Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.46% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £454 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - -
75th Percentile £511 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £405 £625 £460
% change year-on-year -35.20% +35.87% -24.90%

All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire

Shell Script 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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 55 31 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 25.35% 15.90% 26.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 31
10th Percentile £265 £363 £313
25th Percentile £469 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £619 £550 £506
90th Percentile £656 £576 £550
East of England median daily rate £503 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +19.64% -16.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile £78.50 £59.08 -
25th Percentile £80.00 £62.25 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.75 -
90th Percentile £90.70 £70.30 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +20.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Shell Script relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Shell Script.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Shell Script

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Shell Script.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Shell Script

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Salt
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Vertica