Bash Contracts

Bash Shell
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 206 119
Rank change year-on-year +58 -87 +54
Contract jobs citing Bash 601 501 1,219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.92% 1.15% 2.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.70% 3.77% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 361 860
10th Percentile £364 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% +2.13%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £725
90th Percentile £700 £688 £823
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 23
10th Percentile £27.28 £22.00 £20.50
25th Percentile £38.80 £26.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -17.86% +52.00%
75th Percentile £58.00 £69.84 £74.38
90th Percentile £64.80 £74.06 £81.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.75 £57.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -4.78% -20.69% +37.95%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,540 13,285 18,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.64% 30.56% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,109 9,334 13,427
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 537 447
10th Percentile £26.52 £31.25 £28.84
25th Percentile £34.55 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £79.61 £75.00 £79.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% +18.42%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the UK

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Bash in the UK

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the UK

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the UK

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Bash in the UK

Bash
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +61 508 £525 -4.55% 774
London +71 280 £531 -3.41% 389
Work from Home +75 232 £525 - 393
UK excluding London +25 227 £500 -4.76% 424
North of England +2 69 £513 +0.24% 109
South West +38 47 £575 -4.17% 52
South East +35 45 £443 -19.55% 104
Yorkshire -2 43 £525 +10.53% 27
Midlands +25 25 £575 +16.46% 33
North West +7 21 £485 -11.82% 74
West Midlands +21 20 £583 +80.62% 16
Scotland -15 19 £500 +5.26% 26
East of England +23 18 £475 -13.64% 91
Wales +10 5 £263 -61.96% 3
East Midlands +1 5 £575 -2.13% 17
North East - 5 £550 - 8

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (4.49%) Confluence
2 18 (3.00%) Apache
3 14 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 11 (1.83%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.16%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.00%) nginx
7 5 (0.83%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.50%) JBoss
8 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.33%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.17%) IBM Domino
10 1 (0.17%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.17%) SAS
10 1 (0.17%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.17%) Notion
1 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.17%) SAP IBP
1 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 257 (42.76%) AWS
2 230 (38.27%) Azure
3 123 (20.47%) GCP
4 94 (15.64%) GitHub
5 63 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (8.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (6.99%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (6.66%) Amazon EC2
9 36 (5.99%) Amazon S3
9 36 (5.99%) OpenShift
9 36 (5.99%) Serverless
10 30 (4.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 27 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (3.83%) Azure AKS
12 23 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
13 22 (3.66%) Entra ID
14 20 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (3.16%) IaaS
16 17 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
17 16 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.48%) DNS
2 68 (11.31%) Firewall
3 32 (5.32%) TCP/IP
4 26 (4.33%) VPN
5 23 (3.83%) HTTP
6 22 (3.66%) Network Security
7 20 (3.33%) DHCP
8 8 (1.33%) BGP
8 8 (1.33%) Kerberos
8 8 (1.33%) OSPF
8 8 (1.33%) SSH
9 7 (1.16%) SSL
10 6 (1.00%) 5G NR
10 6 (1.00%) SAN
11 5 (0.83%) SpaceWire
12 4 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
12 4 (0.67%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.67%) VLAN
12 4 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (4.16%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.83%) Oracle Database
4 19 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (3.00%) MongoDB
6 16 (2.66%) MySQL
7 12 (2.00%) Redis
8 11 (1.83%) Power BI
9 10 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.66%) MariaDB
10 9 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.33%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.16%) Apache Hive
13 6 (1.00%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.00%) NoSQL
13 6 (1.00%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.83%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 139 (23.13%) Jenkins
2 119 (19.80%) Git
3 98 (16.31%) GitLab
4 57 (9.48%) JIRA
5 27 (4.49%) SonarQube
6 15 (2.50%) Bitbucket
6 15 (2.50%) Burp Suite
6 15 (2.50%) Metasploit
6 15 (2.50%) Selenium
7 14 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 12 (2.00%) JMeter
9 10 (1.66%) Maven
10 9 (1.50%) LoadRunner
11 8 (1.33%) Snyk
11 8 (1.33%) Subversion
12 7 (1.16%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.16%) Liquibase
13 6 (1.00%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.00%) MSI
14 5 (0.83%) TestNG
General
1 168 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 94 (15.64%) Finance
3 68 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 65 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.49%) Banking
6 21 (3.49%) Telecoms
7 10 (1.66%) Marketing
8 9 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.33%) Law
9 8 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.16%) Electronics
10 7 (1.16%) Military
11 6 (1.00%) Legal
12 5 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.67%) German Language
14 3 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.50%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.50%) French Language
14 3 (0.50%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 146 (24.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 75 (12.48%) Senior
3 44 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
4 42 (6.99%) Azure Engineer
5 39 (6.49%) Linux Engineer
6 37 (6.16%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 31 (5.16%) Developer
9 30 (4.99%) Architect
10 29 (4.83%) Analyst
11 26 (4.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 26 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
11 26 (4.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 25 (4.16%) AWS DevOps
12 25 (4.16%) Security Engineer
12 25 (4.16%) Site Engineer
13 22 (3.66%) Administrator
13 22 (3.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
15 19 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (5.16%) REST
3 30 (4.99%) YAML
4 29 (4.83%) ARM Templates
4 29 (4.83%) Kafka
5 19 (3.16%) Node.js
6 16 (2.66%) .NET
6 16 (2.66%) JSON
7 15 (2.50%) ADO
7 15 (2.50%) SOAP
8 14 (2.33%) RESTful
9 12 (2.00%) React
10 11 (1.83%) AngularJS
10 11 (1.83%) HTML
11 10 (1.66%) CSS
12 9 (1.50%) LDAP
13 8 (1.33%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (1.33%) OAuth
14 7 (1.16%) pytest
14 7 (1.16%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.66%) Linux Command Line
2 39 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 14 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.16%) Clustering
4 13 (2.16%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.66%) Replication
7 9 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.50%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.33%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.33%) Security Posture
8 8 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (0.83%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 262 (43.59%) Linux
2 134 (22.30%) Windows
3 66 (10.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 48 (7.99%) Windows Server
5 42 (6.99%) Unix
6 28 (4.66%) Mac OS
7 16 (2.66%) CentOS
8 13 (2.16%) Ubuntu
9 12 (2.00%) VMS
10 11 (1.83%) Solaris
10 11 (1.83%) SUSE
11 4 (0.67%) Android
11 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.67%) Debian
11 4 (0.67%) Rocky
12 3 (0.50%) AIX
12 3 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (51.25%) CI/CD
2 288 (47.92%) DevOps
3 208 (34.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 169 (28.12%) Containerisation
5 149 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
6 124 (20.63%) Agile
7 76 (12.65%) Configuration Management
8 75 (12.48%) Task Automation
9 68 (11.31%) Continuous Integration
10 63 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 62 (10.32%) Microservices
12 61 (10.15%) High Availability
13 57 (9.48%) Migration
14 56 (9.32%) DevSecOps
14 56 (9.32%) Test Automation
15 54 (8.99%) Cybersecurity
16 53 (8.82%) Cloud Security
17 52 (8.65%) Infrastructure Automation
17 52 (8.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 41 (6.82%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 494 (82.20%) Python
2 229 (38.10%) PowerShell
3 93 (15.47%) SQL
4 74 (12.31%) Java
5 58 (9.65%) Perl
6 42 (6.99%) Go
7 26 (4.33%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.66%) Bicep
9 19 (3.16%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.83%) PL/SQL
11 14 (2.33%) Groovy
11 14 (2.33%) TypeScript
12 13 (2.16%) Ruby
13 12 (2.00%) C
14 11 (1.83%) C#
14 11 (1.83%) C++
15 10 (1.66%) Scala
16 9 (1.50%) VB
17 8 (1.33%) PHP
18 5 (0.83%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 199 (33.11%) Security Cleared
2 163 (27.12%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.15%) Degree
4 42 (6.99%) Cisco Certification
5 31 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (4.33%) DV Cleared
7 22 (3.66%) AWS Certification
8 18 (3.00%) CCNP
9 17 (2.83%) Azure Certification
9 17 (2.83%) OSCP
10 16 (2.66%) CISSP
11 15 (2.50%) CREST Certified
11 15 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (2.33%) CEH
13 13 (2.16%) Tigerscheme
14 12 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
14 12 (2.00%) RHCE
15 11 (1.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 10 (1.66%) OCA
16 10 (1.66%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.65%) GDPR
2 34 (5.66%) QA
3 22 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (3.33%) HIPAA
4 20 (3.33%) PCI DSS
5 17 (2.83%) NIST
6 12 (2.00%) NCSC
7 10 (1.66%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.67%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.50%) GRC
11 3 (0.50%) SLA
12 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.17%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 187 (31.11%) Docker
2 50 (8.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (7.49%) Active Directory
4 17 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (2.00%) vSphere
6 11 (1.83%) Hyper-V
6 11 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.16%) NFS
8 4 (0.67%) Firmware
9 2 (0.33%) GPFS
9 2 (0.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 2 (0.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.33%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (0.33%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.33%) zsh
10 1 (0.17%) Btrfs
10 1 (0.17%) HDFS
10 1 (0.17%) iptables
10 1 (0.17%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 249 (41.43%) Kubernetes
2 242 (40.27%) Terraform
3 228 (37.94%) Ansible
4 83 (13.81%) Grafana
5 76 (12.65%) Prometheus
6 75 (12.48%) Puppet
7 62 (10.32%) Progress Chef
8 22 (3.66%) Jamf Pro
9 17 (2.83%) Packer
10 14 (2.33%) Nmap
11 12 (2.00%) Argo
11 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (2.00%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (1.83%) Istio
13 10 (1.66%) Nagios
13 10 (1.66%) vCenter Server
14 8 (1.33%) Control-M
14 8 (1.33%) Kibana
14 8 (1.33%) Nessus
15 7 (1.16%) Salt
Vendors
1 74 (12.31%) VMware
2 66 (10.98%) Red Hat
3 64 (10.65%) Oracle
4 62 (10.32%) Microsoft
5 56 (9.32%) Splunk
6 43 (7.15%) Cisco
7 35 (5.82%) Google
8 25 (4.16%) ServiceNow
9 24 (3.99%) SAP
10 20 (3.33%) Apple
11 17 (2.83%) IBM
11 17 (2.83%) Veracode
12 15 (2.50%) Qualys
13 12 (2.00%) CyberArk
14 11 (1.83%) Atlassian
15 10 (1.66%) F5
15 10 (1.66%) Fortinet
16 9 (1.50%) Databricks
16 9 (1.50%) Dynatrace
17 8 (1.33%) SolarWinds