Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 54 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.34% 0.21% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.52% 0.90% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £305 - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £580 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.10% - -
75th Percentile £480 - -
90th Percentile £482 - -
North West median daily rate £453 £360 £470
% change year-on-year +25.83% -23.40% +34.29%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 199 111 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.61% 23.42% 26.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 73 74
10th Percentile £310 £330 £373
25th Percentile £355 £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% -6.86% +13.97%
75th Percentile £480 £550 £579
90th Percentile £551 £638 £591
North West median daily rate £425 £453 £488
% change year-on-year -6.08% -7.18% -5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £44.30 £75.50 -
25th Percentile £65.75 £80.00 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £85.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +113.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £86.00 £86.38 £57.50
90th Percentile £92.75 £87.05 £68.00
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +14.25% +40.75% +20.26%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Shell Script relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Shell Script.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in Cheshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in Cheshire

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Knutsford -14 9 £446 -23.10% 1
Shell Script
North West

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (88.89%) JBoss
2 7 (77.78%) Apache
2 7 (77.78%) IIS
2 7 (77.78%) iPlanet
2 7 (77.78%) WebSphere
2 7 (77.78%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
1 8 (88.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) DataStage
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Git
1 8 (88.89%) Jenkins
1 8 (88.89%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (77.78%) Bitbucket Server
2 7 (77.78%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
4 1 (11.11%) Gradle
4 1 (11.11%) JUnit
4 1 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Developer in Test
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) LDAP
1 7 (77.78%) OAuth
1 7 (77.78%) OpenID
1 7 (77.78%) SAML
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Spring MVC
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Unix
2 8 (88.89%) Linux
3 7 (77.78%) Windows
4 6 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
1 7 (77.78%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
2 4 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Task Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 1 (11.11%) ETL
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) OO
5 1 (11.11%) OOP
5 1 (11.11%) Parallel Processing
5 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) SDET
5 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Groovy
2 2 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
1 7 (77.78%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Tivoli
2 7 (77.78%) CA Single Sign-On
2 7 (77.78%) CA Wily
2 7 (77.78%) Progress Chef
3 4 (44.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle
2 7 (77.78%) AppDynamics
2 7 (77.78%) Broadcom
2 7 (77.78%) IBM
2 7 (77.78%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Ab Initio
3 1 (11.11%) Informatica