Shell Script Contracts in Cardiff

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 25 34
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +13
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 2 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.19% 2.64% 1.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.88% 8.11% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £262 £478 £519
25th Percentile £268 £492 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -46.19% -4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £293 £553 £566
90th Percentile £297 £581 £571
South Wales median daily rate £283 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -46.19% -4.55% -7.17%

All Programming Languages
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 41 74 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 24.40% 32.60% 25.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 62 52
10th Percentile £258 £369 £313
25th Percentile £309 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +9.59% -8.75%
75th Percentile £466 £550 £638
90th Percentile £550 £574 £663
South Wales median daily rate £405 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -17.35% -6.67% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.44%
South Wales median hourly rate £45.00 £20.24 £19.49
% change year-on-year +122.39% +3.82% -2.11%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operator
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Scheduling
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) BT
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Focus
2 1 (50.00%) Xerox