zsh Contract Job Trends in Scotland

zsh (Z shell)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring zsh skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing zsh 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £468 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - -
75th Percentile £489 - -
90th Percentile £492 - -
UK median daily rate £474 £650 £325
% change year-on-year -27.12% +100.00% -35.32%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

zsh falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 220 146 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 9.87% 8.69% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 89 190
10th Percentile £205 £210 £199
25th Percentile £360 £400 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £431
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +10.14% -9.21%
75th Percentile £518 £550 £494
90th Percentile £625 £589 £634
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 5
10th Percentile £13.97 - £15.20
25th Percentile £14.89 - £18.19
Median hourly rate £15.81 - £20.29
Median % change year-on-year - - -62.26%
75th Percentile £25.41 - £24.18
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £31.39 £23.80
% change year-on-year +67.28% +31.87% -52.40%

zsh
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing zsh relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

zsh job vacancy trend in Scotland

zsh
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 zsh within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 August 2026. 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 - 3 £483 - 2
zsh
UK

zsh
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Claude Code
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Inventory Management
2 2 (66.67%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft