Bash Contracts in England

Bash Shell
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Bash skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Bash over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 135 166
Rank change year-on-year -76 +31 +44
Contract jobs citing Bash 404 1,003 1,222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.09% 1.98% 1.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.73% 5.61% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 739 790
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £574
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.93% +14.75%
75th Percentile £625 £734 £671
90th Percentile £693 £810 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -10.42% +6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 15
10th Percentile £21.55 £21.25 £22.95
25th Percentile £22.00 £51.25 £44.41
Median hourly rate £40.50 £67.75 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -40.22% -1.88% +25.55%
75th Percentile £72.66 £74.88 £73.90
90th Percentile £76.50 £80.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £67.75 £63.28
% change year-on-year -40.22% +7.07% +26.55%

All Programming Languages
England

Bash is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in England

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in England.

Daily rate trend for Bash in England

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in England

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in England.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in England

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Bash in England

Bash
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London -90 208 £550 -15.38% 105
North of England -12 61 £525 -12.50% 34
South East -14 55 £544 -7.33% 32
Yorkshire +23 35 £495 -15.74% 14
South West +1 26 £550 -12.00% 31
North West -31 26 £550 -8.33% 17
Midlands +21 20 £537 +40.79% 21
East of England -8 17 £550 +8.91% 28
West Midlands +29 12 £500 -16.67% 12
East Midlands +17 8 £600 +84.62% 9
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (7.67%) Confluence
2 17 (4.21%) nginx
3 12 (2.97%) Apache
4 6 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.49%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.99%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.50%) CMS
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.50%) Traefik
7 1 (0.25%) Drupal
7 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) InVision
2 1 (0.25%) Sketch
2 1 (0.25%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (1.73%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 186 (46.04%) AWS
2 134 (33.17%) Azure
3 73 (18.07%) GCP
4 55 (13.61%) GitHub
5 37 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (9.16%) Serverless
6 34 (8.42%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (6.19%) Amazon S3
9 22 (5.45%) PaaS
10 21 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (4.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (4.46%) IaaS
13 15 (3.71%) SaaS
14 14 (3.47%) Datadog
14 14 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (3.22%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (3.22%) Nutanix
16 11 (2.72%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.91%) DNS
2 35 (8.66%) Firewall
3 23 (5.69%) TCP/IP
4 15 (3.71%) DHCP
4 15 (3.71%) SAN
5 12 (2.97%) VPN
6 11 (2.72%) VLAN
7 10 (2.48%) Kerberos
8 9 (2.23%) HTTP
8 9 (2.23%) Network Security
9 8 (1.98%) Cisco Nexus
9 8 (1.98%) NAS
10 7 (1.73%) LAN
11 6 (1.49%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (1.49%) Wireless
12 5 (1.24%) BGP
12 5 (1.24%) Fibre Channel
12 5 (1.24%) IPv4
13 4 (0.99%) SSL
13 4 (0.99%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (8.17%) MySQL
3 25 (6.19%) SQL Server
4 24 (5.94%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (5.94%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.20%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (3.96%) NoSQL
7 14 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (3.22%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.97%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.73%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.49%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.24%) Couchbase
12 5 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.99%) Big Data
13 4 (0.99%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.50%) CouchDB
14 2 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 118 (29.21%) Git
2 88 (21.78%) Jenkins
3 74 (18.32%) GitLab
4 38 (9.41%) JIRA
5 18 (4.46%) SonarQube
6 11 (2.72%) TeamCity
7 10 (2.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (2.48%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.98%) Artifactory
8 8 (1.98%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.73%) Subversion
9 7 (1.73%) Travis CI
10 5 (1.24%) Ant
10 5 (1.24%) AppScan
10 5 (1.24%) Burp Suite
10 5 (1.24%) Selenium
11 4 (0.99%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.99%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.74%) Hudson
13 2 (0.50%) Gradle
General
1 77 (19.06%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.64%) Finance
3 25 (6.19%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (2.97%) Banking
5 12 (2.97%) Telecoms
6 8 (1.98%) Legal
7 7 (1.73%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.24%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.24%) Marketing
9 4 (0.99%) Law
9 4 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (0.99%) Retail
10 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.50%) Advertising
11 2 (0.50%) Electronics
11 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.25%) Automotive
12 1 (0.25%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 102 (25.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 47 (11.63%) Developer
3 45 (11.14%) Senior
4 39 (9.65%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (8.66%) AWS DevOps
6 33 (8.17%) Linux Engineer
7 27 (6.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 26 (6.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 23 (5.69%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (5.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 18 (4.46%) DBA
12 18 (4.46%) Lead
12 18 (4.46%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (4.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 16 (3.96%) Site Engineer
15 14 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (3.22%) Consultant
16 13 (3.22%) Database Specialist
16 13 (3.22%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.92%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (4.70%) YAML
3 16 (3.96%) LDAP
4 15 (3.71%) .NET
4 15 (3.71%) JSON
5 12 (2.97%) Kafka
5 12 (2.97%) React
5 12 (2.97%) Yocto
6 10 (2.48%) REST
6 10 (2.48%) XML
7 9 (2.23%) ARM Templates
7 9 (2.23%) CSS
7 9 (2.23%) Node.js
8 8 (1.98%) Django
9 7 (1.73%) .NET Core
9 7 (1.73%) AWS CDK
9 7 (1.73%) LAPP Stack
10 6 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (1.49%) OAuth
10 6 (1.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.43%) Linux Command Line
2 27 (6.68%) Replication
3 26 (6.44%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.45%) Clustering
5 19 (4.70%) Data Centre
6 13 (3.22%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 8 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.98%) PKI
9 7 (1.73%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.73%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.24%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.74%) Device Driver
12 3 (0.74%) HP Storage
12 3 (0.74%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.74%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.74%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 199 (49.26%) Linux
2 70 (17.33%) Windows
3 48 (11.88%) Unix
4 39 (9.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (8.66%) Windows Server
6 19 (4.70%) CentOS
7 17 (4.21%) Solaris
7 17 (4.21%) Ubuntu
8 12 (2.97%) VMS
9 10 (2.48%) Oracle Linux
10 7 (1.73%) Debian
11 5 (1.24%) AIX
11 5 (1.24%) Embedded Linux
12 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.25%) Android
14 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (45.05%) DevOps
2 161 (39.85%) CI/CD
3 131 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (23.02%) Containerisation
5 88 (21.78%) Agile
6 69 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (10.89%) Continuous Integration
7 44 (10.89%) Performance Tuning
8 42 (10.40%) Disaster Recovery
8 42 (10.40%) Task Automation
9 40 (9.90%) Configuration Management
10 38 (9.41%) Scrum
11 37 (9.16%) Test Automation
12 36 (8.91%) High Availability
12 36 (8.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 31 (7.67%) Computer Science
14 29 (7.18%) Platform Engineering
15 28 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (6.68%) Software Engineering
17 24 (5.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 289 (71.53%) Python
2 131 (32.43%) PowerShell
3 67 (16.58%) SQL
4 38 (9.41%) JavaScript
5 37 (9.16%) Go
6 36 (8.91%) C++
7 35 (8.66%) Perl
8 32 (7.92%) C
9 31 (7.67%) Java
10 26 (6.44%) Shell Script
11 18 (4.46%) C#
12 17 (4.21%) Ruby
13 14 (3.47%) Korn
14 10 (2.48%) PL/SQL
14 10 (2.48%) T-SQL
15 9 (2.23%) TypeScript
16 7 (1.73%) Bourne shell
17 6 (1.49%) Groovy
17 6 (1.49%) PHP
18 4 (0.99%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 122 (30.20%) Security Cleared
2 86 (21.29%) SC Cleared
3 39 (9.65%) Degree
4 37 (9.16%) DV Cleared
5 27 (6.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (4.95%) AWS Certification
7 13 (3.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.98%) CCNP
8 8 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.24%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.99%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.74%) CISM
13 3 (0.74%) CISSP
13 3 (0.74%) RHCE
13 3 (0.74%) SANS
14 2 (0.50%) CEH
14 2 (0.50%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.69%) QA
2 10 (2.48%) GDPR
3 9 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.74%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.50%) NCSC
6 2 (0.50%) NIST
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 136 (33.66%) Docker
2 44 (10.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (7.67%) vSphere
4 23 (5.69%) Active Directory
5 14 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (2.97%) Hyper-V
7 11 (2.72%) VMware NSX
8 8 (1.98%) KVM
9 6 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.99%) Firmware
10 4 (0.99%) zsh
11 3 (0.74%) NFS
11 3 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.50%) iptables
12 2 (0.50%) Lustre
12 2 (0.50%) PowerDNS
12 2 (0.50%) Varnish
12 2 (0.50%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 182 (45.05%) Terraform
2 161 (39.85%) Ansible
3 139 (34.41%) Kubernetes
4 47 (11.63%) Puppet
5 37 (9.16%) Prometheus
6 30 (7.43%) Progress Chef
7 29 (7.18%) Grafana
8 14 (3.47%) Packer
9 12 (2.97%) EMC NetWorker
9 12 (2.97%) Kibana
10 11 (2.72%) HP Fortify
10 11 (2.72%) Nagios
11 9 (2.23%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (1.98%) Graylog
12 8 (1.98%) Netcool
12 8 (1.98%) Tivoli
12 8 (1.98%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (1.98%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 7 (1.73%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 61 (15.10%) VMware
2 52 (12.87%) Splunk
3 49 (12.13%) Oracle
4 48 (11.88%) Microsoft
5 38 (9.41%) Red Hat
6 34 (8.42%) Cisco
7 19 (4.70%) Google
8 17 (4.21%) EMC
9 13 (3.22%) SolarWinds
10 11 (2.72%) HP
10 11 (2.72%) IBM
11 10 (2.48%) Qualys
12 9 (2.23%) Dell
13 8 (1.98%) CyberArk
13 8 (1.98%) Isilon
13 8 (1.98%) Serena
13 8 (1.98%) ServiceNow
14 7 (1.73%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.73%) Okta
14 7 (1.73%) Veritas