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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 268 190
Rank change year-on-year +85 -78 +66
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 158 123 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.24% 0.60% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.33% 2.57% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 88 198
10th Percentile £366 £350 £412
25th Percentile £455 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -11.80% +7.60%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £634 £641
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 16
10th Percentile £65.00 £61.00 £40.00
25th Percentile - - £46.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £61.56
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +5.58% +14.53%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £74.50
90th Percentile - £77.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £64.38
% change year-on-year +4.62% +0.97% +11.96%

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 3,648 4,792 6,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.63% 23.34% 28.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,410 3,218 4,896
10th Percentile £325 £313 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% -2.35% +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 402 339
10th Percentile £24.33 £37.66 £22.50
25th Percentile £44.51 £52.50 £49.21
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +2.97% +22.01%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.55
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £60.28
% change year-on-year +1.46% +2.20% +20.55%

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 8 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 8 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 56 £478 +6.11% 13
North of England +30 31 £510 +5.13% 46
South East +23 24 £600 +33.33% 52
South West +44 18 £521 -0.71% 22
Yorkshire +18 18 £500 +3.09% 19
Midlands +28 16 £460 -7.63% 29
West Midlands +26 15 £460 +12.20% 17
East of England +38 13 £325 -48.00% 32
North West +14 13 £520 +3.59% 24
East Midlands +6 1 £475 -8.65% 11
Wales 0 1 - - 2
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 (5.70%) Confluence
2 6 (3.80%) IIS
3 4 (2.53%) JBoss
3 4 (2.53%) OpenROAD
4 2 (1.27%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.27%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.27%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.27%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.63%) Apache
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.63%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 32 (20.25%) AWS
2 18 (11.39%) Azure
3 14 (8.86%) GitHub
4 9 (5.70%) GCP
5 6 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (3.80%) OCI
5 6 (3.80%) SaaS
6 5 (3.16%) CloudBees
6 5 (3.16%) OpenShift
6 5 (3.16%) Serverless
7 4 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.53%) PaaS
8 3 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.90%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.90%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.03%) DNS
2 10 (6.33%) SAN
3 7 (4.43%) SMTP
4 6 (3.80%) NAS
4 6 (3.80%) NetScaler
5 5 (3.16%) DHCP
5 5 (3.16%) Firewall
6 4 (2.53%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (1.90%) HTTP
7 3 (1.90%) SSL
7 3 (1.90%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.27%) Calico
8 2 (1.27%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.27%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (1.27%) VLAN
8 2 (1.27%) VPN
9 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.63%) PuTTY
9 1 (0.63%) SSH
9 1 (0.63%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (19.62%) Relational Database
2 23 (14.56%) MongoDB
3 21 (13.29%) DB2
4 9 (5.70%) Oracle Database
5 8 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.43%) RDBMS
7 6 (3.80%) MySQL
8 4 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.27%) Big Data
9 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.27%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.27%) Tableau
10 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.63%) HBase
10 1 (0.63%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 31 (19.62%) Jenkins
2 28 (17.72%) Git
3 27 (17.09%) JUnit
4 20 (12.66%) JIRA
5 15 (9.49%) GitLab
6 11 (6.96%) Maven
7 7 (4.43%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.80%) TeamCity
9 5 (3.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (2.53%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.53%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.53%) Subversion
11 3 (1.90%) Mockito
11 3 (1.90%) Postman
11 3 (1.90%) Selenium
11 3 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.90%) WebDriver
12 2 (1.27%) Gradle
12 2 (1.27%) JMeter
13 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
General
1 67 (42.41%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.78%) Finance
3 24 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.39%) Banking
4 18 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.86%) Front Office
6 13 (8.23%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.43%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.27%) Law
8 2 (1.27%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Automotive
9 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Marketing
9 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (25.32%) Developer
2 30 (18.99%) Java Developer
3 20 (12.66%) Linux Engineer
4 15 (9.49%) Administrator
5 14 (8.86%) Support Engineer
6 11 (6.96%) FPGA Engineer
6 11 (6.96%) Product Engineer
6 11 (6.96%) Products Support Engineer
6 11 (6.96%) Software Support Engineer
7 10 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.33%) Linux Support
8 8 (5.06%) Data Engineer
8 8 (5.06%) Linux Support Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 7 (4.43%) Lead
9 7 (4.43%) SQL Developer
9 7 (4.43%) Sybase Developer
9 7 (4.43%) Systems Administrator
10 6 (3.80%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (20.25%) Spring
2 26 (16.46%) Kafka
3 22 (13.92%) Middleware
4 21 (13.29%) JMS
5 10 (6.33%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.80%) Loki
6 6 (3.80%) REST
7 5 (3.16%) LDAP
7 5 (3.16%) RESTful
8 4 (2.53%) HTML
8 4 (2.53%) Java SE
9 3 (1.90%) .NET
9 3 (1.90%) Node.js
9 3 (1.90%) Web Services
9 3 (1.90%) X-Windows
9 3 (1.90%) YAML
10 2 (1.27%) Apache Camel
10 2 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.27%) React
10 2 (1.27%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.82%) Data Structures
2 18 (11.39%) Equities
3 11 (6.96%) FPGA
3 11 (6.96%) Verilog
4 10 (6.33%) Clustering
5 6 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.80%) PKI
5 6 (3.80%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.16%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.53%) Derivative
7 4 (2.53%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.53%) Replication
8 3 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.90%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 110 (69.62%) Linux
2 46 (29.11%) Unix
3 23 (14.56%) Windows
4 21 (13.29%) Ubuntu
5 17 (10.76%) Windows Server
6 9 (5.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (5.06%) CentOS
8 6 (3.80%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (2.53%) AIX
9 4 (2.53%) Solaris
10 3 (1.90%) HPUX
10 3 (1.90%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.27%) Android
11 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.27%) Debian
12 1 (0.63%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (33.54%) Agile
2 51 (32.28%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (24.05%) Software Engineering
4 34 (21.52%) Performance Tuning
5 32 (20.25%) CI/CD
6 29 (18.35%) DevOps
7 26 (16.46%) SDLC
8 24 (15.19%) Open Source
9 20 (12.66%) Multithreading
10 19 (12.03%) Database Tuning
11 18 (11.39%) TDD
12 17 (10.76%) Containerisation
13 15 (9.49%) Validation
14 14 (8.86%) Data Protection
14 14 (8.86%) Microservices
14 14 (8.86%) Problem Management
15 12 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (7.59%) Migration
16 11 (6.96%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 86 (54.43%) Python
2 54 (34.18%) Java
3 42 (26.58%) SQL
4 32 (20.25%) JavaScript
5 17 (10.76%) C++
6 15 (9.49%) PowerShell
7 14 (8.86%) C
8 13 (8.23%) Ada
8 13 (8.23%) Tcl
9 11 (6.96%) SystemVerilog
10 9 (5.70%) Perl
11 8 (5.06%) Bash
12 7 (4.43%) TypeScript
13 5 (3.16%) Kotlin
13 5 (3.16%) PL/SQL
13 5 (3.16%) Ruby
14 3 (1.90%) C#
14 3 (1.90%) Groovy
14 3 (1.90%) VBA
14 3 (1.90%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (12.03%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.96%) Degree
4 7 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.80%) RHCE
6 3 (1.90%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.90%) ISEB
6 3 (1.90%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.27%) OCP
7 2 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.63%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.06%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (3.16%) QA
3 4 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (2.53%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (17.09%) Docker
2 19 (12.03%) Active Directory
3 18 (11.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (8.23%) vSphere
5 10 (6.33%) Hyper-V
6 8 (5.06%) VMware NSX
7 6 (3.80%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 6 (3.80%) XenApp
7 6 (3.80%) XenDesktop
8 5 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (3.16%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (1.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (1.90%) KVM
10 1 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.63%) Firmware
10 1 (0.63%) NFS
10 1 (0.63%) Samba
Systems Management
1 34 (21.52%) Ansible
2 24 (15.19%) Kubernetes
3 21 (13.29%) Terraform
4 12 (7.59%) Grafana
5 11 (6.96%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.06%) Puppet
7 7 (4.43%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (3.80%) WSUS
9 4 (2.53%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (2.53%) Podman
9 4 (2.53%) vCenter Server
9 4 (2.53%) vRealize
10 2 (1.27%) BMC PATROL
10 2 (1.27%) Istio
10 2 (1.27%) Kibana
10 2 (1.27%) Nagios
10 2 (1.27%) Nessus
10 2 (1.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 31 (19.62%) VMware
2 29 (18.35%) Red Hat
3 20 (12.66%) Sybase
4 13 (8.23%) Oracle
5 12 (7.59%) Microsoft
5 12 (7.59%) Splunk
6 11 (6.96%) Xilinx
7 8 (5.06%) ServiceNow
8 7 (4.43%) Dell
8 7 (4.43%) IBM
9 6 (3.80%) Citrix
9 6 (3.80%) HP
9 6 (3.80%) Veritas
10 5 (3.16%) Commvault
10 5 (3.16%) Google
11 4 (2.53%) Atlassian
11 4 (2.53%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.53%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (1.90%) BMC
13 2 (1.27%) Remedy