Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 1.72% 1.25% 1.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.00% 2.63% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +62.96%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £700 - £550

All Programming Languages
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 40 38 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 34.48% 47.50% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 25 43
10th Percentile £156 £545 £401
25th Percentile £264 £575 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% +6.96% -17.86%
75th Percentile £750 £676 £700
90th Percentile - - £770
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £58.57 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -13.23% -10.00% +27.66%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Shell Script relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk