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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 46 42
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 +26
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Shell Script 12 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.79% 0.70% 1.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.77% 3.06% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £224 - £420
25th Percentile £241 £613 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +38.89% -20.00%
75th Percentile £334 £638 £491
90th Percentile £486 - £506
East of England median daily rate £325 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -48.00% +38.89% -28.00%
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 - - -
East of England median hourly rate £54.70 - -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 94 98 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 29.65% 22.79% 26.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 61 103
10th Percentile £250 £310 £363
25th Percentile £357 £355 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £584 £556 £538
90th Percentile £699 £588 £575
East of England median daily rate £500 £423 £475
% change year-on-year +18.34% -11.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 16
10th Percentile £21.20 £41.00 £24.63
25th Percentile £28.41 £46.25 £43.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £51.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £46.17 - £61.25
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
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in Cambridgeshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

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DemandTrendContract 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge +8 12 £250 -60.00% 7
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 (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