The first table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 114 108 119
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +11
Contract jobs citing Bash shell 6 23 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.275% 0.783% 0.271%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.668% 1.868% 0.710%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
Average daily rate £315 £438 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% +38.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £346 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £450 £319
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £344
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - £38.00
All Programming Languages
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
898 1231 986
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 41.19% 41.91% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 603 422
Average daily rate £316 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 107 129
Average hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.52 £26.28 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £50.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Bash shell
England

Bash shell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Bash shell Daily Rate Trend

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 East of England region.

East of England Bash shell Hourly Rate Trend

Bash shell
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash shell within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridgeshire +2 4 £315 -28.00%
Hertfordshire +5 2 - -
Bash shell
England

Bash shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 16 (94.12%) Linux
2 13 (76.47%) Perl
2 13 (76.47%) Subversion
3 9 (52.94%) Python
4 8 (47.06%) SQL
4 8 (47.06%) UNIX
5 7 (41.18%) Nagios
5 7 (41.18%) IBM
5 7 (41.18%) Red Hat
5 7 (41.18%) Internet
5 7 (41.18%) Windows
5 7 (41.18%) Postfix
5 7 (41.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (41.18%) Puppet
5 7 (41.18%) WebSphere
6 6 (35.29%) XPath
6 6 (35.29%) JSTL
6 6 (35.29%) Debian
6 6 (35.29%) Log4j
6 6 (35.29%) Retail
6 6 (35.29%) Content Management
6 6 (35.29%) XMLBeans
6 6 (35.29%) Ajax
6 6 (35.29%) Blue Martini
6 6 (35.29%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (35.29%) Hyper-V
6 6 (35.29%) Git (software)
6 6 (35.29%) Elastic Path
6 6 (35.29%) Sendmail
6 6 (35.29%) Web 2.0

Bash shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 7 (41.18%) WebSphere
2 6 (35.29%) JSTL
2 6 (35.29%) XMLBeans
2 6 (35.29%) Ajax
2 6 (35.29%) J2EE
2 6 (35.29%) EJB
2 6 (35.29%) JDBC
2 6 (35.29%) JSP
2 6 (35.29%) Servlets
2 6 (35.29%) Struts
2 6 (35.29%) XML
2 6 (35.29%) XSLT
2 6 (35.29%) XHTML
2 6 (35.29%) HTML
2 6 (35.29%) JMS
2 6 (35.29%) LAMP
3 1 (5.882%) POSIX
3 1 (5.882%) Memcached
3 1 (5.882%) Gearman
Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (35.29%) MQSeries
2 1 (5.882%) Apache
Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) Internet
2 6 (35.29%) WAN
2 6 (35.29%) Kerberos
3 2 (11.76%) SNMP
3 2 (11.76%) SAN
4 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.882%) DNS
4 1 (5.882%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) DB2
1 6 (35.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.882%) DataStage
2 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) Subversion
2 6 (35.29%) Log4j
2 6 (35.29%) Git (software)
2 6 (35.29%) Ant
2 6 (35.29%) JUnit
2 6 (35.29%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.882%) NUnit
3 1 (5.882%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.882%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 6 (35.29%) Retail
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Games
3 1 (5.882%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Java Developer
2 6 (35.29%) J2EE Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Web 2.0
2 1 (5.882%) Data Integration
2 1 (5.882%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) UNIX
3 7 (41.18%) Windows
3 7 (41.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (35.29%) Debian
4 6 (35.29%) HPUX
4 6 (35.29%) Solaris
5 3 (17.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Content Management
1 6 (35.29%) UML
1 6 (35.29%) OO
1 6 (35.29%) RAD
1 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
2 1 (5.882%) ETL
2 1 (5.882%) ITIL
2 1 (5.882%) Network Architecture
2 1 (5.882%) Capacity Management
2 1 (5.882%) Master Data Management
2 1 (5.882%) Test Management
2 1 (5.882%) Software Testing
2 1 (5.882%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Perl
2 9 (52.94%) Python
3 8 (47.06%) SQL
4 6 (35.29%) XPath
4 6 (35.29%) Java
4 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
6 2 (11.76%) Korn
7 1 (5.882%) C
7 1 (5.882%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) RHCE
2 3 (17.65%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Postfix
2 6 (35.29%) Hyper-V
2 6 (35.29%) Sendmail
3 1 (5.882%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (5.882%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Nagios
1 7 (41.18%) Puppet
2 6 (35.29%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) IBM
1 7 (41.18%) Red Hat
2 6 (35.29%) Blue Martini
2 6 (35.29%) Elastic Path
2 6 (35.29%) Interwoven
2 6 (35.29%) ATG
3 1 (5.882%) Perforce
3 1 (5.882%) Veritas
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle