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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 133 199
Rank change year-on-year -62 +66 -105
Contract jobs citing Bash 254 265 217
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.33% 2.11% 1.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.24% 5.34% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 180 148
10th Percentile £400 £411 £400
25th Percentile £463 £442 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £592 £669 £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 £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 5,997 4,966 6,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.35% 39.46% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,002 3,495 5,072
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £440 £431 £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 £516 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -0.79% -3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 44 50
10th Percentile £33.48 £27.88 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £34.99
Median hourly rate £58.13 £40.25 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +44.43% -19.90% -16.25%
75th Percentile £73.50 £55.94 £62.23
90th Percentile £88.88 £84.38 £72.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 24 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 24 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 -35 18 £525 -11.02% 9
South London -12 2 £553 - 1
West London -26 2 £500 +17.65% 4
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 10 (3.94%) Confluence
2 7 (2.76%) Apache
3 6 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.57%) WordPress
5 3 (1.18%) nginx
5 3 (1.18%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.39%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.39%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 122 (48.03%) AWS
2 95 (37.40%) Azure
3 68 (26.77%) GitHub
4 54 (21.26%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (19.29%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (13.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 35 (13.78%) GCP
7 32 (12.60%) Amazon EKS
7 32 (12.60%) Serverless
8 30 (11.81%) Amazon S3
9 29 (11.42%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (11.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 27 (10.63%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (9.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (7.48%) Datadog
14 16 (6.30%) Azure AKS
15 15 (5.91%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
17 11 (4.33%) Azure Key Vault
18 10 (3.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.99%) Firewall
2 31 (12.20%) DNS
3 25 (9.84%) VPN
4 23 (9.06%) TCP/IP
5 22 (8.66%) Network Security
6 10 (3.94%) WAN
7 8 (3.15%) SD-WAN
7 8 (3.15%) SSL
8 7 (2.76%) HTTP
8 7 (2.76%) VLAN
9 5 (1.97%) DHCP
9 5 (1.97%) NAS
9 5 (1.97%) SAN
10 4 (1.57%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (1.18%) BGP
11 3 (1.18%) Internet
12 2 (0.79%) IPsec
12 2 (0.79%) Multicast
12 2 (0.79%) SSH
12 2 (0.79%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.94%) MongoDB
2 9 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
2 9 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (3.54%) Redis
3 8 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.15%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.36%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.97%) Amazon QuickSight
5 5 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.97%) Delta Lake
5 5 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.97%) MySQL
6 4 (1.57%) Big Data
7 3 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.18%) Power BI
8 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.79%) KDB
8 2 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 74 (29.13%) Jenkins
2 63 (24.80%) GitLab
3 60 (23.62%) Git
4 14 (5.51%) JIRA
5 11 (4.33%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.36%) JMeter
6 6 (2.36%) Postman
7 5 (1.97%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.18%) Ant
8 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.18%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.79%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.79%) Snyk
9 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.39%) Appium
10 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.39%) Gradle
10 1 (0.39%) Maven
10 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 47 (18.50%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.11%) Finance
3 31 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.24%) Banking
5 20 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.76%) Law
7 5 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.97%) Retail
8 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.57%) Military
8 4 (1.57%) Publishing
9 3 (1.18%) Front Office
9 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Police
10 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) Back Office
11 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 68 (26.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (10.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 26 (10.24%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (10.24%) Security Engineer
4 25 (9.84%) Azure Engineer
5 23 (9.06%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (8.27%) Senior
7 16 (6.30%) Architect
7 16 (6.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 16 (6.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 15 (5.91%) Linux Engineer
9 14 (5.51%) Site Engineer
10 13 (5.12%) Lead
11 12 (4.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
13 10 (3.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.54%) Applications Support
14 9 (3.54%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.54%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.66%) Kafka
2 12 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (4.72%) YAML
3 10 (3.94%) ARM Templates
4 9 (3.54%) JSON
5 8 (3.15%) Middleware
5 8 (3.15%) REST
5 8 (3.15%) SAML
6 7 (2.76%) ADO
6 7 (2.76%) OAuth
7 6 (2.36%) cloud-init
7 6 (2.36%) Swagger
8 4 (1.57%) .NET
8 4 (1.57%) LDAP
9 3 (1.18%) WebSphere MQ
10 2 (0.79%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.79%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.79%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.79%) OpenID
10 2 (0.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.93%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (4.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.54%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.76%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.36%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.36%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.57%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.18%) Equities
7 3 (1.18%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.79%) PKI
8 2 (0.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 90 (35.43%) Linux
2 27 (10.63%) Windows
3 21 (8.27%) Unix
4 14 (5.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.33%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.76%) VMS
6 7 (2.76%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.57%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.79%) Debian
8 2 (0.79%) Solaris
8 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.39%) CentOS
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.39%) Rocky
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (64.17%) CI/CD
2 162 (63.78%) DevOps
3 141 (55.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (33.46%) Containerisation
5 55 (21.65%) Observability
6 54 (21.26%) Platform Engineering
7 42 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (14.17%) Configuration Management
9 34 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (12.99%) Cloud Security
11 31 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 29 (11.42%) Agile
13 26 (10.24%) Root Cause Analysis
14 25 (9.84%) AI
14 25 (9.84%) Migration
15 24 (9.45%) Analytics
15 24 (9.45%) High Availability
16 23 (9.06%) SIEM
16 23 (9.06%) Validation
17 21 (8.27%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 219 (86.22%) Python
2 96 (37.80%) PowerShell
3 25 (9.84%) SQL
4 20 (7.87%) Go
5 15 (5.91%) Bicep
5 15 (5.91%) Java
6 9 (3.54%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.15%) Perl
8 6 (2.36%) Ruby
9 5 (1.97%) C
9 5 (1.97%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.57%) C#
10 4 (1.57%) Groovy
10 4 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.39%) C++
12 1 (0.39%) Cypher
12 1 (0.39%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.39%) Korn
12 1 (0.39%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 82 (32.28%) Security Cleared
2 75 (29.53%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.91%) Azure Certification
4 11 (4.33%) Degree
5 9 (3.54%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.36%) CCNA
9 5 (1.97%) CCNP
9 5 (1.97%) CISSP
10 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.79%) CCSP
12 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.39%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.54%) NIST
2 8 (3.15%) QA
3 7 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.18%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.79%) SLA
8 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.39%) GDPR
8 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 86 (33.86%) Docker
2 18 (7.09%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.12%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (3.15%) Squid
6 5 (1.97%) vSphere
7 4 (1.57%) Postfix
7 4 (1.57%) Varnish
8 3 (1.18%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.18%) NFS
8 3 (1.18%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.79%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.39%) HDFS
10 1 (0.39%) KVM
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.39%) QEMU
10 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.39%) zsh
Systems Management
1 158 (62.20%) Terraform
2 104 (40.94%) Kubernetes
3 95 (37.40%) Ansible
4 62 (24.41%) Prometheus
5 60 (23.62%) Grafana
6 17 (6.69%) Puppet
7 10 (3.94%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.76%) systemd
9 5 (1.97%) Argo
9 5 (1.97%) HAProxy
9 5 (1.97%) Salt
9 5 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.57%) Suricata
11 3 (1.18%) Consul
11 3 (1.18%) Istio
11 3 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.18%) Kibana
11 3 (1.18%) Packer
11 3 (1.18%) yum
12 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 24 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.87%) Splunk
3 18 (7.09%) Databricks
4 15 (5.91%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.33%) Palo Alto
5 11 (4.33%) Zscaler
6 10 (3.94%) Google
7 9 (3.54%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.54%) VMware
8 8 (3.15%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.76%) Oracle
10 4 (1.57%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.57%) IBM
11 3 (1.18%) Cisco
11 3 (1.18%) Dell
11 3 (1.18%) Imperva
11 3 (1.18%) Netskope
11 3 (1.18%) OpenText
11 3 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.18%) Sybase