Bash Contracts in the Thames Valley

Bash Shell
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Bash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bash over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 118 119
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing Bash 13 29 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.48% 1.01% 1.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.39% 4.48% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 40
10th Percentile £400 £270 £460
25th Percentile £448 £413 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £633
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -20.95% +67.55%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £650
90th Percentile £650 £633 £731
South East median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £64.38 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year - -4.43% -
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £58.75 £67.36
% change year-on-year +27.66% -12.78% +80.83%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Bash falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 543 648 785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.25% 22.52% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 470 580
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 5
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £61.45
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.40 £56.88 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -15.57% +68.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £81.66
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £56.47 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.79% +61.34% -18.24%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -22 10 £550 +22.22% 12
Buckinghamshire +26 3 £625 +21.95% 8
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 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Slack
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Cloudinary
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.69%) Metadata
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) GitLab
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
4 1 (7.69%) Appium
4 1 (7.69%) MSTest
4 1 (7.69%) NUnit
4 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
4 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Database Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SQL DBA
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (15.38%) Loki
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
3 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.69%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 2 (15.38%) VMS
4 1 (7.69%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (46.15%) Task Automation
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Capacity Management
6 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (15.38%) GitOps
6 2 (15.38%) Microservices
6 2 (15.38%) SDLC
6 2 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) Go
3 2 (15.38%) Groovy
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Scala
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) vSphere
3 1 (7.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
2 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
3 6 (46.15%) Ansible
4 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
5 2 (15.38%) Argo
5 2 (15.38%) Grafana
5 2 (15.38%) Kustomize
5 2 (15.38%) Packer
5 2 (15.38%) vRealize
6 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
6 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
2 3 (23.08%) Google
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds