Bash Contracts in London

Bash Shell
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Bash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bash over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 201 96
Rank change year-on-year +73 -105 +66
Contract jobs citing Bash 275 213 681
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.13% 1.22% 2.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.42% 3.17% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 146 522
10th Percentile £414 £400 £463
25th Percentile £450 £475 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £664 £638 £798
90th Percentile £738 £725 £835
England median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £21.40 £18.38
25th Percentile £45.75 £22.00 -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.23% +42.50% -30.43%
75th Percentile £63.25 £52.81 £53.75
90th Percentile - £71.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £54.50 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.22% -17.86% +52.00%

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 5,073 6,725 10,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.34% 38.49% 39.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,554 5,103 7,569
10th Percentile £375 £375 £406
25th Percentile £431 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £840 £835
England median daily rate £520 £543 £555
% change year-on-year -4.15% -2.25% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 52 77
10th Percentile £26.97 £23.80 £25.55
25th Percentile £33.25 £38.31 £48.60
Median hourly rate £40.50 £50.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% -16.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £56.88 £61.70 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £72.50 £87.94
England median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in London

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in London.

Daily rate trend for Bash in London

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in London

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 July 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 37 £580 -3.33% 109
South London -6 5 £620 +9.35% 4
West London +8 3 £475 +90.00% 26
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (4.73%) Apache
2 9 (3.27%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.82%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.45%) Confluence
5 3 (1.09%) JBoss
5 3 (1.09%) nginx
6 2 (0.73%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.73%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 134 (48.73%) AWS
2 127 (46.18%) Azure
3 65 (23.64%) GCP
4 52 (18.91%) GitHub
5 32 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (7.64%) Amazon S3
8 18 (6.55%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (5.82%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (5.82%) Serverless
10 14 (5.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (4.73%) Azure AKS
12 11 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (4.00%) OpenShift
13 9 (3.27%) IaaS
14 8 (2.91%) Azure Storage
14 8 (2.91%) Power Platform
15 7 (2.55%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.00%) Firewall
2 27 (9.82%) DNS
3 15 (5.45%) VPN
4 14 (5.09%) Network Security
4 14 (5.09%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.55%) HTTP
5 7 (2.55%) SSH
6 6 (2.18%) BGP
6 6 (2.18%) DHCP
6 6 (2.18%) OSPF
7 4 (1.45%) Kerberos
8 3 (1.09%) EIGRP
8 3 (1.09%) IPsec
8 3 (1.09%) Multicast
8 3 (1.09%) SAN
8 3 (1.09%) SSL
9 2 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.73%) HSRP
9 2 (0.73%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.36%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.45%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (2.91%) Power BI
5 7 (2.55%) Apache Hive
6 6 (2.18%) Delta Lake
6 6 (2.18%) MySQL
7 5 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.45%) MariaDB
8 4 (1.45%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.45%) Redis
9 3 (1.09%) Big Data
9 3 (1.09%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.09%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.09%) Hazelcast
9 3 (1.09%) Metadata
9 3 (1.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 54 (19.64%) Jenkins
2 48 (17.45%) Git
3 37 (13.45%) GitLab
4 21 (7.64%) SonarQube
5 18 (6.55%) JIRA
6 15 (5.45%) Burp Suite
6 15 (5.45%) Metasploit
7 10 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (3.27%) JMeter
8 9 (3.27%) LoadRunner
8 9 (3.27%) Maven
9 7 (2.55%) Liquibase
10 4 (1.45%) Gradle
10 4 (1.45%) RStudio
10 4 (1.45%) Snyk
10 4 (1.45%) Subversion
10 4 (1.45%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.09%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.09%) JUnit
General
1 79 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.18%) Finance
3 43 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.18%) Public Sector
5 25 (9.09%) Banking
6 7 (2.55%) Law
7 6 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.82%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.45%) Marketing
9 4 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.09%) Military
10 3 (1.09%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Electronics
11 2 (0.73%) Legal
11 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Front Office
12 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (24.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (12.36%) Senior
3 29 (10.55%) Azure Engineer
4 28 (10.18%) Cloud Engineer
5 24 (8.73%) AWS Engineer
6 23 (8.36%) Analyst
7 20 (7.27%) Architect
7 20 (7.27%) Security Engineer
8 18 (6.55%) AWS DevOps
8 18 (6.55%) Site Engineer
8 18 (6.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 16 (5.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 16 (5.82%) Linux Engineer
10 14 (5.09%) Security Analyst
11 13 (4.73%) Developer
11 13 (4.73%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.00%) Mac Engineer
13 10 (3.64%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.55%) Kafka
2 17 (6.18%) ARM Templates
3 16 (5.82%) YAML
4 15 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (4.00%) JSON
6 10 (3.64%) REST
7 9 (3.27%) .NET
8 8 (2.91%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (2.55%) ADO
10 6 (2.18%) LDAP
10 6 (2.18%) pydantic
10 6 (2.18%) PySpark
10 6 (2.18%) Spring
11 4 (1.45%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.45%) Middleware
11 4 (1.45%) OAuth
11 4 (1.45%) React
11 4 (1.45%) RESTful
12 3 (1.09%) J2EE
12 3 (1.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.36%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.91%) Clustering
3 8 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (2.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 7 (2.55%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.55%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.18%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.18%) Replication
6 5 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (1.82%) Reference Data
6 5 (1.82%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.09%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.09%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.09%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 102 (37.09%) Linux
2 41 (14.91%) Windows
3 24 (8.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (6.18%) Mac OS
4 17 (6.18%) Unix
5 7 (2.55%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.18%) CentOS
6 6 (2.18%) Solaris
6 6 (2.18%) VMS
7 5 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.45%) Android
8 4 (1.45%) SUSE
9 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.09%) Rocky
10 1 (0.36%) AIX
10 1 (0.36%) Debian
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (50.18%) CI/CD
2 134 (48.73%) DevOps
3 107 (38.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (26.91%) Containerisation
5 67 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (14.18%) Cloud Security
6 39 (14.18%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (12.73%) Agile
8 33 (12.00%) Configuration Management
9 32 (11.64%) DevSecOps
10 31 (11.27%) High Availability
11 30 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 30 (10.91%) Task Automation
12 28 (10.18%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (8.36%) Microservices
13 23 (8.36%) OWASP
13 23 (8.36%) Secure Coding
14 21 (7.64%) Penetration Testing
14 21 (7.64%) Test Automation
15 20 (7.27%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 237 (86.18%) Python
2 93 (33.82%) PowerShell
3 36 (13.09%) SQL
4 33 (12.00%) Java
5 27 (9.82%) Go
6 23 (8.36%) Perl
7 10 (3.64%) Bicep
7 10 (3.64%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.91%) C++
8 8 (2.91%) Groovy
8 8 (2.91%) Scala
8 8 (2.91%) VB
9 7 (2.55%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.18%) PHP
10 6 (2.18%) Ruby
11 4 (1.45%) C
11 4 (1.45%) C#
11 4 (1.45%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.73%) AWK
12 2 (0.73%) sed
Qualifications
1 75 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 67 (24.36%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.73%) Degree
4 17 (6.18%) OSCP
5 15 (5.45%) AWS Certification
5 15 (5.45%) CREST Certified
6 13 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.73%) Tigerscheme
7 10 (3.64%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.64%) CEH
7 10 (3.64%) CHECK Team Member
8 9 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.91%) CISSP
10 7 (2.55%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.82%) CCNP
11 5 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.36%) GDPR
2 20 (7.27%) QA
3 11 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.00%) NIST
3 11 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 10 (3.64%) HIPAA
4 10 (3.64%) NCSC
5 8 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (2.18%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.09%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 85 (30.91%) Docker
2 12 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.27%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.09%) NFS
7 2 (0.73%) GPFS
7 2 (0.73%) zsh
8 1 (0.36%) Firmware
8 1 (0.36%) HDFS
8 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.36%) iptables
8 1 (0.36%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.36%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.36%) Snort
8 1 (0.36%) Squid
8 1 (0.36%) Veritas File System
8 1 (0.36%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.36%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 117 (42.55%) Kubernetes
2 104 (37.82%) Terraform
3 81 (29.45%) Ansible
4 33 (12.00%) Grafana
5 32 (11.64%) Prometheus
6 30 (10.91%) Puppet
7 22 (8.00%) Progress Chef
8 14 (5.09%) Nmap
9 12 (4.36%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (2.91%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (2.18%) Argo
11 6 (2.18%) Istio
12 5 (1.82%) Nessus
12 5 (1.82%) Packer
12 5 (1.82%) Salt
13 4 (1.45%) Control-M
13 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.45%) Nagios
13 4 (1.45%) QRadar
13 4 (1.45%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 30 (10.91%) Splunk
2 25 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 24 (8.73%) VMware
4 21 (7.64%) Red Hat
5 18 (6.55%) Google
6 17 (6.18%) Oracle
6 17 (6.18%) Veracode
7 12 (4.36%) Apple
7 12 (4.36%) ServiceNow
8 11 (4.00%) Qualys
9 9 (3.27%) CyberArk
10 8 (2.91%) Cisco
10 8 (2.91%) Databricks
10 8 (2.91%) SAP
11 6 (2.18%) Okta
12 5 (1.82%) IBM
12 5 (1.82%) SaltStack
12 5 (1.82%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.45%) F5
13 4 (1.45%) Salesforce