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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 143 194
Rank change year-on-year -52 +51 -95
Contract jobs citing Bash 245 244 217
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.30% 1.99% 1.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.14% 5.03% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 167 144
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £618 £664 £628
90th Percentile £738 £743 £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 5,924 4,853 6,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.43% 39.53% 37.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,948 3,410 5,062
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £438 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £703 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £523 £540
% change year-on-year -1.91% -3.24% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 41 52
10th Percentile £32.93 £29.00 £23.80
25th Percentile £37.00 £33.25 £38.83
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -20.79% -17.89%
75th Percentile £74.50 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £89.13 £86.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

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 13 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 13 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 -34 19 £525 -4.55% 14
South London -7 3 £513 - 1
West London -22 3 £500 +17.65% 8
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 11 (4.49%) Confluence
2 6 (2.45%) Apache
3 4 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.22%) nginx
4 3 (1.22%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.22%) WordPress
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.41%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 113 (46.12%) AWS
2 91 (37.14%) Azure
3 65 (26.53%) GitHub
4 50 (20.41%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (19.18%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (13.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 32 (13.06%) GCP
8 31 (12.65%) Amazon EKS
9 29 (11.84%) Amazon EC2
9 29 (11.84%) Amazon S3
9 29 (11.84%) Serverless
10 28 (11.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (7.35%) Datadog
14 16 (6.53%) Azure AKS
15 15 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
17 11 (4.49%) Azure Key Vault
18 9 (3.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 32 (13.06%) Firewall
2 30 (12.24%) DNS
3 24 (9.80%) VPN
4 22 (8.98%) TCP/IP
5 21 (8.57%) Network Security
6 9 (3.67%) SSL
6 9 (3.67%) WAN
7 8 (3.27%) SD-WAN
8 7 (2.86%) HTTP
8 7 (2.86%) VLAN
9 6 (2.45%) DHCP
10 5 (2.04%) NAS
10 5 (2.04%) SAN
11 4 (1.63%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (1.22%) Internet
13 2 (0.82%) BGP
13 2 (0.82%) IPsec
13 2 (0.82%) Multicast
13 2 (0.82%) SSH
13 2 (0.82%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.08%) MongoDB
2 9 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.67%) Redis
3 8 (3.27%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (2.86%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (2.04%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.04%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.22%) Power BI
9 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.82%) Big Data
9 2 (0.82%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.82%) MySQL
9 2 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 71 (28.98%) Jenkins
2 60 (24.49%) GitLab
3 59 (24.08%) Git
4 15 (6.12%) JIRA
5 10 (4.08%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.45%) JMeter
6 6 (2.45%) Postman
7 5 (2.04%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.22%) Ant
8 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.22%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.82%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.82%) Snyk
9 2 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.41%) Selenium
10 1 (0.41%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.41%) TestComplete
General
1 46 (18.78%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.55%) Finance
3 31 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.61%) Banking
5 20 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.86%) Law
7 5 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.63%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.63%) Military
8 4 (1.63%) Publishing
8 4 (1.63%) Retail
9 2 (0.82%) Front Office
9 2 (0.82%) Police
9 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.41%) Back Office
10 1 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Games
10 1 (0.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 62 (25.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (11.43%) Security Engineer
3 27 (11.02%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (9.39%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (8.98%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (7.76%) Senior
8 15 (6.12%) Linux Engineer
9 14 (5.71%) Architect
10 13 (5.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.90%) Lead
11 12 (4.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
13 10 (4.08%) Site Engineer
14 9 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.67%) Lead DevOps
15 8 (3.27%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.35%) Kafka
2 12 (4.90%) YAML
3 11 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (4.08%) ARM Templates
5 9 (3.67%) SAML
6 8 (3.27%) JSON
6 8 (3.27%) OAuth
6 8 (3.27%) REST
7 7 (2.86%) Middleware
7 7 (2.86%) Swagger
8 6 (2.45%) ADO
9 5 (2.04%) cloud-init
10 4 (1.63%) LDAP
11 3 (1.22%) .NET
11 3 (1.22%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.22%) OpenID
11 3 (1.22%) WebSphere MQ
12 2 (0.82%) AWS CDK
12 2 (0.82%) FastAPI
12 2 (0.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.73%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.27%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.86%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.45%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (2.45%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.22%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.22%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.22%) PKI
7 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.82%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.82%) Equities
8 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 88 (35.92%) Linux
2 29 (11.84%) Windows
3 20 (8.16%) Unix
4 15 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.49%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.86%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.45%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.45%) VMS
8 2 (0.82%) Debian
8 2 (0.82%) Solaris
8 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.41%) CentOS
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.41%) Rocky
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (64.49%) CI/CD
2 152 (62.04%) DevOps
3 132 (53.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (31.43%) Containerisation
5 54 (22.04%) Platform Engineering
6 53 (21.63%) Observability
7 39 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (15.10%) Configuration Management
9 31 (12.65%) Cloud Security
10 30 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (11.43%) Agile
12 25 (10.20%) Root Cause Analysis
13 24 (9.80%) Migration
13 24 (9.80%) SIEM
13 24 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (9.39%) AI
14 23 (9.39%) Validation
15 22 (8.98%) Analytics
16 21 (8.57%) Test Automation
17 20 (8.16%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 208 (84.90%) Python
2 99 (40.41%) PowerShell
3 21 (8.57%) SQL
4 17 (6.94%) Go
5 15 (6.12%) Bicep
6 13 (5.31%) Java
7 8 (3.27%) Perl
8 7 (2.86%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.45%) Ruby
10 5 (2.04%) C
10 5 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.63%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.22%) C#
12 3 (1.22%) Groovy
13 2 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.41%) C++
14 1 (0.41%) Korn
14 1 (0.41%) Ladder Logic
14 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (32.24%) Security Cleared
2 72 (29.39%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.53%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.08%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.08%) Degree
5 8 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.45%) CCNA
7 6 (2.45%) CISSP
8 5 (2.04%) CCNP
9 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.82%) CCSP
11 2 (0.82%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.41%) CEH
12 1 (0.41%) CISA
12 1 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.08%) NIST
2 8 (3.27%) QA
3 7 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.04%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.22%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.82%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) GDPR
8 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 78 (31.84%) Docker
2 18 (7.35%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.31%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.67%) Squid
4 9 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.63%) Postfix
5 4 (1.63%) Varnish
5 4 (1.63%) vSphere
6 3 (1.22%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.22%) NFS
6 3 (1.22%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.82%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.41%) KVM
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.41%) QEMU
8 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.41%) zsh
Systems Management
1 150 (61.22%) Terraform
2 96 (39.18%) Kubernetes
3 92 (37.55%) Ansible
4 58 (23.67%) Prometheus
5 57 (23.27%) Grafana
6 15 (6.12%) Puppet
7 10 (4.08%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.45%) systemd
9 5 (2.04%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.63%) Argo
10 4 (1.63%) Istio
10 4 (1.63%) Salt
10 4 (1.63%) Suricata
11 3 (1.22%) Consul
11 3 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.22%) Kibana
11 3 (1.22%) Packer
11 3 (1.22%) yum
12 2 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 24 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.53%) Splunk
3 15 (6.12%) Databricks
4 13 (5.31%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.49%) Zscaler
6 10 (4.08%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.67%) Google
7 9 (3.67%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.67%) VMware
8 7 (2.86%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.04%) Oracle
10 4 (1.63%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.63%) IBM
11 3 (1.22%) Cisco
11 3 (1.22%) Dell
11 3 (1.22%) Imperva
11 3 (1.22%) Netskope
11 3 (1.22%) OpenText
11 3 (1.22%) Qualys
11 3 (1.22%) Sybase