Shell Script Contracts in Birmingham

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 66 71
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.38% 0.13% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 0.54% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £580
25th Percentile - £410 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £420 £608
Median % change year-on-year - -30.86% +14.62%
75th Percentile - £430 £639
90th Percentile - - £652
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £410 £538
% change year-on-year +12.20% -23.79% +13.26%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 126 186 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.14% 24.06% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 144 158
10th Percentile £341 £259 £313
25th Percentile £425 £310 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.88% -18.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £650
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £456 £525
% change year-on-year +4.11% -13.10% +14.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £40.20 £21.70
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.50 £24.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +64.74% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £75.63
90th Percentile - - £98.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -52.17% +96.13% +68.59%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Birmingham

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in Birmingham

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in Birmingham

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Ant
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Mockito
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Log Aggregation
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Server Management
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Sophos
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase
1 1 (50.00%) VMware