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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 129 189
Rank change year-on-year -29 +60 -80
Contract jobs citing Bash 369 291 227
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 2.16% 1.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.78% 5.59% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 197 144
10th Percentile £386 £394 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £725 £688 £810
England median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.86% -4.55% -11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £47.15 £23.95
25th Percentile £56.75 £49.25 £28.25
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% -18.55% +243.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.75 £91.94
90th Percentile - £63.05 £112.00
England median hourly rate £69.61 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +43.52% -15.65% -22.03%

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 6,388 5,208 6,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.37% 38.64% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,308 3,569 4,615
10th Percentile £375 £375 £364
25th Percentile £450 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 65 45
10th Percentile £26.51 £26.25 £25.54
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £43.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.56% -8.42% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.50 £63.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.00 £90.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -32 23 £550 -12.35% 25
South London -7 6 £535 -13.71% 5
West London -20 6 £519 +9.21% 12
East London - 3 £400 - 5
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 20 (5.42%) Confluence
2 15 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.98%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.71%) Apache
5 4 (1.08%) WordPress
6 3 (0.81%) nginx
6 3 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.81%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.54%) CMS
7 2 (0.54%) IIS
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.27%) JBoss
8 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Front Arena
1 5 (1.36%) Summit
2 1 (0.27%) Actimize
2 1 (0.27%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 174 (47.15%) AWS
2 156 (42.28%) Azure
3 106 (28.73%) GitHub
4 84 (22.76%) GitHub Actions
5 68 (18.43%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (16.53%) GCP
7 54 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
8 47 (12.74%) Amazon S3
9 43 (11.65%) Serverless
10 40 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
12 34 (9.21%) Datadog
13 33 (8.94%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (8.40%) Entra ID
14 31 (8.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (7.86%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (7.05%) Azure Monitor
17 18 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
18 17 (4.61%) Azure AKS
19 15 (4.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (11.92%) Firewall
2 40 (10.84%) VPN
3 35 (9.49%) DNS
4 33 (8.94%) Network Security
5 28 (7.59%) TCP/IP
6 16 (4.34%) WAN
7 10 (2.71%) SD-WAN
7 10 (2.71%) VLAN
8 9 (2.44%) SAN
9 8 (2.17%) Kerberos
9 8 (2.17%) SSL
10 7 (1.90%) BGP
10 7 (1.90%) DHCP
11 6 (1.63%) SSH
12 5 (1.36%) MPLS
13 4 (1.08%) 4G
13 4 (1.08%) 5G
13 4 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
13 4 (1.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (5.42%) SQL Server
3 19 (5.15%) Redis
4 16 (4.34%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (3.25%) Data Lake
5 12 (3.25%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.71%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.44%) MySQL
8 8 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.17%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.90%) Metadata
9 7 (1.90%) Power BI
10 6 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.63%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.63%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.63%) SQLite
11 5 (1.36%) Big Data
12 4 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 108 (29.27%) Jenkins
2 94 (25.47%) Git
3 80 (21.68%) GitLab
4 23 (6.23%) JIRA
5 16 (4.34%) Artifactory
6 10 (2.71%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.44%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.90%) JMeter
9 6 (1.63%) Postman
10 5 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.36%) Maven
10 5 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (1.08%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.81%) Selenium
12 3 (0.81%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.54%) Snyk
13 2 (0.54%) Subversion
13 2 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 95 (25.75%) Finance
2 85 (23.04%) Social Skills
3 52 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.65%) Banking
5 30 (8.13%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.52%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.17%) Law
8 7 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.63%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.63%) Retail
10 5 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.36%) Front Office
10 5 (1.36%) Publishing
11 4 (1.08%) Automotive
11 4 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.08%) Marketing
11 4 (1.08%) Military
12 2 (0.54%) Billing
12 2 (0.54%) Police
13 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (21.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 48 (13.01%) Senior
3 31 (8.40%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (8.13%) AWS Engineer
4 30 (8.13%) Azure Engineer
5 29 (7.86%) Platform Engineer
6 28 (7.59%) Security Engineer
7 27 (7.32%) Lead
8 25 (6.78%) Linux Engineer
9 22 (5.96%) Developer
10 20 (5.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 19 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 17 (4.61%) Architect
13 17 (4.61%) Automation Engineer
13 17 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
13 17 (4.61%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (4.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 16 (4.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 16 (4.34%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (56.37%) Terraform
2 44 (11.92%) Kafka
3 27 (7.32%) REST
4 20 (5.42%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (5.42%) Middleware
5 16 (4.34%) YAML
6 15 (4.07%) ARM Templates
6 15 (4.07%) Loki
7 12 (3.25%) RESTful
8 11 (2.98%) JSON
9 10 (2.71%) Spring
10 9 (2.44%) .NET
11 8 (2.17%) Flask
11 8 (2.17%) pytest
12 7 (1.90%) SAML
13 6 (1.63%) ADO
13 6 (1.63%) CSS
13 6 (1.63%) HTML
13 6 (1.63%) Node.js
13 6 (1.63%) SPNEGO
Miscellaneous
1 56 (15.18%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.23%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 16 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (3.52%) Legacy Applications
7 13 (3.52%) Management Information System
8 12 (3.25%) Security Posture
9 11 (2.98%) PKI
10 10 (2.71%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.44%) Replication
12 8 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
12 8 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.90%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.63%) Equities
14 6 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
15 5 (1.36%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 161 (43.63%) Linux
2 61 (16.53%) Windows
3 34 (9.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (8.40%) Windows Server
5 26 (7.05%) Unix
6 21 (5.69%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.44%) VMS
8 5 (1.36%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.54%) Debian
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.27%) CentOS
10 1 (0.27%) Solaris
10 1 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (62.33%) CI/CD
2 209 (56.64%) DevOps
3 196 (53.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (27.64%) Observability
5 101 (27.37%) Containerisation
6 71 (19.24%) Agile
7 69 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (18.43%) Platform Engineering
9 66 (17.89%) AI
10 61 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (15.99%) Root Cause Analysis
12 49 (13.28%) Cloud Security
12 49 (13.28%) Infrastructure Automation
13 48 (13.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 46 (12.47%) Runbook
15 44 (11.92%) Configuration Management
16 43 (11.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 41 (11.11%) Migration
17 41 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
18 40 (10.84%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 317 (85.91%) Python
2 155 (42.01%) PowerShell
3 48 (13.01%) Java
3 48 (13.01%) SQL
4 37 (10.03%) Go
5 30 (8.13%) Bicep
6 23 (6.23%) Shell Script
7 19 (5.15%) Korn
8 15 (4.07%) Perl
9 11 (2.98%) Groovy
10 9 (2.44%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.17%) Ruby
12 7 (1.90%) C#
13 5 (1.36%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.81%) Cypher
14 3 (0.81%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.81%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.54%) C
15 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 117 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 101 (27.37%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.78%) Azure Certification
4 24 (6.50%) Degree
5 19 (5.15%) AWS Certification
6 16 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.25%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (2.17%) CISSP
11 6 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.63%) CCNP
12 4 (1.08%) CCNA
12 4 (1.08%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.08%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.54%) CCSP
14 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.32%) QA
2 16 (4.34%) NIST
3 14 (3.79%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.08%) SLA
7 3 (0.81%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.81%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.54%) GDPR
9 1 (0.27%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 133 (36.04%) Docker
2 31 (8.40%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.17%) Squid
6 5 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.08%) vSphere
8 3 (0.81%) HDFS
8 3 (0.81%) NFS
8 3 (0.81%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.81%) Postfix
8 3 (0.81%) Varnish
9 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.54%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.54%) zsh
10 1 (0.27%) KVM
10 1 (0.27%) QEMU
10 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 162 (43.90%) Kubernetes
2 123 (33.33%) Ansible
3 101 (27.37%) Grafana
4 85 (23.04%) Prometheus
5 21 (5.69%) Puppet
6 18 (4.88%) Argo
7 12 (3.25%) systemd
8 10 (2.71%) Kibana
9 9 (2.44%) Istio
10 7 (1.90%) Cilium
11 6 (1.63%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (1.63%) Progress Chef
12 5 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (1.08%) Consul
13 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.08%) Salt
13 4 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.08%) Suricata
14 3 (0.81%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.81%) yum
Vendors
1 69 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.86%) Dynatrace
3 27 (7.32%) VMware
4 26 (7.05%) Google
4 26 (7.05%) Splunk
5 25 (6.78%) Oracle
6 17 (4.61%) ServiceNow
7 16 (4.34%) CyberArk
7 16 (4.34%) Databricks
8 15 (4.07%) Red Hat
9 14 (3.79%) Cisco
10 13 (3.52%) Palo Alto
11 11 (2.98%) NetApp
12 10 (2.71%) Fortinet
13 9 (2.44%) BeyondTrust
13 9 (2.44%) WALLIX
14 7 (1.90%) Zscaler
15 6 (1.63%) Apple
15 6 (1.63%) FIS
15 6 (1.63%) Murex