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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 205 108
Rank change year-on-year +58 -97 +50
Contract jobs citing Bash 222 215 633
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.78% 1.22% 2.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.52% 3.35% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 134 480
10th Percentile £425 £375 £475
25th Percentile £456 £461 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £679 £600 £798
90th Percentile £773 £697 £835
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £21.25 -
25th Percentile £45.75 £22.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £25.25 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +115.84% -30.34% -53.97%
75th Percentile £63.25 £61.84 £60.94
90th Percentile - £71.88 £73.88
England median hourly rate £53.50 £57.50 £67.75
% change year-on-year -6.96% -15.13% +7.07%

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 4,913 6,419 10,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.39% 36.30% 40.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,467 4,908 7,938
10th Percentile £380 £381 £413
25th Percentile £447 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £700 £731
90th Percentile £832 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.54% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 82
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.33
25th Percentile £35.00 £40.80 £50.11
Median hourly rate £43.75 £51.13 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% -14.79% +20.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £63.01 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £72.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +24.13%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +17 33 £550 -2.65% 43
South London -4 4 - - 4
North London - 1 £255 -
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 11 (4.95%) Apache
1 11 (4.95%) Apache Spark
1 11 (4.95%) Confluence
2 6 (2.70%) Jupyter
2 6 (2.70%) nginx
3 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.35%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.90%) Traefik
5 1 (0.45%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.45%) JBoss
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 94 (42.34%) AWS
2 90 (40.54%) Azure
3 38 (17.12%) GCP
4 30 (13.51%) GitHub
5 24 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (9.91%) Amazon S3
7 19 (8.56%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (7.66%) Serverless
8 17 (7.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.41%) Azure AKS
12 11 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (4.05%) IaaS
14 9 (4.05%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.60%) OpenShift
15 8 (3.60%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.16%) Firewall
2 26 (11.71%) DNS
3 17 (7.66%) TCP/IP
4 13 (5.86%) VPN
5 10 (4.50%) HTTP
6 9 (4.05%) Network Security
7 8 (3.60%) SSH
8 5 (2.25%) BGP
8 5 (2.25%) OSPF
8 5 (2.25%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.80%) DHCP
9 4 (1.80%) Kerberos
10 3 (1.35%) FIX Connectivity
10 3 (1.35%) Multicast
10 3 (1.35%) SSL
11 2 (0.90%) EIGRP
11 2 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 2 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (0.90%) HSRP
11 2 (0.90%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (6.76%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.86%) MongoDB
4 12 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (5.41%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (4.50%) MySQL
6 9 (4.05%) Apache Hive
6 9 (4.05%) Power BI
7 8 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (3.60%) Delta Lake
8 5 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.35%) Big Data
9 3 (1.35%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.35%) Hazelcast
9 3 (1.35%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.35%) Redis
10 2 (0.90%) Metadata
10 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (22.97%) Git
2 45 (20.27%) Jenkins
3 42 (18.92%) GitLab
4 24 (10.81%) JIRA
5 10 (4.50%) JUnit
6 9 (4.05%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.05%) JMeter
6 9 (4.05%) LoadRunner
7 8 (3.60%) Jasmine
7 8 (3.60%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.60%) Subversion
7 8 (3.60%) TeamCity
8 6 (2.70%) Maven
8 6 (2.70%) RStudio
8 6 (2.70%) Snyk
8 6 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.90%) Gradle
10 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 61 (27.48%) Finance
2 54 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 32 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.26%) Banking
5 20 (9.01%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.25%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.80%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.80%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.35%) Military
8 3 (1.35%) Multimedia
9 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Legal
10 1 (0.45%) Electronics
10 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Law
10 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 59 (26.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (14.86%) Senior
3 22 (9.91%) Analyst
4 21 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (8.56%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (7.66%) Lead
7 16 (7.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (7.21%) Linux Engineer
8 15 (6.76%) AWS DevOps
8 15 (6.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.31%) Architect
9 14 (6.31%) Developer
10 13 (5.86%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.95%) Mac Engineer
12 11 (4.95%) Senior DevOps
13 10 (4.50%) Administrator
13 10 (4.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.50%) Security Analyst
13 10 (4.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.86%) JSON
1 13 (5.86%) Spring
2 12 (5.41%) Kafka
2 12 (5.41%) YAML
3 11 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (4.95%) FIX Protocol
3 11 (4.95%) RESTful
4 10 (4.50%) ARM Templates
4 10 (4.50%) REST
5 9 (4.05%) Spring Batch
5 9 (4.05%) Spring Boot
5 9 (4.05%) Spring Security
6 8 (3.60%) OpenAPI
6 8 (3.60%) pydantic
6 8 (3.60%) PySpark
6 8 (3.60%) Swagger
7 5 (2.25%) LDAP
8 4 (1.80%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.35%) OAuth
9 3 (1.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.95%) Cloud Native
1 11 (4.95%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (4.50%) Clustering
2 10 (4.50%) Data Structures
2 10 (4.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (4.05%) Replication
4 8 (3.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 7 (3.15%) Reference Data
6 5 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.80%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.80%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.80%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.35%) Eurex
8 3 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.35%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.35%) Podcast
8 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 101 (45.50%) Linux
2 35 (15.77%) Windows
3 28 (12.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (7.66%) Unix
5 13 (5.86%) Mac OS
6 11 (4.95%) CentOS
7 10 (4.50%) Solaris
8 9 (4.05%) Windows Server
9 6 (2.70%) Rocky
10 5 (2.25%) SUSE
10 5 (2.25%) VMS
11 4 (1.80%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.45%) AIX
12 1 (0.45%) Android
12 1 (0.45%) Debian
12 1 (0.45%) Fedora
12 1 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.45%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (50.45%) DevOps
2 105 (47.30%) CI/CD
3 67 (30.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (29.73%) Containerisation
5 60 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (16.22%) High Availability
7 34 (15.32%) Configuration Management
8 32 (14.41%) Task Automation
9 26 (11.71%) Agile
9 26 (11.71%) Cloud Security
9 26 (11.71%) Continuous Integration
10 25 (11.26%) Microservices
11 22 (9.91%) Computer Science
12 21 (9.46%) Software Engineering
13 19 (8.56%) OWASP
13 19 (8.56%) Test Automation
14 18 (8.11%) Disaster Recovery
15 17 (7.66%) Mentoring
16 16 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
16 16 (7.21%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 196 (88.29%) Python
2 74 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 31 (13.96%) Java
3 31 (13.96%) SQL
4 22 (9.91%) Perl
5 12 (5.41%) Go
6 10 (4.50%) Scala
6 10 (4.50%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.60%) VB
8 7 (3.15%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.15%) Ruby
9 6 (2.70%) Groovy
10 3 (1.35%) Bicep
10 3 (1.35%) C++
10 3 (1.35%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.90%) PHP
12 1 (0.45%) C#
12 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (23.42%) Security Cleared
2 47 (21.17%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.16%) Degree
4 18 (8.11%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.60%) CEH
6 8 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.60%) CISSP
7 7 (3.15%) SANS
8 6 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.25%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.80%) CCNP
10 4 (1.80%) CISM
10 4 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.35%) CCNA
11 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.26%) GDPR
2 20 (9.01%) QA
3 11 (4.95%) NIST
4 9 (4.05%) PCI DSS
5 8 (3.60%) HIPAA
5 8 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.25%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.80%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.90%) NCSC
9 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 69 (31.08%) Docker
2 10 (4.50%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.60%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.35%) NFS
5 3 (1.35%) Veritas File System
5 3 (1.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (0.45%) HDFS
6 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.45%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.45%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.45%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (44.14%) Kubernetes
2 93 (41.89%) Terraform
3 84 (37.84%) Ansible
4 30 (13.51%) Puppet
5 26 (11.71%) Prometheus
6 22 (9.91%) Grafana
7 20 (9.01%) Progress Chef
8 14 (6.31%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (5.41%) Red Hat Satellite
10 8 (3.60%) QRadar
11 7 (3.15%) Istio
11 7 (3.15%) Packer
12 6 (2.70%) Rundeck
12 6 (2.70%) Tivoli
13 5 (2.25%) Control-M
13 5 (2.25%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (2.25%) Nagios
13 5 (2.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 5 (2.25%) ZABBIX
14 4 (1.80%) Salt
Vendors
1 26 (11.71%) Red Hat
2 24 (10.81%) VMware
3 20 (9.01%) Splunk
4 17 (7.66%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.86%) Apple
6 12 (5.41%) Qualys
7 11 (4.95%) Google
7 11 (4.95%) Oracle
8 10 (4.50%) CyberArk
9 8 (3.60%) Databricks
9 8 (3.60%) ServiceNow
10 7 (3.15%) IBM
10 7 (3.15%) SaltStack
11 6 (2.70%) Cisco
11 6 (2.70%) EMC
11 6 (2.70%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.25%) Coverity
12 5 (2.25%) F5
12 5 (2.25%) SAP
12 5 (2.25%) Veracode