Shell Script Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Shell Script skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 117 98
Rank change year-on-year +15 -19 +37
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 17 8 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.03% 0.35% 1.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.06% 1.66% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 34
10th Percentile £343 £420 £377
25th Percentile £356 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £450 £431
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +4.35% -33.65%
75th Percentile £406 - £550
90th Percentile £477 £570 £625
South East median daily rate £600 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +50.00% -11.11% -23.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.88
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +10.64% -
75th Percentile - - £60.63
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +10.64% -

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 419 483 630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.41% 21.37% 22.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 333 454
10th Percentile £340 £363 £325
25th Percentile £406 £425 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £551 £619 £615
90th Percentile £635 £658 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 14
10th Percentile £22.73 £35.58 £32.30
25th Percentile £25.55 £58.49 £32.31
Median hourly rate £31.50 £65.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -51.54% +34.30% -28.15%
75th Percentile £43.25 £76.18 £55.48
90th Percentile £49.55 £87.50 £63.34
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £69.38 £55.53
% change year-on-year -20.72% +24.93% +3.31%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the Thames Valley

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Shell Script.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the Thames Valley

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Shell Script.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
Berkshire +15 15 £395 -12.22% 8
Buckinghamshire - 2 £350 - 5
Shell Script
South East

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (5.88%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Serverless
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) SAN
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) DHCP
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) FTP
3 1 (5.88%) PuTTY
3 1 (5.88%) SMTP
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) Telnet
3 1 (5.88%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (11.76%) Couchbase
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) JMeter
2 2 (11.76%) JUnit
2 2 (11.76%) Maven
2 2 (11.76%) Mockito
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.88%) Gradle
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Subversion
3 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.88%) Toad
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Administrator
2 7 (41.18%) Backup Administrator
2 7 (41.18%) Storage Administrator
2 7 (41.18%) Storage and Backup Administrator
3 4 (23.53%) Developer
4 3 (17.65%) HP Storage Administrator
4 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) DBA
5 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Functional Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Remedy Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Support Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) HTML
1 3 (17.65%) REST
1 3 (17.65%) Spring
2 2 (11.76%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Camel
2 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
2 2 (11.76%) jQuery
2 2 (11.76%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 2 (11.76%) Web Services
2 2 (11.76%) WireMock
2 2 (11.76%) XML
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (17.65%) HP Storage
3 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) Replication
4 1 (5.88%) CMDB
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Windows
3 7 (41.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (23.53%) Unix
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) ITIL
2 7 (41.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (17.65%) Storage Management
6 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
6 3 (17.65%) Workflow
7 2 (11.76%) BDD
7 2 (11.76%) High Availability
7 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) Microservices
7 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) SDLC
7 2 (11.76%) Security Patching
7 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Bash
2 3 (17.65%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) NFS
2 1 (5.88%) Samba
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) NetBackup
2 2 (11.76%) Kibana
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) yum
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) 3PAR
1 7 (41.18%) HP
1 7 (41.18%) Red Hat
1 7 (41.18%) Veritas
2 6 (35.29%) NetApp
2 6 (35.29%) Nimble Storage
3 3 (17.65%) Dell
3 3 (17.65%) Dynatrace
3 3 (17.65%) Splunk
4 2 (11.76%) Confluent
4 2 (11.76%) IBM
4 2 (11.76%) Remedy
5 1 (5.88%) BMC
5 1 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle