The first table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 113 108 109
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +1
Contract jobs citing Bash shell 5 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.205% 0.075% 0.072%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.477% 0.313% 0.246%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1049 640 814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 43.01% 24.06% 29.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 290 405
Average daily rate £363 £313 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 27 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £27.50 £31.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.63% -12.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £16.75 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £34.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Bash shell
UK

Bash shell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Bash shell Daily Rate Trend

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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 3 - -
Glasgow -15 1 - -
Fife - 1 - -
Bash shell
UK

Bash shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) Korn
3 5 (55.56%) Windows
4 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 4 (44.44%) J2EE
4 4 (44.44%) OO
4 4 (44.44%) Tomcat
5 3 (33.33%) Jython
5 3 (33.33%) Maven
5 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 3 (33.33%) Python
5 3 (33.33%) Eclipse
5 3 (33.33%) Perl
5 3 (33.33%) C#
5 3 (33.33%) SOAP
5 3 (33.33%) Sybase
5 3 (33.33%) JUnit
5 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (33.33%) Smart GWT
6 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (22.22%) JIRA
6 2 (22.22%) Release Management
6 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Derivative
6 2 (22.22%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (22.22%) RESTful

Bash shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 4 (44.44%) J2EE
2 3 (33.33%) SOAP
2 3 (33.33%) Smart GWT
3 2 (22.22%) RESTful
3 2 (22.22%) JSP
3 2 (22.22%) Servlets
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
3 2 (22.22%) JMS
3 2 (22.22%) Spring
4 1 (11.11%) JSF
4 1 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (11.11%) CGI
4 1 (11.11%) .NET
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) XML
4 1 (11.11%) Java EE
4 1 (11.11%) PowerMock
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Tomcat
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) FTP
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Maven
1 3 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 3 (33.33%) JUnit
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Ant
3 1 (11.11%) Concordion
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Advertising
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Applications Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (22.22%) Derivative
1 2 (22.22%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (22.22%) Solaris
4 2 (22.22%) UNIX
5 1 (11.11%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) OO
2 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Release Management
3 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) Workflow
3 2 (22.22%) Code Coverage
4 1 (11.11%) TDD
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
1 6 (66.67%) Korn
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Jython
3 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) Perl
3 3 (33.33%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) AWK
4 1 (11.11%) Ruby
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCNA
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) NFS
1 1 (11.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Sybase
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Alterian
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) EMC
3 1 (11.11%) Veritas
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle