Shell Script Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.46% - 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.72% - 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.61%
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £420 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% -11.11% -25.00%

All Programming Languages
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 58 47 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 26.85% 35.61% 26.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 38 58
10th Percentile - £356 £350
25th Percentile £205 £425 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £274 £460 £414
Median % change year-on-year -40.49% +11.11% -24.73%
75th Percentile £416 £600 £588
90th Percentile £560 £638 £678
South East median daily rate £492 £513 £530
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.30% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.67% -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £55.00
% change year-on-year -17.93% +21.85% -12.00%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Shell Script relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Shell Script job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Shell Script.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Shell Script.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Burgess Hill - 1 £250 - 1
Shell Script
South East

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Vert.x
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk