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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 135 202
Rank change year-on-year -56 +67 -109
Contract jobs citing Bash 249 253 219
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.31% 2.03% 1.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.19% 5.13% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 174 147
10th Percentile £400 £403 £400
25th Percentile £463 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £595 £659 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 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 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -12.21%

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 5,947 4,927 6,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.34% 39.48% 37.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 3,473 5,102
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £440 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £515 £520 £538
% change year-on-year -0.96% -3.35% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 43 50
10th Percentile £33.21 £27.72 £23.80
25th Percentile £37.75 £33.25 £34.99
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -20.40% -16.25%
75th Percentile £74.00 £56.88 £62.23
90th Percentile £89.00 £85.00 £72.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -39 18 £525 -7.08% 6
South London -8 2 £553 - 1
West London -23 2 £500 +17.65% 5
East London - 2 £416 - 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 10 (4.02%) Confluence
2 7 (2.81%) Apache
3 6 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.61%) WordPress
5 3 (1.20%) nginx
5 3 (1.20%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.40%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.40%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 118 (47.39%) AWS
2 93 (37.35%) Azure
3 66 (26.51%) GitHub
4 52 (20.88%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (18.88%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (14.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 32 (12.85%) GCP
8 31 (12.45%) Serverless
9 30 (12.05%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (12.05%) Amazon S3
10 29 (11.65%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (11.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 27 (10.84%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (8.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (7.23%) Datadog
15 16 (6.43%) Azure AKS
16 15 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
17 14 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
18 11 (4.42%) Azure Key Vault
19 10 (4.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.25%) Firewall
2 30 (12.05%) DNS
3 25 (10.04%) VPN
4 22 (8.84%) Network Security
4 22 (8.84%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.02%) WAN
6 8 (3.21%) SD-WAN
6 8 (3.21%) SSL
7 7 (2.81%) HTTP
7 7 (2.81%) VLAN
8 6 (2.41%) DHCP
9 5 (2.01%) NAS
9 5 (2.01%) SAN
10 4 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (1.20%) BGP
11 3 (1.20%) Internet
12 2 (0.80%) IPsec
12 2 (0.80%) Multicast
12 2 (0.80%) SSH
12 2 (0.80%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.02%) MongoDB
2 9 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
2 9 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (3.61%) Redis
3 8 (3.21%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.41%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.01%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.01%) Delta Lake
6 5 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.61%) MySQL
8 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.20%) Big Data
8 3 (1.20%) Power BI
9 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.80%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (28.51%) Jenkins
2 61 (24.50%) GitLab
3 59 (23.69%) Git
4 14 (5.62%) JIRA
5 11 (4.42%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.41%) JMeter
6 6 (2.41%) Postman
7 5 (2.01%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.20%) Ant
8 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.20%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.80%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.80%) Snyk
9 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.40%) Appium
10 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.40%) Maven
10 1 (0.40%) Selenium
10 1 (0.40%) TestComplete
General
1 46 (18.47%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.67%) Finance
3 31 (12.45%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.44%) Banking
5 19 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.81%) Law
7 5 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.01%) Retail
8 4 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.61%) Military
8 4 (1.61%) Publishing
9 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.80%) Front Office
10 2 (0.80%) Police
10 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
11 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 65 (26.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (10.84%) Cloud Engineer
3 26 (10.44%) Security Engineer
4 25 (10.04%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (10.04%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (9.64%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (8.03%) Senior
7 16 (6.43%) Architect
8 15 (6.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 15 (6.02%) Linux Engineer
9 14 (5.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 12 (4.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.82%) Lead
10 12 (4.82%) Site Engineer
11 10 (4.02%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.61%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.61%) Lead DevOps
13 8 (3.21%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.63%) Kafka
2 12 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (4.82%) YAML
3 10 (4.02%) ARM Templates
4 9 (3.61%) JSON
5 8 (3.21%) ADO
5 8 (3.21%) Middleware
5 8 (3.21%) REST
5 8 (3.21%) SAML
6 7 (2.81%) OAuth
7 6 (2.41%) cloud-init
7 6 (2.41%) Swagger
8 4 (1.61%) LDAP
9 3 (1.20%) .NET
9 3 (1.20%) WebSphere MQ
10 2 (0.80%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.80%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.80%) OpenID
10 2 (0.80%) RESTful
10 2 (0.80%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.87%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.21%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.81%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.41%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.61%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.20%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.80%) Equities
9 2 (0.80%) PKI
9 2 (0.80%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 89 (35.74%) Linux
2 28 (11.24%) Windows
3 20 (8.03%) Unix
4 14 (5.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.42%) Ubuntu
6 8 (3.21%) VMS
7 7 (2.81%) Windows Server
8 5 (2.01%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.80%) Debian
9 2 (0.80%) Solaris
9 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.40%) CentOS
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.40%) Rocky
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (64.26%) CI/CD
2 155 (62.25%) DevOps
3 136 (54.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (32.93%) Containerisation
5 55 (22.09%) Platform Engineering
6 52 (20.88%) Observability
7 39 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (14.86%) Configuration Management
9 31 (12.45%) Cloud Security
9 31 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (10.84%) Agile
10 27 (10.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 25 (10.04%) Migration
11 25 (10.04%) Root Cause Analysis
12 24 (9.64%) AI
12 24 (9.64%) Analytics
13 23 (9.24%) High Availability
13 23 (9.24%) SIEM
13 23 (9.24%) Validation
14 20 (8.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 212 (85.14%) Python
2 93 (37.35%) PowerShell
3 24 (9.64%) SQL
4 17 (6.83%) Go
5 14 (5.62%) Bicep
5 14 (5.62%) Java
6 9 (3.61%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.21%) Perl
8 6 (2.41%) Ruby
9 5 (2.01%) C
10 4 (1.61%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.20%) C#
11 3 (1.20%) Groovy
12 2 (0.80%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.40%) C++
13 1 (0.40%) Cypher
13 1 (0.40%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.40%) Korn
13 1 (0.40%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 80 (32.13%) Security Cleared
2 73 (29.32%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.02%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.02%) Degree
5 9 (3.61%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.41%) CCNA
9 5 (2.01%) CCNP
9 5 (2.01%) CISSP
10 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.80%) CCSP
12 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.40%) CISA
13 1 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.61%) NIST
2 8 (3.21%) QA
3 7 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.41%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.20%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.80%) SLA
8 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.40%) GDPR
8 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 83 (33.33%) Docker
2 18 (7.23%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (3.21%) Squid
6 5 (2.01%) vSphere
7 4 (1.61%) Postfix
7 4 (1.61%) Varnish
8 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.20%) NFS
8 3 (1.20%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.80%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.40%) HDFS
10 1 (0.40%) KVM
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.40%) QEMU
10 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.40%) zsh
Systems Management
1 153 (61.45%) Terraform
2 98 (39.36%) Kubernetes
3 94 (37.75%) Ansible
4 59 (23.69%) Prometheus
5 58 (23.29%) Grafana
6 17 (6.83%) Puppet
7 10 (4.02%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.81%) systemd
9 5 (2.01%) Argo
9 5 (2.01%) HAProxy
9 5 (2.01%) Salt
9 5 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.61%) Suricata
11 3 (1.20%) Consul
11 3 (1.20%) Istio
11 3 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.20%) Kibana
11 3 (1.20%) Packer
11 3 (1.20%) yum
12 2 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 24 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.23%) Splunk
3 17 (6.83%) Databricks
4 12 (4.82%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.42%) Palo Alto
5 11 (4.42%) Zscaler
6 9 (3.61%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.61%) VMware
7 8 (3.21%) Fortinet
7 8 (3.21%) Google
8 6 (2.41%) Oracle
9 4 (1.61%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.61%) IBM
10 3 (1.20%) Cisco
10 3 (1.20%) Dell
10 3 (1.20%) Imperva
10 3 (1.20%) Netskope
10 3 (1.20%) OpenText
10 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.20%) Sybase