The first table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Bash shell over the 3 months to 21 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 for the Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bash shell
Rank 79 64 66
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +2
Permanent jobs citing Bash shell 3 4 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.290% 0.627% 1.519%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.518% 1.034% 2.281%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 10
Average salary £50,500 £40,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.25% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,100 £40,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,100 £40,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +4.16%
All Programming Languages
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
579 387 526
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 55.89% 60.66% 66.58%
Number of salaries quoted 513 338 505
Average salary £40,000 £38,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £30,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £62,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Bash shell
Oxfordshire

Bash shell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford Bash shell Jobs Demand Trend

Bash shell
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Bash shell across the Oxford region.

Oxford Bash shell Salary Trend

Bash shell
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Bash shell across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Oxford Bash shell Salary Histogram

Bash shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Bash shell.

1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 7 (58.33%) Apache
3 7 (58.33%) Windows
4 6 (50.00%) Python
4 6 (50.00%) VMware
4 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (50.00%) Puppet
5 5 (41.67%) Ubuntu
5 5 (41.67%) MySQL
5 5 (41.67%) Cisco
6 4 (33.33%) Tomcat
6 4 (33.33%) C++
6 4 (33.33%) LDAP
6 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
6 4 (33.33%) Subversion
6 4 (33.33%) Jetty
7 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (25.00%) Degree
7 3 (25.00%) nginx
7 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 3 (25.00%) Cobbler
7 3 (25.00%) Ruby
7 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (25.00%) Nagios
7 3 (25.00%) Debian
7 3 (25.00%) Firewall
7 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (25.00%) NFS

Bash shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Bash shell. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (16.67%) STL
1 2 (16.67%) XMPP
2 1 (8.333%) jQuery
2 1 (8.333%) Django
2 1 (8.333%) CSS3
2 1 (8.333%) HTML5
2 1 (8.333%) Sphinx
2 1 (8.333%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (8.333%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 7 (58.33%) Apache
2 4 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 4 (33.33%) Jetty
3 3 (25.00%) nginx
4 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
4 2 (16.67%) Mathematica
4 2 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (16.67%) Lync
5 1 (8.333%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) LDAP
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) SAN
3 2 (16.67%) SSL
3 2 (16.67%) Kerberos
3 2 (16.67%) DHCP
3 2 (16.67%) SSH
3 2 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (16.67%) AMQP
4 1 (8.333%) SMTP
4 1 (8.333%) HTTP
4 1 (8.333%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (41.67%) MySQL
3 2 (16.67%) SQLite
4 1 (8.333%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Subversion
2 2 (16.67%) GCC
2 2 (16.67%) GDB
2 2 (16.67%) Git (software)
3 1 (8.333%) Ant
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Systems Administrator
1 9 (75.00%) Administrator
2 8 (66.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 8 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
1 2 (16.67%) PKI
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (8.333%) Blog
2 1 (8.333%) Informatics
2 1 (8.333%) Biotechnology
2 1 (8.333%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Windows
3 5 (41.67%) Ubuntu
4 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (25.00%) Debian
5 2 (16.67%) Solaris
5 2 (16.67%) UNIX
5 2 (16.67%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (8.333%) Manual Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Refactoring
4 1 (8.333%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (8.333%) Software Architecture
4 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.333%) TDD
4 1 (8.333%) Pair Programming
4 1 (8.333%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) C++
3 3 (25.00%) Ruby
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) C
4 2 (16.67%) Perl
4 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 2 (16.67%) MATLAB
4 2 (16.67%) tcsh
5 1 (8.333%) PHP
5 1 (8.333%) SQL
5 1 (8.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (25.00%) NFS
3 2 (16.67%) Samba
3 2 (16.67%) Xen
3 2 (16.67%) qmail
3 2 (16.67%) Postfix
3 2 (16.67%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Puppet
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 3 (25.00%) Cobbler
2 3 (25.00%) Nagios
3 2 (16.67%) YUM
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (41.67%) Cisco
4 3 (25.00%) Juniper
5 2 (16.67%) Citrix
5 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
5 2 (16.67%) Cadence
6 1 (8.333%) IBM
6 1 (8.333%) HP
6 1 (8.333%) Dell