The first table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 June 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 Manchester 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bash shell
Rank 65 84 70
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -14
Contract jobs citing Bash shell 4 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.408% 0.082% 0.097%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.173% 0.211% 0.306%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £345 £338
% change year-on-year
-13.04% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - £29.00
All Programming Languages
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
341 475 327
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 34.80% 38.87% 31.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 261 192
Average daily rate £300 £290 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £400 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 18
Average hourly rate £23.75 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £15.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £41.40 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Bash shell
North West

Bash shell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Bash shell Daily 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
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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
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Bash shell
North West

Bash shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 14 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (64.29%) UNIX
3 7 (50.00%) XHTML
3 7 (50.00%) Linux
3 7 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 7 (50.00%) IBM
3 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (50.00%) Perl
3 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 7 (50.00%) J2EE
3 7 (50.00%) HTML
3 7 (50.00%) JDBC
3 7 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (50.00%) Ruby
3 7 (50.00%) WebSphere
4 6 (42.86%) Content Management
4 6 (42.86%) JUnit
4 6 (42.86%) EJB
4 6 (42.86%) XML
4 6 (42.86%) JSP
4 6 (42.86%) Servlets
4 6 (42.86%) DB2
4 6 (42.86%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 6 (42.86%) Eclipse
4 6 (42.86%) RDBMS
4 6 (42.86%) UML
4 6 (42.86%) OO
4 6 (42.86%) RAD
5 5 (35.71%) HPUX
5 5 (35.71%) Solaris

Bash shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 (50.00%) HTML
1 7 (50.00%) J2EE
1 7 (50.00%) JDBC
1 7 (50.00%) XHTML
1 7 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 6 (42.86%) XML
2 6 (42.86%) JSP
2 6 (42.86%) Servlets
2 6 (42.86%) EJB
3 5 (35.71%) Ajax
4 4 (28.57%) Struts
4 4 (28.57%) XSLT
4 4 (28.57%) JMS
4 4 (28.57%) XMLBeans
4 4 (28.57%) JSTL
5 2 (14.29%) CSS
6 1 (7.143%) jQuery
6 1 (7.143%) REST
6 1 (7.143%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (28.57%) MQSeries
3 2 (14.29%) Apache
4 1 (7.143%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) DB2
1 6 (42.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) JUnit
1 6 (42.86%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (42.86%) Eclipse
2 4 (28.57%) Log4j
2 4 (28.57%) Subversion
2 4 (28.57%) Ant
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
1 5 (35.71%) Retail
2 4 (28.57%) Games
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.143%) Banking
4 1 (7.143%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Java Developer
2 5 (35.71%) J2EE Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) WebSphere Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Support
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) UNIX
2 7 (50.00%) Linux
3 5 (35.71%) HPUX
3 5 (35.71%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 6 (42.86%) UML
2 6 (42.86%) OO
2 6 (42.86%) RAD
2 6 (42.86%) Content Management
3 5 (35.71%) TDD
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Trend Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (50.00%) Perl
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Ruby
3 5 (35.71%) Groovy
4 4 (28.57%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Sun Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) IBM
2 5 (35.71%) ATG
2 5 (35.71%) Blue Martini
3 4 (28.57%) Elastic Path
3 4 (28.57%) Interwoven
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (14.29%) Sun
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle