Shell Script Contract Job Trends in London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 252 237
Rank change year-on-year -59 -15 +34
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 90 99 153
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.75% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.57% 1.91% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 46 106
10th Percentile £355 £350 £406
25th Percentile £375 £400 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% -5.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £538 £684 £686
90th Percentile £671 £775 £815
England median daily rate £465 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -11.43% - -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £92.50 -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £70.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.20% +8.08% +23.81%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,720 5,181 6,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.20% 39.04% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,868 3,486 4,763
10th Percentile £363 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £699 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £801
England median daily rate £507 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.45% -5.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 35 67
10th Percentile £19.09 £31.60 £26.06
25th Percentile £39.34 £37.43 £38.46
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.89% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.50 £62.38 £62.13
90th Percentile £79.63 £93.75 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Shell Script relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Shell Script job vacancy trend in London

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in London over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in London

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. 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
Central London -23 8 £538 -14.00% 4
South London -15 3 £500 - 1
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.33%) Apache
1 3 (3.33%) Confluence
1 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.22%) ArcGIS
2 2 (2.22%) CICS
2 2 (2.22%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.11%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.56%) AWS
2 19 (21.11%) GitHub
3 13 (14.44%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (14.44%) Azure
3 13 (14.44%) Serverless
4 9 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.44%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (4.44%) GCP
6 4 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.33%) dbt
7 3 (3.33%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.22%) Azure API Management
8 2 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) HTTP
2 2 (2.22%) DNS
3 1 (1.11%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.11%) Network Security
3 1 (1.11%) OpenVPN
3 1 (1.11%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.89%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.89%) Oracle Database
2 8 (8.89%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.78%) DynamoDB
4 6 (6.67%) DB2
5 5 (5.56%) Data Mart
5 5 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.33%) Data Vault
6 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.22%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.22%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.22%) KDB
7 2 (2.22%) Kdb+
7 2 (2.22%) Metadata
7 2 (2.22%) Power BI
7 2 (2.22%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.22%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (14.44%) Jenkins
2 12 (13.33%) GitLab
3 9 (10.00%) JIRA
4 6 (6.67%) Git
4 6 (6.67%) PyCharm
4 6 (6.67%) PyUnit
5 5 (5.56%) JUnit
6 4 (4.44%) JMeter
7 3 (3.33%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.33%) Maven
7 3 (3.33%) Mockito
8 2 (2.22%) Ant
8 2 (2.22%) Gatling
8 2 (2.22%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.22%) Toad
9 1 (1.11%) ClearCase
9 1 (1.11%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.11%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.11%) Xcode
General
1 29 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.33%) Banking
3 20 (22.22%) Finance
4 13 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (12.22%) Investment Banking
6 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.67%) Front Office
8 5 (5.56%) Retail
9 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Local Government
10 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (40.00%) Developer
2 14 (15.56%) Senior
3 11 (12.22%) Java Developer
4 8 (8.89%) Python Developer
4 8 (8.89%) Senior Developer
5 6 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Cloud Native Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Consultant
5 6 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Administrator
7 4 (4.44%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 4 (4.44%) Linux Developer
7 4 (4.44%) Murex Consultant
7 4 (4.44%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
7 4 (4.44%) Senior SQL Developer
7 4 (4.44%) SQL Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.33%) IT Risk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.33%) Kafka
2 7 (7.78%) OpenAPI
2 7 (7.78%) Spring
2 7 (7.78%) XSD
3 6 (6.67%) Django
3 6 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
3 6 (6.67%) pytest
3 6 (6.67%) RESTful
4 5 (5.56%) HTML
4 5 (5.56%) React
4 5 (5.56%) SOAP
5 4 (4.44%) AWS CDK
5 4 (4.44%) HTML5
5 4 (4.44%) JMS
5 4 (4.44%) REST
6 3 (3.33%) .NET
6 3 (3.33%) JSON
6 3 (3.33%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.33%) Web Services
6 3 (3.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.00%) Equities
3 8 (8.89%) Data Structures
4 6 (6.67%) DataPower
4 6 (6.67%) Mainframe
5 5 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (4.44%) Derivative
6 4 (4.44%) Equity Derivative
6 4 (4.44%) Fixed Income
7 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.33%) Market Risk
7 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (2.22%) Hedge funds
8 2 (2.22%) Legacy Code
8 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.22%) Online Banking
8 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.11%) Clustering
9 1 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (56.67%) Linux
2 35 (38.89%) Unix
3 6 (6.67%) Android
3 6 (6.67%) Apple iOS
4 5 (5.56%) Windows
5 4 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.33%) CentOS
7 2 (2.22%) AIX
7 2 (2.22%) zOS
8 1 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (1.11%) Solaris
8 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 19 (21.11%) Agile
3 19 (21.11%) Performance Tuning
4 14 (15.56%) DevOps
5 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (13.33%) Migration
5 12 (13.33%) TDD
6 11 (12.22%) Analytics
6 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (11.11%) Data Modelling
8 9 (10.00%) Secure Coding
9 8 (8.89%) Microservices
9 8 (8.89%) Multithreading
10 7 (7.78%) ETL
10 7 (7.78%) OO
10 7 (7.78%) SDLC
11 6 (6.67%) Data Protection
11 6 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (6.67%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 55 (61.11%) Python
2 50 (55.56%) SQL
3 41 (45.56%) Java
4 11 (12.22%) PL/SQL
5 9 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.67%) Bash
7 4 (4.44%) C
7 4 (4.44%) Perl
8 3 (3.33%) C++
8 3 (3.33%) Groovy
8 3 (3.33%) Korn
9 2 (2.22%) JCL
9 2 (2.22%) PHP
9 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.22%) ProC
10 1 (1.11%) C#
10 1 (1.11%) Ruby
10 1 (1.11%) Scala
10 1 (1.11%) Tcl
10 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) Degree
4 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.22%) RHCE
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.11%) RHCA
6 1 (1.11%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) QA
1 4 (4.44%) SLA
2 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (14.44%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) GridGain
2 2 (2.22%) HDFS
2 2 (2.22%) Postfix
2 2 (2.22%) Varnish
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.11%) KVM
3 1 (1.11%) NFS
3 1 (1.11%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 12 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.22%) Terraform
3 7 (7.78%) Ansible
4 4 (4.44%) Grafana
4 4 (4.44%) Puppet
5 2 (2.22%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.11%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (1.11%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.11%) Sysdig
6 1 (1.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 25 (27.78%) Oracle
2 10 (11.11%) Sybase
3 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.78%) Murex
4 6 (6.67%) IBM
4 6 (6.67%) MuleSoft
5 4 (4.44%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.33%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.33%) Talend
7 2 (2.22%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.22%) Confluent
7 2 (2.22%) ION Trading
7 2 (2.22%) New Relic
7 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.22%) Solace
7 2 (2.22%) VMware
8 1 (1.11%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.11%) Google
8 1 (1.11%) Micro Focus
8 1 (1.11%) Splunk