Bash Contracts in the UK excluding London

Bash Shell
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 189 144 199
Rank change year-on-year -45 +55 +1
Contract jobs citing Bash 234 378 407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.10% 1.67% 1.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.64% 6.00% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 265 289
10th Percentile £400 £389 £426
25th Percentile £454 £477 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +17.02%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £658 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £536 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.67% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 5
10th Percentile - - £26.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.25 £39.55
Median hourly rate £58.75 £70.00 £52.56
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% +33.19% -2.22%
75th Percentile £72.19 £78.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £87.60 £63.42
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £65.50 £46.05
% change year-on-year -12.21% +42.23% -7.90%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,046 6,305 8,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.66% 27.78% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,329 4,405 6,152
10th Percentile £320 £338 £340
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £578 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 323 327
10th Percentile £37.55 £27.68 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +24.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.90 £78.00 £67.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 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
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
Scotland -14 30 £480 -7.02% 9
North West -16 23 £550 -6.38% 17
Midlands +13 22 £536 +38.32% 21
East of England -9 20 £550 +9.45% 23
West Midlands +16 14 £450 -25.00% 14
East Midlands +5 8 £600 +84.62% 7
Wales +18 1 £690 +20.00% 3
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 25 (10.68%) Confluence
2 5 (2.14%) nginx
3 4 (1.71%) Apache
4 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.85%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.43%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 114 (48.72%) AWS
2 66 (28.21%) Azure
3 34 (14.53%) GCP
4 28 (11.97%) GitHub
5 27 (11.54%) Amazon S3
5 27 (11.54%) Serverless
6 26 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (11.11%) OpenShift
7 22 (9.40%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (6.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (3.85%) Kong
11 9 (3.85%) Snowflake
11 9 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (2.99%) Datadog
13 6 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (2.56%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.55%) Firewall
2 18 (7.69%) DNS
3 15 (6.41%) TCP/IP
4 12 (5.13%) VPN
5 10 (4.27%) SAN
6 9 (3.85%) HTTP
7 8 (3.42%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (2.56%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (2.56%) SSL
9 5 (2.14%) DHCP
9 5 (2.14%) LAN
9 5 (2.14%) Network Security
9 5 (2.14%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (2.14%) WAN
10 4 (1.71%) IPv4
10 4 (1.71%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.28%) BGP
11 3 (1.28%) BIG-IP
11 3 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (1.28%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
1 27 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 20 (8.55%) MySQL
4 13 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 13 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.42%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (2.99%) Big Data
7 6 (2.56%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.56%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.56%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.71%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.28%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.28%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.85%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.85%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 69 (29.49%) Git
2 52 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 46 (19.66%) GitLab
4 29 (12.39%) JIRA
5 18 (7.69%) SonarQube
6 12 (5.13%) Artifactory
7 11 (4.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (4.70%) Bitbucket
8 9 (3.85%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.85%) Travis CI
9 7 (2.99%) Maven
10 6 (2.56%) Gradle
10 6 (2.56%) Subversion
11 5 (2.14%) AppScan
11 5 (2.14%) Burp Suite
12 4 (1.71%) Ant
12 4 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (1.28%) Cucumber
13 3 (1.28%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.28%) Selenium
General
1 50 (21.37%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.25%) Public Sector
3 16 (6.84%) Finance
4 14 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.99%) Legal
6 5 (2.14%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.71%) Electronics
8 3 (1.28%) Banking
8 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.28%) Retail
8 3 (1.28%) Wearables
9 2 (0.85%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (24.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (12.39%) Developer
3 22 (9.40%) AWS DevOps
3 22 (9.40%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (8.97%) Senior
5 20 (8.55%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
7 16 (6.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 15 (6.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 13 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.13%) Database Specialist
10 12 (5.13%) Site Engineer
10 12 (5.13%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.27%) Administrator
11 10 (4.27%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
14 7 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.40%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (8.97%) React
3 19 (8.12%) YAML
4 18 (7.69%) JSON
4 18 (7.69%) Node.js
5 17 (7.26%) AWS CDK
6 12 (5.13%) CSS
6 12 (5.13%) HTML
7 11 (4.70%) XML
8 10 (4.27%) REST
9 7 (2.99%) .NET
9 7 (2.99%) Kafka
10 5 (2.14%) Yocto
11 4 (1.71%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.71%) LDAP
11 4 (1.71%) RESTful
11 4 (1.71%) SailPoint
11 4 (1.71%) SAML
11 4 (1.71%) Vue
12 3 (1.28%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.68%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (5.56%) Replication
3 12 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (4.70%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.42%) Clustering
6 8 (3.42%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.99%) Verilog
8 6 (2.56%) ASIC
9 5 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.14%) PKI
10 4 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.71%) FPGA
11 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.28%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.28%) Smart Meter
11 3 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 124 (52.99%) Linux
2 36 (15.38%) Windows
3 35 (14.96%) Unix
4 31 (13.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (8.97%) Ubuntu
6 9 (3.85%) CentOS
6 9 (3.85%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.42%) Solaris
8 6 (2.56%) VMS
9 5 (2.14%) Rocky
10 4 (1.71%) AIX
11 3 (1.28%) Debian
11 3 (1.28%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.43%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (43.59%) CI/CD
2 95 (40.60%) DevOps
3 67 (28.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (27.35%) Agile
5 63 (26.92%) Containerisation
6 55 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (18.38%) Task Automation
8 37 (15.81%) Continuous Integration
8 37 (15.81%) Test Automation
9 35 (14.96%) Scrum
10 24 (10.26%) Configuration Management
10 24 (10.26%) Software Engineering
11 22 (9.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (8.97%) High Availability
13 20 (8.55%) Performance Tuning
14 19 (8.12%) Software Testing
15 18 (7.69%) Mentoring
16 17 (7.26%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (7.26%) Project Management
16 17 (7.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 156 (66.67%) Python
2 77 (32.91%) PowerShell
3 33 (14.10%) Shell Script
4 32 (13.68%) SQL
5 31 (13.25%) JavaScript
6 22 (9.40%) C++
6 22 (9.40%) Java
6 22 (9.40%) TypeScript
7 21 (8.97%) C
8 19 (8.12%) Perl
9 17 (7.26%) Ruby
10 14 (5.98%) Groovy
11 12 (5.13%) Go
12 11 (4.70%) C#
13 7 (2.99%) Bourne shell
13 7 (2.99%) Korn
13 7 (2.99%) PL/SQL
13 7 (2.99%) SystemVerilog
13 7 (2.99%) Tcl
14 3 (1.28%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 66 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 38 (16.24%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.26%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.41%) Degree
5 12 (5.13%) AWS Certification
6 10 (4.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.28%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.85%) CCNP
11 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.85%) CISSP
11 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.85%) PhD
11 2 (0.85%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.43%) CISM
12 1 (0.43%) GIAC
12 1 (0.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.26%) QA
2 8 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.28%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.85%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) JTAG
6 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (33.33%) Docker
2 28 (11.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (10.68%) vSphere
4 11 (4.70%) VMware NSX
5 10 (4.27%) Active Directory
6 9 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (3.42%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.71%) VMware Server
9 3 (1.28%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (1.28%) Firmware
9 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.85%) KVM
10 2 (0.85%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.85%) zsh
11 1 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 97 (41.45%) Ansible
2 93 (39.74%) Terraform
3 85 (36.32%) Kubernetes
4 28 (11.97%) Puppet
5 23 (9.83%) Grafana
5 23 (9.83%) Prometheus
6 22 (9.40%) Progress Chef
7 19 (8.12%) Kibana
8 13 (5.56%) logstash
9 11 (4.70%) HP Fortify
10 10 (4.27%) Docker Swarm
11 7 (2.99%) Packer
12 6 (2.56%) Graylog
12 6 (2.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 6 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (2.56%) vRealize
13 5 (2.14%) Istio
13 5 (2.14%) Nessus
13 5 (2.14%) WebInspect
14 4 (1.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (15.81%) VMware
2 33 (14.10%) Oracle
3 32 (13.68%) Red Hat
4 31 (13.25%) Splunk
5 21 (8.97%) Microsoft
6 13 (5.56%) Atlassian
6 13 (5.56%) Cisco
7 12 (5.13%) SolarWinds
8 10 (4.27%) Google
9 9 (3.85%) EMC
10 6 (2.56%) Veritas
11 5 (2.14%) Checkmarx
11 5 (2.14%) Veracode
12 4 (1.71%) Arqiva
12 4 (1.71%) Brocade
12 4 (1.71%) Cadence
12 4 (1.71%) Symantec
13 3 (1.28%) Informatica
13 3 (1.28%) Juniper
13 3 (1.28%) Salesforce