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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 148 202
Rank change year-on-year -49 +54 -94
Contract jobs citing Bash 224 222 209
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.26% 1.80% 1.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.98% 4.57% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 142 131
10th Percentile £398 £425 £375
25th Percentile £450 £459 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £606 £679 £600
90th Percentile £738 £773 £690
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £57.20 - £21.25
25th Percentile £57.88 £45.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £54.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.01% +115.84% -30.34%
75th Percentile £62.88 £63.25 £61.84
90th Percentile £63.40 - £71.88
England median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +20.26% -8.70% -15.13%

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 5,625 4,854 6,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.59% 39.26% 36.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,786 3,422 4,883
10th Percentile £363 £380 £380
25th Percentile £431 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £829
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 29 51
10th Percentile £32.39 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £44.56 £33.25 £40.79
Median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.44% -14.01% -13.75%
75th Percentile £73.00 £61.50 £63.52
90th Percentile £88.75 £71.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -

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 May 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 14 May 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 -25 19 £523 -5.00% 27
South London -10 6 £530 - 2
West London - 3 £500 - 4
East London - 2 £416 - 3
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 8 (3.57%) Confluence
2 7 (3.13%) Apache
3 6 (2.68%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.34%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.89%) nginx
7 1 (0.45%) CMS
7 1 (0.45%) FileNet
7 1 (0.45%) IIS
7 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.45%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 103 (45.98%) AWS
2 87 (38.84%) Azure
3 54 (24.11%) GitHub
4 46 (20.54%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (13.39%) GCP
7 29 (12.95%) Amazon EC2
7 29 (12.95%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (12.50%) Serverless
9 27 (12.05%) Amazon S3
10 23 (10.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (10.27%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (10.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (7.59%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (6.70%) Azure AKS
14 12 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
16 9 (4.02%) Entra ID
17 8 (3.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.95%) Firewall
2 23 (10.27%) DNS
2 23 (10.27%) TCP/IP
3 19 (8.48%) VPN
4 18 (8.04%) Network Security
5 8 (3.57%) VLAN
5 8 (3.57%) WAN
6 7 (3.13%) HTTP
6 7 (3.13%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.68%) DHCP
8 4 (1.79%) NAS
8 4 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (1.79%) SAN
8 4 (1.79%) SSH
8 4 (1.79%) SSL
9 2 (0.89%) Internet
9 2 (0.89%) IPsec
9 2 (0.89%) Multicast
9 2 (0.89%) Spanning Tree
9 2 (0.89%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (4.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.13%) Redis
5 7 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.23%) Big Data
6 5 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.23%) MySQL
7 4 (1.79%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.79%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.34%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.34%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.89%) ImageNet
9 2 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 60 (26.79%) GitLab
2 56 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 53 (23.66%) Git
4 12 (5.36%) JIRA
5 9 (4.02%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.23%) Browser DevTools
6 5 (2.23%) JMeter
6 5 (2.23%) Postman
7 3 (1.34%) Ant
7 3 (1.34%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.34%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.34%) Snyk
8 2 (0.89%) Appium
8 2 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.89%) MLflow
8 2 (0.89%) Selenium
8 2 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.45%) Gradle
9 1 (0.45%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.63%) Finance
3 26 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (11.61%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.70%) Banking
5 6 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.68%) Retail
6 5 (2.23%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.34%) Military
7 3 (1.34%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.89%) Law
8 2 (0.89%) Police
9 1 (0.45%) Back Office
9 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Front Office
9 1 (0.45%) Games
9 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (18.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (12.05%) Platform Engineer
3 25 (11.16%) Security Engineer
4 23 (10.27%) AWS Engineer
4 23 (10.27%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (8.48%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (6.25%) Senior
7 11 (4.91%) Architect
7 11 (4.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 11 (4.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 10 (4.46%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (4.46%) Lead
9 9 (4.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.02%) Data Engineer
9 9 (4.02%) Site Engineer
10 8 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.57%) Developer
10 8 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.59%) Kafka
2 12 (5.36%) YAML
3 10 (4.46%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (4.02%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.13%) JSON
5 7 (3.13%) SAML
6 6 (2.68%) OAuth
6 6 (2.68%) REST
6 6 (2.68%) Swagger
7 5 (2.23%) ADO
7 5 (2.23%) LDAP
8 4 (1.79%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.34%) WebSphere MQ
10 2 (0.89%) .NET
10 2 (0.89%) CrewAI
10 2 (0.89%) HTML
10 2 (0.89%) LangChain
10 2 (0.89%) Middleware
10 2 (0.89%) pgvector
10 2 (0.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.39%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.68%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.23%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.34%) PKI
8 2 (0.89%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.89%) NHS
8 2 (0.89%) PACS
8 2 (0.89%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 83 (37.05%) Linux
2 23 (10.27%) Windows
3 17 (7.59%) Unix
4 8 (3.57%) Ubuntu
4 8 (3.57%) VMS
5 7 (3.13%) Mac OS
6 6 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.34%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.89%) CentOS
8 2 (0.89%) Debian
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.45%) Rocky
9 1 (0.45%) Solaris
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (60.71%) CI/CD
2 122 (54.46%) DevOps
3 109 (48.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (27.68%) Containerisation
5 46 (20.54%) Platform Engineering
6 44 (19.64%) Observability
6 44 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (15.63%) Configuration Management
8 26 (11.61%) Agile
9 25 (11.16%) Analytics
10 24 (10.71%) Cloud Security
11 22 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (9.82%) Incident Response
12 21 (9.38%) SIEM
12 21 (9.38%) Test Automation
13 20 (8.93%) Validation
14 18 (8.04%) AI
14 18 (8.04%) Root Cause Analysis
15 17 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (7.59%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 191 (85.27%) Python
2 92 (41.07%) PowerShell
3 27 (12.05%) SQL
4 17 (7.59%) Java
5 14 (6.25%) Go
6 13 (5.80%) Bicep
7 8 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.68%) C
8 6 (2.68%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.23%) Perl
9 5 (2.23%) Ruby
10 3 (1.34%) C#
10 3 (1.34%) Groovy
11 2 (0.89%) C++
11 2 (0.89%) PHP
11 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.89%) Rust
11 2 (0.89%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.45%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 74 (33.04%) Security Cleared
2 64 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.46%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.02%) Degree
6 7 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.68%) CCNA
7 6 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.23%) CCNP
8 5 (2.23%) CISSP
9 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.89%) CEH
11 2 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.45%) CISA
12 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.46%) NIST
2 6 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.23%) QA
4 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.89%) GDPR
5 2 (0.89%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.89%) SLA
5 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (31.25%) Docker
2 14 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (4.02%) Squid
5 6 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.79%) NFS
7 3 (1.34%) KVM
7 3 (1.34%) Postfix
7 3 (1.34%) Sendmail
7 3 (1.34%) Varnish
8 2 (0.89%) Ceph
8 2 (0.89%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.89%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.89%) Xen
9 1 (0.45%) HDFS
9 1 (0.45%) iptables
9 1 (0.45%) Samba
9 1 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.45%) Snort
9 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (55.36%) Terraform
2 81 (36.16%) Kubernetes
3 79 (35.27%) Ansible
4 47 (20.98%) Grafana
5 43 (19.20%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.36%) Puppet
7 9 (4.02%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.23%) Argo
9 5 (2.23%) HAProxy
9 5 (2.23%) Suricata
10 4 (1.79%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.34%) Istio
11 3 (1.34%) Kibana
11 3 (1.34%) Rancher
11 3 (1.34%) Salt
12 2 (0.89%) Consul
12 2 (0.89%) Knative
12 2 (0.89%) Packer
12 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 30 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.59%) Splunk
3 14 (6.25%) Databricks
4 11 (4.91%) Zscaler
5 9 (4.02%) Dynatrace
5 9 (4.02%) Google
5 9 (4.02%) Palo Alto
6 7 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.68%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.68%) Oracle
7 6 (2.68%) VMware
8 5 (2.23%) Cisco
8 5 (2.23%) Qualys
9 4 (1.79%) Tenable
10 3 (1.34%) Dell
10 3 (1.34%) IBM
10 3 (1.34%) Netskope
10 3 (1.34%) OpenText
10 3 (1.34%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.89%) Blue Coat