Shell Script Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 261 229
Rank change year-on-year +54 -32 +69
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 97 84 278
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.98% 0.55% 1.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.62% 1.64% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 61 194
10th Percentile £400 £350 £422
25th Percentile £449 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% - -
75th Percentile £600 £688 £585
90th Percentile £683 £750 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 4
10th Percentile £67.55 £63.05 -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £64.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +1.17% +22.38%
75th Percentile - - £77.63
90th Percentile £79.13 £65.15 £80.55
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £61.56
% change year-on-year +4.62% +5.58% +2.60%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Shell Script
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Shell Script trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Shell Script.

Shell Script daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Shell Script daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Shell Script.

Shell Script hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Shell Script hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.15%) Confluence
2 4 (4.12%) Apache
2 4 (4.12%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.12%) nginx
2 4 (4.12%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.06%) IIS
4 1 (1.03%) JBoss
4 1 (1.03%) OpenROAD
Cloud Services
1 23 (23.71%) AWS
2 14 (14.43%) Azure
3 10 (10.31%) GitHub
4 9 (9.28%) GCP
5 5 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.09%) CloudBees
6 3 (3.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (3.09%) PaaS
6 3 (3.09%) SaaS
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.06%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.06%) Datadog
7 2 (2.06%) IaaS
7 2 (2.06%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.06%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) DNS
2 5 (5.15%) HTTP
3 4 (4.12%) DHCP
3 4 (4.12%) Firewall
3 4 (4.12%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.09%) VPN
5 2 (2.06%) DOCSIS
5 2 (2.06%) HTTPS
5 2 (2.06%) NetScaler
5 2 (2.06%) SMTP
5 2 (2.06%) SSL
5 2 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.03%) Network Security
6 1 (1.03%) SSH
6 1 (1.03%) VLAN
6 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (29.90%) Relational Database
2 27 (27.84%) DB2
2 27 (27.84%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.15%) MySQL
5 4 (4.12%) Big Data
5 4 (4.12%) Data Mining
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.09%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.06%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.06%) CockroachDB
7 2 (2.06%) Looker
7 2 (2.06%) Redis
8 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.03%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.03%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 28 (28.87%) JUnit
2 20 (20.62%) Jenkins
3 13 (13.40%) JIRA
4 12 (12.37%) Git
5 7 (7.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (7.22%) GitLab
6 6 (6.19%) Maven
7 5 (5.15%) Bitbucket
8 4 (4.12%) Postman
8 4 (4.12%) Subversion
9 3 (3.09%) Cypress.io
10 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.06%) Mockito
10 2 (2.06%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.06%) Selenium
10 2 (2.06%) SoapUI
10 2 (2.06%) TeamCity
10 2 (2.06%) WebDriver
10 2 (2.06%) Xcode
10 2 (2.06%) XCTest
General
1 40 (41.24%) Social Skills
2 35 (36.08%) Finance
3 28 (28.87%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (23.71%) Banking
5 20 (20.62%) Investment Banking
6 11 (11.34%) Front Office
6 11 (11.34%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.03%) Law
7 1 (1.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (35.05%) Developer
2 28 (28.87%) Java Developer
3 18 (18.56%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 18 (18.56%) SQL Developer
4 17 (17.53%) Senior
5 13 (13.40%) Linux Engineer
6 12 (12.37%) Senior Developer
7 11 (11.34%) Linux Developer
7 11 (11.34%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
7 11 (11.34%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (11.34%) Senior SQL Developer
8 9 (9.28%) Administrator
8 9 (9.28%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (8.25%) Product Engineer
9 8 (8.25%) Products Support Engineer
9 8 (8.25%) Software Support Engineer
9 8 (8.25%) Support Engineer
10 7 (7.22%) Linux Support
10 7 (7.22%) Linux Support Engineer
10 7 (7.22%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (30.93%) Kafka
1 30 (30.93%) Spring
2 24 (24.74%) JMS
3 12 (12.37%) Middleware
4 8 (8.25%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (6.19%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.12%) LDAP
6 4 (4.12%) Ray
6 4 (4.12%) REST
6 4 (4.12%) SOAP
7 3 (3.09%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.09%) CSS
7 3 (3.09%) CSS3
7 3 (3.09%) HTML
7 3 (3.09%) HTML5
7 3 (3.09%) J2EE
7 3 (3.09%) Node.js
7 3 (3.09%) Web Services
7 3 (3.09%) X-Windows
8 2 (2.06%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 29 (29.90%) Data Structures
2 25 (25.77%) Equities
3 9 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (7.22%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.12%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.12%) Tandem
6 3 (3.09%) Derivative
6 3 (3.09%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (2.06%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.06%) Clustering
7 2 (2.06%) IoT
7 2 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.06%) PKI
7 2 (2.06%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.06%) Replication
7 2 (2.06%) SystemC
7 2 (2.06%) Verilog
7 2 (2.06%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 75 (77.32%) Linux
2 22 (22.68%) Unix
3 9 (9.28%) Ubuntu
4 7 (7.22%) Windows
5 5 (5.15%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.09%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.03%) AIX
8 1 (1.03%) CentOS
8 1 (1.03%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.03%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (1.03%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (45.36%) Agile
2 37 (38.14%) SDLC
3 36 (37.11%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (29.90%) Open Source
4 29 (29.90%) Performance Tuning
5 28 (28.87%) DevOps
6 26 (26.80%) Database Tuning
7 25 (25.77%) Multithreading
8 23 (23.71%) CI/CD
9 19 (19.59%) Software Engineering
10 13 (13.40%) TDD
11 11 (11.34%) Task Automation
12 10 (10.31%) High Availability
13 8 (8.25%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (8.25%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (8.25%) Microservices
13 8 (8.25%) Test Automation
14 7 (7.22%) Containerisation
14 7 (7.22%) Roadmaps
14 7 (7.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (57.73%) Python
2 52 (53.61%) Java
3 38 (39.18%) SQL
4 21 (21.65%) JavaScript
5 19 (19.59%) C++
6 17 (17.53%) C
7 8 (8.25%) Ada
7 8 (8.25%) Bash
8 7 (7.22%) Groovy
9 6 (6.19%) Perl
9 6 (6.19%) PL/SQL
9 6 (6.19%) PowerShell
10 4 (4.12%) TypeScript
11 3 (3.09%) Kotlin
11 3 (3.09%) Tcl
12 2 (2.06%) C#
12 2 (2.06%) Go
12 2 (2.06%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (2.06%) VBA
12 2 (2.06%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (9.28%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.12%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.06%) Degree
4 2 (2.06%) ISEB
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.03%) CASP
5 1 (1.03%) CISA
5 1 (1.03%) CISM
5 1 (1.03%) CISSP
5 1 (1.03%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (6.19%) QA
3 4 (4.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (4.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.03%) GDPR
4 1 (1.03%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (16.49%) Docker
2 5 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.12%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (3.09%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (2.06%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (2.06%) vSphere
5 2 (2.06%) XenApp
5 2 (2.06%) XenDesktop
6 1 (1.03%) KVM
6 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (17.53%) Kubernetes
2 15 (15.46%) Ansible
2 15 (15.46%) Terraform
3 8 (8.25%) Grafana
4 5 (5.15%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.12%) Puppet
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.06%) Nagios
6 2 (2.06%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.06%) WSUS
7 1 (1.03%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (26.80%) Sybase
2 15 (15.46%) Red Hat
3 12 (12.37%) Splunk
4 7 (7.22%) Dynatrace
4 7 (7.22%) Oracle
5 6 (6.19%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.15%) IBM
6 5 (5.15%) Microsoft
6 5 (5.15%) VMware
7 4 (4.12%) AppDynamics
7 4 (4.12%) Atlassian
8 3 (3.09%) Dell
8 3 (3.09%) Foundry
8 3 (3.09%) Google
9 2 (2.06%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (2.06%) Citrix
9 2 (2.06%) HP
9 2 (2.06%) Veritas
10 1 (1.03%) DocuSign
10 1 (1.03%) Palo Alto