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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 109 164
Rank change year-on-year -74 +55 +13
Contract jobs citing Bash 176 549 736
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.17% 2.19% 1.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.50% 5.89% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 422 541
10th Percentile £400 £450 £425
25th Percentile £463 £525 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £638
90th Percentile £688 £835 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -10.42% +5.26% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 3
10th Percentile - £48.38 £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 - £70.00 £55.94
90th Percentile - £76.65 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £67.75 £63.28
% change year-on-year -15.13% +7.07% +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 5,035 9,326 16,705
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.47% 37.25% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,654 6,832 12,397
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 204 191
10th Percentile £33.75 £32.03 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.75 £81.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £62.50 £50.64
% change year-on-year -0.12% +23.43% +17.08%

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 11 May 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 23 (13.07%) Confluence
2 5 (2.84%) nginx
2 5 (2.84%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.27%) Apache
3 4 (2.27%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.14%) IIS
5 1 (0.57%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.57%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 103 (58.52%) AWS
2 64 (36.36%) Azure
3 34 (19.32%) GCP
4 23 (13.07%) Serverless
5 19 (10.80%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (10.80%) GitHub
6 18 (10.23%) OpenShift
7 17 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (8.52%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (8.52%) IaaS
10 14 (7.95%) Amazon S3
11 13 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (6.82%) PaaS
13 11 (6.25%) SaaS
14 9 (5.11%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (3.98%) Nutanix
16 7 (3.98%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.50%) Firewall
2 19 (10.80%) DNS
3 18 (10.23%) TCP/IP
4 13 (7.39%) DHCP
5 11 (6.25%) SAN
6 7 (3.98%) Kerberos
6 7 (3.98%) LAN
6 7 (3.98%) NAS
6 7 (3.98%) Network Security
6 7 (3.98%) VLAN
7 5 (2.84%) VPN
8 4 (2.27%) BGP
8 4 (2.27%) HTTP
8 4 (2.27%) SSL
9 3 (1.70%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (1.70%) IOS XR
9 3 (1.70%) WAN
9 3 (1.70%) WLAN
10 2 (1.14%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (1.14%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.95%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (7.39%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (5.68%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.11%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.55%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.98%) MySQL
8 6 (3.41%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.70%) InfluxDB
10 3 (1.70%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.70%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.14%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.14%) Couchbase
11 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.14%) Redis
11 2 (1.14%) Tableau
12 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 53 (30.11%) Git
2 51 (28.98%) Jenkins
3 27 (15.34%) GitLab
4 26 (14.77%) JIRA
5 11 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.55%) TeamCity
7 6 (3.41%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.27%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.27%) Travis CI
9 2 (1.14%) Ant
9 2 (1.14%) Gradle
9 2 (1.14%) Maven
9 2 (1.14%) Selenium
10 1 (0.57%) AppScan
10 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.57%) Subversion
General
1 50 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.07%) Public Sector
3 21 (11.93%) Finance
4 8 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.84%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.27%) Law
6 4 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.70%) Banking
7 3 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.70%) Marketing
8 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Aviation
9 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.57%) French Language
9 1 (0.57%) Games
9 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Legal
9 1 (0.57%) Military
9 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (33.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (15.91%) Senior
3 27 (15.34%) Developer
4 24 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
6 19 (10.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (5.11%) DBA
9 8 (4.55%) Lead
9 8 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) Consultant
11 6 (3.41%) Administrator
11 6 (3.41%) Architect
11 6 (3.41%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.36%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (7.39%) React
3 12 (6.82%) AWS CDK
4 9 (5.11%) LDAP
4 9 (5.11%) Node.js
5 7 (3.98%) JSON
5 7 (3.98%) Kafka
6 5 (2.84%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.84%) AWS SAM
6 5 (2.84%) CSS
6 5 (2.84%) Django
6 5 (2.84%) HTML
6 5 (2.84%) XML
6 5 (2.84%) YAML
7 4 (2.27%) .NET
7 4 (2.27%) REST
7 4 (2.27%) RESTful
8 3 (1.70%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.70%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.70%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.25%) Replication
2 10 (5.68%) Clustering
2 10 (5.68%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.98%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.27%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.70%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.70%) PKI
8 2 (1.14%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.14%) Equities
8 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 89 (50.57%) Linux
2 34 (19.32%) Windows
3 23 (13.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (10.80%) Unix
5 17 (9.66%) Windows Server
6 13 (7.39%) Ubuntu
7 11 (6.25%) Solaris
8 8 (4.55%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (2.84%) CentOS
10 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.14%) VMS
11 1 (0.57%) AIX
11 1 (0.57%) Android
11 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (53.41%) DevOps
2 73 (41.48%) CI/CD
3 53 (30.11%) Agile
4 52 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (17.61%) Containerisation
7 27 (15.34%) Test Automation
8 25 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (13.07%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (10.80%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (10.80%) High Availability
11 18 (10.23%) Roadmaps
12 17 (9.66%) Configuration Management
12 17 (9.66%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (9.09%) Task Automation
14 14 (7.95%) Computer Science
14 14 (7.95%) Scrum
14 14 (7.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 12 (6.82%) Mentoring
16 11 (6.25%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 137 (77.84%) Python
2 51 (28.98%) PowerShell
3 31 (17.61%) JavaScript
4 30 (17.05%) SQL
5 23 (13.07%) Perl
6 21 (11.93%) Java
7 19 (10.80%) Go
8 15 (8.52%) C++
9 14 (7.95%) TypeScript
10 13 (7.39%) C
11 10 (5.68%) Ruby
12 6 (3.41%) C#
12 6 (3.41%) Groovy
12 6 (3.41%) Shell Script
13 5 (2.84%) Korn
14 4 (2.27%) Bourne shell
14 4 (2.27%) PHP
14 4 (2.27%) PL/SQL
14 4 (2.27%) T-SQL
15 2 (1.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 46 (26.14%) Security Cleared
2 32 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.66%) Degree
4 14 (7.95%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (6.25%) AWS Certification
7 9 (5.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.14%) CCNA
9 2 (1.14%) CCNP
9 2 (1.14%) CEH
9 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.14%) CISM
9 2 (1.14%) CISSP
9 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.14%) RHCE
9 2 (1.14%) SANS
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.55%) GDPR
2 7 (3.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.84%) QA
5 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.14%) WCAG
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (32.39%) Docker
2 15 (8.52%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (3.41%) vSphere
6 5 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.84%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.70%) zsh
8 1 (0.57%) iptables
8 1 (0.57%) Lustre
8 1 (0.57%) Postfix
8 1 (0.57%) PowerDNS
8 1 (0.57%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 75 (42.61%) Terraform
2 66 (37.50%) Ansible
2 66 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 24 (13.64%) Puppet
4 21 (11.93%) Grafana
5 19 (10.80%) Prometheus
6 18 (10.23%) Progress Chef
7 12 (6.82%) Kibana
8 8 (4.55%) EMC NetWorker
8 8 (4.55%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (3.98%) Netcool
9 7 (3.98%) Tivoli
9 7 (3.98%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 6 (3.41%) Nagios
11 4 (2.27%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (2.27%) logstash
12 3 (1.70%) Packer
13 2 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (1.14%) Host Intrusion Detection System
13 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 24 (13.64%) Splunk
2 22 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 20 (11.36%) VMware
4 17 (9.66%) Oracle
5 14 (7.95%) Red Hat
6 13 (7.39%) Cisco
7 11 (6.25%) Atlassian
8 9 (5.11%) EMC
9 8 (4.55%) IBM
9 8 (4.55%) ServiceNow
10 7 (3.98%) CyberArk
10 7 (3.98%) Dell
10 7 (3.98%) Google
10 7 (3.98%) HP
10 7 (3.98%) Isilon
10 7 (3.98%) Qualys
10 7 (3.98%) Serena
11 4 (2.27%) F5
11 4 (2.27%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.27%) TOWER Software