Shell Script Contract Job Trends in South London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 34 39
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.35% 1.00% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.36% 2.70% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £508 - £479
25th Percentile £519 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.38%
75th Percentile £594 - £628
90th Percentile £613 - £656
London median daily rate £480 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% -7.08%

All Programming Languages
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 119 74 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 40.20% 37.00% 37.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 53 68
10th Percentile £449 £425 £360
25th Percentile £492 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £495 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £545 £725 £579
90th Percentile £585 £938 £666
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.83
25th Percentile £54.55 - £38.95
Median hourly rate £64.75 - £43.84
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.05%
75th Percentile £66.80 - £48.37
90th Percentile £67.70 - £49.28
London median hourly rate £54.75 £46.50 £51.13
% change year-on-year +17.74% -9.05% -11.09%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in South London

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 24 March 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
Croydon - 3 £500 -
Bromley -3 1 £600 - 2
Shell Script
London

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Delivery Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Sybase