Shell Script Contracts in England

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Shell Script skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Shell Script over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 242 300
Rank change year-on-year -77 +58 -24
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 235 528 644
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.64% 1.07% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.17% 3.06% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 363 406
10th Percentile £362 £400 £407
25th Percentile £425 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +1.85% +15.82%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £726 £713 £713
UK median daily rate £510 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% +12.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 6
10th Percentile £59.73 £39.00 £46.25
25th Percentile £64.19 £46.25 £52.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% +2.17% +42.49%
75th Percentile £67.69 £75.25 £79.38
90th Percentile £76.50 £80.70 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.38 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.97% +11.96% +16.50%

All Programming Languages
England

Shell Script is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,816 17,235 26,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.59% 35.04% 36.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,855 12,595 19,239
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £768
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 424 456
10th Percentile £38.39 £26.09 £20.13
25th Percentile £50.75 £49.92 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +16.63%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Shell Script in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
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 Shell Script within the England region over the 6 months to 13 May 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 -21 144 £525 -5.83% 26
South East +7 45 £438 -20.45% 9
North of England 0 21 £485 -7.62% 6
South West -4 13 £525 -4.55% 10
North West +6 12 £502 +5.63% 4
Midlands -22 7 £498 -7.43% 4
East Midlands +26 5 £520 +73.33% 3
Yorkshire +17 5 £485 -3.00% 2
East of England -11 5 £625 +35.14% 13
North East +9 4 - -
West Midlands -34 2 £410 -23.79% 1
Shell Script
UK

Shell Script
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 22 (9.36%) OpenStack
2 15 (6.38%) Confluence
3 12 (5.11%) Apache
4 10 (4.26%) nginx
5 9 (3.83%) Apache Spark
6 6 (2.55%) JBoss
6 6 (2.55%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.55%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.43%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 50 (21.28%) AWS
2 27 (11.49%) Azure
3 15 (6.38%) Amazon S3
4 13 (5.53%) Serverless
4 13 (5.53%) Slack
5 11 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (4.68%) GitHub
6 10 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (4.26%) OpenShift
7 7 (2.98%) Datadog
7 7 (2.98%) WhatsApp
8 6 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (2.55%) GCP
9 5 (2.13%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (2.13%) IaaS
9 5 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.53%) DNS
2 9 (3.83%) Firewall
3 7 (2.98%) Network Security
4 6 (2.55%) SAN
5 5 (2.13%) AMQP
5 5 (2.13%) HTTP
5 5 (2.13%) SSL
6 4 (1.70%) 5G
6 4 (1.70%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (1.70%) LTE
6 4 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.70%) Wireless
7 2 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (0.85%) Internet
7 2 (0.85%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.43%) DVB
8 1 (0.43%) RNC
8 1 (0.43%) SGSN
8 1 (0.43%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.21%) MongoDB
2 21 (8.94%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (8.09%) Relational Database
4 18 (7.66%) SQL Server
5 16 (6.81%) Oracle Database
6 14 (5.96%) MySQL
7 12 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (5.11%) RDBMS
8 8 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.40%) Big Data
8 8 (3.40%) Sybase ASE
8 8 (3.40%) Tableau
9 7 (2.98%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.55%) Apache Hive
11 5 (2.13%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.13%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.13%) HBase
11 5 (2.13%) InfluxDB
12 4 (1.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 54 (22.98%) Jenkins
2 42 (17.87%) Git
3 35 (14.89%) JIRA
4 16 (6.81%) JMeter
5 15 (6.38%) GitLab
6 12 (5.11%) Subversion
7 10 (4.26%) Maven
8 6 (2.55%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.55%) Gradle
9 5 (2.13%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.13%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.13%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.70%) Gatling
10 4 (1.70%) JUnit
10 4 (1.70%) Selenium
10 4 (1.70%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.70%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.28%) Ant
11 3 (1.28%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (1.28%) TestRail
General
1 52 (22.13%) Finance
2 45 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.21%) Banking
5 11 (4.68%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.55%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.55%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.13%) Back Office
7 5 (2.13%) Billing
8 4 (1.70%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.70%) Front Office
9 3 (1.28%) Automotive
10 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.43%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.43%) Electronics
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (14.04%) Developer
2 22 (9.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 18 (7.66%) Applications Support
4 18 (7.66%) Architect
5 17 (7.23%) Analyst
5 17 (7.23%) Python Engineer
6 16 (6.81%) Site Engineer
7 15 (6.38%) Linux Engineer
7 15 (6.38%) Test Engineer
8 12 (5.11%) Lead
9 11 (4.68%) Senior
10 10 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (4.26%) Support Engineer
11 9 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.40%) Applications Engineer
12 8 (3.40%) Performance Engineer
12 8 (3.40%) Performance Test Engineer
12 8 (3.40%) Sybase Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.06%) Kafka
2 22 (9.36%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (8.51%) RabbitMQ
4 15 (6.38%) Spring
5 11 (4.68%) RESTful
6 10 (4.26%) JSON
7 9 (3.83%) HTML
7 9 (3.83%) YAML
8 8 (3.40%) CSS
9 7 (2.98%) Web Services
10 6 (2.55%) IBM Integration Bus
10 6 (2.55%) LDAP
11 5 (2.13%) ActiveMQ
11 5 (2.13%) HTML5
11 5 (2.13%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.70%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (1.70%) Node.js
12 4 (1.70%) React
12 4 (1.70%) XML
13 3 (1.28%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.79%) Linux Command Line
2 22 (9.36%) Onboarding
3 20 (8.51%) Algorithms
4 15 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.11%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.26%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.55%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (2.13%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.70%) Device Driver
9 4 (1.70%) Equities
9 4 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.70%) Verilog
10 3 (1.28%) ASIC
10 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.28%) FPGA
10 3 (1.28%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 117 (49.79%) Linux
2 84 (35.74%) Unix
3 48 (20.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (13.62%) Windows
5 22 (9.36%) CentOS
6 12 (5.11%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.98%) VMS
7 7 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.13%) Debian
8 5 (2.13%) Mac OS X
9 4 (1.70%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (1.28%) Windows 10
10 3 (1.28%) Windows 2000
10 3 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.28%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.85%) Solaris
11 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (32.34%) CI/CD
2 64 (27.23%) DevOps
3 61 (25.96%) Agile
4 43 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (16.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (11.49%) Test Automation
7 26 (11.06%) ETL
8 22 (9.36%) Observability
9 21 (8.94%) Machine Learning
10 20 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 19 (8.09%) Containerisation
11 19 (8.09%) Scrum
12 18 (7.66%) Microservices
12 18 (7.66%) SDLC
13 16 (6.81%) Configuration Management
13 16 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (6.38%) Computer Science
14 15 (6.38%) ITIL
14 15 (6.38%) Task Automation
15 14 (5.96%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 127 (54.04%) Python
2 76 (32.34%) Java
3 64 (27.23%) SQL
4 30 (12.77%) C++
5 28 (11.91%) C
6 27 (11.49%) Bash
6 27 (11.49%) PowerShell
7 21 (8.94%) Perl
8 14 (5.96%) PL/SQL
9 13 (5.53%) Go
10 11 (4.68%) Scala
11 8 (3.40%) C#
12 7 (2.98%) Assembly Language
12 7 (2.98%) JavaScript
12 7 (2.98%) Search Processing Language
13 6 (2.55%) Groovy
13 6 (2.55%) ProC
14 4 (1.70%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.70%) SystemVerilog
14 4 (1.70%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 38 (16.17%) Security Cleared
2 29 (12.34%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.79%) Degree
4 12 (5.11%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.98%) PhD
6 5 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.70%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.28%) HNC
8 3 (1.28%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.28%) RHCE
9 2 (0.85%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.85%) OSCP
9 2 (0.85%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.43%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.70%) JTAG
1 4 (1.70%) QA
2 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (15.32%) Docker
2 19 (8.09%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (5.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 12 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.40%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.55%) vSphere
6 5 (2.13%) HDFS
7 4 (1.70%) Active Directory
7 4 (1.70%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (1.70%) Firmware
8 2 (0.85%) Varnish
8 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.85%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.43%) KVM
9 1 (0.43%) NFS
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.43%) Snort
9 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 70 (29.79%) Ansible
2 54 (22.98%) Kubernetes
3 52 (22.13%) Prometheus
4 50 (21.28%) Grafana
5 39 (16.60%) Terraform
6 19 (8.09%) Kibana
7 17 (7.23%) logstash
8 12 (5.11%) Consul
9 10 (4.26%) Puppet
10 6 (2.55%) Netcool
10 6 (2.55%) Packer
10 6 (2.55%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.55%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (2.55%) yum
11 5 (2.13%) Control-M
11 5 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (2.13%) Hadoop YARN
11 5 (2.13%) NetBackup
12 4 (1.70%) vRealize
13 3 (1.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 54 (22.98%) Oracle
2 45 (19.15%) Red Hat
3 27 (11.49%) Microsoft
4 20 (8.51%) VMware
5 14 (5.96%) Splunk
6 13 (5.53%) Amdocs
7 12 (5.11%) IBM
7 12 (5.11%) SaltStack
8 10 (4.26%) SEEBURGER
9 9 (3.83%) Sybase
10 8 (3.40%) HP
11 7 (2.98%) Informatica
11 7 (2.98%) Veritas
12 6 (2.55%) Temenos
13 5 (2.13%) Google
14 4 (1.70%) Murex
15 3 (1.28%) Fortinet
15 3 (1.28%) Juniper
15 3 (1.28%) NetApp
15 3 (1.28%) Xilinx