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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 148 181
Rank change year-on-year -28 +33 -50
Contract jobs citing Bash 247 245 241
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.58% 1.81% 1.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.41% 4.67% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 145 167
10th Percentile £400 £374 £413
25th Percentile £463 £450 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £688
90th Percentile £750 £810 £784
England median daily rate £513 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £38.75 £48.90 £58.40
25th Percentile £42.50 £53.63 £59.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £84.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.82% +41.25% -17.24%
75th Percentile £58.50 £112.00 -
90th Percentile £61.65 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +8.70% -23.33% +2.74%

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 5,598 5,247 6,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.80% 38.73% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,761 3,481 4,839
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
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 £690 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 36 69
10th Percentile £22.01 £35.00 £26.75
25th Percentile £39.42 £38.44 £39.85
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.38% -10.00%
75th Percentile £66.50 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £95.63 £72.10
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.14
% change year-on-year +3.17% +4.76% -7.48%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -32 16 £538 -2.27% 31
South London -10 8 £530 - 5
West London - 3 - - 2
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 (4.86%) Confluence
2 7 (2.83%) nginx
3 5 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.62%) Apache
5 3 (1.21%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.21%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.81%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.81%) Traefik
6 2 (0.81%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.81%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.40%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.40%) Pro Tools
1 1 (0.40%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 104 (42.11%) AWS
2 88 (35.63%) Azure
3 49 (19.84%) GitHub
4 43 (17.41%) GCP
5 34 (13.77%) Amazon EKS
5 34 (13.77%) Amazon S3
6 31 (12.55%) Amazon EC2
6 31 (12.55%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (11.34%) Serverless
8 27 (10.93%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (9.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 22 (8.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (8.50%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.86%) Entra ID
14 11 (4.45%) Azure AKS
14 11 (4.45%) OpenShift
15 10 (4.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 9 (3.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.12%) DNS
2 24 (9.72%) TCP/IP
3 23 (9.31%) Firewall
4 13 (5.26%) VPN
5 11 (4.45%) Network Security
6 10 (4.05%) SSL
7 7 (2.83%) VLAN
7 7 (2.83%) Wireshark
8 6 (2.43%) DHCP
8 6 (2.43%) Multicast
9 5 (2.02%) BGP
9 5 (2.02%) HTTP
10 4 (1.62%) OSPF
10 4 (1.62%) tcpdump
11 3 (1.21%) EIGRP
11 3 (1.21%) HTTPS
11 3 (1.21%) IPsec
11 3 (1.21%) NAS
11 3 (1.21%) WAN
12 2 (0.81%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (9.31%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (6.48%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.86%) Data Lake
4 12 (4.86%) Redis
5 9 (3.64%) Delta Lake
5 9 (3.64%) MySQL
5 9 (3.64%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.43%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.02%) Big Data
7 5 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.02%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.62%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.62%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.21%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.21%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 60 (24.29%) GitLab
2 55 (22.27%) Jenkins
3 52 (21.05%) Git
4 19 (7.69%) JIRA
5 9 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.43%) Metasploit
7 5 (2.02%) Burp Suite
7 5 (2.02%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.02%) Gradle
7 5 (2.02%) Maven
8 4 (1.62%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.62%) MLflow
8 4 (1.62%) sqlmap
9 3 (1.21%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (1.21%) Snyk
9 3 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.21%) Spinnaker
9 3 (1.21%) Subversion
9 3 (1.21%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.81%) Chocolatey
General
1 59 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (12.96%) Finance
4 26 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.05%) Banking
5 10 (4.05%) Retail
6 4 (1.62%) Financial Institution
6 4 (1.62%) Front Office
6 4 (1.62%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.81%) Private Banking
8 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.40%) Games
9 1 (0.40%) Legal
9 1 (0.40%) Local Government
9 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (11.34%) Platform Engineer
3 27 (10.93%) Senior
4 17 (6.88%) Developer
5 15 (6.07%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (5.67%) Architect
6 14 (5.67%) Security Engineer
7 12 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (4.86%) Data Engineer
7 12 (4.86%) Lead
8 11 (4.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.45%) Network Engineer
8 11 (4.45%) Site Engineer
8 11 (4.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 10 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (3.64%) Analyst
10 9 (3.64%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (3.24%) Administrator
11 8 (3.24%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.83%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.50%) Kafka
2 9 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (3.64%) Middleware
3 6 (2.43%) REST
3 6 (2.43%) YAML
4 5 (2.02%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.02%) FastAPI
4 5 (2.02%) Keycloak
4 5 (2.02%) Node.js
5 4 (1.62%) ADO
5 4 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.62%) PyTorch
5 4 (1.62%) Ultra Messaging
6 3 (1.21%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.21%) HTML
6 3 (1.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 3 (1.21%) SAML
7 2 (0.81%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.81%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.12%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (5.67%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (4.45%) Security Posture
5 10 (4.05%) Replication
6 7 (2.83%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.62%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.62%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.62%) PKI
8 4 (1.62%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.21%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.21%) Clustering
9 3 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.81%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.81%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 109 (44.13%) Linux
2 28 (11.34%) Windows
3 23 (9.31%) Unix
4 20 (8.10%) Mac OS
5 17 (6.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.24%) Solaris
7 7 (2.83%) VMS
8 5 (2.02%) CentOS
8 5 (2.02%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.21%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 124 (50.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 105 (42.51%) DevOps
4 68 (27.53%) Containerisation
5 55 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (16.60%) Observability
6 41 (16.60%) Platform Engineering
7 40 (16.19%) Agile
8 38 (15.38%) Incident Response
9 30 (12.15%) High Availability
10 29 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (10.93%) Analytics
11 27 (10.93%) Configuration Management
12 24 (9.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 23 (9.31%) AI
13 23 (9.31%) DevSecOps
14 20 (8.10%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (8.10%) Root Cause Analysis
14 20 (8.10%) Test Automation
15 19 (7.69%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 207 (83.81%) Python
2 89 (36.03%) PowerShell
3 35 (14.17%) SQL
4 17 (6.88%) Java
5 16 (6.48%) Go
6 15 (6.07%) Kusto Query Language
7 12 (4.86%) Perl
8 9 (3.64%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.83%) Groovy
9 7 (2.83%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.43%) Bicep
10 6 (2.43%) C
11 5 (2.02%) C++
11 5 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.21%) C#
12 3 (1.21%) PHP
12 3 (1.21%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.81%) Rust
13 2 (0.81%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 68 (27.53%) Security Cleared
2 59 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.67%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.86%) Degree
5 8 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.24%) OSCP
6 7 (2.83%) GPEN
7 6 (2.43%) CCNP
7 6 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.43%) PhD
8 5 (2.02%) CCNA
8 5 (2.02%) RHCE
9 4 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.62%) CEH
9 4 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.21%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.24%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.83%) GDPR
2 7 (2.83%) NIST
3 4 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.81%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.40%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.40%) QA
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 89 (36.03%) Docker
2 10 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.43%) zsh
6 4 (1.62%) KVM
6 4 (1.62%) Squid
7 3 (1.21%) Firmware
7 3 (1.21%) NFS
7 3 (1.21%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.21%) Snort
7 3 (1.21%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.21%) vSphere
8 2 (0.81%) Ceph
8 2 (0.81%) Lustre
8 2 (0.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.81%) Veritas File System
8 2 (0.81%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.81%) Xen
Systems Management
1 123 (49.80%) Terraform
2 88 (35.63%) Kubernetes
3 80 (32.39%) Ansible
4 40 (16.19%) Grafana
5 36 (14.57%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.45%) Argo
6 11 (4.45%) Puppet
7 9 (3.64%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (3.24%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (2.83%) Nessus
10 6 (2.43%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.43%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (2.02%) Istio
11 5 (2.02%) Nagios
11 5 (2.02%) Nmap
11 5 (2.02%) Rancher
12 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.21%) Data Guard
13 3 (1.21%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (1.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.15%) Splunk
3 20 (8.10%) Google
4 18 (7.29%) Red Hat
5 14 (5.67%) Databricks
6 12 (4.86%) VMware
7 10 (4.05%) Oracle
7 10 (4.05%) Palo Alto
7 10 (4.05%) Qualys
8 9 (3.64%) Atlassian
8 9 (3.64%) Cisco
8 9 (3.64%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.24%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.83%) Apple
10 7 (2.83%) F5
11 6 (2.43%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (2.43%) PagerDuty
11 6 (2.43%) Tenable
11 6 (2.43%) Zscaler
12 5 (2.02%) CheckPoint