Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -35 - -
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 6 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.97% 4.39% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.08% 13.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile £418 £378 -
25th Percentile £429 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% - -
75th Percentile £488 £425 -
90th Percentile £489 £434 -
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +16.67% -6.67% -16.28%

All Programming Languages
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 147 36 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 48.36% 31.58% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 29 3
10th Percentile £400 £420 -
25th Percentile £453 £435 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £484 £325
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% +48.92% -39.81%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £444
90th Percentile £560 £567 £508
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.10% +11.11% -14.29%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 18 November 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
Telford -34 6 £475 +13.10% 1
Shell Script
West Midlands

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) SAS
1 2 (33.33%) WebLogic
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) nginx
2 1 (16.67%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Kong
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Mockito
3 1 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 3 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) SOAP
3 2 (33.33%) Swagger
3 2 (33.33%) WireMock
4 1 (16.67%) Apache Camel
4 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
4 1 (16.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) API Testing
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
5 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (16.67%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) C
4 1 (16.67%) Korn
4 1 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Trillium
2 1 (16.67%) webMethods