Shell Script Contracts in England

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 254 287
Rank change year-on-year -38 +33 -4
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 281 484 681
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.75% 1.03% 0.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.47% 2.99% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 337 443
10th Percentile £335 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £710 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £540
% change year-on-year -7.41% - +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 3
10th Percentile £59.73 £45.00 £43.25
25th Percentile £64.19 £48.44 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.38 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% +22.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £67.69 £78.00 £58.13
90th Percentile £76.50 £87.75 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £66.56 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.35% +26.79% -5.58%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,366 16,181 25,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.30% 34.40% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,149 11,851 18,996
10th Percentile £350 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 398 445
10th Percentile £35.52 £29.13 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.65 £73.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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 13 June 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 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Shell Script in England

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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 13 June 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 +3 170 £525 -4.55% 53
South East +12 54 £401 -27.18% 11
North of England +3 25 £475 -9.48% 5
South West -16 13 £550 -8.33% 13
North West -1 11 £528 +5.60% 2
Midlands -15 11 £520 -3.70% 5
Yorkshire +17 10 £475 -2.56% 3
East Midlands +10 9 £520 +22.35% 2
East of England -5 5 £625 +38.89% 8
North East +5 4 - -
West Midlands -17 2 £420 -22.22% 3
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 19 (6.76%) OpenStack
2 16 (5.69%) Confluence
3 9 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.85%) Apache
4 8 (2.85%) nginx
5 7 (2.49%) JBoss
6 6 (2.14%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.71%) WildFly
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.14%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (18.51%) AWS
2 30 (10.68%) Azure
3 17 (6.05%) Amazon S3
4 16 (5.69%) Serverless
5 15 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (4.63%) Slack
7 11 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (3.91%) GitHub
7 11 (3.91%) OpenShift
8 8 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (2.85%) Azure AKS
8 8 (2.85%) WhatsApp
9 7 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.14%) GCP
11 5 (1.78%) AWS KMS
12 4 (1.42%) Azure Event Grid
12 4 (1.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.27%) DNS
2 10 (3.56%) SSL
3 9 (3.20%) Firewall
4 8 (2.85%) Network Security
5 7 (2.49%) Kerberos
6 6 (2.14%) 5G
6 6 (2.14%) AMQP
6 6 (2.14%) Wireless
7 5 (1.78%) HTTP
7 5 (1.78%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.42%) Diameter Protocol
8 4 (1.42%) Internet
8 4 (1.42%) LTE
8 4 (1.42%) SAN
9 3 (1.07%) DVB
10 2 (0.71%) 4G
10 2 (0.71%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.36%) RNC
11 1 (0.36%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.25%) Relational Database
1 26 (9.25%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.54%) MongoDB
3 22 (7.83%) Oracle Database
4 18 (6.41%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (6.41%) MySQL
5 15 (5.34%) RDBMS
6 14 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (4.63%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.85%) Sybase ASE
8 8 (2.85%) Tableau
9 7 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.14%) Apache Hive
10 6 (2.14%) Big Data
10 6 (2.14%) InfluxDB
11 5 (1.78%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.78%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.78%) HBase
Development Applications
1 68 (24.20%) Jenkins
2 50 (17.79%) Git
3 36 (12.81%) JIRA
4 23 (8.19%) GitLab
5 16 (5.69%) JMeter
6 12 (4.27%) Subversion
7 10 (3.56%) Maven
8 6 (2.14%) Gradle
8 6 (2.14%) Selenium
9 5 (1.78%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.78%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.78%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.42%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.42%) Gatling
10 4 (1.42%) TestRail
10 4 (1.42%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.42%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.07%) Ant
11 3 (1.07%) JUnit
12 2 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
General
1 59 (21.00%) Finance
2 49 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (16.73%) Social Skills
4 30 (10.68%) Banking
5 14 (4.98%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.85%) Investment Banking
6 8 (2.85%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.14%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.78%) Back Office
8 5 (1.78%) Billing
9 4 (1.42%) Automotive
9 4 (1.42%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.36%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (16.73%) Developer
2 25 (8.90%) Applications Support
3 21 (7.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (7.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 19 (6.76%) Python Engineer
4 19 (6.76%) Senior
5 17 (6.05%) Analyst
6 16 (5.69%) Site Engineer
6 16 (5.69%) Test Engineer
7 14 (4.98%) Architect
7 14 (4.98%) Systems Administrator
8 13 (4.63%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 13 (4.63%) Support Engineer
9 12 (4.27%) Applications Specialist
9 12 (4.27%) Applications Support Specialist
9 12 (4.27%) Junior
9 12 (4.27%) Junior Applications Support
9 12 (4.27%) Lead
9 12 (4.27%) Linux Engineer
9 12 (4.27%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.17%) Kafka
2 20 (7.12%) RabbitMQ
3 19 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (6.41%) Spring
5 15 (5.34%) RESTful
6 11 (3.91%) HTML
6 11 (3.91%) JSON
7 10 (3.56%) CSS
8 9 (3.20%) YAML
9 7 (2.49%) FastAPI
9 7 (2.49%) J2EE
9 7 (2.49%) REST
9 7 (2.49%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.49%) Web Services
10 6 (2.14%) .NET
10 6 (2.14%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (2.14%) HTML5
10 6 (2.14%) IBM Integration Bus
10 6 (2.14%) LDAP
11 5 (1.78%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.39%) Linux Command Line
2 23 (8.19%) Algorithms
3 22 (7.83%) Onboarding
4 16 (5.69%) Data Structures
4 16 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.91%) Driving Licence
6 10 (3.56%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.78%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.78%) Replication
7 5 (1.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.42%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.42%) Device Driver
8 4 (1.42%) Equities
8 4 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.42%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.42%) Verilog
9 3 (1.07%) ASIC
9 3 (1.07%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.07%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 137 (48.75%) Linux
2 107 (38.08%) Unix
3 55 (19.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 35 (12.46%) Windows
5 20 (7.12%) CentOS
6 13 (4.63%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.49%) VMS
8 6 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.78%) Mac OS X
10 4 (1.42%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (1.42%) Solaris
11 3 (1.07%) Windows 10
11 3 (1.07%) Windows 2000
11 3 (1.07%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.71%) Debian
12 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.36%) Android
13 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (29.89%) CI/CD
2 72 (25.62%) DevOps
3 70 (24.91%) Agile
4 57 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (14.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (12.81%) Test Automation
7 33 (11.74%) ETL
8 30 (10.68%) Containerisation
9 27 (9.61%) Microservices
10 24 (8.54%) SDLC
11 23 (8.19%) Scrum
12 22 (7.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 22 (7.83%) Task Automation
13 20 (7.12%) Computer Science
14 19 (6.76%) Configuration Management
14 19 (6.76%) Machine Learning
14 19 (6.76%) Observability
14 19 (6.76%) TDD
15 18 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 18 (6.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 141 (50.18%) Python
2 88 (31.32%) Java
3 76 (27.05%) SQL
4 38 (13.52%) PowerShell
5 33 (11.74%) C++
6 31 (11.03%) C
7 25 (8.90%) Bash
8 22 (7.83%) Perl
9 17 (6.05%) Go
10 14 (4.98%) JavaScript
11 13 (4.63%) PL/SQL
12 11 (3.91%) Scala
13 9 (3.20%) C#
14 7 (2.49%) Assembly Language
14 7 (2.49%) Search Processing Language
14 7 (2.49%) T-SQL
15 6 (2.14%) Groovy
15 6 (2.14%) ProC
16 5 (1.78%) PHP
17 4 (1.42%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 60 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 31 (11.03%) Degree
4 15 (5.34%) Master's Degree
5 11 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.14%) PhD
7 4 (1.42%) HNC
7 4 (1.42%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (1.42%) RHCE
8 3 (1.07%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.71%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.71%) OSCP
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.85%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.42%) JTAG
2 4 (1.42%) QA
3 1 (0.36%) NCSC
3 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 59 (21.00%) Docker
2 17 (6.05%) Hyper-V
2 17 (6.05%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (4.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 12 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.56%) Active Directory
5 6 (2.14%) vSphere
6 5 (1.78%) HDFS
7 4 (1.42%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (1.42%) Firmware
8 2 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.71%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.36%) KVM
9 1 (0.36%) NFS
9 1 (0.36%) Snort
9 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 94 (33.45%) Ansible
2 72 (25.62%) Kubernetes
3 55 (19.57%) Prometheus
4 53 (18.86%) Grafana
5 42 (14.95%) Terraform
6 20 (7.12%) Puppet
7 16 (5.69%) Kibana
8 15 (5.34%) Red Hat Satellite
9 14 (4.98%) logstash
10 12 (4.27%) Consul
10 12 (4.27%) Netcool
11 11 (3.91%) Packer
12 10 (3.56%) Progress Chef
13 6 (2.14%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (2.14%) yum
14 5 (1.78%) Control-M
14 5 (1.78%) Hadoop YARN
15 4 (1.42%) vRealize
16 3 (1.07%) Istio
16 3 (1.07%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 58 (20.64%) Oracle
2 55 (19.57%) Red Hat
3 29 (10.32%) Microsoft
4 21 (7.47%) VMware
5 19 (6.76%) IBM
6 15 (5.34%) Splunk
7 13 (4.63%) Amdocs
8 12 (4.27%) SaltStack
9 11 (3.91%) SEEBURGER
10 9 (3.20%) Sybase
11 8 (2.85%) Informatica
12 7 (2.49%) Temenos
13 6 (2.14%) Confluent
13 6 (2.14%) Google
13 6 (2.14%) HP
14 5 (1.78%) Veritas
15 3 (1.07%) Cadence
15 3 (1.07%) Fortinet
15 3 (1.07%) Synopsys
15 3 (1.07%) Xilinx