Shell Script Contracts in the East of England

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 73 105 99
Rank change year-on-year +32 -6 +35
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 9 7 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.96% 0.37% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.64% 1.67% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 12
10th Percentile £176 £493 £420
25th Percentile £288 £538 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £625 £463
Median % change year-on-year -25.36% +35.14% -7.50%
75th Percentile £472 £638 £509
90th Percentile £519 - £547
England median daily rate £538 £520 £545
% change year-on-year +3.46% -4.59% +2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile - £55.00 £56.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -17.81% -
75th Percentile - £65.00 £74.50
90th Percentile - - £75.25
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +4.62% +16.85% -7.29%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 247 419 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.33% 21.95% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 183 344
10th Percentile £315 £308 £289
25th Percentile £406 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £572 £563 £575
90th Percentile £675 £635 £684
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 145 99
10th Percentile £32.65 £52.50 £48.50
25th Percentile £59.00 £60.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £88.75 £77.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the East of England

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in the East of England

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cambridgeshire +15 7 £467 -25.36% 10
Hertfordshire +25 1 £250 - 9
Essex +12 1 £325 -31.58% 6
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Gerrit
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) POSIX
1 1 (11.11%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Clustering
1 4 (44.44%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Device Driver
2 1 (11.11%) FPGA
2 1 (11.11%) STB
2 1 (11.11%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Unix
4 1 (11.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Capacity Management
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Customer Service
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
1 4 (44.44%) Proactive Maintenance
1 4 (44.44%) Proactive Management
1 4 (44.44%) Problem Management
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (11.11%) Data Collection
3 1 (11.11%) Feasibility Study
3 1 (11.11%) FPGA Design
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) Product Requirements
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Tcl
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
1 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (44.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (44.44%) Podman
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) LogicMonitor
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Synopsys
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Xilinx