Bash Contracts in the UK excluding London

Bash Shell
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 153 184
Rank change year-on-year -30 +31 -1
Contract jobs citing Bash 236 404 440
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.15% 1.69% 1.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.89% 5.83% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 295 304
10th Percentile £413 £409 £413
25th Percentile £463 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% - +21.88%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £689 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -10.42% +5.26% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 10
10th Percentile £54.00 - £37.40
25th Percentile £58.13 £51.25 £49.34
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - +24.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.50 £69.05
90th Percentile £79.00 £77.60 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £67.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.13% +17.83% +15.00%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,829 6,925 8,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.49% 28.99% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,250 4,932 6,227
10th Percentile £317 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 338 335
10th Percentile £37.63 £22.50 £17.10
25th Percentile £51.25 £48.98 £27.49
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.63 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +21.86% +19.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.50 £65.47
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% +20.00% +14.94%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
North of England -1 66 £525 -12.50% 33
South East -13 55 £544 -6.25% 30
Scotland +4 48 £513 -2.38% 14
Yorkshire +29 40 £475 -20.83% 15
South West +3 26 £550 -12.00% 29
North West -16 26 £550 -8.33% 16
Midlands +26 22 £536 +38.32% 16
East of England -6 18 £550 +8.91% 28
West Midlands +22 14 £475 -20.83% 7
East Midlands +17 8 £600 +84.62% 9
Wales +11 1 £690 +25.45% 4
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (8.47%) Confluence
2 7 (2.97%) Apache
2 7 (2.97%) nginx
3 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.27%) IIS
4 2 (0.85%) IBM Domino
4 2 (0.85%) Traefik
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.97%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 108 (45.76%) AWS
2 62 (26.27%) Azure
3 31 (13.14%) GitHub
4 30 (12.71%) Amazon S3
4 30 (12.71%) GCP
4 30 (12.71%) Serverless
5 26 (11.02%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (11.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (9.32%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (7.63%) OpenShift
9 16 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (5.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.24%) Datadog
12 9 (3.81%) IaaS
12 9 (3.81%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.54%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.54%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (2.54%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.32%) TCP/IP
2 20 (8.47%) DNS
3 18 (7.63%) Firewall
4 15 (6.36%) HTTP
5 13 (5.51%) SAN
6 10 (4.24%) SSL
7 9 (3.81%) VPN
8 8 (3.39%) Fibre Channel
8 8 (3.39%) LAN
8 8 (3.39%) WAN
9 7 (2.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 7 (2.97%) NetScaler
9 7 (2.97%) Network Security
10 6 (2.54%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (2.12%) DHCP
12 4 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (1.27%) BGP
13 3 (1.27%) IOS XR
13 3 (1.27%) IPv4
13 3 (1.27%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.14%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (11.44%) MongoDB
3 23 (9.75%) MySQL
4 19 (8.05%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (7.20%) SQL Server
6 14 (5.93%) Relational Database
7 13 (5.51%) Oracle Database
8 8 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.97%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.54%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.54%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.69%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.27%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.85%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.85%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.42%) Big Data
14 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (31.78%) Git
2 58 (24.58%) Jenkins
3 45 (19.07%) GitLab
4 24 (10.17%) JIRA
5 17 (7.20%) SonarQube
6 12 (5.08%) Artifactory
7 9 (3.81%) Bitbucket
8 8 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 8 (3.39%) Maven
9 7 (2.97%) CircleCI
9 7 (2.97%) Gradle
9 7 (2.97%) Travis CI
10 6 (2.54%) Subversion
11 5 (2.12%) AppScan
11 5 (2.12%) Burp Suite
12 4 (1.69%) Ant
13 3 (1.27%) Hudson
13 3 (1.27%) Selenium
13 3 (1.27%) TeamCity
14 1 (0.42%) Gerrit
General
1 49 (20.76%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.83%) Public Sector
3 18 (7.63%) Finance
4 11 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.97%) Legal
7 6 (2.54%) Banking
8 5 (2.12%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.27%) Retail
11 2 (0.85%) Electronics
11 2 (0.85%) Marketing
12 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.42%) Games
12 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 50 (21.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (16.10%) Developer
3 23 (9.75%) Linux Engineer
3 23 (9.75%) Senior
4 20 (8.47%) AWS DevOps
4 20 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (8.05%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (5.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (5.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 13 (5.51%) Administrator
9 12 (5.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.08%) Database Specialist
10 11 (4.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.66%) Site Engineer
11 10 (4.24%) Consultant
11 10 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (4.24%) Software Engineer
12 9 (3.81%) Architect
12 9 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.05%) React
2 17 (7.20%) AWS CDK
2 17 (7.20%) REST
3 15 (6.36%) YAML
4 14 (5.93%) Node.js
5 13 (5.51%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (5.08%) CSS
6 12 (5.08%) HTML
6 12 (5.08%) JSON
7 8 (3.39%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.54%) XML
8 6 (2.54%) Yocto
9 5 (2.12%) .NET
9 5 (2.12%) Django
9 5 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.12%) Twisted
10 4 (1.69%) LDAP
10 4 (1.69%) RESTful
10 4 (1.69%) SAML
10 4 (1.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.86%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (5.93%) Replication
3 11 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.66%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.24%) Clustering
5 9 (3.81%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.97%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.97%) PKI
7 6 (2.54%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.69%) ASIC
9 4 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.69%) Verilog
10 3 (1.27%) HP Storage
10 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.27%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 131 (55.51%) Linux
2 43 (18.22%) Unix
3 39 (16.53%) Windows
4 36 (15.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (8.05%) Ubuntu
6 12 (5.08%) Windows Server
7 10 (4.24%) CentOS
8 8 (3.39%) Solaris
9 7 (2.97%) VMS
10 6 (2.54%) Debian
11 4 (1.69%) AIX
11 4 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.42%) Fedora
12 1 (0.42%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (42.80%) CI/CD
2 86 (36.44%) DevOps
3 69 (29.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (25.42%) Agile
5 54 (22.88%) Containerisation
6 47 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (16.10%) Task Automation
8 37 (15.68%) Continuous Integration
9 34 (14.41%) Scrum
10 31 (13.14%) Test Automation
11 23 (9.75%) Roadmaps
11 23 (9.75%) Software Engineering
12 22 (9.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (8.90%) Migration
13 21 (8.90%) Performance Tuning
14 20 (8.47%) Mentoring
15 19 (8.05%) Software Testing
16 18 (7.63%) Configuration Management
16 18 (7.63%) Platform Engineering
17 17 (7.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 157 (66.53%) Python
2 73 (30.93%) PowerShell
3 38 (16.10%) Shell Script
4 31 (13.14%) JavaScript
4 31 (13.14%) SQL
5 27 (11.44%) Perl
6 26 (11.02%) Java
7 21 (8.90%) TypeScript
8 20 (8.47%) C++
9 19 (8.05%) C
10 15 (6.36%) Ruby
11 13 (5.51%) Go
11 13 (5.51%) Groovy
12 8 (3.39%) C#
13 7 (2.97%) Bourne shell
13 7 (2.97%) Korn
13 7 (2.97%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.69%) SystemVerilog
14 4 (1.69%) Tcl
15 3 (1.27%) Julia
Qualifications
1 64 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 43 (18.22%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.20%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.51%) Degree
5 9 (3.81%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.12%) CCNP
7 5 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.27%) CCNA
9 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.85%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.42%) CISSP
11 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.42%) MCSE
11 1 (0.42%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.93%) QA
2 9 (3.81%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.27%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.85%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) NCSC
5 2 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (27.12%) Docker
2 33 (13.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (12.29%) vSphere
4 14 (5.93%) Active Directory
5 12 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (4.66%) VMware NSX
7 8 (3.39%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.69%) VMware Server
8 4 (1.69%) zsh
9 3 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.85%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.85%) Firmware
10 2 (0.85%) KVM
10 2 (0.85%) Varnish
10 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.85%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 102 (43.22%) Ansible
2 92 (38.98%) Terraform
3 72 (30.51%) Kubernetes
4 27 (11.44%) Puppet
5 20 (8.47%) Progress Chef
5 20 (8.47%) Prometheus
6 19 (8.05%) Grafana
7 13 (5.51%) Kibana
8 11 (4.66%) HP Fortify
9 10 (4.24%) Packer
10 9 (3.81%) Red Hat Satellite
11 8 (3.39%) Docker Swarm
12 7 (2.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (2.97%) vRealize
13 6 (2.54%) Graylog
13 6 (2.54%) logstash
14 5 (2.12%) HAProxy
14 5 (2.12%) Istio
14 5 (2.12%) Nessus
14 5 (2.12%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 47 (19.92%) VMware
2 36 (15.25%) Oracle
3 35 (14.83%) Red Hat
4 27 (11.44%) Splunk
5 23 (9.75%) Microsoft
6 15 (6.36%) Cisco
7 13 (5.51%) SolarWinds
8 12 (5.08%) Atlassian
9 10 (4.24%) F5
9 10 (4.24%) Google
10 9 (3.81%) EMC
11 7 (2.97%) Veritas
12 5 (2.12%) Arqiva
12 5 (2.12%) Checkmarx
12 5 (2.12%) Veracode
13 4 (1.69%) Brocade
13 4 (1.69%) Cadence
13 4 (1.69%) Symantec
14 3 (1.27%) Informatica
14 3 (1.27%) Xilinx