The first table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 165 187 181
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -6
Contract jobs citing Bash shell 34 32 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.535% 0.407% 0.642%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.280% 1.111% 1.515%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 55
Average daily rate £425 £388 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.67% -18.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £313 £324
10% offered a daily rate of more than £563 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £313 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.00% -7.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - £35.50
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2657 2881 4224
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 41.83% 36.60% 42.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2058 2159 3208
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 33 37
Average hourly rate £39.51 £32.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.55% +16.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.81 £15.00 £17.24
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Bash shell
London

Bash shell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Bash shell Daily Rate Trend

Bash shell
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Bash shell across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Bash shell Daily Rate Histogram

Bash shell
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Bash shell across the City of London region.

City of London Bash shell Hourly Rate Trend

Bash shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 48 (81.36%) Linux
2 33 (55.93%) Perl
3 27 (45.76%) UNIX
4 26 (44.07%) Java
5 23 (38.98%) SQL
5 23 (38.98%) Oracle
5 23 (38.98%) Windows
6 18 (30.51%) Python
7 16 (27.12%) Banking
8 15 (25.42%) VMware
9 14 (23.73%) Apache
9 14 (23.73%) SQL Server
10 13 (22.03%) C#
10 13 (22.03%) Finance
11 12 (20.34%) Shell Script
11 12 (20.34%) Red Hat
11 12 (20.34%) Tomcat
11 12 (20.34%) Subversion
11 12 (20.34%) Puppet
12 11 (18.64%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (18.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 11 (18.64%) OO
12 11 (18.64%) JavaScript
13 10 (16.95%) VMware Infrastructure
13 10 (16.95%) Jenkins
14 9 (15.25%) Maven
14 9 (15.25%) TDD
14 9 (15.25%) Sybase
14 9 (15.25%) .NET
14 9 (15.25%) CSS

Bash shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 9 (15.25%) .NET
1 9 (15.25%) CSS
1 9 (15.25%) Web Services
2 8 (13.56%) HTML
3 7 (11.86%) XML
3 7 (11.86%) WebSphere
4 6 (10.17%) HTML5
4 6 (10.17%) jQuery
5 5 (8.475%) JSP
5 5 (8.475%) J2EE
5 5 (8.475%) Spring
5 5 (8.475%) CSS3
6 4 (6.780%) XSLT
7 3 (5.085%) Java EE
7 3 (5.085%) Spring MVC
8 2 (3.390%) MapReduce
8 2 (3.390%) Grails
8 2 (3.390%) RESTful
8 2 (3.390%) JSON
8 2 (3.390%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 14 (23.73%) Apache
2 12 (20.34%) Tomcat
3 8 (13.56%) WebLogic
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.780%) Amazon AWS
6 3 (5.085%) CMS
6 3 (5.085%) WebLogic Portal
6 3 (5.085%) IIS
6 3 (5.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (3.390%) Apache Pig
8 1 (1.695%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 2 (3.390%) Summit
1 2 (3.390%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) TCP/IP
2 5 (8.475%) HTTP
3 4 (6.780%) Firewall
4 3 (5.085%) VPN
4 3 (5.085%) Network Security
5 2 (3.390%) tcpdump
5 2 (3.390%) Wireshark
5 2 (3.390%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (3.390%) iSCSI
5 2 (3.390%) SNMP
5 2 (3.390%) SAN
6 1 (1.695%) Intranet
6 1 (1.695%) Extranet
6 1 (1.695%) OSPF
6 1 (1.695%) BGP
6 1 (1.695%) SSL
6 1 (1.695%) DHCP
6 1 (1.695%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.695%) DNS
6 1 (1.695%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.73%) SQL Server
2 8 (13.56%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (10.17%) MySQL
4 3 (5.085%) RDBMS
4 3 (5.085%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.085%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.390%) Apache Hive
5 2 (3.390%) Big Data
5 2 (3.390%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.390%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.390%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (3.390%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.390%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (3.390%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (1.695%) OLAP
6 1 (1.695%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.695%) MS Access
6 1 (1.695%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.695%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.695%) PerformancePoint
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) Subversion
2 10 (16.95%) Jenkins
3 9 (15.25%) Maven
4 7 (11.86%) Ant
4 7 (11.86%) TeamCity
4 7 (11.86%) Git (software)
5 5 (8.475%) Hudson
6 4 (6.780%) JIRA
6 4 (6.780%) JUnit
6 4 (6.780%) Visual Studio
7 3 (5.085%) AnthillPro
7 3 (5.085%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (5.085%) Mercurial
7 3 (5.085%) FishEye
7 3 (5.085%) Gerrit
7 3 (5.085%) GDB
8 2 (3.390%) QUnit
8 2 (3.390%) Jasmine
8 2 (3.390%) NUnit
8 2 (3.390%) Eclipse
General
1 16 (27.12%) Banking
2 13 (22.03%) Finance
3 6 (10.17%) Investment Banking
4 5 (8.475%) Back Office
4 5 (8.475%) Retail
5 4 (6.780%) Retail Banking
6 3 (5.085%) Front Office
7 1 (1.695%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.695%) Advertising
7 1 (1.695%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.695%) Games
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Developer
2 5 (8.475%) Administrator
2 5 (8.475%) Tester
2 5 (8.475%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (8.475%) Deployment Engineer
2 5 (8.475%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 5 (8.475%) Java Developer
3 4 (6.780%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (5.085%) Senior Developer
4 3 (5.085%) Support Analyst
4 3 (5.085%) Analyst
4 3 (5.085%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (5.085%) Team Leader
4 3 (5.085%) Penetration Tester
5 2 (3.390%) Production Support Analyst
5 2 (3.390%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.390%) Implementation Engineer
5 2 (3.390%) Agile Java Developer
5 2 (3.390%) Perl Developer
5 2 (3.390%) Release Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.085%) Client/Server
1 3 (5.085%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (5.085%) Open Source
2 2 (3.390%) Clustering
2 2 (3.390%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.695%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.695%) Replication
3 1 (1.695%) Interactive TV
3 1 (1.695%) Equities
3 1 (1.695%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 48 (81.36%) Linux
2 27 (45.76%) UNIX
3 23 (38.98%) Windows
4 11 (18.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (13.56%) Solaris
6 6 (10.17%) Debian
7 4 (6.780%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (5.085%) CentOS
8 3 (5.085%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (3.390%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (3.390%) Apple iOS
9 2 (3.390%) Android
9 2 (3.390%) SUSE
9 2 (3.390%) Mac OS X
10 1 (1.695%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (1.695%) VMS
10 1 (1.695%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.64%) Continuous Integration
1 11 (18.64%) OO
2 9 (15.25%) TDD
3 8 (13.56%) Scrum
4 7 (11.86%) Configuration Management
4 7 (11.86%) ITIL
4 7 (11.86%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (8.475%) MVC
5 5 (8.475%) Change Management
5 5 (8.475%) ETL
6 4 (6.780%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (5.085%) Migration
7 3 (5.085%) E-Commerce
7 3 (5.085%) SOA
7 3 (5.085%) Incident Management
7 3 (5.085%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (5.085%) Reverse Engineering
7 3 (5.085%) Test Automation
7 3 (5.085%) Problem Management
8 2 (3.390%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 33 (55.93%) Perl
2 26 (44.07%) Java
3 23 (38.98%) SQL
4 18 (30.51%) Python
5 13 (22.03%) C#
6 12 (20.34%) Shell Script
7 11 (18.64%) JavaScript
8 6 (10.17%) Ruby
8 6 (10.17%) Korn
9 5 (8.475%) PL/SQL
9 5 (8.475%) Groovy
10 4 (6.780%) PHP
11 3 (5.085%) C
11 3 (5.085%) VB.NET
11 3 (5.085%) C-shell
12 2 (3.390%) Lua
13 1 (1.695%) XAML
13 1 (1.695%) T-SQL
13 1 (1.695%) VB
13 1 (1.695%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (6.780%) RHCE
2 2 (3.390%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.695%) CISA
3 1 (1.695%) CISM
3 1 (1.695%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.695%) CISSP
3 1 (1.695%) CCSP
3 1 (1.695%) CCNP
3 1 (1.695%) CCNA
3 1 (1.695%) MCDBA
3 1 (1.695%) CEH
3 1 (1.695%) RHCT
3 1 (1.695%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (1.695%) CCSA
3 1 (1.695%) VCP4
3 1 (1.695%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.695%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.475%) QA
2 1 (1.695%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (16.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (8.475%) vCloud
3 1 (1.695%) VMware ESX
3 1 (1.695%) vSphere
3 1 (1.695%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (1.695%) Veritas File System
3 1 (1.695%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (1.695%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.695%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (20.34%) Puppet
2 5 (8.475%) Nagios
3 3 (5.085%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 2 (3.390%) Splunk
4 2 (3.390%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (3.390%) Control-M
5 1 (1.695%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.695%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.695%) BMC Performance Manager
Vendors
1 23 (38.98%) Oracle
2 15 (25.42%) VMware
3 12 (20.34%) Red Hat
4 9 (15.25%) Sybase
5 4 (6.780%) Cognos
5 4 (6.780%) IBM
5 4 (6.780%) HP
6 3 (5.085%) FatWire
6 3 (5.085%) Sun
6 3 (5.085%) JBoss
7 2 (3.390%) Cisco
7 2 (3.390%) Informatica
7 2 (3.390%) Veritas
7 2 (3.390%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.390%) Murex
7 2 (3.390%) Calypso
7 2 (3.390%) Juniper
8 1 (1.695%) Perforce
8 1 (1.695%) BMC
8 1 (1.695%) Zend
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