The first table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Bash shell over the 3 months to 17 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bash shell
Rank 323 397 359
Rank change year-on-year
+74 -38
Contract jobs citing Bash shell 227 182 243
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.489% 0.312% 0.396%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.308% 0.904% 1.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 94 151
Average daily rate £350 £370 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £280 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 11
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +21.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £32.50 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £52.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - £38.00
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
17354 20123 22996
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.40% 34.53% 37.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10695 11930 13290
Average daily rate £380 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.33% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £560 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 624 707 934
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.72 £17.50 £19.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00

Bash shell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Bash shell Daily Rate Trend

Bash shell
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Bash shell within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bash shell Daily Rate Histogram

Bash shell
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Bash shell within the UK.

Bash shell Hourly Rate Trend

Bash shell
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Bash shell within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bash shell Hourly Rate Histogram

Bash shell
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +77 219 £350 -5.40%
London +35 115 £450 +12.78%
Yorkshire +42 54 £275 -1.78%
West Yorkshire +41 50 £275 -1.78%
Leeds +29 48 £275 -1.78%
City of London +10 31 £400 -
South East +35 24 £463 +119.19%
Berkshire - 11 £480 -
East Midlands +11 10 £338 -
Hampshire -3 7 £295 +39.81%
North West +17 6 - -
Manchester +16 6 - -
East of England -3 6 £315 -28.00%
Slough - 5 £480 -
Cambridgeshire +4 4 £315 -28.00%
Scotland -14 4 - -
Middlesex - 4 - -
Canary Wharf - 4 £650 -
Southampton -1 3 £295 +39.81%
Reading - 3 £550 -
Hounslow - 3 £438 -
Edinburgh - 3 - -
Surrey +21 2 £125 -
South West +7 2 £375 -3.84%
Cambridge +1 2 £310 -29.14%
Hertfordshire -3 2 - -
Surbiton - 2 - -
Birmingham +10 1 £400 +33.33%
West Midlands +7 1 £400 +33.33%
Bristol +2 1 £375 -3.84%

Bash shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 392 (86.15%) Linux
2 218 (47.91%) Perl
3 202 (44.40%) Java
4 196 (43.08%) Python
5 156 (34.29%) UNIX
6 146 (32.09%) Oracle
7 131 (28.79%) Apache
8 128 (28.13%) SQL
9 124 (27.25%) Puppet
10 117 (25.71%) Red Hat
11 111 (24.40%) MySQL
12 110 (24.18%) Windows
13 107 (23.52%) Shell Script
14 99 (21.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 88 (19.34%) Web Services
15 88 (19.34%) Tomcat
16 86 (18.90%) PHP
17 83 (18.24%) Solaris
18 81 (17.80%) TCP/IP
18 81 (17.80%) DNS
18 81 (17.80%) Subversion
19 78 (17.14%) Amazon AWS
20 77 (16.92%) Finance
21 76 (16.70%) Ruby
22 68 (14.95%) Continuous Integration
23 67 (14.73%) VMware
23 67 (14.73%) C++
24 65 (14.29%) JavaScript
25 63 (13.85%) Amazon EC2
26 61 (13.41%) HTTP

Bash shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 88 (19.34%) Web Services
2 59 (12.97%) WebSphere
3 55 (12.09%) J2EE
4 51 (11.21%) HTML
5 49 (10.77%) XML
6 43 (9.451%) Node.js
7 40 (8.791%) CSS
7 40 (8.791%) JDBC
8 34 (7.473%) JSP
9 30 (6.593%) .NET
10 29 (6.374%) Spring
11 27 (5.934%) XHTML
11 27 (5.934%) jQuery
12 26 (5.714%) Servlets
13 25 (5.495%) XSLT
13 25 (5.495%) JMS
14 24 (5.275%) Middleware
14 24 (5.275%) EJB
14 24 (5.275%) HTML5
15 20 (4.396%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 131 (28.79%) Apache
2 88 (19.34%) Tomcat
3 78 (17.14%) Amazon AWS
4 63 (13.85%) Amazon EC2
5 47 (10.33%) Amazon S3
6 44 (9.670%) nginx
7 40 (8.791%) Route 53
8 35 (7.692%) WebSphere Application Server
9 27 (5.934%) WebLogic
10 21 (4.615%) IIS
11 19 (4.176%) MQSeries
12 10 (2.198%) CMS
12 10 (2.198%) Apache Solr
13 9 (1.978%) Liferay
14 7 (1.538%) IBM HTTP Server
14 7 (1.538%) Oracle Coherence
14 7 (1.538%) Adobe CQ
15 6 (1.319%) WebLogic Portal
16 5 (1.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 2 (0.440%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 11 (2.418%) Mingle
2 9 (1.978%) MS Office
3 6 (1.319%) MS Excel
3 6 (1.319%) MS Project
4 2 (0.440%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (3.077%) Tridion
2 13 (2.857%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.440%) Summit
3 2 (0.440%) Front Arena
3 2 (0.440%) WebTrends
3 2 (0.440%) PeopleSoft Financials
4 1 (0.220%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 81 (17.80%) TCP/IP
1 81 (17.80%) DNS
2 61 (13.41%) HTTP
3 57 (12.53%) Internet
4 43 (9.451%) SAN
5 39 (8.571%) DHCP
5 39 (8.571%) SSL
6 24 (5.275%) NAS
7 21 (4.615%) SMTP
8 15 (3.297%) Network Security
9 14 (3.077%) iSCSI
9 14 (3.077%) SNMP
10 13 (2.857%) LDAP
10 13 (2.857%) WAN
11 12 (2.637%) Firewall
11 12 (2.637%) Intrusion Detection
12 11 (2.418%) Kerberos
13 10 (2.198%) Ethernet
13 10 (2.198%) tcpdump
14 9 (1.978%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (24.40%) MySQL
2 49 (10.77%) RDBMS
3 48 (10.55%) MongoDB
4 41 (9.011%) Redis
5 40 (8.791%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (7.473%) SQL Server
7 31 (6.813%) DB2
8 30 (6.593%) NoSQL
9 23 (5.055%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (4.396%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (3.736%) SimpleDB
11 17 (3.736%) Couchbase
12 14 (3.077%) Hadoop
13 9 (1.978%) OLTP
13 9 (1.978%) Oracle 10g
14 8 (1.758%) Oracle 11g
15 6 (1.319%) Oracle 8/8i
16 5 (1.099%) Data Mining
17 4 (0.879%) Oracle Reports
17 4 (0.879%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 81 (17.80%) Subversion
2 60 (13.19%) Jenkins
3 58 (12.75%) Git (software)
4 46 (10.11%) JUnit
5 45 (9.890%) Ant
6 44 (9.670%) Maven
7 42 (9.231%) Hudson
8 31 (6.813%) Eclipse
9 25 (5.495%) JIRA
10 23 (5.055%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
11 14 (3.077%) Log4j
11 14 (3.077%) dbdeploy
12 13 (2.857%) TeamCity
12 13 (2.857%) GDB
13 6 (1.319%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (1.319%) Mercurial
13 6 (1.319%) AnthillPro
14 5 (1.099%) ClearQuest
14 5 (1.099%) Gerrit
14 5 (1.099%) FishEye
General
1 77 (16.92%) Finance
2 55 (12.09%) Banking
3 46 (10.11%) Telecoms
4 33 (7.253%) Retail
5 21 (4.615%) Games
5 21 (4.615%) Investment Banking
6 7 (1.538%) Retail Banking
6 7 (1.538%) Back Office
7 6 (1.319%) Front Office
8 5 (1.099%) Marketing
9 4 (0.879%) Publishing
10 3 (0.659%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.440%) Advertising
11 2 (0.440%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.220%) Military
12 1 (0.220%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.220%) French Language
12 1 (0.220%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.220%) Legal
Job Titles
1 126 (27.69%) Developer
2 60 (13.19%) Administrator
3 50 (10.99%) Linux Administrator
4 47 (10.33%) Linux Engineer
5 46 (10.11%) Systems Engineer
6 45 (9.890%) Systems Administrator
7 41 (9.011%) Java Developer
8 39 (8.571%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 29 (6.374%) Software Engineer
10 17 (3.736%) Tester
11 16 (3.516%) Support Engineer
12 15 (3.297%) Analyst
12 15 (3.297%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (3.077%) J2EE Developer
13 14 (3.077%) Java/J2EE Developer
14 12 (2.637%) Operations Engineer
14 12 (2.637%) Build Manager
14 12 (2.637%) Test Engineer
15 11 (2.418%) Penetration Tester
15 11 (2.418%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.132%) Client/Server
2 28 (6.154%) Open Source
3 26 (5.714%) Clustering
4 16 (3.516%) STB
4 16 (3.516%) Web 2.0
5 12 (2.637%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.198%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (1.758%) Digital Media
8 7 (1.538%) IPTV
8 7 (1.538%) Computer Science
8 7 (1.538%) MPEG
8 7 (1.538%) Cryptography
9 6 (1.319%) N-Tier
9 6 (1.319%) Mathematics
10 5 (1.099%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (1.099%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.879%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.879%) SaaS
11 4 (0.879%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.879%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 392 (86.15%) Linux
2 156 (34.29%) UNIX
3 110 (24.18%) Windows
4 99 (21.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 83 (18.24%) Solaris
6 33 (7.253%) Debian
7 25 (5.495%) Ubuntu
8 22 (4.835%) CentOS
9 20 (4.396%) HPUX
10 19 (4.176%) AIX
11 13 (2.857%) Windows Server 2008
11 13 (2.857%) SUSE
12 11 (2.418%) Windows Server 2003
13 9 (1.978%) VMS
14 6 (1.319%) Windows XP
15 3 (0.659%) Windows 2000
16 2 (0.440%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.440%) Windows 2000 Server
16 2 (0.440%) Android
16 2 (0.440%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (14.95%) Continuous Integration
2 59 (12.97%) TDD
3 58 (12.75%) OO
4 57 (12.53%) Scrum
5 53 (11.65%) Configuration Management
6 52 (11.43%) Agile Software Development
7 43 (9.451%) Kanban
8 36 (7.912%) Test Automation
8 36 (7.912%) Load Balancing
9 34 (7.473%) E-Commerce
10 33 (7.253%) ITIL
11 27 (5.934%) UML
12 23 (5.055%) RAD
12 23 (5.055%) Incident Management
12 23 (5.055%) Content Management
13 20 (4.396%) Security Testing
14 19 (4.176%) Capacity Management
15 18 (3.956%) MVC
16 17 (3.736%) BDD
17 16 (3.516%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 218 (47.91%) Perl
2 202 (44.40%) Java
3 196 (43.08%) Python
4 128 (28.13%) SQL
5 107 (23.52%) Shell Script
6 86 (18.90%) PHP
7 76 (16.70%) Ruby
8 67 (14.73%) C++
9 65 (14.29%) JavaScript
10 51 (11.21%) Korn
11 25 (5.495%) PowerShell
12 23 (5.055%) C#
13 20 (4.396%) PL/SQL
14 19 (4.176%) C
15 14 (3.077%) XPath
16 13 (2.857%) AWK
16 13 (2.857%) Groovy
16 13 (2.857%) VBScript
17 10 (2.198%) Jython
17 10 (2.198%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 30 (6.593%) Security Cleared
2 24 (5.275%) RHCE
3 18 (3.956%) Degree
4 15 (3.297%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.978%) Sun Certification
5 9 (1.978%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (1.758%) CCNA
7 7 (1.538%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (1.538%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.099%) RHCT
9 4 (0.879%) HND
10 3 (0.659%) ISEB
10 3 (0.659%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.220%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.220%) CISSP
11 1 (0.220%) MCDBA
11 1 (0.220%) CCSP
11 1 (0.220%) CCNP
11 1 (0.220%) CEH
11 1 (0.220%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.495%) QA
2 8 (1.758%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (8.352%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (6.813%) NFS
3 17 (3.736%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 16 (3.516%) Postfix
5 14 (3.077%) Samba
6 12 (2.637%) Oracle RAC
7 11 (2.418%) vSphere
8 10 (2.198%) Squid
9 9 (1.978%) vCloud
10 8 (1.758%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (1.758%) Active Directory
10 8 (1.758%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 7 (1.538%) Nmap
12 6 (1.319%) Hyper-V
12 6 (1.319%) Sendmail
12 6 (1.319%) Xen
13 5 (1.099%) SRDF
14 4 (0.879%) VMware ESX
15 3 (0.659%) Veritas File System
15 3 (0.659%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 124 (27.25%) Puppet
2 48 (10.55%) Nagios
3 15 (3.297%) BladeLogic
4 12 (2.637%) Red Hat Satellite
5 11 (2.418%) Cobbler
6 9 (1.978%) Splunk
7 7 (1.538%) HP Quality Center
8 6 (1.319%) Zenoss
8 6 (1.319%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 5 (1.099%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (1.099%) Ganglia
10 4 (0.879%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.879%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.659%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.659%) Control-M
11 3 (0.659%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.659%) YUM
12 2 (0.440%) CFEngine
13 1 (0.220%) HP Operations Orchestration
13 1 (0.220%) BMC Performance Manager
Vendors
1 146 (32.09%) Oracle
2 117 (25.71%) Red Hat
3 67 (14.73%) VMware
4 54 (11.87%) IBM
5 52 (11.43%) HP
6 27 (5.934%) Veritas
7 24 (5.275%) JBoss
7 24 (5.275%) Cisco
8 22 (4.835%) EMC
8 22 (4.835%) NetApp
9 19 (4.176%) Microsoft
10 17 (3.736%) BMC
10 17 (3.736%) Percona
11 16 (3.516%) ATG
11 16 (3.516%) Blue Martini
12 14 (3.077%) Elastic Path
12 14 (3.077%) Perforce
12 14 (3.077%) Interwoven
12 14 (3.077%) Sun
13 12 (2.637%) SAP
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Posted: 15 May 2013
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Posted: 13 May 2013
South East
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Rate: £300 Per Day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
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Prism Digital
Rate: £300 - £340 per day + extensions likely
Posted: 13 May 2013
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
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e-Recruiter
Rate: £2000 - £2400 per week
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
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Rate: £400 - £420 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Demonstrable deployment/configuration experience with web application servers ideally on either IBM WebSphere or Oracle WebLogic. * Demonstrable practical experience of working in a Unix/Linux environment including system...
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Rate: £320.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
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Rate: £320.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Rate: £350.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Essential skills Red Hat Linux in a large production environment... Veritas stack including VCS. SAN and NAS solutions, EMC... Advanced shell Scripting (bash, Perl and/or Python) Samba/...
ComputAppoint
Rate: £500 - £600 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
Hounslow, Middlesex
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Experis IT
Rate: TBC
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
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Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
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Aston Carter
Rate: 475
Posted: 17 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
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OPUS
Rate: GBP80 to GBP90 per day
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Posted: 15 May 2013
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Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
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Posted: 16 May 2013
London
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Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013