12 5 (1.58%) NetApp
13 4 (1.26%) Juniper
13 4 (1.26%) Meraki