The first table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bash shell
Rank 270 305 275
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -30
Contract jobs citing Bash shell 115 101 167
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.533% 0.377% 0.535%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.304% 1.006% 1.258%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 59 114
Average daily rate £450 £399 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.78% -6.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £273 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 4
Average hourly rate £41.50 £40.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.75% +60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - £38.00
All Programming Languages
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
8821 10041 13276
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 40.85% 37.49% 42.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6389 6829 8942
Average daily rate £450 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 145 179
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.86 £18.47 £19.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.15 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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 London region.

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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London +10 31 £400 -
Canary Wharf - 4 £650 -
Hounslow - 3 £438 -
Surbiton - 2 - -
Uxbridge - 1 - -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Bash shell
England

Bash shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 214 (86.99%) Linux
2 101 (41.06%) Python
3 98 (39.84%) Perl
4 96 (39.02%) Java
5 84 (34.15%) Red Hat
6 82 (33.33%) UNIX
7 77 (31.30%) Apache
8 76 (30.89%) Shell Script
9 73 (29.67%) Puppet
10 70 (28.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 66 (26.83%) Windows
11 66 (26.83%) Oracle
12 63 (25.61%) SQL
13 61 (24.80%) Tomcat
14 56 (22.76%) MySQL
15 49 (19.92%) Subversion
16 48 (19.51%) Finance
17 46 (18.70%) VMware
18 44 (17.89%) Solaris
19 42 (17.07%) Jenkins
20 39 (15.85%) Git (software)
21 37 (15.04%) Hudson
21 37 (15.04%) Agile Software Development
22 35 (14.23%) PHP
22 35 (14.23%) Banking
23 34 (13.82%) Continuous Integration
24 33 (13.41%) SQL Server
24 33 (13.41%) TCP/IP
25 32 (13.01%) HP
26 31 (12.60%) OO

Bash shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 31 (12.60%) Web Services
2 29 (11.79%) .NET
3 23 (9.350%) CSS
4 21 (8.537%) HTML
4 21 (8.537%) WebSphere
5 18 (7.317%) Spring
5 18 (7.317%) XML
6 17 (6.911%) jQuery
7 16 (6.504%) HTML5
8 14 (5.691%) J2EE
9 12 (4.878%) CSS3
10 9 (3.659%) RESTful
10 9 (3.659%) JSP
10 9 (3.659%) XSLT
11 8 (3.252%) Java EE
11 8 (3.252%) JMS
11 8 (3.252%) LAMP
12 7 (2.846%) Hibernate
12 7 (2.846%) Middleware
12 7 (2.846%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 77 (31.30%) Apache
2 61 (24.80%) Tomcat
3 31 (12.60%) Amazon AWS
4 24 (9.756%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (7.317%) WebLogic
6 15 (6.098%) IIS
7 8 (3.252%) Amazon S3
8 7 (2.846%) Oracle Coherence
9 6 (2.439%) CMS
10 5 (2.033%) Liferay
10 5 (2.033%) WebSphere Application Server
10 5 (2.033%) WebLogic Portal
10 5 (2.033%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (1.626%) nginx
12 2 (0.813%) Magento
12 2 (0.813%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.813%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.813%) Drupal
12 2 (0.813%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.813%) Documentum
Applications
1 11 (4.472%) Mingle
2 2 (0.813%) MS Project
2 2 (0.813%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.813%) PeopleSoft Financials
1 2 (0.813%) WebTrends
1 2 (0.813%) Summit
1 2 (0.813%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.41%) TCP/IP
2 29 (11.79%) SAN
3 25 (10.16%) DNS
4 23 (9.350%) HTTP
5 19 (7.724%) NAS
6 11 (4.472%) DHCP
7 10 (4.065%) SSL
7 10 (4.065%) Network Security
7 10 (4.065%) iSCSI
8 9 (3.659%) SMTP
8 9 (3.659%) Internet
9 8 (3.252%) Firewall
9 8 (3.252%) Gigabit Ethernet
10 7 (2.846%) SNMP
11 6 (2.439%) Ethernet
11 6 (2.439%) LDAP
12 5 (2.033%) SSH
12 5 (2.033%) tcpdump
13 4 (1.626%) VPN
13 4 (1.626%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (22.76%) MySQL
2 33 (13.41%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.285%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.285%) Hadoop
4 12 (4.878%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.472%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.659%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.252%) OLTP
8 6 (2.439%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.033%) Oracle 8/8i
10 3 (1.220%) Oracle 10g
11 2 (0.813%) SQL Server 2000
11 2 (0.813%) Redis
11 2 (0.813%) Big Data
11 2 (0.813%) DB2
11 2 (0.813%) OLAP
11 2 (0.813%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.813%) SQL Server 2005
11 2 (0.813%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.407%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 49 (19.92%) Subversion
2 42 (17.07%) Jenkins
3 39 (15.85%) Git (software)
4 37 (15.04%) Hudson
5 29 (11.79%) Maven
6 24 (9.756%) Ant
7 21 (8.537%) JIRA
8 18 (7.317%) JUnit
9 13 (5.285%) TeamCity
9 13 (5.285%) dbdeploy
10 12 (4.878%) GDB
11 6 (2.439%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (2.439%) Mercurial
11 6 (2.439%) AnthillPro
12 5 (2.033%) Gerrit
12 5 (2.033%) FishEye
13 4 (1.626%) Cucumber
13 4 (1.626%) Visual Studio
13 4 (1.626%) Eclipse
14 3 (1.220%) PHPUnit
General
1 48 (19.51%) Finance
2 35 (14.23%) Banking
3 11 (4.472%) Retail
3 11 (4.472%) Investment Banking
4 7 (2.846%) Retail Banking
4 7 (2.846%) Telecoms
5 6 (2.439%) Front Office
6 5 (2.033%) Games
7 4 (1.626%) Back Office
8 2 (0.813%) Publishing
9 1 (0.407%) Advertising
9 1 (0.407%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (23.98%) Developer
2 41 (16.67%) Administrator
3 37 (15.04%) Systems Administrator
3 37 (15.04%) Linux Administrator
4 34 (13.82%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 33 (13.41%) Systems Engineer
6 29 (11.79%) Linux Engineer
7 15 (6.098%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.691%) Support Engineer
9 13 (5.285%) Java Developer
9 13 (5.285%) Tester
10 12 (4.878%) Build Manager
11 11 (4.472%) Penetration Tester
12 10 (4.065%) Deployment Manager
13 9 (3.659%) Systems Support
14 8 (3.252%) Analyst
14 8 (3.252%) Oracle Developer
14 8 (3.252%) Deployment Engineer
14 8 (3.252%) Systems Support Engineer
14 8 (3.252%) Linux Support
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.350%) Open Source
2 14 (5.691%) Clustering
3 8 (3.252%) STB
4 7 (2.846%) Digital Media
5 6 (2.439%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.033%) Mathematics
6 5 (2.033%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.626%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.626%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.626%) Grid Computing
8 3 (1.220%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.220%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.220%) Replication
8 3 (1.220%) Computer Science
8 3 (1.220%) Cryptography
8 3 (1.220%) IPTV
9 2 (0.813%) Interactive TV
9 2 (0.813%) Equities
9 2 (0.813%) HACMP
9 2 (0.813%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 214 (86.99%) Linux
2 82 (33.33%) UNIX
3 70 (28.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (26.83%) Windows
5 44 (17.89%) Solaris
6 24 (9.756%) Debian
7 23 (9.350%) Ubuntu
8 19 (7.724%) CentOS
9 13 (5.285%) SUSE
10 12 (4.878%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (4.065%) Windows Server 2003
12 9 (3.659%) AIX
13 6 (2.439%) VMS
14 2 (0.813%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.813%) Windows 2000 Server
14 2 (0.813%) Android
14 2 (0.813%) Windows XP
14 2 (0.813%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.813%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.407%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (15.04%) Agile Software Development
2 34 (13.82%) Continuous Integration
3 31 (12.60%) OO
4 27 (10.98%) TDD
5 25 (10.16%) Scrum
6 17 (6.911%) ITIL
7 14 (5.691%) Change Management
7 14 (5.691%) Penetration Testing
8 13 (5.285%) Configuration Management
8 13 (5.285%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (4.878%) Reverse Engineering
9 12 (4.878%) Data Management
10 11 (4.472%) E-Commerce
10 11 (4.472%) Requirements Management
11 9 (3.659%) BDD
11 9 (3.659%) MVC
12 8 (3.252%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (3.252%) ETL
12 8 (3.252%) Test Automation
12 8 (3.252%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 101 (41.06%) Python
2 98 (39.84%) Perl
3 96 (39.02%) Java
4 76 (30.89%) Shell Script
5 63 (25.61%) SQL
6 35 (14.23%) PHP
7 28 (11.38%) JavaScript
8 26 (10.57%) Korn
9 21 (8.537%) Ruby
10 19 (7.724%) C#
11 16 (6.504%) PL/SQL
12 14 (5.691%) PowerShell
13 8 (3.252%) C
14 7 (2.846%) C-shell
14 7 (2.846%) C++
14 7 (2.846%) VBScript
15 6 (2.439%) Groovy
16 5 (2.033%) VB.NET
17 4 (1.626%) AWK
17 4 (1.626%) sed
Qualifications
1 14 (5.691%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.285%) RHCE
3 7 (2.846%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (2.846%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.439%) CCNA
5 5 (2.033%) Degree
6 4 (1.626%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.220%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.407%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.407%) CISSP
8 1 (0.407%) MCDBA
8 1 (0.407%) CCSP
8 1 (0.407%) CCNP
8 1 (0.407%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.407%) CISA
8 1 (0.407%) CISM
8 1 (0.407%) CCSA
8 1 (0.407%) RHCT
8 1 (0.407%) CEH
8 1 (0.407%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.504%) QA
2 6 (2.439%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (9.756%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (7.317%) NFS
3 15 (6.098%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 13 (5.285%) Samba
5 12 (4.878%) Oracle RAC
6 9 (3.659%) vCloud
7 7 (2.846%) Active Directory
7 7 (2.846%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 6 (2.439%) Squid
9 5 (2.033%) Xen
9 5 (2.033%) Postfix
9 5 (2.033%) SRDF
10 4 (1.626%) vSphere
10 4 (1.626%) VMware ESX
11 3 (1.220%) Veritas File System
11 3 (1.220%) Nmap
11 3 (1.220%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.813%) PowerHA
12 2 (0.813%) Varnish
13 1 (0.407%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 73 (29.67%) Puppet
2 30 (12.20%) Nagios
3 15 (6.098%) BladeLogic
4 11 (4.472%) Cobbler
5 9 (3.659%) Splunk
6 6 (2.439%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 6 (2.439%) Zenoss
7 5 (2.033%) Ganglia
7 5 (2.033%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (2.033%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (1.626%) ZABBIX
8 4 (1.626%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.220%) Control-M
9 3 (1.220%) YUM
10 2 (0.813%) CFEngine
11 1 (0.407%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 1 (0.407%) BMC Performance Manager
11 1 (0.407%) Backup Exec
11 1 (0.407%) Netcool/Webtop
11 1 (0.407%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 84 (34.15%) Red Hat
2 66 (26.83%) Oracle
3 46 (18.70%) VMware
4 32 (13.01%) HP
5 21 (8.537%) Cisco
6 18 (7.317%) Veritas
7 17 (6.911%) JBoss
8 16 (6.504%) NetApp
9 15 (6.098%) EMC
10 14 (5.691%) IBM
11 13 (5.285%) Perforce
12 11 (4.472%) BMC
13 10 (4.065%) Citrix
14 7 (2.846%) Cognos
14 7 (2.846%) Microsoft
14 7 (2.846%) Sybase
14 7 (2.846%) Akamai
15 6 (2.439%) FatWire
16 5 (2.033%) SAP
17 4 (1.626%) DataSynapse
London
My client based in London, is looking for a Linux Systems Administrator for an initial 6 month contract. This is one of Computer Futures' top clients and they...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Nagios,. The successful Devops Engineer must have demonstrable experience of designing software solutions, and possessing the technical ability to bring the initial design through to UAT and release...
ISL
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
London
Here's the wish list: - Linux Sys Administration (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu) - VMWare would be very useful - Scripting in such as Bash, Shell, Python - Open source tools (Nagios, Puppet,...
Prism Digital
Rate: £300 - £340 per day + extensions likely
Posted: 13 May 2013
London
Linux (CentOS), MySQL, Apache, Exim, PHP, clustering (SAN, NAS), Senior Systems Administrator, Canary Wharf, Contract Role, Digital Agency... *Strong experience with MySQL, Apache, Exim and PHP... *Languages: Bash,...
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £400 - £420 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
It is essential that the successful candidate has experience Linux (Oracle 5.x/6.x), with any knowledge or experience of Windows 2008/12 operating systems as an...
Experis IT
Rate: £350.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Essential skills Red Hat Linux in a large production environment... Veritas stack including VCS. SAN and NAS solutions, EMC... Advanced shell Scripting (bash, Perl and/or Python) Samba/...
ComputAppoint
Rate: £500 - £600 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
Hounslow, Middlesex
Key Skills Ethical hacking (CREST Certified) Linux. Programming languages: C and Java... netcat, hping, gdb, etc... Proficient with neat, maintainable and documented bash shell scripting, ASM (preferably MIPS),...
Experis IT
Rate: TBC
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Perl, SQL, Sybase, Unix, KSH, Bash, Shell... Database experience (SQL, stored procedures, data modeling), ideally with Sybase. UNIX experience (ksh, bash, shell scripts) Preferably expereince working in Investment,...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Requirements/responsibilities: - 5+ years Perl design and development experience - perl data structures and references, Object-Oriented Perl, modules, and packages - 5+ years Sybase database experience (SQL, stored procedures,...
Aston Carter
Rate: 475
Posted: 17 May 2013
West London
Computer Futures are seeking a Linux Systems Administrator for a client based in West London. This is a 6 month contract with a view to go permanent thereafter.
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
The successful candidate's main skills will be: * Knowledge of both Java and C# and very strong in one of them* Strong front end web development in HTML,...
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
working in a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) - developing software to use TCP, DNS and HTTP... - NoSQL solutions (Mongo DB, Simple DB, Membase, Redis) - RDBMS technologies (MySQL) -...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Rate: From £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Experience of working with SQL, Sybase and Oracle Database... * Expert user and sound knowledge of Control-M, SQL, Oracle, Sybase, Windows and Unix. * Experience of work with Oracle...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013