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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 143 205
Rank change year-on-year -57 +62 -105
Contract jobs citing Bash 235 233 208
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.28% 1.92% 1.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.05% 4.88% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 155 136
10th Percentile £402 £425 £400
25th Percentile £461 £456 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £615 £675 £606
90th Percentile £734 £745 £713
England median daily rate £500 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -4.99% -4.32% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile £56.75 £45.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £54.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% +91.23% +42.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £63.25 £52.81
90th Percentile - - £71.88
England median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% -6.96% -12.21%

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 5,800 4,770 6,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.54% 39.36% 37.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,884 3,343 4,980
10th Percentile £375 £380 £375
25th Percentile £440 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 35 51
10th Percentile £32.93 £28.04 £23.80
25th Percentile £39.75 £32.25 £36.91
Median hourly rate £58.94 £37.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.16% -25.74% -15.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £63.52
90th Percentile £88.75 £62.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -

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 May 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 29 May 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 -34 18 £525 -4.55% 12
South London -11 4 £531 - 1
West London - 3 £500 - 2
East London - 2 £416 - 4
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 10 (4.26%) Confluence
2 7 (2.98%) Apache
3 4 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.28%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.85%) nginx
5 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) IIS
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.43%) Traefik
6 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 108 (45.96%) AWS
2 89 (37.87%) Azure
3 60 (25.53%) GitHub
4 48 (20.43%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (17.45%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (12.34%) GCP
7 28 (11.91%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (11.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 27 (11.49%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (11.49%) Amazon S3
8 27 (11.49%) Serverless
9 26 (11.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 23 (9.79%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (9.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (6.81%) Azure AKS
13 15 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (5.96%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
16 10 (4.26%) Datadog
16 10 (4.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.34%) Firewall
2 27 (11.49%) DNS
3 23 (9.79%) TCP/IP
4 21 (8.94%) VPN
5 18 (7.66%) Network Security
6 9 (3.83%) WAN
7 8 (3.40%) SD-WAN
7 8 (3.40%) VLAN
8 7 (2.98%) HTTP
9 6 (2.55%) DHCP
9 6 (2.55%) SSL
10 5 (2.13%) NAS
10 5 (2.13%) SAN
11 4 (1.70%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (1.28%) Internet
13 2 (0.85%) BGP
13 2 (0.85%) IPsec
13 2 (0.85%) Multicast
13 2 (0.85%) SSH
13 2 (0.85%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (3.40%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.98%) Redis
4 7 (2.98%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (2.13%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.13%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.70%) MySQL
8 3 (1.28%) Big Data
8 3 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.28%) Power BI
9 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (26.81%) Jenkins
2 61 (25.96%) GitLab
3 56 (23.83%) Git
4 14 (5.96%) JIRA
5 10 (4.26%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.55%) JMeter
6 6 (2.55%) Postman
7 5 (2.13%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (1.28%) Ant
8 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.28%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.28%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.28%) Snyk
9 2 (0.85%) Appium
9 2 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.85%) Selenium
9 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.43%) Maven
10 1 (0.43%) Subversion
10 1 (0.43%) TestComplete
General
1 46 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.32%) Finance
3 29 (12.34%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.94%) Banking
6 6 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.70%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.70%) Retail
8 3 (1.28%) Law
8 3 (1.28%) Military
9 2 (0.85%) Front Office
9 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.85%) Police
9 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.43%) Back Office
10 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Legal
10 1 (0.43%) Local Government
10 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (21.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (11.91%) Security Engineer
3 26 (11.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (9.36%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (7.66%) Senior
8 13 (5.53%) Architect
9 12 (5.11%) Linux Engineer
10 11 (4.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.68%) Lead
11 10 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (3.83%) Tester
13 8 (3.40%) Data Engineer
13 8 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.40%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (3.40%) Network Engineer
13 8 (3.40%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.09%) Kafka
2 11 (4.68%) YAML
3 10 (4.26%) ARM Templates
3 10 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (3.40%) JSON
4 8 (3.40%) SAML
5 7 (2.98%) OAuth
5 7 (2.98%) REST
5 7 (2.98%) Swagger
6 5 (2.13%) ADO
7 4 (1.70%) LDAP
7 4 (1.70%) Middleware
8 3 (1.28%) .NET
8 3 (1.28%) cloud-init
8 3 (1.28%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.28%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (0.85%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.85%) HTML
9 2 (0.85%) OpenID
9 2 (0.85%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.98%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.13%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.28%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.28%) PKI
7 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.85%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.85%) Equities
8 2 (0.85%) Pricing Data
8 2 (0.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 86 (36.60%) Linux
2 27 (11.49%) Windows
3 19 (8.09%) Unix
4 11 (4.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (4.26%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.98%) VMS
7 6 (2.55%) Mac OS
8 5 (2.13%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.85%) CentOS
9 2 (0.85%) Debian
9 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.43%) Rocky
10 1 (0.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (62.55%) CI/CD
2 135 (57.45%) DevOps
3 116 (49.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (27.66%) Containerisation
5 48 (20.43%) Observability
5 48 (20.43%) Platform Engineering
6 37 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (14.89%) Configuration Management
8 28 (11.91%) Cloud Security
9 27 (11.49%) Agile
10 24 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (10.21%) SIEM
11 23 (9.79%) Analytics
11 23 (9.79%) Root Cause Analysis
12 22 (9.36%) Validation
13 20 (8.51%) Migration
13 20 (8.51%) Test Automation
14 19 (8.09%) Infrastructure Automation
14 19 (8.09%) Runbook
15 18 (7.66%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 200 (85.11%) Python
2 98 (41.70%) PowerShell
3 25 (10.64%) SQL
4 16 (6.81%) Go
5 14 (5.96%) Bicep
6 10 (4.26%) Java
7 8 (3.40%) C
7 8 (3.40%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.98%) Perl
9 6 (2.55%) Ruby
10 5 (2.13%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.28%) C#
11 3 (1.28%) Groovy
12 2 (0.85%) C++
12 2 (0.85%) Korn
12 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.85%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.43%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (32.77%) Security Cleared
2 68 (28.94%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.81%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.83%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (3.83%) Degree
5 7 (2.98%) CCNA
6 6 (2.55%) CISSP
7 5 (2.13%) CCNP
7 5 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.70%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.85%) CCSP
9 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.68%) NIST
2 7 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.55%) QA
4 5 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.70%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.28%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.85%) SLA
8 1 (0.43%) GDPR
8 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 72 (30.64%) Docker
2 18 (7.66%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.53%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.83%) Squid
5 8 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.70%) Postfix
6 4 (1.70%) Varnish
7 3 (1.28%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.28%) NFS
7 3 (1.28%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.85%) KVM
8 2 (0.85%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.85%) vSphere
9 1 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.43%) Ceph
9 1 (0.43%) HDFS
9 1 (0.43%) QEMU
9 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.43%) zsh
Systems Management
1 135 (57.45%) Terraform
2 87 (37.02%) Kubernetes
3 83 (35.32%) Ansible
4 52 (22.13%) Grafana
5 51 (21.70%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.11%) Puppet
7 10 (4.26%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.13%) Argo
9 5 (2.13%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.70%) Istio
10 4 (1.70%) Salt
10 4 (1.70%) Suricata
11 3 (1.28%) Consul
11 3 (1.28%) Kibana
11 3 (1.28%) Packer
12 2 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.23%) Splunk
3 13 (5.53%) Databricks
4 11 (4.68%) Dynatrace
4 11 (4.68%) Zscaler
5 10 (4.26%) Palo Alto
5 10 (4.26%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.83%) Google
7 8 (3.40%) VMware
8 7 (2.98%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.13%) Oracle
10 4 (1.70%) Cisco
10 4 (1.70%) Qualys
10 4 (1.70%) Tenable
11 3 (1.28%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.28%) Dell
11 3 (1.28%) IBM
11 3 (1.28%) Netskope
11 3 (1.28%) OpenText
12 2 (0.85%) PagerDuty