Shell Script Contracts in the South East

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Shell Script skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Shell Script over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 168 201
Rank change year-on-year +7 +33 -26
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 42 53 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 0.91% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.49% 3.32% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 38
10th Percentile £338 £380 £368
25th Percentile £397 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% +2.73% +41.03%
75th Percentile £553 £600 £617
90th Percentile £625 £625 £700
England median daily rate £515 £545 £530
% change year-on-year -5.50% +2.83% +17.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile - £25.17 -
25th Percentile - £30.46 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £41.03 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.44% -25.41% +150.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £51.71 -
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.06 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.63 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.85% -7.29% +61.07%

All Programming Languages
South East

Shell Script is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,205 1,597 2,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.70% 27.48% 27.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 1,137 1,361
10th Percentile £325 £329 £340
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £679 £700 £650
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 91 89
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.07 £55.00 £43.64
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% +26.03% +5.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £75.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in the South East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the South East

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Shell Script in the South East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Shell Script in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Hampshire +7 14 £500 -9.09% 5
Thames Valley -10 13 £400 -27.27% 3
Surrey +17 9 £400 -36.00%
Berkshire -23 8 £495 -10.00%
East Sussex +10 5 £538 -6.52%
Oxfordshire +6 4 - - 3
Buckinghamshire +22 1 £375 -31.82%
West Sussex -1 1 - - 1
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (9.52%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) Apache
2 2 (4.76%) nginx
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.67%) AWS
2 5 (11.90%) Datadog
3 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (7.14%) GitHub
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.76%) CloudFront
4 2 (4.76%) Fastly
4 2 (4.76%) IaaS
4 2 (4.76%) Route 53
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.38%) Azure
5 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.38%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) DNS
1 6 (14.29%) SAN
2 4 (9.52%) Wireless
3 2 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.38%) HTTP
4 1 (2.38%) Internet
4 1 (2.38%) RNC
4 1 (2.38%) SGSN
4 1 (2.38%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 4 (9.52%) MySQL
4 3 (7.14%) RDBMS
4 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.76%) CouchDB
5 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.38%) GIS
6 1 (2.38%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Git
2 8 (19.05%) JIRA
3 5 (11.90%) GitLab
4 4 (9.52%) Bitbucket
4 4 (9.52%) Subversion
5 2 (4.76%) TestRail
6 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.38%) JMeter
6 1 (2.38%) JUnit
6 1 (2.38%) Mockito
General
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Billing
2 5 (11.90%) Telecoms
3 4 (9.52%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.76%) Automotive
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Developer
4 6 (14.29%) C Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Applications Specialist
6 4 (9.52%) Applications Support
6 4 (9.52%) Applications Support Specialist
6 4 (9.52%) Embedded Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Junior
6 4 (9.52%) Junior Applications Support
6 4 (9.52%) Support Specialist
7 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 2 (4.76%) Senior
8 2 (4.76%) Systems Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) HTML
2 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.76%) CSS
2 2 (4.76%) Django
2 2 (4.76%) HornetQ
2 2 (4.76%) Node.js
2 2 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (4.76%) React
2 2 (4.76%) VCL
2 2 (4.76%) Vue
3 1 (2.38%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Camel
3 1 (2.38%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.38%) jQuery
3 1 (2.38%) OpenLayers
3 1 (2.38%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.38%) REST
3 1 (2.38%) Spring
3 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.38%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (9.52%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.52%) Device Driver
2 4 (9.52%) Driving Licence
3 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (4.76%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) Clustering
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.38%) Replication
5 1 (2.38%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 27 (64.29%) Linux
2 21 (50.00%) Unix
3 18 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (23.81%) Windows
5 5 (11.90%) Debian
6 4 (9.52%) VMS
7 3 (7.14%) Windows 10
7 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (4.76%) Solaris
9 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Agile
2 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (19.05%) Full Stack Development
4 7 (16.67%) ITIL
4 7 (16.67%) Scrum
5 6 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 6 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 5 (11.90%) Containerisation
6 5 (11.90%) Performance Improvement
6 5 (11.90%) Reverse Engineering
7 4 (9.52%) Defect Tracking
7 4 (9.52%) Problem Management
7 4 (9.52%) Signal Processing
7 4 (9.52%) Software Optimisation
7 4 (9.52%) Storage Management
7 4 (9.52%) Validation
8 3 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (28.57%) Python
2 11 (26.19%) Bash
3 10 (23.81%) C
3 10 (23.81%) SQL
4 6 (14.29%) C++
4 6 (14.29%) ProC
5 5 (11.90%) PL/SQL
5 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
6 4 (9.52%) Assembly Language
6 4 (9.52%) Java
6 4 (9.52%) MATLAB
7 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.76%) AWK
8 2 (4.76%) Bourne shell
8 2 (4.76%) C#
8 2 (4.76%) Korn
8 2 (4.76%) Perl
9 1 (2.38%) Groovy
9 1 (2.38%) JCL
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 15 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) Degree
4 6 (14.29%) Master's Degree
5 4 (9.52%) PhD
6 2 (4.76%) HNC
6 2 (4.76%) ISTQB
6 2 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (4.76%) RHCE
6 2 (4.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) JTAG
2 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.52%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (9.52%) Firmware
2 4 (9.52%) Hyper-V
2 4 (9.52%) vSphere
3 3 (7.14%) Docker
4 2 (4.76%) Varnish
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (4.76%) VirtualBox
5 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Ansible
2 6 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.90%) NetBackup
4 4 (9.52%) Netcool
4 4 (9.52%) Packer
4 4 (9.52%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (9.52%) Terraform
4 4 (9.52%) vRealize
5 3 (7.14%) SCCM
6 2 (4.76%) HAProxy
6 2 (4.76%) Oracle ZFS
6 2 (4.76%) yum
7 1 (2.38%) Kibana
7 1 (2.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (2.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) Red Hat
2 10 (23.81%) Oracle
3 7 (16.67%) Veritas
4 6 (14.29%) VMware
5 4 (9.52%) IBM
6 3 (7.14%) 3PAR
6 3 (7.14%) HP
6 3 (7.14%) NetApp
6 3 (7.14%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (4.76%) Arqiva
7 2 (4.76%) Cisco
7 2 (4.76%) EMC
8 1 (2.38%) BMC
8 1 (2.38%) Compaq
8 1 (2.38%) Dell
8 1 (2.38%) Ericsson
8 1 (2.38%) Mapinfo
8 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.38%) Nokia
8 1 (2.38%) Remedy