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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 208 250
Rank change year-on-year -52 +42 -42
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 141 261 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 1.14% 0.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.88% 4.05% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 165 207
10th Percentile £350 £400 £362
25th Percentile £400 £450 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £536 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% +7.20% +21.95%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £578
90th Percentile £634 £654 £650
UK median daily rate £501 £545 £530
% change year-on-year -8.03% +2.78% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 1
10th Percentile £61.00 £45.00 -
25th Percentile - £48.44 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.56 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% +17.26% -5.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £86.40 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.38 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.97% +22.62% -10.58%

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 4,902 6,440 8,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.79% 28.19% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,298 4,502 6,171
10th Percentile £319 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +16.01%
75th Percentile £585 £592 £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 426 324 328
10th Percentile £37.55 £26.16 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.94 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.99
Median % change year-on-year - +22.59% +24.35%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £62.36 £62.50 £51.19
% change year-on-year -0.23% +22.11% +16.99%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +8 50 £425 -22.73% 11
Scotland +6 39 £435 -17.14% 5
North of England +13 25 £475 -9.52% 6
South West -13 13 £550 - 8
North West +7 12 £502 +0.35% 5
Yorkshire +17 9 £475 -2.56% 1
Midlands -11 7 £520 -3.70% 4
East Midlands +16 6 £520 +73.33% 3
East of England -4 5 £625 +38.89% 9
North East +8 4 - -
Wales +13 3 £538 -2.27% 1
West Midlands -27 1 £420 -22.22% 1
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 (4.96%) Confluence
2 5 (3.55%) nginx
3 4 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.84%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.13%) Apache
5 1 (0.71%) JBoss
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.71%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 35 (24.82%) AWS
2 16 (11.35%) Amazon S3
2 16 (11.35%) Serverless
3 14 (9.93%) OpenShift
4 13 (9.22%) Azure
5 11 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (5.67%) GitHub
8 7 (4.96%) Datadog
9 6 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (4.26%) IaaS
10 5 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.84%) PaaS
12 2 (1.42%) Anthos
12 2 (1.42%) CloudFront
12 2 (1.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.42%) Route 53
12 2 (1.42%) SaaS
12 2 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.80%) Firewall
2 7 (4.96%) DNS
3 6 (4.26%) AMQP
3 6 (4.26%) Network Security
4 5 (3.55%) HTTP
5 4 (2.84%) 5G
5 4 (2.84%) Diameter Protocol
5 4 (2.84%) LTE
5 4 (2.84%) SAN
5 4 (2.84%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.84%) Wireless
6 2 (1.42%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.42%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.71%) DSL
7 1 (0.71%) DVB
7 1 (0.71%) Internet
7 1 (0.71%) RNC
7 1 (0.71%) SGSN
7 1 (0.71%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.02%) Oracle Database
2 14 (9.93%) MongoDB
3 13 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.22%) Relational Database
4 12 (8.51%) MySQL
5 9 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (5.67%) Oracle Database 12c
7 7 (4.96%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (4.26%) InfluxDB
8 6 (4.26%) Tableau
9 5 (3.55%) Oracle8/8i Database
9 5 (3.55%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.84%) Metadata
11 3 (2.13%) Apache Hive
11 3 (2.13%) Big Data
11 3 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.13%) Impala
11 3 (2.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (24.82%) Jenkins
2 31 (21.99%) Git
2 31 (21.99%) JIRA
3 13 (9.22%) GitLab
4 9 (6.38%) Subversion
5 8 (5.67%) Maven
6 7 (4.96%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.96%) Gradle
7 6 (4.26%) JMeter
7 6 (4.26%) Selenium
7 6 (4.26%) WebDriver
8 4 (2.84%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.84%) Gatling
8 4 (2.84%) TestRail
9 3 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (1.42%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.42%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.42%) JUnit
10 2 (1.42%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.71%) Mockito
General
1 24 (17.02%) Finance
2 22 (15.60%) Social Skills
3 20 (14.18%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.96%) Banking
6 5 (3.55%) Billing
6 5 (3.55%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.84%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.84%) Automotive
8 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.42%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 35 (24.82%) Developer
2 11 (7.80%) Linux Engineer
3 10 (7.09%) Senior
3 10 (7.09%) Systems Administrator
4 9 (6.38%) Applications Specialist
4 9 (6.38%) Applications Support
4 9 (6.38%) Applications Support Specialist
4 9 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (6.38%) Junior
4 9 (6.38%) Junior Applications Support
4 9 (6.38%) Support Specialist
5 8 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (5.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 8 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (5.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 8 (5.67%) Test Engineer
6 7 (4.96%) Administrator
6 7 (4.96%) DBA
6 7 (4.96%) Oracle DBA
6 7 (4.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.51%) HTML
2 11 (7.80%) CSS
2 11 (7.80%) Node.js
2 11 (7.80%) React
3 9 (6.38%) AWS CDK
4 8 (5.67%) JSON
4 8 (5.67%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (4.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 5 (3.55%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.55%) Kafka
6 5 (3.55%) Web Services
7 4 (2.84%) FastAPI
7 4 (2.84%) Middleware
7 4 (2.84%) Spring
7 4 (2.84%) YAML
8 3 (2.13%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.13%) REST
8 3 (2.13%) Vue
8 3 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.89%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (7.09%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.67%) Driving Licence
4 7 (4.96%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.55%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.55%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.55%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.55%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.84%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.84%) Device Driver
7 3 (2.13%) ASIC
7 3 (2.13%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.13%) FPGA
7 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.13%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.13%) Verilog
7 3 (2.13%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.42%) Insider Threat
8 2 (1.42%) Replication
9 1 (0.71%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 71 (50.35%) Unix
2 69 (48.94%) Linux
3 25 (17.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (13.48%) Windows
5 7 (4.96%) VMS
6 5 (3.55%) Debian
7 4 (2.84%) Mac OS X
7 4 (2.84%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (2.13%) AIX
8 3 (2.13%) Windows 10
8 3 (2.13%) Windows 2000
8 3 (2.13%) Windows Server
8 3 (2.13%) Windows XP
9 2 (1.42%) Solaris
9 2 (1.42%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.71%) CentOS
10 1 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (24.11%) Agile
2 30 (21.28%) CI/CD
3 28 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (19.15%) DevOps
5 21 (14.89%) Test Automation
6 15 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (9.93%) TDD
8 13 (9.22%) Scrum
8 13 (9.22%) SDLC
8 13 (9.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (8.51%) Containerisation
9 12 (8.51%) Microservices
10 11 (7.80%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (7.80%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (7.09%) Full Stack Development
12 9 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (6.38%) Migration
12 9 (6.38%) Software Engineering
13 8 (5.67%) Configuration Management
13 8 (5.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.17%) Python
2 44 (31.21%) SQL
3 36 (25.53%) Bash
4 27 (19.15%) Java
5 19 (13.48%) C
6 16 (11.35%) JavaScript
6 16 (11.35%) PL/SQL
7 14 (9.93%) PowerShell
8 13 (9.22%) C++
9 12 (8.51%) Groovy
10 10 (7.09%) TypeScript
11 8 (5.67%) Ruby
12 7 (4.96%) Assembly Language
12 7 (4.96%) Go
13 6 (4.26%) ProC
13 6 (4.26%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (3.55%) Scala
15 4 (2.84%) C#
15 4 (2.84%) MATLAB
15 4 (2.84%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (26.95%) Security Cleared
2 26 (18.44%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.93%) Degree
4 8 (5.67%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.26%) ISTQB
5 6 (4.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (2.84%) HNC
6 4 (2.84%) PhD
7 3 (2.13%) RHCE
8 2 (1.42%) ISEB
8 2 (1.42%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.71%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.71%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.71%) LPIC
9 1 (0.71%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.84%) JTAG
2 4 (2.84%) QA
3 2 (1.42%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.42%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (22.70%) Docker
2 10 (7.09%) Hyper-V
2 10 (7.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.38%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (4.26%) vSphere
5 4 (2.84%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (2.84%) Firmware
6 2 (1.42%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.42%) Varnish
6 2 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.42%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.71%) KVM
7 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.71%) Xen
Systems Management
1 45 (31.91%) Ansible
2 33 (23.40%) Kubernetes
3 27 (19.15%) Terraform
4 12 (8.51%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.09%) Grafana
5 10 (7.09%) Red Hat Satellite
6 9 (6.38%) Netcool
7 8 (5.67%) Data Guard
8 7 (4.96%) Progress Chef
9 6 (4.26%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (4.26%) Puppet
9 6 (4.26%) yum
10 5 (3.55%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (2.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (2.84%) Packer
11 4 (2.84%) vRealize
12 3 (2.13%) NetBackup
12 3 (2.13%) SCCM
13 2 (1.42%) Istio
13 2 (1.42%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 49 (34.75%) Oracle
2 22 (15.60%) Red Hat
3 11 (7.80%) IBM
3 11 (7.80%) VMware
4 10 (7.09%) Splunk
5 5 (3.55%) Veritas
6 4 (2.84%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.13%) Cadence
7 3 (2.13%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.13%) Google
7 3 (2.13%) Informatica
7 3 (2.13%) Juniper
7 3 (2.13%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.13%) Synopsys
7 3 (2.13%) Xilinx
8 2 (1.42%) Arqiva
8 2 (1.42%) Cisco
8 2 (1.42%) EMC
8 2 (1.42%) Greenplum
9 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace