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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 151 178
Rank change year-on-year -22 +27 -53
Contract jobs citing Bash 245 239 245
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.56% 1.80% 1.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.40% 4.63% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 144 168
10th Percentile £400 £373 £411
25th Percentile £458 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £571
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.66% -8.78%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £688
90th Percentile £750 £810 £775
England median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £38.75 £48.90 £21.10
25th Percentile £42.50 £53.63 £22.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £84.75 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.82% +46.12% -20.00%
75th Percentile £58.50 £112.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.65 - -
England median hourly rate £68.38 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +18.92% -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 5,562 5,162 6,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.49% 38.91% 34.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,755 3,440 4,847
10th Percentile £363 £372 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 38 70
10th Percentile £19.89 £32.43 £25.79
25th Percentile £39.51 £38.15 £36.90
Median hourly rate £56.38 £47.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.96% -6.93% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.80 £64.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £86.63 £94.88 £72.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

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 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in London over the 6 months to 24 February 2026.

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 24 February 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 -31 16 £538 -2.27% 23
South London -11 8 £530 -
West London - 3 - - 2
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 (4.90%) Confluence
2 7 (2.86%) nginx
3 5 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.63%) Apache
5 3 (1.22%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.22%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.82%) Traefik
6 2 (0.82%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.82%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.41%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) DaVinci Resolve
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.41%) Pro Tools
1 1 (0.41%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 105 (42.86%) AWS
2 86 (35.10%) Azure
3 49 (20.00%) GitHub
4 43 (17.55%) GCP
5 35 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 34 (13.88%) Amazon EKS
7 32 (13.06%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (11.84%) Serverless
10 27 (11.02%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (9.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 23 (9.39%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (8.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (7.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (5.31%) Entra ID
17 11 (4.49%) Azure AKS
17 11 (4.49%) OpenShift
18 10 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 9 (3.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.20%) DNS
2 24 (9.80%) Firewall
2 24 (9.80%) TCP/IP
3 13 (5.31%) VPN
4 11 (4.49%) Network Security
5 10 (4.08%) SSL
6 7 (2.86%) VLAN
6 7 (2.86%) Wireshark
7 6 (2.45%) DHCP
7 6 (2.45%) Multicast
8 5 (2.04%) BGP
8 5 (2.04%) HTTP
9 4 (1.63%) OSPF
9 4 (1.63%) tcpdump
10 3 (1.22%) EIGRP
10 3 (1.22%) HTTPS
10 3 (1.22%) IPsec
10 3 (1.22%) NAS
10 3 (1.22%) WAN
11 2 (0.82%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.69%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (9.39%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (5.71%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.90%) Redis
5 11 (4.49%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.67%) MySQL
6 9 (3.67%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.27%) Delta Lake
8 6 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.45%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.04%) Big Data
9 5 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.63%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.63%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.63%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.22%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 63 (25.71%) GitLab
2 56 (22.86%) Jenkins
3 51 (20.82%) Git
4 19 (7.76%) JIRA
5 9 (3.67%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.45%) Metasploit
7 5 (2.04%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.04%) Burp Suite
7 5 (2.04%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.04%) Gradle
7 5 (2.04%) Maven
8 4 (1.63%) MLflow
8 4 (1.63%) sqlmap
9 3 (1.22%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (1.22%) Snyk
9 3 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.22%) Spinnaker
9 3 (1.22%) Subversion
10 2 (0.82%) Selenium
10 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 59 (24.08%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (12.24%) Finance
4 28 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.08%) Banking
5 10 (4.08%) Retail
6 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.63%) Front Office
6 4 (1.63%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.82%) Private Banking
8 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.41%) Games
9 1 (0.41%) Legal
9 1 (0.41%) Local Government
9 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 39 (15.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
3 27 (11.02%) Senior
4 17 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (6.12%) Developer
6 14 (5.71%) Architect
6 14 (5.71%) Security Engineer
7 12 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (4.90%) Lead
8 11 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
8 11 (4.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.49%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.49%) Network Engineer
8 11 (4.49%) Site Engineer
8 11 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (3.67%) Analyst
9 9 (3.67%) GCP Engineer
10 8 (3.27%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.57%) Kafka
2 10 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (3.67%) Middleware
4 6 (2.45%) REST
4 6 (2.45%) YAML
5 5 (2.04%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.04%) FastAPI
5 5 (2.04%) Keycloak
5 5 (2.04%) Node.js
6 4 (1.63%) ADO
6 4 (1.63%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.63%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.63%) Ultra Messaging
7 3 (1.22%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.22%) HTML
7 3 (1.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 3 (1.22%) SAML
8 2 (0.82%) BREW
8 2 (0.82%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.90%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (4.49%) Security Posture
5 10 (4.08%) Replication
6 7 (2.86%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.63%) PKI
8 4 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.22%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.22%) Clustering
9 3 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.82%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.82%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 107 (43.67%) Linux
2 29 (11.84%) Windows
3 23 (9.39%) Unix
4 20 (8.16%) Mac OS
5 15 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.86%) Solaris
6 7 (2.86%) VMS
7 5 (2.04%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.63%) CentOS
9 3 (1.22%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.41%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (53.06%) CI/CD
2 123 (50.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 107 (43.67%) DevOps
4 70 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 54 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (17.14%) Observability
7 41 (16.73%) Platform Engineering
8 40 (16.33%) Agile
9 38 (15.51%) Incident Response
10 30 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (12.24%) High Availability
11 27 (11.02%) Configuration Management
12 26 (10.61%) Analytics
13 24 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (9.39%) AI
14 23 (9.39%) DevSecOps
15 20 (8.16%) Infrastructure Automation
16 19 (7.76%) Cloud Security
16 19 (7.76%) Root Cause Analysis
16 19 (7.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 205 (83.67%) Python
2 88 (35.92%) PowerShell
3 32 (13.06%) SQL
4 17 (6.94%) Java
5 16 (6.53%) Go
6 15 (6.12%) Kusto Query Language
7 12 (4.90%) Perl
8 9 (3.67%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.86%) Groovy
10 6 (2.45%) Bicep
10 6 (2.45%) C
11 5 (2.04%) C++
11 5 (2.04%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.04%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.22%) C#
12 3 (1.22%) PHP
12 3 (1.22%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.82%) Rust
13 2 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.41%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 71 (28.98%) Security Cleared
2 62 (25.31%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.90%) Degree
5 8 (3.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.27%) OSCP
6 7 (2.86%) GPEN
7 6 (2.45%) CCNP
7 6 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.45%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.45%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.45%) PhD
8 5 (2.04%) CCNA
9 4 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.63%) CEH
9 4 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.63%) RHCE
10 3 (1.22%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.86%) GDPR
1 7 (2.86%) NIST
2 6 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.82%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.41%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.41%) QA
5 1 (0.41%) SLA
5 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (37.14%) Docker
2 11 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.63%) Squid
5 4 (1.63%) zsh
6 3 (1.22%) Firmware
6 3 (1.22%) KVM
6 3 (1.22%) NFS
6 3 (1.22%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.22%) Snort
6 3 (1.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.22%) vSphere
7 2 (0.82%) Ceph
7 2 (0.82%) Lustre
7 2 (0.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.82%) Veritas File System
7 2 (0.82%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.82%) Xen
Systems Management
1 126 (51.43%) Terraform
2 91 (37.14%) Kubernetes
3 81 (33.06%) Ansible
4 41 (16.73%) Grafana
5 37 (15.10%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.49%) Argo
6 11 (4.49%) Puppet
7 9 (3.67%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (3.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (2.86%) Nessus
10 5 (2.04%) Istio
10 5 (2.04%) Nagios
10 5 (2.04%) Nmap
10 5 (2.04%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.04%) Rancher
10 5 (2.04%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.22%) Data Guard
12 3 (1.22%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (1.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.24%) Splunk
3 20 (8.16%) Google
4 16 (6.53%) Red Hat
5 12 (4.90%) Databricks
6 10 (4.08%) Palo Alto
6 10 (4.08%) Qualys
6 10 (4.08%) VMware
7 9 (3.67%) Atlassian
7 9 (3.67%) Cisco
7 9 (3.67%) Dynatrace
7 9 (3.67%) Oracle
7 9 (3.67%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.86%) Apple
8 7 (2.86%) F5
9 6 (2.45%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (2.45%) PagerDuty
9 6 (2.45%) Tenable
9 6 (2.45%) Zscaler
10 5 (2.04%) CheckPoint