Shell Script Contracts in Cheshire

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 49 54
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 7 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.46% 1.16% 1.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.49% 4.96% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £425 £363 £320
25th Percentile £499 £424 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £588 £322
Median % change year-on-year -11.53% +82.45% -0.92%
75th Percentile - £606 £455
90th Percentile £572 - £534
North West median daily rate £520 £502 £500
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.35% +8.11%

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 156 121 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 32.43% 23.45% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 98 130
10th Percentile £323 £311 £325
25th Percentile £358 £378 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% -6.31% +19.29%
75th Percentile £492 £592 £575
90th Percentile £591 £618 £638
North West median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile - £41.25 £31.21
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% +6.25% +78.65%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £60.60
North West median hourly rate £80.75 £48.43 £44.05
% change year-on-year +66.74% +9.96% -11.87%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Cheshire

Shell Script
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in Cheshire

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in Cheshire over the 6 months to 23 May 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 23 May 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 -11 5 £520 -11.53%
Shell Script
North West

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (14.29%) JBoss
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Gradle
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Insider Threat
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
2 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) ETL
2 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (14.29%) SOAR
2 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) RHCE
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk