Shell Script Contracts in Berkshire

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Shell Script skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Shell Script over the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 110 88
Rank change year-on-year +30 -22 +35
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 17 11 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.40% 0.56% 1.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.06% 3.06% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 14
10th Percentile £351 £376 £368
25th Percentile £363 - £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% -14.29% +13.51%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £622
90th Percentile £549 £650 £625
South East median daily rate £600 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +50.00% -23.81% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.17
25th Percentile - - £30.46
Median hourly rate - - £41.03
75th Percentile - - £51.71
90th Percentile - - £57.06
South East median hourly rate - £65.00 £41.03
% change year-on-year - +58.44% -

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 336 360 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 27.72% 18.35% 22.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 250 308
10th Percentile £393 £331 £325
25th Percentile £450 £427 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £700 £653 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.15% -2.67% +4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 8
10th Percentile - £56.41 £19.06
25th Percentile £30.25 £56.65 £48.07
Median hourly rate £31.50 £61.60 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.86% -7.37% -16.88%
75th Percentile £32.75 £65.18 £79.19
90th Percentile - £74.38 £79.84
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% +15.79%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in Berkshire

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 July 2025. 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
Wokingham +1 10 £395 -33.05% 4
Reading +28 7 £476 +5.67% 1
Shell Script
South East

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 4 (23.53%) IIS
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (5.88%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Serverless
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.88%) SonarCloud
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) SAN
2 5 (29.41%) DNS
2 5 (29.41%) SMTP
3 4 (23.53%) NetScaler
4 1 (5.88%) DHCP
4 1 (5.88%) FTP
4 1 (5.88%) PuTTY
4 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.88%) Telnet
4 1 (5.88%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JMeter
2 2 (11.76%) JUnit
2 2 (11.76%) Mockito
3 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) Subversion
3 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.88%) Toad
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Administrator
1 7 (41.18%) Backup Administrator
1 7 (41.18%) Storage Administrator
1 7 (41.18%) Storage and Backup Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) HP Storage Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Remedy Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Support Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (11.76%) Apache Camel
1 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
1 2 (11.76%) HTML
1 2 (11.76%) jQuery
1 2 (11.76%) JSON
1 2 (11.76%) REST
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
1 2 (11.76%) Web Services
1 2 (11.76%) WireMock
1 2 (11.76%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (23.53%) Clustering
2 4 (23.53%) PKI
3 3 (17.65%) HP Storage
4 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.88%) CMDB
5 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Linux
3 7 (41.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (35.29%) ITIL
3 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Microservices
4 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
4 3 (17.65%) Workflow
5 2 (11.76%) BDD
5 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.76%) Process Management
5 2 (11.76%) SDLC
5 2 (11.76%) TDD
6 1 (5.88%) ITSM
6 1 (5.88%) Problem Management
6 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (5.88%) Service Management
6 1 (5.88%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
1 4 (23.53%) vSphere
1 4 (23.53%) XenApp
1 4 (23.53%) XenDesktop
2 3 (17.65%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) NFS
3 1 (5.88%) Samba
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) NetBackup
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (23.53%) WSUS
3 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
4 2 (11.76%) Kibana
5 1 (5.88%) Ansible
5 1 (5.88%) Terraform
5 1 (5.88%) yum
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) HP
2 7 (41.18%) 3PAR
2 7 (41.18%) Dell
2 7 (41.18%) Red Hat
2 7 (41.18%) Veritas
3 6 (35.29%) NetApp
3 6 (35.29%) Nimble Storage
4 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
5 4 (23.53%) Citrix
5 4 (23.53%) VMware
6 3 (17.65%) Dynatrace
6 3 (17.65%) Splunk
7 2 (11.76%) Remedy
8 1 (5.88%) BMC
8 1 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
8 1 (5.88%) New Relic
8 1 (5.88%) Oracle