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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 136 197
Rank change year-on-year -39 +61 -98
Contract jobs citing Bash 304 278 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.53% 2.04% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.93% 5.29% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 191 144
10th Percentile £388 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £441 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% -2.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £626 £645 £639
90th Percentile £725 £725 £743
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile £56.75 £45.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £55.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +93.86% +42.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £63.25 £52.81
90th Percentile - - £71.88
England median hourly rate £63.14 £54.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.32% -4.78% -19.30%

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 6,168 5,253 6,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.07% 38.63% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,123 3,696 4,894
10th Percentile £387 £368 £375
25th Percentile £450 £427 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £524 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 49 42
10th Percentile £34.35 £26.31 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £54.50 £44.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.47% -6.32% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £60.45
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 29 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 29 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 -24 20 £525 -7.08% 18
South London -17 5 £535 -13.71% 4
West London -16 4 £500 +5.26% 5
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 18 (5.92%) Confluence
2 10 (3.29%) Apache
2 10 (3.29%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.32%) WordPress
5 3 (0.99%) nginx
5 3 (0.99%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.66%) CMS
6 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.33%) IIS
7 1 (0.33%) JBoss
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.33%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 146 (48.03%) AWS
2 136 (44.74%) Azure
3 90 (29.61%) GitHub
4 71 (23.36%) GitHub Actions
5 65 (21.38%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (17.11%) GCP
7 46 (15.13%) Amazon EKS
8 43 (14.14%) Amazon S3
9 40 (13.16%) Serverless
10 37 (12.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (11.18%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (10.53%) Datadog
13 30 (9.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (9.54%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (7.57%) Entra ID
16 21 (6.91%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (5.59%) Azure AKS
18 16 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
19 14 (4.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (13.82%) Firewall
2 38 (12.50%) DNS
3 33 (10.86%) VPN
4 27 (8.88%) Network Security
4 27 (8.88%) TCP/IP
5 11 (3.62%) VLAN
5 11 (3.62%) WAN
6 8 (2.63%) DHCP
6 8 (2.63%) SD-WAN
7 7 (2.30%) SSL
8 6 (1.97%) HTTP
9 4 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.99%) BGP
10 3 (0.99%) Internet
10 3 (0.99%) NAS
10 3 (0.99%) SAN
11 2 (0.66%) IPsec
11 2 (0.66%) SSH
11 2 (0.66%) X.509
12 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (4.61%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.96%) Redis
3 8 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.30%) Data Lake
4 7 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.97%) Metadata
6 5 (1.64%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (1.64%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.64%) Delta Lake
6 5 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.32%) Big Data
7 4 (1.32%) MySQL
7 4 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.99%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 89 (29.28%) Jenkins
2 73 (24.01%) Git
3 71 (23.36%) GitLab
4 15 (4.93%) JIRA
5 12 (3.95%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.30%) JMeter
7 6 (1.97%) Postman
8 5 (1.64%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.64%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.99%) Ant
10 3 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.99%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.66%) Subversion
11 2 (0.66%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.33%) Maven
12 1 (0.33%) Selenium
12 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 68 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 62 (20.39%) Finance
3 35 (11.51%) Public Sector
4 32 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (10.20%) Banking
6 7 (2.30%) Law
7 6 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.32%) Front Office
8 4 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.32%) Military
8 4 (1.32%) Publishing
9 3 (0.99%) Automotive
9 3 (0.99%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.99%) Retail
10 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Police
10 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.33%) Back Office
11 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 77 (25.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (10.86%) Senior
3 32 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (9.54%) Azure Engineer
5 26 (8.55%) Platform Engineer
5 26 (8.55%) Security Engineer
6 25 (8.22%) AWS Engineer
7 22 (7.24%) Lead
8 21 (6.91%) Architect
9 19 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 16 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 14 (4.61%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 14 (4.61%) Site Engineer
12 13 (4.28%) Linux Engineer
13 11 (3.62%) Applications Support
13 11 (3.62%) AWS DevOps
13 11 (3.62%) Network Engineer
14 10 (3.29%) Lead DevOps
14 10 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.57%) Kafka
2 16 (5.26%) ARM Templates
3 15 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (4.61%) YAML
5 13 (4.28%) REST
6 11 (3.62%) JSON
7 9 (2.96%) Loki
7 9 (2.96%) Middleware
8 8 (2.63%) SAML
9 7 (2.30%) OAuth
10 6 (1.97%) .NET
10 6 (1.97%) cloud-init
10 6 (1.97%) Swagger
11 5 (1.64%) ADO
12 4 (1.32%) LDAP
12 4 (1.32%) ModSecurity
12 4 (1.32%) RESTful
13 3 (0.99%) GraphQL
13 3 (0.99%) JSON-LD
13 3 (0.99%) NetworkX
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.45%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.29%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.29%) Security Posture
5 9 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.96%) Legacy Applications
5 9 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (2.96%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.30%) PKI
7 5 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (1.64%) Equities
7 5 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.64%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.32%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.32%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.32%) Robotics
9 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.99%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 110 (36.18%) Linux
2 43 (14.14%) Windows
3 22 (7.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (6.91%) Ubuntu
5 19 (6.25%) Windows Server
6 18 (5.92%) Unix
7 6 (1.97%) VMS
8 3 (0.99%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.66%) Debian
9 2 (0.66%) Solaris
9 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.33%) CentOS
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.33%) Rocky
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (64.80%) CI/CD
2 190 (62.50%) DevOps
3 173 (56.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (30.59%) Containerisation
5 69 (22.70%) Observability
6 56 (18.42%) Platform Engineering
7 52 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (13.49%) Configuration Management
10 40 (13.16%) Agile
11 38 (12.50%) Cloud Security
11 38 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 37 (12.17%) Runbook
13 36 (11.84%) AI
14 35 (11.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 33 (10.86%) Identity Access Management
15 33 (10.86%) Migration
16 29 (9.54%) Infrastructure Automation
17 28 (9.21%) DevSecOps
17 28 (9.21%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 258 (84.87%) Python
2 122 (40.13%) PowerShell
3 31 (10.20%) SQL
4 27 (8.88%) Java
5 26 (8.55%) Go
6 21 (6.91%) Bicep
7 11 (3.62%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.29%) Perl
9 7 (2.30%) Groovy
9 7 (2.30%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.97%) Ruby
11 5 (1.64%) C
12 4 (1.32%) C#
13 3 (0.99%) Cypher
13 3 (0.99%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.99%) Korn
13 3 (0.99%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 102 (33.55%) Security Cleared
2 91 (29.93%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.57%) Azure Certification
4 16 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.26%) Degree
5 12 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.63%) CCNP
8 7 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.30%) CCNA
9 5 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.64%) CISSP
9 5 (1.64%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.99%) JNCIP
11 3 (0.99%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.66%) CCSP
12 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.93%) QA
2 8 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.63%) NIST
3 7 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.64%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.99%) SLA
5 3 (0.99%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.33%) GDPR
6 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 106 (34.87%) Docker
2 27 (8.88%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.61%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.63%) Squid
6 5 (1.64%) vSphere
7 4 (1.32%) NFS
7 4 (1.32%) Postfix
7 4 (1.32%) Varnish
7 4 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.99%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.99%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.99%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.66%) HDFS
9 2 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.66%) zsh
10 1 (0.33%) KVM
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.33%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 192 (63.16%) Terraform
2 132 (43.42%) Kubernetes
3 108 (35.53%) Ansible
4 82 (26.97%) Grafana
5 72 (23.68%) Prometheus
6 25 (8.22%) Puppet
7 16 (5.26%) Argo
8 11 (3.62%) Progress Chef
9 10 (3.29%) systemd
10 5 (1.64%) HAProxy
10 5 (1.64%) Istio
10 5 (1.64%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (1.64%) Kibana
10 5 (1.64%) Salt
10 5 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.32%) Suricata
11 4 (1.32%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.99%) Consul
12 3 (0.99%) Packer
12 3 (0.99%) yum
Vendors
1 46 (15.13%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.57%) VMware
3 20 (6.58%) Dynatrace
4 18 (5.92%) Google
4 18 (5.92%) Oracle
5 17 (5.59%) Splunk
6 16 (5.26%) Databricks
7 12 (3.95%) CyberArk
8 11 (3.62%) Red Hat
8 11 (3.62%) Zscaler
9 10 (3.29%) Cisco
9 10 (3.29%) Palo Alto
10 8 (2.63%) Fortinet
10 8 (2.63%) ServiceNow
11 7 (2.30%) BeyondTrust
11 7 (2.30%) WALLIX
12 5 (1.64%) NetApp
13 4 (1.32%) IBM
13 4 (1.32%) Meraki
14 3 (0.99%) New Relic