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 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 295 315 249
Rank change year-on-year +20 -66 +64
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 194 236 536
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.80% 0.63% 1.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.36% 2.16% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 167 361
10th Percentile £359 £370 £413
25th Percentile £455 £441 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £545
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% -4.59% +2.83%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £698 £741 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 14
10th Percentile £63.95 £59.73 £38.00
25th Percentile - £64.19 £45.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +16.85% -7.29%
75th Percentile - £67.69 £74.50
90th Percentile £88.50 £76.50 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £61.56
% change year-on-year +4.62% +5.58% +2.60%

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 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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 May 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 May 2025.

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 6 months to 1 May 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 -9 98 £550 +4.76% 78
North of England +28 29 £510 +1.47% 55
South East +28 24 £600 +33.33% 61
Yorkshire +21 18 £500 +3.09% 21
South West +50 17 £521 -0.71% 32
Midlands +31 16 £460 -7.63% 42
West Midlands +27 15 £460 +12.20% 26
North West +17 11 £520 -1.56% 30
East of England +32 9 £467 -25.36% 36
East Midlands +6 1 £475 -8.65% 14
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 17 (8.76%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.67%) Apache
2 11 (5.67%) Confluence
3 7 (3.61%) nginx
4 6 (3.09%) IIS
5 4 (2.06%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.55%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.03%) MQSeries
7 2 (1.03%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.03%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.03%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.52%) JBoss
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) NEC Housing
1 2 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.52%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 46 (23.71%) AWS
2 26 (13.40%) Azure
3 14 (7.22%) GCP
4 11 (5.67%) GitHub
5 10 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (5.15%) Serverless
6 6 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.09%) OCI
7 5 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.58%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.58%) CloudBees
8 4 (2.06%) Amazon Cognito
8 4 (2.06%) Azure AKS
8 4 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.55%) Datadog
9 3 (1.55%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.34%) DNS
2 10 (5.15%) DHCP
2 10 (5.15%) HTTP
3 8 (4.12%) Firewall
3 8 (4.12%) SAN
3 8 (4.12%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.61%) SMTP
5 6 (3.09%) NAS
5 6 (3.09%) NetScaler
6 5 (2.58%) VPN
6 5 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (2.06%) DOCSIS
7 4 (2.06%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (2.06%) VLAN
8 3 (1.55%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (1.03%) Calico
9 2 (1.03%) Network Security
9 2 (1.03%) SSL
9 2 (1.03%) Wireless
10 1 (0.52%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.86%) Relational Database
2 20 (10.31%) MongoDB
3 16 (8.25%) Oracle Database
4 15 (7.73%) DB2
5 13 (6.70%) Big Data
6 11 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (4.12%) Data Mining
8 7 (3.61%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.58%) Hadoop
10 5 (2.58%) RDBMS
11 4 (2.06%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.06%) Metadata
11 4 (2.06%) MySQL
11 4 (2.06%) Redis
12 3 (1.55%) Data Mart
12 3 (1.55%) InfluxDB
12 3 (1.55%) Looker
13 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
13 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 46 (23.71%) Jenkins
2 31 (15.98%) Git
3 19 (9.79%) GitLab
4 18 (9.28%) JIRA
5 17 (8.76%) JUnit
6 10 (5.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (5.15%) Maven
7 6 (3.09%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.58%) Ant
8 5 (2.58%) Mockito
9 4 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.55%) Selenium
10 3 (1.55%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.55%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.55%) Subversion
11 2 (1.03%) Appium
11 2 (1.03%) Gerrit
11 2 (1.03%) Gradle
11 2 (1.03%) JMeter
11 2 (1.03%) Xcode
General
1 59 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 54 (27.84%) Finance
3 29 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (14.43%) Banking
5 14 (7.22%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.64%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.12%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Front Office
9 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (19.59%) Developer
2 27 (13.92%) Senior
3 22 (11.34%) Java Developer
4 19 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (9.79%) Senior Developer
5 16 (8.25%) Linux Engineer
6 15 (7.73%) Senior Java Developer
7 13 (6.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 12 (6.19%) Administrator
8 12 (6.19%) Support Engineer
9 11 (5.67%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 11 (5.67%) Linux Developer
9 11 (5.67%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
9 11 (5.67%) Senior SQL Developer
9 11 (5.67%) SQL Developer
10 10 (5.15%) Data Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) FPGA Engineer
11 9 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.64%) Products Support Engineer
11 9 (4.64%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.34%) Kafka
2 21 (10.82%) Middleware
3 20 (10.31%) Spring
4 15 (7.73%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (7.22%) RESTful
6 11 (5.67%) JMS
7 10 (5.15%) Web Services
7 10 (5.15%) XML
8 7 (3.61%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.61%) Node.js
8 7 (3.61%) Ray
8 7 (3.61%) REST
8 7 (3.61%) SOAP
8 7 (3.61%) YAML
9 6 (3.09%) JSON
10 5 (2.58%) HTML
10 5 (2.58%) React
10 5 (2.58%) Spring Boot
11 4 (2.06%) .NET
11 4 (2.06%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (7.73%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.22%) Equities
4 13 (6.70%) Distributed Computing
5 12 (6.19%) Clustering
6 11 (5.67%) Verilog
7 10 (5.15%) FPGA
8 8 (4.12%) Cloud Native
8 8 (4.12%) Replication
9 7 (3.61%) PKI
10 5 (2.58%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.58%) Tandem
11 4 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (2.06%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (2.06%) Mobile App
11 4 (2.06%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.55%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (1.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 108 (55.67%) Linux
2 70 (36.08%) Unix
3 28 (14.43%) Windows
4 16 (8.25%) Ubuntu
5 15 (7.73%) Windows Server
6 14 (7.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (3.09%) AIX
7 6 (3.09%) CentOS
7 6 (3.09%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (2.58%) Solaris
9 4 (2.06%) Android
9 4 (2.06%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.55%) HPUX
11 2 (1.03%) Debian
11 2 (1.03%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.52%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (30.41%) CI/CD
2 53 (27.32%) Agile
2 53 (27.32%) DevOps
3 51 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (18.04%) SDLC
5 29 (14.95%) Performance Tuning
5 29 (14.95%) Software Engineering
6 28 (14.43%) Containerisation
7 20 (10.31%) High Availability
8 19 (9.79%) Computer Science
9 17 (8.76%) Open Source
9 17 (8.76%) Test Automation
10 16 (8.25%) TDD
11 15 (7.73%) Machine Learning
11 15 (7.73%) Task Automation
12 14 (7.22%) Deep Learning
12 14 (7.22%) Validation
13 13 (6.70%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (6.70%) Microservices
13 13 (6.70%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 114 (58.76%) Python
2 70 (36.08%) Java
3 57 (29.38%) SQL
4 37 (19.07%) C++
5 34 (17.53%) C
5 34 (17.53%) JavaScript
6 18 (9.28%) Perl
6 18 (9.28%) PowerShell
7 15 (7.73%) Bash
8 14 (7.22%) Tcl
9 13 (6.70%) PL/SQL
10 12 (6.19%) Groovy
11 11 (5.67%) Ada
11 11 (5.67%) SystemVerilog
12 8 (4.12%) Ruby
13 5 (2.58%) Korn
13 5 (2.58%) Kotlin
14 4 (2.06%) C#
14 4 (2.06%) Scala
14 4 (2.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (13.40%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.34%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.79%) Degree
4 10 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (5.15%) PhD
5 9 (4.64%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.09%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.58%) RHCE
8 3 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.55%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.03%) OCP
9 2 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.52%) CISSP
10 1 (0.52%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.64%) QA
2 3 (1.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.03%) Basel II
3 2 (1.03%) Basel III
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.52%) SEPA
4 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (23.71%) Docker
2 16 (8.25%) Active Directory
3 14 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (6.70%) vSphere
5 8 (4.12%) VMware NSX
6 6 (3.09%) XenApp
6 6 (3.09%) XenDesktop
7 5 (2.58%) Hyper-V
8 4 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.03%) KVM
10 1 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.52%) Firmware
10 1 (0.52%) NFS
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.52%) Samba
Systems Management
1 46 (23.71%) Kubernetes
2 44 (22.68%) Ansible
3 25 (12.89%) Terraform
4 12 (6.19%) Puppet
5 9 (4.64%) Grafana
6 8 (4.12%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (3.09%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.09%) WSUS
8 4 (2.06%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (2.06%) Podman
8 4 (2.06%) vCenter Server
8 4 (2.06%) vRealize
9 2 (1.03%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (1.03%) Control-M
9 2 (1.03%) Istio
9 2 (1.03%) Kibana
9 2 (1.03%) Nessus
10 1 (0.52%) Nagios
Vendors
1 32 (16.49%) Oracle
2 29 (14.95%) Red Hat
3 22 (11.34%) VMware
4 19 (9.79%) Sybase
5 15 (7.73%) Splunk
6 12 (6.19%) IBM
7 10 (5.15%) Xilinx
8 9 (4.64%) Dynatrace
8 9 (4.64%) Microsoft
9 7 (3.61%) HP
10 6 (3.09%) Citrix
10 6 (3.09%) Dell
11 5 (2.58%) Google
12 4 (2.06%) AppDynamics
12 4 (2.06%) Atlassian
12 4 (2.06%) Commvault
12 4 (2.06%) Informatica
12 4 (2.06%) LogicMonitor
13 3 (1.55%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow