Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 65 69
Rank change year-on-year +18 +4 +38
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 17 5 19
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.84% 0.76% 2.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.91% 2.49% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 17
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £475 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £510
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -21.57% +1.49%
75th Percentile £538 £419 £538
90th Percentile £547 £430 £553
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +4.48%

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 215 201 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 35.95% 30.50% 26.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 111 179
10th Percentile £395 £380 £398
25th Percentile £431 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -1.04% +2.13%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £543
90th Percentile £625 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £496 £459 £500
% change year-on-year +8.06% -8.20% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £58.25 - £44.99
25th Percentile £65.00 - £50.59
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £56.85
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +31.93% +16.62%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £61.75
90th Percentile - - £62.20
Scotland median hourly rate £61.23 £19.59 £59.52
% change year-on-year +212.53% -67.08% +13.99%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Shell Script.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
1 7 (41.18%) GitHub
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
3 3 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.88%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.88%) InfluxDB
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) ClearCase
2 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Security Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Site Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DBA
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Clustering
1 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Unix
3 7 (41.18%) Windows
4 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) Software Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (17.65%) Network Load Balancing
4 3 (17.65%) Observability
4 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
5 2 (11.76%) High Availability
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Energy Management
6 1 (5.88%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) C
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 4 (23.53%) Bash
4 3 (17.65%) Perl
5 2 (11.76%) C++
5 2 (11.76%) Python
6 1 (5.88%) Korn
6 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) KVM
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Ansible
1 8 (47.06%) Grafana
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
1 8 (47.06%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (5.88%) Data Guard
3 1 (5.88%) Fluentd
3 1 (5.88%) HAProxy
3 1 (5.88%) Nagios
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Oracle
2 7 (41.18%) NetApp
3 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.76%) Commvault
5 1 (5.88%) Delphix