Bash Contracts in England

Bash Shell
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Bash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bash over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 129 176
Rank change year-on-year -75 +47 +28
Contract jobs citing Bash 437 960 1,163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.17% 2.04% 1.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.84% 5.93% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 713 793
10th Percentile £400 £430 £438
25th Percentile £463 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +6.38% +17.50%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £680
90th Percentile £688 £835 £751
UK median daily rate £536 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.67% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 8
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.00 £20.80
25th Percentile £25.25 £51.25 £23.78
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.50 £46.05
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% +42.23% -14.32%
75th Percentile £71.88 £78.00 £59.97
90th Percentile £74.38 £85.50 £70.78
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £65.50 £46.05
% change year-on-year -12.21% +42.23% -7.90%

All Programming Languages
England

Bash falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,366 16,181 25,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.30% 34.40% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,149 11,851 18,996
10th Percentile £350 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 398 445
10th Percentile £35.52 £29.13 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.65 £73.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in England

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Bash in England

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in England

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Bash in England

Bash
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Bash in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Bash in England

Bash
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bash within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London -95 217 £550 -15.38% 114
North of England +10 73 £511 -14.79% 26
South East -17 55 £550 -6.38% 43
Yorkshire +37 50 £475 -24.00% 6
South West -6 35 £550 -10.20% 35
North West -16 23 £550 -6.38% 17
Midlands +13 22 £536 +38.32% 21
East of England -9 20 £550 +9.45% 24
West Midlands +16 14 £450 -25.00% 14
East Midlands +5 8 £600 +84.62% 7
Bash
UK

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 40 (9.15%) Confluence
2 12 (2.75%) nginx
3 8 (1.83%) Apache
4 6 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.92%) IBM Domino
5 4 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.46%) CMS
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.23%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.23%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.23%) JBoss
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.23%) Traefik
7 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) InVision
2 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 200 (45.77%) AWS
2 144 (32.95%) Azure
3 85 (19.45%) GCP
4 47 (10.76%) GitHub
5 36 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (8.01%) Serverless
7 34 (7.78%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (5.95%) Amazon S3
9 25 (5.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (5.72%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (5.26%) OpenShift
11 20 (4.58%) Cloud Computing
12 18 (4.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (3.20%) PaaS
14 14 (3.20%) Snowflake
15 13 (2.97%) SaaS
16 12 (2.75%) Datadog
16 12 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (2.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.32%) DNS
1 32 (7.32%) Firewall
2 23 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 15 (3.43%) DHCP
3 15 (3.43%) SAN
4 13 (2.97%) VPN
5 10 (2.29%) LAN
6 9 (2.06%) HTTP
7 8 (1.83%) Cisco Nexus
7 8 (1.83%) Fibre Channel
7 8 (1.83%) VLAN
8 7 (1.60%) Network Security
9 6 (1.37%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (1.37%) IPv4
9 6 (1.37%) Kerberos
9 6 (1.37%) SSL
9 6 (1.37%) WAN
10 5 (1.14%) BGP
10 5 (1.14%) NAS
10 5 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.01%) MySQL
1 35 (8.01%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (5.95%) SQL Server
3 25 (5.72%) MongoDB
4 24 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (4.81%) Relational Database
7 15 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (3.43%) BigQuery
8 11 (2.52%) NoSQL
8 11 (2.52%) RDBMS
9 10 (2.29%) Big Data
10 9 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.60%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.37%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.14%) Tableau
14 4 (0.92%) DataStax
14 4 (0.92%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 127 (29.06%) Git
2 83 (18.99%) Jenkins
3 71 (16.25%) GitLab
4 48 (10.98%) JIRA
5 18 (4.12%) SonarQube
6 15 (3.43%) Bitbucket
7 14 (3.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 12 (2.75%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.29%) Artifactory
9 10 (2.29%) Travis CI
10 8 (1.83%) Subversion
10 8 (1.83%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.60%) Selenium
12 5 (1.14%) Ant
12 5 (1.14%) AppScan
12 5 (1.14%) Burp Suite
12 5 (1.14%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.92%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.69%) Hudson
General
1 99 (22.65%) Social Skills
2 53 (12.13%) Finance
3 27 (6.18%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.03%) Banking
5 8 (1.83%) Investment Banking
5 8 (1.83%) Marketing
6 7 (1.60%) Legal
6 7 (1.60%) Telecoms
7 4 (0.92%) Electronics
7 4 (0.92%) Law
7 4 (0.92%) Retail
8 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.69%) Wearables
9 2 (0.46%) Advertising
9 2 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.23%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.23%) Automotive
10 1 (0.23%) Games
10 1 (0.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 126 (28.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (11.67%) Senior
3 41 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
4 37 (8.47%) Developer
5 36 (8.24%) AWS DevOps
6 30 (6.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 26 (5.95%) Linux Engineer
8 25 (5.72%) Azure Engineer
9 24 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 21 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
11 21 (4.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 18 (4.12%) DBA
12 18 (4.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.12%) Site Engineer
13 17 (3.89%) Lead
14 16 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (3.43%) Architect
15 15 (3.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 15 (3.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (8.92%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (6.18%) YAML
3 21 (4.81%) JSON
4 18 (4.12%) Kafka
5 14 (3.20%) .NET
5 14 (3.20%) React
6 13 (2.97%) Node.js
6 13 (2.97%) XML
7 12 (2.75%) LDAP
8 11 (2.52%) REST
9 9 (2.06%) ARM Templates
9 9 (2.06%) CSS
9 9 (2.06%) Yocto
10 8 (1.83%) SailPoint
11 7 (1.60%) .NET Core
11 7 (1.60%) Django
11 7 (1.60%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (1.60%) HTML
12 6 (1.37%) AWS CDK
12 6 (1.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.86%) Linux Command Line
2 23 (5.26%) Replication
3 20 (4.58%) Public Cloud
4 17 (3.89%) Clustering
4 17 (3.89%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 9 (2.06%) PKI
8 7 (1.60%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.60%) Verilog
9 6 (1.37%) ASIC
9 6 (1.37%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.92%) FPGA
11 4 (0.92%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 183 (41.88%) Linux
2 61 (13.96%) Windows
3 42 (9.61%) Unix
4 33 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (6.18%) Windows Server
6 18 (4.12%) Ubuntu
7 17 (3.89%) CentOS
8 13 (2.97%) Solaris
9 6 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (1.37%) Rocky
9 6 (1.37%) VMS
10 5 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.92%) AIX
11 4 (0.92%) Debian
12 3 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.23%) Android
14 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (47.60%) DevOps
2 194 (44.39%) CI/CD
3 141 (32.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (23.34%) Containerisation
5 96 (21.97%) Agile
6 90 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (12.81%) Task Automation
8 48 (10.98%) Test Automation
9 46 (10.53%) Computer Science
10 43 (9.84%) Configuration Management
11 42 (9.61%) Continuous Integration
12 40 (9.15%) High Availability
12 40 (9.15%) Performance Tuning
13 39 (8.92%) Scrum
14 37 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 34 (7.78%) Disaster Recovery
16 32 (7.32%) Migration
16 32 (7.32%) Software Engineering
17 31 (7.09%) Platform Engineering
18 27 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 312 (71.40%) Python
2 151 (34.55%) PowerShell
3 78 (17.85%) SQL
4 46 (10.53%) Java
5 42 (9.61%) JavaScript
6 37 (8.47%) Go
7 35 (8.01%) C++
8 33 (7.55%) C
9 32 (7.32%) Perl
10 25 (5.72%) Shell Script
11 20 (4.58%) C#
11 20 (4.58%) Ruby
12 13 (2.97%) TypeScript
13 11 (2.52%) Groovy
13 11 (2.52%) PL/SQL
14 10 (2.29%) T-SQL
15 9 (2.06%) Korn
16 7 (1.60%) Bourne shell
16 7 (1.60%) PHP
16 7 (1.60%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 122 (27.92%) Security Cleared
2 81 (18.54%) SC Cleared
3 49 (11.21%) Degree
4 39 (8.92%) DV Cleared
5 31 (7.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (5.26%) AWS Certification
7 17 (3.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.83%) CCNP
8 8 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.37%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.92%) CISSP
12 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.69%) CEH
13 3 (0.69%) CISM
13 3 (0.69%) RHCE
13 3 (0.69%) SANS
14 2 (0.46%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.64%) QA
2 10 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.60%) GDPR
4 5 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.69%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.46%) JTAG
7 2 (0.46%) NIST
8 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 161 (36.84%) Docker
2 41 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (6.86%) vSphere
4 21 (4.81%) Active Directory
5 14 (3.20%) VMware NSX
6 12 (2.75%) Hyper-V
7 10 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.83%) KVM
10 5 (1.14%) Firmware
11 4 (0.92%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.46%) iptables
13 2 (0.46%) NFS
13 2 (0.46%) PowerDNS
13 2 (0.46%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.46%) zsh
14 1 (0.23%) Ceph
14 1 (0.23%) Samba
Systems Management
1 187 (42.79%) Terraform
2 159 (36.38%) Kubernetes
3 144 (32.95%) Ansible
4 47 (10.76%) Puppet
5 36 (8.24%) Prometheus
6 34 (7.78%) Progress Chef
7 31 (7.09%) Grafana
8 15 (3.43%) Kibana
9 14 (3.20%) logstash
10 11 (2.52%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (2.52%) HP Fortify
11 10 (2.29%) Packer
12 9 (2.06%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (1.83%) Graylog
13 8 (1.83%) Nagios
14 6 (1.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 6 (1.37%) vRealize
15 5 (1.14%) Netcool
15 5 (1.14%) Tivoli
15 5 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 52 (11.90%) VMware
2 45 (10.30%) Splunk
3 44 (10.07%) Microsoft
3 44 (10.07%) Oracle
4 38 (8.70%) Red Hat
5 29 (6.64%) Cisco
6 28 (6.41%) Google
7 14 (3.20%) EMC
8 12 (2.75%) SolarWinds
9 11 (2.52%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.83%) HP
10 8 (1.83%) IBM
10 8 (1.83%) Okta
11 7 (1.60%) Databricks
11 7 (1.60%) F5
12 6 (1.37%) Dell
12 6 (1.37%) New Relic
12 6 (1.37%) Qualys
12 6 (1.37%) Symantec
12 6 (1.37%) Veritas