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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 153 201
Rank change year-on-year -59 +48 -101
Contract jobs citing Bash 221 230 208
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.22% 1.88% 1.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.88% 4.80% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 150 132
10th Percentile £400 £425 £400
25th Percentile £456 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £603 £688 £625
90th Percentile £725 £753 £725
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 £62.82 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +19.65% +16.67% -27.57%

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 5,694 4,791 6,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.36% 39.25% 37.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,803 3,373 4,952
10th Percentile £370 £376 £375
25th Percentile £438 £440 £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 £763 £825 £838
England median daily rate £512 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -2.45% -4.37% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 33 50
10th Percentile £33.48 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £41.25 £33.25 £40.77
Median hourly rate £58.94 £38.11 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.64% -24.53% -15.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £64.02
90th Percentile £88.75 £66.65 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -

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 25 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 25 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 17 £525 -7.08% 17
South London -15 5 £530 - 1
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 9 (4.07%) Confluence
2 7 (3.17%) Apache
3 4 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.36%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.90%) nginx
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) FileNet
6 1 (0.45%) IIS
6 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 100 (45.25%) AWS
2 85 (38.46%) Azure
3 54 (24.43%) GitHub
4 46 (20.81%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (15.84%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (13.12%) GCP
7 25 (11.31%) Amazon EC2
7 25 (11.31%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (10.41%) Amazon S3
8 23 (10.41%) Serverless
9 22 (9.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (9.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (9.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (6.79%) Azure AKS
13 13 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (4.98%) Azure Key Vault
15 9 (4.07%) Entra ID
16 8 (3.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.67%) Firewall
2 24 (10.86%) DNS
3 22 (9.95%) TCP/IP
4 19 (8.60%) VPN
5 17 (7.69%) Network Security
6 7 (3.17%) HTTP
6 7 (3.17%) VLAN
7 6 (2.71%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.71%) WAN
8 5 (2.26%) DHCP
9 4 (1.81%) NAS
9 4 (1.81%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.81%) SAN
9 4 (1.81%) SSL
10 2 (0.90%) Internet
10 2 (0.90%) IPsec
10 2 (0.90%) Multicast
10 2 (0.90%) SSH
10 2 (0.90%) X.509
11 1 (0.45%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (3.62%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.17%) Redis
3 7 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.26%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.26%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.81%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (1.81%) MySQL
7 3 (1.36%) Big Data
7 3 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.90%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.90%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.90%) Power BI
8 2 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 57 (25.79%) GitLab
1 57 (25.79%) Jenkins
2 53 (23.98%) Git
3 13 (5.88%) JIRA
4 9 (4.07%) Artifactory
5 6 (2.71%) JMeter
5 6 (2.71%) Postman
6 5 (2.26%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.36%) Ant
7 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.36%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.36%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.36%) Snyk
8 2 (0.90%) Appium
8 2 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.90%) Selenium
8 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.45%) Maven
9 1 (0.45%) Subversion
9 1 (0.45%) TestComplete
General
1 43 (19.46%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.48%) Finance
3 26 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 25 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.69%) Banking
6 6 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.26%) Retail
8 4 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.36%) Law
9 3 (1.36%) Military
10 2 (0.90%) Front Office
10 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.90%) Police
10 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.45%) Back Office
11 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (19.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (11.31%) Security Engineer
3 22 (9.95%) AWS Engineer
3 22 (9.95%) Cloud Engineer
3 22 (9.95%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (8.14%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (7.69%) Senior
6 11 (4.98%) Architect
6 11 (4.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 10 (4.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (4.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 9 (4.07%) Lead
8 9 (4.07%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (4.07%) Site Engineer
8 9 (4.07%) Tester
9 8 (3.62%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (3.62%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.62%) Developer
9 8 (3.62%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (3.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.69%) Kafka
2 10 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (4.52%) YAML
3 9 (4.07%) ARM Templates
4 7 (3.17%) JSON
4 7 (3.17%) SAML
4 7 (3.17%) Swagger
5 6 (2.71%) OAuth
5 6 (2.71%) REST
6 5 (2.26%) ADO
7 4 (1.81%) LDAP
8 3 (1.36%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.36%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (0.90%) .NET
9 2 (0.90%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.90%) HTML
9 2 (0.90%) Middleware
9 2 (0.90%) RESTful
9 2 (0.90%) SPIFFE
10 1 (0.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.57%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (2.71%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.26%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.26%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.36%) PKI
5 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.90%) Equities
6 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.90%) Pricing Data
6 2 (0.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 79 (35.75%) Linux
2 23 (10.41%) Windows
3 19 (8.60%) Unix
4 8 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.62%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.17%) VMS
6 6 (2.71%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.81%) 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 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 123 (55.66%) DevOps
3 109 (49.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (26.24%) Containerisation
5 43 (19.46%) Platform Engineering
6 41 (18.55%) Observability
7 38 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (14.93%) Configuration Management
9 25 (11.31%) Agile
10 24 (10.86%) Analytics
10 24 (10.86%) Cloud Security
11 22 (9.95%) Validation
12 21 (9.50%) SIEM
13 20 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (9.05%) Root Cause Analysis
13 20 (9.05%) Test Automation
14 19 (8.60%) Incident Response
15 17 (7.69%) Migration
15 17 (7.69%) Runbook
15 17 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 190 (85.97%) Python
2 90 (40.72%) PowerShell
3 26 (11.76%) SQL
4 15 (6.79%) Go
5 13 (5.88%) Bicep
6 11 (4.98%) Java
7 8 (3.62%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (2.71%) C
9 6 (2.71%) Perl
9 6 (2.71%) Ruby
10 5 (2.26%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.36%) C#
12 2 (0.90%) C++
12 2 (0.90%) Groovy
12 2 (0.90%) Korn
12 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.90%) Rust
12 2 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.45%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 76 (34.39%) Security Cleared
2 67 (30.32%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.33%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.62%) Degree
5 7 (3.17%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.71%) CCNA
7 5 (2.26%) CCNP
7 5 (2.26%) CISSP
7 5 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.81%) 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%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.45%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.52%) NIST
2 6 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.71%) QA
3 5 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.81%) 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 66 (29.86%) Docker
2 13 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.98%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (4.07%) Squid
5 6 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.81%) Postfix
6 4 (1.81%) Varnish
7 3 (1.36%) NFS
7 3 (1.36%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.90%) KVM
8 2 (0.90%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.45%) Ceph
9 1 (0.45%) HDFS
9 1 (0.45%) QEMU
9 1 (0.45%) Snort
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 123 (55.66%) Terraform
2 80 (36.20%) Kubernetes
3 78 (35.29%) Ansible
4 48 (21.72%) Grafana
5 46 (20.81%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.98%) Puppet
7 9 (4.07%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.26%) HAProxy
9 5 (2.26%) Suricata
10 4 (1.81%) Argo
11 3 (1.36%) Consul
11 3 (1.36%) Istio
11 3 (1.36%) Kibana
11 3 (1.36%) Salt
12 2 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.90%) Packer
12 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (12.22%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.14%) Splunk
3 13 (5.88%) Databricks
4 11 (4.98%) Zscaler
5 10 (4.52%) Dynatrace
5 10 (4.52%) Palo Alto
6 9 (4.07%) Google
7 8 (3.62%) Red Hat
8 7 (3.17%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.71%) Oracle
9 6 (2.71%) VMware
10 5 (2.26%) Qualys
11 4 (1.81%) Cisco
11 4 (1.81%) Tenable
12 3 (1.36%) Dell
12 3 (1.36%) IBM
12 3 (1.36%) Netskope
12 3 (1.36%) OpenText
13 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.90%) Blue Coat