Bash Contracts in the West Midlands

Bash Shell
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 126 148
Rank change year-on-year +29 +22 -26
Contract jobs citing Bash 12 13 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.62% 0.55% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.83% 2.06% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 21
10th Percentile £430 £370 £363
25th Percentile £475 £381 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £495
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +21.21% +13.14%
75th Percentile £536 £700 £560
90th Percentile - £715 £588
England median daily rate £550 £625 £574
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.93% +14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £40.50 £67.75 £69.05
% change year-on-year -40.22% -1.88% +25.55%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 424 630 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.03% 26.47% 25.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 440 677
10th Percentile £260 £362 £325
25th Percentile £350 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £459
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +14.38% +14.75%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £540
90th Percentile £638 £700 £636
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 2
10th Percentile £40.10 £21.73 £16.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.81 £16.51
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% +68.59% -53.63%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £18.38
90th Percentile £69.75 £98.25 £18.60
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the West Midlands

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Bash in the West Midlands

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the West Midlands

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Shropshire - 8 £536 - 3
Coventry +12 1 £450 +16.13% 1
Worcestershire - 1 £400 - 3
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Bluetooth
1 2 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) SSL
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Ant
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Development Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Server Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Support Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Yocto
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) LDAP
2 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Device Driver
3 1 (8.33%) Hedge funds
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Unix
2 4 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (8.33%) CentOS
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (8.33%) Windows
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
1 7 (58.33%) Scrum
1 7 (58.33%) Software Testing
1 7 (58.33%) System Testing
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) A/B Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Canary Deployment
3 1 (8.33%) Change Control
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) Bourne shell
2 7 (58.33%) Korn
2 7 (58.33%) PL/SQL
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) C++
4 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (16.67%) Firmware
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Server
2 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Argo
1 1 (8.33%) Istio
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) linkerd
1 1 (8.33%) SELinux
1 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
1 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) VMware