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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 99 103
Rank change year-on-year +18 +4 +23
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Shell Script 15 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.19% 0.25% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.86% 1.18% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 9
10th Percentile £231 - £389
25th Percentile £250 £613 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +38.89% -28.00%
75th Percentile £483 £638 £490
90th Percentile £549 - £506
England median daily rate £500 £510 £533
% change year-on-year -1.96% -4.23% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.55 - -
Median hourly rate £54.70 - -
75th Percentile £55.85 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% -7.14% -4.11%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 389 340 548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.92% 21.53% 28.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 156 339
10th Percentile £304 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £349 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £423 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% -11.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £575
90th Percentile £628 £594 £700
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 95 95
10th Percentile £31.25 £51.25 £49.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £60.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.07%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £76.50
90th Percentile £86.25 £85.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.17
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.55% +13.04%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Shell Script.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Shell Script

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 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the East of England

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Shell Script.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Shell Script

Shell Script
DemandTrendContract 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +16 12 £250 -60.00% 7
Suffolk - 2 £400 - 1
Bedfordshire - 1 £483 -
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 5 (33.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) DNS
2 6 (40.00%) SAN
3 5 (33.33%) iSCSI
4 1 (6.67%) Firewall
4 1 (6.67%) NAS
4 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) JIRA
2 8 (53.33%) GitLab
2 8 (53.33%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Multimedia
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Administrator
2 7 (46.67%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Administrator
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Administrator
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) FPGA Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Technical Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) FastAPI
1 2 (13.33%) React
1 2 (13.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (6.67%) FPGA
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Linux
2 8 (53.33%) CentOS
3 5 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 4 (26.67%) Windows
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 9 (60.00%) ITSM
3 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 4 (26.67%) Data Science
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Data Collection
5 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
7 1 (6.67%) Computer Architecture
7 1 (6.67%) DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) FPGA Design
7 1 (6.67%) Inertial Measurement
7 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (6.67%) Load Balancing
7 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) SystemVerilog
3 1 (6.67%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Ansible
2 5 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 5 (33.33%) Puppet
2 5 (33.33%) Salt
2 5 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle
4 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.67%) IBM
5 1 (6.67%) Vertica
5 1 (6.67%) Xilinx