Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Reading

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 81 79
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 4 11 8
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.57% 1.03% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.60% 3.75% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile £359 £375 -
25th Percentile £360 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £456 £506 £456
90th Percentile £498 £525 £644
Berkshire median daily rate £395 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -12.22% +12.50% -9.86%

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 154 293 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.06% 27.33% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 187 192
10th Percentile £363 £400 £378
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +1.69% +12.38%
75th Percentile £600 £651 £641
90th Percentile £624 £671 £693
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -14.43% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £71.00 £69.57 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £70.34 £59.89
Median hourly rate £75.00 £73.25 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +21.79% +9.35%
75th Percentile £83.00 £81.18 £60.39
90th Percentile £84.80 £84.97 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £54.56
% change year-on-year +32.17% +4.00% -26.02%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Shell Script relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Reading

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Shell Script.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in Reading over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in Reading

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Shell Script.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (50.00%) IaaS
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Backup Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Storage Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Storage and Backup Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) HP Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Jinja
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (25.00%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) logstash
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) 3PAR
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) Veritas
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) Nimble Storage