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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 108 143
Rank change year-on-year -3 +35 +36
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 20 28 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.98% 1.17% 0.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.54% 3.25% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 29
10th Percentile £359 £401 £372
25th Percentile £379 £510 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £703 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.83% +17.08% -3.23%
75th Percentile £647 £710 £738
90th Percentile £688 £889 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -6.03%

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 787 862 1,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.37% 36.13% 39.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 615 980
10th Percentile £400 £408 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £690 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
London median daily rate £550 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £22.05 £41.35 £23.95
25th Percentile £27.41 £42.25 £41.50
Median hourly rate £51.44 £45.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.31% -32.08% +26.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £48.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £73.75 £49.45 £84.63
London median hourly rate £43.50 £48.00 £60.21
% change year-on-year -9.38% -20.28% +15.79%

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 16 July 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 16 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
City of London -10 15 £625 -11.03% 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 3 (15.00%) Apache
1 3 (15.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.00%) Serverless
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) Collibra
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
1 4 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) DHCP
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (30.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 5 (25.00%) Redis
4 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (15.00%) Big Data
5 3 (15.00%) DB2
5 3 (15.00%) Hadoop
5 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (10.00%) CockroachDB
6 2 (10.00%) Data Mart
6 2 (10.00%) DynamoDB
6 2 (10.00%) MySQL
7 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
7 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 8 (40.00%) JIRA
2 7 (35.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (30.00%) Git
4 5 (25.00%) JUnit
4 5 (25.00%) Maven
4 5 (25.00%) Mockito
4 5 (25.00%) Postman
4 5 (25.00%) REST Assured
4 5 (25.00%) SoapUI
4 5 (25.00%) SonarQube
4 5 (25.00%) Subversion
4 5 (25.00%) Xcode
4 5 (25.00%) XCTest
5 1 (5.00%) Ant
5 1 (5.00%) ER Studio
5 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (15.00%) Developer
1 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (15.00%) Senior
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Specialist
2 2 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (10.00%) Lead
2 2 (10.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) GCP Architect
3 1 (5.00%) GCP Data Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Java Scala Developer
3 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 8 (40.00%) Spring
1 8 (40.00%) Web Services
2 7 (35.00%) Kafka
3 6 (30.00%) REST
3 6 (30.00%) SOAP
4 5 (25.00%) Bootstrap
4 5 (25.00%) CSS
4 5 (25.00%) CSS3
4 5 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 5 (25.00%) HTML
4 5 (25.00%) HTML5
4 5 (25.00%) J2EE
4 5 (25.00%) JPA
4 5 (25.00%) Material-UI
4 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
4 5 (25.00%) Spring MVC
4 5 (25.00%) Swagger
5 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Replication
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 15 (75.00%) Unix
2 9 (45.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Agile
2 12 (60.00%) SDLC
3 11 (55.00%) DevOps
4 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (35.00%) Microservices
5 7 (35.00%) TDD
6 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (25.00%) Architectural Design
7 5 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 5 (25.00%) Concurrent Programming
7 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
7 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 5 (25.00%) Front End Development
7 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (25.00%) MVC
7 5 (25.00%) Software Testing
7 5 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) Python
2 11 (55.00%) Java
2 11 (55.00%) SQL
3 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (25.00%) Groovy
4 5 (25.00%) Perl
5 3 (15.00%) Scala
5 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) COBOL
6 1 (5.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Basel II
1 1 (5.00%) Basel III
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (30.00%) Terraform
3 4 (20.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (10.00%) Puppet
5 1 (5.00%) Control-M
5 1 (5.00%) Grafana
5 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Oracle
2 5 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
2 5 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 5 (25.00%) Splunk
3 3 (15.00%) Sybase
4 2 (10.00%) Murex
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.00%) Calypso
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) TIBCO