Shell Script Contracts in the Midlands

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 95 126 94
Rank change year-on-year +31 -32 +30
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 16 7 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.84% 0.25% 2.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.35% 1.13% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 58
10th Percentile - £406 £418
25th Percentile £455 £431 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £498 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% -7.43% +16.96%
75th Percentile £482 £559 £540
90th Percentile £515 £608 £566
England median daily rate £538 £520 £545
% change year-on-year +3.46% -4.59% +2.83%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.92% 22.42% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 447 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the Midlands

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in the Midlands

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the Midlands

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +27 15 £460 +12.20% 26
East Midlands +6 1 £475 -8.65% 14
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (37.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) DHCP
2 2 (12.50%) HTTP
2 2 (12.50%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (12.50%) SAN
2 2 (12.50%) SSL
2 2 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
3 1 (6.25%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.25%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (25.00%) GitLab
3 3 (18.75%) Git
3 3 (18.75%) Maven
4 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (6.25%) Ant
5 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.25%) Gradle
5 1 (6.25%) JUnit
5 1 (6.25%) Mockito
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Automotive
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Administrator
1 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Operations Support Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) YAML
2 2 (12.50%) LDAP
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) J2EE
3 1 (6.25%) Laravel
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
1 1 (6.25%) Clustering
1 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.25%) PKI
1 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Linux
2 10 (62.50%) Unix
3 3 (18.75%) Windows
4 2 (12.50%) CentOS
4 2 (12.50%) Debian
4 2 (12.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
3 2 (12.50%) Capacity Management
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) Log Aggregation
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Operations Management
3 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
3 2 (12.50%) Server Management
3 2 (12.50%) Synthetic Monitoring
3 2 (12.50%) TDD
3 2 (12.50%) Web Development
4 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.25%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (6.25%) FinOps
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (6.25%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 2 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) RHCE
3 1 (6.25%) RHCSA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) vSphere
2 1 (6.25%) XenApp
2 1 (6.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (12.50%) Grafana
1 2 (12.50%) Nessus
1 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 2 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) SELinux
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (25.00%) IBM
1 4 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) BMC
2 2 (12.50%) Sophos
3 1 (6.25%) Citrix
3 1 (6.25%) Dell
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) Sybase