Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 78 92
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 +26
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 6 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.51% 0.57% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.55% 2.13% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £466 £347 £381
25th Percentile £475 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £360 £400
Median % change year-on-year +50.69% -10.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £606 - £445
90th Percentile £618 £414 £506
North West median daily rate £453 £360 £470
% change year-on-year +25.83% -23.40% +34.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.63
25th Percentile - - £62.19
Median hourly rate - - £63.75
75th Percentile - - £64.69
90th Percentile - - £64.88
North West median hourly rate - - £63.75

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 387 282 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 32.60% 26.83% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 206 381
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £529 £525 £550
90th Percentile £613 £588 £650
North West median daily rate £445 £450 £480
% change year-on-year -1.11% -6.25% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 8
10th Percentile - - £60.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £64.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -5.45% +44.74%
75th Percentile £63.50 - £77.81
90th Percentile £70.00 - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -6.15% +40.75% +16.91%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Manchester

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in Manchester

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Shell Script.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) iPlanet
1 1 (16.67%) JBoss
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) OLTP
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (16.67%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Local Government
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OpenID
2 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Key Management
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (50.00%) ProC
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Go
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Packer
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (16.67%) CA Wily
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
3 1 (16.67%) Broadcom
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk