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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 144 199
Rank change year-on-year -33 +55 +9
Contract jobs citing Bash 239 383 408
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.14% 1.68% 1.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.79% 6.01% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 267 289
10th Percentile £400 £389 £425
25th Percentile £454 £476 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +18.28%
75th Percentile £625 £641 £650
90th Percentile £663 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £533 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.17% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 5
10th Percentile - £51.25 £26.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £52.66 £39.55
Median hourly rate £60.00 £71.25 £52.56
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +35.57% -2.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £77.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.00 £86.40 £63.42
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £67.75 £46.05
% change year-on-year -15.13% +47.11% -7.90%

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 4,992 6,368 8,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.72% 27.96% 28.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,320 4,460 6,202
10th Percentile £317 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +14.42%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 321 324
10th Percentile £37.55 £27.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.82 £78.00 £67.46
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £62.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -0.40% +21.36% +16.65%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 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
North of England +17 77 £516 -13.96% 29
South East -13 57 £550 -6.38% 37
Yorkshire +35 52 £475 -24.00% 7
South West -2 34 £550 -8.33% 34
Scotland -19 30 £480 -7.25% 7
North West -18 25 £550 -4.35% 18
Midlands +11 22 £536 +38.32% 18
East of England -9 20 £550 +9.45% 21
West Midlands +6 14 £450 -25.00% 11
East Midlands +9 8 £600 +84.62% 7
Wales +14 1 £690 +20.00% 2
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 25 (10.46%) Confluence
2 6 (2.51%) nginx
3 4 (1.67%) Apache
4 3 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.84%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.84%) Traefik
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.93%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 118 (49.37%) AWS
2 66 (27.62%) Azure
3 36 (15.06%) GCP
4 31 (12.97%) GitHub
5 28 (11.72%) Serverless
6 27 (11.30%) Amazon S3
6 27 (11.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (10.88%) OpenShift
8 24 (10.04%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (7.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (3.77%) Kong
14 9 (3.77%) Snowflake
15 7 (2.93%) Datadog
16 6 (2.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 6 (2.51%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.37%) Firewall
2 19 (7.95%) DNS
3 16 (6.69%) TCP/IP
4 12 (5.02%) VPN
5 10 (4.18%) SAN
6 9 (3.77%) HTTP
7 8 (3.35%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (2.51%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (2.51%) Network Security
9 5 (2.09%) DHCP
9 5 (2.09%) LAN
9 5 (2.09%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (2.09%) SSL
9 5 (2.09%) WAN
10 4 (1.67%) IPv4
10 4 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.26%) BIG-IP
11 3 (1.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (1.26%) IOS XR
11 3 (1.26%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.13%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (11.30%) Elasticsearch
2 27 (11.30%) MongoDB
3 21 (8.79%) MySQL
4 14 (5.86%) Relational Database
4 14 (5.86%) SQL Server
5 13 (5.44%) Oracle Database
6 8 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.93%) Big Data
7 7 (2.93%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.51%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.51%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.67%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.26%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.26%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.84%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.84%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.84%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 73 (30.54%) Git
2 54 (22.59%) Jenkins
3 50 (20.92%) GitLab
4 29 (12.13%) JIRA
5 18 (7.53%) SonarQube
6 12 (5.02%) Artifactory
7 11 (4.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (4.60%) Bitbucket
8 9 (3.77%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.77%) Travis CI
9 7 (2.93%) Maven
10 6 (2.51%) Gradle
10 6 (2.51%) Subversion
11 5 (2.09%) AppScan
11 5 (2.09%) Burp Suite
12 4 (1.67%) Ant
12 4 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (1.26%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.26%) Hudson
13 3 (1.26%) Selenium
General
1 50 (20.92%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.81%) Public Sector
3 17 (7.11%) Finance
4 14 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.93%) Legal
6 5 (2.09%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.26%) Banking
7 3 (1.26%) Electronics
7 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.26%) Retail
8 2 (0.84%) Marketing
8 2 (0.84%) Wearables
9 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.42%) Games
9 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (25.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (12.55%) Developer
3 24 (10.04%) AWS DevOps
4 23 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (9.21%) Senior
6 21 (8.79%) Platform Engineer
7 19 (7.95%) Linux Engineer
8 17 (7.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (6.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 13 (5.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.02%) Database Specialist
11 12 (5.02%) Site Engineer
11 12 (5.02%) Software Engineer
12 10 (4.18%) Administrator
12 10 (4.18%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.35%) Consultant
14 7 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.21%) Elastic Stack
1 22 (9.21%) React
2 19 (7.95%) YAML
3 18 (7.53%) Node.js
4 17 (7.11%) AWS CDK
4 17 (7.11%) JSON
5 12 (5.02%) CSS
5 12 (5.02%) HTML
6 10 (4.18%) REST
6 10 (4.18%) XML
7 7 (2.93%) .NET
7 7 (2.93%) Kafka
8 5 (2.09%) Yocto
9 4 (1.67%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.67%) LDAP
9 4 (1.67%) RESTful
9 4 (1.67%) SailPoint
9 4 (1.67%) SAML
9 4 (1.67%) Vue
10 3 (1.26%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.30%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (5.86%) Replication
3 12 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (4.60%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.18%) Clustering
6 9 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.77%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.35%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.51%) ASIC
9 6 (2.51%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.51%) PKI
9 6 (2.51%) Verilog
10 4 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.67%) FPGA
11 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.26%) HP Storage
11 3 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.26%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 126 (52.72%) Linux
2 36 (15.06%) Unix
2 36 (15.06%) Windows
3 33 (13.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (8.79%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.18%) CentOS
6 9 (3.77%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.35%) Solaris
8 7 (2.93%) VMS
9 5 (2.09%) Rocky
10 4 (1.67%) AIX
11 3 (1.26%) Debian
11 3 (1.26%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.42%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (44.35%) CI/CD
2 99 (41.42%) DevOps
3 69 (28.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (28.03%) Agile
5 66 (27.62%) Containerisation
6 56 (23.43%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (18.41%) Task Automation
8 39 (16.32%) Continuous Integration
9 37 (15.48%) Scrum
10 36 (15.06%) Test Automation
11 25 (10.46%) Configuration Management
11 25 (10.46%) Software Engineering
12 22 (9.21%) High Availability
12 22 (9.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (8.79%) Performance Tuning
14 19 (7.95%) Platform Engineering
14 19 (7.95%) Software Testing
15 18 (7.53%) Mentoring
16 17 (7.11%) Project Management
16 17 (7.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 159 (66.53%) Python
2 77 (32.22%) PowerShell
3 33 (13.81%) Shell Script
4 32 (13.39%) JavaScript
4 32 (13.39%) SQL
5 23 (9.62%) TypeScript
6 22 (9.21%) C++
7 21 (8.79%) C
7 21 (8.79%) Java
8 19 (7.95%) Perl
9 18 (7.53%) Ruby
10 14 (5.86%) Groovy
11 13 (5.44%) Go
12 10 (4.18%) C#
13 7 (2.93%) Bourne shell
13 7 (2.93%) Korn
13 7 (2.93%) PL/SQL
14 6 (2.51%) SystemVerilog
14 6 (2.51%) Tcl
15 3 (1.26%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 70 (29.29%) Security Cleared
2 43 (17.99%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.62%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.28%) Degree
5 13 (5.44%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.26%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.84%) CCNP
11 2 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.84%) CISSP
11 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.84%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.42%) CEH
12 1 (0.42%) CISM
12 1 (0.42%) GIAC
12 1 (0.42%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.11%) QA
2 8 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.26%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.84%) GDPR
5 2 (0.84%) NCSC
6 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.42%) JTAG
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 79 (33.05%) Docker
2 30 (12.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (11.30%) vSphere
4 11 (4.60%) VMware NSX
5 10 (4.18%) Active Directory
6 9 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (3.35%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.67%) VMware Server
9 3 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.26%) zsh
10 2 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.84%) Firmware
10 2 (0.84%) KVM
10 2 (0.84%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 100 (41.84%) Ansible
2 98 (41.00%) Terraform
3 89 (37.24%) Kubernetes
4 29 (12.13%) Puppet
5 24 (10.04%) Prometheus
6 23 (9.62%) Grafana
7 22 (9.21%) Progress Chef
8 19 (7.95%) Kibana
9 13 (5.44%) logstash
10 11 (4.60%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (4.60%) HP Fortify
11 9 (3.77%) Packer
12 7 (2.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (2.93%) vRealize
13 6 (2.51%) Graylog
13 6 (2.51%) Istio
13 6 (2.51%) Red Hat Satellite
14 5 (2.09%) Nessus
14 5 (2.09%) WebInspect
15 4 (1.67%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 40 (16.74%) VMware
2 35 (14.64%) Oracle
3 33 (13.81%) Red Hat
4 32 (13.39%) Splunk
5 21 (8.79%) Microsoft
6 13 (5.44%) Atlassian
6 13 (5.44%) Cisco
6 13 (5.44%) SolarWinds
7 11 (4.60%) Google
8 9 (3.77%) EMC
9 7 (2.93%) Veritas
10 5 (2.09%) Arqiva
10 5 (2.09%) Checkmarx
10 5 (2.09%) Veracode
11 4 (1.67%) Brocade
11 4 (1.67%) Cadence
11 4 (1.67%) Symantec
12 3 (1.26%) Informatica
12 3 (1.26%) Juniper
12 3 (1.26%) Salesforce