Bash Contract Job Trends in South London

Bash Shell
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 31 32
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +23
Contract jobs citing Bash 3 3 14
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.64% 1.46% 5.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.49% 5.88% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 14
10th Percentile - £190 £521
25th Percentile £610 £208 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £250 £550
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -54.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £630 £331 £600
90th Percentile - £373 £630
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 86 51 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 46.99% 24.76% 36.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 38 73
10th Percentile £413 £400 £338
25th Percentile £463 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% -1.09% -
75th Percentile £633 £725 £638
90th Percentile £724 £838 £675
London median daily rate £550 £565 £590
% change year-on-year -2.65% -4.24% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £40.82
25th Percentile - - £49.88
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.61%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.58
London median hourly rate £44.95 £49.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -9.20% -10.00% -4.35%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bash relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Bash job vacancy trend in South London

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Bash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Bash

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Bash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Bash

Bash
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Bromley - 2 - - 46
Croydon -6 1 £620 +55.00% 19
Bash
London

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Specialist
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) B2B
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Service Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) VMware