Shell Script Contracts in Cambridge

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 24 30
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Shell Script 12 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 7.14% 1.82% 1.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.67% 5.00% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £224 - -
25th Percentile £241 £613 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +38.89% -20.00%
75th Percentile £334 £638 £475
90th Percentile £486 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £250 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -60.00% +38.89% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.55 - -
Median hourly rate £54.70 - -
75th Percentile £55.85 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £54.70 - -

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 72 60 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 42.86% 36.36% 42.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 33 76
10th Percentile £250 £302 £413
25th Percentile £384 £340 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -11.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £584 £525 £550
90th Percentile £685 £581 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £501 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.53% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £21.38 - £33.38
25th Percentile £26.74 £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £36.25 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.96% +4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £46.34 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £52.05 - £61.88
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £37.50 £51.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -27.18% +3.00% +11.11%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Cambridge

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in Cambridge over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in Cambridge

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 5 (41.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) iSCSI
2 5 (41.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) JIRA
2 8 (66.67%) GitLab
2 8 (66.67%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Multimedia
3 1 (8.33%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Administrator
2 6 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (41.67%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Administrator
6 1 (8.33%) Cloud Administrator
6 1 (8.33%) FPGA Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 2 (16.67%) React
1 2 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Data Centre
1 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (41.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) FPGA
2 1 (8.33%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) CentOS
2 5 (41.67%) Ubuntu
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 9 (75.00%) ITSM
2 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (33.33%) Data Science
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Data Collection
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Validation
6 1 (8.33%) FPGA Design
6 1 (8.33%) Inertial Measurement
6 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) SystemVerilog
3 1 (8.33%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 4 (33.33%) Puppet
2 4 (33.33%) Salt
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Xilinx