Shell Script Contracts in the South East

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 143 164
Rank change year-on-year +17 +21 +38
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 24 44 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.80% 0.81% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.02% 3.63% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 38
10th Percentile £513 £340 £379
25th Percentile £540 £396 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% -
75th Percentile - £551 £592
90th Percentile - £620 £625
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - - £25.17
25th Percentile - - £30.46
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £41.03
Median % change year-on-year - +58.44% -
75th Percentile - £72.50 £51.71
90th Percentile - £77.50 £57.06
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.62% +23.81% -

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 796 1,213 1,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.55% 22.24% 27.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 841 1,083
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £431 £412 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £612
90th Percentile £663 £675 £693
England median daily rate £525 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.48% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 76 83
10th Percentile £40.05 £35.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £48.99 £46.25 £26.10
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.87 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% +10.67% +57.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.02 £67.50
90th Percentile £65.62 £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +23.10%

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 19 May 2025.

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

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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 19 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
Thames Valley +36 11 £532 -9.92% 6
Berkshire +35 11 £532 -14.27% 4
Surrey +6 2 - -
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 5 (20.83%) IIS
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (4.17%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.17%) SonarCloud
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) DNS
1 6 (25.00%) SMTP
2 5 (20.83%) NetScaler
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) FTP
3 1 (4.17%) PuTTY
3 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.17%) Telnet
3 1 (4.17%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JMeter
2 2 (8.33%) JUnit
2 2 (8.33%) Mockito
3 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Maven
3 1 (4.17%) Subversion
3 1 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.17%) Toad
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) FPGA Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Remedy Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Camel
1 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
1 2 (8.33%) HTML
1 2 (8.33%) jQuery
1 2 (8.33%) JSON
1 2 (8.33%) REST
1 2 (8.33%) RESTful
1 2 (8.33%) Spring
1 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
1 2 (8.33%) Web Services
1 2 (8.33%) WireMock
1 2 (8.33%) XML
2 1 (4.17%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.17%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) FPGA
1 11 (45.83%) Verilog
2 5 (20.83%) Clustering
2 5 (20.83%) PKI
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) CMDB
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Unix
2 14 (58.33%) Linux
3 7 (29.17%) Windows
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Validation
2 11 (45.83%) Data Collection
2 11 (45.83%) FPGA Design
2 11 (45.83%) Software Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Microservices
4 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Workflow
6 2 (8.33%) API Design
6 2 (8.33%) BDD
6 2 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 2 (8.33%) Process Management
6 2 (8.33%) SDLC
6 2 (8.33%) TDD
6 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (8.33%) Test Scripting
7 1 (4.17%) DevSecOps
7 1 (4.17%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 11 (45.83%) SystemVerilog
2 11 (45.83%) Tcl
3 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.67%) Java
4 4 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
1 5 (20.83%) vSphere
1 5 (20.83%) XenApp
1 5 (20.83%) XenDesktop
2 3 (12.50%) Docker
3 1 (4.17%) NFS
3 1 (4.17%) Samba
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Clustering
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (20.83%) WSUS
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) Kibana
4 1 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (4.17%) Terraform
4 1 (4.17%) yum
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Xilinx
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) Citrix
3 5 (20.83%) Dell
3 5 (20.83%) HP
3 5 (20.83%) VMware
4 3 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 3 (12.50%) Splunk
5 2 (8.33%) Remedy
6 1 (4.17%) BMC
6 1 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.17%) New Relic
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle