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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 149 194
Rank change year-on-year -48 +45 -81
Contract jobs citing Bash 225 233 220
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.34% 1.83% 1.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.96% 4.67% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 151 141
10th Percentile £404 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £444 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £613 £731 £625
90th Percentile £754 £798 £725
England median daily rate £500 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -13.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £38.75 £46.80 £21.40
25th Percentile £42.50 £48.38 £22.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £56.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +96.49% -70.00%
75th Percentile £58.50 £62.13 £59.00
90th Percentile £61.65 £62.80 £60.00
England median hourly rate £74.26 £55.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year +35.02% -0.45% -22.73%

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 5,680 4,992 6,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.78% 39.26% 35.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,837 3,484 4,815
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £815
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 31 60
10th Percentile £24.84 £29.07 £24.93
25th Percentile £39.25 £38.18 £37.02
Median hourly rate £54.50 £45.00 £51.13
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -11.98% -11.09%
75th Percentile £66.50 £59.75 £60.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £70.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 30 March 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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -31 17 £510 -6.21% 21
South London -11 9 £530 - 1
West London - 1 - - 2
East London - 1 £432 - 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 13 (5.78%) Confluence
2 7 (3.11%) nginx
3 5 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.33%) Apache
5 3 (1.33%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.89%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.44%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.44%) FileNet
7 1 (0.44%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.44%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 98 (43.56%) AWS
2 86 (38.22%) Azure
3 56 (24.89%) GitHub
4 40 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (16.89%) GCP
6 32 (14.22%) Amazon EKS
6 32 (14.22%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (13.78%) Amazon S3
7 31 (13.78%) Serverless
8 29 (12.89%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (10.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (9.33%) Amazon ECS
10 21 (9.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (6.67%) Azure AKS
12 11 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (4.44%) OpenShift
14 9 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.56%) TCP/IP
2 24 (10.67%) DNS
3 22 (9.78%) Firewall
4 13 (5.78%) VPN
5 9 (4.00%) HTTP
6 8 (3.56%) Network Security
7 7 (3.11%) VLAN
8 6 (2.67%) DHCP
8 6 (2.67%) Multicast
8 6 (2.67%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.78%) tcpdump
10 3 (1.33%) SSL
10 3 (1.33%) WAN
11 2 (0.89%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.89%) NAS
11 2 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.89%) SAN
11 2 (0.89%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.89%) Spanning Tree
11 2 (0.89%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.56%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.33%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (4.44%) Redis
4 9 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.56%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.56%) MySQL
6 7 (3.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.67%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.22%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.78%) Big Data
10 3 (1.33%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.33%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.89%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 59 (26.22%) Jenkins
2 58 (25.78%) GitLab
3 49 (21.78%) Git
4 16 (7.11%) JIRA
5 9 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.22%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.22%) Browser DevTools
6 5 (2.22%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.78%) MLflow
8 3 (1.33%) Ant
8 3 (1.33%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.33%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (1.33%) Snyk
9 2 (0.89%) Appium
9 2 (0.89%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.89%) Gradle
9 2 (0.89%) Selenium
9 2 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.44%) Poetry
10 1 (0.44%) Spinnaker
General
1 60 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.56%) Finance
3 31 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.78%) Banking
6 10 (4.44%) Retail
7 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.78%) Front Office
7 4 (1.78%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.89%) Private Banking
8 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Games
9 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.44%) Legal
9 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (17.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (14.22%) Platform Engineer
3 17 (7.56%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (7.11%) Senior
5 15 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (6.22%) Lead
7 13 (5.78%) Architect
7 13 (5.78%) Security Engineer
8 12 (5.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.89%) AWS DevOps
10 10 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (4.44%) Site Engineer
10 10 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) Analyst
12 8 (3.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) Developer
12 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.56%) Kafka
2 11 (4.89%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (3.56%) ARM Templates
3 8 (3.56%) YAML
4 7 (3.11%) Middleware
5 5 (2.22%) ADO
5 5 (2.22%) FastAPI
5 5 (2.22%) OAuth
5 5 (2.22%) SAML
6 4 (1.78%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (1.78%) Node.js
6 4 (1.78%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.78%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.78%) Ultra Messaging
7 3 (1.33%) Keycloak
7 3 (1.33%) LDAP
7 3 (1.33%) REST
7 3 (1.33%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (0.89%) LangChain
8 2 (0.89%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.67%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.67%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.22%) Replication
5 4 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.78%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.78%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.78%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (0.89%) NHS
7 2 (0.89%) PACS
7 2 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.44%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 90 (40.00%) Linux
2 26 (11.56%) Windows
3 18 (8.00%) Unix
4 15 (6.67%) Mac OS
5 7 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.11%) VMS
6 4 (1.78%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.33%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.89%) Solaris
9 1 (0.44%) CentOS
9 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.44%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (55.11%) CI/CD
2 116 (51.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 107 (47.56%) DevOps
4 68 (30.22%) Containerisation
5 53 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (22.67%) Platform Engineering
7 43 (19.11%) Observability
8 34 (15.11%) Configuration Management
9 32 (14.22%) Agile
10 28 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (11.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 25 (11.11%) AI
12 25 (11.11%) Analytics
12 25 (11.11%) Incident Response
13 23 (10.22%) High Availability
14 19 (8.44%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (8.44%) Roadmaps
15 18 (8.00%) Test Automation
16 17 (7.56%) Cloud Security
17 16 (7.11%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 191 (84.89%) Python
2 88 (39.11%) PowerShell
3 29 (12.89%) SQL
4 14 (6.22%) Java
5 13 (5.78%) Bicep
5 13 (5.78%) Go
6 12 (5.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (2.67%) C
7 6 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.67%) Perl
8 5 (2.22%) Groovy
8 5 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.33%) PHP
9 3 (1.33%) Ruby
10 2 (0.89%) C#
10 2 (0.89%) C++
10 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.89%) Rust
10 2 (0.89%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 69 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 60 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.33%) Azure Certification
3 12 (5.33%) Degree
4 11 (4.89%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.11%) CCNA
5 7 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.67%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.67%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.67%) PhD
7 5 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.22%) CCNP
8 4 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.78%) CEH
8 4 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.33%) CISSP
9 3 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.22%) NIST
2 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.33%) QA
3 2 (0.89%) GDPR
3 2 (0.89%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.44%) NCSC
4 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 86 (38.22%) Docker
2 9 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.33%) Squid
4 3 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.33%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.33%) vSphere
5 2 (0.89%) Ceph
5 2 (0.89%) KVM
5 2 (0.89%) Lustre
5 2 (0.89%) NFS
5 2 (0.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.89%) Snort
5 2 (0.89%) Xen
6 1 (0.44%) GPFS
6 1 (0.44%) HDFS
6 1 (0.44%) iptables
6 1 (0.44%) Postfix
6 1 (0.44%) Samba
6 1 (0.44%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 131 (58.22%) Terraform
2 79 (35.11%) Kubernetes
3 73 (32.44%) Ansible
4 41 (18.22%) Grafana
5 36 (16.00%) Prometheus
6 14 (6.22%) Puppet
7 10 (4.44%) Argo
8 8 (3.56%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (3.56%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.22%) Rancher
9 5 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.33%) HAProxy
11 3 (1.33%) Istio
11 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.33%) Nagios
11 3 (1.33%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.89%) Knative
12 2 (0.89%) SCCM
12 2 (0.89%) Suricata
Vendors
1 33 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.78%) Splunk
3 16 (7.11%) Google
4 15 (6.67%) Databricks
5 9 (4.00%) Atlassian
5 9 (4.00%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.56%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.11%) Qualys
8 6 (2.67%) PagerDuty
8 6 (2.67%) Zscaler
9 5 (2.22%) Tenable
9 5 (2.22%) VMware
10 4 (1.78%) Cisco
10 4 (1.78%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.78%) Oracle
10 4 (1.78%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.78%) Solace
10 4 (1.78%) TIBCO
11 3 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.33%) Netskope