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 15 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 284 249
Rank change year-on-year +22 -35 +60
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 297 355 805
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.91% 0.83% 1.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.82% 2.58% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 251 566
10th Percentile £350 £384 £438
25th Percentile £416 £431 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £614 £628 £638
90th Percentile £710 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 7
10th Percentile £62.45 £61.25 £59.40
25th Percentile £63.50 £67.50 £71.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £78.00 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.85% +36.00%
75th Percentile £97.50 £80.25 £75.25
90th Percentile - £90.00 £77.10
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% -4.11% +24.34%

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 10,541 13,786 26,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.42% 32.36% 37.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,230 9,968 19,612
10th Percentile £353 £374 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £788 £787
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 419 447
10th Percentile £30.73 £32.32 £21.10
25th Percentile £50.94 £48.32 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £57.18
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +10.18% +27.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.22 £65.75
90th Percentile £79.75 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +11.61% +24.06%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +33 182 £535 -2.73% 31
South East +20 54 £401 -11.00% 5
North of England +31 23 £468 -4.10% 10
Midlands +6 12 £469 -13.15% 4
South West +19 11 £600 -20.00% 5
Yorkshire +18 11 £498 -5.24% 3
North West +13 8 £360 -25.81% 7
East Midlands +5 6 £520 +22.35% 3
West Midlands -1 6 £420 -22.22% 1
North East +2 4 - -
East of England +4 3 £625 +38.89% 5
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 12 (4.04%) Confluence
2 11 (3.70%) OpenStack
3 8 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.36%) Apache
4 7 (2.36%) Tomcat
4 7 (2.36%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.68%) Red Hat Fuse
6 4 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.67%) JBoss
7 2 (0.67%) nginx
7 2 (0.67%) WildFly
8 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.34%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Endur
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 71 (23.91%) AWS
2 29 (9.76%) Azure
3 25 (8.42%) GitHub
4 20 (6.73%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (5.05%) Amazon S3
6 14 (4.71%) Serverless
7 12 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (4.04%) OpenShift
8 10 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.37%) GCP
9 8 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (2.69%) AWS KMS
9 8 (2.69%) Azure AKS
9 8 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.02%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (2.02%) Slack
11 4 (1.35%) Apigee
11 4 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.03%) Kerberos
1 9 (3.03%) SSL
2 8 (2.69%) 5G
3 4 (1.35%) 4G
3 4 (1.35%) Calico
3 4 (1.35%) Diameter Protocol
3 4 (1.35%) DVB
3 4 (1.35%) LTE
3 4 (1.35%) Network Security
3 4 (1.35%) SAN
3 4 (1.35%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.35%) Wireless
4 3 (1.01%) AMQP
4 3 (1.01%) DNS
4 3 (1.01%) Internet
5 2 (0.67%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.67%) SDH
6 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.34%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 16 (5.39%) Oracle Database
3 15 (5.05%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.38%) MySQL
4 13 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.70%) Oracle Exadata
6 9 (3.03%) Data Mining
6 9 (3.03%) DB2
6 9 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.36%) Big Data
9 6 (2.02%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.68%) Tableau
11 4 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.01%) Apache Hive
12 3 (1.01%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (1.01%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 60 (20.20%) Jenkins
2 46 (15.49%) Git
3 18 (6.06%) GitLab
3 18 (6.06%) JIRA
4 9 (3.03%) Subversion
5 6 (2.02%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.02%) Maven
6 4 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.01%) Selenium
7 3 (1.01%) TestRail
8 2 (0.67%) CMake
8 2 (0.67%) Gradle
8 2 (0.67%) PyCharm
8 2 (0.67%) PyUnit
8 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.67%) Toad
8 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.67%) VisualAge
General
1 51 (17.17%) Finance
2 42 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (13.80%) Banking
4 40 (13.47%) Social Skills
5 13 (4.38%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.03%) Legal
7 7 (2.36%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.68%) Front Office
8 5 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.35%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.01%) Automotive
10 3 (1.01%) Back Office
11 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.67%) Military
12 1 (0.34%) Advertising
12 1 (0.34%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Electronics
12 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Publishing
12 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (22.22%) Developer
2 26 (8.75%) Applications Support
2 26 (8.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (6.06%) Applications Specialist
3 18 (6.06%) Applications Support Specialist
3 18 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
3 18 (6.06%) Support Specialist
4 17 (5.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 16 (5.39%) Junior
5 16 (5.39%) Junior Applications Support
6 15 (5.05%) ServiceNow Developer
6 15 (5.05%) Unix Engineer
7 14 (4.71%) Administrator
7 14 (4.71%) Senior
7 14 (4.71%) Site Engineer
7 14 (4.71%) Systems Administrator
8 13 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (4.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 12 (4.04%) Architect
9 12 (4.04%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.77%) Kafka
2 19 (6.40%) Spring
3 17 (5.72%) JSON
4 14 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
5 12 (4.04%) J2EE
5 12 (4.04%) REST
5 12 (4.04%) RESTful
6 11 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (3.37%) YAML
8 9 (3.03%) HTML
9 8 (2.69%) .NET
10 7 (2.36%) Apache Camel
10 7 (2.36%) CSS
10 7 (2.36%) Django
10 7 (2.36%) FastAPI
10 7 (2.36%) Hibernate
11 6 (2.02%) ActiveMQ
12 5 (1.68%) Apache CXF
12 5 (1.68%) JSP
12 5 (1.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (5.05%) Driving Licence
3 12 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.02%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.02%) Verilog
7 5 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.68%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.68%) Replication
8 4 (1.35%) Blog
8 4 (1.35%) Clustering
8 4 (1.35%) Tandem
9 3 (1.01%) ASIC
9 3 (1.01%) Equities
9 3 (1.01%) FPGA
9 3 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.01%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 162 (54.55%) Linux
2 119 (40.07%) Unix
3 38 (12.79%) Windows
4 36 (12.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.37%) AIX
6 9 (3.03%) CentOS
7 6 (2.02%) Android
8 5 (1.68%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.68%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.01%) Solaris
9 3 (1.01%) Windows 10
9 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
9 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.67%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (25.93%) DevOps
2 72 (24.24%) CI/CD
3 63 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (16.50%) Agile
5 35 (11.78%) Containerisation
6 34 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (10.77%) ETL
8 29 (9.76%) Test Automation
9 24 (8.08%) Task Automation
10 22 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (6.73%) Computer Science
11 20 (6.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 20 (6.73%) Storage Management
12 19 (6.40%) Microservices
12 19 (6.40%) Scrum
13 17 (5.72%) Disaster Recovery
14 15 (5.05%) SDLC
15 14 (4.71%) Process Improvement
16 13 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 13 (4.38%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 127 (42.76%) Python
2 70 (23.57%) SQL
3 64 (21.55%) Java
4 28 (9.43%) PowerShell
5 27 (9.09%) C
5 27 (9.09%) C++
6 26 (8.75%) Bash
7 21 (7.07%) JavaScript
8 17 (5.72%) Perl
9 11 (3.70%) Go
10 8 (2.69%) C#
10 8 (2.69%) Groovy
10 8 (2.69%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.02%) Scala
11 6 (2.02%) SystemVerilog
11 6 (2.02%) Tcl
12 5 (1.68%) PHP
13 4 (1.35%) Ruby
13 4 (1.35%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 85 (28.62%) Security Cleared
2 79 (26.60%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.75%) Degree
4 17 (5.72%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.71%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.02%) PhD
8 3 (1.01%) CCNA
8 3 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.01%) HNC
8 3 (1.01%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.01%) MCSE
8 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Master
8 3 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.69%) PCI DSS
2 5 (1.68%) QA
3 3 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.34%) NCSC
4 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 62 (20.88%) Docker
2 15 (5.05%) Hyper-V
3 12 (4.04%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (3.03%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 9 (3.03%) KVM
6 8 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (2.02%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 3 (1.01%) SRDF
8 3 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.67%) HDFS
10 1 (0.34%) IAG
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.34%) Snort
10 1 (0.34%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.34%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 80 (26.94%) Ansible
2 65 (21.89%) Kubernetes
3 45 (15.15%) Terraform
4 36 (12.12%) Prometheus
5 32 (10.77%) Grafana
6 18 (6.06%) Puppet
7 17 (5.72%) Netcool
8 13 (4.38%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (3.70%) Control-M
9 11 (3.70%) Progress Chef
10 9 (3.03%) Consul
10 9 (3.03%) Packer
11 7 (2.36%) Istio
11 7 (2.36%) SCCM
12 6 (2.02%) Kibana
12 6 (2.02%) logstash
12 6 (2.02%) Tivoli
13 4 (1.35%) Argo
13 4 (1.35%) yum
14 3 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 53 (17.85%) Oracle
2 43 (14.48%) IBM
3 39 (13.13%) Red Hat
4 29 (9.76%) Microsoft
5 28 (9.43%) ServiceNow
6 13 (4.38%) VMware
7 12 (4.04%) Splunk
8 11 (3.70%) SEEBURGER
9 9 (3.03%) Google
9 9 (3.03%) SaltStack
10 8 (2.69%) Atlassian
10 8 (2.69%) Confluent
10 8 (2.69%) SolarWinds
11 6 (2.02%) Amdocs
12 5 (1.68%) HP
12 5 (1.68%) Informatica
12 5 (1.68%) WSO2
13 3 (1.01%) BMC
13 3 (1.01%) Dell
13 3 (1.01%) Xilinx