Shell Script Contracts

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Shell Script skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Shell Script over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 288 243
Rank change year-on-year +18 -45 +23
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 300 345 601
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 0.79% 1.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.85% 2.60% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 245 423
10th Percentile £325 £324 £400
25th Percentile £403 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £642 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +6.67% -14.29% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 15
10th Percentile £65.60 £63.70 £45.00
25th Percentile - - £52.19
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -5.45% +61.76%
75th Percentile - £70.13 £78.00
90th Percentile £75.60 £77.00 £87.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £66.56
% change year-on-year +4.62% -2.35% +269.79%

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 10,540 13,285 18,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.64% 30.56% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,109 9,334 13,427
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 537 447
10th Percentile £26.52 £31.25 £28.84
25th Percentile £34.55 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £79.61 £75.00 £79.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% +18.42%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Shell Script.

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Shell Script.

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Top 15 Contract 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 3 July 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 +13 234 £500 -1.09% 174
UK excluding London +55 188 £480 +6.67% 109
London -10 105 £525 - 80
Work from Home +47 97 £475 -9.09% 81
Scotland +14 57 £475 +11.76% 3
North of England +31 44 £493 +1.61% 20
South East +14 32 £600 +50.00% 28
Yorkshire +22 25 £500 +5.26% 7
North West +18 19 £400 -28.28% 11
South West +38 18 £521 -5.23% 17
East of England +38 18 £325 -48.00% 13
Midlands +15 17 £460 -3.21% 19
West Midlands +15 14 £480 +14.29% 10
Wales +3 3 £283 -46.19% 4
East Midlands -3 3 £360 -30.77% 9

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 15 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.00%) JBoss
3 11 (3.67%) Tomcat
4 10 (3.33%) Confluence
5 6 (2.00%) Apache
6 5 (1.67%) IIS
6 5 (1.67%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.67%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.33%) OpenROAD
7 4 (1.33%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.67%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.67%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.33%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.33%) SAS
9 1 (0.33%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.33%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 74 (24.67%) AWS
2 33 (11.00%) Azure
3 29 (9.67%) GCP
4 28 (9.33%) GitHub
5 18 (6.00%) Serverless
6 16 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.33%) OpenShift
9 12 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (3.00%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.67%) OCI
13 6 (2.00%) Amazon Cognito
13 6 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.67%) CloudBees
14 5 (1.67%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.33%) DNS
2 18 (6.00%) SAN
3 13 (4.33%) Firewall
4 11 (3.67%) VPN
5 8 (2.67%) DHCP
5 8 (2.67%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.33%) HTTP
7 6 (2.00%) SMTP
8 5 (1.67%) iSCSI
8 5 (1.67%) NetScaler
8 5 (1.67%) SSL
9 4 (1.33%) Calico
9 4 (1.33%) NAS
10 3 (1.00%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.00%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (0.67%) Internet
11 2 (0.67%) LAN
11 2 (0.67%) Network Security
11 2 (0.67%) SMS
11 2 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (20.67%) Relational Database
2 45 (15.00%) MongoDB
3 44 (14.67%) DB2
4 21 (7.00%) Oracle Database
5 13 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (4.00%) BigQuery
7 10 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.33%) Big Data
7 10 (3.33%) RDBMS
8 8 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.67%) Metadata
8 8 (2.67%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.33%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.33%) MySQL
10 6 (2.00%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.67%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.67%) Redis
12 4 (1.33%) Data Mart
12 4 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (21.67%) Git
2 62 (20.67%) Jenkins
3 53 (17.67%) JUnit
4 40 (13.33%) JIRA
5 32 (10.67%) GitLab
6 27 (9.00%) Maven
7 19 (6.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 15 (5.00%) TeamCity
9 10 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (3.33%) Gradle
10 8 (2.67%) ER Studio
10 8 (2.67%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.00%) Ant
11 6 (2.00%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.00%) Mockito
11 6 (2.00%) Subversion
12 5 (1.67%) IntelliJ
12 5 (1.67%) Postman
12 5 (1.67%) Selenium
13 4 (1.33%) SoapUI
General
1 130 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 102 (34.00%) Finance
3 72 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (20.33%) Banking
5 36 (12.00%) Investment Banking
6 22 (7.33%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.67%) Front Office
8 12 (4.00%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.00%) Legal
9 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Law
11 1 (0.33%) Automotive
11 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Marketing
11 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (32.33%) Developer
2 63 (21.00%) Java Developer
3 35 (11.67%) Senior
4 26 (8.67%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 26 (8.67%) SQL Developer
5 24 (8.00%) Administrator
6 23 (7.67%) Senior Developer
7 18 (6.00%) Linux Engineer
7 18 (6.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 17 (5.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.00%) FPGA Engineer
9 15 (5.00%) Lead
9 15 (5.00%) Linux Developer
10 14 (4.67%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
10 14 (4.67%) Senior SQL Developer
11 13 (4.33%) Support Engineer
12 12 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (4.00%) Sybase Developer
13 11 (3.67%) Products Support Engineer
13 11 (3.67%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.33%) Kafka
2 63 (21.00%) Spring
3 37 (12.33%) JMS
4 27 (9.00%) Middleware
5 25 (8.33%) Spring Boot
6 20 (6.67%) SOAP
7 18 (6.00%) REST
8 17 (5.67%) RESTful
9 12 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (4.00%) Node.js
9 12 (4.00%) Web Services
9 12 (4.00%) XML
10 11 (3.67%) HTML
11 10 (3.33%) J2EE
11 10 (3.33%) Spring Cloud
12 9 (3.00%) JSON
13 8 (2.67%) .NET
13 8 (2.67%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.67%) React
14 6 (2.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.00%) Data Structures
2 41 (13.67%) Equities
3 16 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.00%) FPGA
4 15 (5.00%) Verilog
5 12 (4.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 10 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (3.00%) Clustering
7 9 (3.00%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.67%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.33%) PKI
10 6 (2.00%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.00%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.00%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.00%) Replication
11 5 (1.67%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 185 (61.67%) Linux
2 103 (34.33%) Unix
3 36 (12.00%) Windows
4 25 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (7.33%) Ubuntu
6 15 (5.00%) Windows Server
7 11 (3.67%) CentOS
8 6 (2.00%) Android
8 6 (2.00%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.33%) AIX
10 4 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.00%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.67%) Debian
12 2 (0.67%) Solaris
13 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (36.33%) Agile
2 98 (32.67%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 71 (23.67%) DevOps
5 59 (19.67%) SDLC
6 58 (19.33%) Performance Tuning
7 49 (16.33%) Software Engineering
8 47 (15.67%) Containerisation
9 43 (14.33%) Open Source
10 39 (13.00%) Multithreading
11 36 (12.00%) Database Tuning
12 31 (10.33%) Microservices
13 30 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (7.33%) Design Patterns
14 22 (7.33%) TDD
15 21 (7.00%) Migration
15 21 (7.00%) Validation
16 20 (6.67%) ITIL
16 20 (6.67%) Task Automation
17 17 (5.67%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 193 (64.33%) Python
2 122 (40.67%) Java
3 104 (34.67%) SQL
4 50 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 38 (12.67%) C++
6 32 (10.67%) C
7 20 (6.67%) Perl
8 19 (6.33%) Bash
8 19 (6.33%) PowerShell
8 19 (6.33%) Tcl
9 15 (5.00%) SystemVerilog
10 14 (4.67%) PL/SQL
11 13 (4.33%) Ada
12 11 (3.67%) C#
13 10 (3.33%) Ruby
14 8 (2.67%) Scala
14 8 (2.67%) TypeScript
15 6 (2.00%) Groovy
15 6 (2.00%) Korn
16 5 (1.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 26 (8.67%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.33%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.00%) Degree
4 9 (3.00%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.00%) RHCE
6 5 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.67%) PhD
7 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.00%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.67%) ISEB
8 2 (0.67%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.67%) OCP
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.67%) QA
2 10 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.33%) GDPR
5 3 (1.00%) Basel II
5 3 (1.00%) Basel III
6 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.67%) NIST
6 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.33%) SEPA
7 1 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (22.33%) Docker
2 25 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.00%) Hyper-V
4 12 (4.00%) vSphere
5 7 (2.33%) VMware NSX
6 6 (2.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 6 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (1.67%) XenApp
7 5 (1.67%) XenDesktop
8 3 (1.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.33%) Firmware
9 1 (0.33%) KVM
9 1 (0.33%) NFS
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.33%) Samba
Systems Management
1 62 (20.67%) Kubernetes
2 60 (20.00%) Ansible
3 42 (14.00%) Terraform
4 18 (6.00%) Puppet
5 17 (5.67%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.00%) Grafana
7 14 (4.67%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.33%) Control-M
9 6 (2.00%) NetBackup
10 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Clustering
10 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.67%) Salt
10 5 (1.67%) WSUS
11 4 (1.33%) Istio
11 4 (1.33%) vCenter Server
11 4 (1.33%) vRealize
12 3 (1.00%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (1.00%) Podman
13 2 (0.67%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (16.33%) Oracle
2 43 (14.33%) Sybase
3 39 (13.00%) Red Hat
4 30 (10.00%) VMware
5 19 (6.33%) Microsoft
5 19 (6.33%) Splunk
6 15 (5.00%) Google
6 15 (5.00%) IBM
6 15 (5.00%) Xilinx
7 14 (4.67%) ServiceNow
8 13 (4.33%) Veritas
9 12 (4.00%) HP
10 9 (3.00%) Dell
10 9 (3.00%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.33%) 3PAR
11 7 (2.33%) NetApp
12 6 (2.00%) Commvault
12 6 (2.00%) Nimble Storage
13 5 (1.67%) BMC
13 5 (1.67%) Informatica