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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 124 104
Rank change year-on-year +23 -20 +6
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 17 7 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.87% 0.26% 1.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.35% 1.12% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 47
10th Percentile - £406 £400
25th Percentile £455 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £498 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% -7.43% +17.28%
75th Percentile £494 £559 £540
90th Percentile £517 £608 £584
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% +3.77%

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 508 625 888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 25.91% 22.98% 26.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 453 654
10th Percentile £276 £260 £313
25th Percentile £368 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £644 £638 £671
England median daily rate £525 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.54% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 14
10th Percentile £16.31 £22.42 £19.74
25th Percentile £17.30 £27.38 £24.16
Median hourly rate £21.62 £51.78 £29.93
Median % change year-on-year -58.25% +72.99% -14.48%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £88.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +24.13%

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 10 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 +30 16 £460 +12.20% 20
East Midlands +5 1 £475 -8.65% 11
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 (35.29%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) GitHub
2 2 (11.76%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) DHCP
2 2 (11.76%) HTTP
2 2 (11.76%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (11.76%) SAN
2 2 (11.76%) SSL
2 2 (11.76%) VLAN
3 1 (5.88%) NetScaler
3 1 (5.88%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.88%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) JIRA
2 4 (23.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (23.53%) Bitbucket
2 4 (23.53%) GitLab
3 3 (17.65%) Git
3 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (17.65%) Maven
4 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (5.88%) Ant
5 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.88%) Gradle
5 1 (5.88%) JUnit
5 1 (5.88%) Mockito
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Automotive
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Administrator
1 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) Developer
1 3 (17.65%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Automation Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Operations Support Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) YAML
2 2 (11.76%) LDAP
2 2 (11.76%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) J2EE
3 1 (5.88%) Laravel
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
1 1 (5.88%) Clustering
1 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.88%) PKI
1 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Linux
2 10 (58.82%) Unix
3 3 (17.65%) Windows
4 2 (11.76%) CentOS
4 2 (11.76%) Debian
4 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Agile
1 4 (23.53%) Data Transformation
2 2 (11.76%) Asset Management
2 2 (11.76%) Capacity Management
2 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL
2 2 (11.76%) Log Aggregation
2 2 (11.76%) Migration
2 2 (11.76%) Operations Management
2 2 (11.76%) Patch Management
2 2 (11.76%) Server Management
2 2 (11.76%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 2 (11.76%) TDD
2 2 (11.76%) Web Development
3 1 (5.88%) Batch Processing
3 1 (5.88%) Containerisation
3 1 (5.88%) Design Patterns
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (5.88%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) PL/SQL
4 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.76%) Perl
6 1 (5.88%) Java
6 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.88%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) RHCE
3 1 (5.88%) RHCSA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (5.88%) Firmware
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) vSphere
2 1 (5.88%) XenApp
2 1 (5.88%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (11.76%) Grafana
1 2 (11.76%) Nessus
1 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
1 2 (11.76%) Puppet
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) SELinux
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Atlassian
1 4 (23.53%) IBM
1 4 (23.53%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) BMC
2 2 (11.76%) Sophos
3 1 (5.88%) Citrix
3 1 (5.88%) Dell
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Sybase