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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 134 201
Rank change year-on-year -56 +67 -108
Contract jobs citing Bash 283 287 215
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.43% 2.12% 1.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.57% 5.43% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 189 146
10th Percentile £396 £410 £400
25th Percentile £452 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -2.73% -14.73%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile £56.75 £45.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £54.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% +91.23% +42.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £63.25 £52.81
90th Percentile - - £71.88
England median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.84% -5.22% -17.86%

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 6,189 5,283 6,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.33% 39.09% 38.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,129 3,710 5,179
10th Percentile £375 £370 £372
25th Percentile £449 £431 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £520 £520 £540
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 50 51
10th Percentile £33.90 £27.29 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £36.57
Median hourly rate £56.25 £43.16 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.34% -11.02% -23.02%
75th Percentile £74.50 £61.25 £61.97
90th Percentile £88.75 £80.63 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -27 19 £525 -7.08% 13
South London -9 4 £553 -10.89% 1
West London -18 2 £500 +5.26% 12
East London - 2 £416 - 4
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 16 (5.65%) Confluence
2 9 (3.18%) Apache
3 7 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.41%) WordPress
5 3 (1.06%) nginx
5 3 (1.06%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.71%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) IIS
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 138 (48.76%) AWS
2 113 (39.93%) Azure
3 79 (27.92%) GitHub
4 60 (21.20%) GitHub Actions
5 58 (20.49%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (14.49%) Amazon S3
7 40 (14.13%) Amazon EKS
8 38 (13.43%) GCP
9 37 (13.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 36 (12.72%) Serverless
11 31 (10.95%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (10.95%) AWS Lambda
12 29 (10.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 26 (9.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 23 (8.13%) Datadog
15 17 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (6.01%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (5.65%) Azure AKS
17 13 (4.59%) Entra ID
18 12 (4.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (12.37%) Firewall
2 31 (10.95%) DNS
3 26 (9.19%) VPN
4 25 (8.83%) Network Security
5 23 (8.13%) TCP/IP
6 11 (3.89%) WAN
7 8 (2.83%) SD-WAN
7 8 (2.83%) SSL
8 7 (2.47%) HTTP
8 7 (2.47%) VLAN
9 5 (1.77%) NAS
9 5 (1.77%) SAN
10 4 (1.41%) DHCP
10 4 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (1.06%) BGP
11 3 (1.06%) Internet
12 2 (0.71%) IPsec
12 2 (0.71%) Multicast
12 2 (0.71%) SSH
12 2 (0.71%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.53%) MongoDB
2 10 (3.53%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (3.18%) Redis
4 8 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.12%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.77%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.77%) Delta Lake
6 5 (1.77%) MySQL
7 4 (1.41%) Big Data
7 4 (1.41%) Metadata
8 3 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.06%) Power BI
9 2 (0.71%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 76 (26.86%) Jenkins
2 67 (23.67%) Git
3 64 (22.61%) GitLab
4 15 (5.30%) JIRA
5 11 (3.89%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.47%) JMeter
7 6 (2.12%) Postman
8 5 (1.77%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.06%) Ant
9 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.06%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.71%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.71%) Selenium
10 2 (0.71%) Snyk
10 2 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.71%) Subversion
11 1 (0.35%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.35%) Gatling
11 1 (0.35%) Maven
General
1 58 (20.49%) Social Skills
2 52 (18.37%) Finance
3 34 (12.01%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.89%) Banking
5 24 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.47%) Law
7 5 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.77%) Retail
8 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.41%) Military
8 4 (1.41%) Publishing
9 3 (1.06%) Front Office
9 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.71%) Police
10 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.35%) Back Office
11 1 (0.35%) Billing
11 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 75 (26.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (10.95%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (9.54%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (9.54%) Security Engineer
4 26 (9.19%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (8.48%) Senior
6 21 (7.42%) Lead
7 20 (7.07%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (6.01%) Architect
8 17 (6.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 15 (5.30%) Linux Engineer
11 14 (4.95%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 14 (4.95%) Site Engineer
12 12 (4.24%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.53%) Lead DevOps
14 10 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.13%) Kafka
2 14 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (4.59%) YAML
4 12 (4.24%) ARM Templates
5 11 (3.89%) REST
6 10 (3.53%) JSON
7 9 (3.18%) Middleware
8 8 (2.83%) Loki
8 8 (2.83%) SAML
9 7 (2.47%) OAuth
10 6 (2.12%) cloud-init
10 6 (2.12%) Swagger
11 5 (1.77%) ADO
12 4 (1.41%) .NET
12 4 (1.41%) LDAP
12 4 (1.41%) ModSecurity
13 3 (1.06%) WebSphere MQ
14 2 (0.71%) JSON-LD
14 2 (0.71%) OAuth2
14 2 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.25%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.18%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.18%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.18%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.77%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.77%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.77%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.41%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.41%) PKI
9 3 (1.06%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.06%) Equities
9 3 (1.06%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 102 (36.04%) Linux
2 34 (12.01%) Windows
3 21 (7.42%) Unix
4 18 (6.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (4.59%) Ubuntu
6 11 (3.89%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.77%) VMS
8 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.71%) Debian
9 2 (0.71%) Solaris
9 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.35%) CentOS
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.35%) Rocky
10 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (64.66%) CI/CD
2 174 (61.48%) DevOps
3 160 (56.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (32.16%) Containerisation
5 65 (22.97%) Observability
6 53 (18.73%) Platform Engineering
7 50 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (14.13%) Configuration Management
8 40 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (13.07%) Cloud Security
10 33 (11.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 32 (11.31%) Agile
12 31 (10.95%) Runbook
13 30 (10.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 29 (10.25%) AI
15 26 (9.19%) DevSecOps
15 26 (9.19%) Migration
15 26 (9.19%) Root Cause Analysis
16 25 (8.83%) High Availability
16 25 (8.83%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 243 (85.87%) Python
2 109 (38.52%) PowerShell
3 27 (9.54%) SQL
4 20 (7.07%) Go
5 19 (6.71%) Java
6 16 (5.65%) Bicep
7 10 (3.53%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.83%) Perl
9 6 (2.12%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.12%) Ruby
10 5 (1.77%) C
11 4 (1.41%) C#
11 4 (1.41%) Groovy
11 4 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.06%) Korn
13 2 (0.71%) Cypher
13 2 (0.71%) Gremlin
13 2 (0.71%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.71%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 97 (34.28%) Security Cleared
2 87 (30.74%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.65%) Azure Certification
4 12 (4.24%) Degree
5 9 (3.18%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.47%) CCNA
8 5 (1.77%) CCNP
8 5 (1.77%) CISSP
8 5 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.71%) CCSP
11 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.53%) QA
2 9 (3.18%) NIST
3 7 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.77%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.06%) SLA
5 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.35%) GDPR
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 98 (34.63%) Docker
2 20 (7.07%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.83%) Squid
6 5 (1.77%) vSphere
7 4 (1.41%) NFS
7 4 (1.41%) Postfix
7 4 (1.41%) Varnish
7 4 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.06%) OpenSSH
8 3 (1.06%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.71%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.35%) HDFS
10 1 (0.35%) KVM
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.35%) QEMU
10 1 (0.35%) zsh
Systems Management
1 176 (62.19%) Terraform
2 114 (40.28%) Kubernetes
3 104 (36.75%) Ansible
4 71 (25.09%) Grafana
5 64 (22.61%) Prometheus
6 20 (7.07%) Puppet
7 13 (4.59%) Argo
8 10 (3.53%) Progress Chef
9 7 (2.47%) systemd
10 5 (1.77%) HAProxy
10 5 (1.77%) Salt
10 5 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.41%) Kibana
11 4 (1.41%) Suricata
11 4 (1.41%) vCenter Server
12 3 (1.06%) Consul
12 3 (1.06%) Istio
12 3 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.06%) Packer
12 3 (1.06%) yum
Vendors
1 34 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.07%) Splunk
3 16 (5.65%) Databricks
4 15 (5.30%) Dynatrace
4 15 (5.30%) Oracle
5 14 (4.95%) VMware
6 11 (3.89%) Palo Alto
6 11 (3.89%) Zscaler
7 10 (3.53%) Google
7 10 (3.53%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.83%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.47%) CyberArk
10 6 (2.12%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.41%) Cisco
11 4 (1.41%) Dell
11 4 (1.41%) IBM
11 4 (1.41%) Tenable
12 3 (1.06%) NetApp
12 3 (1.06%) Netskope
12 3 (1.06%) Sybase