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 28 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 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	172	186	255
Rank change year-on-year	+14	+69
Contract jobs citing Bash Shell	678	738	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%	3.53%	2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted	450	487	328
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	£338	£313	£304
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£613	£575	£538
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£401	£391
% change year-on-year	+6.11%	+2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	11	17
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	£39.38	£37.50	£38.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£48.75	£58.75	£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	19720	20910	21020
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	41.86%	38.83%	38.11%
Number of daily rates quoted	26328	28996	26859
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	£310	£285	£263
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£600	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	797	908	915
Median hourly rate	£42.00	£37.50	£37.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+12.00%	+1.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£19.82	£14.43	£18.27
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£53.00	£52.50	£51.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.00	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+14.86%	-

Bash Shell
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bash Shell as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

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 28 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 11 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 28 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	0	410	£515	+8.42%	107
UK excluding London	+3	264	£425	+6.11%	127
North of England	+13	74	£441	+10.31%	40
South East	-3	64	£400	-3.03%	48
Midlands	+49	42	£460	+8.23%	7
Scotland	+37	38	£425	+18.05%	5
East of England	+8	23	£463	+7.24%	12
South West	-17	16	£400	-9.85%	12
Northern Ireland	-46	6	£455	+13.48%	1
Wales	-2	4	£184	-55.45%	2

Bash Shell
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 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	1054 (77.67%)	Linux
2	910 (67.06%)	Python
3	685 (50.48%)	DevOps
4	603 (44.44%)	Puppet
5	479 (35.30%)	Amazon AWS
6	461 (33.97%)	Ansible
7	455 (33.53%)	Java
8	443 (32.65%)	Git (software)
9	438 (32.28%)	Jenkins
10	437 (32.20%)	Ruby
11	432 (31.83%)	Agile Software Development
12	429 (31.61%)	Docker
13	372 (27.41%)	Perl
14	359 (26.46%)	Configuration Management
15	328 (24.17%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux

16	298 (21.96%)	Unix
17	264 (19.45%)	Red Hat
18	261 (19.23%)	Opscode Chef
19	251 (18.50%)	Windows
20	249 (18.35%)	CentOS
21	238 (17.54%)	Continuous Integration
22	236 (17.39%)	VMware
23	231 (17.02%)	Security Cleared
24	216 (15.92%)	Finance
25	206 (15.18%)	SQL
26	193 (14.22%)	Shell Script
27	192 (14.15%)	SC Cleared
28	181 (13.34%)	Kubernetes
28	181 (13.34%)	Terraform
29	178 (13.12%)	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	175 (12.90%)	Apache
2	145 (10.69%)	Tomcat
3	138 (10.17%)	Elasticsearch
4	95 (7.00%)	Confluence
5	79 (5.82%)	JBoss
6	78 (5.75%)	nginx
7	42 (3.10%)	WebSphere
8	37 (2.73%)	OpenStack
9	28 (2.06%)	Apache Spark
10	27 (1.99%)	IIS
11	25 (1.84%)	WebLogic
12	22 (1.62%)	WebSphere Application Server
13	18 (1.33%)	CMS
14	16 (1.18%)	WordPress
15	13 (0.96%)	Apache Pig
16	12 (0.88%)	Apache Geronimo
16	12 (0.88%)	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	5 (0.37%)	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	479 (35.30%)	Amazon AWS
2	107 (7.89%)	Microsoft Azure
3	66 (4.86%)	Amazon EC2
4	65 (4.79%)	GitHub
5	62 (4.57%)	Amazon S3
6	59 (4.35%)	AWS CloudFormation
7	47 (3.46%)	Virtual Private Cloud
8	39 (2.87%)	IaaS
9	38 (2.80%)	Amazon ELB
10	35 (2.58%)	Cloud Computing
10	35 (2.58%)	PaaS
11	33 (2.43%)	Amazon CloudWatch
12	30 (2.21%)	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	16 (1.18%)	Route 53
18	13 (0.96%)	Datadog
19	10 (0.74%)	Quay.io

Communications & Networking
1	150 (11.05%)	HTTP
2	134 (9.87%)	DNS
3	130 (9.58%)	TCP/IP
4	126 (9.29%)	Firewall
5	89 (6.56%)	LDAP
6	75 (5.53%)	SSL
7	55 (4.05%)	SAN
8	53 (3.91%)	SSH
9	37 (2.73%)	Internet
10	27 (1.99%)	DHCP
11	26 (1.92%)	HTTPS
12	23 (1.69%)	VPN
13	22 (1.62%)	NAS
13	22 (1.62%)	Wireshark
14	19 (1.40%)	Network Security
15	18 (1.33%)	IPsec
16	17 (1.25%)	SMTP
17	14 (1.03%)	ICMP
17	14 (1.03%)	OpenLDAP
18	13 (0.96%)	WAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	157 (11.57%)	PostgreSQL
2	153 (11.27%)	MySQL
3	121 (8.92%)	Hadoop
4	115 (8.47%)	Big Data
5	108 (7.96%)	MongoDB
6	97 (7.15%)	SQL Server
7	64 (4.72%)	Relational Database
8	61 (4.50%)	Apache Cassandra
9	59 (4.35%)	NoSQL
10	56 (4.13%)	Apache Hive
11	42 (3.10%)	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
18	18 (1.33%)	MariaDB
19	17 (1.25%)	Amazon DynamoDB
20	13 (0.96%)	Sqoop

Development Applications
1	443 (32.65%)	Git (software)
2	438 (32.28%)	Jenkins
3	177 (13.04%)	Maven
4	166 (12.23%)	JIRA
5	78 (5.75%)	Subversion
6	77 (5.67%)	Vagrant
7	70 (5.16%)	Sonatype Nexus
8	59 (4.35%)	Artifactory
9	54 (3.98%)	Selenium
10	53 (3.91%)	JUnit
11	52 (3.83%)	TeamCity
12	41 (3.02%)	Bitbucket
13	39 (2.87%)	GitLab
14	37 (2.73%)	Mockito
15	34 (2.51%)	Atlassian Bamboo
15	34 (2.51%)	Cucumber
16	33 (2.43%)	Hudson
17	30 (2.21%)	Ant
18	25 (1.84%)	SonarQube
19	22 (1.62%)	WebDriver

General
1	216 (15.92%)	Finance
2	97 (7.15%)	Banking
3	37 (2.73%)	Front Office
4	36 (2.65%)	Telecoms
5	29 (2.14%)	Investment Banking
6	26 (1.92%)	Financial Institution
7	20 (1.47%)	Retail
8	16 (1.18%)	Marketing
9	12 (0.88%)	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 (34.86%)	DevOps Engineer
2	181 (13.34%)	Linux Engineer
3	180 (13.26%)	Developer
4	159 (11.72%)	AWS Engineer
5	149 (10.98%)	AWS DevOps
6	131 (9.65%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
7	109 (8.03%)	Administrator
8	100 (7.37%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
9	88 (6.48%)	Linux DevOps Engineer
10	70 (5.16%)	Java Developer
11	66 (4.86%)	Linux Administrator
11	66 (4.86%)	Systems Administrator
12	63 (4.64%)	Consultant
13	62 (4.57%)	Architect
14	57 (4.20%)	Linux Systems Administrator
14	57 (4.20%)	Senior DevOps
15	51 (3.76%)	Analyst
15	51 (3.76%)	Senior DevOps Engineer
16	46 (3.39%)	Cloud Engineer
17	39 (2.87%)	Systems Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	126 (9.29%)	Elastic Stack
2	122 (8.99%)	Web Services
3	102 (7.52%)	HTML
4	86 (6.34%)	REST
5	83 (6.12%)	Kafka
6	77 (5.67%)	Node.js
7	68 (5.01%)	XML
8	65 (4.79%)	CSS
8	65 (4.79%)	LAMP
9	64 (4.72%)	Spring
10	58 (4.27%)	.NET
10	58 (4.27%)	LAPP Stack
11	56 (4.13%)	JSON
12	48 (3.54%)	JMS
13	43 (3.17%)	Sensu
14	42 (3.10%)	HTML5
15	41 (3.02%)	J2EE
15	41 (3.02%)	RabbitMQ
16	34 (2.51%)	AngularJS
16	34 (2.51%)	Java EE

Miscellaneous
1	102 (7.52%)	Analytical Skills
2	82 (6.04%)	Linux Command Line
3	79 (5.82%)	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	1054 (77.67%)	Linux
2	328 (24.17%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3	298 (21.96%)	Unix
4	251 (18.50%)	Windows
5	249 (18.35%)	CentOS
6	147 (10.83%)	Ubuntu
7	64 (4.72%)	Solaris
8	58 (4.27%)	Windows Server
9	47 (3.46%)	AIX
10	44 (3.24%)	Debian
11	39 (2.87%)	SUSE
12	28 (2.06%)	Windows Server 2008
13	24 (1.77%)	Windows Server 2012
14	19 (1.40%)	CoreOS
14	19 (1.40%)	Oracle Linux
15	16 (1.18%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16	7 (0.52%)	Android
16	7 (0.52%)	Windows Server 2003
17	6 (0.44%)	Data ONTAP
17	6 (0.44%)	HPUX

Processes & Methodologies
1	685 (50.48%)	DevOps
2	432 (31.83%)	Agile Software Development
3	359 (26.46%)	Configuration Management
4	238 (17.54%)	Continuous Integration
5	138 (10.17%)	Test Automation
6	136 (10.02%)	Open Source
7	124 (9.14%)	Continuous Delivery
8	115 (8.47%)	Scrum
9	79 (5.82%)	Microservices
10	75 (5.53%)	Load Balancing
11	68 (5.01%)	Analytics
12	66 (4.86%)	High Availability
12	66 (4.86%)	Migration
13	65 (4.79%)	Software Engineering
14	61 (4.50%)	ITIL
15	59 (4.35%)	SDLC
16	58 (4.27%)	Performance Tuning
16	58 (4.27%)	TDD
17	57 (4.20%)	E-Commerce
18	52 (3.83%)	Unit Testing

Programming Languages
1	910 (67.06%)	Python
2	455 (33.53%)	Java
3	437 (32.20%)	Ruby
4	372 (27.41%)	Perl
5	206 (15.18%)	SQL
6	193 (14.22%)	Shell Script
7	178 (13.12%)	PowerShell
8	146 (10.76%)	JavaScript
9	95 (7.00%)	PHP
10	86 (6.34%)	Korn
11	74 (5.45%)	Go
12	63 (4.64%)	C
13	54 (3.98%)	C++
14	50 (3.68%)	Scala
15	42 (3.10%)	C#
16	32 (2.36%)	Groovy
17	26 (1.92%)	C-shell
18	23 (1.69%)	PL/SQL
19	18 (1.33%)	VB
20	11 (0.81%)	R

Qualifications
1	231 (17.02%)	Security Cleared
2	192 (14.15%)	SC Cleared
3	60 (4.42%)	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	35 (2.58%)	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	429 (31.61%)	Docker
2	134 (9.87%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	76 (5.60%)	Virtual Machines
4	48 (3.54%)	Active Directory
5	41 (3.02%)	VMware ESXi
6	33 (2.43%)	KVM
7	30 (2.21%)	vSphere
8	29 (2.14%)	Squid
9	24 (1.77%)	Hyper-V
10	22 (1.62%)	HDFS
10	22 (1.62%)	NFS
11	20 (1.47%)	vCloud
12	18 (1.33%)	Xen
13	17 (1.25%)	iptables
14	16 (1.18%)	LXC
15	14 (1.03%)	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	603 (44.44%)	Puppet
2	461 (33.97%)	Ansible
3	261 (19.23%)	Opscode Chef
4	181 (13.34%)	Kubernetes
4	181 (13.34%)	Terraform
5	99 (7.30%)	Nagios
6	69 (5.08%)	logstash
7	63 (4.64%)	Kibana
8	52 (3.83%)	Graphite
9	50 (3.68%)	ZABBIX
10	45 (3.32%)	Salt
11	41 (3.02%)	SELinux
12	37 (2.73%)	HAProxy
13	35 (2.58%)	Rancher
14	34 (2.51%)	Red Hat Satellite
15	32 (2.36%)	Grafana
16	31 (2.28%)	Packer
17	28 (2.06%)	Prometheus
18	25 (1.84%)	Cobbler
19	23 (1.69%)	vCenter Server

Vendors
1	264 (19.45%)	Red Hat
2	236 (17.39%)	VMware
3	154 (11.35%)	Oracle
4	82 (6.04%)	Splunk
5	64 (4.72%)	Microsoft
6	55 (4.05%)	IBM
7	43 (3.17%)	HP
8	38 (2.80%)	Google
9	36 (2.65%)	SaltStack
10	30 (2.21%)	Sybase
11	28 (2.06%)	AppDynamics
12	25 (1.84%)	Veritas
13	24 (1.77%)	New Relic
14	23 (1.69%)	EMC
15	20 (1.47%)	Cisco
15	20 (1.47%)	Dynatrace
16	19 (1.40%)	Atlassian
16	19 (1.40%)	Currenex
16	19 (1.40%)	TIBCO
17	17 (1.25%)	NetApp