Shell Script Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming) UK
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	192	158	176
Rank change year-on-year	-34	+18
Contract jobs citing Shell Script	599	876	767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.29%	1.63%	1.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category	3.08%	4.19%	3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted	347	525	436
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£320	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£615	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£391	£400
% change year-on-year	+8.62%	-2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	12	14
Median hourly rate	£44.50	£40.00	£28.06
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+11.25%	+42.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£38.50	£32.10	£25.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.00	£53.83	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£47.50	£40.00	£28.00
% change year-on-year	+18.75%	+42.85%

Shell Script is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	19423	20883	21303
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	41.99%	38.84%	37.97%
Number of daily rates quoted	13268	14340	14218
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£318	£300	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£575	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	382	452	433
Median hourly rate	£42.00	£37.50	£36.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+12.00%	+4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.50	£15.00	£19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.71	£50.00	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£36.50
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	+2.73%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Shell Script as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Shell Script.

Contractor daily rate trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Shell Script over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Shell Script over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK

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Top 30 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 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-43	533	£475	+11.76%	117
London	-1	307	£525	+11.70%	45
South East	-23	93	£400	-4.47%	17
Scotland	+49	51	£425	+6.25%	11
North West	+27	51	£450	-	14
City of London	-15	49	£513	+2.50%	12
Glasgow	+21	41	£425	+8.97%	7
East of England	-37	27	£425	+21.34%	11
Surrey	-4	25	£438	+2.94%	7
Cheshire	+43	24	£388	-13.88%	4
Hampshire	-6	22	£400	-0.12%	1
Buckinghamshire	-8	20	£368	-2.00%
Manchester	+11	18	£488	+8.33%	8
Berkshire	+4	17	£425	-12.82%	6
Milton Keynes	-2	16	£368	-2.00%
Redhill	-4	16	£438	+45.83%	2
West Midlands	-17	16	£386	-0.96%	1
Yorkshire	-12	12	£450	-14.28%	18
North East	+6	11	£339	+5.85%	3
Havant	+3	10	£400	+5.26%
South West	-6	9	£438	+14.00%	7
Northern Ireland	-	9	£438	-
County Antrim	-	9	£438	-
Hammersmith	-	9	£555	-	1
Belfast	-	9	£438	-
Slough	+10	8	£375	+25.00%
West Yorkshire	+4	8	£400	-6.86%	16
Lancashire	+1	8	£400	-5.38%
Bedfordshire	0	8	£400	-23.80%	2
Norfolk	-10	8	£450	+20.00%	1

Shell Script
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Shell Script also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Shell Script.

1	680 (58.42%)	Unix
2	638 (54.81%)	Linux
3	490 (42.10%)	SQL
4	412 (35.40%)	Java
5	366 (31.44%)	Oracle
6	355 (30.50%)	Agile Software Development
7	341 (29.30%)	Finance
8	288 (24.74%)	Python
9	254 (21.82%)	Jenkins
10	231 (19.85%)	DevOps
11	206 (17.70%)	Perl
12	198 (17.01%)	Banking
12	198 (17.01%)	Git (software)
13	191 (16.41%)	Bash Shell
14	186 (15.98%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux

15	174 (14.95%)	PL/SQL
16	165 (14.18%)	Scrum
17	164 (14.09%)	Relational Database
18	160 (13.75%)	Windows
19	153 (13.14%)	Puppet
20	144 (12.37%)	Continuous Integration
21	143 (12.29%)	JavaScript
22	139 (11.94%)	Red Hat
23	133 (11.43%)	Oracle Database
24	128 (11.00%)	Opscode Chef
24	128 (11.00%)	Degree
25	127 (10.91%)	XML
25	127 (10.91%)	TDD
26	123 (10.57%)	Solaris
27	120 (10.31%)	Amazon AWS

Shell Script
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	93 (7.99%)	WebSphere
2	79 (6.79%)	Apache
3	77 (6.62%)	Tomcat
4	62 (5.33%)	Apache Spark
5	56 (4.81%)	WebLogic
6	55 (4.73%)	JBoss
7	44 (3.78%)	nginx
8	38 (3.26%)	WebSphere Application Server
9	30 (2.58%)	Confluence
10	26 (2.23%)	Cloud Foundry
11	23 (1.98%)	SAS
12	15 (1.29%)	Elasticsearch
13	12 (1.03%)	Apache Geronimo
13	12 (1.03%)	Apache Pig
13	12 (1.03%)	Apache TomEE
13	12 (1.03%)	MQSeries
13	12 (1.03%)	Tuxedo
14	10 (0.86%)	SharePoint
15	9 (0.77%)	Exchange Server 5.5
15	9 (0.77%)	MS Exchange

Applications
1	25 (2.15%)	Microsoft Office
2	19 (1.63%)	Microsoft Excel
3	9 (0.77%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	4 (0.34%)	SPSS
4	4 (0.34%)	Stata
5	3 (0.26%)	HipChat
6	2 (0.17%)	Adobe Illustrator
6	2 (0.17%)	Mathematica
6	2 (0.17%)	Photoshop
7	1 (0.086%)	Microsoft Project
7	1 (0.086%)	Mozilla Thunderbird
7	1 (0.086%)	MS Visio
7	1 (0.086%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	13 (1.12%)	Oracle EBS
2	11 (0.95%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	11 (0.95%)	Temenos T24
3	8 (0.69%)	Oracle 11i
4	7 (0.60%)	ION MarketView
4	7 (0.60%)	RMDS
5	4 (0.34%)	Oracle Applications
5	4 (0.34%)	Oracle BPM
5	4 (0.34%)	Oracle Utilities
6	3 (0.26%)	Oracle EBS R12
6	3 (0.26%)	Remedy ITSM
7	2 (0.17%)	Oracle iRecruitment
7	2 (0.17%)	Oracle Retail
8	1 (0.086%)	Front Arena
8	1 (0.086%)	Oracle Assets
8	1 (0.086%)	Oracle HRMS
8	1 (0.086%)	Oracle Payables
8	1 (0.086%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay

Cloud Services
1	120 (10.31%)	Amazon AWS
2	32 (2.75%)	PaaS
3	21 (1.80%)	GitHub
4	20 (1.72%)	Amazon EC2
5	19 (1.63%)	Amazon S3
6	16 (1.37%)	Microsoft Azure
7	15 (1.29%)	Cloud Computing
8	9 (0.77%)	Amazon ELB
8	9 (0.77%)	AWS Lambda
8	9 (0.77%)	Virtual Private Cloud
9	8 (0.69%)	Amazon EMR
10	7 (0.60%)	Slack
11	6 (0.52%)	Google Cloud Platform
11	6 (0.52%)	Route 53
12	5 (0.43%)	OpenShift
13	3 (0.26%)	AWS CloudFormation
13	3 (0.26%)	Bluemix
13	3 (0.26%)	CloudFront
13	3 (0.26%)	IBM Cloud
13	3 (0.26%)	SaaS

Communications & Networking
1	82 (7.04%)	HTTP
2	78 (6.70%)	SSL
3	61 (5.24%)	LDAP
4	57 (4.90%)	SAN
5	49 (4.21%)	TCP/IP
6	39 (3.35%)	DNS
7	23 (1.98%)	Firewall
8	20 (1.72%)	HTTPS
8	20 (1.72%)	SSH
9	18 (1.55%)	SMTP
10	17 (1.46%)	FTP
10	17 (1.46%)	Internet
10	17 (1.46%)	Kerberos
11	13 (1.12%)	WAN
12	12 (1.03%)	Fibre Channel
13	11 (0.95%)	DHCP
13	11 (0.95%)	IMAP
14	10 (0.86%)	LAN
14	10 (0.86%)	Network Security
14	10 (0.86%)	VPN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	164 (14.09%)	Relational Database
2	133 (11.43%)	Oracle Database
3	115 (9.88%)	Hadoop
4	105 (9.02%)	SQL Server
5	91 (7.82%)	Big Data
6	88 (7.56%)	DB2
7	79 (6.79%)	RDBMS
8	60 (5.15%)	Data Warehouse
8	60 (5.15%)	MySQL
9	53 (4.55%)	NoSQL
9	53 (4.55%)	Oracle Database 11g
10	41 (3.52%)	Apache Hive
11	40 (3.44%)	MongoDB
12	39 (3.35%)	SQLPlus
13	36 (3.09%)	Oracle Database 10g
14	34 (2.92%)	HBase
15	32 (2.75%)	PostgreSQL
16	28 (2.41%)	Apache Cassandra
17	26 (2.23%)	Oracle Database 12c
18	23 (1.98%)	Oracle Reports

Development Applications
1	254 (21.82%)	Jenkins
2	198 (17.01%)	Git (software)
3	114 (9.79%)	JIRA
4	107 (9.19%)	Maven
5	78 (6.70%)	Gradle
6	59 (5.07%)	JUnit
7	55 (4.73%)	Ant
7	55 (4.73%)	TeamCity
8	47 (4.04%)	Selenium
9	45 (3.87%)	Subversion
10	43 (3.69%)	Cucumber
11	41 (3.52%)	Hudson
12	33 (2.84%)	Vagrant
13	30 (2.58%)	gulp
13	30 (2.58%)	Mockito
14	26 (2.23%)	IBM UrbanCode
15	25 (2.15%)	Travis CI
16	22 (1.89%)	CircleCI
17	20 (1.72%)	CruiseControl
18	19 (1.63%)	GitLab

General
1	341 (29.30%)	Finance
2	198 (17.01%)	Banking
3	56 (4.81%)	Investment Banking
4	37 (3.18%)	Front Office
4	37 (3.18%)	Retail
5	31 (2.66%)	Telecoms
6	22 (1.89%)	Marketing
7	21 (1.80%)	Financial Institution
8	14 (1.20%)	Retail Banking
9	11 (0.95%)	Electronics
9	11 (0.95%)	Manufacturing
10	8 (0.69%)	Legal
11	6 (0.52%)	Back Office
11	6 (0.52%)	Billing
12	5 (0.43%)	Corporate Banking
13	4 (0.34%)	Games
13	4 (0.34%)	German Language
13	4 (0.34%)	Law
14	2 (0.17%)	International Banking
14	2 (0.17%)	Military

Job Titles
1	395 (33.93%)	Developer
2	127 (10.91%)	Java Developer
3	118 (10.14%)	DevOps Engineer
4	87 (7.47%)	Administrator
5	78 (6.70%)	Oracle Developer
6	73 (6.27%)	Analyst
7	67 (5.76%)	DBA
8	64 (5.50%)	SQL Developer
9	58 (4.98%)	Consultant
10	54 (4.64%)	Linux Engineer
11	53 (4.55%)	Senior Developer
12	46 (3.95%)	PL/SQL Developer
12	46 (3.95%)	Tester
13	45 (3.87%)	Architect
14	39 (3.35%)	Unix Engineer
15	37 (3.18%)	C++ Developer
15	37 (3.18%)	Systems Administrator
16	32 (2.75%)	Automation Tester
17	31 (2.66%)	Senior Java Developer
18	30 (2.58%)	Applications Support

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	127 (10.91%)	XML
2	111 (9.54%)	JSON
3	107 (9.19%)	HTML
4	102 (8.76%)	Spring
5	98 (8.42%)	Web Services
6	97 (8.33%)	J2EE
7	90 (7.73%)	SOAP
8	72 (6.19%)	Middleware
9	65 (5.58%)	.NET
10	64 (5.50%)	jQuery
11	60 (5.15%)	REST
12	59 (5.07%)	HTML5
12	59 (5.07%)	RESTful
13	42 (3.61%)	CSS
14	40 (3.44%)	AngularJS
15	39 (3.35%)	Node.js
16	37 (3.18%)	WebSphere MQ
17	34 (2.92%)	JMS
18	32 (2.75%)	Hibernate
19	31 (2.66%)	Java EE

Miscellaneous
1	101 (8.68%)	Analytical Skills
2	51 (4.38%)	Computer Science
3	50 (4.30%)	Linux Command Line
4	48 (4.12%)	Equities
5	46 (3.95%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
6	45 (3.87%)	Derivative
7	41 (3.52%)	Clustering
8	40 (3.44%)	Fixed Income
9	30 (2.58%)	Data Centre
10	26 (2.23%)	Equity Derivative
10	26 (2.23%)	Management Information System
11	25 (2.15%)	PKI
12	20 (1.72%)	Data Structures
13	18 (1.55%)	Mainframe
14	16 (1.37%)	Replication
15	13 (1.12%)	Mobile App
15	13 (1.12%)	Public Cloud
16	12 (1.03%)	Algorithms
17	11 (0.95%)	DataPower
17	11 (0.95%)	User Experience

Operating Systems
1	680 (58.42%)	Unix
2	638 (54.81%)	Linux
3	186 (15.98%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	160 (13.75%)	Windows
5	123 (10.57%)	Solaris
6	94 (8.08%)	AIX
7	48 (4.12%)	CentOS
8	37 (3.18%)	Windows Server
9	15 (1.29%)	HPUX
9	15 (1.29%)	Oracle Linux
10	13 (1.12%)	SUSE
10	13 (1.12%)	Ubuntu
11	10 (0.86%)	Android
11	10 (0.86%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12	9 (0.77%)	Windows 2000 Server
13	8 (0.69%)	Apple iOS
13	8 (0.69%)	Tru64
13	8 (0.69%)	Windows Server 2012
14	6 (0.52%)	Windows Server 2008
14	6 (0.52%)	zOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	355 (30.50%)	Agile Software Development
2	231 (19.85%)	DevOps
3	165 (14.18%)	Scrum
4	144 (12.37%)	Continuous Integration
5	127 (10.91%)	TDD
6	114 (9.79%)	Performance Tuning
7	113 (9.71%)	Test Automation
8	103 (8.85%)	Configuration Management
9	95 (8.16%)	OO
10	93 (7.99%)	SDLC
11	82 (7.04%)	Open Source
12	81 (6.96%)	ITIL
13	75 (6.44%)	Microservices
14	72 (6.19%)	Waterfall
15	69 (5.93%)	Analytics
16	66 (5.67%)	ETL
17	60 (5.15%)	BDD
18	55 (4.73%)	Migration
19	52 (4.47%)	Unit Testing
20	51 (4.38%)	Business Intelligence

Programming Languages
1	490 (42.10%)	SQL
2	412 (35.40%)	Java
3	288 (24.74%)	Python
4	206 (17.70%)	Perl
5	191 (16.41%)	Bash Shell
6	174 (14.95%)	PL/SQL
7	143 (12.29%)	JavaScript
8	98 (8.42%)	C#
9	94 (8.08%)	C++
10	93 (7.99%)	Korn
11	79 (6.79%)	Ruby
12	67 (5.76%)	PowerShell
13	57 (4.90%)	Scala
14	46 (3.95%)	C
15	43 (3.69%)	Groovy
16	39 (3.35%)	PHP
17	34 (2.92%)	VB
18	30 (2.58%)	T-SQL
19	18 (1.55%)	R
20	14 (1.20%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	128 (11.00%)	Degree
2	87 (7.47%)	Security Cleared
3	70 (6.01%)	SC Cleared
4	19 (1.63%)	Computer Science Degree
4	19 (1.63%)	DV Cleared
5	14 (1.20%)	RHCE
6	11 (0.95%)	RHCSA
7	8 (0.69%)	CISSP
7	8 (0.69%)	OCP
7	8 (0.69%)	Oracle Certification
8	7 (0.60%)	Master's Degree
8	7 (0.60%)	OCA
9	6 (0.52%)	Cisco Certification
10	5 (0.43%)	CFA
10	5 (0.43%)	ISEB
10	5 (0.43%)	Microsoft Certification
11	4 (0.34%)	CCIE
11	4 (0.34%)	CCIE Security
12	3 (0.26%)	MBA
12	3 (0.26%)	MCSA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	51 (4.38%)	QA
2	48 (4.12%)	MiFID
3	34 (2.92%)	Dodd-Frank
3	34 (2.92%)	EMIR
4	24 (2.06%)	Data Quality
5	16 (1.37%)	SLA
6	7 (0.60%)	FATCA
7	6 (0.52%)	JSP 440
8	5 (0.43%)	Disclosure Scotland
9	4 (0.34%)	ISO/IEC 27001
10	3 (0.26%)	ISO 20022
10	3 (0.26%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
11	2 (0.17%)	PCI DSS
11	2 (0.17%)	Solvency II
12	1 (0.086%)	Basel II
12	1 (0.086%)	COREP
12	1 (0.086%)	DICOM
12	1 (0.086%)	HL7
12	1 (0.086%)	ISO 9000
12	1 (0.086%)	ISO 9001

System Software
1	88 (7.56%)	Docker
2	42 (3.61%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	34 (2.92%)	Virtual Machines
4	29 (2.49%)	Active Directory
5	20 (1.72%)	HDFS
6	19 (1.63%)	Oracle RAC
7	16 (1.37%)	Oracle Clusterware
7	16 (1.37%)	Veritas Cluster Server
8	11 (0.95%)	Samba
9	10 (0.86%)	NFS
10	9 (0.77%)	Apache Flume
10	9 (0.77%)	Squid
10	9 (0.77%)	Veritas Volume Manager
10	9 (0.77%)	vSphere
10	9 (0.77%)	Xen
11	8 (0.69%)	Time Sharing Option
11	8 (0.69%)	Virtual Servers
12	7 (0.60%)	GlusterFS
12	7 (0.60%)	Hyper-V
12	7 (0.60%)	VMware ESXi

Systems Management
1	153 (13.14%)	Puppet
2	128 (11.00%)	Opscode Chef
3	115 (9.88%)	Ansible
4	33 (2.84%)	Control-M
5	28 (2.41%)	Red Hat Satellite
6	27 (2.32%)	Oracle RMAN
7	26 (2.23%)	Kubernetes
8	22 (1.89%)	Data Guard
8	22 (1.89%)	Rancher
9	21 (1.80%)	Hadoop YARN
9	21 (1.80%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
10	20 (1.72%)	Nagios
11	19 (1.63%)	Terraform
12	18 (1.55%)	Cobbler
13	17 (1.46%)	EMC NetWorker
13	17 (1.46%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
14	16 (1.37%)	Packer
15	15 (1.29%)	NetBackup
15	15 (1.29%)	vCenter Server
16	13 (1.12%)	Tivoli

Vendors
1	366 (31.44%)	Oracle
2	139 (11.94%)	Red Hat
3	102 (8.76%)	IBM
4	93 (7.99%)	Sybase
5	90 (7.73%)	VMware
6	63 (5.41%)	Microsoft
7	44 (3.78%)	SAP
8	37 (3.18%)	Cloudera
8	37 (3.18%)	Perforce
9	36 (3.09%)	HP
10	34 (2.92%)	Splunk
11	33 (2.84%)	EMC
12	30 (2.58%)	Veritas
13	27 (2.32%)	Hortonworks
14	26 (2.23%)	Informatica
15	25 (2.15%)	Ab Initio
16	23 (1.98%)	Sun
17	22 (1.89%)	AppDynamics
17	22 (1.89%)	Cisco
18	20 (1.72%)	webMethods