Shell Script Contracts in England

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 292 261
Rank change year-on-year +13 -31 +12
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 227 285 470
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.89% 0.77% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.62% 2.50% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 195 328
10th Percentile £311 £328 £384
25th Percentile £402 £408 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -5.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £646
90th Percentile £650 £711 £703
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 13
10th Percentile £65.30 £59.73 £45.00
25th Percentile - £64.19 £47.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -7.14% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £67.69 £78.00
90th Percentile - £76.50 £88.50
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +4.62% -5.45% +61.76%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,648 11,405 16,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.72% 30.72% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,975 8,150 11,755
10th Percentile £354 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £543 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -2.25% +0.18%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 484 407
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.60 £28.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £50.47 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £82.37 £75.88 £80.55
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

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 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 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
London -8 105 £525 - 226
North of England +34 44 £493 +1.61% 58
South East +19 25 £600 +50.00% 76
Yorkshire +18 25 £500 +5.26% 19
North West +20 19 £400 -28.28% 37
South West +42 18 £521 -5.23% 45
East of England +36 18 £325 -48.00% 41
Midlands +16 17 £460 -7.63% 56
West Midlands +15 14 £480 +14.29% 33
East Midlands -2 3 £360 -30.77% 23
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 14 (6.17%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.85%) Tomcat
3 9 (3.96%) JBoss
4 8 (3.52%) Confluence
5 6 (2.64%) Apache
6 5 (2.20%) IIS
6 5 (2.20%) OpenStack
6 5 (2.20%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.76%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.88%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.88%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.44%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.44%) SAS
9 1 (0.44%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 66 (29.07%) AWS
2 27 (11.89%) Azure
3 22 (9.69%) GitHub
4 21 (9.25%) GCP
5 15 (6.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (6.61%) Serverless
6 11 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.41%) OpenShift
7 10 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (3.96%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.52%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.52%) OCI
10 5 (2.20%) AWS CloudTrail
10 5 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.20%) CloudBees
10 5 (2.20%) IBM Cloud
11 4 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.78%) DNS
2 12 (5.29%) Firewall
3 11 (4.85%) SAN
4 9 (3.96%) VPN
5 6 (2.64%) DHCP
5 6 (2.64%) HTTP
5 6 (2.64%) SMTP
5 6 (2.64%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.20%) iSCSI
6 5 (2.20%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.76%) Calico
7 4 (1.76%) NAS
7 4 (1.76%) SSL
8 3 (1.32%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (1.32%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.88%) Internet
9 2 (0.88%) LAN
9 2 (0.88%) Network Security
9 2 (0.88%) SMS
9 2 (0.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.98%) Relational Database
2 23 (10.13%) MongoDB
3 21 (9.25%) DB2
4 19 (8.37%) Oracle Database
5 10 (4.41%) Big Data
5 10 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.08%) BigQuery
7 7 (3.08%) RDBMS
7 7 (3.08%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.64%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.64%) Metadata
9 5 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.20%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.20%) Redis
10 4 (1.76%) Data Mart
10 4 (1.76%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.76%) MySQL
11 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (24.67%) Git
1 56 (24.67%) Jenkins
2 35 (15.42%) JIRA
3 30 (13.22%) GitLab
4 29 (12.78%) JUnit
5 25 (11.01%) Maven
6 19 (8.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (5.73%) TeamCity
8 10 (4.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (4.41%) Gradle
9 8 (3.52%) SonarQube
10 6 (2.64%) Ant
10 6 (2.64%) Mockito
11 5 (2.20%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.76%) SoapUI
12 4 (1.76%) Subversion
13 3 (1.32%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.32%) Selenium
13 3 (1.32%) Xcode
13 3 (1.32%) XCTest
General
1 87 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 70 (30.84%) Finance
3 47 (20.70%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (18.94%) Banking
5 20 (8.81%) Investment Banking
6 10 (4.41%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.96%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.88%) Front Office
8 2 (0.88%) Law
8 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Automotive
9 1 (0.44%) Marketing
9 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (28.19%) Developer
2 35 (15.42%) Java Developer
3 32 (14.10%) Senior
4 23 (10.13%) Senior Developer
5 19 (8.37%) Senior Java Developer
6 17 (7.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (7.05%) Linux Developer
7 16 (7.05%) Linux Engineer
8 15 (6.61%) FPGA Engineer
8 15 (6.61%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 15 (6.61%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
8 15 (6.61%) Senior SQL Developer
8 15 (6.61%) SQL Developer
9 13 (5.73%) Administrator
9 13 (5.73%) Support Engineer
10 11 (4.85%) Product Engineer
10 11 (4.85%) Products Support Engineer
10 11 (4.85%) Software Support Engineer
11 10 (4.41%) Lead
12 9 (3.96%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.86%) Spring
2 33 (14.54%) Kafka
3 23 (10.13%) Middleware
4 21 (9.25%) Spring Boot
5 18 (7.93%) SOAP
6 16 (7.05%) REST
7 15 (6.61%) JMS
7 15 (6.61%) RESTful
8 11 (4.85%) Web Services
8 11 (4.85%) XML
9 10 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (4.41%) HTML
9 10 (4.41%) Spring Cloud
10 9 (3.96%) J2EE
11 8 (3.52%) JSON
11 8 (3.52%) Node.js
12 7 (3.08%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.64%) React
13 6 (2.64%) Spring MVC
14 5 (2.20%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.25%) Data Structures
2 20 (8.81%) Equities
3 15 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.61%) FPGA
3 15 (6.61%) Verilog
4 9 (3.96%) Clustering
5 8 (3.52%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (3.52%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.64%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.64%) PKI
6 6 (2.64%) Replication
7 5 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.20%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.20%) Market Risk
7 5 (2.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.76%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.76%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.76%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 130 (57.27%) Linux
2 84 (37.00%) Unix
3 24 (10.57%) Windows
4 21 (9.25%) Ubuntu
5 17 (7.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (5.29%) Windows Server
7 10 (4.41%) CentOS
8 6 (2.64%) Android
8 6 (2.64%) Apple iOS
9 5 (2.20%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.76%) AIX
11 2 (0.88%) Debian
11 2 (0.88%) Solaris
12 1 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (30.40%) CI/CD
2 67 (29.52%) Agile
3 65 (28.63%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (25.55%) DevOps
5 43 (18.94%) Containerisation
6 40 (17.62%) Software Engineering
7 38 (16.74%) SDLC
8 35 (15.42%) Performance Tuning
9 25 (11.01%) Microservices
10 22 (9.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (9.25%) Design Patterns
12 19 (8.37%) Validation
13 18 (7.93%) Multithreading
13 18 (7.93%) Open Source
14 17 (7.49%) Computer Science
15 16 (7.05%) TDD
16 15 (6.61%) Data Collection
16 15 (6.61%) Database Tuning
16 15 (6.61%) FPGA Design
16 15 (6.61%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 147 (64.76%) Python
2 83 (36.56%) Java
3 69 (30.40%) SQL
4 41 (18.06%) JavaScript
5 35 (15.42%) C++
6 31 (13.66%) C
7 18 (7.93%) Tcl
8 17 (7.49%) Perl
9 15 (6.61%) PowerShell
9 15 (6.61%) SystemVerilog
10 13 (5.73%) Ada
10 13 (5.73%) Bash
10 13 (5.73%) PL/SQL
11 9 (3.96%) Ruby
12 8 (3.52%) Scala
13 7 (3.08%) C#
14 6 (2.64%) Groovy
15 5 (2.20%) Kotlin
16 4 (1.76%) Korn
16 4 (1.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (8.81%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.49%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.05%) Degree
4 9 (3.96%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (2.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.64%) RHCE
6 5 (2.20%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.20%) PhD
7 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.32%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.88%) OCP
8 2 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CISA
9 1 (0.44%) CISSP
9 1 (0.44%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.85%) QA
2 10 (4.41%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.32%) Basel II
4 3 (1.32%) Basel III
4 3 (1.32%) GDPR
5 2 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.88%) NIST
5 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.44%) SEPA
6 1 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (25.99%) Docker
2 20 (8.81%) Active Directory
3 12 (5.29%) vSphere
4 11 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (3.96%) Hyper-V
6 7 (3.08%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.20%) XenApp
7 5 (2.20%) XenDesktop
8 4 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.44%) Firmware
9 1 (0.44%) NFS
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.44%) Samba
Systems Management
1 54 (23.79%) Kubernetes
2 49 (21.59%) Ansible
3 30 (13.22%) Terraform
4 17 (7.49%) Puppet
5 13 (5.73%) Progress Chef
6 10 (4.41%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.52%) Grafana
8 5 (2.20%) Control-M
8 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.20%) Salt
8 5 (2.20%) WSUS
9 4 (1.76%) Istio
9 4 (1.76%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.76%) vRealize
10 3 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (1.32%) Podman
11 2 (0.88%) BMC PATROL
11 2 (0.88%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.88%) Nessus
Vendors
1 44 (19.38%) Oracle
2 29 (12.78%) Red Hat
3 23 (10.13%) VMware
4 22 (9.69%) Sybase
5 16 (7.05%) Microsoft
6 15 (6.61%) IBM
6 15 (6.61%) Xilinx
7 12 (5.29%) Splunk
8 11 (4.85%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.52%) Dynatrace
9 8 (3.52%) Google
10 5 (2.20%) Citrix
10 5 (2.20%) Commvault
10 5 (2.20%) Dell
10 5 (2.20%) HP
10 5 (2.20%) Informatica
11 4 (1.76%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (1.76%) Murex
12 3 (1.32%) Calypso
12 3 (1.32%) LogicMonitor