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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 139 190
Rank change year-on-year -40 +51 -90
Contract jobs citing Bash 317 271 212
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.57% 2.00% 1.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.03% 5.19% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 185 145
10th Percentile £390 £409 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
England median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.14% -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £47.15 £21.40
25th Percentile £56.75 £49.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +96.49% +42.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.75 £52.81
90th Percentile - £63.05 £71.88
England median hourly rate £67.61 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +22.92% -4.35% -20.69%

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 6,296 5,217 6,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.23% 38.44% 39.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,210 3,663 4,811
10th Percentile £378 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £523 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 54 43
10th Percentile £34.20 £26.64 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £32.16
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.31% -7.37% -21.11%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.44 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -32 22 £538 -8.90% 21
South London -8 5 £535 -13.71% 4
West London -17 4 £500 +5.26% 5
East London - 2 £416 - 1
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 19 (5.99%) Confluence
2 11 (3.47%) Apache
2 11 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.26%) nginx
4 4 (1.26%) WordPress
5 3 (0.95%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.63%) CMS
6 2 (0.63%) IIS
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.32%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.32%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Actimize
1 1 (0.32%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 158 (49.84%) AWS
2 147 (46.37%) Azure
3 94 (29.65%) GitHub
4 74 (23.34%) GitHub Actions
5 70 (22.08%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (17.35%) GCP
7 49 (15.46%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (14.20%) Amazon S3
9 40 (12.62%) Serverless
10 39 (12.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (10.73%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (10.41%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (10.41%) Datadog
13 31 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (9.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (8.83%) Entra ID
15 23 (7.26%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (5.68%) Azure AKS
17 17 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
18 15 (4.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (14.83%) Firewall
2 42 (13.25%) DNS
3 38 (11.99%) VPN
4 29 (9.15%) Network Security
5 26 (8.20%) TCP/IP
6 14 (4.42%) WAN
7 12 (3.79%) VLAN
8 10 (3.15%) SD-WAN
9 9 (2.84%) DHCP
10 8 (2.52%) SSL
11 6 (1.89%) HTTP
12 5 (1.58%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (1.26%) BGP
14 3 (0.95%) Internet
14 3 (0.95%) NAS
14 3 (0.95%) SAN
14 3 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
15 2 (0.63%) HTTPS
15 2 (0.63%) MPLS
15 2 (0.63%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.05%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (3.47%) Redis
4 9 (2.84%) Data Lake
4 9 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (2.52%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (2.21%) Delta Lake
7 5 (1.58%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.58%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.58%) Metadata
7 5 (1.58%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.58%) Power BI
8 4 (1.26%) Big Data
8 4 (1.26%) MySQL
8 4 (1.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 93 (29.34%) Jenkins
2 75 (23.66%) Git
3 73 (23.03%) GitLab
4 17 (5.36%) JIRA
5 12 (3.79%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.21%) JMeter
7 6 (1.89%) Postman
8 5 (1.58%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.58%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.95%) Ant
9 3 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.95%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.63%) Maven
10 2 (0.63%) Snyk
10 2 (0.63%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.63%) Subversion
10 2 (0.63%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.63%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.32%) VersionOne
General
1 71 (22.40%) Finance
1 71 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (10.73%) Public Sector
4 31 (9.78%) Banking
5 7 (2.21%) Law
6 6 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.58%) Publishing
7 5 (1.58%) Retail
7 5 (1.58%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.26%) Automotive
8 4 (1.26%) Front Office
8 4 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.26%) Military
9 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.63%) Billing
10 2 (0.63%) Police
11 1 (0.32%) Games
11 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 77 (24.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (11.99%) Senior
3 33 (10.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 31 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
5 27 (8.52%) AWS Engineer
5 27 (8.52%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (8.20%) Security Engineer
7 24 (7.57%) Lead
8 19 (5.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 18 (5.68%) Architect
9 18 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 16 (5.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 15 (4.73%) Site Engineer
13 14 (4.42%) Linux Engineer
14 13 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
15 12 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 12 (3.79%) Network Engineer
15 12 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
15 12 (3.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.52%) Kafka
2 17 (5.36%) ARM Templates
3 14 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (4.42%) REST
3 14 (4.42%) YAML
4 11 (3.47%) JSON
5 10 (3.15%) Loki
5 10 (3.15%) Middleware
5 10 (3.15%) SAML
6 8 (2.52%) .NET
6 8 (2.52%) OAuth
7 6 (1.89%) cloud-init
7 6 (1.89%) RESTful
7 6 (1.89%) Swagger
8 5 (1.58%) LDAP
8 5 (1.58%) Spring
9 4 (1.26%) 802.1X
9 4 (1.26%) ADO
9 4 (1.26%) ModSecurity
10 3 (0.95%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.72%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (4.42%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.47%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.84%) Legacy Applications
7 9 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.84%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.52%) PKI
9 6 (1.89%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.58%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.58%) Equities
10 5 (1.58%) Robotics
10 5 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.58%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.26%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.26%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 119 (37.54%) Linux
2 47 (14.83%) Windows
3 23 (7.26%) Windows Server
4 22 (6.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (6.94%) Ubuntu
5 20 (6.31%) Unix
6 7 (2.21%) VMS
7 5 (1.58%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.63%) Debian
8 2 (0.63%) Solaris
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.32%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.32%) Rocky
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (64.35%) CI/CD
2 196 (61.83%) DevOps
3 181 (57.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (29.02%) Containerisation
5 77 (24.29%) Observability
6 60 (18.93%) Platform Engineering
7 56 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (14.20%) Agile
9 45 (14.20%) AI
9 45 (14.20%) Cloud Security
10 44 (13.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 40 (12.62%) Configuration Management
12 39 (12.30%) Runbook
13 37 (11.67%) Identity Access Management
13 37 (11.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 33 (10.41%) Infrastructure Automation
15 32 (10.09%) Migration
15 32 (10.09%) Root Cause Analysis
16 30 (9.46%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 267 (84.23%) Python
2 130 (41.01%) PowerShell
3 33 (10.41%) SQL
4 30 (9.46%) Java
5 25 (7.89%) Bicep
5 25 (7.89%) Go
6 12 (3.79%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.15%) Perl
8 8 (2.52%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.21%) Groovy
10 6 (1.89%) C#
10 6 (1.89%) Ruby
11 4 (1.26%) C
11 4 (1.26%) Korn
12 3 (0.95%) Cypher
12 3 (0.95%) Gremlin
12 3 (0.95%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.63%) R
14 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 103 (32.49%) Security Cleared
2 90 (28.39%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.89%) Azure Certification
4 18 (5.68%) AWS Certification
5 17 (5.36%) Degree
6 13 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.84%) CCNP
9 7 (2.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.21%) CCNA
9 7 (2.21%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.89%) CISSP
11 5 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.26%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.26%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.63%) CCSP
14 2 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.73%) QA
2 10 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.84%) NIST
4 7 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.95%) SLA
6 3 (0.95%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 113 (35.65%) Docker
2 30 (9.46%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.52%) Squid
6 5 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.26%) NFS
7 4 (1.26%) Postfix
7 4 (1.26%) Varnish
7 4 (1.26%) vSphere
8 3 (0.95%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.95%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.95%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.63%) HDFS
9 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.63%) zsh
10 1 (0.32%) KVM
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.32%) QEMU
10 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 201 (63.41%) Terraform
2 140 (44.16%) Kubernetes
3 108 (34.07%) Ansible
4 85 (26.81%) Grafana
5 75 (23.66%) Prometheus
6 25 (7.89%) Puppet
7 16 (5.05%) Argo
8 12 (3.79%) systemd
9 11 (3.47%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.52%) Istio
11 7 (2.21%) Kibana
11 7 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.58%) HAProxy
12 5 (1.58%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (1.58%) Salt
13 4 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.26%) Suricata
14 3 (0.95%) Packer
14 3 (0.95%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 56 (17.67%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.57%) VMware
3 22 (6.94%) Google
4 21 (6.62%) Dynatrace
5 20 (6.31%) Oracle
6 19 (5.99%) Databricks
7 13 (4.10%) CyberArk
7 13 (4.10%) Splunk
8 11 (3.47%) Cisco
8 11 (3.47%) Red Hat
8 11 (3.47%) Zscaler
9 10 (3.15%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.15%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.52%) BeyondTrust
10 8 (2.52%) Fortinet
10 8 (2.52%) WALLIX
11 5 (1.58%) Apple
11 5 (1.58%) IBM
11 5 (1.58%) NetApp
12 4 (1.26%) Juniper