The first table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford 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 Oxford 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 - - -
Contract jobs citing Bash shell 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford - - -
As % of the Programming Languages category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
61 131 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 27.60% 37.86% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 87 41
Average daily rate £325 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +62.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Bash shell
Oxfordshire

Bash shell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Bash shell Daily Rate Trend

Bash shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Perl
3 3 (60.00%) UNIX
3 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 3 (60.00%) NFS
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (40.00%) Veritas
4 2 (40.00%) MarkLogic
4 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Six Sigma
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Debian
4 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) Clustering
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 2 (40.00%) Solaris
4 2 (40.00%) Ingres
4 2 (40.00%) SMTP
5 1 (20.00%) DNS
5 1 (20.00%) CGI
5 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (20.00%) HP
5 1 (20.00%) AIX
5 1 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (20.00%) Oracle
5 1 (20.00%) Apache
5 1 (20.00%) Tomcat

Bash shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 1 (20.00%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (20.00%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) SMTP
3 1 (20.00%) SNMP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Ingres
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) MarkLogic
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Database Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Perl Developer
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Solaris
3 2 (40.00%) Debian
4 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (20.00%) CentOS
4 1 (20.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Six Sigma
1 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Web Development
2 1 (20.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Korn
2 1 (20.00%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) NFS
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Veritas
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) HP