Bash Shell Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Bash Shell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Bash Shell over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Bash Shell UK
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	170	183	254
Rank change year-on-year	+13	+71
Contract jobs citing Bash Shell	680	739	492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.44%	1.37%	0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category	3.44%	3.52%	2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted	450	484	315
Median daily rate	£493	£450	£414
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+9.44%	+8.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£324	£307
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£585	£550	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£401	£400
% change year-on-year	+6.11%	+0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	11	13
Median hourly rate	£44.75	£55.00	£45.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-18.63%	+22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£41.25	£40.00	£38.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£57.50	£52.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£45.00	£57.50	£40.00
% change year-on-year	-21.73%	+43.75%

Bash Shell is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	19764	20993	21025
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	41.95%	38.88%	38.12%
Number of daily rates quoted	13485	14405	14060
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£300	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£575	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	389	462	425
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£37.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+13.33%	+1.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.77	£15.00	£19.03
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.80	£50.16	£51.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	+1.35%

Bash Shell
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Bash Shell as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

Job vacancy trend for Bash Shell in the UK

Bash Shell
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Bash Shell.

Contractor daily rate trend for Bash Shell in the UK

Bash Shell
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Bash Shell over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Bash Shell in the UK

Bash Shell
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash Shell.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Bash Shell in the UK

Bash Shell
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash Shell within the UK over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+9	632	£500	+11.11%	226
London	-5	410	£520	+9.47%	100
South East	-13	65	£383	-7.27%	49
City of London	+6	60	£503	+5.78%	29
North West	+9	40	£450	+5.75%	17
Scotland	+37	38	£425	+18.05%	6
West Midlands	+47	31	£460	+15.00%	4
Yorkshire	+20	30	£410	-14.58%	26
Manchester	+31	29	£425	-	9
Leeds	+25	28	£400	-4.76%	21
West Yorkshire	+21	28	£400	-8.04%	23
Croydon	+14	28	£463	-3.64%
Edinburgh	+37	24	£425	-	2
East of England	+9	24	£450	+4.34%	13
Hampshire	+6	20	£475	+18.67%	12
Berkshire	+30	17	£358	-18.11%	15
South West	-11	16	£400	-9.85%	13
Surrey	+4	14	£431	+1.47%	13
Glasgow	+13	13	£425	-5.55%	4
Nottinghamshire	+9	12	£400	+42.22%	4
Nottingham	+7	12	£400	+42.22%	4
East Midlands	0	12	£400	-11.11%	4
Basingstoke	-	12	£432	-	4
Shropshire	+19	10	£496	-
Cheshire	+22	9	£550	+36.64%	5
Hertfordshire	+2	9	£388	-3.12%	4
Telford	+19	8	£496	-
West Sussex	+19	7	£338	-16.92%	2
County Antrim	-39	7	£464	+15.85%	1
Northern Ireland	-42	7	£464	+15.85%	1

Bash Shell
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Bash Shell also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Bash Shell.

1	1055 (77.69%)	Linux
2	911 (67.08%)	Python
3	683 (50.29%)	DevOps
4	602 (44.33%)	Puppet
5	478 (35.20%)	Amazon AWS
6	463 (34.09%)	Ansible
7	453 (33.36%)	Java
8	443 (32.62%)	Git (software)
9	438 (32.25%)	Ruby
10	435 (32.03%)	Jenkins
11	430 (31.66%)	Agile Software Development
12	428 (31.52%)	Docker
13	371 (27.32%)	Perl
14	358 (26.36%)	Configuration Management
15	330 (24.30%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux

16	297 (21.87%)	Unix
17	266 (19.59%)	Red Hat
18	258 (19.00%)	Opscode Chef
19	251 (18.48%)	CentOS
19	251 (18.48%)	Windows
20	237 (17.45%)	Continuous Integration
21	235 (17.30%)	VMware
22	231 (17.01%)	Security Cleared
23	214 (15.76%)	Finance
24	204 (15.02%)	SQL
25	192 (14.14%)	Shell Script
25	192 (14.14%)	SC Cleared
26	181 (13.33%)	Terraform
27	178 (13.11%)	Kubernetes
28	177 (13.03%)	PowerShell

Bash Shell
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	173 (12.74%)	Apache
2	144 (10.60%)	Tomcat
3	136 (10.01%)	Elasticsearch
4	93 (6.85%)	Confluence
5	77 (5.67%)	JBoss
6	76 (5.60%)	nginx
7	43 (3.17%)	WebSphere
8	37 (2.72%)	OpenStack
9	28 (2.06%)	Apache Spark
10	27 (1.99%)	IIS
11	24 (1.77%)	WebLogic
12	23 (1.69%)	WebSphere Application Server
13	18 (1.33%)	CMS
14	16 (1.18%)	WordPress
15	13 (0.96%)	Apache Geronimo
15	13 (0.96%)	Apache Pig
15	13 (0.96%)	Apache TomEE
16	12 (0.88%)	Drupal
16	12 (0.88%)	SharePoint
17	10 (0.74%)	MS Exchange

Applications
1	7 (0.52%)	Stata
2	6 (0.44%)	Microsoft Office
3	3 (0.22%)	Microsoft Excel
3	3 (0.22%)	Microsoft Project
4	1 (0.074%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	7 (0.52%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	6 (0.44%)	Oracle Applications
2	6 (0.44%)	Payment Gateway
3	4 (0.29%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4	2 (0.15%)	Dynamics AX
5	1 (0.074%)	Actimize
5	1 (0.074%)	ION MarketView
5	1 (0.074%)	Oracle EBS
5	1 (0.074%)	Oracle EBS R12
5	1 (0.074%)	Oracle Receivables
5	1 (0.074%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	478 (35.20%)	Amazon AWS
2	105 (7.73%)	Microsoft Azure
3	65 (4.79%)	Amazon EC2
3	65 (4.79%)	GitHub
4	61 (4.49%)	Amazon S3
5	57 (4.20%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	46 (3.39%)	Virtual Private Cloud
7	39 (2.87%)	IaaS
8	37 (2.72%)	Amazon ELB
9	35 (2.58%)	PaaS
10	34 (2.50%)	Cloud Computing
11	33 (2.43%)	Amazon CloudWatch
12	29 (2.14%)	OpenShift
13	25 (1.84%)	Google Cloud Platform
14	22 (1.62%)	AWS Lambda
15	21 (1.55%)	SaaS
16	20 (1.47%)	Amazon EMR
17	15 (1.10%)	Route 53
18	13 (0.96%)	Datadog
19	10 (0.74%)	Quay.io

Communications & Networking
1	149 (10.97%)	HTTP
2	135 (9.94%)	DNS
3	129 (9.50%)	TCP/IP
4	124 (9.13%)	Firewall
5	89 (6.55%)	LDAP
6	74 (5.45%)	SSL
7	55 (4.05%)	SAN
8	54 (3.98%)	SSH
9	37 (2.72%)	Internet
10	26 (1.91%)	DHCP
10	26 (1.91%)	HTTPS
11	23 (1.69%)	VPN
12	22 (1.62%)	NAS
13	21 (1.55%)	Wireshark
14	19 (1.40%)	Network Security
15	18 (1.33%)	IPsec
16	17 (1.25%)	SMTP
17	15 (1.10%)	ICMP
18	14 (1.03%)	OpenLDAP
19	12 (0.88%)	iSCSI

Database & Business Intelligence
1	157 (11.56%)	PostgreSQL
2	152 (11.19%)	MySQL
3	122 (8.98%)	Hadoop
4	117 (8.62%)	Big Data
5	105 (7.73%)	MongoDB
6	95 (7.00%)	SQL Server
7	63 (4.64%)	Relational Database
8	59 (4.34%)	NoSQL
9	58 (4.27%)	Apache Cassandra
10	56 (4.12%)	Apache Hive
11	41 (3.02%)	Amazon RDS
12	35 (2.58%)	Redis
13	31 (2.28%)	RDBMS
14	28 (2.06%)	Oracle Database
15	27 (1.99%)	Data Warehouse
16	23 (1.69%)	DB2
17	19 (1.40%)	HBase
17	19 (1.40%)	MariaDB
18	15 (1.10%)	Amazon DynamoDB
19	13 (0.96%)	Sqoop

Development Applications
1	443 (32.62%)	Git (software)
2	435 (32.03%)	Jenkins
3	176 (12.96%)	Maven
4	165 (12.15%)	JIRA
5	77 (5.67%)	Vagrant
6	76 (5.60%)	Subversion
7	69 (5.08%)	Sonatype Nexus
8	58 (4.27%)	Artifactory
9	53 (3.90%)	Selenium
10	51 (3.76%)	JUnit
11	50 (3.68%)	TeamCity
12	42 (3.09%)	Bitbucket
13	39 (2.87%)	GitLab
14	35 (2.58%)	Mockito
15	34 (2.50%)	Atlassian Bamboo
15	34 (2.50%)	Cucumber
16	33 (2.43%)	Hudson
17	30 (2.21%)	Ant
18	24 (1.77%)	SonarQube
19	22 (1.62%)	WebDriver

General
1	214 (15.76%)	Finance
2	97 (7.14%)	Banking
3	37 (2.72%)	Front Office
4	36 (2.65%)	Telecoms
5	29 (2.14%)	Investment Banking
6	25 (1.84%)	Financial Institution
7	20 (1.47%)	Retail
8	15 (1.10%)	Marketing
9	11 (0.81%)	Games
10	7 (0.52%)	Electronics
10	7 (0.52%)	Manufacturing
11	5 (0.37%)	Law
12	4 (0.29%)	Aerospace
12	4 (0.29%)	Back Office
12	4 (0.29%)	Publishing
12	4 (0.29%)	Retail Banking
13	3 (0.22%)	Legal
14	2 (0.15%)	Digital Economy
14	2 (0.15%)	German Language
15	1 (0.074%)	Spanish Language

Job Titles
1	473 (34.83%)	DevOps Engineer
2	183 (13.48%)	Linux Engineer
3	180 (13.25%)	Developer
4	158 (11.63%)	AWS Engineer
5	149 (10.97%)	AWS DevOps
6	131 (9.65%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
7	110 (8.10%)	Administrator
8	100 (7.36%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
9	88 (6.48%)	Linux DevOps Engineer
10	71 (5.23%)	Java Developer
11	66 (4.86%)	Linux Administrator
11	66 (4.86%)	Systems Administrator
12	64 (4.71%)	Consultant
13	61 (4.49%)	Architect
14	57 (4.20%)	Linux Systems Administrator
15	56 (4.12%)	Senior DevOps
16	51 (3.76%)	Analyst
17	50 (3.68%)	Senior DevOps Engineer
18	45 (3.31%)	Cloud Engineer
19	41 (3.02%)	Systems Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	124 (9.13%)	Elastic Stack
2	120 (8.84%)	Web Services
3	102 (7.51%)	HTML
4	85 (6.26%)	REST
5	82 (6.04%)	Kafka
6	76 (5.60%)	Node.js
7	68 (5.01%)	XML
8	66 (4.86%)	CSS
8	66 (4.86%)	LAMP
9	64 (4.71%)	Spring
10	58 (4.27%)	LAPP Stack
11	57 (4.20%)	JSON
12	56 (4.12%)	.NET
13	47 (3.46%)	JMS
14	42 (3.09%)	HTML5
14	42 (3.09%)	Sensu
15	41 (3.02%)	RabbitMQ
16	40 (2.95%)	J2EE
17	34 (2.50%)	AngularJS
17	34 (2.50%)	Java EE

Miscellaneous
1	101 (7.44%)	Analytical Skills
2	84 (6.19%)	Linux Command Line
3	76 (5.60%)	Clustering
4	69 (5.08%)	Data Centre
5	62 (4.57%)	Computer Science
6	50 (3.68%)	Public Cloud
7	31 (2.28%)	Enterprise Software
8	30 (2.21%)	Replication
9	29 (2.14%)	Greenfield Project
10	23 (1.69%)	Private Cloud
11	22 (1.62%)	Management Information System
12	21 (1.55%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
13	18 (1.33%)	Algorithms
14	13 (0.96%)	Data Structures
15	12 (0.88%)	Fintech
15	12 (0.88%)	Smart Meter
16	11 (0.81%)	Enterprise Storage
16	11 (0.81%)	User Experience
17	10 (0.74%)	Client/Server
17	10 (0.74%)	Virtual Team

Operating Systems
1	1055 (77.69%)	Linux
2	330 (24.30%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3	297 (21.87%)	Unix
4	251 (18.48%)	CentOS
4	251 (18.48%)	Windows
5	148 (10.90%)	Ubuntu
6	62 (4.57%)	Solaris
7	59 (4.34%)	Windows Server
8	46 (3.39%)	AIX
9	45 (3.31%)	Debian
10	38 (2.80%)	SUSE
11	28 (2.06%)	Windows Server 2008
12	24 (1.77%)	Windows Server 2012
13	19 (1.40%)	CoreOS
13	19 (1.40%)	Oracle Linux
14	16 (1.18%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15	7 (0.52%)	Android
15	7 (0.52%)	Windows Server 2003
16	6 (0.44%)	Data ONTAP
17	5 (0.37%)	Mac OS X

Processes & Methodologies
1	683 (50.29%)	DevOps
2	430 (31.66%)	Agile Software Development
3	358 (26.36%)	Configuration Management
4	237 (17.45%)	Continuous Integration
5	137 (10.09%)	Open Source
6	135 (9.94%)	Test Automation
7	123 (9.06%)	Continuous Delivery
8	114 (8.39%)	Scrum
9	76 (5.60%)	Microservices
10	73 (5.38%)	Load Balancing
11	70 (5.15%)	Analytics
12	66 (4.86%)	Migration
13	65 (4.79%)	Software Engineering
14	64 (4.71%)	High Availability
15	60 (4.42%)	ITIL
15	60 (4.42%)	SDLC
16	59 (4.34%)	Performance Tuning
17	58 (4.27%)	E-Commerce
18	57 (4.20%)	TDD
19	51 (3.76%)	Unit Testing

Programming Languages
1	911 (67.08%)	Python
2	453 (33.36%)	Java
3	438 (32.25%)	Ruby
4	371 (27.32%)	Perl
5	204 (15.02%)	SQL
6	192 (14.14%)	Shell Script
7	177 (13.03%)	PowerShell
8	146 (10.75%)	JavaScript
9	95 (7.00%)	PHP
10	85 (6.26%)	Korn
11	75 (5.52%)	Go
12	63 (4.64%)	C
13	55 (4.05%)	C++
14	48 (3.53%)	Scala
15	42 (3.09%)	C#
16	32 (2.36%)	Groovy
17	25 (1.84%)	C-shell
18	22 (1.62%)	PL/SQL
19	18 (1.33%)	VB
20	11 (0.81%)	R

Qualifications
1	231 (17.01%)	Security Cleared
2	192 (14.14%)	SC Cleared
3	59 (4.34%)	Degree
4	35 (2.58%)	RHCE
5	32 (2.36%)	CISSP
6	23 (1.69%)	DV Cleared
7	22 (1.62%)	Computer Science Degree
8	20 (1.47%)	AWS Certification
8	20 (1.47%)	CEH
9	16 (1.18%)	RHCSA
9	16 (1.18%)	SANS
10	14 (1.03%)	Cisco Certification
11	13 (0.96%)	CREST Certified
11	13 (0.96%)	GIAC
11	13 (0.96%)	Master's Degree
12	11 (0.81%)	CCNP
13	10 (0.74%)	CCNA
14	8 (0.59%)	Microsoft Certification
14	8 (0.59%)	RHCA
15	7 (0.52%)	MCSE

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	33 (2.43%)	QA
2	17 (1.25%)	Disclosure Scotland
3	11 (0.81%)	SLA
4	8 (0.59%)	PCI DSS
5	3 (0.22%)	GCP
6	2 (0.15%)	Data Quality
6	2 (0.15%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	1 (0.074%)	EMIR
7	1 (0.074%)	HL7
7	1 (0.074%)	MiFID
7	1 (0.074%)	PMO

System Software
1	428 (31.52%)	Docker
2	133 (9.79%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	76 (5.60%)	Virtual Machines
4	48 (3.53%)	Active Directory
5	41 (3.02%)	VMware ESXi
6	32 (2.36%)	KVM
7	30 (2.21%)	Squid
8	29 (2.14%)	vSphere
9	23 (1.69%)	Hyper-V
10	22 (1.62%)	HDFS
10	22 (1.62%)	NFS
11	20 (1.47%)	vCloud
12	18 (1.33%)	iptables
13	17 (1.25%)	Xen
14	16 (1.18%)	LXC
15	15 (1.10%)	Postfix
16	13 (0.96%)	GlusterFS
17	11 (0.81%)	etcd
17	11 (0.81%)	flannel
17	11 (0.81%)	Virtual Servers

Systems Management
1	602 (44.33%)	Puppet
2	463 (34.09%)	Ansible
3	258 (19.00%)	Opscode Chef
4	181 (13.33%)	Terraform
5	178 (13.11%)	Kubernetes
6	101 (7.44%)	Nagios
7	67 (4.93%)	logstash
8	61 (4.49%)	Kibana
9	52 (3.83%)	Graphite
10	50 (3.68%)	ZABBIX
11	44 (3.24%)	Salt
12	42 (3.09%)	SELinux
13	37 (2.72%)	HAProxy
14	34 (2.50%)	Rancher
14	34 (2.50%)	Red Hat Satellite
15	31 (2.28%)	Grafana
15	31 (2.28%)	Packer
16	28 (2.06%)	Prometheus
17	25 (1.84%)	Cobbler
18	23 (1.69%)	NetBackup

Vendors
1	266 (19.59%)	Red Hat
2	235 (17.30%)	VMware
3	151 (11.12%)	Oracle
4	80 (5.89%)	Splunk
5	64 (4.71%)	Microsoft
6	56 (4.12%)	IBM
7	43 (3.17%)	HP
8	39 (2.87%)	Google
9	35 (2.58%)	SaltStack
10	29 (2.14%)	Sybase
11	27 (1.99%)	AppDynamics
12	24 (1.77%)	New Relic
12	24 (1.77%)	Veritas
13	23 (1.69%)	EMC
14	20 (1.47%)	Atlassian
14	20 (1.47%)	Cisco
14	20 (1.47%)	Dynatrace
15	18 (1.33%)	Currenex
15	18 (1.33%)	TIBCO
16	17 (1.25%)	NetApp