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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 135 168
Rank change year-on-year -80 +33 +41
Contract jobs citing Bash 417 963 1,208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.13% 1.97% 1.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.84% 5.59% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 705 797
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £614 £738 £675
90th Percentile £688 £823 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -10.42% +5.26% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 14
10th Percentile £21.70 £21.25 £22.71
25th Percentile £22.00 £51.25 £41.98
Median hourly rate £57.50 £67.75 £63.28
Median % change year-on-year -15.13% +7.07% +15.05%
75th Percentile £71.88 £74.88 £69.05
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.25 £83.13
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £67.75 £63.28
% change year-on-year -15.13% +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 10,868 17,213 25,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.56% 35.15% 36.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,897 12,563 19,043
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 423 453
10th Percentile £37.78 £26.09 £20.05
25th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
Median % change year-on-year - +22.91% +18.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £61.84 £50.50
% change year-on-year +0.95% +22.45% +16.09%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -91 209 £550 -15.38% 108
North of England +7 69 £525 -12.50% 23
South East -13 55 £544 -4.56% 30
Yorkshire +32 43 £495 -17.50% 10
North West -16 26 £550 -8.33% 11
South West -4 25 £550 -12.00% 31
Midlands +22 21 £536 +38.32% 15
East of England -7 19 £550 +8.91% 27
West Midlands +16 13 £475 -20.83% 8
East Midlands +20 8 £600 +84.62% 7
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 34 (8.15%) Confluence
2 18 (4.32%) nginx
3 15 (3.60%) Apache
4 6 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.44%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.96%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.48%) CMS
7 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.48%) Traefik
7 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.24%) Drupal
8 1 (0.24%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.24%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.24%) JBoss
8 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) InVision
2 1 (0.24%) Sketch
2 1 (0.24%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (1.68%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 192 (46.04%) AWS
2 137 (32.85%) Azure
3 82 (19.66%) GCP
4 56 (13.43%) GitHub
5 38 (9.11%) Serverless
6 37 (8.87%) Amazon EC2
7 34 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (6.47%) Amazon S3
8 27 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (5.28%) PaaS
10 22 (5.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (4.32%) IaaS
13 15 (3.60%) SaaS
14 14 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (3.36%) Datadog
15 13 (3.12%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (3.12%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (3.12%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.83%) DNS
2 36 (8.63%) Firewall
3 25 (6.00%) TCP/IP
4 18 (4.32%) DHCP
4 18 (4.32%) SAN
5 14 (3.36%) VPN
6 11 (2.64%) HTTP
6 11 (2.64%) VLAN
7 10 (2.40%) LAN
8 9 (2.16%) Kerberos
8 9 (2.16%) Network Security
9 8 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
9 8 (1.92%) Fibre Channel
9 8 (1.92%) NAS
10 6 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (1.44%) IPv4
10 6 (1.44%) WAN
11 5 (1.20%) BGP
11 5 (1.20%) SSL
12 4 (0.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (8.63%) MySQL
3 27 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (6.24%) SQL Server
5 24 (5.76%) MongoDB
6 22 (5.28%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (3.84%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (3.84%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.12%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.88%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.68%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.44%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.20%) Big Data
12 5 (1.20%) Couchbase
13 4 (0.96%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.72%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 130 (31.18%) Git
2 91 (21.82%) Jenkins
3 73 (17.51%) GitLab
4 42 (10.07%) JIRA
5 18 (4.32%) SonarQube
6 13 (3.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (2.64%) TeamCity
8 10 (2.40%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.16%) Artifactory
9 9 (2.16%) CircleCI
9 9 (2.16%) Travis CI
10 8 (1.92%) Subversion
11 6 (1.44%) Ant
12 5 (1.20%) AppScan
12 5 (1.20%) Burp Suite
12 5 (1.20%) Selenium
13 4 (0.96%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.96%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.72%) Hudson
14 3 (0.72%) Maven
General
1 88 (21.10%) Social Skills
2 44 (10.55%) Finance
3 24 (5.76%) Public Sector
4 20 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.12%) Telecoms
6 12 (2.88%) Banking
7 8 (1.92%) Legal
8 5 (1.20%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.20%) Marketing
9 4 (0.96%) Law
9 4 (0.96%) Retail
10 3 (0.72%) Electronics
10 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.48%) Advertising
11 2 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.24%) Automotive
12 1 (0.24%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 110 (26.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (10.79%) Developer
3 44 (10.55%) Senior
4 40 (9.59%) AWS Engineer
5 36 (8.63%) AWS DevOps
6 32 (7.67%) Linux Engineer
7 28 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (6.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 23 (5.52%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
10 22 (5.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 18 (4.32%) DBA
11 18 (4.32%) Lead
11 18 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
12 17 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.08%) Site Engineer
13 16 (3.84%) Automation Engineer
14 14 (3.36%) Administrator
14 14 (3.36%) Architect
14 14 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.39%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (5.52%) YAML
3 19 (4.56%) JSON
4 15 (3.60%) .NET
4 15 (3.60%) LDAP
5 13 (3.12%) Kafka
6 12 (2.88%) React
7 11 (2.64%) XML
8 10 (2.40%) Node.js
8 10 (2.40%) REST
9 9 (2.16%) CSS
9 9 (2.16%) Django
9 9 (2.16%) Yocto
10 8 (1.92%) ARM Templates
11 7 (1.68%) .NET Core
11 7 (1.68%) LAPP Stack
11 7 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (1.44%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (1.44%) OAuth
12 6 (1.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.67%) Linux Command Line
2 27 (6.47%) Replication
3 26 (6.24%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.28%) Clustering
5 18 (4.32%) Data Centre
6 14 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.64%) PKI
8 10 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 9 (2.16%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.92%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.68%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.20%) ASIC
13 5 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.20%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.20%) Verilog
14 4 (0.96%) FPGA
14 4 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 196 (47.00%) Linux
2 65 (15.59%) Windows
3 46 (11.03%) Unix
4 40 (9.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (7.67%) Windows Server
6 22 (5.28%) CentOS
7 19 (4.56%) Ubuntu
8 16 (3.84%) Solaris
9 12 (2.88%) VMS
10 9 (2.16%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (1.68%) Debian
12 4 (0.96%) AIX
12 4 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.24%) Android
15 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.24%) Fedora
15 1 (0.24%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (45.32%) DevOps
2 176 (42.21%) CI/CD
3 135 (32.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (23.02%) Containerisation
5 91 (21.82%) Agile
6 80 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (12.47%) Task Automation
8 48 (11.51%) Continuous Integration
9 44 (10.55%) Performance Tuning
10 43 (10.31%) Disaster Recovery
11 42 (10.07%) Test Automation
12 41 (9.83%) Configuration Management
13 40 (9.59%) Computer Science
13 40 (9.59%) Scrum
14 38 (9.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 37 (8.87%) High Availability
16 29 (6.95%) Migration
16 29 (6.95%) Platform Engineering
17 28 (6.71%) Software Engineering
18 27 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 301 (72.18%) Python
2 135 (32.37%) PowerShell
3 72 (17.27%) SQL
4 40 (9.59%) JavaScript
5 39 (9.35%) Go
6 35 (8.39%) C
6 35 (8.39%) C++
7 34 (8.15%) Java
7 34 (8.15%) Perl
8 27 (6.47%) Shell Script
9 18 (4.32%) C#
10 16 (3.84%) Ruby
11 11 (2.64%) Korn
11 11 (2.64%) PL/SQL
11 11 (2.64%) TypeScript
12 10 (2.40%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.68%) Bourne shell
14 6 (1.44%) Groovy
14 6 (1.44%) PHP
15 5 (1.20%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 119 (28.54%) Security Cleared
2 84 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 47 (11.27%) Degree
4 34 (8.15%) DV Cleared
5 32 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.56%) AWS Certification
7 13 (3.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.92%) CCNP
8 8 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.20%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.72%) CISM
13 3 (0.72%) CISSP
13 3 (0.72%) RHCE
13 3 (0.72%) SANS
14 2 (0.48%) CEH
14 2 (0.48%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.47%) QA
2 10 (2.40%) GDPR
2 10 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.72%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.72%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.48%) NCSC
5 2 (0.48%) NIST
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 144 (34.53%) Docker
2 46 (11.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (7.91%) vSphere
4 24 (5.76%) Active Directory
5 14 (3.36%) VMware NSX
6 13 (3.12%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (2.88%) Hyper-V
8 9 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.92%) KVM
10 4 (0.96%) VMware Server
10 4 (0.96%) zsh
11 3 (0.72%) Firmware
11 3 (0.72%) NFS
11 3 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.48%) iptables
12 2 (0.48%) Lustre
12 2 (0.48%) PowerDNS
12 2 (0.48%) Varnish
12 2 (0.48%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 189 (45.32%) Terraform
2 160 (38.37%) Ansible
3 145 (34.77%) Kubernetes
4 47 (11.27%) Puppet
5 38 (9.11%) Prometheus
6 32 (7.67%) Progress Chef
7 31 (7.43%) Grafana
8 14 (3.36%) Packer
9 13 (3.12%) Kibana
10 12 (2.88%) EMC NetWorker
11 11 (2.64%) Docker Swarm
11 11 (2.64%) HP Fortify
12 10 (2.40%) Nagios
13 9 (2.16%) logstash
14 8 (1.92%) Graylog
14 8 (1.92%) Netcool
14 8 (1.92%) Tivoli
14 8 (1.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 8 (1.92%) ZABBIX
15 7 (1.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 61 (14.63%) VMware
2 52 (12.47%) Splunk
3 49 (11.75%) Microsoft
3 49 (11.75%) Oracle
4 35 (8.39%) Red Hat
5 34 (8.15%) Cisco
6 24 (5.76%) Google
7 17 (4.08%) EMC
8 13 (3.12%) IBM
8 13 (3.12%) SolarWinds
9 11 (2.64%) HP
10 9 (2.16%) Dell
10 9 (2.16%) Qualys
11 8 (1.92%) CyberArk
11 8 (1.92%) Isilon
11 8 (1.92%) Serena
11 8 (1.92%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.68%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.68%) Okta
12 7 (1.68%) Veritas