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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 167 130
Rank change year-on-year +38 -37 +22
Contract jobs citing Bash 317 234 399
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.25% 1.50% 2.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.86% 3.83% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 149 308
10th Percentile £397 £379 £429
25th Percentile £463 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.04%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £727
90th Percentile £725 £810 £810
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £39.10 £38.75 £29.51
25th Percentile £43.38 £50.00 £47.83
Median hourly rate £55.25 £84.75 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.81% +43.64% -18.62%
75th Percentile £62.50 £112.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.95 - -
England median hourly rate £54.50 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -5.22% -23.33% +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 5,408 6,112 7,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.45% 39.07% 37.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,631 4,172 5,558
10th Percentile £370 £368 £395
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £813
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 41 72
10th Percentile £22.99 £35.00 £25.75
25th Percentile £31.83 £40.06 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63.63 £61.43 £65.58
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £77.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.10% +3.20% -

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 13 November 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 -3 27 £550 -12.87% 97
South London -1 7 £530 +112.00% 3
West London -6 6 £475 +18.75% 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 12 (3.79%) Confluence
2 7 (2.21%) Apache
2 7 (2.21%) nginx
3 3 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.95%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.95%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.95%) Hyperledger
3 3 (0.95%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.63%) JBoss
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.63%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.32%) CICS
5 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.32%) Luigi
5 1 (0.32%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.32%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.32%) Traefik
5 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.32%) Pro Tools
1 1 (0.32%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 155 (48.90%) AWS
2 137 (43.22%) Azure
3 84 (26.50%) GCP
4 68 (21.45%) GitHub
5 32 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (9.78%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (9.15%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (8.52%) Amazon S3
9 24 (7.57%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (6.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (6.31%) Serverless
12 18 (5.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (5.05%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (4.73%) Entra ID
14 15 (4.73%) OpenShift
15 14 (4.42%) Azure AKS
16 12 (3.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 11 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (14.20%) DNS
2 43 (13.56%) Firewall
3 32 (10.09%) TCP/IP
4 21 (6.62%) Network Security
5 20 (6.31%) VPN
6 12 (3.79%) SSL
7 9 (2.84%) BGP
8 8 (2.52%) OSPF
8 8 (2.52%) Wireshark
9 7 (2.21%) DHCP
9 7 (2.21%) EIGRP
9 7 (2.21%) HTTP
10 6 (1.89%) HTTPS
10 6 (1.89%) IPsec
10 6 (1.89%) tcpdump
10 6 (1.89%) VLAN
11 5 (1.58%) Multicast
12 4 (1.26%) NAS
13 3 (0.95%) SAN
13 3 (0.95%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (16.09%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (6.62%) SQL Server
3 16 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (3.79%) Redis
5 11 (3.47%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.15%) MySQL
7 8 (2.52%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.52%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.21%) Delta Lake
8 7 (2.21%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.89%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.58%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.26%) Power BI
12 3 (0.95%) Big Data
12 3 (0.95%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 73 (23.03%) Jenkins
2 60 (18.93%) Git
3 47 (14.83%) GitLab
4 23 (7.26%) JIRA
5 20 (6.31%) Metasploit
6 19 (5.99%) Burp Suite
7 18 (5.68%) SonarQube
8 11 (3.47%) Bitbucket
8 11 (3.47%) Maven
9 10 (3.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (2.84%) Liquibase
11 7 (2.21%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.89%) Gradle
12 6 (1.89%) TeamCity
13 5 (1.58%) Subversion
14 4 (1.26%) Clang
14 4 (1.26%) GCC
14 4 (1.26%) MLflow
14 4 (1.26%) sqlmap
15 3 (0.95%) ScriptRunner
General
1 99 (31.23%) Social Skills
2 44 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (13.56%) Finance
4 36 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.42%) Banking
6 11 (3.47%) Front Office
7 8 (2.52%) Retail
8 7 (2.21%) Law
9 6 (1.89%) Marketing
10 4 (1.26%) Electronics
10 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.26%) Military
10 4 (1.26%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.95%) Legal
11 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.63%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (19.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (11.36%) Senior
3 22 (6.94%) Security Engineer
4 20 (6.31%) Architect
4 20 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (6.31%) Developer
4 20 (6.31%) Site Engineer
5 19 (5.99%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (5.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 17 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (4.73%) AWS DevOps
8 15 (4.73%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 12 (3.79%) Administrator
9 12 (3.79%) Network Engineer
10 11 (3.47%) Data Engineer
10 11 (3.47%) Mac Engineer
11 10 (3.15%) Analyst
11 10 (3.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.15%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.83%) Kafka
2 17 (5.36%) Middleware
3 16 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (4.42%) ARM Templates
5 12 (3.79%) REST
6 11 (3.47%) .NET
6 11 (3.47%) FIX Protocol
6 11 (3.47%) YAML
7 8 (2.52%) ADO
8 6 (1.89%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.58%) Loki
9 5 (1.58%) Node.js
9 5 (1.58%) PyTorch
9 5 (1.58%) Ultra Messaging
10 4 (1.26%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.26%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (1.26%) SAML
10 4 (1.26%) Spring
10 4 (1.26%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.95%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.26%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.36%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (5.05%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (4.42%) Replication
5 12 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.47%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.21%) Clustering
7 7 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.21%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.21%) PKI
8 6 (1.89%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.58%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.26%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.95%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.95%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 122 (38.49%) Linux
2 45 (14.20%) Windows
3 31 (9.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (8.52%) Mac OS
5 22 (6.94%) Unix
6 12 (3.79%) CentOS
7 11 (3.47%) Solaris
7 11 (3.47%) Windows Server
8 9 (2.84%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.26%) Android
9 4 (1.26%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.63%) Debian
10 2 (0.63%) VMS
11 1 (0.32%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (56.47%) CI/CD
2 163 (51.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 149 (47.00%) DevOps
4 69 (21.77%) Containerisation
5 65 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (16.72%) Agile
7 48 (15.14%) Observability
8 44 (13.88%) DevSecOps
9 41 (12.93%) Incident Response
10 39 (12.30%) High Availability
11 38 (11.99%) Cybersecurity
11 38 (11.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 34 (10.73%) Cloud Security
12 34 (10.73%) Infrastructure Automation
13 31 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (9.78%) Data Protection
14 29 (9.15%) Penetration Testing
14 29 (9.15%) Test Automation
15 27 (8.52%) Analytics
16 26 (8.20%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 271 (85.49%) Python
2 114 (35.96%) PowerShell
3 48 (15.14%) SQL
4 40 (12.62%) Go
5 27 (8.52%) Perl
6 22 (6.94%) Java
7 15 (4.73%) Kusto Query Language
8 13 (4.10%) C++
9 11 (3.47%) Bicep
9 11 (3.47%) Groovy
9 11 (3.47%) PromQL
10 10 (3.15%) JavaScript
10 10 (3.15%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.21%) C
11 7 (2.21%) C#
12 5 (1.58%) PHP
13 4 (1.26%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.95%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.95%) Ruby
15 2 (0.63%) AWK
Qualifications
1 91 (28.71%) Security Cleared
2 82 (25.87%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.57%) OSCP
4 16 (5.05%) Degree
5 14 (4.42%) CREST Certified
6 13 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (4.10%) Tigerscheme
7 11 (3.47%) AWS Certification
8 10 (3.15%) CHECK Team Member
9 9 (2.84%) CCNP
10 7 (2.21%) CEH
10 7 (2.21%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.21%) GPEN
11 6 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.89%) JNCIA
11 6 (1.89%) JNCIS
11 6 (1.89%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.89%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.42%) GDPR
2 13 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.79%) NCSC
4 8 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (1.89%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.89%) NIST
5 6 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.63%) SLA
7 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.32%) GxP
8 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 106 (33.44%) Docker
2 20 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.10%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.15%) zsh
5 9 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.89%) Firmware
6 6 (1.89%) NFS
7 4 (1.26%) Snort
7 4 (1.26%) Squid
7 4 (1.26%) Veritas File System
7 4 (1.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.95%) GPFS
8 3 (0.95%) KVM
8 3 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.63%) vSphere
10 1 (0.32%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 126 (39.75%) Terraform
2 121 (38.17%) Kubernetes
3 74 (23.34%) Ansible
4 61 (19.24%) Grafana
5 53 (16.72%) Prometheus
6 19 (5.99%) Nmap
7 14 (4.42%) Puppet
8 13 (4.10%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (3.79%) Argo
10 11 (3.47%) Nessus
11 8 (2.52%) ITRS Geneos
11 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (1.89%) Istio
12 6 (1.89%) Progress Chef
12 6 (1.89%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (1.58%) AirWatch
13 5 (1.58%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (1.58%) SCCM
14 4 (1.26%) Nagios
14 4 (1.26%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 44 (13.88%) Splunk
2 41 (12.93%) Microsoft
3 28 (8.83%) Google
4 27 (8.52%) Red Hat
5 25 (7.89%) VMware
6 18 (5.68%) Oracle
6 18 (5.68%) ServiceNow
7 17 (5.36%) Palo Alto
8 15 (4.73%) Cisco
8 15 (4.73%) Veracode
9 12 (3.79%) Apple
9 12 (3.79%) Databricks
9 12 (3.79%) Qualys
9 12 (3.79%) Zscaler
10 11 (3.47%) CheckPoint
10 11 (3.47%) F5
11 10 (3.15%) Solace
12 9 (2.84%) Atlassian
12 9 (2.84%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (2.52%) SAP