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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 147 185
Rank change year-on-year -60 +38 -69
Contract jobs citing Bash 218 242 236
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.33% 1.87% 1.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.83% 4.79% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 151 156
10th Percentile £404 £400 £400
25th Percentile £453 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £555
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +3.60% -11.55%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £650
90th Percentile £754 £810 £725
England median daily rate £500 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.38% -9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £38.75 £48.90 £21.10
25th Percentile £42.50 £53.63 £22.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £84.75 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.82% +46.12% -20.00%
75th Percentile £58.50 £112.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.65 - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +32.02% -13.46% -4.06%

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 5,686 5,049 6,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 34.76% 39.02% 34.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,843 3,460 4,827
10th Percentile £363 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £699 £692
90th Percentile £775 £825 £801
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.42% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 34 62
10th Percentile £18.81 £30.32 £25.84
25th Percentile £39.42 £38.15 £37.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -9.41% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.50 £62.81 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £93.75 £69.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 14 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Bash in London

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 14 March 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 -35 15 £515 -3.06% 23
South London -8 9 £530 -
West London - 1 - - 1
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 12 (5.50%) Confluence
2 7 (3.21%) nginx
3 5 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.38%) Apache
4 3 (1.38%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.38%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.38%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.46%) FileNet
6 1 (0.46%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.46%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 95 (43.58%) AWS
2 77 (35.32%) Azure
3 48 (22.02%) GitHub
4 36 (16.51%) GCP
5 33 (15.14%) Amazon EKS
5 33 (15.14%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (14.22%) Amazon S3
7 30 (13.76%) Amazon EC2
8 29 (13.30%) Serverless
9 24 (11.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (10.55%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (10.55%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (10.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (9.63%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (4.59%) Azure AKS
14 10 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (4.13%) OpenShift
15 9 (4.13%) Snowflake
16 8 (3.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.63%) TCP/IP
2 19 (8.72%) Firewall
3 18 (8.26%) DNS
4 9 (4.13%) Network Security
4 9 (4.13%) VPN
5 7 (3.21%) HTTP
6 6 (2.75%) DHCP
6 6 (2.75%) Multicast
6 6 (2.75%) VLAN
6 6 (2.75%) Wireshark
7 4 (1.83%) tcpdump
8 3 (1.38%) SSL
8 3 (1.38%) WAN
9 2 (0.92%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.92%) NAS
9 2 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.92%) SAN
9 2 (0.92%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.92%) Spanning Tree
9 2 (0.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.30%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (10.09%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (5.50%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.59%) Data Lake
4 10 (4.59%) Redis
5 9 (4.13%) MySQL
5 9 (4.13%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.21%) Delta Lake
6 7 (3.21%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.29%) Big Data
8 5 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.83%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.38%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.92%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.92%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 55 (25.23%) Jenkins
2 53 (24.31%) GitLab
3 48 (22.02%) Git
4 16 (7.34%) JIRA
5 9 (4.13%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.29%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.29%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.83%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (1.83%) MLflow
8 3 (1.38%) Ant
8 3 (1.38%) Gradle
8 3 (1.38%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.38%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (1.38%) Snyk
8 3 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.92%) Appium
9 2 (0.92%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.92%) Maven
9 2 (0.92%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.92%) Selenium
General
1 55 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (14.68%) Finance
3 29 (13.30%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.50%) Banking
5 10 (4.59%) Retail
6 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.83%) Front Office
6 4 (1.83%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.92%) Private Banking
7 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.46%) Games
8 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.46%) Legal
8 1 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 32 (14.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (13.30%) Platform Engineer
3 21 (9.63%) Senior
4 16 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (6.88%) Lead
6 14 (6.42%) Architect
6 14 (6.42%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (5.05%) AWS DevOps
7 11 (5.05%) Security Engineer
8 10 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (4.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (4.59%) Data Engineer
8 10 (4.59%) Site Engineer
8 10 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (4.13%) Developer
9 9 (4.13%) Support Engineer
10 8 (3.67%) Analyst
10 8 (3.67%) GCP Engineer
10 8 (3.67%) Microsoft Engineer
10 8 (3.67%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.26%) Kafka
2 11 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (3.21%) Middleware
4 5 (2.29%) ADO
4 5 (2.29%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.29%) FastAPI
5 4 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (1.83%) Node.js
5 4 (1.83%) OAuth
5 4 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.83%) PyTorch
5 4 (1.83%) SAML
5 4 (1.83%) Ultra Messaging
5 4 (1.83%) YAML
6 3 (1.38%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.38%) LDAP
6 3 (1.38%) REST
6 3 (1.38%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (0.92%) LangChain
7 2 (0.92%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.21%) Algorithms
3 7 (3.21%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.29%) Replication
5 5 (2.29%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.38%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.38%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.92%) NHS
8 2 (0.92%) PACS
8 2 (0.92%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 91 (41.74%) Linux
2 26 (11.93%) Windows
3 19 (8.72%) Mac OS
4 18 (8.26%) Unix
5 8 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.21%) VMS
7 4 (1.83%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.92%) Solaris
9 1 (0.46%) CentOS
9 1 (0.46%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (54.13%) CI/CD
2 109 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 96 (44.04%) DevOps
4 62 (28.44%) Containerisation
5 51 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (19.27%) Platform Engineering
7 39 (17.89%) Observability
8 30 (13.76%) Agile
8 30 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (13.30%) Configuration Management
10 28 (12.84%) Analytics
10 28 (12.84%) Incident Response
11 24 (11.01%) High Availability
12 23 (10.55%) AI
12 23 (10.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 20 (9.17%) Roadmaps
14 17 (7.80%) Cloud Security
14 17 (7.80%) Mentoring
14 17 (7.80%) Project Delivery
14 17 (7.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 181 (83.03%) Python
2 83 (38.07%) PowerShell
3 31 (14.22%) SQL
4 15 (6.88%) Java
5 12 (5.50%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (5.05%) Go
7 8 (3.67%) Bicep
7 8 (3.67%) Perl
8 6 (2.75%) C
8 6 (2.75%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.29%) Groovy
10 4 (1.83%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.38%) C#
11 3 (1.38%) PHP
12 2 (0.92%) C++
12 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.92%) Ruby
12 2 (0.92%) Rust
12 2 (0.92%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (30.73%) Security Cleared
2 58 (26.61%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.50%) Degree
4 10 (4.59%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.75%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.75%) CCNA
5 6 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.75%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.75%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.75%) PhD
6 5 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.83%) CCNP
7 4 (1.83%) CEH
7 4 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.38%) CISSP
8 3 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.75%) NIST
2 5 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.83%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.38%) GDPR
5 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.92%) QA
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
6 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (36.24%) Docker
2 9 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.38%) Squid
5 3 (1.38%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.38%) vSphere
6 2 (0.92%) Ceph
6 2 (0.92%) KVM
6 2 (0.92%) Lustre
6 2 (0.92%) NFS
6 2 (0.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.92%) Snort
6 2 (0.92%) Xen
6 2 (0.92%) zsh
7 1 (0.46%) GPFS
7 1 (0.46%) HDFS
7 1 (0.46%) iptables
7 1 (0.46%) Samba
7 1 (0.46%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 122 (55.96%) Terraform
2 76 (34.86%) Kubernetes
3 72 (33.03%) Ansible
4 39 (17.89%) Grafana
5 34 (15.60%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.59%) Puppet
7 9 (4.13%) Argo
7 9 (4.13%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (3.67%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (2.29%) Rancher
10 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.83%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.38%) HAProxy
11 3 (1.38%) Istio
11 3 (1.38%) Nagios
11 3 (1.38%) SCCM
11 3 (1.38%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.92%) Knative
12 2 (0.92%) Suricata
Vendors
1 35 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.55%) Splunk
3 17 (7.80%) Google
4 11 (5.05%) Databricks
5 9 (4.13%) Atlassian
5 9 (4.13%) Dynatrace
5 9 (4.13%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.21%) Apple
6 7 (3.21%) Qualys
6 7 (3.21%) VMware
7 6 (2.75%) PagerDuty
7 6 (2.75%) Tenable
7 6 (2.75%) Zscaler
8 5 (2.29%) Cisco
8 5 (2.29%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.83%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.83%) Solace
9 4 (1.83%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.38%) CrowdStrike