Shell Script Contracts in Glasgow

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 36 72 53
Rank change year-on-year +36 -19 -4
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 48 10 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.02% 1.14% 3.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.54% 2.83% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 9 17
10th Percentile £412 - £400
25th Percentile £430 £324 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £350 £550
Median % change year-on-year +45.86% -36.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £400 £638
90th Percentile £600 £482 £719
Scotland median daily rate £473 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -12.28% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - - £63.83
Median hourly rate - - £66.56
75th Percentile - - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
Scotland median hourly rate - - £66.56

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 416 353 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 52.13% 40.25% 37.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 225 232
10th Percentile £313 £367 £410
25th Percentile £400 £413 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -11.36% +14.46%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £675
90th Percentile £581 £691 £750
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £51.88 £51.99
25th Percentile - £52.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -2.58% +31.17%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £65.06
90th Percentile - - £67.66
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (4.17%) JBoss
1 2 (4.17%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.58%) AWS
2 4 (8.33%) GitHub
3 3 (6.25%) Azure
3 3 (6.25%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (52.08%) Relational Database
2 21 (43.75%) DB2
3 19 (39.58%) MongoDB
4 7 (14.58%) MySQL
5 4 (8.33%) RDBMS
6 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (4.17%) MariaDB
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 22 (45.83%) JUnit
2 4 (8.33%) Git
2 4 (8.33%) Maven
3 3 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 3 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.08%) webpack
General
1 27 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 23 (47.92%) Finance
3 18 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (27.08%) Banking
4 13 (27.08%) Front Office
5 12 (25.00%) Investment Banking
6 11 (22.92%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.17%) Legal
8 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (64.58%) Developer
2 25 (52.08%) Java Developer
3 7 (14.58%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 7 (14.58%) SQL Developer
3 7 (14.58%) Sybase Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Lead
5 4 (8.33%) Applications Support
5 4 (8.33%) Build and Release Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Build Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Linux Build Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Linux Scripter
5 4 (8.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (8.33%) Release Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Administrator
6 3 (6.25%) Applications Support Specialist
6 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 3 (6.25%) Lead Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (58.33%) Spring
2 25 (52.08%) Kafka
3 20 (41.67%) JMS
4 9 (18.75%) Spring Boot
5 6 (12.50%) Loki
5 6 (12.50%) Middleware
6 3 (6.25%) J2EE
6 3 (6.25%) LDAP
6 3 (6.25%) REST
6 3 (6.25%) SOAP
6 3 (6.25%) X-Windows
7 2 (4.17%) Java SE
7 2 (4.17%) MSMQ
8 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.08%) CSS
8 1 (2.08%) CSS3
8 1 (2.08%) HTML
8 1 (2.08%) HTML5
8 1 (2.08%) Node.js
8 1 (2.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 17 (35.42%) Equities
3 6 (12.50%) Public Cloud
4 4 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 3 (6.25%) Derivative
5 3 (6.25%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (89.58%) Linux
2 12 (25.00%) Unix
3 3 (6.25%) Mac OS
3 3 (6.25%) Windows
3 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (62.50%) Agile
2 28 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (43.75%) Open Source
3 21 (43.75%) SDLC
4 19 (39.58%) Multithreading
5 18 (37.50%) Database Tuning
5 18 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (20.83%) Microservices
6 10 (20.83%) Software Engineering
7 8 (16.67%) Data Protection
8 7 (14.58%) DevOps
9 6 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
9 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 6 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (12.50%) TDD
10 5 (10.42%) Cost Reduction
10 5 (10.42%) Investment Management
10 5 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (10.42%) Wealth Management
11 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 38 (79.17%) Java
2 29 (60.42%) Python
3 25 (52.08%) SQL
4 7 (14.58%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.58%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.25%) PL/SQL
5 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.08%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 4 (8.33%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Terraform
2 7 (14.58%) Ansible
3 6 (12.50%) Grafana
3 6 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (37.50%) Sybase
2 6 (12.50%) Splunk
2 6 (12.50%) Veritas
2 6 (12.50%) VMware
3 3 (6.25%) DocuSign
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow