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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 165 149
Rank change year-on-year +15 -16 +8
Contract jobs citing Bash 268 229 304
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 1.54% 1.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.97% 4.03% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 141 219
10th Percentile £400 £373 £423
25th Percentile £463 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% +0.75% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £700
90th Percentile £726 £810 £810
England median daily rate £520 £575 £576
% change year-on-year -9.57% -0.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £40.05 £67.40 £58.40
25th Percentile £45.75 £84.13 £59.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 £112.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +86.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile £63.55 - -
England median hourly rate £56.75 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -18.93% -6.67% +2.74%

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 5,392 5,688 6,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.32% 38.30% 35.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,624 3,821 5,023
10th Percentile £363 £373 £394
25th Percentile £426 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £699 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 38 65
10th Percentile £25.69 £35.53 £26.24
25th Percentile £34.56 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £65.56 £67.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.63 £97.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

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 27 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in London over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Bash in London

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 27 December 2025. 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 -13 21 £539 +0.23% 76
South London +5 9 £530 +143.68% 6
West London - 5 £525 - 6
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 (4.10%) Confluence
2 7 (2.61%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.61%) nginx
3 5 (1.87%) Apache
4 4 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.12%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.12%) Hyperledger
5 3 (1.12%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.75%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.37%) CICS
7 1 (0.37%) FileNet
7 1 (0.37%) Luigi
7 1 (0.37%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.37%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.37%) Pro Tools
1 1 (0.37%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 119 (44.40%) AWS
2 103 (38.43%) Azure
3 59 (22.01%) GCP
4 48 (17.91%) GitHub
5 34 (12.69%) Amazon S3
6 33 (12.31%) Amazon EC2
7 30 (11.19%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (10.07%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (9.70%) Serverless
10 24 (8.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 23 (8.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (5.60%) Entra ID
15 14 (5.22%) Azure AKS
16 13 (4.85%) OpenShift
17 10 (3.73%) Datadog
17 10 (3.73%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (13.43%) DNS
2 34 (12.69%) Firewall
3 30 (11.19%) TCP/IP
4 17 (6.34%) VPN
5 15 (5.60%) Network Security
6 13 (4.85%) SSL
7 9 (3.36%) Wireshark
8 8 (2.99%) BGP
9 7 (2.61%) OSPF
9 7 (2.61%) VLAN
10 6 (2.24%) EIGRP
10 6 (2.24%) HTTP
10 6 (2.24%) tcpdump
11 5 (1.87%) DHCP
11 5 (1.87%) HTTPS
11 5 (1.87%) IPsec
11 5 (1.87%) Multicast
12 3 (1.12%) SMTP
12 3 (1.12%) SSH
13 2 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (18.28%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (8.58%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (6.72%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.22%) Redis
5 12 (4.48%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.73%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.73%) MySQL
7 7 (2.61%) Delta Lake
8 6 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.24%) Big Data
8 6 (2.24%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.24%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.24%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.87%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.12%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (1.12%) Tableau
12 2 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 64 (23.88%) Jenkins
2 56 (20.90%) GitLab
3 54 (20.15%) Git
4 19 (7.09%) JIRA
5 8 (2.99%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.99%) Maven
6 6 (2.24%) Metasploit
6 6 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.24%) Subversion
6 6 (2.24%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.87%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.87%) Burp Suite
7 5 (1.87%) MLflow
8 4 (1.49%) Gradle
8 4 (1.49%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.49%) sqlmap
9 3 (1.12%) Chocolatey
9 3 (1.12%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.12%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (1.12%) Spinnaker
General
1 74 (27.61%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.18%) Finance
3 36 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.58%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.48%) Banking
6 10 (3.73%) Front Office
7 9 (3.36%) Retail
8 4 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.12%) Legal
9 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.75%) Electronics
10 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.75%) Marketing
10 2 (0.75%) Military
10 2 (0.75%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.37%) German Language
11 1 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (15.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (11.57%) Senior
3 24 (8.96%) Platform Engineer
4 20 (7.46%) Developer
5 14 (5.22%) Architect
6 13 (4.85%) Data Engineer
6 13 (4.85%) Lead
7 12 (4.48%) Network Engineer
7 12 (4.48%) Security Engineer
8 11 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (4.10%) Site Engineer
9 10 (3.73%) Administrator
9 10 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (3.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (2.99%) Analyst
11 8 (2.99%) Consultant
11 8 (2.99%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.07%) Kafka
2 15 (5.60%) Middleware
3 13 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (4.10%) FIX Protocol
5 10 (3.73%) REST
6 7 (2.61%) Keycloak
6 7 (2.61%) YAML
7 6 (2.24%) Node.js
8 5 (1.87%) .NET
8 5 (1.87%) ARM Templates
8 5 (1.87%) Loki
8 5 (1.87%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.87%) Ultra Messaging
9 4 (1.49%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.49%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.49%) SAML
9 4 (1.49%) Spring
9 4 (1.49%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.12%) OAuth
10 3 (1.12%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.72%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.85%) Replication
5 11 (4.10%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (4.10%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.61%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.24%) PKI
9 5 (1.87%) Clustering
9 5 (1.87%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.87%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.49%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.49%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.12%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 117 (43.66%) Linux
2 34 (12.69%) Windows
3 24 (8.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (8.58%) Mac OS
5 18 (6.72%) Unix
6 10 (3.73%) Solaris
7 9 (3.36%) CentOS
8 8 (2.99%) Ubuntu
8 8 (2.99%) Windows Server
9 4 (1.49%) VMS
10 1 (0.37%) Android
10 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.37%) Debian
10 1 (0.37%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (53.73%) CI/CD
2 130 (48.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 121 (45.15%) DevOps
4 63 (23.51%) Containerisation
5 57 (21.27%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (17.91%) Agile
6 48 (17.91%) Observability
7 40 (14.93%) Incident Response
8 36 (13.43%) High Availability
9 34 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (12.69%) Platform Engineering
10 28 (10.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 27 (10.07%) Infrastructure Automation
12 25 (9.33%) Analytics
13 24 (8.96%) DevSecOps
14 23 (8.58%) Mentoring
14 23 (8.58%) Test Automation
15 22 (8.21%) AI
16 21 (7.84%) Zero Trust
17 19 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 229 (85.45%) Python
2 99 (36.94%) PowerShell
3 37 (13.81%) SQL
4 25 (9.33%) Go
5 24 (8.96%) Java
6 22 (8.21%) Perl
7 18 (6.72%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (3.73%) Groovy
8 10 (3.73%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.36%) C++
9 9 (3.36%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.24%) C
11 5 (1.87%) Bicep
12 4 (1.49%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.12%) C#
13 3 (1.12%) PHP
13 3 (1.12%) Ruby
13 3 (1.12%) Rust
13 3 (1.12%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.90%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.34%) Degree
4 13 (4.85%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.73%) OSCP
7 9 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.61%) CCNP
8 7 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.61%) GPEN
8 7 (2.61%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.24%) CCNA
9 6 (2.24%) CEH
9 6 (2.24%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.24%) PhD
9 6 (2.24%) RHCE
10 5 (1.87%) CISSP
10 5 (1.87%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.87%) JNCIA
10 5 (1.87%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.10%) GDPR
2 10 (3.73%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.99%) NIST
4 5 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.49%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.49%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.75%) NCSC
6 2 (0.75%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) GxP
7 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 94 (35.07%) Docker
2 14 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.85%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.99%) zsh
5 7 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.87%) Firmware
6 5 (1.87%) KVM
6 5 (1.87%) NFS
6 5 (1.87%) Squid
7 4 (1.49%) Snort
7 4 (1.49%) Veritas File System
7 4 (1.49%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.75%) Ceph
9 2 (0.75%) Lustre
9 2 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.75%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.75%) vSphere
9 2 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 120 (44.78%) Terraform
2 102 (38.06%) Kubernetes
3 80 (29.85%) Ansible
4 56 (20.90%) Grafana
5 49 (18.28%) Prometheus
6 13 (4.85%) Puppet
7 12 (4.48%) Argo
8 10 (3.73%) ITRS Geneos
8 10 (3.73%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (3.36%) Nessus
10 7 (2.61%) Rancher
11 6 (2.24%) Istio
11 6 (2.24%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.87%) Nagios
12 5 (1.87%) Nmap
12 5 (1.87%) Progress Chef
12 5 (1.87%) SCCM
13 4 (1.49%) Nexpose
13 4 (1.49%) Suricata
Vendors
1 38 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.82%) Splunk
3 25 (9.33%) Google
4 22 (8.21%) Red Hat
5 17 (6.34%) Palo Alto
5 17 (6.34%) VMware
6 14 (5.22%) Cisco
7 13 (4.85%) Databricks
7 13 (4.85%) ServiceNow
8 12 (4.48%) Qualys
9 11 (4.10%) CheckPoint
9 11 (4.10%) F5
9 11 (4.10%) Oracle
10 10 (3.73%) Dynatrace
10 10 (3.73%) Solace
11 9 (3.36%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (3.36%) Zscaler
12 8 (2.99%) Apple
12 8 (2.99%) Atlassian
13 6 (2.24%) Juniper