Bourne shell Contracts

Bourne shell
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Bourne shell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Bourne shell over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 708 853
Rank change year-on-year +137 +145 -176
Contract jobs citing Bourne shell 11 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.007% 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.086% 0.019% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £425 - £478
25th Percentile £500 - £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 - £594
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.93%
75th Percentile £536 - £670
90th Percentile - - £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £450
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,821 21,193 32,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.38% 35.22% 36.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,116 15,304 23,676
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 487 516
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +22.35% +14.94%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.68 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.75
% change year-on-year - +25.63% +18.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bourne shell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bourne shell in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bourne shell.

Daily rate trend for Bourne shell in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bourne shell.

Hourly rate trend for Bourne shell in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bourne shell within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +129 9 £500 - 1
UK excluding London +63 9 £500 - 1
West Midlands - 7 £536 -
Midlands - 7 £536 - 1
Work from Home - 4 £535 - 2
South East +12 2 £450 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (18.18%) SAN
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Ant
General
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
1 9 (81.82%) SQL Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Unix Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Unix Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Unix
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
1 9 (81.82%) Scrum
1 9 (81.82%) Software Testing
1 9 (81.82%) System Testing
2 2 (18.18%) Benchmarking
2 2 (18.18%) Budgeting
2 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
2 2 (18.18%) Change Management
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
2 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (18.18%) Information Security
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Mathematics
2 2 (18.18%) Server Hardening
2 2 (18.18%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Korn
2 9 (81.82%) Bash
2 9 (81.82%) PL/SQL
2 9 (81.82%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) AWK
3 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) RHCE
2 2 (18.18%) RHCSA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) NetBackup
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (18.18%) yum
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) EMC
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 2 (18.18%) Veritas