The first table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Bash shell over the 3 months to 20 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 Gloucestershire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bash shell
Rank - 62 42
Contract jobs citing Bash shell 0 7 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - 1.025% 1.878%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 1.741% 4.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 7
Average daily rate - £338 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +22.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - £38.00
All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
149 402 200
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 54.98% 58.86% 46.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 226 85
Average daily rate £400 £450 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 29 40
Average hourly rate £39.00 £34.50 £34.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.04% -0.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £25.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £50.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Bash shell
South West

Bash shell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Bash shell Daily Rate Trend

Bash shell
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Regular Expression
2 7 (87.50%) C++
2 7 (87.50%) Java
2 7 (87.50%) Perl
2 7 (87.50%) PHP
2 7 (87.50%) MySQL
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 7 (87.50%) Web Services
2 7 (87.50%) Python
2 7 (87.50%) Scrum
2 7 (87.50%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) C
4 1 (12.50%) Apache
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) C-shell
4 1 (12.50%) SSH
4 1 (12.50%) Korn
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Samba
4 1 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script

Bash shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 (87.50%) Web Services
1 7 (87.50%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
1 7 (87.50%) C++ Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Scrum
1 7 (87.50%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C++
1 7 (87.50%) Java
1 7 (87.50%) Perl
1 7 (87.50%) PHP
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) Korn
3 1 (12.50%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Samba
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat