Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Shell Script skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 77 80
Rank change year-on-year +21 +3 -
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 10 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.40% 0.11% 0.093%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.26% 0.37% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £534 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% - -
75th Percentile £551 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £750
% change year-on-year -9.09% -26.67% +20.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £68.00 - £78.00

All Programming Languages
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 190 273 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 26.61% 29.93% 30.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 132 235
10th Percentile £338 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £578
90th Percentile £598 £650 £688
South West median daily rate £475 £535 £520
% change year-on-year -11.26% +2.93% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 78 36
10th Percentile - £65.00 £57.95
25th Percentile £65.00 £67.19 -
Median hourly rate £67.75 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £72.81 £72.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £70.30
South West median hourly rate £67.75 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.21% +7.69% -

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Bristol

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Product Engineer
1 9 (90.00%) Products Support Engineer
1 9 (90.00%) Software Support Engineer
1 9 (90.00%) Support Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) Linux Support
2 8 (80.00%) Linux Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Ada
1 9 (90.00%) C
1 9 (90.00%) C++
1 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Red Hat