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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 144 197
Rank change year-on-year -53 +53 -102
Contract jobs citing Bash 250 248 218
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.32% 2.01% 1.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.22% 5.07% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 170 146
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £600 £667 £638
90th Percentile £733 £739 £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% -12.21%

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 5,921 4,893 6,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.30% 39.56% 37.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,945 3,443 5,050
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £438 £429 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £702 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £514 £521 £538
% change year-on-year -1.25% -3.25% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 42 50
10th Percentile £33.21 £29.01 £23.80
25th Percentile £37.75 £33.25 £34.99
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.25 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +45.34% -19.90% -16.25%
75th Percentile £74.00 £57.81 £62.23
90th Percentile £89.00 £85.63 £72.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 17 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 17 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 19 £525 -7.08% 10
South London -9 3 £513 - 1
West London -17 3 £500 +17.65% 5
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 11 (4.40%) Confluence
2 7 (2.80%) Apache
3 5 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.60%) WordPress
5 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.20%) nginx
5 3 (1.20%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.40%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.40%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 116 (46.40%) AWS
2 94 (37.60%) Azure
3 67 (26.80%) GitHub
4 53 (21.20%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (19.20%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (13.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 33 (13.20%) GCP
8 32 (12.80%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (12.00%) Amazon S3
9 30 (12.00%) Serverless
10 29 (11.60%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (11.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 26 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (8.40%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (7.20%) Datadog
15 17 (6.80%) Azure AKS
16 15 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
17 14 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
18 11 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
19 10 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.80%) Firewall
2 30 (12.00%) DNS
3 24 (9.60%) VPN
4 22 (8.80%) TCP/IP
5 21 (8.40%) Network Security
6 9 (3.60%) SSL
6 9 (3.60%) WAN
7 8 (3.20%) SD-WAN
8 7 (2.80%) HTTP
8 7 (2.80%) VLAN
9 6 (2.40%) DHCP
10 5 (2.00%) NAS
10 5 (2.00%) SAN
11 4 (1.60%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (1.20%) Internet
13 2 (0.80%) BGP
13 2 (0.80%) IPsec
13 2 (0.80%) Multicast
13 2 (0.80%) SSH
13 2 (0.80%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 9 (3.60%) Redis
3 8 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (3.20%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.00%) Amazon QuickSight
5 5 (2.00%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.00%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.60%) MySQL
7 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.20%) Power BI
8 2 (0.80%) Big Data
8 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.80%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (28.80%) Jenkins
2 61 (24.40%) GitLab
3 59 (23.60%) Git
4 15 (6.00%) JIRA
5 10 (4.00%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.40%) JMeter
6 6 (2.40%) Postman
7 5 (2.00%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.20%) Ant
8 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.20%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.80%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.80%) Snyk
9 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.40%) Maven
10 1 (0.40%) Selenium
10 1 (0.40%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.40%) TestComplete
General
1 46 (18.40%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.60%) Finance
3 32 (12.80%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.80%) Banking
5 20 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.80%) Law
7 5 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.00%) Retail
8 4 (1.60%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.60%) Military
8 4 (1.60%) Publishing
9 2 (0.80%) Front Office
9 2 (0.80%) Police
9 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.40%) Back Office
10 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Games
10 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 65 (26.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (10.80%) Cloud Engineer
2 27 (10.80%) Security Engineer
3 25 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 23 (9.20%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (7.60%) Senior
6 16 (6.40%) Architect
7 15 (6.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 15 (6.00%) Linux Engineer
8 13 (5.20%) Lead
9 12 (4.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 10 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
10 10 (4.00%) Site Engineer
11 9 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.60%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.60%) Lead DevOps
12 8 (3.20%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.60%) Kafka
2 12 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (4.80%) YAML
3 10 (4.00%) ARM Templates
4 9 (3.60%) JSON
4 9 (3.60%) REST
4 9 (3.60%) SAML
5 8 (3.20%) ADO
5 8 (3.20%) Middleware
5 8 (3.20%) OAuth
6 7 (2.80%) Swagger
7 6 (2.40%) cloud-init
8 4 (1.60%) LDAP
9 3 (1.20%) .NET
9 3 (1.20%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.20%) OpenID
9 3 (1.20%) WebSphere MQ
10 2 (0.80%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.80%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.80%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.80%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.20%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.80%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (2.80%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.60%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.60%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.20%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.20%) PKI
8 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.80%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 89 (35.60%) Linux
2 28 (11.20%) Windows
3 20 (8.00%) Unix
4 15 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.80%) Ubuntu
6 8 (3.20%) VMS
7 7 (2.80%) Windows Server
8 5 (2.00%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.80%) Debian
9 2 (0.80%) Solaris
9 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.40%) CentOS
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.40%) Rocky
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (64.80%) CI/CD
2 156 (62.40%) DevOps
3 135 (54.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (32.80%) Containerisation
5 54 (21.60%) Platform Engineering
6 53 (21.20%) Observability
7 39 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (14.80%) Configuration Management
9 31 (12.40%) Cloud Security
10 29 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (11.20%) Agile
12 26 (10.40%) Migration
13 25 (10.00%) AI
13 25 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
13 25 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 24 (9.60%) Analytics
14 24 (9.60%) SIEM
15 23 (9.20%) Validation
16 21 (8.40%) High Availability
16 21 (8.40%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 213 (85.20%) Python
2 98 (39.20%) PowerShell
3 24 (9.60%) SQL
4 18 (7.20%) Go
5 15 (6.00%) Bicep
6 14 (5.60%) Java
7 9 (3.60%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.20%) Perl
9 6 (2.40%) Ruby
10 5 (2.00%) C
11 4 (1.60%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.20%) C#
12 3 (1.20%) Groovy
13 2 (0.80%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.40%) C++
14 1 (0.40%) Cypher
14 1 (0.40%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.40%) Korn
14 1 (0.40%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 81 (32.40%) Security Cleared
2 74 (29.60%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.40%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.00%) Degree
5 8 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.40%) CCNA
7 6 (2.40%) CISSP
8 5 (2.00%) CCNP
9 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.80%) CCSP
11 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.40%) CEH
12 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.00%) NIST
2 8 (3.20%) QA
3 7 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.40%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.20%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.80%) SLA
8 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.40%) GDPR
8 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 83 (33.20%) Docker
2 18 (7.20%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.20%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.60%) Squid
4 9 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.00%) vSphere
6 4 (1.60%) Postfix
6 4 (1.60%) Varnish
7 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.20%) NFS
7 3 (1.20%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.80%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.40%) KVM
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.40%) QEMU
9 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.40%) zsh
Systems Management
1 153 (61.20%) Terraform
2 99 (39.60%) Kubernetes
3 92 (36.80%) Ansible
4 59 (23.60%) Prometheus
5 58 (23.20%) Grafana
6 15 (6.00%) Puppet
7 10 (4.00%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.80%) systemd
9 6 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (2.00%) Argo
10 5 (2.00%) HAProxy
11 4 (1.60%) Istio
11 4 (1.60%) Salt
11 4 (1.60%) Suricata
12 3 (1.20%) Consul
12 3 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.20%) Kibana
12 3 (1.20%) Packer
12 3 (1.20%) yum
13 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 24 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.80%) Databricks
2 17 (6.80%) Splunk
3 13 (5.20%) Dynatrace
4 11 (4.40%) Zscaler
5 10 (4.00%) Palo Alto
6 9 (3.60%) Google
6 9 (3.60%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.60%) VMware
7 7 (2.80%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.40%) Oracle
9 4 (1.60%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.60%) IBM
10 3 (1.20%) Cisco
10 3 (1.20%) Dell
10 3 (1.20%) Imperva
10 3 (1.20%) OpenText
10 3 (1.20%) Qualys
10 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.20%) Sybase