Bash Contracts in the West Midlands

Bash Shell
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 97 113 153
Rank change year-on-year +16 +40 -22
Contract jobs citing Bash 14 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.69% 0.72% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.06% 2.97% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 17
10th Percentile £300 £370 £363
25th Percentile £323 £381 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% +15.07%
75th Percentile £518 £700 £580
90th Percentile £536 £715 £623
England median daily rate £550 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -12.00% +6.38% +17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.50 £46.05
% change year-on-year -12.21% +42.23% -14.32%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 458 538 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.43% 24.31% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 361 659
10th Percentile £260 £313 £325
25th Percentile £348 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% +17.28%
75th Percentile £550 £602 £563
90th Percentile £638 £700 £638
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 3
10th Percentile £36.36 £21.73 £24.30
25th Percentile £47.75 £23.81 £36.38
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% -49.45% +141.47%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £59.71
90th Percentile £72.50 £98.25 £59.84
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

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 12 June 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 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
Shropshire +7 11 £500 -
Coventry +8 1 £450 +16.13% 4
Solihull -13 1 £345 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £400 -
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 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DHCP
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
1 4 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (28.57%) LAN
1 4 (28.57%) Remote Desktop
1 4 (28.57%) SAN
1 4 (28.57%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) SSL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Ant
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
1 7 (50.00%) SQL Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Administrator
2 4 (28.57%) Server Administrator
2 4 (28.57%) VMWare Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Development Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
1 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Onboarding
2 4 (28.57%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Unix
2 5 (35.71%) Linux
3 4 (28.57%) CentOS
3 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (28.57%) Ubuntu
3 4 (28.57%) Windows
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) Scrum
1 7 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 7 (50.00%) System Testing
2 4 (28.57%) Change Control
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 4 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Task Automation
2 4 (28.57%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.14%) A/B Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Canary Deployment
5 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Bourne shell
2 7 (50.00%) Korn
2 7 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (7.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (28.57%) VMware NSX
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Server
2 4 (28.57%) vSphere
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Argo
3 1 (7.14%) Istio
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) linkerd
3 1 (7.14%) SELinux
3 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (28.57%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat