Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.79% - 1.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.41% - 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.56%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £500 - £563
% change year-on-year - - +15.38%

All Programming Languages
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 68 44 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 40.48% 41.51% 43.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 35 47
10th Percentile £461 £434 £261
25th Percentile £494 £463 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £543 £503 £563
90th Percentile £577 £538 £648
South London median daily rate £514 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +3.79% -1.00% -9.09%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Croydon

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Delivery Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform