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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 325 250
Rank change year-on-year +25 -75 +59
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 178 234 573
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.73% 0.62% 1.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.18% 2.15% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 162 373
10th Percentile £356 £376 £386
25th Percentile £454 £427 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £799 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £504 £540
% change year-on-year +4.22% -6.71% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile £63.05 £48.16 £38.00
25th Percentile £64.63 £61.25 £45.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +16.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £80.63 - £74.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £76.00 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year +4.62% +10.64% -16.07%

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 8,164 10,880 18,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.66% 28.95% 35.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,587 7,873 13,825
10th Percentile £358 £350 £390
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -5.20% +3.18%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 432 458
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.00 £26.11
25th Percentile £39.25 £46.25 £49.36
Median hourly rate £62.75 £60.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% -4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £75.83
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +25.00%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -3 91 £550 +4.76% 151
North of England +27 27 £588 +24.21% 21
Yorkshire +25 19 £585 +32.20% 4
South East +34 17 £586 +30.22% 27
West Midlands +30 16 £460 +12.20% 12
Midlands +28 16 £460 -9.63% 14
South West +34 15 £546 +13.21% 15
East of England +37 9 £467 -1.79% 26
North West +7 8 £600 +26.85% 16
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 18 (10.11%) Apache Spark
2 14 (7.87%) Confluence
3 10 (5.62%) Apache
4 7 (3.93%) nginx
5 6 (3.37%) IIS
6 4 (2.25%) OpenStack
6 4 (2.25%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.69%) WebLogic
8 2 (1.12%) MQSeries
8 2 (1.12%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.56%) JBoss
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.56%) SAS
9 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) NEC Housing
1 2 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.56%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 47 (26.40%) AWS
2 28 (15.73%) Azure
3 11 (6.18%) GCP
4 9 (5.06%) OCI
4 9 (5.06%) Serverless
5 6 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (3.37%) GitHub
6 5 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (2.81%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.81%) Kong
7 4 (2.25%) Amazon Cognito
7 4 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.69%) Azure AKS
8 3 (1.69%) Azure API Management
8 3 (1.69%) Datadog
8 3 (1.69%) Nutanix
8 3 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.67%) DNS
2 11 (6.18%) HTTP
3 9 (5.06%) DHCP
3 9 (5.06%) SAN
4 8 (4.49%) Firewall
5 7 (3.93%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.37%) NAS
6 6 (3.37%) NetScaler
6 6 (3.37%) SMTP
6 6 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (2.25%) DOCSIS
7 4 (2.25%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (2.25%) VLAN
8 3 (1.69%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (1.69%) VPN
9 2 (1.12%) Calico
9 2 (1.12%) Network Security
9 2 (1.12%) SNMP
9 2 (1.12%) SSL
9 2 (1.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.67%) Relational Database
2 18 (10.11%) MongoDB
3 15 (8.43%) Oracle Database
4 14 (7.87%) DB2
5 13 (7.30%) Big Data
6 9 (5.06%) Data Mining
7 8 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (3.93%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.81%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.25%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.25%) MySQL
11 4 (2.25%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.25%) Redis
12 3 (1.69%) Data Mart
12 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.69%) InfluxDB
12 3 (1.69%) Looker
12 3 (1.69%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.12%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 42 (23.60%) Jenkins
2 30 (16.85%) Git
3 22 (12.36%) JIRA
4 17 (9.55%) GitLab
5 13 (7.30%) JUnit
6 9 (5.06%) Maven
6 9 (5.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (4.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (3.93%) SonarQube
9 6 (3.37%) Ant
9 6 (3.37%) Bitbucket
9 6 (3.37%) Postman
10 5 (2.81%) Cucumber
11 4 (2.25%) Newman
11 4 (2.25%) Vagrant
12 3 (1.69%) Mockito
12 3 (1.69%) Selenium
12 3 (1.69%) Subversion
13 2 (1.12%) Gerrit
13 2 (1.12%) Xcode
General
1 52 (29.21%) Finance
2 50 (28.09%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.61%) Banking
4 25 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.06%) Investment Banking
6 7 (3.93%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.37%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.69%) Law
8 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Front Office
9 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.56%) Automotive
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (17.98%) Developer
2 27 (15.17%) Senior
3 19 (10.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (10.11%) Java Developer
5 15 (8.43%) Administrator
5 15 (8.43%) Senior Developer
6 14 (7.87%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 11 (6.18%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (5.62%) Data Engineer
9 9 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.06%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 9 (5.06%) Linux Developer
9 9 (5.06%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
9 9 (5.06%) Senior SQL Developer
9 9 (5.06%) SQL Developer
10 8 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Unix Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) Consultant
11 7 (3.93%) Lead
12 6 (3.37%) ServiceNow Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.67%) Kafka
2 17 (9.55%) Middleware
3 16 (8.99%) Spring
4 15 (8.43%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (7.87%) RESTful
6 10 (5.62%) Web Services
6 10 (5.62%) XML
6 10 (5.62%) YAML
7 9 (5.06%) JMS
7 9 (5.06%) SOAP
8 8 (4.49%) JSON
8 8 (4.49%) Ray
9 7 (3.93%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.93%) Node.js
10 5 (2.81%) React
10 5 (2.81%) REST
11 4 (2.25%) .NET
11 4 (2.25%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.25%) FastAPI
11 4 (2.25%) IBM Integration Bus
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.30%) Data Structures
1 13 (7.30%) Distributed Computing
2 12 (6.74%) Clustering
3 11 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.06%) Equities
5 8 (4.49%) PKI
5 8 (4.49%) Replication
6 7 (3.93%) Verilog
7 6 (3.37%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.37%) FPGA
7 6 (3.37%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.37%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.81%) Tandem
9 4 (2.25%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.25%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.25%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 98 (55.06%) Linux
2 68 (38.20%) Unix
3 27 (15.17%) Windows
4 15 (8.43%) Windows Server
5 13 (7.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (6.74%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.37%) CentOS
7 6 (3.37%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (2.81%) AIX
8 5 (2.81%) Solaris
9 4 (2.25%) Android
9 4 (2.25%) Apple iOS
9 4 (2.25%) VMS
10 3 (1.69%) HPUX
11 2 (1.12%) Debian
11 2 (1.12%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.56%) SUSE
12 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.65%) CI/CD
2 50 (28.09%) DevOps
3 48 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (25.28%) Agile
5 29 (16.29%) SDLC
6 23 (12.92%) Test Automation
7 21 (11.80%) Computer Science
7 21 (11.80%) Software Engineering
8 20 (11.24%) Containerisation
8 20 (11.24%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (9.55%) High Availability
10 16 (8.99%) Machine Learning
10 16 (8.99%) Open Source
11 15 (8.43%) Deep Learning
12 14 (7.87%) Roadmaps
13 13 (7.30%) Deployment Automation
13 13 (7.30%) Task Automation
14 12 (6.74%) Infrastructure Automation
14 12 (6.74%) ITIL
15 11 (6.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 101 (56.74%) Python
2 64 (35.96%) Java
3 61 (34.27%) SQL
4 29 (16.29%) C
5 28 (15.73%) C++
6 25 (14.04%) JavaScript
7 21 (11.80%) Perl
8 18 (10.11%) PowerShell
9 14 (7.87%) Bash
9 14 (7.87%) PL/SQL
10 11 (6.18%) Groovy
10 11 (6.18%) Tcl
11 7 (3.93%) Ada
11 7 (3.93%) Korn
11 7 (3.93%) SystemVerilog
12 6 (3.37%) C#
13 5 (2.81%) PHP
14 4 (2.25%) Ruby
14 4 (2.25%) Rust
14 4 (2.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 23 (12.92%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.80%) Degree
4 11 (6.18%) Master's Degree
5 10 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.62%) PhD
6 6 (3.37%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.25%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.69%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.69%) OCP
8 3 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.56%) CCIE
10 1 (0.56%) CISA
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CISM
10 1 (0.56%) CISSP
10 1 (0.56%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.06%) QA
2 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.69%) SEPA
3 2 (1.12%) Basel II
3 2 (1.12%) Basel III
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 42 (23.60%) Docker
2 18 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (8.99%) Active Directory
4 12 (6.74%) vSphere
5 8 (4.49%) VMware NSX
6 6 (3.37%) XenApp
6 6 (3.37%) XenDesktop
7 5 (2.81%) Hyper-V
8 4 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.25%) VirtualBox
9 2 (1.12%) KVM
10 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.56%) Firmware
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.56%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 48 (26.97%) Ansible
2 40 (22.47%) Kubernetes
3 26 (14.61%) Terraform
4 15 (8.43%) Puppet
5 7 (3.93%) Grafana
5 7 (3.93%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Clustering
6 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (3.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 6 (3.37%) WSUS
7 4 (2.25%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (2.25%) Podman
7 4 (2.25%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.25%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.25%) vRealize
8 2 (1.12%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (1.12%) Control-M
8 2 (1.12%) Istio
8 2 (1.12%) Nessus
9 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 34 (19.10%) Oracle
2 26 (14.61%) VMware
3 21 (11.80%) Red Hat
4 17 (9.55%) Splunk
4 17 (9.55%) Sybase
5 14 (7.87%) IBM
6 12 (6.74%) Microsoft
7 7 (3.93%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.93%) HP
8 6 (3.37%) Citrix
8 6 (3.37%) Dell
8 6 (3.37%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.37%) Xilinx
9 5 (2.81%) Foundry
10 4 (2.25%) AppDynamics
10 4 (2.25%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.25%) Informatica
10 4 (2.25%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (1.69%) BMC
11 3 (1.69%) CA Agile Central