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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 141 194
Rank change year-on-year -32 +53 -85
Contract jobs citing Bash 329 272 215
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.64% 2.03% 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.23% 5.29% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 187 143
10th Percentile £389 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -7.41% -12.77%
75th Percentile £637 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £47.15 £23.30
25th Percentile £56.75 £49.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +72.31% +62.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.75 £71.88
90th Percentile - £63.05 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £54.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +29.68% -4.78% -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 6,294 5,138 6,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.38% 38.42% 39.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,224 3,581 4,777
10th Percentile £385 £375 £373
25th Percentile £450 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £700 £710
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 54 60 40
10th Percentile £27.87 £26.31 £25.11
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £38.31
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -7.37% -24.60%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.31 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £75.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.59%

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 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 25 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 -27 22 £550 -5.17% 11
South London -11 5 £535 -13.71% 2
West London -18 5 £500 +5.26% 17
East London - 3 £400 - 4
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 (5.47%) Confluence
2 11 (3.34%) Apache
3 10 (3.04%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.22%) WordPress
6 3 (0.91%) nginx
7 2 (0.61%) CMS
7 2 (0.61%) IIS
7 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.30%) JBoss
8 1 (0.30%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Actimize
1 1 (0.30%) Front Arena
1 1 (0.30%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 1 (0.30%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 157 (47.72%) AWS
2 152 (46.20%) Azure
3 95 (28.88%) GitHub
4 76 (23.10%) GitHub Actions
5 71 (21.58%) Azure DevOps
6 59 (17.93%) GCP
7 46 (13.98%) Amazon EKS
7 46 (13.98%) Amazon S3
8 41 (12.46%) Serverless
9 39 (11.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (10.03%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (10.03%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (10.03%) Datadog
11 30 (9.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (9.12%) Entra ID
11 30 (9.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 25 (7.60%) Azure Monitor
13 21 (6.38%) Azure AKS
14 16 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (4.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (12.77%) Firewall
2 40 (12.16%) DNS
3 39 (11.85%) VPN
4 30 (9.12%) Network Security
5 28 (8.51%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.86%) WAN
7 12 (3.65%) VLAN
8 10 (3.04%) SD-WAN
9 8 (2.43%) SSL
10 7 (2.13%) BGP
10 7 (2.13%) DHCP
10 7 (2.13%) HTTP
11 5 (1.52%) MPLS
11 5 (1.52%) SAN
12 4 (1.22%) SSH
13 3 (0.91%) Internet
13 3 (0.91%) Kerberos
13 3 (0.91%) NAS
13 3 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.47%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (3.95%) Redis
4 12 (3.65%) MongoDB
5 9 (2.74%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.13%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.13%) MySQL
7 6 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.82%) Metadata
8 5 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (1.52%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.52%) Delta Lake
8 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.52%) Power BI
9 4 (1.22%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (1.22%) Big Data
10 3 (0.91%) Stardog
10 3 (0.91%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 100 (30.40%) Jenkins
2 84 (25.53%) Git
3 76 (23.10%) GitLab
4 20 (6.08%) JIRA
5 12 (3.65%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.43%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.13%) JMeter
8 6 (1.82%) Postman
9 5 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.91%) Maven
10 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.61%) Selenium
11 2 (0.61%) Subversion
11 2 (0.61%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.61%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.30%) Gatling
12 1 (0.30%) Snyk
12 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 82 (24.92%) Finance
2 78 (23.71%) Social Skills
3 43 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.64%) Banking
5 30 (9.12%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.04%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.13%) Law
8 5 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.52%) Front Office
8 5 (1.52%) Publishing
8 5 (1.52%) Retail
9 4 (1.22%) Automotive
9 4 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.22%) Military
10 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.61%) Billing
11 2 (0.61%) Police
12 1 (0.30%) Games
12 1 (0.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 78 (23.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (11.25%) Senior
3 32 (9.73%) Azure Engineer
4 31 (9.42%) Cloud Engineer
5 25 (7.60%) Platform Engineer
6 24 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
6 24 (7.29%) Lead
6 24 (7.29%) Security Engineer
7 20 (6.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.47%) Architect
9 17 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (5.17%) Linux Engineer
9 17 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 16 (4.86%) Developer
11 15 (4.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 15 (4.56%) Site Engineer
12 13 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (59.88%) Terraform
2 34 (10.33%) Kafka
3 21 (6.38%) REST
4 19 (5.78%) ARM Templates
5 18 (5.47%) YAML
6 14 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (3.34%) JSON
7 11 (3.34%) Loki
7 11 (3.34%) RESTful
8 10 (3.04%) SAML
9 9 (2.74%) .NET
9 9 (2.74%) Middleware
10 8 (2.43%) OAuth
10 8 (2.43%) Spring
11 6 (1.82%) ADO
11 6 (1.82%) cloud-init
11 6 (1.82%) Flask
11 6 (1.82%) Swagger
12 5 (1.52%) CSS
12 5 (1.52%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.41%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (4.86%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.65%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.34%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.04%) Legacy Applications
7 10 (3.04%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.74%) PKI
8 9 (2.74%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.82%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.82%) Equities
9 6 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.52%) Robotics
10 5 (1.52%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.22%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.22%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 132 (40.12%) Linux
2 50 (15.20%) Windows
3 27 (8.21%) Windows Server
4 25 (7.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (6.69%) Ubuntu
5 22 (6.69%) Unix
6 9 (2.74%) VMS
7 6 (1.82%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.61%) Debian
8 2 (0.61%) Solaris
8 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.30%) CentOS
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.30%) Rocky
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (63.83%) CI/CD
2 196 (59.57%) DevOps
3 182 (55.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (29.18%) Containerisation
5 79 (24.01%) Observability
6 64 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (18.84%) Platform Engineering
8 55 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (16.41%) Agile
10 47 (14.29%) AI
11 46 (13.98%) Root Cause Analysis
12 44 (13.37%) Cloud Security
13 43 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 42 (12.77%) Infrastructure Automation
15 40 (12.16%) Configuration Management
16 39 (11.85%) Runbook
16 39 (11.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 38 (11.55%) Identity Access Management
18 35 (10.64%) Migration
18 35 (10.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 281 (85.41%) Python
2 142 (43.16%) PowerShell
3 34 (10.33%) Java
4 32 (9.73%) SQL
5 31 (9.42%) Bicep
6 28 (8.51%) Go
7 16 (4.86%) Shell Script
8 12 (3.65%) Perl
9 8 (2.43%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.43%) Korn
10 7 (2.13%) Groovy
11 6 (1.82%) C#
11 6 (1.82%) Ruby
12 3 (0.91%) Cypher
12 3 (0.91%) Gremlin
12 3 (0.91%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.61%) C
13 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.61%) R
13 2 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 104 (31.61%) Security Cleared
2 89 (27.05%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.81%) Azure Certification
4 21 (6.38%) Degree
5 18 (5.47%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (3.04%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.43%) CCNP
10 7 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.13%) CISSP
11 6 (1.82%) CCNA
12 5 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.22%) JNCIP
13 4 (1.22%) JNCIS
14 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.61%) CCSP
15 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.99%) QA
2 10 (3.04%) NIST
3 9 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.82%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.22%) SLA
7 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.91%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.30%) GDPR
8 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 119 (36.17%) Docker
2 31 (9.42%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.43%) Squid
6 5 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.22%) NFS
7 4 (1.22%) Postfix
7 4 (1.22%) Varnish
7 4 (1.22%) vSphere
8 3 (0.91%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.91%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.91%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.61%) HDFS
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.61%) zsh
10 1 (0.30%) KVM
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.30%) QEMU
10 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 150 (45.59%) Kubernetes
2 106 (32.22%) Ansible
3 96 (29.18%) Grafana
4 80 (24.32%) Prometheus
5 24 (7.29%) Puppet
6 16 (4.86%) Argo
7 12 (3.65%) systemd
8 11 (3.34%) Progress Chef
9 10 (3.04%) Istio
10 9 (2.74%) Kibana
11 7 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.82%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (1.52%) Cilium
13 5 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (1.22%) HAProxy
14 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (1.22%) Salt
14 4 (1.22%) Suricata
15 3 (0.91%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.91%) yum
Vendors
1 64 (19.45%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.90%) VMware
3 22 (6.69%) Dynatrace
3 22 (6.69%) Google
3 22 (6.69%) Oracle
4 20 (6.08%) Databricks
4 20 (6.08%) Splunk
5 16 (4.86%) CyberArk
6 12 (3.65%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.34%) Cisco
7 11 (3.34%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.04%) Palo Alto
8 10 (3.04%) Zscaler
9 9 (2.74%) BeyondTrust
9 9 (2.74%) WALLIX
10 7 (2.13%) Fortinet
10 7 (2.13%) NetApp
11 6 (1.82%) Apple
12 4 (1.22%) Juniper
12 4 (1.22%) Meraki