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

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 103 136
Rank change year-on-year -6 +33 +31
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 15 28 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.81% 1.31% 0.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.04% 3.63% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 27
10th Percentile £425 £401 £367
25th Percentile £463 £510 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £703 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.03% +17.08% -3.23%
75th Percentile £681 £710 £741
90th Percentile £688 £889 £750
Central London median daily rate £500 £703 £600
% change year-on-year -28.83% +17.08% -3.23%

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 735 771 1,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.47% 36.06% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 540 899
10th Percentile £404 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £700 £744
90th Percentile £775 £825 £840
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £625
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +6.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £20.20 - £23.95
25th Percentile £25.75 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £78.75 - £84.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £45.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year +14.31% -32.08% +26.19%

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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 17 July 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 3 (20.00%) Apache
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (20.00%) Serverless
2 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Collibra
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) DNS
1 4 (26.67%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (20.00%) Big Data
3 3 (20.00%) DB2
3 3 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (13.33%) CockroachDB
4 2 (13.33%) Data Mart
4 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
4 2 (13.33%) MySQL
4 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
5 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (6.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (6.67%) Ant
3 1 (6.67%) ER Studio
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Specialist
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Modeller
3 1 (6.67%) Database Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Murex Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (20.00%) React
1 3 (20.00%) RESTful
1 3 (20.00%) Spring
1 3 (20.00%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) JSON
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) Murex MxML
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) SOAP
3 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.67%) Credit Risk
2 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.67%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Unix
2 9 (60.00%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) SDLC
4 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (33.33%) High Availability
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (20.00%) Data Management
7 3 (20.00%) Data Science
7 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (20.00%) Fintech
7 3 (20.00%) Parallel Processing
7 3 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Deployment
8 2 (13.33%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (33.33%) Perl
4 3 (20.00%) Scala
4 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Basel II
1 1 (6.67%) Basel III
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (26.67%) Ansible
4 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
4 2 (13.33%) Puppet
5 1 (6.67%) Control-M
5 1 (6.67%) Grafana
5 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Sybase
3 2 (13.33%) Murex
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) Calypso
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) TIBCO