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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 176 148
Rank change year-on-year +42 -28 +11
Contract jobs citing Bash 294 224 316
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.04% 1.49% 1.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.43% 3.88% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 137 231
10th Percentile £401 £370 £413
25th Percentile £463 £494 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +1.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £700
90th Percentile £725 £810 £810
England median daily rate £525 £575 £576
% change year-on-year -8.70% -0.17% -4.00%
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 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% -13.33% +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 5,416 5,780 6,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.66% 38.46% 36.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,627 3,899 5,124
10th Percentile £370 £375 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 39 65
10th Percentile £25.80 £35.60 £26.24
25th Percentile £35.50 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £50.75 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £65.13 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £97.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -1.96%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -5 24 £540 +0.47% 19
South London +3 11 £530 +143.68% 3
West London - 6 £525 - 10
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 12 (4.08%) Confluence
2 7 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.38%) nginx
3 6 (2.04%) Apache
4 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.02%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.02%) Hyperledger
5 3 (1.02%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.34%) CICS
7 1 (0.34%) FileNet
7 1 (0.34%) Luigi
7 1 (0.34%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.34%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.34%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.34%) Pro Tools
1 1 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 138 (46.94%) AWS
2 114 (38.78%) Azure
3 71 (24.15%) GCP
4 58 (19.73%) GitHub
5 35 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
5 35 (11.90%) Amazon S3
6 32 (10.88%) Amazon EKS
7 31 (10.54%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (9.52%) Serverless
9 25 (8.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 24 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (5.44%) Entra ID
14 15 (5.10%) Azure AKS
15 13 (4.42%) OpenShift
16 11 (3.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 11 (3.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (14.29%) Firewall
2 39 (13.27%) DNS
3 31 (10.54%) TCP/IP
4 18 (6.12%) VPN
5 15 (5.10%) Network Security
6 13 (4.42%) SSL
7 9 (3.06%) Wireshark
8 8 (2.72%) BGP
9 7 (2.38%) HTTP
9 7 (2.38%) OSPF
9 7 (2.38%) VLAN
10 6 (2.04%) EIGRP
10 6 (2.04%) tcpdump
11 5 (1.70%) DHCP
11 5 (1.70%) HTTPS
11 5 (1.70%) IPsec
11 5 (1.70%) Multicast
12 3 (1.02%) SMTP
12 3 (1.02%) SSH
13 2 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.35%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (7.82%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.76%) Redis
5 12 (4.08%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.74%) MySQL
7 10 (3.40%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.38%) Delta Lake
8 7 (2.38%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.04%) Big Data
9 6 (2.04%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.04%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.70%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.36%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 69 (23.47%) Jenkins
2 59 (20.07%) Git
3 57 (19.39%) GitLab
4 20 (6.80%) JIRA
5 10 (3.40%) Metasploit
6 9 (3.06%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.06%) Burp Suite
7 8 (2.72%) Maven
8 7 (2.38%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (2.04%) Subversion
9 6 (2.04%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.70%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.70%) Liquibase
10 5 (1.70%) MLflow
11 4 (1.36%) Gradle
11 4 (1.36%) sqlmap
12 3 (1.02%) Clang
12 3 (1.02%) GCC
12 3 (1.02%) JUnit
General
1 83 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (13.61%) Finance
4 27 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.10%) Banking
6 10 (3.40%) Front Office
7 9 (3.06%) Retail
8 4 (1.36%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.36%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.02%) Electronics
9 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.02%) Legal
9 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.02%) Marketing
9 3 (1.02%) Military
10 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (15.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (12.24%) Senior
3 22 (7.48%) Platform Engineer
4 20 (6.80%) Developer
5 17 (5.78%) Site Engineer
6 16 (5.44%) Security Engineer
6 16 (5.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 15 (5.10%) Architect
8 13 (4.42%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.42%) Lead
9 12 (4.08%) Administrator
9 12 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (4.08%) Network Engineer
10 9 (3.06%) Analyst
10 9 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.06%) Mac Engineer
10 9 (3.06%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.52%) Kafka
2 15 (5.10%) Middleware
3 14 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (3.74%) FIX Protocol
5 10 (3.40%) REST
6 7 (2.38%) Keycloak
6 7 (2.38%) YAML
7 6 (2.04%) .NET
7 6 (2.04%) ARM Templates
7 6 (2.04%) Node.js
8 5 (1.70%) Loki
8 5 (1.70%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.70%) Ultra Messaging
9 4 (1.36%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.36%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.36%) SAML
9 4 (1.36%) Spring
9 4 (1.36%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.02%) OAuth
10 3 (1.02%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.50%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.12%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (4.76%) Replication
5 12 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (4.08%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.38%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.04%) Clustering
8 6 (2.04%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.04%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.04%) PKI
9 5 (1.70%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.36%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.36%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.02%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 125 (42.52%) Linux
2 38 (12.93%) Windows
3 27 (9.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (8.16%) Mac OS
5 18 (6.12%) Unix
6 11 (3.74%) CentOS
7 10 (3.40%) Solaris
7 10 (3.40%) Ubuntu
8 9 (3.06%) Windows Server
9 4 (1.36%) VMS
10 2 (0.68%) Debian
11 1 (0.34%) Android
11 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.34%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (53.74%) CI/CD
2 141 (47.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 135 (45.92%) DevOps
4 73 (24.83%) Containerisation
5 63 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (18.03%) Observability
7 51 (17.35%) Agile
8 45 (15.31%) Incident Response
9 41 (13.95%) High Availability
10 36 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 32 (10.88%) Platform Engineering
13 29 (9.86%) DevSecOps
13 29 (9.86%) Infrastructure Automation
14 27 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (9.18%) Test Automation
15 25 (8.50%) Analytics
16 24 (8.16%) Cloud Security
16 24 (8.16%) Mentoring
17 23 (7.82%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 252 (85.71%) Python
2 109 (37.07%) PowerShell
3 44 (14.97%) SQL
4 33 (11.22%) Go
5 27 (9.18%) Java
6 24 (8.16%) Perl
7 19 (6.46%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (3.74%) C++
8 11 (3.74%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.74%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.40%) Groovy
10 8 (2.72%) C
11 7 (2.38%) PromQL
12 6 (2.04%) Bicep
13 5 (1.70%) PHP
14 4 (1.36%) C#
14 4 (1.36%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.36%) TypeScript
15 3 (1.02%) Ruby
15 3 (1.02%) Rust
Qualifications
1 73 (24.83%) Security Cleared
2 64 (21.77%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.78%) Degree
4 15 (5.10%) AWS Certification
5 14 (4.76%) OSCP
6 12 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.72%) CEH
9 7 (2.38%) CCNP
9 7 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.38%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.38%) GPEN
9 7 (2.38%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.04%) CCNA
10 6 (2.04%) CISSP
10 6 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (2.04%) PhD
10 6 (2.04%) RHCE
11 5 (1.70%) JNCIA
11 5 (1.70%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.08%) GDPR
2 10 (3.40%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.72%) NIST
4 5 (1.70%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.70%) NCSC
4 5 (1.70%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.68%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) GxP
7 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.34%) QA
7 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 105 (35.71%) Docker
2 19 (6.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.44%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.72%) zsh
5 7 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.04%) NFS
6 6 (2.04%) Squid
7 5 (1.70%) Firmware
7 5 (1.70%) KVM
7 5 (1.70%) Snort
8 4 (1.36%) Veritas File System
8 4 (1.36%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.68%) Ceph
10 2 (0.68%) GPFS
10 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.68%) vSphere
10 2 (0.68%) Xen
Systems Management
1 127 (43.20%) Terraform
2 114 (38.78%) Kubernetes
3 83 (28.23%) Ansible
4 62 (21.09%) Grafana
5 55 (18.71%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.76%) Puppet
7 13 (4.42%) Argo
8 11 (3.74%) Jamf Pro
9 10 (3.40%) ITRS Geneos
9 10 (3.40%) Nessus
10 9 (3.06%) Nmap
11 7 (2.38%) Rancher
12 6 (2.04%) Istio
12 6 (2.04%) Nagios
12 6 (2.04%) Progress Chef
12 6 (2.04%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (1.70%) Nexpose
13 5 (1.70%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (1.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.59%) Splunk
3 30 (10.20%) Google
4 24 (8.16%) Red Hat
5 22 (7.48%) VMware
6 18 (6.12%) Palo Alto
7 16 (5.44%) Oracle
8 15 (5.10%) Cisco
8 15 (5.10%) ServiceNow
9 13 (4.42%) Qualys
10 12 (4.08%) Databricks
11 11 (3.74%) CheckPoint
11 11 (3.74%) F5
12 10 (3.40%) Apple
12 10 (3.40%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (3.40%) Dynatrace
12 10 (3.40%) Solace
12 10 (3.40%) Zscaler
13 8 (2.72%) Atlassian
14 7 (2.38%) CyberArk