Bash Contracts in the Thames Valley

Bash Shell
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Bash skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Bash over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 117 121
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -23
Contract jobs citing Bash 8 35 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.30% 1.19% 1.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.50% 4.91% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 26 36
10th Percentile £429 £319 £438
25th Percentile £510 £416 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £506 £575
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -11.96% +53.33%
75th Percentile £650 £722 £680
90th Percentile - £784 £723
South East median daily rate £544 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -7.45% +6.82% +30.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £64.38 -
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £58.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +27.66% +6.82% +150.00%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Bash is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 535 713 790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.88% 24.27% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 530 580
10th Percentile £358 £336 £342
25th Percentile £425 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +15.94%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £575
90th Percentile £668 £680 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 5
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £31.30
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -13.17% +63.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £84.66
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £44.73
% change year-on-year +9.09% +22.97% +8.42%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the Thames Valley

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Bash in the Thames Valley

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the Thames Valley

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the Thames Valley

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -27 8 £600 +20.00% 5
Bash
South East

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) Appium
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) MSTest
3 1 (12.50%) NUnit
3 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
3 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Database Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Hardware Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Unix
2 2 (25.00%) VMS
3 1 (12.50%) Debian
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
1 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
3 1 (12.50%) OO
3 1 (12.50%) OOP
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Packer
3 2 (25.00%) vRealize
4 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds