The first table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey 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 Surrey 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 78 90 97
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +7
Contract jobs citing Bash shell 2 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.173% 0.310% 0.327%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.464% 0.789% 0.923%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
Average daily rate £125 £235 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-46.80% -39.74%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £338
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £43.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - £38.00
All Programming Languages
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
431 634 650
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 37.38% 39.35% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 336 349
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 49 32
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £21.75 £23.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.65 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Bash shell
South East

Bash shell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey 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
Guildford -10 1 - -
Staines - 1 £125 -
Bash shell
South East

Bash shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 6 (66.67%) Oracle
3 6 (66.67%) Java
3 6 (66.67%) Apache
3 6 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
4 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
4 5 (55.56%) DNS
4 5 (55.56%) NetApp
4 5 (55.56%) Tomcat
4 5 (55.56%) JBoss
4 5 (55.56%) Perl
4 5 (55.56%) Git (software)
4 5 (55.56%) Puppet
4 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
5 4 (44.44%) sed
5 4 (44.44%) Memory Management
5 4 (44.44%) tcpdump
5 4 (44.44%) Hudson
5 4 (44.44%) Liferay
5 4 (44.44%) Postfix
5 4 (44.44%) NAS
5 4 (44.44%) iSCSI
5 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (44.44%) MySQL
5 4 (44.44%) JDBC
5 4 (44.44%) SAP
5 4 (44.44%) LDAP
5 4 (44.44%) SMTP

Bash shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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%) JDBC
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) jQuery
3 1 (11.11%) Java EE
3 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) XML Schema
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) JSP
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) XSLT
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) HTML5
3 1 (11.11%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) Apache
2 5 (55.56%) Tomcat
3 4 (44.44%) Liferay
4 1 (11.11%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (11.11%) CMS
4 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 5 (55.56%) DNS
3 4 (44.44%) tcpdump
3 4 (44.44%) NAS
3 4 (44.44%) iSCSI
3 4 (44.44%) LDAP
3 4 (44.44%) SMTP
3 4 (44.44%) DHCP
3 4 (44.44%) HTTP
3 4 (44.44%) SNMP
3 4 (44.44%) SAN
3 4 (44.44%) SSL
3 4 (44.44%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MySQL
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git (software)
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (44.44%) Hudson
3 1 (11.11%) Subversion
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Administrator
1 5 (55.56%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
2 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cryptography
1 4 (44.44%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) DTV
2 1 (11.11%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (11.11%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Memory Management
1 4 (44.44%) Load Balancing
1 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Management
2 1 (11.11%) Scrum
2 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (11.11%) TDD
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
2 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
2 1 (11.11%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
3 5 (55.56%) Perl
4 4 (44.44%) sed
4 4 (44.44%) AWK
5 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (11.11%) Python
6 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
6 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISEB
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Postfix
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (44.44%) NFS
1 4 (44.44%) Nmap
1 4 (44.44%) Squid
2 1 (11.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Puppet
2 4 (44.44%) Nagios
3 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 5 (55.56%) NetApp
2 5 (55.56%) JBoss
3 4 (44.44%) SAP
3 4 (44.44%) EMC
3 4 (44.44%) VMware
4 2 (22.22%) HP
5 1 (11.11%) FatWire