Shell Script Contracts in the South West

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 94 144 134
Rank change year-on-year +50 -10 +30
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 17 13 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.01% 0.41% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.79% 2.08% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 20
10th Percentile £346 £408 £463
25th Percentile £445 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -4.55% -5.98%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £674
90th Percentile £603 - £676
England median daily rate £538 £520 £545
% change year-on-year +3.46% -4.59% +2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile £66.80 - £39.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - £67.80
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +4.62% +16.85% -7.29%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 449 625 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.76% 19.54% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 421 759
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £625
90th Percentile £676 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 91 97
10th Percentile £61.30 £46.39 £49.87
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.13 £57.33
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.00 £75.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the South West

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in the South West

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the South West

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol +29 13 £543 - 9
Wiltshire +31 3 - - 4
Dorset - 1 £280 - 3
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 1 (5.88%) Finance
1 1 (5.88%) Law
1 1 (5.88%) Marketing
1 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Product Engineer
1 9 (52.94%) Products Support Engineer
1 9 (52.94%) Software Support Engineer
1 9 (52.94%) Support Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (41.18%) Linux Support
3 7 (41.18%) Linux Support Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Administrator
4 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Junior
5 1 (5.88%) Junior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Junior Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Linux
2 11 (64.71%) Ubuntu
3 2 (11.76%) Unix
4 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Software Engineering
2 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
3 3 (17.65%) Scorecard
3 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) SDLC
5 1 (5.88%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security
5 1 (5.88%) Containerisation
5 1 (5.88%) Decision-Making
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (5.88%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) JavaScript
2 11 (64.71%) Ada
2 11 (64.71%) C
2 11 (64.71%) C++
3 2 (11.76%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Red Hat
2 3 (17.65%) Foundry
2 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle