The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Bash shell skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Bash shell over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category.

Bash shell
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank266339374
Rank change year-on-year
Up+73Up+35
Matching permanent IT job ads1142807464
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.942 %0.661 %0.487 %
As % of the Programming Languages category1.756 %1.258 %0.957 %
Number of salaries quoted943695399
Average salary£45,000£45,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+12.50 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,500£30,000£27,700
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£72,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£36,000£36,000
% change year-on-year
+4.16 %-
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
650266412748463
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK53.65 %52.55 %50.90 %
Number of salaries quoted573265558941223
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£70,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Bash shell
Demand Trend

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

Bash shell Demand Trend

Bash shell
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Bash shell within the UK.

Bash shell Salary Trend

Bash shell
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Bash shell over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Bash shell Salary Histogram

Bash shell
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bash shell within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+781111£45,000-0.55 %
LondonUp+49673£45,000-16.66 %
South EastUp+62205£43,000+2.38 %
City of LondonDown-14115£45,000-18.18 %
East of EnglandDown-1382£40,000+6.66 %
BerkshireUp+1057£45,000+12.50 %
SurreyUp+2352£55,000+29.41 %
CambridgeshireUp+949£40,000+8.10 %
South WestDown-1147£37,500+25.00 %
North WestUp+2644£32,500-7.14 %
East SussexNew entry-34£37,500-
CambridgeDown-532£40,000+9.58 %
StainesUp+2329£55,000+10.00 %
BrightonNew entry-28£36,000-
BristolUp+2227£37,500+25.00 %
HertfordshireDown-227£40,000-5.88 %
OxfordshireUp+826£38,750+19.23 %
YorkshireUp+925£35,000-
East MidlandsUp+1723£22,500-12.62 %
CheshireUp+821£32,500+10.16 %
WatfordNo change018--
NottinghamshireUp+1717£22,500-12.62 %
NottinghamUp+1517£22,500-12.62 %
ReadingNo change017£45,000-
South WalesUp+915£45,000+20.00 %
WalesUp+415£45,000+20.00 %
GuildfordDown-1013£43,000+65.38 %
LiverpoolNew entry-13£50,000-
SloughNew entry-13£47,500-
MerseysideNew entry-13£50,000-

Bash shell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11651 (75.84 %)Linux
21381 (63.44 %)Perl
3956 (43.91 %)UNIX
4873 (40.10 %)Apache
5863 (39.64 %)Python
6857 (39.37 %)Java
7703 (32.29 %)MySQL
8620 (28.48 %)PHP
9600 (27.56 %)SQL
10595 (27.33 %)Red Hat
11567 (26.05 %)Windows
12446 (20.49 %)Shell Script
13414 (19.02 %)Finance
14399 (18.33 %)TCP/IP
15392 (18.01 %)Tomcat
16372 (17.09 %)DNS
17368 (16.90 %)Ruby
18361 (16.58 %)Degree
19340 (15.62 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20336 (15.43 %)XML
21329 (15.11 %)JavaScript
22318 (14.61 %)Subversion
23307 (14.10 %)C++
24306 (14.06 %)CentOS
25303 (13.92 %)LAMP
26294 (13.50 %)Open Source
27289 (13.28 %)VMware
28273 (12.54 %)Oracle
29255 (11.71 %)Puppet
30249 (11.44 %)Debian

Bash shell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1336 (15.43 %)XML
2303 (13.92 %)LAMP
3208 (9.554 %)HTML
4207 (9.508 %)CSS
5194 (8.911 %)J2EE
6162 (7.441 %).NET
7151 (6.936 %)Web Services
8130 (5.972 %)Ajax
9117 (5.374 %)WebSphere
1098 (4.502 %)XHTML
1189 (4.088 %)SOAP
1283 (3.813 %)jQuery
1379 (3.629 %)Zend Framework
1474 (3.399 %)Hibernate
1571 (3.261 %)Java EE
1664 (2.940 %)Servlets
1763 (2.894 %)REST
1860 (2.756 %)Spring
1860 (2.756 %)Middleware
1952 (2.389 %)HTML5
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1873 (40.10 %)Apache
2392 (18.01 %)Tomcat
3112 (5.145 %)IIS
487 (3.996 %)WebLogic
575 (3.445 %)nginx
669 (3.169 %)Amazon EC2
755 (2.526 %)Confluence
854 (2.480 %)RabbitMQ
854 (2.480 %)MS Exchange
950 (2.297 %)CMS
1043 (1.975 %)Drupal
1141 (1.883 %)Apache Solr
1239 (1.791 %)Amazon AWS
1331 (1.424 %)Exchange Server 2010
1430 (1.378 %)WebSphere Application Server
1430 (1.378 %)Jetty
1527 (1.240 %)SharePoint
1622 (1.011 %)MQSeries
1622 (1.011 %)Exchange Server 2007
1720 (0.919 %)Magento
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
154 (2.480 %)MS Excel
234 (1.562 %)MS Visio
326 (1.194 %)MS Office
48 (0.367 %)Spreadsheet
57 (0.322 %)Photoshop
66 (0.276 %)MATLAB
66 (0.276 %)Google Apps
75 (0.230 %)MS Project
81 (0.046 %)MS PowerPoint
81 (0.046 %)Doxygen
81 (0.046 %)Adobe Illustrator
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (0.459 %)Tridion
28 (0.367 %)SalesLogix
36 (0.276 %)Summit
45 (0.230 %)ION MarketView
45 (0.230 %)FastVal
45 (0.230 %)SunGard APT
54 (0.184 %)WebTrends
54 (0.184 %)SAP Retail
62 (0.092 %)SAP SRM
71 (0.046 %)3000 Xtra
71 (0.046 %)LongView
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1399 (18.33 %)TCP/IP
2372 (17.09 %)DNS
3243 (11.16 %)HTTP
4199 (9.141 %)Internet
5178 (8.176 %)Firewall
6155 (7.120 %)DHCP
7140 (6.431 %)SAN
8130 (5.972 %)SMTP
9125 (5.742 %)LDAP
1083 (3.813 %)SSL
1174 (3.399 %)SSH
1174 (3.399 %)VPN
1269 (3.169 %)NAS
1356 (2.572 %)VoIP
1451 (2.343 %)IPsec
1550 (2.297 %)SNMP
1550 (2.297 %)VLAN
1647 (2.159 %)Asterisk PBX
1647 (2.159 %)OpenVPN
1746 (2.113 %)FTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1703 (32.29 %)MySQL
2225 (10.34 %)SQL Server
3117 (5.374 %)PostgreSQL
483 (3.813 %)RDBMS
544 (2.021 %)NoSQL
643 (1.975 %)DB2
742 (1.929 %)Oracle 11g
836 (1.654 %)Hadoop
927 (1.240 %)Data Warehouse
1022 (1.011 %)Oracle 10g
1121 (0.965 %)SQL Server 2008
1121 (0.965 %)SQL Server 2005
1219 (0.873 %)Apache Cassandra
1318 (0.827 %)MongoDB
1318 (0.827 %)Oracle 8/8i
1410 (0.459 %)OLAP
158 (0.367 %)ETL
167 (0.322 %)Informix
176 (0.276 %)OLTP
176 (0.276 %)SQL Server Integration Services
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1318 (14.61 %)Subversion
2162 (7.441 %)Selenium
3160 (7.350 %)Git (software)
4109 (5.007 %)JIRA
5103 (4.731 %)Eclipse
690 (4.134 %)QuickTest Pro
785 (3.904 %)Ant
867 (3.078 %)Mercurial
966 (3.032 %)Hudson
1060 (2.756 %)Maven
1060 (2.756 %)FishEye
1152 (2.389 %)Cucumber
1250 (2.297 %)RSpec
1341 (1.883 %)JUnit
1439 (1.791 %)Rational Robot
1537 (1.700 %)Bugzilla
1636 (1.654 %)FitNesse
1730 (1.378 %)LoadRunner
1825 (1.148 %)WinRunner
1922 (1.011 %)Atlassian Bamboo
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1414 (19.02 %)Finance
2163 (7.487 %)Games
3118 (5.420 %)Retail
489 (4.088 %)Banking
588 (4.042 %)Telecoms
631 (1.424 %)Investment Banking
727 (1.240 %)Publishing
727 (1.240 %)Front Office
825 (1.148 %)Marketing
825 (1.148 %)Manufacturing
920 (0.919 %)Back Office
920 (0.919 %)Financial Institution
920 (0.919 %)Multimedia
1017 (0.781 %)Law
1115 (0.689 %)Advertising
1212 (0.551 %)Electronics
1310 (0.459 %)German Language
1310 (0.459 %)Online Betting
149 (0.413 %)Music
156 (0.276 %)Retail Banking
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1618 (28.39 %)Administrator
2552 (25.36 %)Systems Administrator
3499 (22.92 %)Developer
4392 (18.01 %)Linux Administrator
5345 (15.85 %)Linux Systems Administrator
6197 (9.049 %)Linux Engineer
7166 (7.625 %)Java Developer
8144 (6.615 %)Analyst
9131 (6.017 %)Systems Engineer
10126 (5.788 %)PHP Developer
11112 (5.145 %)Tester
1286 (3.950 %)Senior Developer
1382 (3.767 %)Software Engineer
1472 (3.307 %)Support Engineer
1568 (3.124 %)C# Developer
1568 (3.124 %)Senior Systems Administrator
1662 (2.848 %)Support Analyst
1761 (2.802 %)DBA
1761 (2.802 %)Applications Support
1860 (2.756 %)Web Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1294 (13.50 %)Open Source
2181 (8.314 %)Computer Science
3131 (6.017 %)Online Games
490 (4.134 %)Replication
584 (3.859 %)Clustering
681 (3.721 %)Management Information System
769 (3.169 %)SaaS
863 (2.894 %)Hedge funds
951 (2.343 %)W3C
1047 (2.159 %)Equities
1142 (1.929 %)Social Media
1241 (1.883 %)Digital Media
1340 (1.837 %)Cloud Computing
1438 (1.746 %)Fixed Income
1530 (1.378 %)BBC
1530 (1.378 %)Social Network
1627 (1.240 %)New Media
1627 (1.240 %)Derivative
1723 (1.056 %)STB
1821 (0.965 %)Embedded Systems
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11651 (75.84 %)Linux
2956 (43.91 %)UNIX
3567 (26.05 %)Windows
4340 (15.62 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5306 (14.06 %)CentOS
6249 (11.44 %)Debian
7152 (6.982 %)Ubuntu
8147 (6.752 %)Solaris
982 (3.767 %)Windows Server 2003
1074 (3.399 %)Windows Server 2008
1147 (2.159 %)SUSE
1229 (1.332 %)HPUX
1326 (1.194 %)Mac OS X
1419 (0.873 %)AIX
1517 (0.781 %)VMS
1615 (0.689 %)Fedora
179 (0.413 %)Windows 2000
188 (0.367 %)Windows XP
188 (0.367 %)Mac OS X Server
197 (0.322 %)Oracle Linux
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1203 (9.325 %)Agile Software Development
2182 (8.360 %)OO
3179 (8.222 %)E-Commerce
4171 (7.855 %)Configuration Management
5166 (7.625 %)TDD
6150 (6.890 %)Continuous Integration
7127 (5.834 %)Load Balancing
8115 (5.282 %)Automated Testing
9104 (4.777 %)ITIL
10102 (4.685 %)Test Automation
1193 (4.272 %)Web Development
1285 (3.904 %)Release Management
1379 (3.629 %)Software Testing
1475 (3.445 %)Software Engineering
1569 (3.169 %)Scrum
1665 (2.986 %)UML
1764 (2.940 %)Test Scripting
1861 (2.802 %)SOA
1861 (2.802 %)Waterfall
1956 (2.572 %)Unit Testing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11381 (63.44 %)Perl
2863 (39.64 %)Python
3857 (39.37 %)Java
4620 (28.48 %)PHP
5600 (27.56 %)SQL
6446 (20.49 %)Shell Script
7368 (16.90 %)Ruby
8329 (15.11 %)JavaScript
9307 (14.10 %)C++
10236 (10.84 %)Korn
11231 (10.61 %)C#
12154 (7.074 %)C
13150 (6.890 %)AWK
14108 (4.961 %)PHP5
15106 (4.869 %)Scala
16104 (4.777 %)PowerShell
17101 (4.639 %)Erlang
18100 (4.593 %)Lisp
1999 (4.548 %)F#
2097 (4.456 %)Haskell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1361 (16.58 %)Degree
2130 (5.972 %)RHCE
379 (3.629 %)ISEB
473 (3.353 %)Cisco Certification
562 (2.848 %)CCNA
647 (2.159 %)RHCT
647 (2.159 %)Security Cleared
734 (1.562 %)ISTQB
822 (1.011 %)Microsoft Certification
920 (0.919 %)MCSE
920 (0.919 %)HND
1018 (0.827 %)SC Cleared
1115 (0.689 %)DV Cleared
1214 (0.643 %)CCNP
1310 (0.459 %)ITIL Certification
148 (0.367 %)LPIC
157 (0.322 %)Sun Certification
157 (0.322 %)PhD
166 (0.276 %)MCSA
166 (0.276 %)CCIP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1161 (7.395 %)QA
222 (1.011 %)SLA
319 (0.873 %)PCI DSS
413 (0.597 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
510 (0.459 %)ISO 9001
510 (0.459 %)WAI
68 (0.367 %)JTAG
74 (0.184 %)ISO/IEC 27001
83 (0.138 %)ISO 8583
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1188 (8.636 %)VMware Infrastructure
2136 (6.247 %)NFS
3106 (4.869 %)Active Directory
489 (4.088 %)Samba
588 (4.042 %)Xen
668 (3.124 %)Varnish
761 (2.802 %)Postfix
837 (1.700 %)vSphere
934 (1.562 %)VMware ESX
1031 (1.424 %)VMware ESXi
1124 (1.102 %)Squid
1217 (0.781 %)Oracle RMAN
1217 (0.781 %)VirtualBox
1315 (0.689 %)Oracle RAC
1413 (0.597 %)qmail
1512 (0.551 %)Sendmail
169 (0.413 %)VMware Server
177 (0.322 %)FreeRADIUS
186 (0.276 %)XenServer
195 (0.230 %)Veritas Volume Manager
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1255 (11.71 %)Puppet
2247 (11.35 %)Nagios
360 (2.756 %)Cacti
430 (1.378 %)Ganglia
527 (1.240 %)Splunk
626 (1.194 %)Munin
725 (1.148 %)CFEngine
824 (1.102 %)NetBackup
922 (1.011 %)Red Hat Spacewalk
922 (1.011 %)Tivoli
1021 (0.965 %)ZABBIX
1119 (0.873 %)WSUS
1218 (0.827 %)Red Hat Satellite
1218 (0.827 %)Data Guard
1218 (0.827 %)SCCM
1317 (0.781 %)Backup Exec
1416 (0.735 %)HP Quality Center
1515 (0.689 %)Cobbler
1614 (0.643 %)Nessus
1710 (0.459 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1595 (27.33 %)Red Hat
2289 (13.28 %)VMware
3273 (12.54 %)Oracle
4218 (10.01 %)JBoss
5181 (8.314 %)Cisco
6124 (5.696 %)Zend
7116 (5.328 %)Microsoft
8101 (4.639 %)HP
959 (2.710 %)Atlassian
1052 (2.389 %)IBM
1138 (1.746 %)Sun
1138 (1.746 %)Citrix
1234 (1.562 %)Google
1330 (1.378 %)F5
1330 (1.378 %)Akamai
1426 (1.194 %)Juniper
1523 (1.056 %)SAP
1523 (1.056 %)Veritas
1523 (1.056 %)Rackspace
1622 (1.011 %)Sybase