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 18 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	154	123	176
Rank change year-on-year	-31	+53	-58
Contract jobs citing Bash	400	301	231
As % of all contract jobs in London	1.96%	2.25%	1.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category	6.19%	5.88%	3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted	289	198	144
10^th Percentile	£383	£384	£400
25^th Percentile	£450	£450	£500
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£533	£539	£600
Median % change year-on-year	-1.16%	-10.21%	-4.00%
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£731
90^th Percentile	£715	£688	£810
England median daily rate	£537	£520	£550
% change year-on-year	+3.27%	-5.45%	-8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	3	6
10^th Percentile	-	£47.15	£43.75
25^th Percentile	-	£49.25	£58.59
Median hourly rate	-	£56.00	£68.75
Median % change year-on-year	-	-18.55%	+243.75%
75^th Percentile	-	£62.75	£101.97
90^th Percentile	-	£63.05	£112.00
England median hourly rate	£71.00	£48.50	£57.50
% change year-on-year	+46.39%	-15.65%	-23.33%

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.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	6,462	5,116	6,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	31.70%	38.25%	39.56%
Number of daily rates quoted	4,388	3,452	4,390
10^th Percentile	£375	£375	£370
25^th Percentile	£443	£431	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£565
Median % change year-on-year	-	-2.65%	-4.96%
75^th Percentile	£669	£677	£700
90^th Percentile	£763	£801	£850
England median daily rate	£525	£513	£543
% change year-on-year	+2.44%	-5.53%	-1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted	47	69	46
10^th Percentile	£26.51	£24.83	£30.88
25^th Percentile	£36.25	£32.50	£38.89
Median hourly rate	£52.50	£44.90	£48.50
Median % change year-on-year	+16.94%	-7.43%	-13.78%
75^th Percentile	£73.00	£63.25	£71.66
90^th Percentile	£88.75	£87.50	£97.50
England median hourly rate	£65.00	£62.25	£65.00
% change year-on-year	+4.42%	-4.23%	+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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 18 October 2026.

Bash Hourly Rate Trend in London

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 18 October 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	-31	20	£550	+2.33%	40
South London	-7	6	£535	-13.71%	3
West London	-20	5	£538	+13.16%	10
East London	-	2	£415	-	4
Bash England

Bash Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Bash also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region with a requirement for Bash.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	85.0%	340
2	CI/CD	64.3%	257
3	DevOps	58.5%	234
4	Terraform	57.3%	229
5	Infrastructure as Code	53.8%	215
6	AWS	48.0%	192
7	Kubernetes	47.8%	191
8	Linux	47.5%	190
9	Azure	44.5%	178
10	PowerShell	42.0%	168
11	Docker	39.8%	159
12	Security Cleared	31.3%	125
13	Ansible	31.0%	124
13	Jenkins	31.0%	124
15	GitHub	30.5%	122
16	Containerisation	29.0%	116
17	Grafana	28.3%	113
17	Observability	28.3%	113
19	Git	27.0%	108
19	SC Cleared	27.0%	108
21	GitHub Actions	23.5%	94
22	Prometheus	22.3%	89
23	GitLab	21.8%	87
24	Agile	21.3%	85
25	Problem-Solving	19.5%	78
26	Platform Engineering	19.3%	77
27	GCP	19.0%	76
28	Microsoft	18.8%	75
29	Azure DevOps	18.3%	73
30	AI	17.5%	70

Bash Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	85.0%	340
2	PowerShell	42.0%	168
3	SQL	14.5%	58
4	Java	13.5%	54
5	Go	10.3%	41
6	Bicep	8.8%	35
7	Shell Script	7.3%	29
8	Korn	5.0%	20
9	Perl	3.8%	15
10	JavaScript	3.5%	14
11	Groovy	3.0%	12
12	C#	2.5%	10
13	TypeScript	2.0%	8
14	Ruby	1.5%	6
15	Cypher	0.8%	3
15	Gremlin	0.8%	3
15	Kusto Query Language	0.8%	3
15	SPARQL	0.8%	3
19	C	0.5%	2
19	CodeQL	0.5%	2