Bash Contracts

Bash Shell
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 124 181
Rank change year-on-year -82 +57 +22
Contract jobs citing Bash 501 1,186 1,395
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 2.13% 1.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.84% 6.25% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 844 927
10th Percentile £400 £425 £438
25th Percentile £453 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £725 £675
90th Percentile £688 £813 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +18.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 8
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.00 £20.80
25th Percentile £24.44 £51.25 £23.78
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.50 £46.05
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% +42.23% -7.90%
75th Percentile £71.88 £75.88 £59.97
90th Percentile £74.69 £84.00 £70.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £52.56
% change year-on-year -14.29% +33.19% -2.22%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,032 18,971 31,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.10% 34.05% 36.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,198 13,653 23,242
10th Percentile £350 £385 £388
25th Percentile £425 £458 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £663
90th Percentile £763 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 437 498
10th Percentile £31.95 £30.45 £19.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year - +20.77% +15.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £76.63 £78.00 £70.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +25.00%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the UK

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bash.

Daily rate trend for Bash in the UK

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the UK

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bash.

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the UK

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Bash in the UK

Bash
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 June 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
England -79 434 £550 -12.00% 243
UK excluding London -38 237 £525 -4.55% 152
London -107 210 £550 -15.38% 95
Work from Home -87 166 £529 -11.83% 122
North of England +17 75 £513 -14.58% 28
South East -24 57 £550 -6.38% 41
Yorkshire +39 51 £475 -24.00% 6
South West +4 34 £550 -10.20% 39
Scotland -23 30 £480 -6.80% 7
North West -16 24 £550 -4.35% 18
Midlands +14 22 £536 +38.32% 17
East of England -8 20 £550 +9.45% 22
West Midlands +7 14 £450 -25.00% 10
East Midlands +9 8 £600 +84.62% 7
Wales +14 1 £690 +20.00% 2

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 45 (8.98%) Confluence
2 14 (2.79%) nginx
3 9 (1.80%) Apache
4 6 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.80%) IBM Domino
5 4 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.40%) CMS
7 2 (0.40%) JBoss
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) Traefik
8 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) InVision
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.40%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 247 (49.30%) AWS
2 157 (31.34%) Azure
3 95 (18.96%) GCP
4 55 (10.98%) GitHub
5 53 (10.58%) Serverless
6 46 (9.18%) OpenShift
7 42 (8.38%) Amazon S3
8 41 (8.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 40 (7.98%) Amazon EC2
10 39 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
11 38 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (4.39%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (4.19%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (4.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 20 (3.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (3.79%) IaaS
17 15 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (2.99%) SaaS
18 14 (2.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.98%) Firewall
2 33 (6.59%) DNS
3 26 (5.19%) TCP/IP
4 16 (3.19%) DHCP
5 15 (2.99%) SAN
6 13 (2.59%) VPN
7 10 (2.00%) LAN
8 9 (1.80%) HTTP
8 9 (1.80%) Network Security
9 8 (1.60%) Cisco Nexus
9 8 (1.60%) Fibre Channel
9 8 (1.60%) VLAN
10 6 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (1.20%) IPv4
10 6 (1.20%) Kerberos
10 6 (1.20%) SSL
10 6 (1.20%) WAN
11 5 (1.00%) BGP
11 5 (1.00%) NAS
11 5 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (7.78%) MySQL
3 35 (6.99%) Elasticsearch
4 31 (6.19%) MongoDB
5 29 (5.79%) SQL Server
6 25 (4.99%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (4.99%) Relational Database
7 15 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (2.99%) BigQuery
8 14 (2.79%) Oracle Database
9 13 (2.59%) RDBMS
10 12 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (2.20%) NoSQL
12 10 (2.00%) Big Data
13 9 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.40%) Data Lake
15 6 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (1.20%) DynamoDB
16 4 (0.80%) Hadoop
16 4 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 143 (28.54%) Git
2 109 (21.76%) Jenkins
3 88 (17.56%) GitLab
4 54 (10.78%) JIRA
5 21 (4.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 20 (3.99%) Bitbucket
7 19 (3.79%) SonarQube
8 17 (3.39%) Artifactory
9 12 (2.40%) CircleCI
10 10 (2.00%) Travis CI
11 9 (1.80%) Maven
11 9 (1.80%) Subversion
12 8 (1.60%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.40%) Gradle
14 6 (1.20%) AppScan
14 6 (1.20%) Burp Suite
14 6 (1.20%) Selenium
15 5 (1.00%) Ant
16 4 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 115 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 57 (11.38%) Finance
3 45 (8.98%) Public Sector
4 23 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.19%) Banking
6 7 (1.40%) Legal
6 7 (1.40%) Marketing
6 7 (1.40%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.20%) Investment Banking
8 4 (0.80%) Law
8 4 (0.80%) Retail
8 4 (0.80%) Wearables
9 3 (0.60%) Electronics
9 3 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.40%) Advertising
10 2 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.20%) Aviation
11 1 (0.20%) French Language
11 1 (0.20%) German Language
Job Titles
1 148 (29.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (11.58%) Developer
3 53 (10.58%) AWS Engineer
4 49 (9.78%) Senior
5 46 (9.18%) AWS DevOps
6 39 (7.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 33 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
8 27 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
8 27 (5.39%) Linux Engineer
9 26 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (4.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 23 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 22 (4.39%) Senior DevOps
12 20 (3.99%) Lead
12 20 (3.99%) Site Engineer
13 18 (3.59%) DBA
13 18 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 17 (3.39%) Administrator
14 17 (3.39%) Automation Engineer
15 16 (3.19%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.98%) Elastic Stack
2 28 (5.59%) Node.js
3 27 (5.39%) React
4 25 (4.99%) YAML
5 23 (4.59%) AWS CDK
6 20 (3.99%) JSON
7 19 (3.79%) CSS
7 19 (3.79%) Kafka
8 17 (3.39%) HTML
9 14 (2.79%) .NET
10 12 (2.40%) LDAP
10 12 (2.40%) REST
10 12 (2.40%) XML
11 9 (1.80%) ARM Templates
11 9 (1.80%) Django
11 9 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (1.80%) Yocto
12 8 (1.60%) SailPoint
13 7 (1.40%) .NET Core
13 7 (1.40%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.79%) Linux Command Line
2 24 (4.79%) Replication
3 22 (4.39%) Public Cloud
4 19 (3.79%) Data Centre
5 18 (3.59%) Clustering
6 17 (3.39%) Cloud Native
7 16 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (2.00%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 9 (1.80%) PKI
11 9 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.60%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.40%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.20%) ASIC
14 6 (1.20%) Verilog
15 5 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 4 (0.80%) FPGA
16 4 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 215 (42.91%) Linux
2 73 (14.57%) Windows
3 56 (11.18%) Unix
4 43 (8.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (5.79%) Windows Server
6 25 (4.99%) Ubuntu
7 18 (3.59%) CentOS
8 13 (2.59%) Solaris
9 7 (1.40%) VMS
10 6 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (1.20%) Rocky
11 5 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.80%) AIX
12 4 (0.80%) Debian
13 3 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.20%) Android
15 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (47.90%) DevOps
2 223 (44.51%) CI/CD
3 157 (31.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 125 (24.95%) Agile
5 115 (22.95%) Containerisation
6 96 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (13.17%) Task Automation
8 60 (11.98%) Test Automation
9 57 (11.38%) Continuous Integration
10 51 (10.18%) Computer Science
11 45 (8.98%) Scrum
12 44 (8.78%) Configuration Management
12 44 (8.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 42 (8.38%) Performance Tuning
14 41 (8.18%) High Availability
15 38 (7.58%) Platform Engineering
16 37 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (7.19%) Disaster Recovery
18 34 (6.79%) Software Engineering
19 33 (6.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 359 (71.66%) Python
2 153 (30.54%) PowerShell
3 80 (15.97%) SQL
4 56 (11.18%) JavaScript
5 54 (10.78%) Java
6 47 (9.38%) Go
7 44 (8.78%) Shell Script
8 42 (8.38%) Perl
9 36 (7.19%) C++
10 34 (6.79%) C
11 30 (5.99%) Ruby
12 27 (5.39%) TypeScript
13 23 (4.59%) Groovy
14 19 (3.79%) C#
15 13 (2.59%) PL/SQL
16 11 (2.20%) Korn
17 10 (2.00%) T-SQL
18 9 (1.80%) Bourne shell
19 7 (1.40%) PHP
20 6 (1.20%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 131 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 92 (18.36%) SC Cleared
3 58 (11.58%) Degree
4 37 (7.39%) DV Cleared
5 36 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (4.99%) AWS Certification
7 19 (3.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.60%) CCNP
8 8 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.80%) CISSP
10 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.80%) SANS
11 3 (0.60%) CEH
11 3 (0.60%) CISM
11 3 (0.60%) RHCE
12 2 (0.40%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.79%) QA
2 10 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.80%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.40%) GDPR
5 5 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.80%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.60%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.40%) NIST
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.20%) JTAG
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 172 (34.33%) Docker
2 44 (8.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (6.39%) vSphere
4 22 (4.39%) Active Directory
5 14 (2.79%) VMware NSX
6 12 (2.40%) Hyper-V
7 10 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.60%) KVM
10 4 (0.80%) Firmware
10 4 (0.80%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.60%) zsh
12 2 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.40%) iptables
12 2 (0.40%) NFS
12 2 (0.40%) PowerDNS
12 2 (0.40%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.20%) Postfix
13 1 (0.20%) Samba
Systems Management
1 213 (42.51%) Terraform
2 195 (38.92%) Kubernetes
3 168 (33.53%) Ansible
4 53 (10.58%) Puppet
5 40 (7.98%) Grafana
6 39 (7.78%) Prometheus
7 38 (7.58%) Progress Chef
8 21 (4.19%) Kibana
9 14 (2.79%) logstash
10 13 (2.59%) Packer
11 12 (2.40%) HP Fortify
12 11 (2.20%) Docker Swarm
12 11 (2.20%) Nagios
13 10 (2.00%) Graylog
14 9 (1.80%) EMC NetWorker
15 7 (1.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 7 (1.40%) vRealize
16 6 (1.20%) Istio
16 6 (1.20%) Nessus
16 6 (1.20%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 60 (11.98%) Oracle
2 56 (11.18%) VMware
3 49 (9.78%) Microsoft
3 49 (9.78%) Splunk
4 46 (9.18%) Red Hat
5 29 (5.79%) Cisco
6 28 (5.59%) Google
7 15 (2.99%) Atlassian
8 14 (2.79%) EMC
8 14 (2.79%) SolarWinds
9 8 (1.60%) HP
9 8 (1.60%) IBM
9 8 (1.60%) Okta
10 7 (1.40%) F5
10 7 (1.40%) Veritas
11 6 (1.20%) Dell
11 6 (1.20%) Qualys
11 6 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.20%) Symantec
11 6 (1.20%) Veracode