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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 160 200
Rank change year-on-year -44 +40 -89
Contract jobs citing Bash 216 226 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.78% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.78% 4.52% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 147 135
10th Percentile £400 £410 £385
25th Percentile £450 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £600
90th Percentile £750 £798 £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £40.35 - £21.25
25th Percentile £46.50 £45.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £54.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% +115.84% -73.42%
75th Percentile £62.00 £63.25 £52.94
90th Percentile £63.05 - £60.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +15.84% +3.81% -28.08%

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 5,717 4,995 6,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.01% 39.44% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 3,484 4,825
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £703 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
England median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 29 57
10th Percentile £27.87 £29.07 £23.95
25th Percentile £41.25 £38.11 £36.28
Median hourly rate £58.50 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -10.89% -12.17%
75th Percentile £67.70 £60.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.50 £68.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.05
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.38% -2.32%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -34 17 £515 -8.85% 18
South London -10 9 £530 - 1
East London - 2 £416 - 3
West London - 1 - - 5
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 13 (6.02%) Confluence
2 7 (3.24%) nginx
3 5 (2.31%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.85%) Apache
5 3 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.39%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.46%) CMS
7 1 (0.46%) FileNet
7 1 (0.46%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 103 (47.69%) AWS
2 86 (39.81%) Azure
3 53 (24.54%) GitHub
4 42 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (15.74%) GCP
6 32 (14.81%) Amazon S3
7 30 (13.89%) Serverless
8 28 (12.96%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (12.96%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (12.96%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (11.57%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (10.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (9.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 19 (8.80%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (6.94%) Azure AKS
14 12 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (4.63%) Entra ID
15 10 (4.63%) OpenShift
16 9 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.11%) Firewall
2 23 (10.65%) DNS
3 20 (9.26%) TCP/IP
4 13 (6.02%) VPN
5 9 (4.17%) Network Security
6 8 (3.70%) HTTP
7 7 (3.24%) VLAN
8 5 (2.31%) DHCP
9 4 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.85%) SSH
10 3 (1.39%) WAN
11 2 (0.93%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.93%) Multicast
11 2 (0.93%) NAS
11 2 (0.93%) SAN
11 2 (0.93%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.93%) Spanning Tree
11 2 (0.93%) SSL
11 2 (0.93%) X.509
12 1 (0.46%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.04%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (3.24%) MySQL
6 6 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.78%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.78%) Redis
7 5 (2.31%) Big Data
7 5 (2.31%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.85%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.39%) Data Vault
9 3 (1.39%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.39%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (26.85%) GitLab
2 57 (26.39%) Jenkins
3 51 (23.61%) Git
4 16 (7.41%) JIRA
5 8 (3.70%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.78%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.31%) Browser DevTools
7 5 (2.31%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.39%) Ant
8 3 (1.39%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.39%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (1.39%) Snyk
9 2 (0.93%) Appium
9 2 (0.93%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.93%) MLflow
9 2 (0.93%) Selenium
9 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.46%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.46%) Poetry
10 1 (0.46%) Spinnaker
General
1 50 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.20%) Finance
3 29 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.57%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.56%) Banking
6 7 (3.24%) Retail
7 6 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.39%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.93%) Law
10 2 (0.93%) Legal
10 2 (0.93%) Military
10 2 (0.93%) Police
10 2 (0.93%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Games
11 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 37 (17.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (14.35%) Platform Engineer
3 17 (7.87%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
4 15 (6.94%) Security Engineer
5 14 (6.48%) Architect
5 14 (6.48%) Senior
6 11 (5.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (5.09%) Lead
6 11 (5.09%) Site Engineer
6 11 (5.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 10 (4.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 10 (4.63%) Data Engineer
8 9 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 9 (4.17%) Developer
9 8 (3.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (3.24%) Analyst
10 7 (3.24%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.33%) Kafka
2 12 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (4.63%) YAML
4 8 (3.70%) ARM Templates
5 6 (2.78%) OAuth
5 6 (2.78%) SAML
6 5 (2.31%) ADO
6 5 (2.31%) JSON
6 5 (2.31%) REST
7 4 (1.85%) Node.js
8 3 (1.39%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.39%) LDAP
8 3 (1.39%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.39%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (0.93%) CrewAI
9 2 (0.93%) Keycloak
9 2 (0.93%) LangChain
9 2 (0.93%) pgvector
9 2 (0.93%) PyTorch
9 2 (0.93%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.57%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (2.31%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.31%) Security Posture
4 4 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.39%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.39%) PKI
5 3 (1.39%) Replication
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.93%) NHS
6 2 (0.93%) PACS
6 2 (0.93%) Pricing Data
6 2 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 86 (39.81%) Linux
2 25 (11.57%) Windows
3 19 (8.80%) Unix
4 11 (5.09%) Mac OS
5 8 (3.70%) VMS
6 6 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (2.31%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.46%) CentOS
9 1 (0.46%) Debian
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.46%) Rocky
9 1 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (56.48%) CI/CD
2 108 (50.00%) DevOps
3 107 (49.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (30.09%) Containerisation
5 51 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (21.76%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (17.59%) Observability
8 35 (16.20%) Configuration Management
9 32 (14.81%) Agile
10 24 (11.11%) Analytics
11 23 (10.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 22 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (9.72%) AI
14 19 (8.80%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (8.80%) High Availability
14 19 (8.80%) Test Automation
15 18 (8.33%) Incident Response
16 17 (7.87%) Cloud Security
17 16 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
18 15 (6.94%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 185 (85.65%) Python
2 82 (37.96%) PowerShell
3 29 (13.43%) SQL
4 15 (6.94%) Go
5 14 (6.48%) Java
6 12 (5.56%) Bicep
7 10 (4.63%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (2.78%) C
8 6 (2.78%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.78%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.31%) Perl
9 5 (2.31%) Ruby
10 3 (1.39%) Groovy
11 2 (0.93%) C#
11 2 (0.93%) C++
11 2 (0.93%) PHP
11 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.93%) Rust
11 2 (0.93%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 69 (31.94%) Security Cleared
2 61 (28.24%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.02%) Azure Certification
4 11 (5.09%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.09%) Degree
5 8 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.24%) CCNA
6 7 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.24%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.31%) CCNP
8 4 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.85%) CISSP
8 4 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.39%) CEH
9 3 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.24%) NIST
2 4 (1.85%) QA
3 3 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.93%) GDPR
4 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.93%) SLA
5 1 (0.46%) NCSC
5 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (37.04%) Docker
2 12 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.09%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.39%) NFS
5 3 (1.39%) Squid
5 3 (1.39%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.39%) vSphere
6 2 (0.93%) Ceph
6 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.93%) KVM
6 2 (0.93%) Lustre
6 2 (0.93%) OpenSSH
6 2 (0.93%) Postfix
6 2 (0.93%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.93%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.93%) Varnish
6 2 (0.93%) Xen
7 1 (0.46%) Samba
7 1 (0.46%) Snort
Systems Management
1 127 (58.80%) Terraform
2 79 (36.57%) Kubernetes
3 77 (35.65%) Ansible
4 37 (17.13%) Grafana
5 34 (15.74%) Prometheus
6 15 (6.94%) Puppet
7 9 (4.17%) Argo
8 8 (3.70%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.85%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.85%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.85%) Rancher
10 4 (1.85%) Salt
11 3 (1.39%) Istio
11 3 (1.39%) Kibana
11 3 (1.39%) Nagios
11 3 (1.39%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.93%) Knative
12 2 (0.93%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.26%) Splunk
3 15 (6.94%) Databricks
4 13 (6.02%) Google
5 8 (3.70%) Atlassian
5 8 (3.70%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.70%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.78%) PagerDuty
6 6 (2.78%) VMware
6 6 (2.78%) Zscaler
7 5 (2.31%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.31%) Qualys
8 4 (1.85%) Cisco
8 4 (1.85%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.85%) Oracle
8 4 (1.85%) Tenable
9 3 (1.39%) IBM
9 3 (1.39%) Netskope
9 3 (1.39%) OpenText
9 3 (1.39%) Pure Storage