The first table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Bash shell over the 3 months to 18 June 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 for the West Midlands region.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bash shell
Rank 97 104 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing Bash shell 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.059% 0.088% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.195% 0.272% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £400 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £345 £338
% change year-on-year
-13.04% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - £29.00
All Programming Languages
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
512 734 669
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 30.06% 32.38% 34.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 389 341
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £218 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 29 26
Average hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.61% +30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.31 £14.20 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
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Bash shell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Bash shell Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Bash shell across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Bash shell Daily Rate Trend

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Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Bash shell across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Bash shell Hourly Rate Trend

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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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Birmingham +6 1 £400 +23.07% 1
Shropshire - - - -
Warwickshire - - - -
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) NetScreen
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) XenServer

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) NetScreen
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) XenServer
1 1 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
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