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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 178 135
Rank change year-on-year +45 -43 +17
Contract jobs citing Bash 315 228 379
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.23% 1.45% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.81% 3.75% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 145 285
10th Percentile £384 £377 £425
25th Percentile £450 £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £700
90th Percentile £731 £810 £810
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £39.10 £67.40 £58.40
25th Percentile £43.38 £84.13 £59.00
Median hourly rate £55.25 £112.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.67% +86.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile £62.95 - -
England median hourly rate £55.25 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -7.92% -20.00% +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 5,421 6,087 7,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.45% 38.75% 36.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,643 4,133 5,448
10th Percentile £368 £375 £391
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -0.86% -3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 41 69
10th Percentile £20.67 £35.00 £26.16
25th Percentile £32.50 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -8.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £73.92
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year - +7.44% -3.20%

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 25 November 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 -2 28 £540 -14.46% 17
South London 0 8 £530 +112.00% 4
West London -4 6 £475 +18.75% 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 11 (3.49%) Confluence
2 7 (2.22%) Apache
2 7 (2.22%) nginx
3 5 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.95%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.95%) Hyperledger
5 3 (0.95%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.63%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.32%) CICS
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.32%) Luigi
7 1 (0.32%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.32%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.32%) Traefik
7 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.32%) Pro Tools
1 1 (0.32%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 148 (46.98%) AWS
2 130 (41.27%) Azure
3 77 (24.44%) GCP
4 62 (19.68%) GitHub
5 34 (10.79%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (9.84%) Amazon EC2
7 31 (9.84%) Amazon S3
8 28 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (7.62%) Serverless
10 22 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (6.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (4.76%) Azure AKS
15 15 (4.76%) Entra ID
16 14 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (4.44%) OpenShift
17 12 (3.81%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (14.29%) DNS
2 44 (13.97%) Firewall
3 33 (10.48%) TCP/IP
4 22 (6.98%) Network Security
5 20 (6.35%) VPN
6 12 (3.81%) SSL
7 9 (2.86%) BGP
7 9 (2.86%) Wireshark
8 8 (2.54%) DHCP
8 8 (2.54%) OSPF
9 7 (2.22%) EIGRP
9 7 (2.22%) HTTP
9 7 (2.22%) VLAN
10 6 (1.90%) HTTPS
10 6 (1.90%) IPsec
10 6 (1.90%) tcpdump
11 5 (1.59%) Multicast
12 4 (1.27%) NAS
12 4 (1.27%) SSH
13 3 (0.95%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (17.46%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 20 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (4.44%) Redis
5 11 (3.49%) Data Lake
5 11 (3.49%) MySQL
6 10 (3.17%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.54%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.22%) Delta Lake
8 7 (2.22%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.90%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.59%) Big Data
10 5 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.59%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.27%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.27%) Power BI
12 3 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 60 (19.05%) Git
3 50 (15.87%) GitLab
4 21 (6.67%) JIRA
5 11 (3.49%) Bitbucket
5 11 (3.49%) Maven
5 11 (3.49%) Metasploit
6 10 (3.17%) Burp Suite
6 10 (3.17%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.54%) Liquibase
9 7 (2.22%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.90%) Gradle
10 6 (1.90%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.59%) MLflow
11 5 (1.59%) Subversion
12 4 (1.27%) Clang
12 4 (1.27%) GCC
12 4 (1.27%) sqlmap
13 3 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 92 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.92%) Finance
3 44 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.76%) Banking
6 10 (3.17%) Front Office
7 9 (2.86%) Retail
8 6 (1.90%) Law
8 6 (1.90%) Marketing
9 5 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.27%) Electronics
10 4 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.95%) Legal
11 3 (0.95%) Military
11 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.63%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (18.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (11.11%) Senior
3 24 (7.62%) Platform Engineer
4 21 (6.67%) Site Engineer
5 20 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (6.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 19 (6.03%) Architect
6 19 (6.03%) Developer
7 17 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (5.40%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (5.08%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (4.13%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.13%) Security Engineer
10 12 (3.81%) Administrator
10 12 (3.81%) Network Engineer
11 11 (3.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.49%) Lead
11 11 (3.49%) Mac Engineer
12 10 (3.17%) Analyst
12 10 (3.17%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.89%) Kafka
2 17 (5.40%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (5.08%) Middleware
4 14 (4.44%) ARM Templates
5 13 (4.13%) YAML
6 11 (3.49%) FIX Protocol
6 11 (3.49%) REST
7 9 (2.86%) .NET
8 8 (2.54%) ADO
9 7 (2.22%) Keycloak
10 6 (1.90%) Node.js
10 6 (1.90%) PyTorch
11 5 (1.59%) Loki
11 5 (1.59%) Ultra Messaging
12 4 (1.27%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.27%) FastAPI
12 4 (1.27%) LDAP
12 4 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (1.27%) SAML
12 4 (1.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.30%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (4.76%) Replication
5 11 (3.49%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.22%) Clustering
7 7 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.22%) PKI
8 6 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.90%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.59%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.27%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (0.95%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.95%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 128 (40.63%) Linux
2 44 (13.97%) Windows
3 30 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (8.57%) Mac OS
5 21 (6.67%) Unix
6 12 (3.81%) CentOS
7 11 (3.49%) Solaris
8 10 (3.17%) Windows Server
9 9 (2.86%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.95%) Android
10 3 (0.95%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.95%) VMS
11 2 (0.63%) Debian
12 1 (0.32%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (54.29%) CI/CD
2 155 (49.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 150 (47.62%) DevOps
4 74 (23.49%) Containerisation
5 70 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (17.14%) Agile
7 53 (16.83%) Observability
8 44 (13.97%) Incident Response
9 42 (13.33%) High Availability
10 40 (12.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 35 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (11.11%) DevSecOps
12 34 (10.79%) Infrastructure Automation
13 32 (10.16%) Platform Engineering
14 31 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
15 30 (9.52%) Test Automation
16 29 (9.21%) Analytics
17 26 (8.25%) Data Protection
18 25 (7.94%) Cloud Security
18 25 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 267 (84.76%) Python
2 115 (36.51%) PowerShell
3 50 (15.87%) SQL
4 39 (12.38%) Go
5 28 (8.89%) Perl
6 26 (8.25%) Java
7 16 (5.08%) Kusto Query Language
8 13 (4.13%) C++
9 11 (3.49%) Bicep
9 11 (3.49%) Groovy
9 11 (3.49%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.49%) PromQL
10 10 (3.17%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.90%) C
11 6 (1.90%) C#
11 6 (1.90%) PHP
12 4 (1.27%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.95%) Ruby
14 2 (0.63%) AWK
Qualifications
1 82 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 72 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.40%) Degree
4 15 (4.76%) OSCP
5 14 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 13 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (2.86%) CCNP
8 7 (2.22%) CEH
8 7 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.22%) GPEN
9 6 (1.90%) JNCIA
9 6 (1.90%) JNCIS
9 6 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.90%) RHCE
10 5 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.59%) CREST Certified
10 5 (1.59%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.44%) GDPR
2 12 (3.81%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.90%) HIPAA
3 6 (1.90%) NIST
3 6 (1.90%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.59%) NCSC
4 5 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.63%) SLA
6 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.32%) GxP
7 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 109 (34.60%) Docker
2 20 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.76%) Active Directory
4 11 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (2.86%) zsh
6 7 (2.22%) NFS
7 6 (1.90%) Firmware
8 4 (1.27%) KVM
8 4 (1.27%) Snort
8 4 (1.27%) Squid
8 4 (1.27%) Veritas File System
8 4 (1.27%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.95%) GPFS
9 3 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.63%) iptables
10 2 (0.63%) Lustre
10 2 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 129 (40.95%) Terraform
2 124 (39.37%) Kubernetes
3 77 (24.44%) Ansible
4 63 (20.00%) Grafana
5 55 (17.46%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.76%) Puppet
7 13 (4.13%) Argo
7 13 (4.13%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (3.49%) Nessus
9 10 (3.17%) ITRS Geneos
9 10 (3.17%) Nmap
10 7 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (2.22%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.90%) Istio
11 6 (1.90%) Rancher
11 6 (1.90%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (1.59%) AirWatch
12 5 (1.59%) Nagios
12 5 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (13.97%) Splunk
2 43 (13.65%) Microsoft
3 29 (9.21%) Google
4 27 (8.57%) Red Hat
5 25 (7.94%) VMware
6 18 (5.71%) Oracle
6 18 (5.71%) ServiceNow
7 17 (5.40%) Palo Alto
8 16 (5.08%) Cisco
9 12 (3.81%) Apple
9 12 (3.81%) Databricks
9 12 (3.81%) Qualys
10 11 (3.49%) CheckPoint
10 11 (3.49%) F5
10 11 (3.49%) Zscaler
11 10 (3.17%) Solace
12 9 (2.86%) Atlassian
12 9 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (2.86%) Dynatrace
13 8 (2.54%) SAP