Bash Contracts with Work from Home Options

Bash Shell
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 183 96 171
Rank change year-on-year -87 +75 +12
Contract jobs citing Bash 169 573 724
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.15% 2.40% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.33% 6.59% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 438 519
10th Percentile £402 £450 £437
25th Percentile £463 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £650
90th Percentile £688 £840 £720
UK median daily rate £536 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.67% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 3
10th Percentile - £22.50 £22.48
25th Percentile - £51.25 £23.19
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year - +82.61% -34.29%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £55.94
90th Percentile - £73.75 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £65.50 £46.05
% change year-on-year -12.21% +42.23% -7.90%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,080 8,696 16,767
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.43% 36.42% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,656 6,423 12,512
10th Percentile £356 £381 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 187 184
10th Percentile £29.38 £26.96 £20.25
25th Percentile £44.88 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

Bash
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Bash trend for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Bash.

Bash daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Bash over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Bash daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Bash.

Bash hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 21 (12.43%) Confluence
2 3 (1.78%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (1.78%) nginx
2 3 (1.78%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.59%) Apache
3 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.59%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.59%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.59%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 99 (58.58%) AWS
2 61 (36.09%) Azure
3 31 (18.34%) GCP
4 22 (13.02%) OpenShift
5 20 (11.83%) Serverless
6 17 (10.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (10.06%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (9.47%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (8.88%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (8.88%) Amazon S3
9 14 (8.28%) GitHub
9 14 (8.28%) IaaS
10 11 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (5.92%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (5.92%) PaaS
12 8 (4.73%) SaaS
13 6 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.96%) Route 53
14 5 (2.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.65%) Firewall
2 16 (9.47%) TCP/IP
3 15 (8.88%) DNS
4 11 (6.51%) DHCP
5 7 (4.14%) Network Security
5 7 (4.14%) SAN
6 5 (2.96%) Kerberos
6 5 (2.96%) LAN
6 5 (2.96%) NAS
6 5 (2.96%) VLAN
7 4 (2.37%) BGP
7 4 (2.37%) VPN
8 3 (1.78%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (1.78%) HTTP
8 3 (1.78%) IOS XR
8 3 (1.78%) SSL
8 3 (1.78%) WLAN
9 2 (1.18%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (1.18%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.28%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (5.33%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.73%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.73%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.55%) MySQL
7 5 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.37%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.37%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.37%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.37%) Tableau
9 3 (1.78%) DataStax
9 3 (1.78%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.78%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.18%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (28.40%) Git
2 45 (26.63%) Jenkins
3 24 (14.20%) JIRA
4 23 (13.61%) GitLab
5 12 (7.10%) Bitbucket
6 11 (6.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (3.55%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.96%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.78%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.78%) Travis CI
10 2 (1.18%) Ant
10 2 (1.18%) Selenium
11 1 (0.59%) Apache Continuum
11 1 (0.59%) AppScan
11 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.59%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.59%) Maven
11 1 (0.59%) RStudio
11 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.59%) Subversion
General
1 53 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.61%) Finance
3 20 (11.83%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.55%) Banking
6 4 (2.37%) Law
7 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.78%) Marketing
7 3 (1.78%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.59%) Aviation
9 1 (0.59%) Back Office
9 1 (0.59%) Electronics
9 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.59%) French Language
9 1 (0.59%) Games
9 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Military
9 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (34.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (18.34%) Senior
3 24 (14.20%) Developer
4 22 (13.02%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (11.24%) AWS DevOps
6 17 (10.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 14 (8.28%) Senior DevOps
8 12 (7.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (6.51%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.33%) DBA
11 7 (4.14%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.14%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.14%) Lead
11 7 (4.14%) Lead DevOps
12 6 (3.55%) Architect
12 6 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (3.55%) Consultant
12 6 (3.55%) Test Engineer
13 5 (2.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.24%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (7.10%) AWS CDK
2 12 (7.10%) React
3 9 (5.33%) Kafka
3 9 (5.33%) Node.js
4 7 (4.14%) Django
4 7 (4.14%) JSON
4 7 (4.14%) LDAP
5 5 (2.96%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.96%) CSS
5 5 (2.96%) HTML
5 5 (2.96%) XML
5 5 (2.96%) YAML
6 4 (2.37%) AWS SAM
6 4 (2.37%) REST
6 4 (2.37%) RESTful
7 3 (1.78%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.78%) PySpark
7 3 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.78%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.33%) Replication
2 8 (4.73%) Clustering
2 8 (4.73%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.55%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.96%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.96%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.37%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.78%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.78%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.18%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.18%) Equities
7 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 76 (44.97%) Linux
2 30 (17.75%) Windows
3 19 (11.24%) Unix
4 17 (10.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (7.69%) Ubuntu
6 10 (5.92%) Windows Server
7 9 (5.33%) Solaris
8 6 (3.55%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (2.37%) Rocky
10 3 (1.78%) CentOS
11 2 (1.18%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.59%) AIX
12 1 (0.59%) Android
12 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (54.44%) DevOps
2 71 (42.01%) CI/CD
3 52 (30.77%) Agile
4 51 (30.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (20.12%) Containerisation
7 29 (17.16%) Test Automation
8 25 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (11.24%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (10.65%) Task Automation
11 16 (9.47%) Configuration Management
12 15 (8.88%) High Availability
12 15 (8.88%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (8.28%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (8.28%) Roadmaps
13 14 (8.28%) Scrum
14 13 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 12 (7.10%) Computer Science
16 11 (6.51%) Analytics
17 10 (5.92%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 129 (76.33%) Python
2 50 (29.59%) PowerShell
3 31 (18.34%) SQL
4 25 (14.79%) JavaScript
5 24 (14.20%) Java
6 21 (12.43%) Perl
7 18 (10.65%) Go
8 12 (7.10%) C++
9 11 (6.51%) TypeScript
10 10 (5.92%) C
11 9 (5.33%) Ruby
12 8 (4.73%) Groovy
13 6 (3.55%) Shell Script
14 4 (2.37%) Bourne shell
14 4 (2.37%) C#
14 4 (2.37%) Korn
14 4 (2.37%) PL/SQL
14 4 (2.37%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.78%) Bicep
15 3 (1.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (22.49%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.88%) Degree
4 12 (7.10%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.51%) AWS Certification
6 10 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (5.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.18%) CEH
10 2 (1.18%) CISM
10 2 (1.18%) CISSP
10 2 (1.18%) RHCE
10 2 (1.18%) SANS
11 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.55%) GDPR
2 5 (2.96%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.96%) QA
2 5 (2.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (2.37%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.59%) NIST
5 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.59%) SLA
5 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (30.77%) Docker
2 10 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.55%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (3.55%) vSphere
4 5 (2.96%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.18%) zsh
7 1 (0.59%) iptables
7 1 (0.59%) Postfix
7 1 (0.59%) PowerDNS
7 1 (0.59%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 69 (40.83%) Terraform
2 63 (37.28%) Ansible
2 63 (37.28%) Kubernetes
3 25 (14.79%) Puppet
4 19 (11.24%) Grafana
5 17 (10.06%) Progress Chef
6 16 (9.47%) Prometheus
7 9 (5.33%) Kibana
8 6 (3.55%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (2.96%) Netcool
9 5 (2.96%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (2.96%) Tivoli
9 5 (2.96%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (2.37%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (2.37%) logstash
10 4 (2.37%) Nagios
11 2 (1.18%) Argo
11 2 (1.18%) Karpenter
11 2 (1.18%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.18%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 18 (10.65%) Splunk
2 17 (10.06%) Microsoft
3 16 (9.47%) Oracle
4 15 (8.88%) Red Hat
5 13 (7.69%) VMware
6 11 (6.51%) Cisco
7 9 (5.33%) Atlassian
8 7 (4.14%) EMC
9 6 (3.55%) Google
9 6 (3.55%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.96%) CyberArk
10 5 (2.96%) Dell
10 5 (2.96%) HP
10 5 (2.96%) IBM
10 5 (2.96%) Isilon
10 5 (2.96%) Qualys
10 5 (2.96%) Serena
11 4 (2.37%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.78%) New Relic
12 3 (1.78%) Palo Alto