Shell Script Contracts in London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 255 246 245
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +43
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 98 147 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.78% 0.82% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 2.29% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 109 197
10th Percentile £373 £377 £425
25th Percentile £425 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% -1.31%
75th Percentile £688 £683 £650
90th Percentile £775 £855 £718
England median daily rate £538 £520 £545
% change year-on-year +3.46% -4.59% +2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91.25 - £77.50
Median hourly rate £92.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £93.75 - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +4.62% +16.85% -7.29%

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 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in London

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in London

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in London

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in London

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 1 May 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
Central London 0 20 £588 -10.31% 2
South London +8 4 - -
West London - 1 £750 - 4
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 17 (17.35%) Apache Spark
2 10 (10.20%) Apache
3 7 (7.14%) nginx
4 4 (4.08%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.04%) Confluence
5 2 (2.04%) MQSeries
6 1 (1.02%) JBoss
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.02%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.02%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.51%) AWS
2 14 (14.29%) Azure
3 6 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (6.12%) GCP
3 6 (6.12%) Serverless
4 4 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.06%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (3.06%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.06%) Datadog
5 3 (3.06%) GitHub
5 3 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.04%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.04%) Azure API Management
6 2 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.16%) DNS
2 7 (7.14%) HTTP
3 6 (6.12%) DHCP
3 6 (6.12%) TCP/IP
4 5 (5.10%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (4.08%) DOCSIS
5 4 (4.08%) Firewall
5 4 (4.08%) VPN
6 2 (2.04%) Network Security
6 2 (2.04%) VLAN
6 2 (2.04%) Wireless
7 1 (1.02%) 802.11
7 1 (1.02%) Broadband
7 1 (1.02%) DSL
7 1 (1.02%) IPv4
7 1 (1.02%) IPv6
7 1 (1.02%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (1.02%) PPP
7 1 (1.02%) SNMP
7 1 (1.02%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.43%) Relational Database
2 18 (18.37%) MongoDB
3 15 (15.31%) DB2
4 11 (11.22%) Big Data
5 8 (8.16%) Data Mining
5 8 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (7.14%) Oracle Database
7 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
8 4 (4.08%) Hadoop
8 4 (4.08%) MySQL
8 4 (4.08%) RDBMS
8 4 (4.08%) Redis
9 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.06%) Data Mart
9 3 (3.06%) InfluxDB
9 3 (3.06%) Looker
9 3 (3.06%) Metadata
10 2 (2.04%) CockroachDB
10 2 (2.04%) DynamoDB
10 2 (2.04%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 24 (24.49%) Jenkins
2 16 (16.33%) JUnit
3 12 (12.24%) Git
4 8 (8.16%) GitLab
5 7 (7.14%) JIRA
6 5 (5.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (4.08%) Ant
7 4 (4.08%) Maven
7 4 (4.08%) Mockito
8 3 (3.06%) Selenium
8 3 (3.06%) SoapUI
8 3 (3.06%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.04%) Appium
9 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.04%) JMeter
9 2 (2.04%) Postman
9 2 (2.04%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.04%) Subversion
9 2 (2.04%) Xcode
General
1 44 (44.90%) Finance
2 30 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 24 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (24.49%) Banking
4 14 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 6 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.06%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Front Office
8 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (30.61%) Developer
2 23 (23.47%) Senior
3 21 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 16 (16.33%) Senior Developer
5 15 (15.31%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (13.27%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 12 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (11.22%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 11 (11.22%) Linux Developer
8 11 (11.22%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
8 11 (11.22%) Senior SQL Developer
8 11 (11.22%) SQL Developer
9 7 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Unix Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Administrator
11 4 (4.08%) Big Data Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) C++ Developer
11 4 (4.08%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.43%) Kafka
2 19 (19.39%) Spring
3 13 (13.27%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (11.22%) JMS
5 10 (10.20%) RESTful
5 10 (10.20%) XML
6 8 (8.16%) Web Services
7 7 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 7 (7.14%) Ray
7 7 (7.14%) SOAP
8 6 (6.12%) JSON
8 6 (6.12%) REST
9 5 (5.10%) Middleware
9 5 (5.10%) React
9 5 (5.10%) Spring Boot
10 4 (4.08%) Hibernate
10 4 (4.08%) HTML
10 4 (4.08%) Node.js
10 4 (4.08%) YAML
11 3 (3.06%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.37%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 14 (14.29%) Equities
3 13 (13.27%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (8.16%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.10%) Tandem
6 4 (4.08%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (4.08%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (4.08%) Private Cloud
6 4 (4.08%) Replication
7 3 (3.06%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (3.06%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (2.04%) Clustering
8 2 (2.04%) Credit Risk
8 2 (2.04%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.04%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 50 (51.02%) Linux
2 36 (36.73%) Unix
3 8 (8.16%) Windows
4 7 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.04%) AIX
5 2 (2.04%) Android
5 2 (2.04%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.02%) CentOS
6 1 (1.02%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (1.02%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.02%) Solaris
6 1 (1.02%) SUSE
6 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.76%) CI/CD
2 36 (36.73%) Agile
3 35 (35.71%) DevOps
4 31 (31.63%) SDLC
5 29 (29.59%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (17.35%) Performance Tuning
7 16 (16.33%) High Availability
8 15 (15.31%) Containerisation
8 15 (15.31%) Open Source
9 14 (14.29%) Computer Science
9 14 (14.29%) Deep Learning
9 14 (14.29%) Machine Learning
10 13 (13.27%) Multithreading
11 11 (11.22%) Database Tuning
12 10 (10.20%) Artificial Intelligence
12 10 (10.20%) Low Latency
12 10 (10.20%) Parallel Computing
12 10 (10.20%) Test Automation
13 9 (9.18%) Task Automation
13 9 (9.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 68 (69.39%) Python
2 59 (60.20%) Java
3 42 (42.86%) SQL
4 24 (24.49%) C++
5 21 (21.43%) C
6 14 (14.29%) JavaScript
7 11 (11.22%) Bash
8 9 (9.18%) Groovy
8 9 (9.18%) Perl
8 9 (9.18%) PL/SQL
9 5 (5.10%) PowerShell
10 4 (4.08%) Go
10 4 (4.08%) Scala
10 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
11 3 (3.06%) Korn
12 2 (2.04%) C#
12 2 (2.04%) Ruby
13 1 (1.02%) COBOL
13 1 (1.02%) JCL
13 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (12.24%) Degree
2 10 (10.20%) PhD
3 9 (9.18%) Master's Degree
4 6 (6.12%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.10%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.10%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.02%) CASP
8 1 (1.02%) CISA
8 1 (1.02%) CISM
8 1 (1.02%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (2.04%) Basel II
2 2 (2.04%) Basel III
2 2 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.02%) GDPR
3 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.02%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (24.49%) Docker
2 2 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 26 (26.53%) Kubernetes
2 24 (24.49%) Ansible
3 18 (18.37%) Terraform
4 6 (6.12%) Puppet
5 4 (4.08%) Grafana
6 3 (3.06%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.04%) Control-M
7 2 (2.04%) Kibana
8 1 (1.02%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.02%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (1.02%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.02%) Rancher
8 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (20.41%) Oracle
2 18 (18.37%) Sybase
3 12 (12.24%) Splunk
4 8 (8.16%) Dynatrace
5 6 (6.12%) Red Hat
6 5 (5.10%) IBM
7 4 (4.08%) AppDynamics
8 3 (3.06%) Avaloq
8 3 (3.06%) Informatica
8 3 (3.06%) Murex
8 3 (3.06%) TIBCO
9 2 (2.04%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (2.04%) Calypso
9 2 (2.04%) Microsoft
9 2 (2.04%) NEC
9 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.02%) Actifio
10 1 (1.02%) Databricks
10 1 (1.02%) HP
10 1 (1.02%) Sonatype