Shell Script Contracts in the West Midlands

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 107 94
Rank change year-on-year +20 -13 -10
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 15 6 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.02% 0.29% 1.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.93% 1.35% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 21
10th Percentile - £375 £363
25th Percentile £455 £398 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £420 £540
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -22.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £433 -
90th Percentile £521 £437 £558
England median daily rate £516 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +1.20% -5.56% -1.82%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 382 444 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.90% 21.63% 24.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 313 360
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £400 £345 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £538 £557 £600
90th Percentile £645 £638 £700
England median daily rate £520 £540 £560
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 8
10th Percentile £28.18 £36.36 £21.73
25th Percentile £33.91 £47.75 £23.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +96.13% -49.45%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile - £72.50 £98.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the West Midlands

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in the West Midlands

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the West Midlands

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Birmingham +15 4 £500 +19.05% 20
Shropshire +2 4 £460 +9.52% 2
Warwickshire - 4 £535 - 1
Solihull - 1 - -
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) Tuxedo
2 1 (6.67%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) HTTP
2 2 (13.33%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (13.33%) SAN
2 2 (13.33%) SSL
2 2 (13.33%) VLAN
3 1 (6.67%) NetScaler
3 1 (6.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (20.00%) Git
3 3 (20.00%) GitLab
3 3 (20.00%) Maven
4 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (6.67%) Ant
5 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.67%) Gradle
5 1 (6.67%) JUnit
5 1 (6.67%) Mockito
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Automotive
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Operations Support Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) LDAP
1 2 (13.33%) REST
1 2 (13.33%) RESTful
1 2 (13.33%) Spring
1 2 (13.33%) YAML
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) J2EE
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) Laravel
2 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
2 1 (6.67%) SOAP
2 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.67%) Swagger
2 1 (6.67%) Vue
2 1 (6.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (6.67%) Clustering
1 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Unix
3 3 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (13.33%) CentOS
4 2 (13.33%) Debian
4 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (20.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (13.33%) Capacity Management
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Log Aggregation
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Operations Management
3 2 (13.33%) Patch Management
3 2 (13.33%) Server Management
3 2 (13.33%) Synthetic Monitoring
3 2 (13.33%) TDD
3 2 (13.33%) Web Development
4 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.67%) MVC
4 1 (6.67%) OO
4 1 (6.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) PL/SQL
4 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (13.33%) Java
5 2 (13.33%) Perl
6 1 (6.67%) Bash
6 1 (6.67%) C
6 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.67%) Korn
6 1 (6.67%) PHP
6 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.67%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) RHCE
4 1 (6.67%) RHCSA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) vSphere
2 1 (6.67%) XenApp
2 1 (6.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Nessus
2 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (13.33%) Puppet
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) SELinux
3 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (20.00%) IBM
3 2 (13.33%) BMC
3 2 (13.33%) Sophos
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) HP
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Sybase
4 1 (6.67%) Trillium
4 1 (6.67%) webMethods