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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 142 196
Rank change year-on-year -55 +54 -96
Contract jobs citing Bash 236 237 208
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.28% 1.96% 1.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.09% 4.96% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 160 136
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £456 £449 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -15.06%
75th Percentile £623 £671 £625
90th Percentile £738 £750 £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% -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 5,770 4,774 6,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.38% 39.53% 37.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,866 3,337 4,942
10th Percentile £375 £378 £375
25th Percentile £440 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 39 53
10th Percentile £32.12 £28.68 £23.80
25th Percentile £37.75 £33.25 £33.07
Median hourly rate £58.94 £37.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.16% -25.74% -15.83%
75th Percentile £74.00 £53.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £89.50 £71.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -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 4 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 4 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 -30 19 £525 -3.45% 24
South London -12 3 £513 - 1
West London -21 3 £500 +17.65% 5
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 11 (4.66%) Confluence
2 6 (2.54%) Apache
3 4 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.27%) nginx
4 3 (1.27%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) IIS
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.42%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.42%) Traefik
6 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 111 (47.03%) AWS
2 87 (36.86%) Azure
3 63 (26.69%) GitHub
4 47 (19.92%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (19.07%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (13.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 31 (13.14%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (12.29%) GCP
9 28 (11.86%) Serverless
10 27 (11.44%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (11.44%) Amazon S3
10 27 (11.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 24 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (9.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (6.36%) Azure AKS
13 15 (6.36%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (5.51%) Datadog
15 11 (4.66%) Azure Key Vault
16 9 (3.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.29%) Firewall
2 27 (11.44%) DNS
3 23 (9.75%) TCP/IP
4 21 (8.90%) VPN
5 20 (8.47%) Network Security
6 9 (3.81%) WAN
7 8 (3.39%) SD-WAN
7 8 (3.39%) VLAN
8 7 (2.97%) HTTP
9 6 (2.54%) DHCP
9 6 (2.54%) SSL
10 5 (2.12%) NAS
10 5 (2.12%) SAN
11 4 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (1.27%) Internet
13 2 (0.85%) BGP
13 2 (0.85%) IPsec
13 2 (0.85%) Multicast
13 2 (0.85%) SSH
13 2 (0.85%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
1 9 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (3.81%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.39%) Redis
3 7 (2.97%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.12%) Amazon QuickSight
5 5 (2.12%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.12%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.27%) Power BI
8 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.85%) Big Data
8 2 (0.85%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.85%) MySQL
8 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 67 (28.39%) Jenkins
2 60 (25.42%) GitLab
3 56 (23.73%) Git
4 15 (6.36%) JIRA
5 10 (4.24%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.54%) JMeter
6 6 (2.54%) Postman
7 5 (2.12%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.27%) Ant
8 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.27%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.27%) Snyk
9 2 (0.85%) Appium
9 2 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.85%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.85%) Selenium
9 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.42%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.42%) TestComplete
General
1 48 (20.34%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.95%) Finance
3 29 (12.29%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.75%) Banking
5 22 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.54%) Law
7 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.69%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.69%) Retail
8 3 (1.27%) Military
9 2 (0.85%) Front Office
9 2 (0.85%) Police
9 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.42%) Back Office
10 1 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Games
10 1 (0.42%) Legal
10 1 (0.42%) Local Government
10 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (22.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (11.86%) Security Engineer
3 26 (11.02%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (10.59%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (8.90%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (8.47%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (6.78%) Senior
8 14 (5.93%) Architect
9 12 (5.08%) Linux Engineer
10 11 (4.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.66%) Lead
10 11 (4.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (4.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (3.81%) Site Engineer
12 9 (3.81%) Tester
13 8 (3.39%) Applications Support
13 8 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.39%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (3.39%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.47%) Kafka
2 12 (5.08%) YAML
3 11 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (4.24%) ARM Templates
5 9 (3.81%) SAML
6 8 (3.39%) JSON
6 8 (3.39%) OAuth
6 8 (3.39%) REST
7 7 (2.97%) Swagger
8 6 (2.54%) ADO
9 5 (2.12%) Middleware
10 4 (1.69%) LDAP
11 3 (1.27%) .NET
11 3 (1.27%) cloud-init
11 3 (1.27%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.27%) OpenID
11 3 (1.27%) WebSphere MQ
12 2 (0.85%) AWS CDK
12 2 (0.85%) FastAPI
12 2 (0.85%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.37%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.39%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.54%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.54%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.27%) PKI
6 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.85%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.85%) Equities
7 2 (0.85%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.85%) Pricing Data
7 2 (0.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 86 (36.44%) Linux
2 30 (12.71%) Windows
3 20 (8.47%) Unix
4 13 (5.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (4.24%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.97%) VMS
6 7 (2.97%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.54%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.85%) CentOS
8 2 (0.85%) Debian
8 2 (0.85%) Solaris
8 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.42%) Rocky
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (64.83%) CI/CD
2 140 (59.32%) DevOps
3 122 (51.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (27.97%) Containerisation
5 49 (20.76%) Platform Engineering
6 47 (19.92%) Observability
7 38 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (14.83%) Configuration Management
9 30 (12.71%) Cloud Security
10 26 (11.02%) Agile
10 26 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (10.17%) Root Cause Analysis
11 24 (10.17%) SIEM
12 23 (9.75%) Validation
13 22 (9.32%) Analytics
13 22 (9.32%) Migration
14 21 (8.90%) Test Automation
15 20 (8.47%) High Availability
15 20 (8.47%) Infrastructure Automation
15 20 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 202 (85.59%) Python
2 99 (41.95%) PowerShell
3 22 (9.32%) SQL
4 16 (6.78%) Go
5 15 (6.36%) Bicep
6 11 (4.66%) Java
7 8 (3.39%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.97%) C
8 7 (2.97%) Perl
9 6 (2.54%) Ruby
10 5 (2.12%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.69%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.27%) C#
12 3 (1.27%) Groovy
13 2 (0.85%) C++
13 2 (0.85%) Korn
13 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.85%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.42%) Ladder Logic
14 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (32.63%) Security Cleared
2 70 (29.66%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.78%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.24%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.81%) Degree
6 8 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.54%) CCNA
7 6 (2.54%) CISSP
7 6 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.12%) CCNP
9 4 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.85%) CCSP
10 2 (0.85%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.66%) NIST
2 7 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.97%) QA
3 5 (2.12%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.27%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.85%) SLA
7 1 (0.42%) GDPR
7 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 72 (30.51%) Docker
2 18 (7.63%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.51%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.81%) Squid
4 9 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.69%) Postfix
5 4 (1.69%) Varnish
6 3 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.27%) NFS
6 3 (1.27%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.85%) KVM
7 2 (0.85%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.85%) vSphere
8 1 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.42%) Ceph
8 1 (0.42%) QEMU
8 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.42%) zsh
Systems Management
1 140 (59.32%) Terraform
2 88 (37.29%) Kubernetes
3 85 (36.02%) Ansible
4 53 (22.46%) Grafana
5 52 (22.03%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.08%) Puppet
7 10 (4.24%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.12%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.69%) Argo
10 4 (1.69%) Istio
10 4 (1.69%) Salt
10 4 (1.69%) Suricata
11 3 (1.27%) Consul
11 3 (1.27%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.27%) Kibana
11 3 (1.27%) Packer
12 2 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.78%) Splunk
3 13 (5.51%) Databricks
4 12 (5.08%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.66%) Red Hat
5 11 (4.66%) Zscaler
6 10 (4.24%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.81%) VMware
8 8 (3.39%) Google
9 7 (2.97%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.54%) Oracle
11 4 (1.69%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.69%) IBM
11 4 (1.69%) Qualys
11 4 (1.69%) Tenable
12 3 (1.27%) Cisco
12 3 (1.27%) Dell
12 3 (1.27%) Netskope
12 3 (1.27%) OpenText
12 3 (1.27%) Sybase