Bash Contracts in the UK excluding London

Bash Shell
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 144 194
Rank change year-on-year -30 +50 -5
Contract jobs citing Bash 230 380 402
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.13% 1.66% 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.75% 5.84% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 267 280
10th Percentile £413 £395 £413
25th Percentile £463 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - +18.28%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.54% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 9
10th Percentile £54.00 - £35.24
25th Percentile £58.13 £51.25 £49.28
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +0.58% +25.32%
75th Percentile £77.50 £75.38 £69.05
90th Percentile £79.00 £88.80 -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £62.13 £62.43
% change year-on-year -27.57% -0.49% +24.86%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,842 6,508 8,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.77% 28.41% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,270 4,571 6,063
10th Percentile £317 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +16.55%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 326 330
10th Percentile £37.55 £24.31 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.01 £29.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +23.10% +26.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.78
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.51%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Bash in the UK excluding London

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
North of England +11 70 £525 -12.50% 34
South East -8 58 £550 -3.47% 37
Yorkshire +36 45 £495 -17.50% 11
South West -2 31 £550 -8.33% 36
Scotland -11 31 £480 -8.57% 8
North West -12 25 £550 -5.58% 18
Midlands +29 22 £536 +23.57% 20
East of England -6 19 £550 +8.91% 22
West Midlands +15 14 £450 -25.00% 14
East Midlands +13 8 £600 +84.62% 6
Wales +19 1 £690 +20.00% 4
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (9.13%) Confluence
2 7 (3.04%) Apache
2 7 (3.04%) nginx
3 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.87%) IBM Domino
4 2 (0.87%) Traefik
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.04%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 113 (49.13%) AWS
2 63 (27.39%) Azure
3 33 (14.35%) GCP
3 33 (14.35%) GitHub
4 29 (12.61%) Amazon S3
5 28 (12.17%) Serverless
6 27 (11.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (11.30%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (9.57%) OpenShift
9 21 (9.13%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (5.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.35%) Datadog
14 9 (3.91%) Kong
14 9 (3.91%) Snowflake
15 6 (2.61%) Amazon ELB
15 6 (2.61%) Apigee
15 6 (2.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.00%) DNS
2 21 (9.13%) Firewall
3 16 (6.96%) TCP/IP
4 12 (5.22%) VPN
5 10 (4.35%) SAN
6 9 (3.91%) HTTP
7 8 (3.48%) Fibre Channel
8 7 (3.04%) Network Security
9 6 (2.61%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (2.17%) DHCP
10 5 (2.17%) LAN
10 5 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (2.17%) WAN
11 4 (1.74%) IPv4
11 4 (1.74%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (1.74%) SSL
12 3 (1.30%) BGP
12 3 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 3 (1.30%) IOS XR
12 3 (1.30%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.61%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (11.30%) MongoDB
3 24 (10.43%) Elasticsearch
4 21 (9.13%) MySQL
5 14 (6.09%) Relational Database
5 14 (6.09%) SQL Server
6 13 (5.65%) Oracle Database
7 8 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (3.04%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.61%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.61%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.74%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.30%) Big Data
11 3 (1.30%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.30%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.87%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.87%) Metadata
13 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 72 (31.30%) Git
2 55 (23.91%) Jenkins
3 49 (21.30%) GitLab
4 25 (10.87%) JIRA
5 17 (7.39%) SonarQube
6 12 (5.22%) Artifactory
7 11 (4.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (3.91%) Bitbucket
8 9 (3.91%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.91%) Travis CI
9 7 (3.04%) Maven
10 6 (2.61%) Gradle
10 6 (2.61%) Subversion
11 5 (2.17%) AppScan
11 5 (2.17%) Burp Suite
12 4 (1.74%) Ant
13 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.30%) Hudson
13 3 (1.30%) Selenium
14 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (22.17%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.48%) Public Sector
3 16 (6.96%) Finance
4 14 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.04%) Legal
6 5 (2.17%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.74%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.30%) Banking
8 3 (1.30%) Retail
9 2 (0.87%) Electronics
9 2 (0.87%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 52 (22.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (13.04%) Developer
3 23 (10.00%) Senior
4 22 (9.57%) Linux Engineer
4 22 (9.57%) Platform Engineer
5 20 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
6 19 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 14 (6.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 13 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (5.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.22%) Database Specialist
10 12 (5.22%) Site Engineer
10 12 (5.22%) Software Engineer
11 11 (4.78%) Administrator
11 11 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (3.91%) Consultant
14 8 (3.48%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.26%) React
1 19 (8.26%) YAML
2 18 (7.83%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (7.39%) AWS CDK
4 16 (6.96%) JSON
5 14 (6.09%) Node.js
6 12 (5.22%) CSS
6 12 (5.22%) HTML
7 9 (3.91%) REST
7 9 (3.91%) XML
8 7 (3.04%) .NET
9 5 (2.17%) Django
9 5 (2.17%) Kafka
9 5 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.17%) Yocto
10 4 (1.74%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.74%) LDAP
10 4 (1.74%) RESTful
10 4 (1.74%) SAML
10 4 (1.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.74%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (6.09%) Replication
3 11 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.78%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.35%) Clustering
5 9 (3.91%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.91%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.48%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.04%) PKI
8 6 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.17%) ASIC
9 5 (2.17%) Verilog
10 4 (1.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.74%) FPGA
11 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.30%) HP Storage
11 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.30%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.30%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 126 (54.78%) Linux
2 36 (15.65%) Unix
2 36 (15.65%) Windows
3 35 (15.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (9.57%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.35%) CentOS
6 9 (3.91%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.48%) Solaris
8 7 (3.04%) VMS
9 6 (2.61%) Debian
10 5 (2.17%) Rocky
11 4 (1.74%) AIX
12 3 (1.30%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.43%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (42.17%) CI/CD
2 90 (39.13%) DevOps
3 64 (27.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (27.39%) Agile
5 61 (26.52%) Containerisation
6 55 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (19.13%) Task Automation
8 40 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
9 37 (16.09%) Scrum
10 33 (14.35%) Test Automation
11 24 (10.43%) Software Engineering
12 22 (9.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (9.13%) Performance Tuning
14 20 (8.70%) Configuration Management
15 19 (8.26%) Software Testing
16 18 (7.83%) Platform Engineering
16 18 (7.83%) Roadmaps
17 17 (7.39%) Disaster Recovery
17 17 (7.39%) High Availability
17 17 (7.39%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 148 (64.35%) Python
2 73 (31.74%) PowerShell
3 36 (15.65%) Shell Script
4 31 (13.48%) SQL
5 26 (11.30%) JavaScript
6 19 (8.26%) C
6 19 (8.26%) C++
6 19 (8.26%) TypeScript
7 18 (7.83%) Java
7 18 (7.83%) Perl
8 14 (6.09%) Ruby
9 12 (5.22%) Groovy
10 11 (4.78%) Go
11 9 (3.91%) C#
12 7 (3.04%) Bourne shell
12 7 (3.04%) Korn
12 7 (3.04%) PL/SQL
13 5 (2.17%) SystemVerilog
13 5 (2.17%) Tcl
14 3 (1.30%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 63 (27.39%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.96%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.09%) Degree
5 9 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.30%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.87%) CCNP
9 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.87%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.43%) CISM
10 1 (0.43%) CISSP
10 1 (0.43%) GIAC
10 1 (0.43%) RHCE
10 1 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.39%) QA
2 8 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.30%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (30.43%) Docker
2 31 (13.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (12.17%) vSphere
4 11 (4.78%) Active Directory
4 11 (4.78%) VMware NSX
5 9 (3.91%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (3.48%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.74%) VMware Server
7 4 (1.74%) zsh
8 3 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.87%) KVM
9 2 (0.87%) Varnish
9 2 (0.87%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.43%) Firmware
10 1 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 104 (45.22%) Ansible
2 94 (40.87%) Terraform
3 78 (33.91%) Kubernetes
4 29 (12.61%) Puppet
5 24 (10.43%) Prometheus
6 23 (10.00%) Grafana
7 22 (9.57%) Progress Chef
8 16 (6.96%) Kibana
9 11 (4.78%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (4.78%) HP Fortify
10 9 (3.91%) logstash
10 9 (3.91%) Packer
11 7 (3.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (3.04%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (3.04%) vRealize
12 6 (2.61%) Graylog
13 5 (2.17%) HAProxy
13 5 (2.17%) Istio
13 5 (2.17%) Nessus
13 5 (2.17%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 42 (18.26%) VMware
2 37 (16.09%) Red Hat
3 35 (15.22%) Oracle
4 31 (13.48%) Splunk
5 21 (9.13%) Microsoft
6 15 (6.52%) Cisco
7 13 (5.65%) SolarWinds
8 10 (4.35%) Atlassian
9 9 (3.91%) EMC
9 9 (3.91%) Google
10 7 (3.04%) Veritas
11 5 (2.17%) Arqiva
11 5 (2.17%) Checkmarx
11 5 (2.17%) Veracode
12 4 (1.74%) Brocade
12 4 (1.74%) Cadence
12 4 (1.74%) Symantec
13 3 (1.30%) Informatica
13 3 (1.30%) Juniper
13 3 (1.30%) TOWER Software