Shell Script Contract Job Trends

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Shell Script skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 264 275
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 -29
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 330 340 455
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 0.89% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.07% 2.76% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 224 324
10th Percentile £323 £350 £400
25th Percentile £400 £400 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £601
90th Percentile £638 £708 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +6.11% -9.55% -6.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 11
10th Percentile £65.00 £62.45 £62.19
25th Percentile - £63.50 £66.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -7.14% -4.11%
75th Percentile - £97.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £102.50 - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.11%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,751 12,316 15,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.92% 32.08% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,102 8,292 11,326
10th Percentile £344 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -4.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 346 457
10th Percentile £29.00 £27.00 £34.70
25th Percentile £40.31 £46.18 £48.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £78.96 £82.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.47%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Shell Script.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Shell Script.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 September 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 -6 269 £500 -1.96% 67
UK excluding London +69 212 £478 +6.11% 64
Work from Home +47 108 £475 -7.77% 57
London -39 108 £525 -0.94% 14
North of England +20 67 £480 +2.67% 12
Scotland +31 55 £484 +26.54% 8
Yorkshire +12 42 £500 +0.50% 3
South East +4 36 £525 +31.09% 12
North West +9 25 £448 +24.44% 7
South West +38 21 £390 -35.00% 21
Midlands -11 17 £500 +0.40% 5
East of England +13 16 £400 -36.00% 5
West Midlands -5 13 £507 +20.71% 2
East Midlands -3 4 £360 -30.77% 3
Wales +4 2 £283 -46.19% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Shell Script
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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (5.45%) Apache
2 17 (5.15%) JBoss
3 13 (3.94%) Apache Spark
4 12 (3.64%) Tomcat
5 10 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (3.03%) WebSphere
5 10 (3.03%) WebSphere Application Server
6 8 (2.42%) IIS
6 8 (2.42%) iPlanet
7 5 (1.52%) OpenStack
8 4 (1.21%) Confluence
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.30%) CICS
10 1 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.30%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.30%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 80 (24.24%) AWS
2 36 (10.91%) GitHub
3 33 (10.00%) Azure
3 33 (10.00%) GCP
4 25 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 24 (7.27%) OpenShift
6 16 (4.85%) Serverless
6 16 (4.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (3.33%) OCI
9 9 (2.73%) Amazon S3
9 9 (2.73%) PaaS
10 7 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.82%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.18%) DNS
2 19 (5.76%) SAN
3 14 (4.24%) Firewall
4 11 (3.33%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.73%) Kerberos
6 7 (2.12%) NAS
7 6 (1.82%) HTTP
7 6 (1.82%) VPN
8 5 (1.52%) iSCSI
9 4 (1.21%) SSL
10 3 (0.91%) LAN
11 2 (0.61%) Calico
11 2 (0.61%) Internet
11 2 (0.61%) Network Security
11 2 (0.61%) SMS
11 2 (0.61%) SMTP
12 1 (0.30%) BGP
12 1 (0.30%) IPsec
12 1 (0.30%) Telnet
12 1 (0.30%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (16.06%) Relational Database
2 49 (14.85%) Oracle Database
3 46 (13.94%) MongoDB
4 45 (13.64%) DB2
5 18 (5.45%) SQL Server
6 17 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (3.94%) BigQuery
9 10 (3.03%) NoSQL
10 8 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (2.12%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.12%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.82%) Apache Hive
12 6 (1.82%) HBase
12 6 (1.82%) Metadata
12 6 (1.82%) Redis
12 6 (1.82%) Star Schema
13 5 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 90 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 86 (26.06%) Git
3 55 (16.67%) JUnit
4 36 (10.91%) GitLab
5 34 (10.30%) JIRA
6 26 (7.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 25 (7.58%) Maven
8 14 (4.24%) TeamCity
9 11 (3.33%) Gradle
10 10 (3.03%) SonarQube
11 9 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (2.73%) Postman
11 9 (2.73%) Subversion
12 8 (2.42%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (2.42%) CA Release Automation
12 8 (2.42%) ER Studio
12 8 (2.42%) Mockito
13 7 (2.12%) ClearCase
13 7 (2.12%) SoapUI
14 6 (1.82%) Xcode
General
1 144 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 95 (28.79%) Finance
3 76 (23.03%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (19.09%) Banking
5 42 (12.73%) Investment Banking
6 28 (8.48%) Public Sector
7 21 (6.36%) Front Office
8 11 (3.33%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.91%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.61%) Law
10 2 (0.61%) Military
10 2 (0.61%) Wearables
11 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.30%) Aviation
11 1 (0.30%) Back Office
11 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Legal
11 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (29.70%) Developer
2 58 (17.58%) Java Developer
3 44 (13.33%) Senior
4 34 (10.30%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 34 (10.30%) SQL Developer
5 33 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (9.09%) Administrator
7 23 (6.97%) Senior Developer
8 20 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
9 18 (5.45%) Linux Developer
9 18 (5.45%) Support Engineer
10 17 (5.15%) Linux Engineer
10 17 (5.15%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
10 17 (5.15%) Senior SQL Developer
10 17 (5.15%) Sybase Developer
11 15 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
11 15 (4.55%) Product Engineer
11 15 (4.55%) Products Support Engineer
11 15 (4.55%) Software Support Engineer
12 12 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (23.94%) Kafka
2 62 (18.79%) Spring
3 40 (12.12%) JMS
4 25 (7.58%) Spring Boot
5 23 (6.97%) Middleware
5 23 (6.97%) SOAP
6 22 (6.67%) REST
7 15 (4.55%) HTML
8 14 (4.24%) RESTful
9 13 (3.94%) FastAPI
9 13 (3.94%) Spring Cloud
10 11 (3.33%) CSS
10 11 (3.33%) J2EE
10 11 (3.33%) LDAP
11 10 (3.03%) OpenID
11 10 (3.03%) Web Services
12 9 (2.73%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (2.73%) OAuth
12 9 (2.73%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.94%) Data Structures
2 42 (12.73%) Equities
3 18 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (3.64%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.64%) Enterprise Storage
5 12 (3.64%) FPGA
5 12 (3.64%) Verilog
6 9 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.42%) Replication
8 7 (2.12%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.12%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.82%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 5 (1.52%) Virtual Reality
11 4 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 225 (68.18%) Linux
2 105 (31.82%) Unix
3 48 (14.55%) Windows
4 31 (9.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (6.36%) Ubuntu
6 18 (5.45%) Windows Server
7 14 (4.24%) CentOS
8 5 (1.52%) AIX
9 4 (1.21%) Android
9 4 (1.21%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.21%) VMS
9 4 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.91%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (0.91%) Solaris
11 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (35.45%) Agile
2 112 (33.94%) Problem-Solving
3 97 (29.39%) CI/CD
4 85 (25.76%) DevOps
5 60 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
6 58 (17.58%) SDLC
7 49 (14.85%) Software Engineering
8 44 (13.33%) Multithreading
9 43 (13.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 41 (12.42%) Containerisation
11 39 (11.82%) Open Source
12 37 (11.21%) Database Tuning
13 36 (10.91%) Migration
14 32 (9.70%) Microservices
15 31 (9.39%) Task Automation
16 29 (8.79%) Infrastructure Automation
17 24 (7.27%) ITIL
18 23 (6.97%) Root Cause Analysis
18 23 (6.97%) Validation
19 21 (6.36%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 216 (65.45%) Python
2 109 (33.03%) Java
3 105 (31.82%) SQL
4 44 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 37 (11.21%) C
5 37 (11.21%) C++
6 33 (10.00%) Bash
7 20 (6.06%) Perl
8 16 (4.85%) Groovy
9 15 (4.55%) Ada
9 15 (4.55%) PowerShell
10 12 (3.64%) SystemVerilog
10 12 (3.64%) Tcl
11 10 (3.03%) PL/SQL
12 8 (2.42%) C#
13 7 (2.12%) Go
13 7 (2.12%) Ruby
14 6 (1.82%) Korn
14 6 (1.82%) TypeScript
15 5 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (11.52%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.79%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.85%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.55%) Degree
5 7 (2.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.12%) RHCE
6 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.61%) ISEB
8 2 (0.61%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.61%) PhD
8 2 (0.61%) RHCSA
8 2 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.94%) QA
2 9 (2.73%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.21%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.91%) NCSC
4 3 (0.91%) SLA
5 2 (0.61%) GDPR
5 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.61%) NIST
5 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.61%) WCAG
6 1 (0.30%) Basel II
6 1 (0.30%) Basel III
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 67 (20.30%) Docker
2 30 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.33%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (2.42%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.42%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 8 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.12%) vSphere
7 6 (1.82%) HDFS
7 6 (1.82%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.52%) KVM
9 3 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.61%) GridGain
11 1 (0.30%) NFS
11 1 (0.30%) Samba
11 1 (0.30%) Snort
11 1 (0.30%) Squid
11 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 80 (24.24%) Ansible
2 64 (19.39%) Kubernetes
3 55 (16.67%) Terraform
4 23 (6.97%) Progress Chef
5 22 (6.67%) Puppet
6 19 (5.76%) Grafana
7 18 (5.45%) Prometheus
8 11 (3.33%) Data Guard
8 11 (3.33%) yum
9 9 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (2.42%) CA Single Sign-On
10 8 (2.42%) CA Wily
10 8 (2.42%) Tivoli
11 6 (1.82%) Control-M
11 6 (1.82%) Hadoop YARN
11 6 (1.82%) NetBackup
11 6 (1.82%) Packer
11 6 (1.82%) vCenter Server
11 6 (1.82%) vRealize
12 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 78 (23.64%) Oracle
2 44 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 41 (12.42%) Sybase
4 40 (12.12%) Splunk
5 32 (9.70%) Microsoft
6 22 (6.67%) IBM
7 21 (6.36%) Google
8 20 (6.06%) ServiceNow
9 18 (5.45%) VMware
10 14 (4.24%) NetApp
11 13 (3.94%) Dynatrace
12 11 (3.33%) Xilinx
13 9 (2.73%) AppDynamics
14 8 (2.42%) Broadcom
15 7 (2.12%) 3PAR
15 7 (2.12%) Confluent
15 7 (2.12%) HP
15 7 (2.12%) Veritas
16 6 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
16 6 (1.82%) Nimble Storage