Shell Script Contracts in the UK excluding London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Shell Script skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Shell Script over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 190 256
Rank change year-on-year -71 +66 -45
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 125 295 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 1.26% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.63% 4.34% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 193 184
10th Percentile £350 £400 £363
25th Percentile £400 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +7.60% +21.95%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £581
90th Percentile £634 £638 £639
UK median daily rate £510 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% +12.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 2
10th Percentile £61.00 £40.00 £51.63
25th Percentile - £46.88 £52.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.56 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% +14.53% +33.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.50 £54.69
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.00 £54.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.38 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.97% +11.96% +16.50%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Shell Script is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,760 6,802 8,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.37% 28.94% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,198 4,810 6,167
10th Percentile £315 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £644
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 341 340
10th Percentile £38.08 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.68 £29.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.00 £67.53
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +16.63%

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 13 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Shell Script in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 13 May 2024. 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
South East +7 45 £438 -20.45% 10
Scotland +7 33 £440 -16.19% 7
North of England 0 21 £485 -7.62% 7
South West -4 13 £525 -4.55% 12
North West +6 12 £502 +5.63% 5
Midlands -22 7 £498 -7.43% 4
East Midlands +26 5 £520 +73.33% 3
Yorkshire +17 5 £485 -3.00% 2
East of England -11 5 £625 +35.14% 12
North East +9 4 - -
Wales +20 3 £538 -2.27% 2
West Midlands -34 2 £410 -23.79% 1
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 6 (4.80%) Confluence
2 5 (4.00%) nginx
3 4 (3.20%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.40%) Apache
4 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.80%) JBoss
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.80%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.80%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 34 (27.20%) AWS
2 15 (12.00%) Amazon S3
2 15 (12.00%) Serverless
3 14 (11.20%) Azure
4 13 (10.40%) OpenShift
5 10 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (6.40%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (6.40%) GitHub
7 7 (5.60%) Datadog
7 7 (5.60%) IaaS
8 6 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (4.80%) PaaS
9 5 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.60%) CloudFront
10 2 (1.60%) Fastly
10 2 (1.60%) Route 53
10 2 (1.60%) SaaS
10 2 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.00%) Firewall
2 7 (5.60%) DNS
3 6 (4.80%) SAN
4 5 (4.00%) AMQP
4 5 (4.00%) HTTP
4 5 (4.00%) Network Security
5 4 (3.20%) 5G
5 4 (3.20%) Diameter Protocol
5 4 (3.20%) LTE
5 4 (3.20%) Wireless
6 3 (2.40%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.60%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (1.60%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.80%) DVB
8 1 (0.80%) Internet
8 1 (0.80%) RNC
8 1 (0.80%) SGSN
8 1 (0.80%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (19.20%) Oracle Database
2 14 (11.20%) MongoDB
3 13 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (10.40%) Relational Database
4 11 (8.80%) MySQL
5 8 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (6.40%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (6.40%) Oracle Database 12c
6 6 (4.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (4.80%) Tableau
7 5 (4.00%) InfluxDB
7 5 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (4.00%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 5 (4.00%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.20%) Metadata
8 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.40%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.40%) Big Data
9 3 (2.40%) DB2
9 3 (2.40%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 31 (24.80%) Jenkins
2 28 (22.40%) Git
2 28 (22.40%) JIRA
3 10 (8.00%) GitLab
4 9 (7.20%) Subversion
5 8 (6.40%) Maven
6 7 (5.60%) Cucumber
6 7 (5.60%) Gradle
7 6 (4.80%) JMeter
7 6 (4.80%) Selenium
7 6 (4.80%) WebDriver
8 5 (4.00%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.20%) Gatling
10 3 (2.40%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (2.40%) TestRail
11 2 (1.60%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.60%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.60%) JUnit
11 2 (1.60%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.80%) Mockito
General
1 19 (15.20%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.40%) Public Sector
3 17 (13.60%) Finance
4 9 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.00%) Banking
5 5 (4.00%) Billing
5 5 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.20%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.40%) Automotive
7 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.60%) Law
9 1 (0.80%) Electronics
9 1 (0.80%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 27 (21.60%) Developer
2 11 (8.80%) Linux Engineer
3 10 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (8.00%) Senior
4 8 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (6.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (5.60%) DBA
5 7 (5.60%) Oracle DBA
5 7 (5.60%) Software Engineer
5 7 (5.60%) Test Engineer
6 6 (4.80%) Applications Specialist
6 6 (4.80%) Applications Support
6 6 (4.80%) Applications Support Specialist
6 6 (4.80%) C Developer
6 6 (4.80%) Junior
6 6 (4.80%) Junior Applications Support
6 6 (4.80%) Splunk Engineer
6 6 (4.80%) Support Specialist
7 5 (4.00%) Site Reliability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.60%) HTML
2 11 (8.80%) CSS
2 11 (8.80%) Node.js
2 11 (8.80%) React
3 9 (7.20%) AWS CDK
4 8 (6.40%) JSON
5 7 (5.60%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (4.80%) Kafka
6 6 (4.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 5 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
7 5 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (4.00%) Web Services
8 4 (3.20%) Middleware
8 4 (3.20%) Spring
8 4 (3.20%) YAML
9 3 (2.40%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.40%) REST
9 3 (2.40%) Vue
9 3 (2.40%) XML
10 2 (1.60%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.80%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.60%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.80%) Driving Licence
5 5 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.20%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.20%) Device Driver
7 3 (2.40%) ASIC
7 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.40%) FPGA
7 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.40%) Verilog
8 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.60%) Insider Threat
8 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (52.00%) Linux
2 60 (48.00%) Unix
3 23 (18.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (16.00%) Windows
5 7 (5.60%) VMS
6 5 (4.00%) Debian
7 4 (3.20%) Mac OS X
7 4 (3.20%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (2.40%) AIX
8 3 (2.40%) Windows 10
8 3 (2.40%) Windows 2000
8 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.40%) Windows XP
9 2 (1.60%) Solaris
9 2 (1.60%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.60%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.80%) CentOS
10 1 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.20%) Agile
2 28 (22.40%) CI/CD
3 27 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (19.20%) DevOps
5 17 (13.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (13.60%) Test Automation
6 13 (10.40%) Microservices
6 13 (10.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 13 (10.40%) TDD
7 12 (9.60%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (8.80%) Scrum
9 10 (8.00%) Full Stack Development
9 10 (8.00%) Mentoring
9 10 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (7.20%) Analytics
10 9 (7.20%) Software Engineering
11 8 (6.40%) Computer Science
11 8 (6.40%) Containerisation
11 8 (6.40%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (38.40%) Python
2 38 (30.40%) Bash
3 35 (28.00%) SQL
4 27 (21.60%) Java
5 19 (15.20%) C
6 16 (12.80%) JavaScript
7 13 (10.40%) C++
7 13 (10.40%) Groovy
7 13 (10.40%) PowerShell
8 11 (8.80%) PL/SQL
9 10 (8.00%) TypeScript
10 8 (6.40%) Ruby
11 7 (5.60%) Assembly Language
12 6 (4.80%) Go
12 6 (4.80%) Perl
12 6 (4.80%) ProC
12 6 (4.80%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (4.00%) Scala
14 4 (3.20%) C#
14 4 (3.20%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 32 (25.60%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.80%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.60%) Degree
4 7 (5.60%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.00%) ISTQB
5 5 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (3.20%) PhD
7 3 (2.40%) HNC
7 3 (2.40%) RHCE
8 2 (1.60%) ISEB
8 2 (1.60%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.80%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.80%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.80%) LPIC
9 1 (0.80%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.80%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.20%) JTAG
3 3 (2.40%) QA
4 2 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (19.20%) Docker
2 10 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.20%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (4.80%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.80%) vSphere
5 4 (3.20%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (3.20%) Firmware
6 2 (1.60%) Varnish
6 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.60%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.60%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.80%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.80%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.80%) HDFS
7 1 (0.80%) KVM
7 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.80%) Xen
Systems Management
1 36 (28.80%) Ansible
2 29 (23.20%) Kubernetes
3 28 (22.40%) Terraform
4 11 (8.80%) Prometheus
5 9 (7.20%) Grafana
6 8 (6.40%) Data Guard
7 6 (4.80%) Netcool
7 6 (4.80%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.80%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (4.80%) yum
8 5 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (4.00%) NetBackup
8 5 (4.00%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (3.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (3.20%) Packer
9 4 (3.20%) vRealize
10 3 (2.40%) SCCM
11 2 (1.60%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.60%) Istio
11 2 (1.60%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 44 (35.20%) Oracle
2 20 (16.00%) Red Hat
3 11 (8.80%) Splunk
3 11 (8.80%) VMware
4 8 (6.40%) IBM
5 7 (5.60%) Veritas
6 3 (2.40%) 3PAR
6 3 (2.40%) Cadence
6 3 (2.40%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.40%) HP
6 3 (2.40%) Informatica
6 3 (2.40%) Juniper
6 3 (2.40%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.40%) NetApp
6 3 (2.40%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (2.40%) Synopsys
6 3 (2.40%) Xilinx
7 2 (1.60%) Arqiva
7 2 (1.60%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.60%) Greenplum