Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Shell Script skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 58 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.22% 0.16% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.58% 0.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £400 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -36.00% +38.89% -26.53%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 171 145 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 37.58% 23.46% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 49 106
10th Percentile £453 £325 £372
25th Percentile £500 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £684
90th Percentile £633 £625 £731
East of England median daily rate £505 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +20.24% -16.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 57 87
10th Percentile £41.25 £60.00 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £68.69 - £87.50
90th Percentile £75.88 £85.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +22.12%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Watford - 1 £475 - 1
Shell Script
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware