Shell Script Contracts

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK

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 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 242 310
Rank change year-on-year -82 +68 -35
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 288 676 809
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 1.14% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.26% 3.28% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 463 501
10th Percentile £350 £413 £406
25th Percentile £425 £473 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% +14.44%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £620
90th Percentile £710 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -11.71% +7.60% +21.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 6
10th Percentile £59.73 £41.00 £46.25
25th Percentile £64.19 £47.50 £52.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.38 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% +11.96% +43.75%
75th Percentile £67.69 £74.50 £79.38
90th Percentile £76.50 £79.80 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.56 £53.75
% change year-on-year +5.58% +14.53% +144.32%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,769 20,585 32,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.59% 34.85% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,080 14,839 23,447
10th Percentile £350 £394 £383
25th Percentile £425 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 463 509
10th Percentile £31.70 £26.15 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £49.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +20.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £77.80 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £60.63 £49.75
% change year-on-year +3.09% +21.86% +19.16%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Top 16 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 5 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
England -67 239 £520 -5.45% 78
London +6 147 £525 -7.08% 26
UK excluding London -78 122 £475 -11.71% 57
Work from Home -38 81 £538 +2.38% 31
South East +12 43 £450 -20.35% 7
Scotland -1 29 £450 -14.29% 7
North of England +8 21 £485 -7.62% 9
South West +2 13 £525 -4.55% 9
North West +7 12 £502 +11.50% 5
East of England +1 8 £625 +35.14% 18
Midlands -34 7 £498 -7.43% 5
East Midlands +21 5 £520 +73.33% 2
Yorkshire +17 5 £485 -3.00% 3
North East +13 4 - - 1
Wales +14 3 £538 -2.27% 2
West Midlands -42 2 £410 -23.79% 3

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 26 (9.03%) OpenStack
2 18 (6.25%) Apache
2 18 (6.25%) Confluence
3 13 (4.51%) nginx
4 11 (3.82%) Apache Spark
5 9 (3.13%) JBoss
5 9 (3.13%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.13%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.69%) IntelliMatch
3 1 (0.35%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Utilities
3 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 77 (26.74%) AWS
2 40 (13.89%) Azure
3 27 (9.38%) Amazon S3
4 26 (9.03%) Serverless
5 19 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (6.60%) GitHub
6 17 (5.90%) OpenShift
6 17 (5.90%) Slack
7 13 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.13%) GCP
11 8 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.43%) Datadog
12 7 (2.43%) IaaS
12 7 (2.43%) PaaS
12 7 (2.43%) WhatsApp
13 6 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.25%) Firewall
2 16 (5.56%) DNS
3 7 (2.43%) Network Security
4 6 (2.08%) SAN
5 5 (1.74%) AMQP
5 5 (1.74%) HTTP
5 5 (1.74%) SSL
6 4 (1.39%) 5G
6 4 (1.39%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (1.39%) LTE
6 4 (1.39%) Wireless
7 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.69%) Internet
8 2 (0.69%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.35%) DVB
9 1 (0.35%) RNC
9 1 (0.35%) SGSN
9 1 (0.35%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.19%) Oracle Database
2 29 (10.07%) Elasticsearch
3 28 (9.72%) MongoDB
4 25 (8.68%) Relational Database
5 22 (7.64%) SQL Server
6 19 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (5.21%) MySQL
7 15 (5.21%) RDBMS
8 12 (4.17%) Big Data
9 9 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (3.13%) Oracle Database 12c
10 8 (2.78%) Apache Hive
10 8 (2.78%) PowerCenter
10 8 (2.78%) Sybase ASE
10 8 (2.78%) Tableau
11 7 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (2.43%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.43%) HBase
11 7 (2.43%) NoSQL
12 6 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 76 (26.39%) Jenkins
2 58 (20.14%) Git
3 49 (17.01%) JIRA
4 19 (6.60%) GitLab
5 18 (6.25%) Maven
6 16 (5.56%) JMeter
7 14 (4.86%) Subversion
8 12 (4.17%) Gradle
9 7 (2.43%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.43%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.43%) Selenium
9 7 (2.43%) TeamCity
10 6 (2.08%) Artifactory
10 6 (2.08%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.39%) Gatling
11 4 (1.39%) JUnit
11 4 (1.39%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.04%) Ant
12 3 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (1.04%) Poetry
General
1 68 (23.61%) Finance
2 57 (19.79%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.68%) Banking
5 23 (7.99%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (2.78%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.43%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.74%) Back Office
8 5 (1.74%) Billing
9 4 (1.39%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.39%) Front Office
10 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Automotive
11 2 (0.69%) Law
11 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.35%) Advertising
12 1 (0.35%) Electronics
12 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (17.01%) Developer
2 25 (8.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (7.64%) Analyst
4 21 (7.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 20 (6.94%) Applications Support
6 18 (6.25%) Architect
6 18 (6.25%) Lead
7 17 (5.90%) Site Engineer
8 16 (5.56%) DBA
8 16 (5.56%) Python Engineer
9 15 (5.21%) Linux Engineer
10 14 (4.86%) Senior
10 14 (4.86%) Test Engineer
11 13 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.17%) Oracle DBA
13 10 (3.47%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 10 (3.47%) Support Engineer
14 9 (3.13%) Administrator
14 9 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.72%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (9.38%) Kafka
3 19 (6.60%) HTML
4 18 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
5 17 (5.90%) CSS
6 16 (5.56%) Spring
7 14 (4.86%) React
8 13 (4.51%) Node.js
9 12 (4.17%) Middleware
10 11 (3.82%) JSON
10 11 (3.82%) RESTful
11 9 (3.13%) AWS CDK
11 9 (3.13%) IBM Integration Bus
11 9 (3.13%) YAML
12 7 (2.43%) HTML5
12 7 (2.43%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 7 (2.43%) Web Services
13 6 (2.08%) LDAP
14 5 (1.74%) ActiveMQ
14 5 (1.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.68%) Onboarding
2 24 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 19 (6.60%) Algorithms
4 18 (6.25%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.47%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (2.08%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.08%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.74%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.39%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.39%) Device Driver
10 4 (1.39%) Equities
10 4 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.39%) Verilog
11 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 147 (51.04%) Linux
2 103 (35.76%) Unix
3 55 (19.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (14.58%) Windows
5 26 (9.03%) CentOS
6 15 (5.21%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.43%) VMS
7 7 (2.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.08%) AIX
9 5 (1.74%) Debian
9 5 (1.74%) Mac OS X
10 4 (1.39%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (1.04%) Windows 10
11 3 (1.04%) Windows 2000
11 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.04%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.69%) Solaris
12 2 (0.69%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (34.38%) CI/CD
2 85 (29.51%) DevOps
3 79 (27.43%) Agile
4 56 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 31 (10.76%) Microservices
8 29 (10.07%) ETL
9 27 (9.38%) Scrum
10 26 (9.03%) Observability
10 26 (9.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 24 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 24 (8.33%) Machine Learning
12 21 (7.29%) SDLC
13 18 (6.25%) Analytics
14 17 (5.90%) Containerisation
15 16 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
15 16 (5.56%) TDD
16 15 (5.21%) ITIL
16 15 (5.21%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 150 (52.08%) Python
2 92 (31.94%) Java
3 70 (24.31%) SQL
4 46 (15.97%) Bash
5 32 (11.11%) C++
6 30 (10.42%) PowerShell
7 28 (9.72%) C
8 21 (7.29%) Perl
9 20 (6.94%) JavaScript
10 15 (5.21%) PL/SQL
11 14 (4.86%) Go
11 14 (4.86%) Groovy
12 11 (3.82%) Scala
12 11 (3.82%) TypeScript
13 10 (3.47%) C#
14 9 (3.13%) Ruby
15 7 (2.43%) Assembly Language
15 7 (2.43%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (2.08%) ProC
16 6 (2.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.07%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.64%) Degree
4 10 (3.47%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.43%) PhD
6 5 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.39%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.04%) RHCE
9 2 (0.69%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.69%) HNC
9 2 (0.69%) ISEB
9 2 (0.69%) OSCP
9 2 (0.69%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.74%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.74%) QA
3 4 (1.39%) JTAG
4 3 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (16.67%) Docker
2 21 (7.29%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (4.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 13 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.17%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (2.78%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.43%) HDFS
7 6 (2.08%) vSphere
8 4 (1.39%) Active Directory
8 4 (1.39%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (1.39%) Firmware
9 2 (0.69%) Varnish
9 2 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.69%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.35%) KVM
10 1 (0.35%) NFS
10 1 (0.35%) Snort
10 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 80 (27.78%) Ansible
2 66 (22.92%) Kubernetes
3 55 (19.10%) Prometheus
4 53 (18.40%) Grafana
5 48 (16.67%) Terraform
6 23 (7.99%) Kibana
7 21 (7.29%) logstash
8 12 (4.17%) Data Guard
9 11 (3.82%) Consul
10 9 (3.13%) Puppet
11 7 (2.43%) Hadoop YARN
11 7 (2.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 6 (2.08%) Packer
12 6 (2.08%) Progress Chef
12 6 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (2.08%) yum
13 5 (1.74%) Control-M
13 5 (1.74%) NetBackup
13 5 (1.74%) Netcool
13 5 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 85 (29.51%) Oracle
2 52 (18.06%) Red Hat
3 28 (9.72%) Microsoft
4 21 (7.29%) VMware
5 16 (5.56%) Amdocs
6 15 (5.21%) IBM
7 14 (4.86%) Informatica
7 14 (4.86%) Splunk
8 11 (3.82%) SaltStack
9 9 (3.13%) Google
9 9 (3.13%) Sybase
9 9 (3.13%) Temenos
10 8 (2.78%) HP
10 8 (2.78%) SEEBURGER
11 7 (2.43%) Veritas
12 5 (1.74%) Murex
12 5 (1.74%) SAP
13 4 (1.39%) Salesforce
14 3 (1.04%) Juniper
14 3 (1.04%) NetApp