Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 38 47
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 1 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.20% 0.65% 1.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.70% 2.30% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £335
25th Percentile - - £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.00%
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - £475
South East median daily rate £396 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -34.00% +33.33% -20.35%

All Programming Languages
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 142 87 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 28.92% 28.43% 23.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 58 113
10th Percentile £291 £346 £259
25th Percentile £413 £413 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £619
90th Percentile £670 £635 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 3
10th Percentile £43.25 - £41.00
25th Percentile £60.00 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -65.00% +45.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £60.07
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.28% +9.32%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Surrey

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Weybridge - 1 £500 -
Shell Script
South East

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Composer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google