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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 140 188
Rank change year-on-year -41 +48 -87
Contract jobs citing Bash 309 276 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.53% 2.03% 1.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.93% 5.25% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 188 143
10th Percentile £398 £404 £400
25th Percentile £452 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.32% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £641
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
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 £67.61 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +22.92% -4.35% -19.30%

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 6,272 5,258 6,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.11% 38.68% 39.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,194 3,690 4,851
10th Percentile £385 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £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 56 51 42
10th Percentile £34.50 £26.32 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -20.97%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.38 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 6 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 6 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 -23 22 £538 -7.33% 21
South London -14 5 £535 -13.71% 4
West London -15 4 £500 +5.26% 5
East London - 2 £416 - 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 19 (6.15%) Confluence
2 11 (3.56%) Apache
3 10 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.24%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.29%) nginx
4 4 (1.29%) WordPress
5 3 (0.97%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.65%) CMS
6 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.32%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.32%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Actimize
1 1 (0.32%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 152 (49.19%) AWS
2 146 (47.25%) Azure
3 92 (29.77%) GitHub
4 72 (23.30%) GitHub Actions
5 70 (22.65%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (17.48%) GCP
7 47 (15.21%) Amazon EKS
8 44 (14.24%) Amazon S3
9 39 (12.62%) Serverless
10 38 (12.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (10.68%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (10.36%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (10.36%) Datadog
13 30 (9.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (9.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (8.41%) Entra ID
15 23 (7.44%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (5.83%) Azure AKS
17 16 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
18 15 (4.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (14.56%) Firewall
2 41 (13.27%) DNS
3 35 (11.33%) VPN
4 28 (9.06%) Network Security
5 27 (8.74%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.88%) VLAN
7 11 (3.56%) WAN
8 9 (2.91%) DHCP
9 8 (2.59%) SD-WAN
9 8 (2.59%) SSL
10 6 (1.94%) HTTP
11 5 (1.62%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.97%) BGP
12 3 (0.97%) Internet
12 3 (0.97%) NAS
12 3 (0.97%) SAN
13 2 (0.65%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.65%) IPsec
13 2 (0.65%) SSH
13 2 (0.65%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.85%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (3.24%) Redis
4 8 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (2.59%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.59%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.94%) Delta Lake
7 5 (1.62%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.62%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.62%) Metadata
7 5 (1.62%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.29%) Big Data
8 4 (1.29%) MySQL
8 4 (1.29%) Power BI
8 4 (1.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 89 (28.80%) Jenkins
2 73 (23.62%) Git
2 73 (23.62%) GitLab
3 16 (5.18%) JIRA
4 12 (3.88%) Artifactory
5 7 (2.27%) JMeter
6 6 (1.94%) Postman
7 5 (1.62%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.62%) Browser DevTools
7 5 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.97%) Ant
8 3 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.97%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.65%) Maven
9 2 (0.65%) Snyk
9 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.65%) Subversion
9 2 (0.65%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.32%) Gatling
10 1 (0.32%) Terragrunt
General
1 71 (22.98%) Social Skills
2 68 (22.01%) Finance
3 34 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 30 (9.71%) Banking
6 7 (2.27%) Law
7 6 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.62%) Publishing
9 4 (1.29%) Automotive
9 4 (1.29%) Front Office
9 4 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.29%) Military
10 3 (0.97%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.97%) Retail
11 2 (0.65%) Billing
11 2 (0.65%) Police
11 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.32%) Back Office
12 1 (0.32%) Games
12 1 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 77 (24.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (11.65%) Senior
3 32 (10.36%) Azure Engineer
3 32 (10.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 26 (8.41%) AWS Engineer
4 26 (8.41%) Platform Engineer
5 25 (8.09%) Security Engineer
6 23 (7.44%) Lead
7 20 (6.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 19 (6.15%) Architect
9 17 (5.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (5.18%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 16 (5.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 14 (4.53%) Site Engineer
12 13 (4.21%) Linux Engineer
13 12 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
14 11 (3.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.56%) Network Engineer
14 11 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (3.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.77%) Kafka
2 17 (5.50%) ARM Templates
3 15 (4.85%) YAML
4 14 (4.53%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (4.53%) REST
5 11 (3.56%) JSON
6 10 (3.24%) Loki
6 10 (3.24%) Middleware
7 9 (2.91%) SAML
8 7 (2.27%) .NET
8 7 (2.27%) OAuth
9 6 (1.94%) cloud-init
9 6 (1.94%) Swagger
10 5 (1.62%) LDAP
11 4 (1.29%) 802.1X
11 4 (1.29%) ADO
11 4 (1.29%) ModSecurity
11 4 (1.29%) RESTful
12 3 (0.97%) GraphQL
12 3 (0.97%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (4.53%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.56%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.91%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (2.91%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.59%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.59%) PKI
8 6 (1.94%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.62%) Equities
9 5 (1.62%) Robotics
9 5 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.62%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.29%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.97%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 115 (37.22%) Linux
2 45 (14.56%) Windows
3 22 (7.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (7.12%) Ubuntu
3 22 (7.12%) Windows Server
4 18 (5.83%) Unix
5 6 (1.94%) VMS
6 3 (0.97%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.65%) Debian
7 2 (0.65%) Solaris
7 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.32%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.32%) Rocky
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (65.05%) CI/CD
2 193 (62.46%) DevOps
3 177 (57.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (29.45%) Containerisation
5 72 (23.30%) Observability
6 58 (18.77%) Platform Engineering
7 52 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (13.92%) Agile
10 42 (13.59%) AI
11 41 (13.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 40 (12.94%) Cloud Security
12 40 (12.94%) Configuration Management
13 38 (12.30%) Runbook
14 37 (11.97%) Identity Access Management
15 35 (11.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 32 (10.36%) Migration
17 30 (9.71%) Infrastructure Automation
18 29 (9.39%) DevSecOps
18 29 (9.39%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 260 (84.14%) Python
2 126 (40.78%) PowerShell
3 32 (10.36%) SQL
4 27 (8.74%) Java
5 24 (7.77%) Bicep
5 24 (7.77%) Go
6 12 (3.88%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.24%) Perl
8 7 (2.27%) Groovy
8 7 (2.27%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.94%) Ruby
10 5 (1.62%) C
10 5 (1.62%) C#
11 3 (0.97%) Cypher
11 3 (0.97%) Gremlin
11 3 (0.97%) Korn
11 3 (0.97%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.65%) R
13 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 102 (33.01%) Security Cleared
2 91 (29.45%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.09%) Azure Certification
4 17 (5.50%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.50%) Degree
5 13 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.91%) CCNP
8 7 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.27%) CCNA
9 6 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.62%) CISSP
10 5 (1.62%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.29%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.29%) JNCIS
11 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.85%) QA
2 9 (2.91%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.91%) NIST
3 7 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.62%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.97%) SLA
5 3 (0.97%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.32%) GDPR
6 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 111 (35.92%) Docker
2 29 (9.39%) Active Directory
3 15 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.59%) Squid
6 4 (1.29%) NFS
6 4 (1.29%) Postfix
6 4 (1.29%) Varnish
6 4 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.29%) vSphere
7 3 (0.97%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.97%) OpenSSH
7 3 (0.97%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.65%) HDFS
8 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.65%) zsh
9 1 (0.32%) KVM
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.32%) QEMU
9 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 197 (63.75%) Terraform
2 134 (43.37%) Kubernetes
3 110 (35.60%) Ansible
4 82 (26.54%) Grafana
5 72 (23.30%) Prometheus
6 25 (8.09%) Puppet
7 15 (4.85%) Argo
8 12 (3.88%) systemd
9 11 (3.56%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.62%) HAProxy
10 5 (1.62%) Istio
10 5 (1.62%) Kibana
10 5 (1.62%) Salt
10 5 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.29%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (1.29%) Suricata
12 3 (0.97%) Consul
12 3 (0.97%) Packer
12 3 (0.97%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.97%) yum
Vendors
1 54 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.44%) VMware
3 21 (6.80%) Dynatrace
4 20 (6.47%) Google
4 20 (6.47%) Oracle
5 18 (5.83%) Databricks
6 15 (4.85%) Splunk
7 13 (4.21%) CyberArk
8 11 (3.56%) Cisco
8 11 (3.56%) Red Hat
8 11 (3.56%) Zscaler
9 10 (3.24%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.24%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.59%) BeyondTrust
10 8 (2.59%) Fortinet
10 8 (2.59%) WALLIX
11 5 (1.62%) IBM
11 5 (1.62%) NetApp
12 4 (1.29%) Juniper
12 4 (1.29%) Meraki