Bash Contracts with Work from Home Options

Bash Shell
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 112 162
Rank change year-on-year -61 +50 +12
Contract jobs citing Bash 184 557 758
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.21% 2.18% 1.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.62% 5.84% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 429 557
10th Percentile £400 £450 £423
25th Percentile £463 £519 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £638
90th Percentile £688 £835 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -10.42% +5.26% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 3
10th Percentile - £48.38 £22.48
25th Percentile - £51.25 £23.19
Median hourly rate - £59.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year - +105.22% -23.33%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £55.94
90th Percentile - £76.65 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £67.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.13% +17.83% +15.00%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,078 9,530 16,958
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.51% 37.32% 38.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,680 6,970 12,590
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 204 191
10th Percentile £26.50 £32.03 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.63% +11.17%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £58.13
90th Percentile £88.38 £78.80 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% +20.00% +14.94%

Bash
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Bash trend for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Bash.

Bash daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Bash over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Bash daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Bash.

Bash hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 23 (12.50%) Confluence
2 5 (2.72%) nginx
2 5 (2.72%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.17%) Apache
3 4 (2.17%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.63%) IIS
5 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.54%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.54%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.54%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 103 (55.98%) AWS
2 64 (34.78%) Azure
3 32 (17.39%) GCP
4 24 (13.04%) Serverless
5 20 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (10.33%) GitHub
7 18 (9.78%) OpenShift
8 16 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (8.70%) IaaS
9 15 (8.15%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (8.15%) Amazon S3
10 14 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (6.52%) PaaS
13 11 (5.98%) SaaS
14 9 (4.89%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (3.80%) Nutanix
16 7 (3.80%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.41%) Firewall
2 19 (10.33%) TCP/IP
3 18 (9.78%) DNS
4 13 (7.07%) DHCP
5 12 (6.52%) SAN
6 8 (4.35%) LAN
7 7 (3.80%) Kerberos
7 7 (3.80%) NAS
7 7 (3.80%) Network Security
7 7 (3.80%) VLAN
8 5 (2.72%) HTTP
8 5 (2.72%) SSL
9 4 (2.17%) BGP
9 4 (2.17%) VPN
9 4 (2.17%) WAN
10 3 (1.63%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (1.63%) IOS XR
10 3 (1.63%) WLAN
11 2 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
11 2 (1.09%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.61%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (5.98%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.89%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.80%) MySQL
8 6 (3.26%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.63%) InfluxDB
10 3 (1.63%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.63%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.09%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.09%) Couchbase
11 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.09%) Redis
11 2 (1.09%) Tableau
12 1 (0.54%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 55 (29.89%) Git
2 52 (28.26%) Jenkins
3 28 (15.22%) GitLab
4 26 (14.13%) JIRA
5 10 (5.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.35%) TeamCity
7 6 (3.26%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.63%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.63%) Travis CI
9 2 (1.09%) Ant
9 2 (1.09%) Gradle
9 2 (1.09%) Maven
9 2 (1.09%) Selenium
10 1 (0.54%) AppScan
10 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.54%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 49 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.13%) Public Sector
3 23 (12.50%) Finance
4 7 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.72%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.17%) Banking
6 4 (2.17%) Law
6 4 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.63%) Marketing
8 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Back Office
9 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.54%) French Language
9 1 (0.54%) Games
9 1 (0.54%) Legal
9 1 (0.54%) Military
9 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (32.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (15.76%) Developer
3 28 (15.22%) Senior
4 24 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (11.96%) AWS DevOps
6 19 (10.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 11 (5.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 11 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (5.98%) Senior DevOps
8 10 (5.43%) Lead
9 9 (4.89%) DBA
10 8 (4.35%) Consultant
10 8 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.80%) Administrator
11 7 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.26%) Architect
12 6 (3.26%) Software Developer
12 6 (3.26%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.33%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (7.07%) React
3 12 (6.52%) AWS CDK
4 9 (4.89%) LDAP
4 9 (4.89%) Node.js
5 7 (3.80%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.80%) Kafka
6 6 (3.26%) JSON
7 5 (2.72%) AWS SAM
7 5 (2.72%) CSS
7 5 (2.72%) Django
7 5 (2.72%) HTML
7 5 (2.72%) REST
8 4 (2.17%) .NET
8 4 (2.17%) RESTful
8 4 (2.17%) XML
8 4 (2.17%) YAML
9 3 (1.63%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.63%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.98%) Replication
2 10 (5.43%) Clustering
2 10 (5.43%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.26%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.17%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.63%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.63%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.63%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.63%) PKI
8 2 (1.09%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.09%) Equities
8 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.54%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 95 (51.63%) Linux
2 37 (20.11%) Windows
3 25 (13.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (11.41%) Unix
5 19 (10.33%) Windows Server
6 13 (7.07%) Ubuntu
7 11 (5.98%) Solaris
8 8 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (2.72%) CentOS
10 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.09%) VMS
11 1 (0.54%) AIX
11 1 (0.54%) Android
11 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (52.17%) DevOps
2 74 (40.22%) CI/CD
3 53 (28.80%) Agile
4 52 (28.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (16.85%) Containerisation
7 27 (14.67%) Test Automation
8 25 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (11.96%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (10.87%) High Availability
11 19 (10.33%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (10.33%) Roadmaps
12 17 (9.24%) Configuration Management
12 17 (9.24%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (8.15%) Task Automation
14 14 (7.61%) Computer Science
14 14 (7.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 13 (7.07%) Mentoring
15 13 (7.07%) Scrum
16 11 (5.98%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 144 (78.26%) Python
2 52 (28.26%) PowerShell
3 32 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 30 (16.30%) SQL
5 27 (14.67%) Perl
6 23 (12.50%) Java
7 19 (10.33%) Go
8 15 (8.15%) C++
9 14 (7.61%) TypeScript
10 13 (7.07%) C
11 11 (5.98%) Ruby
12 6 (3.26%) C#
12 6 (3.26%) Groovy
12 6 (3.26%) Korn
12 6 (3.26%) Shell Script
13 4 (2.17%) Bourne shell
13 4 (2.17%) PHP
13 4 (2.17%) PL/SQL
13 4 (2.17%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 49 (26.63%) Security Cleared
2 35 (19.02%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.24%) Degree
4 15 (8.15%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.98%) AWS Certification
7 9 (4.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.63%) CCNA
9 3 (1.63%) CCNP
9 3 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.09%) CEH
10 2 (1.09%) CISM
10 2 (1.09%) CISSP
10 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.09%) RHCE
10 2 (1.09%) SANS
11 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.35%) GDPR
2 7 (3.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.17%) QA
5 2 (1.09%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.09%) WCAG
6 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.54%) NIST
6 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (30.98%) Docker
2 16 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.89%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (3.26%) vSphere
6 5 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.72%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.63%) zsh
8 1 (0.54%) iptables
8 1 (0.54%) Lustre
8 1 (0.54%) Postfix
8 1 (0.54%) PowerDNS
8 1 (0.54%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 76 (41.30%) Terraform
2 66 (35.87%) Ansible
2 66 (35.87%) Kubernetes
3 24 (13.04%) Puppet
4 20 (10.87%) Grafana
5 18 (9.78%) Prometheus
6 17 (9.24%) Progress Chef
7 11 (5.98%) Kibana
8 10 (5.43%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (4.35%) EMC NetWorker
10 7 (3.80%) Netcool
10 7 (3.80%) Tivoli
10 7 (3.80%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 6 (3.26%) Nagios
12 3 (1.63%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.63%) logstash
12 3 (1.63%) Packer
12 3 (1.63%) SCCM
13 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
13 2 (1.09%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 23 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 23 (12.50%) Splunk
2 21 (11.41%) VMware
3 17 (9.24%) Oracle
3 17 (9.24%) Red Hat
4 13 (7.07%) Cisco
5 12 (6.52%) Atlassian
6 9 (4.89%) EMC
7 8 (4.35%) IBM
7 8 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.80%) CyberArk
8 7 (3.80%) Dell
8 7 (3.80%) HP
8 7 (3.80%) Isilon
8 7 (3.80%) Qualys
8 7 (3.80%) Serena
9 6 (3.26%) Google
10 5 (2.72%) TOWER Software
11 4 (2.17%) F5
11 4 (2.17%) SolarWinds