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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 311 255
Rank change year-on-year +23 -56 +49
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 194 237 541
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.80% 0.64% 1.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.35% 2.17% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 169 365
10th Percentile £359 £362 £413
25th Percentile £455 £431 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% -5.45% +4.27%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £698 £726 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 15
10th Percentile £64.10 £59.73 £39.00
25th Percentile - £64.19 £46.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +10.64% -2.08%
75th Percentile - £67.69 £75.25
90th Percentile £86.75 £76.50 £80.70
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £64.38
% change year-on-year +4.62% +0.97% +7.29%

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 8,259 10,928 17,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.86% 29.48% 35.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,729 7,941 12,876
10th Percentile £363 £350 £387
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 £650 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 445 427
10th Percentile £25.26 £36.05 £26.11
25th Percentile £36.99 £48.43 £49.46
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.46% +2.67% +20.00%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 0 99 £550 +4.76% 86
North of England +25 29 £510 +5.13% 57
South East +21 23 £600 +33.33% 62
Yorkshire +24 18 £500 +3.09% 22
South West +44 17 £521 -0.71% 30
Midlands +23 16 £460 -7.63% 41
West Midlands +29 15 £460 +12.20% 24
North West +14 11 £520 +3.59% 31
East of England +36 9 £467 -25.36% 44
East Midlands +8 1 £475 -8.65% 15
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%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.52%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.52%) JBoss
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.52%) SAS
8 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
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 27 (13.92%) Azure
3 15 (7.73%) 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%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.37%) Relational Database
2 20 (10.31%) MongoDB
3 16 (8.25%) DB2
3 16 (8.25%) Oracle Database
4 13 (6.70%) Big Data
5 11 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (4.12%) Data Mining
7 7 (3.61%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.58%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.58%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.06%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.06%) Metadata
10 4 (2.06%) MySQL
10 4 (2.06%) Redis
11 3 (1.55%) Data Mart
11 3 (1.55%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.55%) Looker
12 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 46 (23.71%) Jenkins
2 32 (16.49%) 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
3 29 (14.95%) Banking
4 14 (7.22%) Investment Banking
5 8 (4.12%) Financial Institution
5 8 (4.12%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.03%) Front Office
7 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.52%) Automotive
8 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Law
8 1 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (20.10%) 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 17 (8.76%) Linux Engineer
6 15 (7.73%) Senior Java Developer
7 13 (6.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 13 (6.70%) Support Engineer
8 12 (6.19%) Linux Developer
9 11 (5.67%) Administrator
9 11 (5.67%) Investment Banking Java 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
10 10 (5.15%) Product Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Products Support Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.34%) Kafka
1 22 (11.34%) Middleware
2 21 (10.82%) Spring
3 15 (7.73%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (7.22%) RESTful
5 11 (5.67%) JMS
5 11 (5.67%) XML
6 10 (5.15%) Web Services
7 8 (4.12%) Node.js
7 8 (4.12%) SOAP
8 7 (3.61%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.61%) JSON
8 7 (3.61%) Ray
8 7 (3.61%) REST
8 7 (3.61%) YAML
9 6 (3.09%) HTML
9 6 (3.09%) React
9 6 (3.09%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.06%) .NET
10 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
1 109 (56.19%) Linux
2 70 (36.08%) Unix
3 27 (13.92%) Windows
4 17 (8.76%) Ubuntu
5 15 (7.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (7.73%) Windows Server
6 7 (3.61%) 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 60 (30.93%) CI/CD
2 53 (27.32%) Agile
3 52 (26.80%) DevOps
4 51 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (18.04%) SDLC
6 30 (15.46%) Software Engineering
7 29 (14.95%) Performance Tuning
8 28 (14.43%) Containerisation
9 20 (10.31%) High Availability
10 19 (9.79%) Computer Science
11 17 (8.76%) Open Source
12 16 (8.25%) TDD
12 16 (8.25%) Test Automation
13 15 (7.73%) Machine Learning
13 15 (7.73%) Task Automation
14 14 (7.22%) Deep Learning
14 14 (7.22%) Microservices
14 14 (7.22%) Validation
15 13 (6.70%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (6.70%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 115 (59.28%) Python
2 71 (36.60%) Java
3 57 (29.38%) SQL
4 39 (20.10%) C++
5 36 (18.56%) C
6 35 (18.04%) JavaScript
7 18 (9.28%) Perl
8 17 (8.76%) PowerShell
9 15 (7.73%) Bash
10 14 (7.22%) Tcl
11 13 (6.70%) PL/SQL
12 12 (6.19%) Ada
12 12 (6.19%) Groovy
13 11 (5.67%) SystemVerilog
14 8 (4.12%) Ruby
15 5 (2.58%) Korn
15 5 (2.58%) Kotlin
16 4 (2.06%) C#
16 4 (2.06%) Scala
16 4 (2.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.82%) 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%) 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%) DV Cleared
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%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.52%) SEPA
4 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (24.23%) 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 47 (24.23%) 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 31 (15.98%) Oracle
1 31 (15.98%) Red Hat
2 22 (11.34%) VMware
3 19 (9.79%) Sybase
4 16 (8.25%) Splunk
5 13 (6.70%) IBM
6 10 (5.15%) Dynatrace
6 10 (5.15%) Xilinx
7 9 (4.64%) Microsoft
8 7 (3.61%) HP
9 6 (3.09%) Citrix
9 6 (3.09%) Dell
10 5 (2.58%) Google
11 4 (2.06%) AppDynamics
11 4 (2.06%) Atlassian
11 4 (2.06%) Commvault
11 4 (2.06%) Informatica
11 4 (2.06%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (1.55%) Avaloq
12 3 (1.55%) CA Agile Central