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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 171 139
Rank change year-on-year +37 -32 +18
Contract jobs citing Bash 305 231 355
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.12% 1.47% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.60% 3.80% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 145 261
10th Percentile £400 £377 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £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 £588
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
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 £61.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year -8.57% -18.33% +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 5,449 6,072 7,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.92% 38.64% 36.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,666 4,132 5,335
10th Percentile £363 £373 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £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 65 39 68
10th Percentile £25.40 £36.55 £26.11
25th Percentile £35.25 £40.32 £36.70
Median hourly rate £51.44 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64.75 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £97.50 £74.06
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.36
% change year-on-year - +4.24% -1.02%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -12 23 £550 -13.73% 13
South London +1 10 £530 +143.68% 5
West London -10 5 £525 +31.25% 3
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 (3.61%) Confluence
2 7 (2.30%) nginx
3 6 (1.97%) Apache
3 6 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.98%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.98%) Hyperledger
5 3 (0.98%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.66%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.33%) CICS
7 1 (0.33%) FileNet
7 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.33%) Luigi
7 1 (0.33%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.33%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.33%) Pro Tools
1 1 (0.33%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 145 (47.54%) AWS
2 119 (39.02%) Azure
3 73 (23.93%) GCP
4 62 (20.33%) GitHub
5 35 (11.48%) Amazon EC2
5 35 (11.48%) Amazon S3
6 33 (10.82%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (8.85%) Serverless
9 23 (7.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (7.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (6.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (6.89%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (5.25%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (5.25%) Entra ID
13 15 (4.92%) Azure AKS
14 12 (3.93%) OpenShift
15 11 (3.61%) Datadog
15 11 (3.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (14.10%) Firewall
2 42 (13.77%) DNS
3 31 (10.16%) TCP/IP
4 20 (6.56%) VPN
5 19 (6.23%) Network Security
6 12 (3.93%) SSL
7 9 (2.95%) BGP
7 9 (2.95%) Wireshark
8 8 (2.62%) OSPF
9 7 (2.30%) DHCP
9 7 (2.30%) EIGRP
9 7 (2.30%) HTTP
9 7 (2.30%) VLAN
10 6 (1.97%) HTTPS
10 6 (1.97%) IPsec
10 6 (1.97%) tcpdump
11 5 (1.64%) Multicast
12 3 (0.98%) NAS
12 3 (0.98%) SMTP
12 3 (0.98%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (17.38%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (7.21%) SQL Server
3 21 (6.89%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (4.59%) Redis
5 12 (3.93%) MySQL
5 12 (3.93%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.28%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.62%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.30%) Delta Lake
9 6 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.97%) Big Data
9 6 (1.97%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.64%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.64%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.64%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.98%) Tableau
13 2 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (23.61%) Jenkins
2 58 (19.02%) Git
3 54 (17.70%) GitLab
4 19 (6.23%) JIRA
5 11 (3.61%) Bitbucket
5 11 (3.61%) Metasploit
6 10 (3.28%) Burp Suite
7 9 (2.95%) SonarQube
8 8 (2.62%) Maven
9 6 (1.97%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.97%) Liquibase
9 6 (1.97%) MLflow
9 6 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.97%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.64%) Subversion
11 4 (1.31%) Clang
11 4 (1.31%) GCC
11 4 (1.31%) Gradle
11 4 (1.31%) sqlmap
12 3 (0.98%) CircleCI
General
1 87 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 42 (13.77%) Finance
3 41 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.59%) Banking
6 10 (3.28%) Front Office
7 9 (2.95%) Retail
8 5 (1.64%) Marketing
8 5 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.31%) Electronics
9 4 (1.31%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.31%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.98%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.98%) Law
10 3 (0.98%) Legal
10 3 (0.98%) Military
11 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (15.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (12.46%) Senior
3 24 (7.87%) Platform Engineer
4 21 (6.89%) Site Engineer
5 20 (6.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 19 (6.23%) Developer
7 15 (4.92%) Architect
7 15 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (4.59%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (4.26%) Network Engineer
9 13 (4.26%) Security Engineer
10 12 (3.93%) Administrator
10 12 (3.93%) Lead
11 11 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (3.61%) Mac Engineer
12 9 (2.95%) Consultant
12 9 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (2.95%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.18%) Kafka
2 15 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (4.92%) Middleware
3 11 (3.61%) FIX Protocol
4 10 (3.28%) YAML
5 9 (2.95%) REST
6 8 (2.62%) ARM Templates
7 7 (2.30%) .NET
7 7 (2.30%) Keycloak
7 7 (2.30%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.64%) FastAPI
8 5 (1.64%) Loki
8 5 (1.64%) Node.js
8 5 (1.64%) Ultra Messaging
9 4 (1.31%) ADO
9 4 (1.31%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.31%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.31%) Spring
9 4 (1.31%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.98%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.87%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.90%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (5.25%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (4.92%) Replication
5 11 (3.61%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.30%) Clustering
7 7 (2.30%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.97%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.97%) PKI
9 5 (1.64%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.64%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.31%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.31%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.98%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 125 (40.98%) Linux
2 38 (12.46%) Windows
3 29 (9.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (8.20%) Mac OS
5 19 (6.23%) Unix
6 12 (3.93%) CentOS
7 10 (3.28%) Solaris
7 10 (3.28%) Windows Server
8 9 (2.95%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.98%) VMS
10 2 (0.66%) Debian
11 1 (0.33%) Android
11 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.33%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (53.11%) CI/CD
2 147 (48.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 136 (44.59%) DevOps
4 73 (23.93%) Containerisation
5 62 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (18.36%) Observability
7 52 (17.05%) Agile
8 43 (14.10%) Incident Response
9 41 (13.44%) High Availability
10 39 (12.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 35 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (10.82%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (10.16%) DevSecOps
14 30 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
15 28 (9.18%) Analytics
15 28 (9.18%) Infrastructure Automation
16 26 (8.52%) Data Protection
16 26 (8.52%) Test Automation
17 24 (7.87%) Mentoring
18 23 (7.54%) AI
Programming Languages
1 258 (84.59%) Python
2 109 (35.74%) PowerShell
3 50 (16.39%) SQL
4 36 (11.80%) Go
5 27 (8.85%) Java
6 26 (8.52%) Perl
7 18 (5.90%) Kusto Query Language
8 12 (3.93%) C++
9 11 (3.61%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.61%) PromQL
10 10 (3.28%) Groovy
10 10 (3.28%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.30%) Bicep
11 7 (2.30%) C
12 6 (1.97%) PHP
13 4 (1.31%) C#
13 4 (1.31%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.98%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.98%) Ruby
15 2 (0.66%) AWK
Qualifications
1 78 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 67 (21.97%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.90%) Degree
4 15 (4.92%) OSCP
5 14 (4.59%) AWS Certification
6 13 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.62%) CCNP
8 8 (2.62%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.30%) CEH
9 7 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.30%) GPEN
9 7 (2.30%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.97%) CCNA
10 6 (1.97%) JNCIA
10 6 (1.97%) JNCIS
10 6 (1.97%) PhD
10 6 (1.97%) RHCE
11 5 (1.64%) CISSP
11 5 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.26%) GDPR
2 10 (3.28%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.97%) HIPAA
3 6 (1.97%) NIST
3 6 (1.97%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.64%) NCSC
4 5 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.66%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.33%) GxP
7 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.33%) QA
7 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 108 (35.41%) Docker
2 20 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.59%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.62%) zsh
5 7 (2.30%) NFS
6 6 (1.97%) Firmware
7 5 (1.64%) Snort
7 5 (1.64%) Squid
8 4 (1.31%) KVM
8 4 (1.31%) Veritas File System
8 4 (1.31%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 4 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.98%) GPFS
9 3 (0.98%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.66%) Lustre
10 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 126 (41.31%) Terraform
2 118 (38.69%) Kubernetes
3 80 (26.23%) Ansible
4 65 (21.31%) Grafana
5 57 (18.69%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.92%) Puppet
7 13 (4.26%) Argo
7 13 (4.26%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (3.61%) Nessus
9 10 (3.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 10 (3.28%) Nmap
10 7 (2.30%) Progress Chef
10 7 (2.30%) Rancher
11 6 (1.97%) Nagios
11 6 (1.97%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (1.64%) AirWatch
12 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.64%) Nexpose
12 5 (1.64%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (13.77%) Microsoft
1 42 (13.77%) Splunk
2 29 (9.51%) Google
3 26 (8.52%) Red Hat
4 23 (7.54%) VMware
5 18 (5.90%) Palo Alto
6 17 (5.57%) Cisco
7 16 (5.25%) Oracle
8 15 (4.92%) ServiceNow
9 12 (3.93%) Apple
9 12 (3.93%) Databricks
9 12 (3.93%) Qualys
10 11 (3.61%) CheckPoint
10 11 (3.61%) F5
11 10 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (3.28%) Solace
11 10 (3.28%) Zscaler
12 9 (2.95%) Dynatrace
13 8 (2.62%) Atlassian
14 7 (2.30%) Juniper