Shell Script Contracts in England

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Shell Script skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Shell Script over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 261 311
Rank change year-on-year -53 +50 -35
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 235 540 620
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.64% 1.07% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.17% 3.02% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 364 381
10th Percentile £369 £411 £405
25th Percentile £436 £470 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +1.89% +17.78%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £623
90th Percentile £749 £700 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 7
10th Percentile £59.73 £38.00 £47.25
25th Percentile £64.19 £45.63 £53.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.63 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.85% -7.29% +61.07%
75th Percentile £67.69 £74.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £77.40 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.56 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.58% +2.60% +50.00%

All Programming Languages
England

Shell Script is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Shell Script in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London -10 146 £525 -7.08% 30
South East +15 42 £450 -20.35% 11
North of England +8 20 £503 +3.08% 6
South West +3 13 £525 -4.55% 10
North West -5 11 £528 +40.99% 5
East of England 0 7 £625 +35.14% 17
Midlands -42 7 £498 -7.43% 4
East Midlands +20 5 £520 +73.33% 2
Yorkshire +17 5 £485 -3.00% 1
North East +16 4 - -
West Midlands -37 2 £410 -23.79% 2
Shell Script
UK

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 26 (11.06%) OpenStack
2 15 (6.38%) Apache
3 14 (5.96%) Confluence
4 10 (4.26%) nginx
5 9 (3.83%) Apache Spark
6 6 (2.55%) JBoss
6 6 (2.55%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.55%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.43%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Utilities
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 50 (21.28%) AWS
2 26 (11.06%) Azure
3 17 (7.23%) Slack
4 16 (6.81%) Amazon S3
4 16 (6.81%) Serverless
5 12 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (5.11%) GitHub
6 11 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (3.83%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.98%) Datadog
8 7 (2.98%) WhatsApp
9 6 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.55%) GCP
10 5 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (2.13%) IaaS
10 5 (2.13%) PaaS
10 5 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.96%) DNS
2 9 (3.83%) Firewall
3 6 (2.55%) Network Security
3 6 (2.55%) SAN
4 5 (2.13%) AMQP
4 5 (2.13%) HTTP
5 4 (1.70%) 5G
5 4 (1.70%) Diameter Protocol
5 4 (1.70%) LTE
5 4 (1.70%) SSL
5 4 (1.70%) Wireless
6 3 (1.28%) Internet
6 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.43%) DVB
8 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.43%) RNC
8 1 (0.43%) SGSN
8 1 (0.43%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.64%) Elasticsearch
1 25 (10.64%) MongoDB
2 20 (8.51%) Relational Database
3 18 (7.66%) Oracle Database
4 16 (6.81%) SQL Server
5 13 (5.53%) MySQL
5 13 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (5.11%) RDBMS
7 10 (4.26%) Big Data
8 8 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.40%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.40%) Sybase ASE
9 7 (2.98%) Tableau
10 6 (2.55%) Apache Hive
10 6 (2.55%) Hadoop
10 6 (2.55%) HBase
11 5 (2.13%) InfluxDB
12 4 (1.70%) Data Mart
12 4 (1.70%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.70%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 59 (25.11%) Jenkins
2 45 (19.15%) Git
3 38 (16.17%) JIRA
4 16 (6.81%) JMeter
5 15 (6.38%) GitLab
6 11 (4.68%) Maven
6 11 (4.68%) Subversion
7 6 (2.55%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.55%) Gradle
8 5 (2.13%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.13%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.13%) Selenium
8 5 (2.13%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.70%) Gatling
9 4 (1.70%) JUnit
9 4 (1.70%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.70%) WebDriver
10 3 (1.28%) Ant
10 3 (1.28%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (1.28%) Poetry
General
1 50 (21.28%) Finance
2 42 (17.87%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.21%) Banking
5 11 (4.68%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.98%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.13%) Billing
9 4 (1.70%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.70%) Back Office
9 4 (1.70%) Front Office
10 2 (0.85%) Automotive
10 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.43%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 35 (14.89%) Developer
2 21 (8.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (8.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 17 (7.23%) Architect
5 16 (6.81%) Analyst
5 16 (6.81%) Applications Support
5 16 (6.81%) Python Engineer
6 15 (6.38%) Lead
6 15 (6.38%) Linux Engineer
6 15 (6.38%) Site Engineer
7 14 (5.96%) Senior
7 14 (5.96%) Test Engineer
8 10 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (4.26%) Support Engineer
9 8 (3.40%) Applications Engineer
9 8 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (3.40%) Performance Test Engineer
9 8 (3.40%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (3.40%) Software Engineer
9 8 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.49%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (10.21%) Kafka
3 18 (7.66%) RabbitMQ
4 13 (5.53%) Spring
5 11 (4.68%) HTML
6 10 (4.26%) JSON
7 9 (3.83%) RESTful
8 8 (3.40%) CSS
8 8 (3.40%) YAML
9 7 (2.98%) HTML5
10 6 (2.55%) IBM Integration Bus
10 6 (2.55%) LDAP
10 6 (2.55%) React
10 6 (2.55%) Web Services
11 5 (2.13%) ActiveMQ
11 5 (2.13%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.13%) XML
12 4 (1.70%) Django
12 4 (1.70%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (1.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.21%) Onboarding
2 23 (9.79%) Linux Command Line
3 19 (8.09%) Algorithms
4 13 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.11%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.26%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.98%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (2.55%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.70%) Device Driver
10 4 (1.70%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.70%) Equities
11 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.28%) Eurex
11 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.28%) Insider Threat
11 3 (1.28%) Replication
11 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.28%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 124 (52.77%) Linux
2 81 (34.47%) Unix
3 51 (21.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 34 (14.47%) Windows
5 26 (11.06%) CentOS
6 12 (5.11%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.98%) VMS
7 7 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.13%) Debian
8 5 (2.13%) Mac OS X
9 4 (1.70%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (1.28%) Windows 10
10 3 (1.28%) Windows 2000
10 3 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.28%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.85%) Solaris
11 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.43%) Android
12 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (34.89%) CI/CD
2 66 (28.09%) Agile
3 65 (27.66%) DevOps
4 42 (17.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (11.06%) Observability
6 26 (11.06%) Test Automation
7 24 (10.21%) ETL
8 21 (8.94%) Machine Learning
8 21 (8.94%) Scrum
9 20 (8.51%) SDLC
10 19 (8.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 18 (7.66%) Containerisation
12 17 (7.23%) Microservices
13 16 (6.81%) Analytics
14 15 (6.38%) Configuration Management
14 15 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (6.38%) ITIL
14 15 (6.38%) Task Automation
15 14 (5.96%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 129 (54.89%) Python
2 80 (34.04%) Java
3 63 (26.81%) SQL
4 28 (11.91%) C++
5 26 (11.06%) Bash
5 26 (11.06%) C
5 26 (11.06%) PowerShell
6 21 (8.94%) Perl
7 15 (6.38%) PL/SQL
8 13 (5.53%) Go
9 11 (4.68%) Scala
10 9 (3.83%) JavaScript
11 7 (2.98%) C#
11 7 (2.98%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (2.55%) Assembly Language
12 6 (2.55%) Groovy
12 6 (2.55%) ProC
13 4 (1.70%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.70%) PHP
13 4 (1.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.94%) Degree
4 10 (4.26%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.98%) PhD
6 6 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.70%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.28%) RHCE
10 2 (0.85%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.85%) HNC
10 2 (0.85%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.85%) OSCP
10 2 (0.85%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.43%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.70%) JTAG
1 4 (1.70%) QA
2 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (14.89%) Docker
2 21 (8.94%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (5.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 11 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (2.98%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.55%) HDFS
6 6 (2.55%) vSphere
7 4 (1.70%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (1.70%) Firmware
8 3 (1.28%) Active Directory
9 2 (0.85%) Varnish
9 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.85%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.43%) KVM
10 1 (0.43%) NFS
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.43%) Snort
10 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 70 (29.79%) Ansible
2 54 (22.98%) Prometheus
3 52 (22.13%) Grafana
4 50 (21.28%) Kubernetes
5 39 (16.60%) Terraform
6 23 (9.79%) Kibana
7 21 (8.94%) logstash
8 11 (4.68%) Consul
9 9 (3.83%) Puppet
10 6 (2.55%) Hadoop YARN
10 6 (2.55%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.55%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (2.55%) yum
11 5 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (2.13%) NetBackup
11 5 (2.13%) Packer
12 4 (1.70%) Control-M
12 4 (1.70%) Netcool
12 4 (1.70%) vRealize
13 3 (1.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (23.40%) Oracle
2 47 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 29 (12.34%) Microsoft
4 19 (8.09%) VMware
5 16 (6.81%) Amdocs
6 13 (5.53%) Splunk
7 11 (4.68%) SaltStack
8 10 (4.26%) IBM
9 9 (3.83%) Sybase
10 8 (3.40%) SEEBURGER
11 7 (2.98%) HP
11 7 (2.98%) Murex
11 7 (2.98%) Veritas
12 6 (2.55%) Google
12 6 (2.55%) Informatica
12 6 (2.55%) Salesforce
12 6 (2.55%) SAP
12 6 (2.55%) Temenos
13 3 (1.28%) Bloomberg
13 3 (1.28%) Fortinet