The first table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Bash shell over the 3 months to 21 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 Buckinghamshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bash shell
Rank - 72 73
Contract jobs citing Bash shell 0 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire - 0.199% 0.285%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 0.755% 1.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £344
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - £38.00
All Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
249 265 300
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 30.74% 26.39% 28.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 139 132
Average daily rate £320 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 8
Average hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.25 £35.00 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Bash shell
South East

Bash shell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Bash shell Daily Rate Trend

Bash shell
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 4 (100.00%) Perl
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) SMTP
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 3 (75.00%) C++
2 3 (75.00%) STL
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) XSL
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) HPUX
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Testing
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) SCSA
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) RHCE
3 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma

Bash shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 Development
1 3 (75.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 3 (75.00%) STL
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) XSL
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SMTP
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) C++ Developer
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) HPUX
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Testing
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SCSA
1 1 (25.00%) RHCE