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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 132 204
Rank change year-on-year -51 +72 -109
Contract jobs citing Bash 260 274 217
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 2.16% 1.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.32% 5.47% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 182 148
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £447 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% -3.41% -15.38%
75th Percentile £592 £670 £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 6,023 5,013 6,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.50% 39.48% 38.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,019 3,522 5,105
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £446 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £518 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -0.48% -3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 45 51
10th Percentile £33.21 £28.04 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £36.91
Median hourly rate £57.77 £40.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.63% -19.80% -15.83%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.00 £61.97
90th Percentile £89.00 £83.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -14.06% +2.40%

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 26 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 26 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 -38 18 £525 -11.02% 8
South London -9 3 £553 -10.89% 1
West London -22 2 £500 +17.65% 4
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 10 (3.85%) Confluence
2 8 (3.08%) Apache
3 7 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.54%) WordPress
5 3 (1.15%) nginx
5 3 (1.15%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.77%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.38%) CMS
7 1 (0.38%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.38%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.38%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 126 (48.46%) AWS
2 99 (38.08%) Azure
3 69 (26.54%) GitHub
4 56 (21.54%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (14.23%) GCP
7 36 (13.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 34 (13.08%) Serverless
9 32 (12.31%) Amazon EKS
9 32 (12.31%) Amazon S3
10 29 (11.15%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (11.15%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (10.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 25 (9.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (7.69%) Datadog
14 16 (6.15%) Azure AKS
15 15 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
17 10 (3.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.69%) Firewall
2 31 (11.92%) DNS
3 25 (9.62%) VPN
4 23 (8.85%) TCP/IP
5 22 (8.46%) Network Security
6 10 (3.85%) WAN
7 8 (3.08%) SD-WAN
7 8 (3.08%) SSL
8 7 (2.69%) HTTP
8 7 (2.69%) VLAN
9 5 (1.92%) DHCP
9 5 (1.92%) NAS
9 5 (1.92%) SAN
10 4 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (1.15%) BGP
11 3 (1.15%) Internet
12 2 (0.77%) IPsec
12 2 (0.77%) Multicast
12 2 (0.77%) SSH
12 2 (0.77%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 9 (3.46%) Amazon Athena
2 9 (3.46%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (3.46%) Redis
3 8 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.08%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.31%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
5 5 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.92%) Delta Lake
5 5 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.92%) MySQL
6 4 (1.54%) Big Data
7 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.15%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.15%) Metadata
7 3 (1.15%) Power BI
8 2 (0.77%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.77%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 75 (28.85%) Jenkins
2 64 (24.62%) GitLab
3 61 (23.46%) Git
4 14 (5.38%) JIRA
5 11 (4.23%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.69%) JMeter
7 6 (2.31%) Postman
8 5 (1.92%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (1.15%) Ant
9 3 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.15%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.77%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.77%) Snyk
10 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.38%) Gatling
11 1 (0.38%) Selenium
11 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.38%) TestComplete
General
1 49 (18.85%) Finance
2 48 (18.46%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.00%) Banking
5 20 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.69%) Law
7 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.92%) Retail
8 4 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.54%) Military
8 4 (1.54%) Publishing
9 3 (1.15%) Front Office
9 3 (1.15%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.77%) Police
10 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Games
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 69 (26.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (10.77%) Cloud Engineer
3 26 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 26 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 23 (8.85%) Platform Engineer
5 21 (8.08%) Senior
6 17 (6.54%) Architect
6 17 (6.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 16 (6.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 15 (5.77%) Linux Engineer
9 14 (5.38%) Site Engineer
10 13 (5.00%) Lead
11 12 (4.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.23%) AWS DevOps
13 10 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.46%) Applications Support
14 9 (3.46%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.46%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.85%) Kafka
2 13 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (4.62%) YAML
4 10 (3.85%) ARM Templates
4 10 (3.85%) JSON
4 10 (3.85%) REST
5 8 (3.08%) Middleware
5 8 (3.08%) SAML
6 7 (2.69%) ADO
6 7 (2.69%) OAuth
7 6 (2.31%) cloud-init
7 6 (2.31%) Swagger
8 4 (1.54%) .NET
8 4 (1.54%) LDAP
9 3 (1.15%) WebSphere MQ
10 2 (0.77%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.77%) JSON-LD
10 2 (0.77%) OpenID
10 2 (0.77%) PySpark
10 2 (0.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.92%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.46%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.69%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (2.69%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.31%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.54%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.15%) Equities
8 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 92 (35.38%) Linux
2 28 (10.77%) Windows
3 21 (8.08%) Unix
4 15 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.23%) Ubuntu
6 8 (3.08%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.69%) VMS
8 4 (1.54%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.77%) Debian
9 2 (0.77%) Solaris
9 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.38%) CentOS
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.38%) Rocky
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 164 (63.08%) DevOps
3 145 (55.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (33.46%) Containerisation
5 56 (21.54%) Observability
6 54 (20.77%) Platform Engineering
7 43 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (14.23%) Configuration Management
9 35 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (13.08%) Cloud Security
11 32 (12.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 30 (11.54%) Agile
13 27 (10.38%) AI
14 26 (10.00%) Migration
14 26 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
15 25 (9.62%) Analytics
16 24 (9.23%) High Availability
17 23 (8.85%) Runbook
17 23 (8.85%) SIEM
17 23 (8.85%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 225 (86.54%) Python
2 97 (37.31%) PowerShell
3 26 (10.00%) SQL
4 20 (7.69%) Go
5 16 (6.15%) Java
6 15 (5.77%) Bicep
7 10 (3.85%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.08%) Perl
9 6 (2.31%) Ruby
10 5 (1.92%) C
10 5 (1.92%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.54%) C#
11 4 (1.54%) Groovy
11 4 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.77%) Cypher
12 2 (0.77%) Gremlin
12 2 (0.77%) Korn
12 2 (0.77%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.77%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (32.31%) Security Cleared
2 77 (29.62%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.77%) Azure Certification
4 11 (4.23%) Degree
5 9 (3.46%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.31%) CCNA
9 5 (1.92%) CCNP
9 5 (1.92%) CISSP
10 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.77%) CCSP
12 2 (0.77%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.77%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.46%) NIST
1 9 (3.46%) QA
2 7 (2.69%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.54%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.15%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.77%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) GDPR
6 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 89 (34.23%) Docker
2 18 (6.92%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (3.08%) Squid
6 5 (1.92%) vSphere
7 4 (1.54%) Postfix
7 4 (1.54%) Varnish
8 3 (1.15%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.15%) NFS
8 3 (1.15%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.77%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.38%) HDFS
10 1 (0.38%) KVM
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.38%) QEMU
10 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.38%) zsh
Systems Management
1 162 (62.31%) Terraform
2 107 (41.15%) Kubernetes
3 97 (37.31%) Ansible
4 63 (24.23%) Prometheus
5 62 (23.85%) Grafana
6 17 (6.54%) Puppet
7 10 (3.85%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.69%) systemd
9 5 (1.92%) Argo
9 5 (1.92%) HAProxy
9 5 (1.92%) Salt
9 5 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.54%) Suricata
11 3 (1.15%) Consul
11 3 (1.15%) Istio
11 3 (1.15%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.15%) Kibana
11 3 (1.15%) Packer
11 3 (1.15%) yum
12 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 24 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.69%) Splunk
3 18 (6.92%) Databricks
4 15 (5.77%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.23%) Palo Alto
5 11 (4.23%) Zscaler
6 10 (3.85%) Google
7 9 (3.46%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.46%) VMware
8 8 (3.08%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.69%) Oracle
10 4 (1.54%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.54%) IBM
10 4 (1.54%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.15%) Cisco
11 3 (1.15%) Dell
11 3 (1.15%) Imperva
11 3 (1.15%) Netskope
11 3 (1.15%) OpenText
11 3 (1.15%) Sybase