C-shell Contracts

C shell (csh)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring C-shell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C-shell 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 519 - 712
Rank change year-on-year - - +134
Contract jobs citing C-shell 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - 0.010%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.010% - 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 - £428
90th Percentile - - £501
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

All Programming Languages
UK

C-shell 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,965 12,846 20,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.04% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,755 9,122 15,089
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £768 £762 £777
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 487 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.70 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%

C-shell
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing C-shell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C-shell in the UK

C-shell
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C-shell.

Daily rate trend for C-shell in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C-shell.

Hourly rate trend for C-shell in the UK

C-shell
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C-shell within the UK 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
England - 1 £600 - 3
East of England - 1 £600 -
UK excluding London - 1 £600 - 2

C-shell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Redfish
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Sun