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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 236 221
Rank change year-on-year -14 -15 +69
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 102 173 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.82% 0.97% 1.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.07% 2.57% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 125 212
10th Percentile £290 £333 £405
25th Percentile £409 £456 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £715 £815 £718
England median daily rate £520 £510 £545
% change year-on-year +1.91% -6.42% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% -7.14% +33.33%

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 4,927 6,728 10,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.47% 37.87% 40.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,474 5,102 7,567
10th Percentile £375 £375 £406
25th Percentile £430 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £838 £828
England median daily rate £520 £538 £560
% change year-on-year -3.35% -3.93% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 50 75
10th Percentile £27.72 £23.80 £25.45
25th Percentile £33.25 £34.99 £41.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.40% -16.25% +23.71%
75th Percentile £56.88 £62.23 £75.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.75 £88.62
England median hourly rate £56.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.20% - +19.05%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -2 19 £550 -18.52% 26
South London +2 4 - - 3
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 12 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.92%) Apache
3 2 (1.96%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.98%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.98%) JBoss
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.98%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.98%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.98%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 28 (27.45%) AWS
2 12 (11.76%) Azure
3 9 (8.82%) Serverless
4 8 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (6.86%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.88%) GCP
6 6 (5.88%) GitHub
7 5 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.94%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (2.94%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (2.94%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (2.94%) Datadog
9 2 (1.96%) Azure API Management
9 2 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.96%) Collibra
10 1 (0.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.90%) DNS
1 5 (4.90%) Firewall
1 5 (4.90%) VPN
2 3 (2.94%) HTTP
3 2 (1.96%) DHCP
3 2 (1.96%) Internet
3 2 (1.96%) LAN
3 2 (1.96%) SMS
3 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.98%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.98%) SNMP
4 1 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (28.43%) Relational Database
2 21 (20.59%) DB2
2 21 (20.59%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.84%) Big Data
3 8 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.86%) Oracle Database
5 6 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.90%) Metadata
6 5 (4.90%) Redis
7 4 (3.92%) Data Mart
7 4 (3.92%) Data Mining
7 4 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.92%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.92%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.94%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.94%) MySQL
8 3 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.94%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.96%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (19.61%) Git
1 20 (19.61%) JUnit
2 16 (15.69%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.84%) Maven
3 8 (7.84%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (6.86%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (5.88%) GitLab
5 6 (5.88%) JIRA
6 5 (4.90%) Ant
6 5 (4.90%) Mockito
7 4 (3.92%) IntelliJ
7 4 (3.92%) SoapUI
7 4 (3.92%) TeamCity
8 3 (2.94%) ER Studio
8 3 (2.94%) Postman
8 3 (2.94%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.94%) Selenium
8 3 (2.94%) Subversion
8 3 (2.94%) XCTest
General
1 53 (51.96%) Finance
2 39 (38.24%) Social Skills
3 34 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (33.33%) Banking
4 20 (19.61%) Investment Banking
5 8 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.96%) Front Office
7 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (41.18%) Developer
2 27 (26.47%) Java Developer
3 26 (25.49%) Senior
4 20 (19.61%) Senior Developer
5 19 (18.63%) Senior Java Developer
6 16 (15.69%) Linux Developer
7 15 (14.71%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 15 (14.71%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
7 15 (14.71%) Senior SQL Developer
7 15 (14.71%) SQL Developer
8 8 (7.84%) C++ Developer
8 8 (7.84%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Lead
11 5 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
12 4 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 3 (2.94%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (29.41%) Kafka
2 26 (25.49%) Spring
3 15 (14.71%) JMS
4 11 (10.78%) Spring Boot
4 11 (10.78%) XML
5 10 (9.80%) RESTful
6 9 (8.82%) SOAP
6 9 (8.82%) Web Services
7 7 (6.86%) AngularJS
7 7 (6.86%) HTML
7 7 (6.86%) J2EE
7 7 (6.86%) JSON
8 6 (5.88%) React
8 6 (5.88%) REST
9 5 (4.90%) Hibernate
9 5 (4.90%) Middleware
9 5 (4.90%) Node.js
10 4 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (3.92%) Ray
11 3 (2.94%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.61%) Equities
2 19 (18.63%) Data Structures
3 15 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.84%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (4.90%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (4.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (4.90%) Market Risk
5 5 (4.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.92%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (3.92%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.94%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.94%) Oculus
7 3 (2.94%) Replication
7 3 (2.94%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (2.94%) Wiki
8 2 (1.96%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.96%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.96%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 52 (50.98%) Linux
2 40 (39.22%) Unix
3 8 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.86%) Windows
5 3 (2.94%) AIX
6 2 (1.96%) Android
6 2 (1.96%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.96%) CentOS
7 1 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.98%) Solaris
7 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (41.18%) Agile
2 33 (32.35%) SDLC
3 32 (31.37%) CI/CD
3 32 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (29.41%) DevOps
5 19 (18.63%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (17.65%) Multithreading
7 16 (15.69%) Open Source
8 15 (14.71%) Containerisation
8 15 (14.71%) Database Tuning
9 13 (12.75%) Microservices
10 11 (10.78%) Deep Learning
10 11 (10.78%) Machine Learning
11 10 (9.80%) High Availability
12 9 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
12 9 (8.82%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (8.82%) Migration
12 9 (8.82%) TDD
13 8 (7.84%) Computer Science
13 8 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 70 (68.63%) Python
2 59 (57.84%) Java
3 51 (50.00%) SQL
4 20 (19.61%) C++
5 17 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 15 (14.71%) C
7 9 (8.82%) Bash
7 9 (8.82%) Perl
7 9 (8.82%) PL/SQL
8 5 (4.90%) Scala
9 4 (3.92%) C#
9 4 (3.92%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.92%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.94%) CodeQL
10 3 (2.94%) Groovy
11 2 (1.96%) Korn
11 2 (1.96%) Ruby
12 1 (0.98%) COBOL
12 1 (0.98%) JCL
12 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (6.86%) AWS Certification
1 7 (6.86%) Degree
2 5 (4.90%) Master's Degree
2 5 (4.90%) PhD
3 4 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (3.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.92%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.98%) CASP
6 1 (0.98%) CISA
6 1 (0.98%) CISM
6 1 (0.98%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.86%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) Basel II
2 3 (2.94%) Basel III
3 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.98%) GDPR
3 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.98%) SEPA
System Software
1 28 (27.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.98%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (24.51%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.73%) Ansible
3 12 (11.76%) Terraform
4 5 (4.90%) Puppet
5 4 (3.92%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.94%) Control-M
7 2 (1.96%) Kibana
8 1 (0.98%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.98%) Grafana
8 1 (0.98%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.98%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (20.59%) Sybase
2 20 (19.61%) Oracle
3 7 (6.86%) Dynatrace
3 7 (6.86%) Red Hat
3 7 (6.86%) Splunk
4 6 (5.88%) IBM
5 4 (3.92%) Google
5 4 (3.92%) Informatica
5 4 (3.92%) Murex
6 3 (2.94%) Avaloq
6 3 (2.94%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.94%) Calypso
6 3 (2.94%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.96%) NEC
7 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.98%) Cisco
8 1 (0.98%) Foundry
8 1 (0.98%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.98%) Perforce
8 1 (0.98%) Remedy