Shell Script Contracts in Reading

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 55 86 76
Rank change year-on-year +31 -10 +17
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 5 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.84% 0.42% 1.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.03% 1.73% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 10
10th Percentile - £342 £503
25th Percentile - £458 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £650 £596
Median % change year-on-year -9.85% +9.01% +14.94%
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £532 £495 £550
% change year-on-year +7.37% -10.00% +6.80%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 165 289 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 24.24% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 202 216
10th Percentile £406 £363 £369
25th Percentile £500 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £670
90th Percentile £700 £688 £714
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 7
10th Percentile - £54.13 £63.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £72.63
Median hourly rate £77.19 £59.22 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +30.34% -25.22% -
75th Percentile - £66.03 -
90th Percentile - £67.63 £80.06
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) SonarCloud
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) PuTTY
1 1 (20.00%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) JUnit
2 2 (40.00%) Mockito
3 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) Subversion
3 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (20.00%) Toad
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Remedy Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Camel
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) WireMock
1 2 (40.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Process Management
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Build Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Kibana
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) BMC
3 1 (20.00%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) New Relic
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle