Shell Script Contracts in the City of London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 102 103 149
Rank change year-on-year +1 +46 -1
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 17 24 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.97% 1.09% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.41% 3.23% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 24
10th Percentile £433 £400 £454
25th Percentile £519 £475 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £655 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +4.80% +17.10%
75th Percentile £688 £695 £746
90th Percentile - £710 £750
Central London median daily rate £588 £655 £625
% change year-on-year -10.31% +4.80% +16.28%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 706 744 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.21% 33.86% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 530 1,040
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £738
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £620
% change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (29.41%) Apache
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (11.76%) nginx
4 1 (5.88%) Confluence
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (17.65%) Serverless
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) Azure
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
1 3 (17.65%) VPN
2 2 (11.76%) DHCP
2 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Relational Database
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (17.65%) Big Data
3 3 (17.65%) DB2
3 3 (17.65%) Hadoop
3 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
4 2 (11.76%) CockroachDB
4 2 (11.76%) Data Mart
4 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
4 2 (11.76%) MySQL
4 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) GitLab
4 1 (5.88%) Ant
4 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Database Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Java Scala Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Murex Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Risk Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Scala Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (23.53%) React
1 4 (23.53%) RESTful
2 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
2 3 (17.65%) Node.js
2 3 (17.65%) Spring
2 3 (17.65%) Web Services
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.88%) Bootstrap
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) Kafka
3 1 (5.88%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) Murex MxML
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) SOAP
3 1 (5.88%) XML
3 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.76%) Private Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.88%) Market Risk
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Linux
1 10 (58.82%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.88%) SUSE
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) DevOps
2 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (41.18%) SDLC
5 6 (35.29%) High Availability
6 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
7 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
7 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (23.53%) Data Science
7 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (17.65%) Data Management
8 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (17.65%) Fintech
8 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
8 3 (17.65%) Parallel Processing
8 3 (17.65%) Requirements Analysis
8 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) Java
3 5 (29.41%) Perl
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 3 (17.65%) Scala
4 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.76%) Groovy
5 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.88%) Bash
6 1 (5.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Basel II
1 1 (5.88%) Basel III
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Terraform
2 7 (41.18%) Ansible
3 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) Control-M
4 1 (5.88%) Grafana
4 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.88%) Puppet
4 1 (5.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Sybase
3 2 (11.76%) Murex
3 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.88%) Calypso
4 1 (5.88%) Databricks
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) TIBCO