Shell Script Contracts

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 242 301
Rank change year-on-year -73 +59 -23
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 291 660 806
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 1.14% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.30% 3.30% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 455 503
10th Percentile £350 £405 £408
25th Percentile £414 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% +13.51%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -12.64% +7.60% +21.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 6
10th Percentile £59.73 £41.00 £46.25
25th Percentile £64.19 £47.50 £52.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.38 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% +11.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £67.69 £74.50 £79.38
90th Percentile £76.50 £79.80 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.56 £53.75
% change year-on-year +5.58% +14.53% +2.38%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,679 20,015 31,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.71% 34.72% 36.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,008 14,436 23,302
10th Percentile £350 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £763 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 461 514
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.25 £19.64
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +16.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.83 £78.00 £73.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +21.95%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
England -62 234 £520 -5.45% 74
London -20 145 £525 -5.83% 28
UK excluding London -66 125 £470 -12.64% 52
Work from Home -38 83 £550 +4.76% 29
South East +11 45 £438 -20.45% 10
Scotland 0 35 £440 -16.19% 6
North of England +3 21 £485 -7.62% 7
North West +10 12 £502 +5.63% 5
South West -13 11 £550 - 12
Midlands -24 7 £498 -7.78% 4
East Midlands +20 5 £520 +73.33% 3
Yorkshire +18 5 £485 -3.00% 2
East of England -5 5 £625 +35.14% 11
North East +8 4 - -
Wales +19 3 £538 -2.27% 2
West Midlands -30 2 £410 -24.07% 1

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.22%) OpenStack
2 19 (6.53%) Confluence
3 15 (5.15%) Apache
4 13 (4.47%) nginx
5 10 (3.44%) Apache Spark
6 9 (3.09%) JBoss
6 9 (3.09%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.34%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (3.09%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.69%) IntelliMatch
3 1 (0.34%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (26.80%) AWS
2 39 (13.40%) Azure
3 27 (9.28%) Amazon S3
4 26 (8.93%) Serverless
5 19 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (6.19%) GitHub
7 17 (5.84%) OpenShift
8 13 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (4.47%) Slack
9 11 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.09%) GCP
11 8 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.41%) Datadog
12 7 (2.41%) WhatsApp
13 6 (2.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (1.72%) Azure AKS
14 5 (1.72%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.19%) Firewall
2 16 (5.50%) DNS
3 7 (2.41%) Network Security
4 6 (2.06%) SAN
5 5 (1.72%) AMQP
5 5 (1.72%) HTTP
5 5 (1.72%) SSL
6 4 (1.37%) 5G
6 4 (1.37%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (1.37%) LTE
6 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.37%) Wireless
7 2 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (0.69%) Internet
7 2 (0.69%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.34%) DVB
8 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.34%) SGSN
8 1 (0.34%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.71%) Oracle Database
2 28 (9.62%) MongoDB
3 25 (8.59%) Relational Database
4 24 (8.25%) Elasticsearch
5 23 (7.90%) SQL Server
6 18 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (5.50%) MySQL
8 15 (5.15%) RDBMS
9 11 (3.78%) Big Data
10 9 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (3.09%) Oracle Database 12c
11 8 (2.75%) Apache Hive
11 8 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.75%) PowerCenter
11 8 (2.75%) Sybase ASE
11 8 (2.75%) Tableau
12 7 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (2.41%) NoSQL
12 7 (2.41%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (2.06%) HBase
Development Applications
1 72 (24.74%) Jenkins
2 58 (19.93%) Git
3 50 (17.18%) JIRA
4 19 (6.53%) GitLab
5 17 (5.84%) Maven
6 16 (5.50%) JMeter
7 14 (4.81%) Subversion
8 12 (4.12%) Gradle
9 8 (2.75%) Selenium
10 7 (2.41%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.41%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.41%) TeamCity
11 6 (2.06%) Artifactory
11 6 (2.06%) WebDriver
12 4 (1.37%) Gatling
12 4 (1.37%) JUnit
12 4 (1.37%) Visual Studio
13 3 (1.03%) Ant
13 3 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (1.03%) TestRail
General
1 76 (26.12%) Finance
2 65 (22.34%) Social Skills
3 44 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.62%) Banking
5 25 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (2.75%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.41%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.72%) Back Office
8 5 (1.72%) Billing
9 4 (1.37%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.37%) Front Office
10 3 (1.03%) Automotive
10 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Law
11 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.34%) Advertising
12 1 (0.34%) Electronics
12 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (18.56%) Developer
2 25 (8.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (7.56%) Analyst
3 22 (7.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 21 (7.22%) Applications Support
5 18 (6.19%) Site Engineer
6 17 (5.84%) Architect
6 17 (5.84%) Python Engineer
7 16 (5.50%) DBA
8 15 (5.15%) Linux Engineer
8 15 (5.15%) Test Engineer
9 14 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (4.81%) Lead
10 13 (4.47%) Senior
11 12 (4.12%) Oracle DBA
12 11 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.44%) Support Engineer
14 9 (3.09%) Administrator
14 9 (3.09%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.09%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.62%) Kafka
2 22 (7.56%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (6.87%) RabbitMQ
4 18 (6.19%) HTML
4 18 (6.19%) Spring
5 17 (5.84%) CSS
6 14 (4.81%) React
7 13 (4.47%) Node.js
8 12 (4.12%) Middleware
8 12 (4.12%) RESTful
9 10 (3.44%) JSON
10 9 (3.09%) AWS CDK
10 9 (3.09%) IBM Integration Bus
10 9 (3.09%) YAML
11 7 (2.41%) Web Services
12 6 (2.06%) HTML5
12 6 (2.06%) LDAP
12 6 (2.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 5 (1.72%) REST
13 5 (1.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.90%) Linux Command Line
1 23 (7.90%) Onboarding
2 20 (6.87%) Algorithms
3 18 (6.19%) Data Structures
4 16 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.44%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.06%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.06%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.72%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.37%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.37%) Device Driver
9 4 (1.37%) Equities
9 4 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.37%) Verilog
10 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 141 (48.45%) Linux
2 111 (38.14%) Unix
3 50 (17.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (14.09%) Windows
5 21 (7.22%) CentOS
6 15 (5.15%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.41%) VMS
7 7 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.06%) AIX
9 5 (1.72%) Debian
9 5 (1.72%) Mac OS X
10 4 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (1.03%) Windows 10
11 3 (1.03%) Windows 2000
11 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.03%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.69%) Solaris
12 2 (0.69%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (31.27%) CI/CD
2 85 (29.21%) DevOps
3 79 (27.15%) Agile
4 62 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (11.34%) Test Automation
7 32 (11.00%) ETL
7 32 (11.00%) Microservices
8 27 (9.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 25 (8.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 25 (8.59%) Machine Learning
9 25 (8.59%) Scrum
10 24 (8.25%) SDLC
11 23 (7.90%) Observability
12 20 (6.87%) Containerisation
13 18 (6.19%) Computer Science
13 18 (6.19%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (6.19%) TDD
14 17 (5.84%) Task Automation
15 16 (5.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 146 (50.17%) Python
2 91 (31.27%) Java
3 78 (26.80%) SQL
4 46 (15.81%) Bash
5 32 (11.00%) C++
6 31 (10.65%) PowerShell
7 28 (9.62%) C
8 19 (6.53%) JavaScript
8 19 (6.53%) Perl
8 19 (6.53%) PL/SQL
9 14 (4.81%) Go
9 14 (4.81%) Groovy
10 11 (3.78%) Scala
10 11 (3.78%) TypeScript
11 10 (3.44%) C#
12 9 (3.09%) Ruby
13 7 (2.41%) Assembly Language
13 7 (2.41%) Search Processing Language
14 6 (2.06%) ProC
14 6 (2.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.31%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.28%) Degree
4 14 (4.81%) Master's Degree
5 10 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.41%) PhD
7 5 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.72%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.03%) HNC
9 3 (1.03%) RHCE
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.69%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.69%) ISEB
10 2 (0.69%) OSCP
10 2 (0.69%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.06%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.72%) QA
3 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.37%) JTAG
4 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.34%) NCSC
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (16.84%) Docker
2 18 (6.19%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (4.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 13 (4.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.12%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (2.75%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.06%) HDFS
6 6 (2.06%) vSphere
7 4 (1.37%) Active Directory
7 4 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (1.37%) Firmware
8 2 (0.69%) Varnish
8 2 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.69%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.34%) KVM
9 1 (0.34%) NFS
9 1 (0.34%) Snort
9 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 77 (26.46%) Ansible
2 71 (24.40%) Kubernetes
3 51 (17.53%) Prometheus
4 49 (16.84%) Grafana
5 46 (15.81%) Terraform
6 18 (6.19%) Kibana
7 16 (5.50%) logstash
8 12 (4.12%) Consul
8 12 (4.12%) Data Guard
9 10 (3.44%) Puppet
10 7 (2.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 6 (2.06%) Hadoop YARN
11 6 (2.06%) Netcool
11 6 (2.06%) Packer
11 6 (2.06%) Progress Chef
11 6 (2.06%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (2.06%) yum
12 5 (1.72%) Control-M
12 5 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.72%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 90 (30.93%) Oracle
2 48 (16.49%) Red Hat
3 28 (9.62%) Microsoft
4 21 (7.22%) VMware
5 16 (5.50%) IBM
6 15 (5.15%) Splunk
7 14 (4.81%) Informatica
8 13 (4.47%) Amdocs
9 12 (4.12%) SaltStack
10 10 (3.44%) SEEBURGER
11 9 (3.09%) Google
11 9 (3.09%) Sybase
11 9 (3.09%) Temenos
12 8 (2.75%) HP
13 7 (2.41%) Veritas
14 4 (1.37%) Murex
15 3 (1.03%) Juniper
15 3 (1.03%) NetApp
15 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
15 3 (1.03%) SAP