Bash Contract Job Trends in West London

Bash Shell
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Bash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 38 25
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 +34
Contract jobs citing Bash 6 1 32
As % of all contract jobs in West London 2.20% 0.37% 6.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.33% 0.88% 20.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 28
10th Percentile £435 - £539
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £500 - £650
90th Percentile £515 - -
London median daily rate £540 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £58.00
London median hourly rate £56.00 £68.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -18.55% +243.75% -42.86%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 72 113 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 26.37% 41.70% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 92 134
10th Percentile £215 £376 £350
25th Percentile £358 £448 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £498 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% -9.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £500 £586 £600
90th Percentile £533 £636 £650
London median daily rate £550 £565 £600
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 12
10th Percentile - - £55.30
25th Percentile - £23.80 £63.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £49.40 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% -31.39% +92.00%
75th Percentile - £81.25 £86.25
90th Percentile - £92.50 £90.00
London median hourly rate £44.20 £49.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% -13.91% +3.37%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Bash job vacancy trend in West London

Bash
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Bash
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Hillingdon -7 4 - -
Hammersmith - 1 £425 -
Bash
London

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 2 (33.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) HTTP
3 2 (33.33%) SSL
4 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (16.67%) OpenID
2 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
2 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) CentOS
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Unix
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) B2B
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (33.33%) Service Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) RHCE
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Nagios
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (16.67%) SCCM
3 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (16.67%) Okta