Shell Script Contracts in the UK excluding London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 202 238
Rank change year-on-year -52 +36 -34
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 151 258 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 1.14% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.99% 4.09% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 167 211
10th Percentile £325 £400 £369
25th Percentile £379 £448 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £530 £510
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +3.92% +20.00%
75th Percentile £549 £575 £583
90th Percentile £634 £653 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £540
% change year-on-year -7.41% - +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 1
10th Percentile £61.00 £45.00 -
25th Percentile - £49.38 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.38 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% +22.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.20 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £66.56 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.35% +26.79% -5.58%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,046 6,305 8,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.66% 27.78% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,329 4,405 6,152
10th Percentile £320 £338 £340
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £578 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 323 327
10th Percentile £37.55 £27.68 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +24.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.90 £78.00 £67.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 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
South East +12 54 £401 -27.18% 11
Scotland +18 41 £425 -15.00% 5
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 - -
Wales +20 3 £538 -2.27% 3
West Midlands -17 2 £420 -22.22% 3
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 7 (4.64%) Confluence
2 6 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.65%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.99%) nginx
5 1 (0.66%) Apache
5 1 (0.66%) JBoss
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.66%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 34 (22.52%) AWS
2 16 (10.60%) Serverless
3 15 (9.93%) Azure
4 14 (9.27%) Amazon S3
4 14 (9.27%) OpenShift
5 11 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (3.97%) GitHub
8 6 (3.97%) IaaS
9 4 (2.65%) Datadog
9 4 (2.65%) PaaS
10 3 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.32%) Anthos
11 2 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.32%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.28%) Firewall
2 6 (3.97%) 5G
2 6 (3.97%) AMQP
2 6 (3.97%) Network Security
2 6 (3.97%) Wireless
3 5 (3.31%) HTTP
4 4 (2.65%) Diameter Protocol
4 4 (2.65%) DNS
4 4 (2.65%) LTE
4 4 (2.65%) SAN
4 4 (2.65%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.99%) DVB
6 2 (1.32%) 4G
6 2 (1.32%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.66%) DSL
7 1 (0.66%) Internet
7 1 (0.66%) RNC
7 1 (0.66%) SGSN
7 1 (0.66%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.56%) Oracle Database
2 15 (9.93%) MySQL
3 14 (9.27%) MongoDB
3 14 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (7.95%) Relational Database
5 9 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (4.64%) Oracle Database 12c
6 7 (4.64%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (3.97%) InfluxDB
7 6 (3.97%) RDBMS
7 6 (3.97%) Tableau
8 5 (3.31%) Apache Hive
8 5 (3.31%) Big Data
8 5 (3.31%) Impala
8 5 (3.31%) Oracle8/8i Database
8 5 (3.31%) Spark SQL
9 4 (2.65%) Metadata
9 4 (2.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (22.52%) Jenkins
2 31 (20.53%) JIRA
3 29 (19.21%) Git
4 16 (10.60%) GitLab
5 9 (5.96%) Subversion
6 8 (5.30%) Maven
7 7 (4.64%) Cucumber
7 7 (4.64%) Gradle
8 6 (3.97%) JMeter
8 6 (3.97%) Selenium
8 6 (3.97%) WebDriver
9 4 (2.65%) Gatling
9 4 (2.65%) TestRail
10 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.32%) JUnit
10 2 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (1.32%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.66%) Ant
11 1 (0.66%) Mockito
General
1 26 (17.22%) Finance
2 22 (14.57%) Public Sector
3 21 (13.91%) Social Skills
4 13 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.96%) Banking
6 7 (4.64%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.97%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.31%) Billing
8 5 (3.31%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.65%) Automotive
10 3 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Electronics
11 1 (0.66%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 37 (24.50%) Developer
2 15 (9.93%) Systems Administrator
3 13 (8.61%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 12 (7.95%) Applications Specialist
4 12 (7.95%) Applications Support
4 12 (7.95%) Applications Support Specialist
4 12 (7.95%) Junior
4 12 (7.95%) Junior Applications Support
4 12 (7.95%) Support Specialist
5 10 (6.62%) Senior
6 8 (5.30%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (5.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (5.30%) Test Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) Administrator
7 7 (4.64%) DBA
7 7 (4.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) Oracle DBA
8 6 (3.97%) C Developer
8 6 (3.97%) Software Engineer
8 6 (3.97%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.95%) HTML
2 11 (7.28%) CSS
2 11 (7.28%) Node.js
2 11 (7.28%) React
3 9 (5.96%) AWS CDK
4 8 (5.30%) JSON
5 6 (3.97%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 6 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.31%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.31%) Kafka
6 5 (3.31%) Web Services
7 4 (2.65%) FastAPI
7 4 (2.65%) Middleware
7 4 (2.65%) REST
7 4 (2.65%) YAML
8 3 (1.99%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.99%) Vue
9 2 (1.32%) Spring
9 2 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.88%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (7.28%) Driving Licence
3 10 (6.62%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.64%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.97%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.31%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.31%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.31%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.65%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.65%) Device Driver
8 3 (1.99%) ASIC
8 3 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.99%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.99%) FPGA
8 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.99%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.99%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.99%) Verilog
9 2 (1.32%) Insider Threat
9 2 (1.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 76 (50.33%) Unix
2 75 (49.67%) Linux
3 28 (18.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (12.58%) Windows
5 7 (4.64%) VMS
6 4 (2.65%) Mac OS X
6 4 (2.65%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (1.99%) AIX
7 3 (1.99%) Solaris
7 3 (1.99%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.99%) Windows 2000
7 3 (1.99%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.99%) Windows XP
8 2 (1.32%) Debian
8 2 (1.32%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.66%) CentOS
9 1 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (21.85%) Agile
2 31 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (19.21%) CI/CD
4 25 (16.56%) DevOps
5 23 (15.23%) Test Automation
6 15 (9.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (9.93%) SDLC
7 14 (9.27%) TDD
8 13 (8.61%) Containerisation
8 13 (8.61%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (8.61%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (8.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 13 (8.61%) Storage Management
9 11 (7.28%) Scrum
10 10 (6.62%) Computer Science
10 10 (6.62%) Full Stack Development
10 10 (6.62%) Microservices
11 9 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (5.96%) Migration
11 9 (5.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 51 (33.77%) Python
2 46 (30.46%) SQL
3 33 (21.85%) Bash
4 25 (16.56%) Java
5 21 (13.91%) C
6 17 (11.26%) PL/SQL
7 16 (10.60%) JavaScript
8 14 (9.27%) PowerShell
9 13 (8.61%) C++
10 12 (7.95%) Groovy
11 10 (6.62%) TypeScript
12 8 (5.30%) Ruby
13 7 (4.64%) Assembly Language
13 7 (4.64%) Go
14 6 (3.97%) ProC
14 6 (3.97%) Search Processing Language
15 5 (3.31%) Scala
16 4 (2.65%) C#
16 4 (2.65%) MATLAB
16 4 (2.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 48 (31.79%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.52%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.60%) Degree
4 8 (5.30%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.97%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.97%) ISTQB
5 6 (3.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (2.65%) HNC
6 4 (2.65%) PhD
6 4 (2.65%) RHCE
7 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.99%) RHCSA
8 2 (1.32%) ISEB
9 1 (0.66%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.66%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.66%) LPIC
9 1 (0.66%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.97%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.65%) JTAG
2 4 (2.65%) QA
3 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (24.50%) Docker
2 15 (9.93%) Hyper-V
3 10 (6.62%) Oracle RAC
3 10 (6.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.97%) vSphere
5 4 (2.65%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (2.65%) Firmware
6 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.32%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.66%) KVM
7 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.66%) Xen
Systems Management
1 49 (32.45%) Ansible
2 33 (21.85%) Kubernetes
3 26 (17.22%) Terraform
4 15 (9.93%) Red Hat Satellite
5 12 (7.95%) Netcool
5 12 (7.95%) Prometheus
6 10 (6.62%) Grafana
7 9 (5.96%) Data Guard
8 8 (5.30%) Progress Chef
8 8 (5.30%) Puppet
9 6 (3.97%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (3.97%) Oracle RMAN
9 6 (3.97%) yum
10 5 (3.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (2.65%) Packer
11 4 (2.65%) vRealize
12 3 (1.99%) NetBackup
12 3 (1.99%) SCCM
13 2 (1.32%) Kibana
13 2 (1.32%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 53 (35.10%) Oracle
2 24 (15.89%) Red Hat
3 14 (9.27%) IBM
4 11 (7.28%) VMware
5 10 (6.62%) Splunk
6 5 (3.31%) Google
6 5 (3.31%) Veritas
7 4 (2.65%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.99%) Cadence
8 3 (1.99%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.99%) Informatica
8 3 (1.99%) Juniper
8 3 (1.99%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.99%) Synopsys
8 3 (1.99%) Xilinx
9 2 (1.32%) Arqiva
9 2 (1.32%) EMC
10 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.66%) Nimble Storage
10 1 (0.66%) Solace