The first table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Bash shell over the 3 months to 24 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 North West 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bash shell
Rank 116 127 122
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -5
Contract jobs citing Bash shell 2 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.086% 0.161% 0.131%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.262% 0.483% 0.445%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 3
Average daily rate - £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £338
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - £38.00
All Programming Languages
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
763 1036 898
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 32.73% 33.30% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 568 497
Average daily rate £315 £315 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £238 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 54 44
Average hourly rate £34.50 £21.86 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.82% -20.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.90 £15.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £37.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester +9 2 - -
Bash shell
England

Bash shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 16 (88.89%) Java
2 13 (72.22%) UNIX
3 10 (55.56%) XHTML
3 10 (55.56%) E-Commerce
3 10 (55.56%) Linux
3 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 10 (55.56%) Perl
3 10 (55.56%) SQL
3 10 (55.56%) J2EE
3 10 (55.56%) WebSphere Application Server
3 10 (55.56%) JDBC
3 10 (55.56%) HTML
3 10 (55.56%) IBM
3 10 (55.56%) WebSphere
4 9 (50.00%) Ajax
4 9 (50.00%) Blue Martini
4 9 (50.00%) Web 2.0
4 9 (50.00%) RDBMS
4 9 (50.00%) Internet
4 9 (50.00%) ATG
4 9 (50.00%) Content Management
4 9 (50.00%) JSP
4 9 (50.00%) Servlets
4 9 (50.00%) JUnit
4 9 (50.00%) DB2
4 9 (50.00%) UML
4 9 (50.00%) OO
4 9 (50.00%) RAD
4 9 (50.00%) EJB
4 9 (50.00%) XML

Bash shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 10 (55.56%) XHTML
1 10 (55.56%) J2EE
1 10 (55.56%) JDBC
1 10 (55.56%) HTML
1 10 (55.56%) WebSphere
2 9 (50.00%) Ajax
2 9 (50.00%) JSP
2 9 (50.00%) Servlets
2 9 (50.00%) EJB
2 9 (50.00%) XML
3 8 (44.44%) JMS
3 8 (44.44%) XSLT
3 8 (44.44%) Struts
3 8 (44.44%) XMLBeans
3 8 (44.44%) JSTL
4 2 (11.11%) OLE
5 1 (5.556%) CSS
5 1 (5.556%) DHTML
5 1 (5.556%) REST
5 1 (5.556%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 10 (55.56%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (44.44%) MQSeries
3 1 (5.556%) Apache
3 1 (5.556%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 9 (50.00%) DB2
2 2 (11.11%) SAP BW
2 2 (11.11%) SAP BI
2 2 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) JUnit
1 9 (50.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 9 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 8 (44.44%) Ant
2 8 (44.44%) Log4j
2 8 (44.44%) Subversion
General
1 8 (44.44%) Retail
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Games
3 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.556%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.556%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Developer
2 9 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (44.44%) J2EE Developer
3 8 (44.44%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.556%) Architect
5 1 (5.556%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.556%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Systems Support
5 1 (5.556%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Developer
5 1 (5.556%) SAP BW Architect
5 1 (5.556%) Systems Support Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.556%) SAP Architect
5 1 (5.556%) Business Intelligence Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) UNIX
2 10 (55.56%) Linux
3 9 (50.00%) HPUX
3 9 (50.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) E-Commerce
2 9 (50.00%) Content Management
2 9 (50.00%) UML
2 9 (50.00%) OO
2 9 (50.00%) RAD
3 5 (27.78%) TDD
4 2 (11.11%) Demand Management
4 2 (11.11%) Logistics
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.556%) MVC
5 1 (5.556%) Trend Analysis
5 1 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Java
2 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 10 (55.56%) Perl
2 10 (55.56%) SQL
3 8 (44.44%) XPath
4 6 (33.33%) Ruby
5 5 (27.78%) Groovy
6 2 (11.11%) Bourne shell
6 2 (11.11%) Korn
6 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 2 (11.11%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Sun Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) IBM
2 9 (50.00%) Blue Martini
2 9 (50.00%) ATG
3 8 (44.44%) Interwoven
3 8 (44.44%) Elastic Path
4 2 (11.11%) SAP
5 1 (5.556%) Oracle
5 1 (5.556%) Sun
5 1 (5.556%) Red Hat