Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Shell Script skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 58 50
Rank change year-on-year +16 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 1 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.32% 1.11% 2.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.52% 3.09% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 £525 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -26.67% +21.95%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £775
90th Percentile - £610 £835
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £750
% change year-on-year -9.09% -26.67% +20.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £68.00 - £78.00

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 66 162 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 21.36% 35.92% 45.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 93 135
10th Percentile £198 £460 £400
25th Percentile £408 £500 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £700
90th Percentile £667 £698 £765
South West median daily rate £475 £535 £520
% change year-on-year -11.26% +2.93% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 22
10th Percentile £46.20 - £70.05
25th Percentile £61.50 £30.00 £75.75
Median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -10.26% +33.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £84.30
South West median hourly rate £67.75 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.21% +7.69% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Gloucestershire

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Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Shell Script.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Shell Script

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Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Shell Script.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Shell Script

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat