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

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 49 39
Rank change year-on-year +4 -10 +11
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 40 20 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.04% 2.88% 4.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.76% 8.03% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 19 26
10th Percentile £435 £321 £406
25th Percentile £460 £324 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £535
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -34.64% +2.98%
75th Percentile £575 £386 £586
90th Percentile £601 £407 £721
Scotland median daily rate £487 £383 £500
% change year-on-year +27.19% -23.50% -3.85%
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 410 249 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 51.64% 35.83% 35.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 183 185
10th Percentile £301 £327 £400
25th Percentile £407 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £556 £500 £585
90th Percentile £600 £613 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £22.57 £34.09 £49.09
25th Percentile £33.80 £51.56 £53.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £63.56
90th Percentile - - £67.44
Scotland median hourly rate £58.75 £53.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +9.30% -6.52% +27.78%

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 4 August 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 (5.00%) JBoss
1 2 (5.00%) OpenROAD
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) AWS
2 2 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub
3 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (65.00%) Relational Database
2 24 (60.00%) DB2
3 22 (55.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (10.00%) MySQL
5 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (7.50%) RDBMS
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (5.00%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.50%) NewSQL
7 1 (2.50%) OLTP
7 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (62.50%) JUnit
2 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.00%) webpack
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (2.50%) Maven
General
1 28 (70.00%) Finance
1 28 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (55.00%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (47.50%) Front Office
4 18 (45.00%) Banking
4 18 (45.00%) Investment Banking
5 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 31 (77.50%) Developer
2 27 (67.50%) Java Developer
3 16 (40.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 16 (40.00%) SQL Developer
3 16 (40.00%) Sybase Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Administrator
4 3 (7.50%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (2.50%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (2.50%) Build and Release Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Build Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Database Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 1 (2.50%) Linux Build Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Linux Scripter
6 1 (2.50%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (70.00%) Spring
2 27 (67.50%) Kafka
3 25 (62.50%) JMS
4 3 (7.50%) LDAP
4 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
4 3 (7.50%) X-Windows
5 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.00%) CSS
5 2 (5.00%) CSS3
5 2 (5.00%) HTML
5 2 (5.00%) HTML5
5 2 (5.00%) Java SE
5 2 (5.00%) Node.js
5 2 (5.00%) React
5 2 (5.00%) Redux
5 2 (5.00%) RESTful
5 2 (5.00%) Vue
6 1 (2.50%) OAuth
6 1 (2.50%) OpenID
6 1 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (65.00%) Data Structures
2 22 (55.00%) Equities
3 2 (5.00%) Derivative
3 2 (5.00%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 34 (85.00%) Linux
2 6 (15.00%) Unix
3 3 (7.50%) Mac OS
3 3 (7.50%) Windows
3 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (75.00%) Agile
2 29 (72.50%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (62.50%) Open Source
4 23 (57.50%) Performance Tuning
5 22 (55.00%) Database Tuning
5 22 (55.00%) Multithreading
5 22 (55.00%) SDLC
6 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
7 5 (12.50%) Microservices
8 4 (10.00%) DevOps
8 4 (10.00%) Information Security
9 3 (7.50%) Business Continuity
9 3 (7.50%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (7.50%) Clean Code
9 3 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (7.50%) Line Management
9 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
9 3 (7.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (7.50%) Storage Management
9 3 (7.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (82.50%) Java
2 29 (72.50%) Python
3 28 (70.00%) SQL
4 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.00%) Bash
7 1 (2.50%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.00%) WCAG
4 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Terraform
2 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
3 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (55.00%) Sybase
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) DocuSign
4 1 (2.50%) Greenplum
4 1 (2.50%) Splunk
4 1 (2.50%) Veritas
4 1 (2.50%) VMware