Bash Contracts in the West Midlands

Bash Shell
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 119 150
Rank change year-on-year +21 +31 -29
Contract jobs citing Bash 13 15 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.68% 0.65% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.06% 2.56% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 20
10th Percentile £300 £370 £360
25th Percentile £325 £381 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £510
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +17.65% +16.57%
75th Percentile £527 £700 £572
90th Percentile £536 £715 £596
England median daily rate £550 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £67.75 £63.28
% change year-on-year -15.13% +7.07% +15.05%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 425 587 925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.33% 25.31% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 401 668
10th Percentile £260 £360 £325
25th Percentile £337 £413 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £460
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +14.25% +14.88%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £540
90th Percentile £638 £700 £633
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 2
10th Percentile £40.10 £21.73 £16.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.81 £16.51
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% +68.59% -46.90%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £18.38
90th Percentile £69.75 £98.25 £18.60
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the West Midlands

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Bash in the West Midlands

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the West Midlands

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the West Midlands

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Shropshire - 11 £500 - 1
Coventry +11 1 £450 +16.13% 1
Worcestershire - 1 £400 - 1
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DHCP
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
1 4 (30.77%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (30.77%) LAN
1 4 (30.77%) Remote Desktop
1 4 (30.77%) SAN
1 4 (30.77%) WAN
2 1 (7.69%) SSL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Ant
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Server Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) VMWare Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Development Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
1 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Onboarding
2 4 (30.77%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Unix
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
3 4 (30.77%) CentOS
3 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (30.77%) Ubuntu
3 4 (30.77%) Windows
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
1 7 (53.85%) Scrum
1 7 (53.85%) Software Testing
1 7 (53.85%) System Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Change Control
2 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (30.77%) Load Balancing
2 4 (30.77%) Patch Management
2 4 (30.77%) Task Automation
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) A/B Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Canary Deployment
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) Bourne shell
2 7 (53.85%) Korn
2 7 (53.85%) PL/SQL
3 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
4 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (30.77%) VMware NSX
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Server
2 4 (30.77%) vSphere
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.69%) Argo
2 1 (7.69%) Istio
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) linkerd
2 1 (7.69%) SELinux
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 4 (30.77%) VMware
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat