Shell Script Contracts in Sheffield

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 32 53 52
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 -7
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 18 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.64% 0.53% 0.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.93% 1.65% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 3
10th Percentile £458 £476 £470
25th Percentile £490 £482 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £522 £538
90th Percentile £641 £527 £560
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -1.96%

All Programming Languages
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 113 121 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 35.42% 31.93% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 78 90
10th Percentile £359 £397 £413
25th Percentile £409 £413 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £700
90th Percentile £650 £629 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £519 £445 £594
% change year-on-year +16.54% -25.05% +25.00%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Sheffield

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in Sheffield

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in Sheffield

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in Sheffield

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) OCI
2 5 (27.78%) CloudBees
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
2 5 (27.78%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 2 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
1 4 (22.22%) NAS
1 4 (22.22%) SAN
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.11%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 10 (55.56%) Git
3 4 (22.22%) GitLab
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Financial Institution
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Data Protection Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Database Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.56%) AIX
4 1 (5.56%) Solaris
4 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (55.56%) Containerisation
3 9 (50.00%) Agile
4 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 8 (44.44%) DevOps
5 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (33.33%) Scrum
7 5 (27.78%) Architectural Design
7 5 (27.78%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
7 5 (27.78%) Design Patterns
7 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
7 5 (27.78%) TDD
8 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (22.22%) Kanban
8 4 (22.22%) Migration
8 4 (22.22%) Software Delivery
9 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 2 (11.11%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
2 5 (27.78%) Kotlin
3 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 3 (16.67%) Groovy
5 1 (5.56%) ActionScript
5 1 (5.56%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) Korn
5 1 (5.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) OCP
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (5.56%) IBM Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
1 1 (5.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Docker
2 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (38.89%) vSphere
3 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (22.22%) VMware NSX
4 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Ansible
2 12 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (22.22%) vCenter Server
3 4 (22.22%) vRealize
4 2 (11.11%) Grafana
4 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.56%) Nagios
5 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.56%) Puppet
5 1 (5.56%) Terraform
5 1 (5.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle
1 7 (38.89%) VMware
2 4 (22.22%) Commvault
3 3 (16.67%) Google
3 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) Databricks
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk