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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 183 130
Rank change year-on-year +57 -53 +22
Contract jobs citing Bash 310 228 381
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.19% 1.44% 1.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.72% 3.72% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 143 284
10th Percentile £381 £376 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £608 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% +1.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £700
90th Percentile £725 £810 £810
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
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 £56.00 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -2.61% -23.33% +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 5,424 6,125 7,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.25% 38.66% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,647 4,165 5,424
10th Percentile £363 £373 £390
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £576
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -0.09% -4.08%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £797 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.62% -1.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 42 69
10th Percentile £25.40 £35.85 £26.16
25th Percentile £34.48 £40.19 £36.28
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66.50 £67.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £73.92
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +5.11% -1.06%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -4 25 £545 -14.51% 16
South London +2 9 £530 +143.68% 5
West London -9 6 £475 +18.75% 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 (3.55%) Confluence
2 7 (2.26%) Apache
2 7 (2.26%) nginx
3 5 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.97%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.97%) Hyperledger
5 3 (0.97%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.32%) CICS
7 1 (0.32%) FileNet
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 (47.74%) AWS
2 126 (40.65%) Azure
3 76 (24.52%) GCP
4 60 (19.35%) GitHub
5 33 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (10.32%) Amazon EC2
6 32 (10.32%) Amazon S3
7 31 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (9.35%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (8.06%) Serverless
10 22 (7.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (6.77%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (6.13%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (5.16%) Entra ID
15 15 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (4.52%) Azure AKS
17 13 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (4.19%) OpenShift
18 12 (3.87%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (14.52%) Firewall
2 44 (14.19%) DNS
3 32 (10.32%) TCP/IP
4 22 (7.10%) Network Security
5 20 (6.45%) VPN
6 12 (3.87%) SSL
7 9 (2.90%) BGP
7 9 (2.90%) Wireshark
8 8 (2.58%) DHCP
8 8 (2.58%) OSPF
9 7 (2.26%) EIGRP
9 7 (2.26%) HTTP
9 7 (2.26%) VLAN
10 6 (1.94%) HTTPS
10 6 (1.94%) IPsec
10 6 (1.94%) tcpdump
11 5 (1.61%) Multicast
12 3 (0.97%) NAS
12 3 (0.97%) SSH
12 3 (0.97%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (17.42%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (7.10%) SQL Server
3 21 (6.77%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (4.52%) Redis
5 11 (3.55%) Data Lake
5 11 (3.55%) MySQL
6 10 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.58%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.26%) Delta Lake
9 6 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.94%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.94%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.61%) Big Data
10 5 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (1.29%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.97%) Power BI
12 3 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (22.90%) Jenkins
2 59 (19.03%) Git
3 50 (16.13%) GitLab
4 21 (6.77%) JIRA
5 11 (3.55%) Bitbucket
5 11 (3.55%) Metasploit
6 10 (3.23%) Burp Suite
7 9 (2.90%) Maven
7 9 (2.90%) SonarQube
8 7 (2.26%) Artifactory
8 7 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.94%) Liquibase
9 6 (1.94%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.61%) MLflow
10 5 (1.61%) Subversion
11 4 (1.29%) Clang
11 4 (1.29%) GCC
11 4 (1.29%) Gradle
11 4 (1.29%) sqlmap
12 3 (0.97%) ScriptRunner
General
1 89 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 44 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
2 44 (14.19%) Finance
3 29 (9.35%) Public Sector
4 15 (4.84%) Banking
5 10 (3.23%) Front Office
5 10 (3.23%) Retail
6 6 (1.94%) Law
7 5 (1.61%) Marketing
7 5 (1.61%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.29%) Electronics
8 4 (1.29%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.29%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.97%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.97%) Legal
9 3 (0.97%) Military
9 3 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.65%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (16.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (11.61%) Senior
3 24 (7.74%) Platform Engineer
4 21 (6.77%) Developer
5 20 (6.45%) Site Engineer
6 19 (6.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 18 (5.81%) Architect
8 16 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (4.84%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (4.19%) Data Engineer
11 13 (4.19%) Security Engineer
12 12 (3.87%) Administrator
12 12 (3.87%) Network Engineer
13 11 (3.55%) Lead
13 11 (3.55%) Mac Engineer
14 10 (3.23%) Analyst
14 10 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.23%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.71%) Kafka
2 16 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (5.16%) Middleware
3 13 (4.19%) YAML
4 11 (3.55%) ARM Templates
4 11 (3.55%) FIX Protocol
5 10 (3.23%) REST
6 8 (2.58%) .NET
7 7 (2.26%) ADO
7 7 (2.26%) Keycloak
8 6 (1.94%) Node.js
8 6 (1.94%) PyTorch
9 5 (1.61%) Loki
9 5 (1.61%) Ultra Messaging
10 4 (1.29%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.29%) FastAPI
10 4 (1.29%) LDAP
10 4 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (1.29%) SAML
10 4 (1.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.42%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.81%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (5.16%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (4.84%) Replication
5 11 (3.55%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.26%) Clustering
7 7 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.26%) PKI
8 6 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.61%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.29%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (0.97%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.97%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 126 (40.65%) Linux
2 42 (13.55%) Windows
3 30 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (8.71%) Mac OS
5 19 (6.13%) Unix
6 12 (3.87%) CentOS
7 10 (3.23%) Solaris
7 10 (3.23%) Windows Server
8 9 (2.90%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.97%) VMS
10 2 (0.65%) Android
10 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.65%) Debian
11 1 (0.32%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (53.87%) CI/CD
2 153 (49.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 143 (46.13%) DevOps
4 73 (23.55%) Containerisation
5 68 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (16.77%) Agile
6 52 (16.77%) Observability
7 44 (14.19%) Incident Response
8 41 (13.23%) High Availability
9 38 (12.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 35 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (10.97%) DevSecOps
12 32 (10.32%) Infrastructure Automation
12 32 (10.32%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (10.00%) Analytics
13 31 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
14 30 (9.68%) Test Automation
15 26 (8.39%) Data Protection
16 25 (8.06%) Mentoring
16 25 (8.06%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 263 (84.84%) Python
2 113 (36.45%) PowerShell
3 49 (15.81%) SQL
4 36 (11.61%) Go
5 26 (8.39%) Java
5 26 (8.39%) Perl
6 18 (5.81%) Kusto Query Language
7 13 (4.19%) C++
8 11 (3.55%) Groovy
8 11 (3.55%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.55%) PromQL
9 10 (3.23%) Bicep
9 10 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.94%) C
10 6 (1.94%) PHP
11 5 (1.61%) C#
12 4 (1.29%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.97%) Ruby
14 2 (0.65%) AWK
Qualifications
1 78 (25.16%) Security Cleared
2 69 (22.26%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.48%) Degree
4 15 (4.84%) OSCP
5 14 (4.52%) AWS Certification
6 13 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (2.90%) CCNP
8 7 (2.26%) CEH
8 7 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.26%) GPEN
9 6 (1.94%) JNCIA
9 6 (1.94%) JNCIS
9 6 (1.94%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.94%) RHCE
10 5 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.61%) CREST Certified
10 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.61%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.19%) GDPR
2 12 (3.87%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.26%) NIST
5 6 (1.94%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.61%) NCSC
6 5 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.65%) SLA
8 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.32%) GxP
9 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 106 (34.19%) Docker
2 20 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.84%) Active Directory
4 11 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (2.90%) zsh
6 7 (2.26%) NFS
7 6 (1.94%) Firmware
8 5 (1.61%) Snort
8 5 (1.61%) Squid
9 4 (1.29%) KVM
9 4 (1.29%) Veritas File System
9 4 (1.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 4 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.97%) GPFS
10 3 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.65%) vSphere
11 2 (0.65%) Xen
Systems Management
1 126 (40.65%) Terraform
2 118 (38.06%) Kubernetes
3 78 (25.16%) Ansible
4 62 (20.00%) Grafana
5 53 (17.10%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.16%) Puppet
7 13 (4.19%) Argo
7 13 (4.19%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (3.55%) Nessus
9 10 (3.23%) ITRS Geneos
9 10 (3.23%) Nmap
10 7 (2.26%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.94%) Rancher
11 6 (1.94%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (1.61%) AirWatch
12 5 (1.61%) Istio
12 5 (1.61%) Nexpose
12 5 (1.61%) SCCM
12 5 (1.61%) Suricata
Vendors
1 44 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 42 (13.55%) Splunk
3 30 (9.68%) Google
4 26 (8.39%) Red Hat
5 24 (7.74%) VMware
6 18 (5.81%) Palo Alto
7 17 (5.48%) Cisco
7 17 (5.48%) Oracle
7 17 (5.48%) ServiceNow
8 12 (3.87%) Apple
8 12 (3.87%) Databricks
8 12 (3.87%) Qualys
9 11 (3.55%) CheckPoint
9 11 (3.55%) F5
9 11 (3.55%) Zscaler
10 10 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (3.23%) Solace
11 9 (2.90%) Dynatrace
12 8 (2.58%) Atlassian
12 8 (2.58%) CyberArk