Bash Contracts in England

Bash Shell
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 134 165
Rank change year-on-year -88 +31 +37
Contract jobs citing Bash 397 1,017 1,254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.07% 1.99% 1.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.67% 5.60% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 755 809
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £457 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £566
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +10.42% +13.20%
75th Percentile £611 £725 £669
90th Percentile £699 £810 £738
UK median daily rate £536 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -10.67% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 14
10th Percentile £21.70 £20.50 £22.71
25th Percentile £22.00 £56.88 £43.41
Median hourly rate £52.50 £73.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -28.08% +5.72% +25.55%
75th Percentile £60.00 £76.00 £76.33
90th Percentile £76.00 £81.60 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £71.50 £69.05
% change year-on-year -26.57% +3.55% +45.37%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,809 18,159 26,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.05% 35.45% 37.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,855 13,255 19,666
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +3.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £690 £669
90th Percentile £775 £798 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 442 469
10th Percentile £35.52 £25.78 £20.20
25th Percentile £47.50 £49.36 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +16.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £61.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% +22.35% +14.94%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in England

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in England.

Daily rate trend for Bash in England

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in England

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in England.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in England

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Bash in England

Bash
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
London -85 209 £550 -14.63% 110
South East -22 55 £550 -6.38% 37
North of England -15 54 £520 -13.33% 36
Yorkshire +19 28 £475 -19.15% 17
North West -31 26 £550 -8.33% 16
South West -4 23 £600 -4.00% 33
Midlands +35 20 £537 +43.13% 17
East of England -10 18 £485 -3.96% 15
West Midlands +27 12 £500 -16.67% 9
East Midlands +14 8 £600 +84.62% 8
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (6.30%) Confluence
2 17 (4.28%) nginx
3 12 (3.02%) Apache
4 6 (1.51%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.26%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.01%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.50%) CMS
7 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.50%) Traefik
8 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) Drupal
8 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) InVision
2 1 (0.25%) Sketch
2 1 (0.25%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (1.76%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 186 (46.85%) AWS
2 131 (33.00%) Azure
3 70 (17.63%) GCP
4 48 (12.09%) GitHub
5 39 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (9.82%) Serverless
6 35 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
7 27 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (6.55%) Amazon S3
9 24 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (6.05%) PaaS
10 21 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (4.79%) Datadog
11 19 (4.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (4.53%) IaaS
13 15 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (3.78%) SaaS
14 13 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (3.27%) Nutanix
15 11 (2.77%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.56%) DNS
2 30 (7.56%) Firewall
3 20 (5.04%) TCP/IP
4 15 (3.78%) DHCP
4 15 (3.78%) SAN
5 10 (2.52%) Kerberos
5 10 (2.52%) LAN
5 10 (2.52%) Network Security
6 9 (2.27%) VLAN
7 8 (2.02%) Cisco Nexus
7 8 (2.02%) NAS
8 6 (1.51%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (1.51%) Wireless
9 5 (1.26%) BGP
9 5 (1.26%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (1.26%) VPN
10 4 (1.01%) Internet
10 4 (1.01%) SSH
10 4 (1.01%) SSL
10 4 (1.01%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (11.08%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.82%) MySQL
3 26 (6.55%) SQL Server
4 25 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
4 25 (6.30%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.54%) Relational Database
6 17 (4.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (4.03%) NoSQL
8 14 (3.53%) RDBMS
9 13 (3.27%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.76%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.76%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.26%) Big Data
12 5 (1.26%) Couchbase
13 4 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.01%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.50%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 108 (27.20%) Git
2 79 (19.90%) Jenkins
3 67 (16.88%) GitLab
4 31 (7.81%) JIRA
5 19 (4.79%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.52%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.52%) TeamCity
7 8 (2.02%) Artifactory
8 7 (1.76%) Subversion
9 6 (1.51%) AppScan
9 6 (1.51%) Burp Suite
10 5 (1.26%) Ant
11 4 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.01%) Selenium
12 3 (0.76%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.76%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.76%) Hudson
13 2 (0.50%) Gradle
13 2 (0.50%) Maven
13 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (17.38%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.08%) Finance
3 24 (6.05%) Public Sector
4 12 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.02%) Banking
4 12 (3.02%) Telecoms
5 8 (2.02%) Legal
6 7 (1.76%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.26%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.26%) Marketing
8 4 (1.01%) Law
8 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.01%) Retail
9 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.50%) Electronics
10 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.25%) Automotive
11 1 (0.25%) Back Office
11 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 94 (23.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (12.34%) Developer
3 45 (11.34%) Senior
4 40 (10.08%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
6 33 (8.31%) Linux Engineer
7 27 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (6.80%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (6.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 23 (5.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 20 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (4.53%) DBA
11 18 (4.53%) Senior DevOps
11 18 (4.53%) Site Engineer
12 17 (4.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 15 (3.78%) Lead
14 13 (3.27%) Consultant
14 13 (3.27%) Database Specialist
14 13 (3.27%) Linux Developer
14 13 (3.27%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.80%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (4.28%) LDAP
3 15 (3.78%) .NET
4 13 (3.27%) React
4 13 (3.27%) Yocto
5 12 (3.02%) Kafka
6 11 (2.77%) YAML
7 10 (2.52%) CSS
7 10 (2.52%) Node.js
7 10 (2.52%) REST
8 9 (2.27%) Django
9 8 (2.02%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.76%) .NET Core
10 7 (1.76%) AWS CDK
10 7 (1.76%) HTML
10 7 (1.76%) LAPP Stack
10 7 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (1.51%) JSON
11 6 (1.51%) OAuth
11 6 (1.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.80%) Linux Command Line
1 27 (6.80%) Public Cloud
1 27 (6.80%) Replication
2 21 (5.29%) Clustering
3 18 (4.53%) Data Centre
4 13 (3.27%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 8 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.02%) PKI
7 7 (1.76%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.26%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.26%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.76%) Device Driver
10 3 (0.76%) HP Storage
10 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.76%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 199 (50.13%) Linux
2 70 (17.63%) Windows
3 45 (11.34%) Unix
4 37 (9.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (9.32%) Windows Server
5 18 (4.53%) CentOS
6 17 (4.28%) Solaris
6 17 (4.28%) Ubuntu
7 12 (3.02%) VMS
8 10 (2.52%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (1.76%) Debian
10 5 (1.26%) AIX
10 5 (1.26%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.25%) Android
13 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (44.84%) DevOps
2 155 (39.04%) CI/CD
3 132 (33.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (21.91%) Containerisation
5 84 (21.16%) Agile
6 60 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (12.34%) Performance Tuning
8 42 (10.58%) Disaster Recovery
9 40 (10.08%) Configuration Management
10 39 (9.82%) Continuous Integration
11 38 (9.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 36 (9.07%) High Availability
13 35 (8.82%) Test Automation
14 34 (8.56%) Task Automation
15 33 (8.31%) Platform Engineering
16 32 (8.06%) Computer Science
16 32 (8.06%) Scrum
17 27 (6.80%) Continuous Improvement
17 27 (6.80%) Software Engineering
18 25 (6.30%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 282 (71.03%) Python
2 123 (30.98%) PowerShell
3 63 (15.87%) SQL
4 38 (9.57%) Perl
5 37 (9.32%) Go
5 37 (9.32%) JavaScript
6 32 (8.06%) Java
7 31 (7.81%) C++
8 29 (7.30%) C
9 23 (5.79%) Shell Script
10 18 (4.53%) C#
11 17 (4.28%) Ruby
12 14 (3.53%) Korn
13 11 (2.77%) PL/SQL
14 10 (2.52%) T-SQL
15 9 (2.27%) TypeScript
16 7 (1.76%) Bourne shell
16 7 (1.76%) Groovy
17 6 (1.51%) PHP
18 4 (1.01%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 124 (31.23%) Security Cleared
2 92 (23.17%) SC Cleared
3 40 (10.08%) Degree
4 34 (8.56%) DV Cleared
5 27 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.54%) AWS Certification
7 13 (3.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.02%) CCNP
8 8 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.26%) SANS
11 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.76%) CISM
12 3 (0.76%) CISSP
13 2 (0.50%) CEH
13 2 (0.50%) RHCE
13 2 (0.50%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.78%) QA
2 10 (2.52%) GDPR
3 9 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.76%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.50%) NCSC
6 2 (0.50%) NIST
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 129 (32.49%) Docker
2 48 (12.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (7.81%) vSphere
4 23 (5.79%) Active Directory
5 14 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (3.27%) KVM
7 12 (3.02%) Hyper-V
8 11 (2.77%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (1.01%) Firmware
10 4 (1.01%) zsh
11 3 (0.76%) NFS
11 3 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.50%) iptables
12 2 (0.50%) Lustre
12 2 (0.50%) PowerDNS
12 2 (0.50%) Varnish
12 2 (0.50%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 180 (45.34%) Terraform
2 155 (39.04%) Ansible
3 129 (32.49%) Kubernetes
4 38 (9.57%) Puppet
5 33 (8.31%) Prometheus
6 25 (6.30%) Grafana
7 23 (5.79%) Progress Chef
8 14 (3.53%) Packer
9 13 (3.27%) Nagios
9 13 (3.27%) ZABBIX
10 12 (3.02%) EMC NetWorker
10 12 (3.02%) HP Fortify
11 9 (2.27%) Graylog
12 8 (2.02%) Netcool
12 8 (2.02%) Tivoli
12 8 (2.02%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 7 (1.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 7 (1.76%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (1.76%) Salt
13 7 (1.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 64 (16.12%) VMware
2 51 (12.85%) Microsoft
3 49 (12.34%) Oracle
4 45 (11.34%) Splunk
5 37 (9.32%) Red Hat
6 33 (8.31%) Cisco
7 18 (4.53%) Google
8 17 (4.28%) EMC
9 13 (3.27%) SolarWinds
10 11 (2.77%) HP
10 11 (2.77%) IBM
11 10 (2.52%) Qualys
12 9 (2.27%) Dell
12 9 (2.27%) ServiceNow
13 8 (2.02%) CyberArk
13 8 (2.02%) Isilon
13 8 (2.02%) Serena
14 7 (1.76%) Okta
14 7 (1.76%) Veritas
15 6 (1.51%) Symantec