Bash Contracts in the Midlands

Bash Shell
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 129 181
Rank change year-on-year +4 +52 -31
Contract jobs citing Bash 17 24 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.58% 0.75% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.58% 2.86% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 18
10th Percentile £300 - £398
25th Percentile £359 £313 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £434 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.42% -17.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £581 £508 £577
90th Percentile £618 £685 £595
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £46.05
% change year-on-year -17.86% +52.00% -14.32%

All Programming Languages
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 660 839 1,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.34% 26.13% 26.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 613 950
10th Percentile £260 £313 £325
25th Percentile £350 £370 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £540
90th Percentile £635 £700 £625
England median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 18
10th Percentile £22.50 £23.53 £16.60
25th Percentile £30.37 £25.55 £19.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +42.86% +45.71%
75th Percentile £58.75 £61.88 -
90th Percentile £72.50 £86.50 £42.35
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% +22.46%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Bash in the Midlands

Bash
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Bash in the Midlands

Bash
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bash in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bash in the Midlands

Bash
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Bash in the Midlands

Bash
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
West Midlands +8 10 £373 -37.92% 12
East Midlands +7 7 £588 +80.77% 3
Bash
England

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) Fibre Channel
1 8 (47.06%) SAN
2 4 (23.53%) DHCP
2 4 (23.53%) DNS
2 4 (23.53%) LAN
2 4 (23.53%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (23.53%) WAN
3 1 (5.88%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Ant
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) Server Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) VMWare Administrator
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Backup Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) IAM Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) EMC Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) EMC Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) JIRA Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) LDAP
1 3 (17.65%) SAML
2 2 (11.76%) OAuth
2 2 (11.76%) OpenID
2 2 (11.76%) SailPoint
2 2 (11.76%) Web Services
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 4 (23.53%) PKI
2 3 (17.65%) HP Storage
3 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Hedge funds
4 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) Windows
3 5 (29.41%) Ubuntu
4 4 (23.53%) AIX
4 4 (23.53%) CentOS
4 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (23.53%) Solaris
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
5 3 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Agile
1 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (29.41%) Task Automation
2 4 (23.53%) Change Control
2 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) Load Balancing
2 4 (23.53%) Patch Management
2 4 (23.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (17.65%) Scrum
3 3 (17.65%) Software Testing
3 3 (17.65%) System Testing
3 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) RBAC
4 2 (11.76%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) PowerShell
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) Bourne shell
4 3 (17.65%) Korn
4 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (23.53%) VMware NSX
2 4 (23.53%) VMware Server
2 4 (23.53%) vSphere
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) EMC NetWorker
1 4 (23.53%) vCenter Server
2 3 (17.65%) HP Data Protector
2 3 (17.65%) NetBackup
2 3 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (11.76%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) Argo
4 1 (5.88%) Istio
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) linkerd
4 1 (5.88%) SELinux
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle
3 4 (23.53%) Brocade
3 4 (23.53%) Cisco
3 4 (23.53%) EMC
3 4 (23.53%) VMware
4 3 (17.65%) HP
4 3 (17.65%) Symantec
5 2 (11.76%) Okta
6 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
6 1 (5.88%) Red Hat