Shell Script Contracts in Scotland

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 61 100 91
Rank change year-on-year +39 -9 +31
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 57 29 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.51% 1.31% 2.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.66% 4.34% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 58
10th Percentile £400 £340 £425
25th Percentile £418 £405 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -12.28% +14.00%
75th Percentile £550 £486 £560
90th Percentile £591 £634 £641
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - - £63.83
Median hourly rate - - £66.56
75th Percentile - - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £61.56
% change year-on-year +4.62% +5.58% +2.60%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 658 668 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.49% 30.13% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 438 730
10th Percentile £313 £369 £406
25th Percentile £408 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £557
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.27
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Scotland

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in Scotland

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in Scotland

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +36 48 £511 +45.86% 6
Edinburgh -3 8 £400 -12.57% 8
Shell Script
UK

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (7.02%) OpenROAD
2 3 (5.26%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.79%) AWS
2 7 (12.28%) Azure
3 5 (8.77%) GitHub
4 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.26%) IaaS
5 3 (5.26%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.26%) PaaS
5 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.26%) PowerApps
5 3 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Run
6 1 (1.75%) GCP
6 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.75%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.75%) Serverless
6 1 (1.75%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (43.86%) Relational Database
2 21 (36.84%) DB2
3 20 (35.09%) MongoDB
4 7 (12.28%) MySQL
5 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.02%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.51%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.75%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (38.60%) JUnit
2 8 (14.04%) Git
3 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.53%) JIRA
4 4 (7.02%) Cypress.io
4 4 (7.02%) Maven
5 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.26%) Postman
5 3 (5.26%) Selenium
5 3 (5.26%) Subversion
5 3 (5.26%) TeamCity
5 3 (5.26%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.75%) GitLab
6 1 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 31 (54.39%) Social Skills
2 24 (42.11%) Finance
3 18 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (26.32%) Public Sector
5 14 (24.56%) Banking
6 13 (22.81%) Front Office
7 12 (21.05%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.51%) Legal
9 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (59.65%) Developer
2 27 (47.37%) Java Developer
3 7 (12.28%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 7 (12.28%) SQL Developer
3 7 (12.28%) Sybase Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Lead
5 4 (7.02%) Applications Support
5 4 (7.02%) Build and Release Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Build Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Linux Build Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Linux Scripter
5 4 (7.02%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (7.02%) Release Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Administrator
6 3 (5.26%) Applications Specialist
6 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Lead Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Support Specialist
6 3 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (49.12%) Spring
2 25 (43.86%) Kafka
3 20 (35.09%) JMS
4 10 (17.54%) Spring Boot
5 6 (10.53%) Loki
5 6 (10.53%) Middleware
6 4 (7.02%) Java SE
6 4 (7.02%) REST
7 3 (5.26%) .NET
7 3 (5.26%) J2EE
7 3 (5.26%) LDAP
7 3 (5.26%) SOAP
7 3 (5.26%) X-Windows
8 2 (3.51%) MSMQ
8 2 (3.51%) Node.js
8 2 (3.51%) React
9 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.75%) CSS3
9 1 (1.75%) HTML5
9 1 (1.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (42.11%) Data Structures
2 17 (29.82%) Equities
3 6 (10.53%) Public Cloud
4 5 (8.77%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.26%) Algorithms
5 3 (5.26%) Client/Server
5 3 (5.26%) Derivative
5 3 (5.26%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (5.26%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (82.46%) Linux
2 13 (22.81%) Unix
3 4 (7.02%) Windows
4 3 (5.26%) Mac OS
4 3 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.75%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (63.16%) Agile
2 28 (49.12%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (36.84%) Open Source
3 21 (36.84%) SDLC
4 19 (33.33%) Multithreading
4 19 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 18 (31.58%) Database Tuning
6 12 (21.05%) DevOps
7 11 (19.30%) Microservices
8 10 (17.54%) Software Engineering
8 10 (17.54%) TDD
9 9 (15.79%) Data Protection
10 8 (14.04%) CI/CD
11 7 (12.28%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (12.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (10.53%) Knowledge Transfer
12 6 (10.53%) Mentoring
12 6 (10.53%) Migration
12 6 (10.53%) SOA
12 6 (10.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 44 (77.19%) Java
2 32 (56.14%) Python
3 28 (49.12%) SQL
4 11 (19.30%) JavaScript
5 8 (14.04%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.26%) Bash
6 3 (5.26%) C#
6 3 (5.26%) C++
6 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.26%) VBA
6 3 (5.26%) VBScript
7 1 (1.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (5.26%) ISEB
1 3 (5.26%) ISTQB
1 3 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (3.51%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (7.02%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (7.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (7.02%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (10.53%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 5 (8.77%) Docker
2 5 (8.77%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.75%) KVM
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (22.81%) Terraform
2 10 (17.54%) Ansible
3 7 (12.28%) Grafana
4 6 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.75%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.75%) Nagios
6 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 18 (31.58%) Sybase
2 7 (12.28%) Splunk
2 7 (12.28%) VMware
3 6 (10.53%) Veritas
4 3 (5.26%) DocuSign
4 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.51%) Oracle
5 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.75%) Commvault
6 1 (1.75%) Dell
6 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.75%) Google
6 1 (1.75%) NetApp
6 1 (1.75%) Palo Alto