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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 144 195
Rank change year-on-year -29 +51 -87
Contract jobs citing Bash 349 276 215
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.73% 2.05% 1.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.48% 5.33% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 190 147
10th Percentile £391 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -7.41% -12.77%
75th Percentile £636 £638 £663
90th Percentile £725 £689 £755
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £47.15 £23.30
25th Percentile £56.75 £49.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +72.31% +62.50%
75th Percentile £60.25 £62.75 £71.88
90th Percentile - £63.05 -
England median hourly rate £69.61 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +27.72% -5.22% -20.69%

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 6,363 5,182 6,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.47% 38.48% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,273 3,605 4,752
10th Percentile £381 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £710
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 62 40
10th Percentile £27.87 £26.43 £25.11
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £38.31
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.70 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.46% -5.90% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.06 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £75.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 August 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 August 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 -23 23 £550 -6.78% 13
South London -10 6 £535 -13.71% 6
West London -17 5 £500 +5.26% 18
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 18 (5.16%) Confluence
2 12 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.87%) Apache
3 10 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.15%) WordPress
5 3 (0.86%) nginx
6 2 (0.57%) CMS
6 2 (0.57%) IIS
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.29%) JBoss
7 1 (0.29%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Front Arena
1 2 (0.57%) Summit
2 1 (0.29%) Actimize
2 1 (0.29%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 167 (47.85%) AWS
2 160 (45.85%) Azure
3 105 (30.09%) GitHub
4 82 (23.50%) GitHub Actions
5 75 (21.49%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (18.05%) GCP
7 47 (13.47%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (12.89%) Amazon S3
9 40 (11.46%) Serverless
10 39 (11.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (9.46%) Datadog
12 32 (9.17%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (9.17%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (8.88%) Entra ID
14 30 (8.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (8.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 28 (8.02%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (6.30%) Azure AKS
18 18 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
19 15 (4.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (12.61%) Firewall
2 40 (11.46%) VPN
3 39 (11.17%) DNS
4 31 (8.88%) TCP/IP
5 30 (8.60%) Network Security
6 16 (4.58%) WAN
7 11 (3.15%) VLAN
8 10 (2.87%) SD-WAN
9 9 (2.58%) SAN
10 8 (2.29%) SSL
11 7 (2.01%) BGP
11 7 (2.01%) DHCP
11 7 (2.01%) Kerberos
12 6 (1.72%) HTTP
13 5 (1.43%) MPLS
14 4 (1.15%) SSH
15 3 (0.86%) Internet
15 3 (0.86%) NAS
15 3 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
15 3 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.16%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.01%) Redis
4 13 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (3.44%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.87%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.58%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.01%) Delta Lake
8 7 (2.01%) MySQL
9 6 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.72%) Metadata
9 6 (1.72%) Power BI
9 6 (1.72%) SQLite
10 5 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.43%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.15%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.15%) Big Data
11 4 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 106 (30.37%) Jenkins
2 87 (24.93%) Git
3 79 (22.64%) GitLab
4 20 (5.73%) JIRA
5 12 (3.44%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.29%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.01%) JMeter
8 6 (1.72%) Postman
9 5 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.15%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.86%) Maven
11 3 (0.86%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.57%) Selenium
12 2 (0.57%) Subversion
12 2 (0.57%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.57%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.29%) Ant
13 1 (0.29%) PeopleTools
General
1 85 (24.36%) Social Skills
2 82 (23.50%) Finance
3 48 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.74%) Banking
5 30 (8.60%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.15%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.01%) Law
8 6 (1.72%) Retail
9 5 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.43%) Front Office
9 5 (1.43%) Publishing
10 4 (1.15%) Automotive
10 4 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.15%) Military
11 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.86%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.57%) Billing
12 2 (0.57%) Marketing
12 2 (0.57%) Police
13 1 (0.29%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (22.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (11.75%) Senior
3 32 (9.17%) Azure Engineer
3 32 (9.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (7.74%) Platform Engineer
5 26 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (7.45%) Lead
6 24 (6.88%) Security Engineer
7 21 (6.02%) Linux Engineer
8 20 (5.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 18 (5.16%) Architect
9 18 (5.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (5.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 16 (4.58%) Developer
10 16 (4.58%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 16 (4.58%) Site Engineer
11 14 (4.01%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (3.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.72%) Support Engineer
13 12 (3.44%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (59.31%) Terraform
2 37 (10.60%) Kafka
3 21 (6.02%) REST
4 19 (5.44%) ARM Templates
5 18 (5.16%) YAML
6 16 (4.58%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (4.01%) Loki
8 11 (3.15%) JSON
8 11 (3.15%) RESTful
9 10 (2.87%) SAML
10 9 (2.58%) .NET
10 9 (2.58%) Middleware
11 8 (2.29%) OAuth
11 8 (2.29%) Spring
12 6 (1.72%) ADO
12 6 (1.72%) cloud-init
12 6 (1.72%) Flask
12 6 (1.72%) SPNEGO
12 6 (1.72%) Swagger
13 5 (1.43%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.05%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (4.87%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.72%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (3.44%) Legacy Applications
7 11 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.15%) Security Posture
8 10 (2.87%) PKI
8 10 (2.87%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.72%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.72%) Equities
11 6 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.43%) Replication
12 5 (1.43%) Robotics
12 5 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 140 (40.11%) Linux
2 52 (14.90%) Windows
3 29 (8.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (8.31%) Windows Server
4 22 (6.30%) Ubuntu
4 22 (6.30%) Unix
5 9 (2.58%) VMS
6 6 (1.72%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.57%) Debian
7 2 (0.57%) Solaris
7 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.29%) CentOS
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.29%) Rocky
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (63.61%) CI/CD
2 204 (58.45%) DevOps
3 189 (54.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (29.23%) Containerisation
5 89 (25.50%) Observability
6 70 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (19.77%) Platform Engineering
8 59 (16.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 58 (16.62%) Agile
10 53 (15.19%) AI
11 47 (13.47%) Root Cause Analysis
12 45 (12.89%) Cloud Security
12 45 (12.89%) Infrastructure Automation
13 44 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 43 (12.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 40 (11.46%) Configuration Management
15 40 (11.46%) Identity Access Management
16 39 (11.17%) Runbook
17 36 (10.32%) DevSecOps
17 36 (10.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 300 (85.96%) Python
2 147 (42.12%) PowerShell
3 38 (10.89%) Java
4 37 (10.60%) SQL
5 33 (9.46%) Go
6 32 (9.17%) Bicep
7 17 (4.87%) Shell Script
8 16 (4.58%) Perl
9 13 (3.72%) Korn
10 8 (2.29%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.29%) Ruby
11 7 (2.01%) C#
11 7 (2.01%) Groovy
12 3 (0.86%) Cypher
12 3 (0.86%) Gremlin
12 3 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.86%) SPARQL
12 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.57%) C
13 2 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 112 (32.09%) Security Cleared
2 96 (27.51%) SC Cleared
3 32 (9.17%) Azure Certification
4 22 (6.30%) Degree
5 20 (5.73%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.44%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.29%) CISSP
9 7 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.01%) CCNP
10 6 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.43%) CCNA
12 4 (1.15%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.15%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.57%) CISM
14 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.59%) QA
2 12 (3.44%) NIST
3 11 (3.15%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.15%) SLA
6 4 (1.15%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.29%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.29%) GDPR
8 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.29%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 127 (36.39%) Docker
2 33 (9.46%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.29%) Squid
6 5 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.15%) vSphere
8 3 (0.86%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.86%) NFS
8 3 (0.86%) OpenSSH
8 3 (0.86%) Postfix
8 3 (0.86%) Varnish
9 2 (0.57%) HDFS
9 2 (0.57%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.57%) zsh
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.29%) QEMU
10 1 (0.29%) Samba
10 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 156 (44.70%) Kubernetes
2 111 (31.81%) Ansible
3 99 (28.37%) Grafana
4 83 (23.78%) Prometheus
5 24 (6.88%) Puppet
6 18 (5.16%) Argo
7 12 (3.44%) systemd
8 11 (3.15%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.87%) Istio
9 10 (2.87%) Kibana
10 7 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.72%) Cilium
11 6 (1.72%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (1.15%) Consul
13 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.15%) Salt
13 4 (1.15%) Suricata
14 3 (0.86%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.86%) yum
Vendors
1 70 (20.06%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.02%) VMware
3 24 (6.88%) Google
3 24 (6.88%) Splunk
4 23 (6.59%) Dynatrace
4 23 (6.59%) Oracle
5 20 (5.73%) Databricks
6 16 (4.58%) CyberArk
7 13 (3.72%) Red Hat
8 12 (3.44%) ServiceNow
9 11 (3.15%) Cisco
9 11 (3.15%) NetApp
10 10 (2.87%) Palo Alto
10 10 (2.87%) Zscaler
11 9 (2.58%) BeyondTrust
11 9 (2.58%) WALLIX
12 7 (2.01%) Fortinet
13 6 (1.72%) Apple
14 4 (1.15%) Meraki
14 4 (1.15%) New Relic