zsh Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

zsh (Z shell)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring zsh skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 - 378
Rank change year-on-year - - +48
Contract jobs citing zsh 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.015% - 0.005%
As % of the System Software category 0.14% - 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £475 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £325
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.32%
75th Percentile £505 - £338
90th Percentile £524 - -
UK median daily rate £474 £650 £325
% change year-on-year -27.12% +100.00% -35.32%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

zsh falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,924 1,896 2,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.73% 12.52% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,894 1,253 1,607
10th Percentile £201 £200 £197
25th Percentile £362 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 58 134
10th Percentile £13.97 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.50 £59.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +176.74% -20.37%
75th Percentile £74.00 £86.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.43 £91.50 £71.07
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £31.39 £23.80
% change year-on-year +67.28% +31.87% -52.40%

zsh
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing zsh relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

zsh job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing zsh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing zsh

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing zsh.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing zsh

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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 zsh within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
Scotland - 3 £483 - 3
North of England - 1 £525 -
North West - 1 £525 -
zsh
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Claude Code
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Inventory Management
3 2 (50.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft