Shell Script Contracts

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 238 310
Rank change year-on-year -93 +72 -43
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 287 679 787
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 1.14% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.25% 3.24% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 465 487
10th Percentile £350 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £612
90th Percentile £710 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £538 £495
% change year-on-year -11.71% +8.69% +20.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 7
10th Percentile £59.73 £40.00 £47.25
25th Percentile £64.19 £46.88 £53.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.56 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% +2.60% +50.00%
75th Percentile £67.69 £74.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £77.00 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £58.75 £53.75
% change year-on-year +10.64% +9.30% +144.32%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,747 20,965 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.44% 35.05% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,054 15,147 23,495
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 477 511
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.39 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +26.90% +15.88%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -53 235 £515 -4.63% 82
London -10 146 £525 -7.08% 31
UK excluding London -79 119 £475 -11.71% 52
Work from Home -37 85 £525 - 37
South East +15 42 £450 -20.35% 11
Scotland -10 29 £450 -12.28% 3
North of England +8 20 £503 +3.08% 6
South West +3 13 £525 -4.55% 10
North West -5 11 £528 +40.99% 5
East of England 0 7 £625 +35.14% 17
Midlands -42 7 £498 -7.43% 4
East Midlands +20 5 £520 +73.33% 2
Yorkshire +17 5 £485 -3.00% 1
North East +16 4 - -
Wales +18 3 £538 -6.52% 2
West Midlands -37 2 £410 -23.79% 2

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 26 (9.06%) OpenStack
2 18 (6.27%) Apache
2 18 (6.27%) Confluence
3 13 (4.53%) nginx
4 9 (3.14%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.14%) JBoss
4 9 (3.14%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.14%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.70%) IntelliMatch
3 1 (0.35%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Utilities
3 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 75 (26.13%) AWS
2 39 (13.59%) Azure
3 27 (9.41%) Serverless
4 26 (9.06%) Amazon S3
5 19 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (6.62%) GitHub
6 17 (5.92%) Slack
7 16 (5.57%) OpenShift
8 13 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.14%) GCP
12 8 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.44%) Datadog
13 7 (2.44%) IaaS
13 7 (2.44%) PaaS
13 7 (2.44%) WhatsApp
14 6 (2.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 5 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.27%) Firewall
2 17 (5.92%) DNS
3 6 (2.09%) Network Security
3 6 (2.09%) SAN
4 5 (1.74%) AMQP
4 5 (1.74%) Diameter Protocol
4 5 (1.74%) HTTP
5 4 (1.39%) 5G
5 4 (1.39%) LTE
5 4 (1.39%) SSL
5 4 (1.39%) Wireless
6 3 (1.05%) Internet
6 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.35%) DVB
8 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.35%) SGSN
8 1 (0.35%) SNMP
8 1 (0.35%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.59%) Oracle Database
2 29 (10.10%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (10.10%) MongoDB
3 26 (9.06%) Relational Database
4 21 (7.32%) SQL Server
5 19 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (5.23%) MySQL
6 15 (5.23%) RDBMS
7 11 (3.83%) Big Data
8 9 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.14%) Oracle Database 12c
9 8 (2.79%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.79%) PowerCenter
9 8 (2.79%) Sybase ASE
10 7 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (2.44%) Apache Hive
10 7 (2.44%) Hadoop
10 7 (2.44%) HBase
10 7 (2.44%) Tableau
11 5 (1.74%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 77 (26.83%) Jenkins
2 59 (20.56%) Git
3 50 (17.42%) JIRA
4 19 (6.62%) GitLab
5 18 (6.27%) Maven
6 16 (5.57%) JMeter
7 13 (4.53%) Subversion
8 12 (4.18%) Gradle
9 7 (2.44%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.44%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.44%) Selenium
9 7 (2.44%) TeamCity
10 6 (2.09%) Artifactory
10 6 (2.09%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.39%) Gatling
11 4 (1.39%) JUnit
11 4 (1.39%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.05%) Ant
12 3 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (1.05%) Poetry
General
1 66 (23.00%) Finance
2 55 (19.16%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.71%) Banking
5 23 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.14%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.44%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.74%) Billing
10 4 (1.39%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.39%) Back Office
10 4 (1.39%) Front Office
11 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.70%) Automotive
12 2 (0.70%) Law
12 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.35%) Advertising
13 1 (0.35%) Electronics
13 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 52 (18.12%) Developer
2 24 (8.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (7.32%) Analyst
3 21 (7.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 19 (6.62%) Applications Support
5 17 (5.92%) Architect
5 17 (5.92%) Lead
5 17 (5.92%) Site Engineer
6 16 (5.57%) DBA
6 16 (5.57%) Python Engineer
6 16 (5.57%) Senior
7 15 (5.23%) Linux Engineer
8 14 (4.88%) Test Engineer
9 13 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (4.18%) Oracle DBA
11 10 (3.48%) Support Engineer
12 9 (3.14%) Administrator
12 9 (3.14%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.76%) Elastic Stack
2 26 (9.06%) Kafka
3 20 (6.97%) HTML
4 18 (6.27%) RabbitMQ
5 17 (5.92%) CSS
6 16 (5.57%) Spring
7 15 (5.23%) React
8 13 (4.53%) Node.js
9 12 (4.18%) Middleware
10 10 (3.48%) AWS CDK
10 10 (3.48%) JSON
10 10 (3.48%) RESTful
11 9 (3.14%) IBM Integration Bus
12 8 (2.79%) HTML5
12 8 (2.79%) YAML
13 7 (2.44%) Oracle GoldenGate
14 6 (2.09%) LDAP
14 6 (2.09%) Web Services
15 5 (1.74%) ActiveMQ
15 5 (1.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.36%) Onboarding
2 23 (8.01%) Linux Command Line
3 19 (6.62%) Algorithms
4 18 (6.27%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.48%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.09%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.09%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.09%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.39%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.39%) Device Driver
11 4 (1.39%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.39%) Equities
12 3 (1.05%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.05%) Eurex
12 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 148 (51.57%) Linux
2 102 (35.54%) Unix
3 55 (19.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (14.98%) Windows
5 26 (9.06%) CentOS
6 15 (5.23%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.44%) VMS
7 7 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.09%) AIX
9 5 (1.74%) Debian
9 5 (1.74%) Mac OS X
10 4 (1.39%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (1.05%) Windows 10
11 3 (1.05%) Windows 2000
11 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.05%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.70%) Solaris
12 2 (0.70%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (34.84%) CI/CD
2 85 (29.62%) DevOps
3 79 (27.53%) Agile
4 56 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (15.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (11.50%) Microservices
7 32 (11.15%) Test Automation
8 28 (9.76%) ETL
9 27 (9.41%) Scrum
10 26 (9.06%) Observability
10 26 (9.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 24 (8.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 23 (8.01%) Machine Learning
13 21 (7.32%) SDLC
14 19 (6.62%) Analytics
15 18 (6.27%) Containerisation
16 16 (5.57%) Continuous Integration
16 16 (5.57%) Migration
16 16 (5.57%) Task Automation
16 16 (5.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 149 (51.92%) Python
2 95 (33.10%) Java
3 69 (24.04%) SQL
4 45 (15.68%) Bash
5 30 (10.45%) C++
5 30 (10.45%) PowerShell
6 26 (9.06%) C
7 21 (7.32%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.32%) Perl
8 15 (5.23%) PL/SQL
9 14 (4.88%) Go
9 14 (4.88%) Groovy
10 11 (3.83%) Scala
10 11 (3.83%) TypeScript
11 9 (3.14%) C#
11 9 (3.14%) Ruby
12 7 (2.44%) Search Processing Language
13 6 (2.09%) Assembly Language
13 6 (2.09%) ProC
13 6 (2.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (12.54%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.67%) Degree
4 10 (3.48%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.44%) PhD
6 5 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.39%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.05%) RHCE
9 2 (0.70%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.70%) HNC
9 2 (0.70%) ISEB
9 2 (0.70%) OSCP
9 2 (0.70%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.09%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.74%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.74%) QA
3 4 (1.39%) JTAG
4 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.35%) NCSC
5 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (16.38%) Docker
2 21 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (4.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 12 (4.18%) Oracle RAC
4 12 (4.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (2.44%) HDFS
5 7 (2.44%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.09%) vSphere
7 4 (1.39%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (1.39%) Firmware
8 3 (1.05%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.70%) Varnish
9 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.70%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.35%) KVM
10 1 (0.35%) NFS
10 1 (0.35%) Snort
10 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 78 (27.18%) Ansible
2 65 (22.65%) Kubernetes
3 54 (18.82%) Prometheus
4 52 (18.12%) Grafana
5 47 (16.38%) Terraform
6 23 (8.01%) Kibana
7 21 (7.32%) logstash
8 12 (4.18%) Data Guard
9 11 (3.83%) Consul
10 9 (3.14%) Puppet
11 7 (2.44%) Hadoop YARN
11 7 (2.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 6 (2.09%) Progress Chef
12 6 (2.09%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (2.09%) yum
13 5 (1.74%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (1.74%) NetBackup
13 5 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (1.74%) Packer
14 4 (1.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 86 (29.97%) Oracle
2 51 (17.77%) Red Hat
3 30 (10.45%) Microsoft
4 20 (6.97%) VMware
5 16 (5.57%) Amdocs
6 14 (4.88%) IBM
6 14 (4.88%) Splunk
7 13 (4.53%) Informatica
8 11 (3.83%) SaltStack
9 9 (3.14%) Google
9 9 (3.14%) Sybase
9 9 (3.14%) Temenos
10 8 (2.79%) SEEBURGER
11 7 (2.44%) HP
11 7 (2.44%) Murex
11 7 (2.44%) Salesforce
11 7 (2.44%) SAP
11 7 (2.44%) Veritas
12 4 (1.39%) Solace
13 3 (1.05%) Nimble Storage