Shell Script Contracts in 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 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming) UK / England
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	207	157	184
Rank change year-on-year	-50	+27
Contract jobs citing Shell Script	545	817	672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.26%	1.65%	1.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category	3.01%	4.21%	3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted	317	487	392
Median daily rate	£475	£425	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+11.76%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£320	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£391	£400
% change year-on-year	+8.62%	-2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	15	14
Median hourly rate	£44.50	£40.00	£28.06
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+11.25%	+42.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£38.50	£33.07	£25.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.00	£50.30	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£47.50	£40.00	£28.00
% change year-on-year	+18.75%	+42.85%

Shell Script is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	18111	19410	19329
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	41.88%	39.14%	38.49%
Number of daily rates quoted	12445	13524	13140
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£300	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£588	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	366	425	389
Median hourly rate	£42.00	£37.50	£37.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+12.00%	+1.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£22.00	£16.00	£19.46
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.00	£52.50	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	+1.35%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Shell Script as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Shell Script in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Shell Script in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Shell Script in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Shell Script in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Shell Script in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Shell Script in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Shell Script in England

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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 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-1	317	£525	+11.70%	52
South East	-35	93	£400	-5.88%	16
North West	+27	51	£450	-	12
East of England	-39	27	£425	+21.34%	13
West Midlands	-25	16	£386	-0.96%	1
North East	+10	14	£375	+17.18%	3
Yorkshire	-3	13	£450	-5.26%	19
South West	-8	8	£436	+13.68%	6
East Midlands	-22	8	£475	+18.75%	1
Midlands	-	1	£450	-	2
Shell Script UK

Shell Script
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Shell Script also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Shell Script.

1	625 (58.09%)	Unix
2	604 (56.13%)	Linux
3	456 (42.38%)	SQL
4	364 (33.83%)	Java
5	358 (33.27%)	Oracle
6	333 (30.95%)	Agile Software Development
7	318 (29.55%)	Finance
8	270 (25.09%)	Python
9	235 (21.84%)	Jenkins
10	211 (19.61%)	DevOps
11	198 (18.40%)	Perl
12	178 (16.54%)	Banking
13	177 (16.45%)	Git (software)
14	174 (16.17%)	Bash Shell
15	173 (16.08%)	PL/SQL

16	158 (14.68%)	Windows
17	157 (14.59%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18	151 (14.03%)	Scrum
19	146 (13.57%)	Puppet
20	141 (13.10%)	Continuous Integration
21	133 (12.36%)	JavaScript
21	133 (12.36%)	Relational Database
22	132 (12.27%)	Oracle Database
23	126 (11.71%)	Degree
24	124 (11.52%)	TDD
25	121 (11.25%)	Red Hat
26	120 (11.15%)	Opscode Chef
27	119 (11.06%)	Solaris
28	116 (10.78%)	Hadoop
28	116 (10.78%)	Amazon AWS

Shell Script
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	84 (7.81%)	WebSphere
2	75 (6.97%)	Tomcat
3	74 (6.88%)	Apache
4	62 (5.76%)	Apache Spark
5	58 (5.39%)	WebLogic
6	51 (4.74%)	JBoss
7	44 (4.09%)	nginx
8	29 (2.70%)	WebSphere Application Server
9	28 (2.60%)	Confluence
10	25 (2.32%)	Cloud Foundry
11	17 (1.58%)	SAS
12	15 (1.39%)	Elasticsearch
13	12 (1.12%)	Apache Geronimo
13	12 (1.12%)	Apache Pig
13	12 (1.12%)	Apache TomEE
13	12 (1.12%)	SharePoint
13	12 (1.12%)	Tuxedo
14	9 (0.84%)	BizTalk Server
14	9 (0.84%)	MS Exchange
14	9 (0.84%)	OpenStack

Applications
1	21 (1.95%)	Microsoft Office
2	13 (1.21%)	Microsoft Excel
3	4 (0.37%)	SPSS
3	4 (0.37%)	Stata
4	3 (0.28%)	HipChat
4	3 (0.28%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	3 (0.28%)	Microsoft Project
5	2 (0.19%)	Adobe Illustrator
5	2 (0.19%)	Mathematica
5	2 (0.19%)	Photoshop
6	1 (0.093%)	Mozilla Thunderbird
6	1 (0.093%)	MS Visio
6	1 (0.093%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	13 (1.21%)	Oracle EBS
2	12 (1.12%)	Temenos T24
3	11 (1.02%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	8 (0.74%)	ION MarketView
4	8 (0.74%)	Oracle 11i
5	7 (0.65%)	RMDS
6	4 (0.37%)	Oracle Applications
6	4 (0.37%)	Oracle BPM
6	4 (0.37%)	Oracle Utilities
7	3 (0.28%)	Oracle EBS R12
7	3 (0.28%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7	3 (0.28%)	Remedy ITSM
8	2 (0.19%)	Oracle iRecruitment
8	2 (0.19%)	Oracle Retail
9	1 (0.093%)	Front Arena
9	1 (0.093%)	Oracle Assets
9	1 (0.093%)	Oracle HRMS
9	1 (0.093%)	Oracle Payables

Cloud Services
1	116 (10.78%)	Amazon AWS
2	31 (2.88%)	PaaS
3	21 (1.95%)	GitHub
4	19 (1.77%)	Amazon EC2
4	19 (1.77%)	Amazon S3
5	16 (1.49%)	Microsoft Azure
6	15 (1.39%)	Cloud Computing
7	9 (0.84%)	Amazon ELB
7	9 (0.84%)	AWS Lambda
7	9 (0.84%)	Virtual Private Cloud
8	8 (0.74%)	Amazon EMR
8	8 (0.74%)	Slack
9	6 (0.56%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	6 (0.56%)	Route 53
10	5 (0.46%)	OpenShift
11	3 (0.28%)	Bluemix
11	3 (0.28%)	CloudFront
11	3 (0.28%)	IBM Cloud
11	3 (0.28%)	SaaS
12	2 (0.19%)	Akamai

Communications & Networking
1	71 (6.60%)	HTTP
2	58 (5.39%)	SAN
3	57 (5.30%)	SSL
4	55 (5.11%)	LDAP
5	52 (4.83%)	TCP/IP
6	39 (3.62%)	DNS
7	21 (1.95%)	Firewall
8	18 (1.67%)	SMTP
9	17 (1.58%)	FTP
10	14 (1.30%)	SSH
10	14 (1.30%)	WAN
11	12 (1.12%)	Fibre Channel
12	11 (1.02%)	DHCP
12	11 (1.02%)	IMAP
12	11 (1.02%)	Kerberos
13	10 (0.93%)	Internet
13	10 (0.93%)	LAN
14	9 (0.84%)	NAS
14	9 (0.84%)	Network Security
15	8 (0.74%)	iSCSI

Database & Business Intelligence
1	133 (12.36%)	Relational Database
2	132 (12.27%)	Oracle Database
3	116 (10.78%)	Hadoop
4	100 (9.29%)	SQL Server
5	92 (8.55%)	Big Data
6	67 (6.23%)	RDBMS
7	61 (5.67%)	MySQL
8	60 (5.58%)	DB2
9	59 (5.48%)	Data Warehouse
10	54 (5.02%)	Oracle Database 11g
11	46 (4.28%)	NoSQL
12	41 (3.81%)	Apache Hive
13	39 (3.62%)	MongoDB
13	39 (3.62%)	SQLPlus
14	34 (3.16%)	HBase
14	34 (3.16%)	Oracle Database 10g
15	33 (3.07%)	PostgreSQL
16	30 (2.79%)	Apache Cassandra
17	27 (2.51%)	Oracle Database 12c
18	24 (2.23%)	Oracle Reports

Development Applications
1	235 (21.84%)	Jenkins
2	177 (16.45%)	Git (software)
3	111 (10.32%)	JIRA
4	90 (8.36%)	Maven
5	62 (5.76%)	Gradle
6	55 (5.11%)	JUnit
6	55 (5.11%)	TeamCity
7	44 (4.09%)	Subversion
8	43 (4.00%)	Selenium
9	39 (3.62%)	Ant
9	39 (3.62%)	Cucumber
10	33 (3.07%)	Vagrant
11	29 (2.70%)	gulp
11	29 (2.70%)	Mockito
12	25 (2.32%)	Hudson
13	24 (2.23%)	IBM UrbanCode
14	23 (2.14%)	Travis CI
15	21 (1.95%)	CircleCI
15	21 (1.95%)	CruiseControl
16	18 (1.67%)	Oracle Forms

General
1	318 (29.55%)	Finance
2	178 (16.54%)	Banking
3	54 (5.02%)	Investment Banking
4	38 (3.53%)	Retail
5	37 (3.44%)	Front Office
6	29 (2.70%)	Telecoms
7	22 (2.04%)	Marketing
8	21 (1.95%)	Financial Institution
9	15 (1.39%)	Retail Banking
10	11 (1.02%)	Electronics
10	11 (1.02%)	Manufacturing
11	7 (0.65%)	Legal
12	6 (0.56%)	Back Office
12	6 (0.56%)	Billing
13	5 (0.46%)	Corporate Banking
14	4 (0.37%)	Games
14	4 (0.37%)	German Language
15	2 (0.19%)	Military
15	2 (0.19%)	Pharmaceutical
15	2 (0.19%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	370 (34.39%)	Developer
2	111 (10.32%)	Java Developer
3	109 (10.13%)	DevOps Engineer
4	83 (7.71%)	Administrator
5	78 (7.25%)	Oracle Developer
6	69 (6.41%)	DBA
7	68 (6.32%)	Analyst
8	64 (5.95%)	SQL Developer
9	51 (4.74%)	Consultant
10	50 (4.65%)	Linux Engineer
11	47 (4.37%)	Senior Developer
12	46 (4.28%)	PL/SQL Developer
13	45 (4.18%)	Architect
13	45 (4.18%)	Tester
14	37 (3.44%)	C++ Developer
14	37 (3.44%)	Unix Engineer
15	35 (3.25%)	Systems Administrator
16	32 (2.97%)	Automation Tester
17	30 (2.79%)	Applications Support
17	30 (2.79%)	Oracle DBA

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	104 (9.67%)	XML
2	102 (9.48%)	HTML
3	99 (9.20%)	JSON
4	94 (8.74%)	Web Services
5	85 (7.90%)	Spring
6	82 (7.62%)	J2EE
7	77 (7.16%)	SOAP
8	64 (5.95%)	.NET
8	64 (5.95%)	Middleware
9	61 (5.67%)	jQuery
10	60 (5.58%)	REST
11	58 (5.39%)	RESTful
12	57 (5.30%)	HTML5
13	41 (3.81%)	CSS
14	39 (3.62%)	Node.js
15	38 (3.53%)	WebSphere MQ
16	37 (3.44%)	AngularJS
17	30 (2.79%)	Java EE
17	30 (2.79%)	JMS
18	29 (2.70%)	Hibernate

Miscellaneous
1	81 (7.53%)	Analytical Skills
2	48 (4.46%)	Computer Science
2	48 (4.46%)	Equities
3	46 (4.28%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
4	44 (4.09%)	Derivative
5	43 (4.00%)	Linux Command Line
6	41 (3.81%)	Clustering
6	41 (3.81%)	Fixed Income
7	28 (2.60%)	Data Centre
8	26 (2.42%)	Equity Derivative
9	25 (2.32%)	Management Information System
10	19 (1.77%)	PKI
11	18 (1.67%)	Data Structures
12	16 (1.49%)	Replication
13	14 (1.30%)	Mobile App
14	13 (1.21%)	Public Cloud
15	12 (1.12%)	Mainframe
16	11 (1.02%)	Algorithms
16	11 (1.02%)	User Experience
17	9 (0.84%)	Greenfield Project

Operating Systems
1	625 (58.09%)	Unix
2	604 (56.13%)	Linux
3	158 (14.68%)	Windows
4	157 (14.59%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	119 (11.06%)	Solaris
6	73 (6.78%)	AIX
7	46 (4.28%)	CentOS
8	36 (3.35%)	Windows Server
9	17 (1.58%)	HPUX
10	15 (1.39%)	Oracle Linux
10	15 (1.39%)	SUSE
11	13 (1.21%)	Ubuntu
12	10 (0.93%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13	9 (0.84%)	Android
13	9 (0.84%)	Windows 2000 Server
14	8 (0.74%)	Apple iOS
15	7 (0.65%)	Windows Server 2012
16	6 (0.56%)	Windows Server 2008
17	5 (0.46%)	Windows 7
17	5 (0.46%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	333 (30.95%)	Agile Software Development
2	211 (19.61%)	DevOps
3	151 (14.03%)	Scrum
4	141 (13.10%)	Continuous Integration
5	124 (11.52%)	TDD
6	116 (10.78%)	Performance Tuning
7	107 (9.94%)	Test Automation
8	103 (9.57%)	Configuration Management
9	92 (8.55%)	SDLC
10	82 (7.62%)	OO
11	81 (7.53%)	ITIL
12	78 (7.25%)	Open Source
13	72 (6.69%)	Waterfall
14	68 (6.32%)	Microservices
15	67 (6.23%)	Analytics
16	60 (5.58%)	ETL
17	59 (5.48%)	BDD
18	52 (4.83%)	Migration
19	51 (4.74%)	Business Intelligence
19	51 (4.74%)	Unit Testing

Programming Languages
1	456 (42.38%)	SQL
2	364 (33.83%)	Java
3	270 (25.09%)	Python
4	198 (18.40%)	Perl
5	174 (16.17%)	Bash Shell
6	173 (16.08%)	PL/SQL
7	133 (12.36%)	JavaScript
8	94 (8.74%)	C#
9	92 (8.55%)	C++
10	89 (8.27%)	Korn
11	67 (6.23%)	PowerShell
12	62 (5.76%)	Ruby
13	57 (5.30%)	Scala
14	45 (4.18%)	C
15	41 (3.81%)	Groovy
16	35 (3.25%)	VB
17	33 (3.07%)	PHP
18	31 (2.88%)	T-SQL
19	18 (1.67%)	R
20	14 (1.30%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	126 (11.71%)	Degree
2	90 (8.36%)	Security Cleared
3	73 (6.78%)	SC Cleared
4	20 (1.86%)	DV Cleared
5	18 (1.67%)	Computer Science Degree
6	14 (1.30%)	RHCE
7	11 (1.02%)	Oracle Certification
7	11 (1.02%)	RHCSA
8	8 (0.74%)	CISSP
8	8 (0.74%)	OCP
9	7 (0.65%)	Master's Degree
9	7 (0.65%)	OCA
10	5 (0.46%)	CFA
10	5 (0.46%)	ISEB
11	4 (0.37%)	CCIE
11	4 (0.37%)	CCIE Security
11	4 (0.37%)	Cisco Certification
12	3 (0.28%)	ISEB Practitioner
12	3 (0.28%)	Microsoft Certification
12	3 (0.28%)	Numerate Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	51 (4.74%)	QA
2	39 (3.62%)	MiFID
3	25 (2.32%)	Dodd-Frank
3	25 (2.32%)	EMIR
4	23 (2.14%)	Data Quality
5	16 (1.49%)	SLA
6	7 (0.65%)	FATCA
7	6 (0.56%)	JSP 440
8	3 (0.28%)	ISO 20022
8	3 (0.28%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
9	2 (0.19%)	Disclosure Scotland
9	2 (0.19%)	ISO/IEC 27001
9	2 (0.19%)	PCI DSS
9	2 (0.19%)	Solvency II
10	1 (0.093%)	Basel II
10	1 (0.093%)	COREP
10	1 (0.093%)	DICOM
10	1 (0.093%)	HL7
10	1 (0.093%)	ISO 9000
10	1 (0.093%)	ISO 9001

System Software
1	85 (7.90%)	Docker
2	33 (3.07%)	Virtual Machines
2	33 (3.07%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	27 (2.51%)	Active Directory
4	24 (2.23%)	Oracle RAC
5	20 (1.86%)	HDFS
6	16 (1.49%)	Oracle Clusterware
6	16 (1.49%)	Veritas Cluster Server
7	13 (1.21%)	Samba
8	12 (1.12%)	Veritas Volume Manager
9	10 (0.93%)	NFS
9	10 (0.93%)	Xen
10	9 (0.84%)	Hyper-V
11	7 (0.65%)	Apache Flume
11	7 (0.65%)	GlusterFS
11	7 (0.65%)	vSphere
12	6 (0.56%)	Corosync
12	6 (0.56%)	Virtual Desktop
13	5 (0.46%)	KVM
13	5 (0.46%)	VMware ESXi

Systems Management
1	146 (13.57%)	Puppet
2	120 (11.15%)	Opscode Chef
3	104 (9.67%)	Ansible
4	29 (2.70%)	Control-M
4	29 (2.70%)	Oracle RMAN
5	27 (2.51%)	Kubernetes
6	26 (2.42%)	Red Hat Satellite
7	25 (2.32%)	Data Guard
8	23 (2.14%)	Rancher
9	21 (1.95%)	Hadoop YARN
9	21 (1.95%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
10	20 (1.86%)	Nagios
10	20 (1.86%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
11	19 (1.77%)	Terraform
12	16 (1.49%)	Cobbler
13	15 (1.39%)	NetBackup
13	15 (1.39%)	Packer
14	10 (0.93%)	vRealize
14	10 (0.93%)	ZABBIX
15	9 (0.84%)	BladeLogic

Vendors
1	358 (33.27%)	Oracle
2	121 (11.25%)	Red Hat
3	89 (8.27%)	Sybase
4	76 (7.06%)	IBM
5	73 (6.78%)	VMware
6	62 (5.76%)	Microsoft
7	45 (4.18%)	SAP
8	39 (3.62%)	HP
9	37 (3.44%)	Cloudera
10	33 (3.07%)	Veritas
11	30 (2.79%)	Splunk
12	27 (2.51%)	Hortonworks
13	26 (2.42%)	Informatica
14	25 (2.32%)	Sun
15	24 (2.23%)	Perforce
16	23 (2.14%)	AppDynamics
17	22 (2.04%)	Cisco
18	20 (1.86%)	webMethods
19	18 (1.67%)	EMC
19	18 (1.67%)	NetApp