Shell Script Contracts in England

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 254 300
Rank change year-on-year -52 +46 -20
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 241 506 646
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.66% 1.05% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.21% 3.01% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 348 407
10th Percentile £359 £396 £406
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +1.85% +18.03%
75th Percentile £636 £650 £625
90th Percentile £718 £713 £713
UK median daily rate £507 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -6.20% +2.86% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 3
10th Percentile £59.73 £45.00 £43.25
25th Percentile £64.19 £46.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - -
75th Percentile £67.69 £76.25 £58.13
90th Percentile £76.50 £82.50 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +10.64% +11.90% -

All Programming Languages
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,884 16,802 25,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.86% 34.92% 36.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,900 12,277 19,073
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 403 453
10th Percentile £37.59 £25.82 £20.05
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +23.10% +19.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.20
% change year-on-year - +24.50% +18.12%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in England.

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in England.

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Shell Script in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 17 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
London -25 147 £525 -4.55% 33
South East +3 44 £450 -18.18% 8
North of England +11 25 £475 -9.52% 5
North West 0 12 £502 +5.63% 4
South West -18 12 £550 - 9
Yorkshire +15 9 £475 -2.56% 1
Midlands -18 6 £509 -5.57% 4
East Midlands +15 5 £520 +73.33% 3
East of England -2 5 £625 +38.89% 11
North East +11 4 - -
West Midlands -26 1 £420 -22.22% 1
Shell Script
UK

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 21 (8.71%) OpenStack
2 15 (6.22%) Confluence
3 11 (4.56%) Apache
4 10 (4.15%) nginx
5 9 (3.73%) Apache Spark
6 6 (2.49%) JBoss
6 6 (2.49%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.49%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.41%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 50 (20.75%) AWS
2 26 (10.79%) Azure
3 15 (6.22%) Amazon S3
4 13 (5.39%) Serverless
4 13 (5.39%) Slack
5 12 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (4.15%) GitHub
6 10 (4.15%) OpenShift
7 7 (2.90%) Datadog
7 7 (2.90%) WhatsApp
8 6 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (2.49%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (2.49%) GCP
9 5 (2.07%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.66%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.24%) Anthos
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.39%) DNS
2 9 (3.73%) Firewall
3 7 (2.90%) Network Security
4 5 (2.07%) AMQP
4 5 (2.07%) HTTP
4 5 (2.07%) SSL
5 4 (1.66%) 5G
5 4 (1.66%) Diameter Protocol
5 4 (1.66%) LTE
5 4 (1.66%) SAN
5 4 (1.66%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.66%) Wireless
6 2 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.83%) Internet
6 2 (0.83%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.41%) DVB
7 1 (0.41%) RNC
7 1 (0.41%) SGSN
7 1 (0.41%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.96%) MongoDB
2 20 (8.30%) Elasticsearch
2 20 (8.30%) Relational Database
3 18 (7.47%) SQL Server
4 16 (6.64%) Oracle Database
5 14 (5.81%) MySQL
6 12 (4.98%) RDBMS
7 11 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.32%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.32%) Sybase ASE
8 8 (3.32%) Tableau
9 7 (2.90%) Big Data
10 6 (2.49%) Apache Hive
11 5 (2.07%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.07%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.07%) HBase
11 5 (2.07%) InfluxDB
12 4 (1.66%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 59 (24.48%) Jenkins
2 46 (19.09%) Git
3 35 (14.52%) JIRA
4 16 (6.64%) JMeter
5 15 (6.22%) GitLab
6 12 (4.98%) Subversion
7 10 (4.15%) Maven
8 6 (2.49%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.49%) Gradle
8 6 (2.49%) Selenium
9 5 (2.07%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.07%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.07%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.66%) Gatling
10 4 (1.66%) JUnit
10 4 (1.66%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.66%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.24%) Ant
11 3 (1.24%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (1.24%) TestRail
General
1 57 (23.65%) Finance
2 48 (19.92%) Social Skills
3 42 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (11.20%) Banking
5 11 (4.56%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.49%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.49%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.07%) Back Office
7 5 (2.07%) Billing
8 4 (1.66%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.66%) Front Office
9 3 (1.24%) Automotive
10 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Advertising
11 1 (0.41%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.41%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.41%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 35 (14.52%) Developer
2 24 (9.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (8.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 19 (7.88%) Applications Support
4 19 (7.88%) Python Engineer
5 17 (7.05%) Analyst
5 17 (7.05%) Architect
6 16 (6.64%) Site Engineer
7 15 (6.22%) Linux Engineer
7 15 (6.22%) Test Engineer
8 12 (4.98%) Lead
9 11 (4.56%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (4.56%) Senior
9 11 (4.56%) Support Engineer
10 10 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.32%) Applications Engineer
11 8 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.32%) Performance Test Engineer
11 8 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.32%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.20%) Kafka
2 21 (8.71%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (8.71%) RabbitMQ
3 15 (6.22%) Spring
4 11 (4.56%) RESTful
5 10 (4.15%) JSON
6 9 (3.73%) HTML
6 9 (3.73%) YAML
7 8 (3.32%) CSS
8 7 (2.90%) Web Services
9 6 (2.49%) FastAPI
9 6 (2.49%) IBM Integration Bus
9 6 (2.49%) LDAP
10 5 (2.07%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (2.07%) HTML5
10 5 (2.07%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.66%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (1.66%) Node.js
11 4 (1.66%) React
11 4 (1.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.13%) Linux Command Line
1 22 (9.13%) Onboarding
2 20 (8.30%) Algorithms
3 16 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.98%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.15%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.90%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (2.07%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.66%) Device Driver
8 4 (1.66%) Equities
8 4 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.66%) Verilog
9 3 (1.24%) ASIC
9 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.24%) FPGA
9 3 (1.24%) Insider Threat
9 3 (1.24%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 115 (47.72%) Linux
2 87 (36.10%) Unix
3 45 (18.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 30 (12.45%) Windows
5 21 (8.71%) CentOS
6 12 (4.98%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.90%) VMS
8 5 (2.07%) Debian
8 5 (2.07%) Mac OS X
8 5 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.66%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (1.24%) Windows 10
10 3 (1.24%) Windows 2000
10 3 (1.24%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.83%) Solaris
11 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (32.37%) CI/CD
2 68 (28.22%) DevOps
3 62 (25.73%) Agile
4 47 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (15.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (12.86%) Test Automation
7 29 (12.03%) ETL
8 25 (10.37%) Containerisation
9 21 (8.71%) Observability
9 21 (8.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 20 (8.30%) Machine Learning
10 20 (8.30%) Scrum
11 19 (7.88%) SDLC
12 18 (7.47%) Microservices
13 17 (7.05%) Configuration Management
13 17 (7.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 16 (6.64%) Computer Science
15 15 (6.22%) Task Automation
16 14 (5.81%) Software Engineering
16 14 (5.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 133 (55.19%) Python
2 78 (32.37%) Java
3 68 (28.22%) SQL
4 32 (13.28%) PowerShell
5 30 (12.45%) C++
6 28 (11.62%) C
7 27 (11.20%) Bash
8 19 (7.88%) Perl
9 14 (5.81%) PL/SQL
10 13 (5.39%) Go
11 11 (4.56%) Scala
12 8 (3.32%) C#
13 7 (2.90%) Assembly Language
13 7 (2.90%) JavaScript
13 7 (2.90%) Search Processing Language
14 6 (2.49%) Groovy
14 6 (2.49%) ProC
15 4 (1.66%) MATLAB
15 4 (1.66%) PHP
15 4 (1.66%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 37 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.62%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.96%) Degree
4 12 (4.98%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.90%) PhD
7 5 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.66%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.24%) HNC
9 3 (1.24%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.24%) RHCE
10 2 (0.83%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.83%) OSCP
10 2 (0.83%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.41%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.66%) JTAG
1 4 (1.66%) QA
2 3 (1.24%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (17.01%) Docker
2 18 (7.47%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (4.98%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 12 (4.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.32%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.49%) vSphere
6 5 (2.07%) HDFS
7 4 (1.66%) Active Directory
7 4 (1.66%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (1.66%) Firmware
8 2 (0.83%) Varnish
8 2 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.83%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.41%) KVM
9 1 (0.41%) NFS
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.41%) Snort
9 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 75 (31.12%) Ansible
2 61 (25.31%) Kubernetes
3 51 (21.16%) Prometheus
4 49 (20.33%) Grafana
5 37 (15.35%) Terraform
6 18 (7.47%) Kibana
7 16 (6.64%) logstash
8 15 (6.22%) Puppet
9 12 (4.98%) Consul
10 7 (2.90%) Netcool
11 6 (2.49%) Packer
11 6 (2.49%) Progress Chef
11 6 (2.49%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (2.49%) yum
12 5 (2.07%) Control-M
12 5 (2.07%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (2.07%) Hadoop YARN
13 4 (1.66%) vRealize
14 3 (1.24%) Istio
14 3 (1.24%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 54 (22.41%) Oracle
2 43 (17.84%) Red Hat
3 27 (11.20%) Microsoft
4 20 (8.30%) VMware
5 15 (6.22%) Splunk
6 13 (5.39%) Amdocs
6 13 (5.39%) IBM
7 12 (4.98%) SaltStack
8 10 (4.15%) SEEBURGER
9 9 (3.73%) Sybase
10 7 (2.90%) Informatica
11 6 (2.49%) HP
11 6 (2.49%) Temenos
12 5 (2.07%) Google
12 5 (2.07%) Veritas
13 4 (1.66%) Murex
14 3 (1.24%) Cadence
14 3 (1.24%) Fortinet
14 3 (1.24%) Juniper
14 3 (1.24%) Xilinx