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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 153 201
Rank change year-on-year -51 +48 -91
Contract jobs citing Bash 215 226 208
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.22% 1.78% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.75% 4.52% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 147 131
10th Percentile £400 £413 £375
25th Percentile £456 £453 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £623 £691 £600
90th Percentile £750 £775 £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £57.20 - £21.10
25th Percentile £57.88 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £60.50 £54.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.01% +147.73% -58.10%
75th Percentile £62.88 £63.25 £31.75
90th Percentile £63.40 - £55.83
England median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% +32.10% -40.22%

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 5,738 4,998 6,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 32.55% 39.46% 35.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,888 3,505 4,852
10th Percentile £363 £375 £380
25th Percentile £430 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £706 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £825
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.90% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 30 56
10th Percentile £34.20 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.44 £35.00 £35.19
Median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +32.44% -11.44% -12.61%
75th Percentile £73.00 £60.25 £61.94
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.25 £70.94
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.07%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -30 19 £523 -11.44% 33
South London -9 9 £530 -
West London - 2 £500 - 4
East London - 2 £416 - 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 14 (6.51%) Confluence
2 8 (3.72%) nginx
3 5 (2.33%) Apache
3 5 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.40%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.47%) CMS
6 1 (0.47%) FileNet
6 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.47%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 101 (46.98%) AWS
2 84 (39.07%) Azure
3 57 (26.51%) GitHub
4 43 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (14.88%) GCP
6 30 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (13.49%) Amazon S3
8 26 (12.09%) Serverless
9 25 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (11.63%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (10.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (9.77%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (8.84%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (8.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 13 (6.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (6.05%) Azure AKS
14 10 (4.65%) Entra ID
14 10 (4.65%) OpenShift
15 9 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (4.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.16%) Firewall
2 23 (10.70%) DNS
3 19 (8.84%) TCP/IP
4 16 (7.44%) VPN
5 11 (5.12%) Network Security
6 8 (3.72%) VLAN
7 7 (3.26%) HTTP
8 5 (2.33%) DHCP
8 5 (2.33%) WAN
9 4 (1.86%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.86%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.86%) SSH
10 3 (1.40%) NAS
10 3 (1.40%) SAN
11 2 (0.93%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.93%) Multicast
11 2 (0.93%) Spanning Tree
11 2 (0.93%) SSL
11 2 (0.93%) X.509
12 1 (0.47%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (7.44%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (4.19%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (4.19%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.19%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.33%) Big Data
5 5 (2.33%) MySQL
5 5 (2.33%) Redis
6 4 (1.86%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (1.86%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.86%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.86%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.40%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.40%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.93%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 57 (26.51%) GitLab
2 56 (26.05%) Jenkins
3 52 (24.19%) Git
4 17 (7.91%) JIRA
5 9 (4.19%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.79%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.33%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.40%) Ant
8 3 (1.40%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.40%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.40%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (1.40%) Snyk
9 2 (0.93%) Appium
9 2 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.93%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.93%) MLflow
9 2 (0.93%) Selenium
9 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.47%) Poetry
10 1 (0.47%) Postman
General
1 48 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.35%) Finance
3 28 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.63%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.12%) Banking
6 8 (3.72%) Retail
7 6 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.86%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.40%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.93%) Law
10 2 (0.93%) Military
10 2 (0.93%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Back Office
11 1 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Legal
11 1 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 37 (17.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (13.95%) Platform Engineer
3 20 (9.30%) Security Engineer
4 17 (7.91%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (6.98%) Senior
7 13 (6.05%) Architect
7 13 (6.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (5.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.12%) Site Engineer
9 10 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (4.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.19%) Data Engineer
10 9 (4.19%) Developer
11 8 (3.72%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (3.72%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.72%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (3.72%) Lead
12 7 (3.26%) Linux Engineer
12 7 (3.26%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.98%) Kafka
2 11 (5.12%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (4.65%) YAML
4 8 (3.72%) ARM Templates
5 6 (2.79%) OAuth
5 6 (2.79%) SAML
6 5 (2.33%) ADO
6 5 (2.33%) JSON
6 5 (2.33%) REST
7 3 (1.40%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.40%) LDAP
7 3 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.40%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (0.93%) CrewAI
8 2 (0.93%) Faiss
8 2 (0.93%) LangChain
8 2 (0.93%) LlamaIndex
8 2 (0.93%) pgvector
8 2 (0.93%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.93%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.09%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (2.33%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.33%) Security Posture
4 4 (1.86%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.40%) PKI
6 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.93%) NHS
6 2 (0.93%) PACS
6 2 (0.93%) Pricing Data
6 2 (0.93%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.93%) Reference Data
6 2 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 88 (40.93%) Linux
2 25 (11.63%) Windows
3 18 (8.37%) Unix
4 11 (5.12%) Mac OS
5 7 (3.26%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.26%) VMS
6 6 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.40%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.93%) CentOS
8 2 (0.93%) Debian
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.47%) Rocky
9 1 (0.47%) Solaris
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (57.21%) CI/CD
2 108 (50.23%) DevOps
3 103 (47.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (29.77%) Containerisation
5 50 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (21.40%) Platform Engineering
7 37 (17.21%) Configuration Management
8 36 (16.74%) Observability
9 34 (15.81%) Agile
10 26 (12.09%) Analytics
11 25 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (8.84%) High Availability
12 19 (8.84%) Incident Response
12 19 (8.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 19 (8.84%) Test Automation
13 18 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (7.91%) AI
14 17 (7.91%) Cloud Security
14 17 (7.91%) SIEM
15 16 (7.44%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 185 (86.05%) Python
2 82 (38.14%) PowerShell
3 29 (13.49%) SQL
4 14 (6.51%) Java
5 13 (6.05%) Go
6 12 (5.58%) Bicep
7 9 (4.19%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (2.79%) C
8 6 (2.79%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.79%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.86%) Perl
9 4 (1.86%) Ruby
10 2 (0.93%) C#
10 2 (0.93%) C++
10 2 (0.93%) Groovy
10 2 (0.93%) PHP
10 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.93%) Rust
10 2 (0.93%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.47%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 69 (32.09%) Security Cleared
2 62 (28.84%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.51%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.19%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.72%) Degree
6 7 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.26%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.79%) CCNA
7 6 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.33%) CCNP
9 4 (1.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.86%) CISSP
9 4 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.93%) CEH
11 2 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.72%) NIST
2 5 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.33%) QA
3 3 (1.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.40%) GDPR
3 3 (1.40%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.93%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (35.81%) Docker
2 12 (5.58%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.58%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.86%) Squid
5 3 (1.40%) KVM
5 3 (1.40%) NFS
5 3 (1.40%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.40%) vSphere
6 2 (0.93%) Ceph
6 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.93%) Lustre
6 2 (0.93%) OpenSSH
6 2 (0.93%) Postfix
6 2 (0.93%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.93%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.93%) Varnish
6 2 (0.93%) Xen
7 1 (0.47%) Samba
7 1 (0.47%) Snort
Systems Management
1 122 (56.74%) Terraform
2 80 (37.21%) Kubernetes
3 78 (36.28%) Ansible
4 39 (18.14%) Grafana
5 35 (16.28%) Prometheus
6 16 (7.44%) Puppet
7 9 (4.19%) Argo
8 8 (3.72%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.86%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.86%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.86%) Salt
11 3 (1.40%) Istio
11 3 (1.40%) Kibana
11 3 (1.40%) Nagios
11 3 (1.40%) Rancher
11 3 (1.40%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.93%) Consul
12 2 (0.93%) Knative
Vendors
1 32 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.84%) Splunk
3 14 (6.51%) Databricks
4 11 (5.12%) Google
5 9 (4.19%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.72%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.72%) Zscaler
7 7 (3.26%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.26%) VMware
8 6 (2.79%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.79%) PagerDuty
8 6 (2.79%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.33%) Cisco
9 5 (2.33%) Oracle
9 5 (2.33%) Qualys
10 4 (1.86%) Tenable
11 3 (1.40%) IBM
11 3 (1.40%) Netskope
11 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.40%) Pure Storage