Bash Contracts with Work from Home Options

Bash Shell
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 115 166
Rank change year-on-year -67 +51 -3
Contract jobs citing Bash 185 562 752
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.20% 2.16% 1.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.61% 5.78% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 434 556
10th Percentile £400 £456 £413
25th Percentile £463 £521 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £638
90th Percentile £688 £835 £712
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 3
10th Percentile - £25.38 £22.48
25th Percentile - £51.25 £23.19
Median hourly rate - £59.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year - +105.22% -23.33%
75th Percentile - £71.50 £55.94
90th Percentile - £81.85 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £65.50 £63.28
% change year-on-year -38.17% +3.52% +26.55%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,128 9,722 16,916
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.34% 37.37% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,691 7,126 12,548
10th Percentile £350 £394 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £631
90th Percentile £775 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 218 192
10th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +26.90% +9.44%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £89.25 £77.20 £66.23
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% +14.29%

Bash
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Bash trend for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Bash.

Bash daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Bash over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Bash daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Bash.

Bash hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 24 (12.97%) Confluence
2 5 (2.70%) nginx
2 5 (2.70%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.16%) Apache
3 4 (2.16%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.62%) IIS
5 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.54%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.54%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.54%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 104 (56.22%) AWS
2 64 (34.59%) Azure
3 31 (16.76%) GCP
4 24 (12.97%) Serverless
5 20 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (10.81%) GitHub
6 18 (9.73%) OpenShift
7 16 (8.65%) IaaS
8 15 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (8.11%) Amazon S3
8 15 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (7.03%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (6.49%) PaaS
11 11 (5.95%) SaaS
12 9 (4.86%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (3.78%) Nutanix
14 7 (3.78%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.35%) Firewall
2 19 (10.27%) TCP/IP
3 17 (9.19%) DNS
4 12 (6.49%) DHCP
5 11 (5.95%) SAN
6 7 (3.78%) Kerberos
6 7 (3.78%) LAN
6 7 (3.78%) NAS
6 7 (3.78%) Network Security
6 7 (3.78%) VLAN
7 5 (2.70%) HTTP
7 5 (2.70%) SSL
8 4 (2.16%) BGP
8 4 (2.16%) VPN
9 3 (1.62%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (1.62%) IOS XR
9 3 (1.62%) WAN
9 3 (1.62%) WLAN
10 2 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.57%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (5.95%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.86%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.32%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.78%) MySQL
8 6 (3.24%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.62%) InfluxDB
10 3 (1.62%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.62%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.08%) Couchbase
11 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.08%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.08%) Redis
11 2 (1.08%) Tableau
12 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 55 (29.73%) Git
2 53 (28.65%) Jenkins
3 30 (16.22%) GitLab
4 27 (14.59%) JIRA
5 10 (5.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (4.32%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.32%) TeamCity
7 6 (3.24%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.62%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.62%) Travis CI
9 2 (1.08%) Ant
9 2 (1.08%) Gradle
9 2 (1.08%) Maven
9 2 (1.08%) Selenium
10 1 (0.54%) AppScan
10 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.54%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 47 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 27 (14.59%) Public Sector
3 24 (12.97%) Finance
4 7 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.70%) Banking
5 5 (2.70%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.16%) Law
6 4 (2.16%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.62%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.62%) Marketing
7 3 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.54%) Aviation
9 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.54%) French Language
9 1 (0.54%) Games
9 1 (0.54%) Legal
9 1 (0.54%) Military
9 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (32.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (15.14%) Developer
3 27 (14.59%) Senior
4 24 (12.97%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (11.89%) AWS DevOps
6 19 (10.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 11 (5.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 11 (5.95%) Lead
7 11 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (5.95%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (4.86%) Consultant
8 9 (4.86%) DBA
8 9 (4.86%) Linux Engineer
9 8 (4.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.78%) Administrator
10 7 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.24%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.24%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.24%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.27%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (7.03%) React
3 12 (6.49%) AWS CDK
4 9 (4.86%) LDAP
4 9 (4.86%) Node.js
5 7 (3.78%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.78%) Kafka
6 6 (3.24%) JSON
7 5 (2.70%) AWS SAM
7 5 (2.70%) CSS
7 5 (2.70%) HTML
7 5 (2.70%) REST
8 4 (2.16%) .NET
8 4 (2.16%) Django
8 4 (2.16%) RESTful
8 4 (2.16%) XML
8 4 (2.16%) YAML
9 3 (1.62%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.62%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.95%) Replication
2 10 (5.41%) Clustering
2 10 (5.41%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.78%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.78%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.16%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.16%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.62%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.62%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.62%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.08%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.08%) Equities
7 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.08%) PKI
8 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 98 (52.97%) Linux
2 37 (20.00%) Windows
3 26 (14.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (11.35%) Unix
5 20 (10.81%) Windows Server
6 12 (6.49%) Ubuntu
7 11 (5.95%) Solaris
8 8 (4.32%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (2.16%) CentOS
10 2 (1.08%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.08%) VMS
11 1 (0.54%) AIX
11 1 (0.54%) Android
11 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (52.43%) DevOps
2 75 (40.54%) CI/CD
3 52 (28.11%) Agile
4 51 (27.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (16.22%) Containerisation
7 27 (14.59%) Test Automation
8 25 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (11.89%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (10.81%) High Availability
11 19 (10.27%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (10.27%) Roadmaps
12 17 (9.19%) Configuration Management
12 17 (9.19%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (7.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (7.57%) Task Automation
14 13 (7.03%) Computer Science
14 13 (7.03%) Mentoring
14 13 (7.03%) Scrum
15 11 (5.95%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 146 (78.92%) Python
2 50 (27.03%) PowerShell
3 31 (16.76%) JavaScript
4 30 (16.22%) SQL
5 28 (15.14%) Perl
6 23 (12.43%) Java
7 19 (10.27%) Go
8 15 (8.11%) C++
9 14 (7.57%) TypeScript
10 13 (7.03%) C
11 12 (6.49%) Ruby
12 7 (3.78%) Korn
13 6 (3.24%) C#
13 6 (3.24%) Groovy
13 6 (3.24%) Shell Script
14 4 (2.16%) Bourne shell
14 4 (2.16%) PHP
14 4 (2.16%) PL/SQL
14 4 (2.16%) T-SQL
15 2 (1.08%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 52 (28.11%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.54%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.65%) Degree
3 16 (8.65%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.95%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.62%) CCNA
7 3 (1.62%) CCNP
7 3 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.08%) CEH
8 2 (1.08%) CISM
8 2 (1.08%) CISSP
8 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.08%) RHCE
8 2 (1.08%) SANS
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.32%) GDPR
2 7 (3.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.16%) QA
5 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.08%) WCAG
6 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.54%) NIST
6 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (30.27%) Docker
2 15 (8.11%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.32%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.70%) vSphere
6 4 (2.16%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.62%) zsh
8 1 (0.54%) iptables
8 1 (0.54%) Lustre
8 1 (0.54%) Postfix
8 1 (0.54%) PowerDNS
Systems Management
1 75 (40.54%) Terraform
2 67 (36.22%) Ansible
3 66 (35.68%) Kubernetes
4 25 (13.51%) Puppet
5 20 (10.81%) Grafana
6 19 (10.27%) Prometheus
7 17 (9.19%) Progress Chef
8 12 (6.49%) Kibana
8 12 (6.49%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (4.32%) EMC NetWorker
10 7 (3.78%) Nagios
10 7 (3.78%) Netcool
10 7 (3.78%) Tivoli
10 7 (3.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 3 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.62%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.62%) logstash
11 3 (1.62%) Packer
11 3 (1.62%) SCCM
12 2 (1.08%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 24 (12.97%) Splunk
2 23 (12.43%) Microsoft
3 21 (11.35%) VMware
4 20 (10.81%) Red Hat
5 17 (9.19%) Oracle
6 13 (7.03%) Atlassian
6 13 (7.03%) Cisco
7 9 (4.86%) EMC
8 8 (4.32%) IBM
8 8 (4.32%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.78%) CyberArk
9 7 (3.78%) Dell
9 7 (3.78%) HP
9 7 (3.78%) Isilon
9 7 (3.78%) Qualys
9 7 (3.78%) Serena
10 6 (3.24%) TOWER Software
11 5 (2.70%) Google
12 4 (2.16%) F5
12 4 (2.16%) SolarWinds