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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 191 271
Rank change year-on-year -79 +80 -59
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 121 302 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 1.26% 0.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.51% 4.35% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 198 178
10th Percentile £350 £412 £350
25th Percentile £405 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +7.60% +21.95%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £634 £641 £625
UK median daily rate £510 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% +14.44%
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% +144.32%
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% +43.75%

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 4,829 6,937 8,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.49% 29.03% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,250 4,944 6,223
10th Percentile £317 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.46% +14.82%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £680 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 342 337
10th Percentile £37.63 £22.57 £17.27
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.76 £29.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +17.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.45 £65.45
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.55 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.73% +21.10% +14.29%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +11 42 £450 -20.35% 8
Scotland -3 29 £450 -14.29% 7
North of England +3 21 £485 -5.37% 9
South West +2 13 £525 -4.55% 8
North West 0 12 £502 +11.50% 5
East of England -6 8 £625 +35.14% 18
Midlands -35 7 £498 -7.43% 5
East Midlands +25 5 £520 +73.33% 2
Yorkshire +18 5 £485 -3.00% 3
North East +15 4 - - 1
Wales +14 3 £538 -2.27% 2
West Midlands -42 2 £410 -23.93% 3
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 5 (4.13%) Apache
1 5 (4.13%) Confluence
1 5 (4.13%) nginx
2 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.31%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.83%) JBoss
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle Utilities
1 1 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.83%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 35 (28.93%) AWS
2 17 (14.05%) Amazon S3
2 17 (14.05%) Serverless
3 14 (11.57%) Azure
4 13 (10.74%) OpenShift
5 12 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (6.61%) GitHub
8 7 (5.79%) Datadog
8 7 (5.79%) IaaS
8 7 (5.79%) PaaS
9 6 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.48%) SaaS
12 2 (1.65%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (1.65%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.65%) CloudFront
12 2 (1.65%) Route 53
12 2 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.26%) Firewall
2 7 (5.79%) DNS
3 6 (4.96%) SAN
4 5 (4.13%) AMQP
4 5 (4.13%) HTTP
4 5 (4.13%) Network Security
5 4 (3.31%) 5G
5 4 (3.31%) Diameter Protocol
5 4 (3.31%) LTE
5 4 (3.31%) Wireless
6 2 (1.65%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.65%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.83%) DVB
7 1 (0.83%) Internet
7 1 (0.83%) RNC
7 1 (0.83%) SGSN
7 1 (0.83%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (19.83%) Oracle Database
2 14 (11.57%) MongoDB
2 14 (11.57%) Relational Database
3 13 (10.74%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (8.26%) MySQL
5 8 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (6.61%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (6.61%) Oracle Database 12c
6 6 (4.96%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (4.96%) Tableau
7 5 (4.13%) InfluxDB
7 5 (4.13%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 5 (4.13%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.31%) Big Data
8 4 (3.31%) Metadata
8 4 (3.31%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.48%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.48%) DB2
9 3 (2.48%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (2.48%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 32 (26.45%) Jenkins
2 29 (23.97%) Git
3 27 (22.31%) JIRA
4 10 (8.26%) GitLab
5 9 (7.44%) Maven
5 9 (7.44%) Subversion
6 7 (5.79%) Cucumber
6 7 (5.79%) Gradle
7 6 (4.96%) JMeter
7 6 (4.96%) Selenium
7 6 (4.96%) WebDriver
8 5 (4.13%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.31%) Gatling
10 3 (2.48%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (1.65%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.65%) JUnit
11 2 (1.65%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.65%) TestRail
12 1 (0.83%) Mockito
General
1 20 (16.53%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.22%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.74%) Finance
4 9 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.13%) Billing
5 5 (4.13%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.31%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.31%) Banking
7 3 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.65%) Automotive
8 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.65%) Law
9 1 (0.83%) Electronics
9 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 23 (19.01%) Developer
2 11 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
3 10 (8.26%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (8.26%) Senior
4 8 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (6.61%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (6.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (5.79%) DBA
5 7 (5.79%) Oracle DBA
5 7 (5.79%) Software Engineer
6 6 (4.96%) C Developer
6 6 (4.96%) Splunk Engineer
6 6 (4.96%) Test Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Administrator
7 5 (4.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Lead
7 5 (4.13%) Site Manager
7 5 (4.13%) Site Reliability Manager
7 5 (4.13%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (3.31%) Applications Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.92%) HTML
2 11 (9.09%) CSS
2 11 (9.09%) Node.js
2 11 (9.09%) React
3 9 (7.44%) AWS CDK
3 9 (7.44%) JSON
4 7 (5.79%) Kafka
4 7 (5.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 7 (5.79%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (4.13%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (4.13%) Web Services
7 4 (3.31%) Middleware
7 4 (3.31%) Spring
7 4 (3.31%) XML
7 4 (3.31%) YAML
8 3 (2.48%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.48%) REST
8 3 (2.48%) Vue
9 2 (1.65%) HornetQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.22%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (8.26%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.79%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.96%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.13%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.13%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.31%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.31%) Device Driver
6 4 (3.31%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.48%) ASIC
7 3 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.48%) FPGA
7 3 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.48%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.48%) Verilog
8 2 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.65%) Insider Threat
8 2 (1.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 66 (54.55%) Linux
2 54 (44.63%) Unix
3 23 (19.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (16.53%) Windows
5 7 (5.79%) VMS
6 5 (4.13%) Debian
7 4 (3.31%) Mac OS X
7 4 (3.31%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (2.48%) AIX
8 3 (2.48%) Windows 10
8 3 (2.48%) Windows 2000
8 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.48%) Windows XP
9 2 (1.65%) Solaris
9 2 (1.65%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.65%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.83%) CentOS
10 1 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.97%) CI/CD
2 27 (22.31%) Agile
3 26 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (19.83%) DevOps
5 17 (14.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (13.22%) Test Automation
7 13 (10.74%) Microservices
7 13 (10.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 12 (9.92%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (9.92%) Scrum
8 12 (9.92%) TDD
9 10 (8.26%) Analytics
9 10 (8.26%) ETL
9 10 (8.26%) Full Stack Development
9 10 (8.26%) Mentoring
10 9 (7.44%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (7.44%) Software Engineering
11 8 (6.61%) Computer Science
11 8 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (6.61%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 51 (42.15%) Python
2 38 (31.40%) Bash
3 33 (27.27%) SQL
4 29 (23.97%) Java
5 19 (15.70%) C
6 16 (13.22%) JavaScript
7 13 (10.74%) C++
7 13 (10.74%) Groovy
7 13 (10.74%) PowerShell
8 10 (8.26%) TypeScript
9 9 (7.44%) PL/SQL
10 8 (6.61%) Ruby
11 7 (5.79%) Assembly Language
12 6 (4.96%) Go
12 6 (4.96%) Perl
12 6 (4.96%) ProC
12 6 (4.96%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (4.13%) Scala
14 4 (3.31%) C#
14 4 (3.31%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.09%) Degree
4 6 (4.96%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.31%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (3.31%) PhD
7 3 (2.48%) RHCE
8 2 (1.65%) HNC
8 2 (1.65%) ISEB
8 2 (1.65%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.83%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.83%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.83%) LPIC
9 1 (0.83%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.96%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.31%) JTAG
3 3 (2.48%) QA
4 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.65%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (19.83%) Docker
2 10 (8.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.44%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (4.96%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.96%) vSphere
5 4 (3.31%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (3.31%) Firmware
6 2 (1.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.65%) HDFS
6 2 (1.65%) Varnish
6 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.65%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.83%) KVM
7 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.83%) Xen
Systems Management
1 36 (29.75%) Ansible
2 29 (23.97%) Kubernetes
2 29 (23.97%) Terraform
3 11 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 9 (7.44%) Grafana
5 8 (6.61%) Data Guard
6 6 (4.96%) Progress Chef
6 6 (4.96%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (4.96%) yum
7 5 (4.13%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (4.13%) NetBackup
7 5 (4.13%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (3.31%) Netcool
8 4 (3.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (3.31%) Packer
8 4 (3.31%) vRealize
9 3 (2.48%) SCCM
10 2 (1.65%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (1.65%) Istio
10 2 (1.65%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 41 (33.88%) Oracle
2 20 (16.53%) Red Hat
3 11 (9.09%) Splunk
3 11 (9.09%) VMware
4 7 (5.79%) Veritas
5 6 (4.96%) IBM
6 4 (3.31%) Informatica
7 3 (2.48%) 3PAR
7 3 (2.48%) Cadence
7 3 (2.48%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.48%) HP
7 3 (2.48%) Juniper
7 3 (2.48%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.48%) NetApp
7 3 (2.48%) Nimble Storage
7 3 (2.48%) Synopsys
7 3 (2.48%) Xilinx
8 2 (1.65%) Arqiva
8 2 (1.65%) EMC
8 2 (1.65%) Greenplum