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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 164 155
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing Bash 253 222 288
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 1.57% 1.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.78% 4.13% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 137 206
10th Percentile £402 £374 £425
25th Percentile £463 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £608 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +1.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £700
90th Percentile £733 £810 £810
England median daily rate £520 £575 £576
% change year-on-year -9.57% -0.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £39.55 £67.40 £58.40
25th Percentile £44.50 £84.13 £59.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £112.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.66% +86.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £63.00 - -
90th Percentile £63.45 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% -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 5,289 5,373 6,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.15% 38.08% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,549 3,587 4,783
10th Percentile £363 £374 £392
25th Percentile £425 £461 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £697 £700
90th Percentile £781 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 63
10th Percentile £25.82 £35.23 £26.24
25th Percentile £35.25 £40.62 £36.27
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.50 £69.50 £63.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £97.50 £72.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%

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 9 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in London over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

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 9 January 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 -13 21 £539 -0.92% 36
South London -1 8 £530 +143.68% 14
West London - 3 - - 13
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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 7 (2.77%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.37%) nginx
4 5 (1.98%) Apache
5 4 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.19%) Ethereum
6 3 (1.19%) Hyperledger
6 3 (1.19%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.79%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.40%) CICS
8 1 (0.40%) FileNet
8 1 (0.40%) Luigi
8 1 (0.40%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.40%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.40%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.40%) Pro Tools
1 1 (0.40%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 112 (44.27%) AWS
2 101 (39.92%) Azure
3 54 (21.34%) GCP
4 45 (17.79%) GitHub
5 33 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
5 33 (13.04%) Amazon S3
6 30 (11.86%) Amazon EKS
7 28 (11.07%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (10.28%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (10.28%) Serverless
9 24 (9.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 23 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (7.91%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (5.93%) Entra ID
14 14 (5.53%) Azure AKS
15 13 (5.14%) OpenShift
16 10 (3.95%) Datadog
16 10 (3.95%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.65%) DNS
2 31 (12.25%) Firewall
3 26 (10.28%) TCP/IP
4 16 (6.32%) VPN
5 14 (5.53%) Network Security
6 13 (5.14%) SSL
7 8 (3.16%) BGP
7 8 (3.16%) Wireshark
8 7 (2.77%) OSPF
8 7 (2.77%) VLAN
9 6 (2.37%) EIGRP
10 5 (1.98%) DHCP
10 5 (1.98%) HTTP
10 5 (1.98%) HTTPS
10 5 (1.98%) IPsec
10 5 (1.98%) tcpdump
11 4 (1.58%) Multicast
12 3 (1.19%) SSH
13 2 (0.79%) Kerberos
13 2 (0.79%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (18.97%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (7.11%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.53%) Redis
5 12 (4.74%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.95%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.95%) MySQL
7 7 (2.77%) Delta Lake
8 6 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.37%) Big Data
8 6 (2.37%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.37%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.37%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.98%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.19%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (1.19%) Tableau
12 2 (0.79%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 62 (24.51%) Jenkins
2 56 (22.13%) GitLab
3 54 (21.34%) Git
4 17 (6.72%) JIRA
5 8 (3.16%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.16%) Maven
6 6 (2.37%) Metasploit
6 6 (2.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.37%) Subversion
6 6 (2.37%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.98%) Burp Suite
7 5 (1.98%) MLflow
8 4 (1.58%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.58%) Gradle
8 4 (1.58%) sqlmap
9 3 (1.19%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.19%) JUnit
9 3 (1.19%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.19%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (1.19%) Spinnaker
General
1 69 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (13.44%) Finance
4 22 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.35%) Banking
6 9 (3.56%) Front Office
7 8 (3.16%) Retail
8 4 (1.58%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.19%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Legal
10 2 (0.79%) Military
10 2 (0.79%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Electronics
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (15.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (11.86%) Senior
3 26 (10.28%) Platform Engineer
4 20 (7.91%) Developer
5 13 (5.14%) Data Engineer
5 13 (5.14%) Lead
6 12 (4.74%) Architect
6 12 (4.74%) Network Engineer
7 10 (3.95%) Administrator
7 10 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (3.95%) Security Engineer
7 10 (3.95%) Site Engineer
8 9 (3.56%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (3.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (3.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (3.16%) Consultant
9 8 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (2.77%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.88%) Kafka
2 13 (5.14%) Middleware
3 11 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (3.95%) REST
5 9 (3.56%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (2.77%) Keycloak
7 6 (2.37%) Node.js
7 6 (2.37%) YAML
8 5 (1.98%) Loki
8 5 (1.98%) PyTorch
9 4 (1.58%) .NET
9 4 (1.58%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.58%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.58%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.58%) SAML
9 4 (1.58%) Spring
9 4 (1.58%) Ultra Messaging
10 3 (1.19%) ADO
10 3 (1.19%) HTML
10 3 (1.19%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.11%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (5.14%) Replication
5 11 (4.35%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.77%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.37%) PKI
9 5 (1.98%) Clustering
9 5 (1.98%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.58%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.58%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.58%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.58%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.19%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 112 (44.27%) Linux
2 30 (11.86%) Windows
3 21 (8.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (7.91%) Mac OS
5 18 (7.11%) Unix
6 10 (3.95%) Solaris
7 6 (2.37%) CentOS
7 6 (2.37%) VMS
7 6 (2.37%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.58%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.40%) Android
9 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (54.15%) CI/CD
2 126 (49.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 112 (44.27%) DevOps
4 62 (24.51%) Containerisation
5 53 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (18.58%) Agile
7 45 (17.79%) Observability
8 38 (15.02%) Incident Response
9 36 (14.23%) Platform Engineering
10 34 (13.44%) High Availability
11 32 (12.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (9.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 24 (9.49%) Infrastructure Automation
14 23 (9.09%) Analytics
14 23 (9.09%) DevSecOps
15 22 (8.70%) AI
15 22 (8.70%) Mentoring
15 22 (8.70%) Test Automation
16 20 (7.91%) Zero Trust
17 19 (7.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 217 (85.77%) Python
2 90 (35.57%) PowerShell
3 36 (14.23%) SQL
4 23 (9.09%) Java
5 21 (8.30%) Perl
6 19 (7.51%) Go
7 17 (6.72%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (3.95%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.56%) Groovy
9 9 (3.56%) JavaScript
10 8 (3.16%) C++
11 5 (1.98%) C
12 4 (1.58%) Bicep
12 4 (1.58%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.19%) C#
13 3 (1.19%) PHP
13 3 (1.19%) Rust
13 3 (1.19%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.79%) Ruby
15 1 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 61 (24.11%) Security Cleared
2 54 (21.34%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.53%) Degree
4 12 (4.74%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.56%) OSCP
7 7 (2.77%) CCNP
7 7 (2.77%) GPEN
7 7 (2.77%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.37%) PhD
9 5 (1.98%) CCNA
9 5 (1.98%) CEH
9 5 (1.98%) JNCIA
9 5 (1.98%) JNCIS
9 5 (1.98%) RHCE
10 4 (1.58%) CISSP
10 4 (1.58%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.95%) Data Quality
1 10 (3.95%) GDPR
2 7 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.37%) NIST
4 5 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.58%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.79%) NCSC
7 2 (0.79%) SLA
8 1 (0.40%) GxP
8 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (35.97%) Docker
2 12 (4.74%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.16%) zsh
4 5 (1.98%) Firmware
4 5 (1.98%) KVM
4 5 (1.98%) NFS
4 5 (1.98%) Squid
4 5 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.58%) Snort
5 4 (1.58%) Veritas File System
5 4 (1.58%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.79%) Lustre
7 2 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.79%) vSphere
7 2 (0.79%) Xen
Systems Management
1 116 (45.85%) Terraform
2 97 (38.34%) Kubernetes
3 76 (30.04%) Ansible
4 50 (19.76%) Grafana
5 42 (16.60%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.14%) Puppet
7 12 (4.74%) Argo
8 9 (3.56%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (3.16%) ITRS Geneos
9 8 (3.16%) Nessus
10 7 (2.77%) Rancher
11 6 (2.37%) Istio
11 6 (2.37%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (1.98%) Nagios
12 5 (1.98%) Nmap
12 5 (1.98%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.58%) Nexpose
13 4 (1.58%) QRadar
13 4 (1.58%) Suricata
Vendors
1 36 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.07%) Splunk
3 23 (9.09%) Google
4 21 (8.30%) Red Hat
5 17 (6.72%) Palo Alto
6 15 (5.93%) Databricks
6 15 (5.93%) VMware
7 14 (5.53%) Cisco
8 11 (4.35%) CheckPoint
8 11 (4.35%) F5
8 11 (4.35%) Oracle
8 11 (4.35%) Qualys
8 11 (4.35%) ServiceNow
9 9 (3.56%) Dynatrace
9 9 (3.56%) Zscaler
10 8 (3.16%) Atlassian
10 8 (3.16%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (3.16%) Solace
11 7 (2.77%) Apple
12 6 (2.37%) Juniper