zsh Contract Job Trends in London

zsh (Z shell)
England > London

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 - 401
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing zsh 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.056% - 0.010%
As % of the System Software category 0.49% - 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £550
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 £325 £600
% change year-on-year +100.00% -45.83% +23.08%

All System Software Skills
London

zsh falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,632 1,587 2,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.44% 10.39% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,050 1,533
10th Percentile £325 £260 £213
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £640 £661 £645
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 23
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.75 £25.38
Median hourly rate £24.00 £23.80 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -45.71% +51.16%
75th Percentile £26.00 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £55.85 £103.50 £74.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.15% -18.75% +60.00%

zsh
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

zsh job vacancy trend in London

zsh
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing zsh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing zsh

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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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (62.50%) Data Lake
2 5 (62.50%) Delta Lake
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Git
General
1 8 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Data Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Data Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Developer
3 4 (50.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (100.00%) Use Case
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Data Architecture
2 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (62.50%) Data Science
2 5 (62.50%) Decision-Making
2 5 (62.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (37.50%) DataOps
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Pair Programming
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Bash
1 8 (100.00%) Python
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Databricks