Shell Script Contracts in the Thames Valley

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 119 103
Rank change year-on-year +24 -16 +36
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 10 15 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.67% 0.56% 1.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.47% 2.80% 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 32
10th Percentile £400 £324 £376
25th Percentile £513 £406 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £510
Median % change year-on-year +19.56% -11.76% -13.92%
75th Percentile £540 £625 £562
90th Percentile £568 £650 £624
South East median daily rate £600 £400 £523
% change year-on-year +50.00% -23.44% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £25.17
25th Percentile - - £30.46
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £41.03
Median % change year-on-year - +58.44% -
75th Percentile - - £51.71
90th Percentile - - £57.06
South East median hourly rate - £65.00 £41.03
% change year-on-year - +58.44% -

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 405 536 656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.02% 20.14% 22.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 370 481
10th Percentile £325 £362 £338
25th Percentile £414 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £700 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.39% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 18
10th Percentile £23.67 £33.94 £24.75
25th Percentile £27.90 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £42.00 £58.49 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% +2.84% -14.06%
75th Percentile £59.61 £65.00 £78.33
90th Percentile £70.16 £70.47 £79.84
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £62.50 £56.47
% change year-on-year -12.10% +10.68% +30.07%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the Thames Valley

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in the Thames Valley

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the Thames Valley

Shell Script
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the Thames Valley

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 June 2025. 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
Berkshire +24 10 £538 +3.46% 16
Shell Script
South East

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (40.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (10.00%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) SonarCloud
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) SMTP
2 4 (40.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) FTP
3 1 (10.00%) PuTTY
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) Telnet
3 1 (10.00%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JMeter
2 2 (20.00%) JUnit
2 2 (20.00%) Mockito
3 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) Subversion
3 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (10.00%) Toad
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Camel
1 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) jQuery
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) Spring
1 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
1 2 (20.00%) WireMock
1 2 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Clustering
1 4 (40.00%) PKI
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) CMDB
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (20.00%) Unix
4 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) Workflow
3 2 (20.00%) BDD
3 2 (20.00%) Process Management
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) Build Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (10.00%) ITSM
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (10.00%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (40.00%) vSphere
1 4 (40.00%) XenApp
1 4 (40.00%) XenDesktop
2 3 (30.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) NFS
3 1 (10.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (40.00%) WSUS
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Kibana
4 1 (10.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) Terraform
4 1 (10.00%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Citrix
2 4 (40.00%) Dell
2 4 (40.00%) HP
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (30.00%) Splunk
4 2 (20.00%) Remedy
5 1 (10.00%) BMC
5 1 (10.00%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (10.00%) New Relic
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle
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