Shell Script Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 52 41
Rank change year-on-year +24 -11 +31
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 15 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.02% 0.58% 2.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.86% 2.70% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 8
10th Percentile £168 - £420
25th Percentile £241 £613 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -42.68% +38.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £471 £638 £492
90th Percentile £508 - £506
East of England median daily rate £325 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -48.00% +38.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 84 111 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 28.09% 21.31% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 61 104
10th Percentile £250 £325 £363
25th Percentile £389 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £525
90th Percentile £650 £588 £575
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £483
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.55% +1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 16
10th Percentile £20.35 £35.51 £24.63
25th Percentile £25.23 £48.00 £43.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £54.38 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £57.50
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.07%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Cambridgeshire

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in Cambridgeshire

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in Cambridgeshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cambridge +17 12 £250 -60.00% 15
Shell Script
East of England

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
1 8 (53.33%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (13.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) DNS
2 5 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 5 (33.33%) SAN
3 3 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) JIRA
2 8 (53.33%) GitLab
2 8 (53.33%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Administrator
2 6 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (13.33%) Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Administrator
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Administrator
6 1 (6.67%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (20.00%) Clustering
2 3 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) FPGA
3 1 (6.67%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) CentOS
2 5 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 9 (60.00%) ITSM
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (26.67%) Data Science
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (20.00%) Capacity Management
4 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 3 (20.00%) Proactive Management
4 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
6 1 (6.67%) FPGA Design
6 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
6 1 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Tcl
3 2 (13.33%) Perl
4 1 (6.67%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
1 8 (53.33%) Hyper-V
2 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Ansible
2 4 (26.67%) Progress Chef
2 4 (26.67%) Puppet
2 4 (26.67%) Salt
2 4 (26.67%) Terraform
3 3 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (20.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 8 (53.33%) VMware
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (13.33%) Synopsys
6 1 (6.67%) Xilinx