Shell Script Contracts in the UK excluding London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 204 253
Rank change year-on-year -59 +49 -40
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 134 273 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 1.19% 0.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.80% 4.16% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 176 197
10th Percentile £350 £400 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £533 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.44% +6.60% +21.95%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £575
90th Percentile £634 £650 £643
UK median daily rate £501 £542 £525
% change year-on-year -7.61% +3.29% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 1
10th Percentile £61.00 £45.00 -
25th Percentile - £47.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% +11.90% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.30 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.56 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.58% +17.26% -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,792 6,563 8,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.66% 28.64% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,233 4,627 6,147
10th Percentile £313 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +1.01% +15.38%
75th Percentile £586 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 329 334
10th Percentile £37.63 £23.08 £17.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £29.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +24.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.53
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.70 £50.35
% change year-on-year +2.97% +20.56% +17.45%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the UK excluding London

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in the UK excluding London

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK excluding London

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the UK excluding London

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Shell Script in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK excluding London

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South East +7 46 £450 -18.18% 17
Scotland +8 37 £440 -16.19% 5
North of England +12 25 £475 -9.52% 5
North West +10 12 £502 +0.35% 4
South West -10 12 £550 - 9
Yorkshire +23 9 £475 -2.56% 1
Midlands -21 7 £520 -3.70% 3
East Midlands +20 6 £520 +73.33% 3
East of England +2 5 £625 +38.89% 15
North East +6 4 - -
Wales +19 3 £538 -2.27%
West Midlands -30 1 £420 -22.22%
Shell Script
UK

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (4.48%) Confluence
2 5 (3.73%) nginx
3 4 (2.99%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.24%) Apache
4 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.75%) JBoss
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.75%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 33 (24.63%) AWS
2 15 (11.19%) Amazon S3
2 15 (11.19%) Serverless
3 13 (9.70%) OpenShift
4 12 (8.96%) Azure
5 10 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (5.97%) GitHub
7 7 (5.22%) Datadog
8 6 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.73%) IaaS
10 4 (2.99%) PaaS
11 2 (1.49%) Anthos
11 2 (1.49%) CloudFront
11 2 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.49%) Route 53
11 2 (1.49%) SaaS
11 2 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.21%) Firewall
2 7 (5.22%) DNS
3 5 (3.73%) AMQP
3 5 (3.73%) HTTP
3 5 (3.73%) Network Security
4 4 (2.99%) 5G
4 4 (2.99%) Diameter Protocol
4 4 (2.99%) LTE
4 4 (2.99%) SAN
4 4 (2.99%) Wireless
5 3 (2.24%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.49%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.49%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.75%) DSL
7 1 (0.75%) DVB
7 1 (0.75%) Internet
7 1 (0.75%) RNC
7 1 (0.75%) SGSN
7 1 (0.75%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.91%) Oracle Database
2 14 (10.45%) MongoDB
3 13 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (8.96%) Relational Database
5 11 (8.21%) MySQL
6 9 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (5.97%) Oracle Database 12c
8 7 (5.22%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (4.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (4.48%) Tableau
10 5 (3.73%) InfluxDB
10 5 (3.73%) Oracle8/8i Database
10 5 (3.73%) RDBMS
11 4 (2.99%) Metadata
12 3 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.24%) PowerCenter
12 3 (2.24%) SQL Server
13 2 (1.49%) DB2
13 2 (1.49%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 34 (25.37%) Jenkins
2 31 (23.13%) Git
3 30 (22.39%) JIRA
4 12 (8.96%) GitLab
5 9 (6.72%) Subversion
6 8 (5.97%) Maven
7 7 (5.22%) Cucumber
7 7 (5.22%) Gradle
8 6 (4.48%) JMeter
8 6 (4.48%) Selenium
8 6 (4.48%) WebDriver
9 4 (2.99%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.99%) Gatling
10 3 (2.24%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (2.24%) TestRail
11 2 (1.49%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.49%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.49%) JUnit
11 2 (1.49%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.75%) Mockito
General
1 22 (16.42%) Finance
2 21 (15.67%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.18%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.48%) Banking
6 5 (3.73%) Billing
6 5 (3.73%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.99%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.24%) Automotive
8 3 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.49%) Law
10 1 (0.75%) Electronics
10 1 (0.75%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 33 (24.63%) Developer
2 11 (8.21%) Linux Engineer
3 10 (7.46%) Senior
4 9 (6.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (5.97%) Applications Specialist
5 8 (5.97%) Applications Support
5 8 (5.97%) Applications Support Specialist
5 8 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (5.97%) Junior
5 8 (5.97%) Junior Applications Support
5 8 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (5.97%) Support Specialist
5 8 (5.97%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (5.22%) DBA
6 7 (5.22%) Oracle DBA
6 7 (5.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (5.22%) Software Engineer
6 7 (5.22%) Test Engineer
7 6 (4.48%) C Developer
7 6 (4.48%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.96%) HTML
2 11 (8.21%) CSS
2 11 (8.21%) Node.js
2 11 (8.21%) React
3 9 (6.72%) AWS CDK
4 8 (5.97%) JSON
5 7 (5.22%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (4.48%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 5 (3.73%) ActiveMQ
7 5 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.73%) Kafka
7 5 (3.73%) Web Services
8 4 (2.99%) FastAPI
8 4 (2.99%) Middleware
8 4 (2.99%) Spring
8 4 (2.99%) YAML
9 3 (2.24%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.24%) REST
9 3 (2.24%) Vue
9 3 (2.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.43%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (7.46%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.22%) Driving Licence
3 7 (5.22%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.73%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.73%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.73%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.99%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.99%) Device Driver
6 3 (2.24%) ASIC
6 3 (2.24%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.24%) FPGA
6 3 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.24%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.24%) Verilog
7 2 (1.49%) Insider Threat
7 2 (1.49%) Replication
7 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.75%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 67 (50.00%) Unix
2 65 (48.51%) Linux
3 23 (17.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (14.18%) Windows
5 7 (5.22%) VMS
6 5 (3.73%) Debian
7 4 (2.99%) Mac OS X
7 4 (2.99%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (2.24%) AIX
8 3 (2.24%) Windows 10
8 3 (2.24%) Windows 2000
8 3 (2.24%) Windows Server
8 3 (2.24%) Windows XP
9 2 (1.49%) Solaris
9 2 (1.49%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.75%) CentOS
10 1 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (23.88%) Agile
2 29 (21.64%) CI/CD
3 28 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (20.15%) DevOps
5 20 (14.93%) Test Automation
6 15 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (9.70%) TDD
8 12 (8.96%) Containerisation
8 12 (8.96%) Microservices
8 12 (8.96%) Scrum
8 12 (8.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 11 (8.21%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (8.21%) SDLC
10 10 (7.46%) Full Stack Development
10 10 (7.46%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (6.72%) Migration
11 9 (6.72%) Software Engineering
12 8 (5.97%) Computer Science
12 8 (5.97%) Data Modelling
12 8 (5.97%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 50 (37.31%) Python
2 40 (29.85%) SQL
3 36 (26.87%) Bash
4 26 (19.40%) Java
5 19 (14.18%) C
6 16 (11.94%) JavaScript
7 15 (11.19%) PL/SQL
8 14 (10.45%) PowerShell
9 13 (9.70%) C++
10 12 (8.96%) Groovy
11 10 (7.46%) TypeScript
12 8 (5.97%) Ruby
13 7 (5.22%) Assembly Language
14 6 (4.48%) Go
14 6 (4.48%) ProC
14 6 (4.48%) Search Processing Language
15 5 (3.73%) Scala
16 4 (2.99%) C#
16 4 (2.99%) MATLAB
16 4 (2.99%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.16%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.70%) Degree
4 7 (5.22%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.73%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.73%) ISTQB
5 5 (3.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (2.99%) PhD
7 3 (2.24%) HNC
7 3 (2.24%) RHCE
8 2 (1.49%) ISEB
8 2 (1.49%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.75%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.75%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.75%) LPIC
9 1 (0.75%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.48%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.99%) JTAG
3 3 (2.24%) QA
4 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.49%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (22.39%) Docker
2 10 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.72%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (5.97%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.48%) vSphere
6 4 (2.99%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (2.99%) Firmware
7 2 (1.49%) Active Directory
7 2 (1.49%) Varnish
7 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.49%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.75%) KVM
8 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 42 (31.34%) Ansible
2 32 (23.88%) Kubernetes
3 26 (19.40%) Terraform
4 11 (8.21%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.72%) Grafana
6 8 (5.97%) Data Guard
6 8 (5.97%) Netcool
6 8 (5.97%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (4.48%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.48%) Puppet
7 6 (4.48%) yum
8 5 (3.73%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (3.73%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (2.99%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (2.99%) Packer
9 4 (2.99%) vRealize
10 3 (2.24%) NetBackup
10 3 (2.24%) SCCM
11 2 (1.49%) Istio
11 2 (1.49%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 47 (35.07%) Oracle
2 20 (14.93%) Red Hat
3 11 (8.21%) VMware
4 10 (7.46%) IBM
4 10 (7.46%) Splunk
5 5 (3.73%) Veritas
6 4 (2.99%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.24%) Cadence
7 3 (2.24%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.24%) Informatica
7 3 (2.24%) Juniper
7 3 (2.24%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.24%) Synopsys
7 3 (2.24%) Xilinx
8 2 (1.49%) Arqiva
8 2 (1.49%) Cisco
8 2 (1.49%) EMC
8 2 (1.49%) Google
8 2 (1.49%) Greenplum
9 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace