Shell Script Contracts in Central London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
London > Central London

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 109 142
Rank change year-on-year 0 +33 +9
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 20 24 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.00% 0.98% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.59% 2.88% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 25
10th Percentile £397 £400 £437
25th Percentile £444 £475 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £655 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +4.80% +16.28%
75th Percentile £684 £695 £745
90th Percentile £688 £710 £750
London median daily rate £550 £525 £565
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% -1.31%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 773 833 1,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.71% 34.06% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 608 1,091
10th Percentile £409 £412 £420
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £620
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
London median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Central London

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in Central London

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in Central London

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in Central London

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +1 17 £625 -4.58% 2
Shell Script
London

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (25.00%) Apache
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (10.00%) nginx
4 1 (5.00%) Confluence
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Serverless
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
1 3 (15.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) DHCP
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (15.00%) Big Data
3 3 (15.00%) DB2
3 3 (15.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (10.00%) CockroachDB
4 2 (10.00%) Data Mart
4 2 (10.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (10.00%) MySQL
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (10.00%) Redis
5 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (25.00%) JIRA
3 4 (20.00%) Git
4 3 (15.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (10.00%) GitLab
5 2 (10.00%) JUnit
5 2 (10.00%) Maven
5 2 (10.00%) Mockito
5 2 (10.00%) Postman
5 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
5 2 (10.00%) SoapUI
5 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (10.00%) Subversion
5 2 (10.00%) Xcode
5 2 (10.00%) XCTest
6 1 (5.00%) Ant
6 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Angular Developer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) COBOL Developer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Java Scala Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Mainframe Developer
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 5 (25.00%) RESTful
1 5 (25.00%) Spring
1 5 (25.00%) Web Services
2 4 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (20.00%) React
3 3 (15.00%) Bootstrap
3 3 (15.00%) Kafka
3 3 (15.00%) Node.js
3 3 (15.00%) REST
3 3 (15.00%) SOAP
4 2 (10.00%) CSS
4 2 (10.00%) CSS3
4 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (10.00%) HTML
4 2 (10.00%) HTML5
4 2 (10.00%) J2EE
4 2 (10.00%) JPA
4 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (10.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) Market Risk
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Unix
2 10 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) SUSE
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (50.00%) Agile
4 9 (45.00%) SDLC
5 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (30.00%) High Availability
7 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
8 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (20.00%) Data Science
8 4 (20.00%) TDD
9 3 (15.00%) Data Management
9 3 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (15.00%) Parallel Processing
9 3 (15.00%) Requirements Analysis
9 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
9 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
9 3 (15.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (35.00%) Java
3 7 (35.00%) SQL
4 5 (25.00%) Perl
5 4 (20.00%) Groovy
6 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (15.00%) Scala
6 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (5.00%) Bash
7 1 (5.00%) C#
7 1 (5.00%) COBOL
7 1 (5.00%) JCL
7 1 (5.00%) Objective-C
7 1 (5.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Basel II
1 1 (5.00%) Basel III
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (35.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Control-M
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.00%) Puppet
4 1 (5.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Sybase
3 2 (10.00%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (10.00%) Murex
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Calypso
4 1 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) TIBCO