Shell Script Contracts in the UK excluding London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 189 281 199
Rank change year-on-year +92 -82 +68
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 152 119 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.19% 0.57% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.17% 2.45% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 85 204
10th Percentile £400 £355 £411
25th Percentile £455 £410 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.71% +8.69%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £634 £634
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 15
10th Percentile £64.70 £61.00 £39.00
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +10.64% +9.30%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £74.50
90th Percentile - £77.00 £75.40
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £61.56
% change year-on-year +4.62% +5.58% +2.60%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the UK excluding London

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in the UK excluding London

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK excluding London

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the UK excluding London

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
Scotland +39 57 £473 +5.00% 17
North of England +28 29 £510 +1.47% 55
South East +28 24 £600 +33.33% 61
Yorkshire +21 18 £500 +3.09% 21
South West +50 17 £521 -0.71% 32
Midlands +31 16 £460 -7.63% 42
West Midlands +27 15 £460 +12.20% 26
North West +17 11 £520 -1.56% 30
East of England +32 9 £467 -25.36% 36
East Midlands +6 1 £475 -8.65% 14
Wales -1 1 - - 4
Shell Script
UK

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (5.92%) Confluence
2 6 (3.95%) IIS
3 4 (2.63%) OpenROAD
4 3 (1.97%) JBoss
5 2 (1.32%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.32%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.66%) Apache
6 1 (0.66%) SAS
6 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.66%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.66%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.74%) AWS
2 19 (12.50%) Azure
3 14 (9.21%) GitHub
4 9 (5.92%) GCP
5 6 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (3.95%) OCI
5 6 (3.95%) SaaS
6 5 (3.29%) CloudBees
6 5 (3.29%) Serverless
7 4 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.63%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.63%) PaaS
8 3 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.97%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.97%) IaaS
8 3 (1.97%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.87%) DNS
2 8 (5.26%) SAN
3 7 (4.61%) SMTP
4 6 (3.95%) NAS
4 6 (3.95%) NetScaler
5 5 (3.29%) DHCP
5 5 (3.29%) Firewall
6 4 (2.63%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (1.97%) HTTP
7 3 (1.97%) SSL
7 3 (1.97%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.32%) Calico
8 2 (1.32%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (1.32%) VLAN
8 2 (1.32%) VPN
9 1 (0.66%) FTP
9 1 (0.66%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.66%) PuTTY
9 1 (0.66%) SSH
9 1 (0.66%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (19.08%) Relational Database
2 22 (14.47%) MongoDB
3 21 (13.82%) DB2
4 9 (5.92%) Oracle Database
4 9 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.61%) MySQL
5 7 (4.61%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.32%) Big Data
7 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.32%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.32%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.32%) Tableau
8 1 (0.66%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.66%) HBase
8 1 (0.66%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.66%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 30 (19.74%) Jenkins
2 27 (17.76%) Git
3 25 (16.45%) JUnit
4 17 (11.18%) JIRA
5 12 (7.89%) GitLab
6 10 (6.58%) Maven
7 7 (4.61%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (2.63%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.63%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.63%) Subversion
10 3 (1.97%) Mockito
10 3 (1.97%) Postman
10 3 (1.97%) Selenium
10 3 (1.97%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.97%) WebDriver
11 2 (1.32%) JMeter
11 2 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.66%) Gerrit
12 1 (0.66%) webpack
General
1 60 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 34 (22.37%) Finance
3 22 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 18 (11.84%) Banking
6 13 (8.55%) Front Office
7 12 (7.89%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.95%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.32%) Legal
10 1 (0.66%) Automotive
10 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Law
10 1 (0.66%) Marketing
10 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (26.97%) Developer
2 30 (19.74%) Java Developer
3 18 (11.84%) Linux Engineer
4 12 (7.89%) Administrator
4 12 (7.89%) Support Engineer
5 10 (6.58%) FPGA Engineer
5 10 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (5.92%) Linux Support
6 9 (5.92%) Product Engineer
6 9 (5.92%) Products Support Engineer
6 9 (5.92%) Software Support Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) Data Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 7 (4.61%) Lead
7 7 (4.61%) Linux Support Engineer
7 7 (4.61%) SQL Developer
7 7 (4.61%) Sybase Developer
8 6 (3.95%) Senior
9 4 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (20.39%) Spring
2 26 (17.11%) Kafka
3 22 (14.47%) Middleware
4 20 (13.16%) JMS
5 12 (7.89%) Spring Boot
6 7 (4.61%) REST
7 6 (3.95%) Loki
8 5 (3.29%) LDAP
8 5 (3.29%) RESTful
9 4 (2.63%) HTML
9 4 (2.63%) J2EE
9 4 (2.63%) Java SE
10 3 (1.97%) .NET
10 3 (1.97%) Node.js
10 3 (1.97%) SOAP
10 3 (1.97%) Web Services
10 3 (1.97%) X-Windows
10 3 (1.97%) YAML
11 2 (1.32%) Apache Camel
11 2 (1.32%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.45%) Data Structures
2 17 (11.18%) Equities
3 10 (6.58%) Clustering
3 10 (6.58%) FPGA
3 10 (6.58%) Verilog
4 7 (4.61%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.95%) PKI
6 5 (3.29%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.63%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.63%) Replication
8 3 (1.97%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.97%) Derivative
8 3 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.97%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.97%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 106 (69.74%) Linux
2 46 (30.26%) Unix
3 24 (15.79%) Windows
4 17 (11.18%) Ubuntu
4 17 (11.18%) Windows Server
5 8 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.95%) CentOS
6 6 (3.95%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (2.63%) AIX
7 4 (2.63%) Solaris
8 3 (1.97%) HPUX
8 3 (1.97%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.32%) Android
9 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.32%) Debian
10 1 (0.66%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.87%) Agile
2 51 (33.55%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (23.68%) Software Engineering
4 31 (20.39%) Performance Tuning
5 30 (19.74%) CI/CD
5 30 (19.74%) DevOps
6 27 (17.76%) SDLC
7 23 (15.13%) Open Source
8 19 (12.50%) Multithreading
8 19 (12.50%) TDD
9 18 (11.84%) Database Tuning
10 16 (10.53%) Microservices
11 14 (9.21%) Data Protection
11 14 (9.21%) Problem Management
11 14 (9.21%) Validation
12 13 (8.55%) Containerisation
13 12 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (7.89%) Migration
14 11 (7.24%) ITIL
14 11 (7.24%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (51.32%) Python
2 55 (36.18%) Java
3 42 (27.63%) SQL
4 31 (20.39%) JavaScript
5 16 (10.53%) PowerShell
6 15 (9.87%) C++
7 12 (7.89%) C
7 12 (7.89%) Tcl
8 11 (7.24%) Ada
9 10 (6.58%) SystemVerilog
10 9 (5.92%) Perl
11 8 (5.26%) Bash
11 8 (5.26%) TypeScript
12 7 (4.61%) PL/SQL
13 5 (3.29%) Kotlin
14 4 (2.63%) Ruby
15 3 (1.97%) C#
15 3 (1.97%) Groovy
15 3 (1.97%) VBA
15 3 (1.97%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.18%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.92%) Degree
4 7 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.29%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.29%) RHCE
6 3 (1.97%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.97%) ISEB
6 3 (1.97%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.32%) OCP
7 2 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.66%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.92%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (3.95%) QA
3 4 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.66%) GDPR
4 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (17.76%) Docker
2 18 (11.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (11.18%) Active Directory
4 13 (8.55%) vSphere
5 8 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 8 (5.26%) VMware NSX
6 6 (3.95%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 6 (3.95%) XenApp
6 6 (3.95%) XenDesktop
7 5 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (3.29%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.97%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (1.97%) KVM
9 1 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.66%) Firmware
9 1 (0.66%) NFS
9 1 (0.66%) Samba
Systems Management
1 30 (19.74%) Ansible
2 24 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 20 (13.16%) Terraform
4 12 (7.89%) Grafana
5 11 (7.24%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Clustering
6 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (3.95%) Puppet
6 6 (3.95%) WSUS
7 5 (3.29%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.63%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (2.63%) Podman
8 4 (2.63%) vCenter Server
8 4 (2.63%) vRealize
9 2 (1.32%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (1.32%) Istio
9 2 (1.32%) Kibana
9 2 (1.32%) Nagios
9 2 (1.32%) Nessus
10 1 (0.66%) SELinux
Vendors
1 29 (19.08%) VMware
2 26 (17.11%) Red Hat
3 19 (12.50%) Sybase
4 13 (8.55%) Oracle
5 12 (7.89%) Splunk
6 10 (6.58%) Microsoft
6 10 (6.58%) Xilinx
7 7 (4.61%) Dell
7 7 (4.61%) IBM
8 6 (3.95%) Citrix
8 6 (3.95%) HP
8 6 (3.95%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.95%) Veritas
9 5 (3.29%) Commvault
9 5 (3.29%) Google
10 4 (2.63%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.63%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.63%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (1.97%) DocuSign
11 3 (1.97%) Foundry