Shell Script Contracts with Work from Home Options

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 226 288
Rank change year-on-year -33 +62 -41
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 82 268 392
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 1.07% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.62% 2.86% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 189 272
10th Percentile £350 £420 £408
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% +15.56%
75th Percentile £691 £588 £588
90th Percentile £750 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £63.05 - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% +22.38% +31.25%
75th Percentile - £77.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.15 £80.55 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.38 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.97% +11.96% +24.32%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,048 9,374 16,677
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.49% 37.36% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,662 6,862 12,375
10th Percentile £350 £390 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 203 185
10th Percentile £34.38 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.38 £82.00 £66.60
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

Shell Script
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Shell Script trend for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
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 Shell Script.

Shell Script daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Shell Script daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
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 Shell Script.

Shell Script hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
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 7 (8.54%) Confluence
2 4 (4.88%) nginx
2 4 (4.88%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.66%) Apache
3 3 (3.66%) JBoss
3 3 (3.66%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.73%) Azure
2 14 (17.07%) AWS
3 10 (12.20%) GitHub
4 7 (8.54%) Serverless
5 5 (6.10%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.88%) WhatsApp
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.66%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (3.66%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.66%) GCP
7 3 (3.66%) OCI
7 3 (3.66%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.22%) Anthos
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) Firewall
2 4 (4.88%) Wireless
3 3 (3.66%) DNS
4 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.51%) Oracle Database
2 13 (15.85%) MongoDB
3 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.32%) PowerCenter
5 5 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (4.88%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (4.88%) Oracle ODI
6 4 (4.88%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.88%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.66%) Power BI
8 2 (2.44%) MySQL
8 2 (2.44%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.22%) Oracle8/8i Database
9 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (26.83%) JIRA
2 14 (17.07%) Git
2 14 (17.07%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.10%) JMeter
3 5 (6.10%) Subversion
4 4 (4.88%) GitLab
4 4 (4.88%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.66%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.66%) Gradle
5 3 (3.66%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.22%) JUnit
6 1 (1.22%) Mockito
6 1 (1.22%) Selenium
6 1 (1.22%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.22%) TestRail
6 1 (1.22%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.22%) webpack
General
1 27 (32.93%) Finance
2 25 (30.49%) Social Skills
3 20 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.54%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.32%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.88%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.88%) Banking
6 4 (4.88%) Front Office
6 4 (4.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.22%) Automotive
7 1 (1.22%) Back Office
7 1 (1.22%) Billing
7 1 (1.22%) German Language
7 1 (1.22%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (17.07%) Site Engineer
1 14 (17.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 13 (15.85%) Developer
3 11 (13.41%) Python Engineer
4 10 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Analyst
5 8 (9.76%) DBA
6 7 (8.54%) Oracle DBA
7 5 (6.10%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Applications Support
8 4 (4.88%) Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Embedded Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Java Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Qualitative Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) Quantitative Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (3.66%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 3 (3.66%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.85%) Kafka
2 12 (14.63%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (13.41%) RESTful
4 9 (10.98%) Middleware
5 5 (6.10%) HTML
6 4 (4.88%) CSS
6 4 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (4.88%) Node.js
6 4 (4.88%) React
6 4 (4.88%) Spring
6 4 (4.88%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.66%) IBM Integration Bus
7 3 (3.66%) XML
7 3 (3.66%) YAML
8 2 (2.44%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.44%) HTML5
8 2 (2.44%) Web Services
9 1 (1.22%) JSON Schema
9 1 (1.22%) OpenAPI
9 1 (1.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.85%) Algorithms
1 13 (15.85%) Data Structures
1 13 (15.85%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.88%) Device Driver
2 4 (4.88%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (4.88%) Equities
2 4 (4.88%) Fixed Income
2 4 (4.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.66%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.22%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.22%) IoT
5 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.22%) SystemC
5 1 (1.22%) Tandem
5 1 (1.22%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 42 (51.22%) Linux
2 22 (26.83%) Unix
3 11 (13.41%) Windows
4 9 (10.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (7.32%) AIX
6 5 (6.10%) CentOS
7 4 (4.88%) Windows Server
8 2 (2.44%) VMS
8 2 (2.44%) Windows 2000
8 2 (2.44%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.22%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (50.00%) DevOps
2 31 (37.80%) CI/CD
3 21 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (24.39%) Microservices
5 19 (23.17%) Agile
6 14 (17.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (17.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (13.41%) Scrum
7 11 (13.41%) Task Automation
8 10 (12.20%) Test Automation
9 9 (10.98%) Analytical Thinking
9 9 (10.98%) Computer Science
9 9 (10.98%) SDLC
10 8 (9.76%) TDD
11 7 (8.54%) ETL
11 7 (8.54%) Software Engineering
12 6 (7.32%) E-business
12 6 (7.32%) High Availability
12 6 (7.32%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 41 (50.00%) Python
2 30 (36.59%) Java
3 18 (21.95%) C++
4 10 (12.20%) SQL
5 8 (9.76%) Perl
6 7 (8.54%) C
6 7 (8.54%) Go
6 7 (8.54%) PowerShell
7 6 (7.32%) Bash
7 6 (7.32%) C#
7 6 (7.32%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.10%) VBA
9 4 (4.88%) Assembly Language
9 4 (4.88%) MATLAB
9 4 (4.88%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.88%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.44%) R
11 1 (1.22%) ProC
11 1 (1.22%) Tcl
11 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (17.07%) Degree
2 8 (9.76%) Master's Degree
3 6 (7.32%) PhD
4 5 (6.10%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.88%) Numerate Degree
5 4 (4.88%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.44%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.22%) HNC
7 1 (1.22%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) JTAG
2 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.22%) QA
4 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (15.85%) Docker
2 12 (14.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 7 (8.54%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (4.88%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (4.88%) Firmware
4 4 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.22%) Snort
6 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (35.37%) Kubernetes
2 20 (24.39%) Prometheus
3 19 (23.17%) Grafana
4 13 (15.85%) Ansible
5 12 (14.63%) Consul
6 7 (8.54%) Data Guard
6 7 (8.54%) Terraform
7 6 (7.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 5 (6.10%) Kibana
9 4 (4.88%) logstash
10 3 (3.66%) Puppet
11 1 (1.22%) Istio
11 1 (1.22%) Kiali
11 1 (1.22%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 25 (30.49%) Oracle
2 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 12 (14.63%) SaltStack
4 9 (10.98%) Informatica
5 5 (6.10%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.66%) Google
6 3 (3.66%) IBM
6 3 (3.66%) Sybase
6 3 (3.66%) Temenos
6 3 (3.66%) Teradata
6 3 (3.66%) VMware
7 2 (2.44%) Databricks
7 2 (2.44%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.44%) Juniper
7 2 (2.44%) Splunk
8 1 (1.22%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace