Shell Script Contracts in Edinburgh

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 59 56 77
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 +41
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 8 16 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.28% 1.96% 2.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.98% 8.04% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 35
10th Percentile - £422 £444
25th Percentile - £438 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £458 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% -10.73% +13.89%
75th Percentile £460 £634 £556
90th Percentile £490 - £575
Scotland median daily rate £473 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -12.28% +14.00%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 201 199 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.16% 24.42% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 144 384
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £425 £420 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £482 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £536
90th Percentile £550 £631 £589
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile - £33.20 £42.68
25th Percentile £21.00 £38.00 £48.19
Median hourly rate £23.77 £60.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.71% +15.24% +15.23%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £57.19
90th Percentile £63.00 - £63.38
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Edinburgh

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (25.00%) OpenROAD
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) IaaS
2 3 (37.50%) PaaS
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) PowerApps
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Run
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (12.50%) InfluxDB
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 4 (50.00%) Git
3 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 3 (37.50%) Postman
3 3 (37.50%) Selenium
3 3 (37.50%) Subversion
3 3 (37.50%) TeamCity
3 3 (37.50%) WebDriver
4 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) QA Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) OpenROAD Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) Java SE
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 1 (12.50%) Next.js
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Client/Server
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Kanban
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (50.00%) TDD
4 3 (37.50%) ATDD
4 3 (37.50%) BDD
4 3 (37.50%) Feature Driven Development
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) SOA
4 3 (37.50%) Software Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 3 (37.50%) V-Model
4 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) C++
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) VBA
3 3 (37.50%) VBScript
4 2 (25.00%) Bash
4 2 (25.00%) Python
5 1 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) ISEB
1 3 (37.50%) ISTQB
1 3 (37.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) KVM
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) HAProxy
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Nagios
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Commvault
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk