The first table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Bash shell over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Belfast region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bash shell
Rank 30 28 41
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +13
Contract jobs citing Bash shell 2 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 1.026% 0.610% 1.208%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.613% 1.887% 2.721%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £444 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £313 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.00% -7.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - £35.50
All Programming Languages
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
124 53 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 63.59% 32.32% 44.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 18 39
Average daily rate £350 £280 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -16.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £256 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £12.42 £36.50 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-65.97% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Bash shell
County Antrim

Bash shell
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Bash shell across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Belfast Bash shell Jobs Demand Trend

Bash shell
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Bash shell across the Belfast region.

Belfast Bash shell Daily Rate Trend

Bash shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing Bash shell also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Bash shell.

1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) SMTP
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) HTTPS
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
1 2 (66.67%) ArcSight
1 2 (66.67%) LogLogic
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Q1 Labs
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Security
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Banking

Bash shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing Bash shell also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Bash shell. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SMTP
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) HTTPS
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Information Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Security
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ArcSight
1 2 (66.67%) LogLogic
1 2 (66.67%) Q1 Labs