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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 148 188
Rank change year-on-year -41 +40 -7
Contract jobs citing Bash 229 392 422
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.12% 1.68% 1.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.77% 5.78% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 285 295
10th Percentile £413 £409 £413
25th Percentile £463 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -10.42% +5.26% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 9
10th Percentile £54.00 - £35.24
25th Percentile £58.13 £51.25 £49.28
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.50 £69.05
90th Percentile £79.00 £77.60 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £67.75 £63.28
% change year-on-year -15.13% +7.07% +26.55%

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 4,797 6,785 8,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.43% 29.00% 28.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,228 4,802 6,091
10th Percentile £318 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +2.46% +14.82%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 342 339
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.57 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £30.38
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.98 £67.99
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £61.84 £50.50
% change year-on-year +0.95% +22.45% +16.09%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +7 69 £525 -12.50% 23
South East -13 55 £544 -4.56% 31
Yorkshire +32 43 £495 -17.50% 10
Scotland -5 39 £506 -3.62% 10
North West -16 26 £550 -8.33% 11
South West -4 25 £550 -12.00% 33
Midlands +22 21 £536 +38.32% 16
East of England -7 19 £550 +8.91% 26
West Midlands +16 13 £475 -20.83% 8
East Midlands +20 8 £600 +84.62% 8
Wales +13 1 £690 +25.45% 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 (9.17%) Confluence
2 7 (3.06%) Apache
2 7 (3.06%) nginx
3 3 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.87%) IBM Domino
4 2 (0.87%) IIS
4 2 (0.87%) Traefik
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.06%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 109 (47.60%) AWS
2 64 (27.95%) Azure
3 33 (14.41%) GitHub
4 32 (13.97%) GCP
5 29 (12.66%) Amazon S3
5 29 (12.66%) Serverless
6 27 (11.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (10.92%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (9.17%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (8.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (7.86%) OpenShift
11 16 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (5.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.37%) Datadog
14 9 (3.93%) Snowflake
15 8 (3.49%) IaaS
15 8 (3.49%) Kong
16 6 (2.62%) Amazon ELB
16 6 (2.62%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.61%) DNS
2 20 (8.73%) Firewall
3 18 (7.86%) TCP/IP
4 12 (5.24%) SAN
5 11 (4.80%) HTTP
5 11 (4.80%) VPN
6 8 (3.49%) Fibre Channel
7 7 (3.06%) LAN
7 7 (3.06%) Network Security
7 7 (3.06%) WAN
8 6 (2.62%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (2.62%) SSL
9 5 (2.18%) DHCP
10 4 (1.75%) IPv4
10 4 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.75%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (1.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 3 (1.31%) IOS XR
11 3 (1.31%) Junos
11 3 (1.31%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.54%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (11.79%) MongoDB
3 23 (10.04%) MySQL
4 21 (9.17%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (6.99%) SQL Server
6 14 (6.11%) Relational Database
7 13 (5.68%) Oracle Database
8 8 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.06%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.62%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.62%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.75%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.31%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.87%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.87%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.44%) Big Data
14 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 73 (31.88%) Git
2 56 (24.45%) Jenkins
3 48 (20.96%) GitLab
4 25 (10.92%) JIRA
5 17 (7.42%) SonarQube
6 12 (5.24%) Artifactory
7 10 (4.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (3.93%) Bitbucket
8 9 (3.93%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.93%) Travis CI
9 8 (3.49%) Maven
10 7 (3.06%) Gradle
11 6 (2.62%) Subversion
12 5 (2.18%) AppScan
12 5 (2.18%) Burp Suite
13 4 (1.75%) Ant
14 3 (1.31%) Hudson
14 3 (1.31%) Selenium
14 3 (1.31%) TeamCity
15 1 (0.44%) Gerrit
General
1 47 (20.52%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.41%) Public Sector
3 16 (6.99%) Finance
4 13 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.06%) Legal
6 6 (2.62%) Banking
7 5 (2.18%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.75%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.31%) Retail
10 2 (0.87%) Electronics
10 2 (0.87%) Marketing
11 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.44%) Games
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 52 (22.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (14.41%) Developer
3 22 (9.61%) Linux Engineer
3 22 (9.61%) Senior
4 20 (8.73%) AWS DevOps
4 20 (8.73%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (8.30%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (6.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 14 (6.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (5.24%) Administrator
8 12 (5.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (5.24%) Database Specialist
8 12 (5.24%) Site Engineer
9 10 (4.37%) Automation Engineer
9 10 (4.37%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (4.37%) Software Engineer
10 9 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (3.93%) Consultant
10 9 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.30%) React
2 18 (7.86%) YAML
3 17 (7.42%) AWS CDK
4 15 (6.55%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (6.55%) JSON
5 14 (6.11%) Node.js
6 12 (5.24%) CSS
6 12 (5.24%) HTML
6 12 (5.24%) REST
7 8 (3.49%) XML
8 5 (2.18%) .NET
8 5 (2.18%) Django
8 5 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (2.18%) Yocto
9 4 (1.75%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.75%) LDAP
9 4 (1.75%) RESTful
9 4 (1.75%) SAML
9 4 (1.75%) Vue
10 3 (1.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.23%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (6.11%) Replication
3 11 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.80%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.37%) Clustering
5 9 (3.93%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.49%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.06%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.06%) PKI
8 6 (2.62%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.18%) ASIC
9 5 (2.18%) Verilog
10 4 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.75%) FPGA
11 3 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.31%) HP Storage
11 3 (1.31%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.31%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.31%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 122 (53.28%) Linux
2 39 (17.03%) Unix
3 37 (16.16%) Windows
4 35 (15.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (8.30%) Ubuntu
6 11 (4.80%) Windows Server
7 10 (4.37%) CentOS
8 8 (3.49%) Solaris
9 7 (3.06%) VMS
10 6 (2.62%) Debian
11 4 (1.75%) AIX
12 3 (1.31%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.44%) Fedora
13 1 (0.44%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (43.67%) CI/CD
2 89 (38.86%) DevOps
3 67 (29.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (26.64%) Agile
5 56 (24.45%) Containerisation
6 50 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (17.47%) Continuous Integration
7 40 (17.47%) Task Automation
8 36 (15.72%) Scrum
9 31 (13.54%) Test Automation
10 23 (10.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 22 (9.61%) Software Engineering
12 21 (9.17%) Performance Tuning
12 21 (9.17%) Roadmaps
13 19 (8.30%) Mentoring
13 19 (8.30%) Software Testing
14 18 (7.86%) Configuration Management
14 18 (7.86%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (7.42%) Disaster Recovery
15 17 (7.42%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 151 (65.94%) Python
2 74 (32.31%) PowerShell
3 38 (16.59%) Shell Script
4 31 (13.54%) SQL
5 27 (11.79%) JavaScript
6 21 (9.17%) Perl
6 21 (9.17%) TypeScript
7 20 (8.73%) Java
8 19 (8.30%) C
8 19 (8.30%) C++
9 16 (6.99%) Ruby
10 13 (5.68%) Go
10 13 (5.68%) Groovy
11 8 (3.49%) C#
12 7 (3.06%) Bourne shell
12 7 (3.06%) Korn
12 7 (3.06%) PL/SQL
13 5 (2.18%) SystemVerilog
13 5 (2.18%) Tcl
14 3 (1.31%) Julia
Qualifications
1 61 (26.64%) Security Cleared
2 41 (17.90%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.99%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.68%) Degree
5 9 (3.93%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.75%) CCNP
7 4 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.87%) CCNA
9 2 (0.87%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.44%) MCSE
10 1 (0.44%) RHCE
10 1 (0.44%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.99%) QA
2 9 (3.93%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.31%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) NCSC
5 2 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (29.69%) Docker
2 32 (13.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (12.23%) vSphere
4 13 (5.68%) Active Directory
5 11 (4.80%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (4.80%) VMware NSX
6 8 (3.49%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.75%) VMware Server
7 4 (1.75%) zsh
8 3 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.87%) KVM
9 2 (0.87%) Varnish
9 2 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.87%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.44%) Firmware
10 1 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 103 (44.98%) Ansible
2 94 (41.05%) Terraform
3 75 (32.75%) Kubernetes
4 29 (12.66%) Puppet
5 22 (9.61%) Progress Chef
5 22 (9.61%) Prometheus
6 21 (9.17%) Grafana
7 15 (6.55%) Kibana
8 11 (4.80%) HP Fortify
9 10 (4.37%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (4.37%) Packer
10 8 (3.49%) logstash
10 8 (3.49%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (3.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (3.06%) vRealize
12 6 (2.62%) Graylog
13 5 (2.18%) HAProxy
13 5 (2.18%) Istio
13 5 (2.18%) Nessus
13 5 (2.18%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 45 (19.65%) VMware
2 36 (15.72%) Oracle
3 33 (14.41%) Red Hat
4 29 (12.66%) Splunk
5 22 (9.61%) Microsoft
6 15 (6.55%) Cisco
7 13 (5.68%) SolarWinds
8 11 (4.80%) Atlassian
9 10 (4.37%) Google
10 9 (3.93%) EMC
11 7 (3.06%) F5
11 7 (3.06%) Veritas
12 5 (2.18%) Arqiva
12 5 (2.18%) Checkmarx
12 5 (2.18%) Veracode
13 4 (1.75%) Brocade
13 4 (1.75%) Cadence
13 4 (1.75%) Symantec
14 3 (1.31%) TOWER Software
14 3 (1.31%) Xilinx