Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.22% - 1.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.81% - 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £413 - -

All Programming Languages
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 123 79 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 26.74% 35.91% 30.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 59 26
10th Percentile £350 £325 £356
25th Percentile £400 £358 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £465
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -9.58% -17.79%
75th Percentile £556 £490 £501
90th Percentile £596 £590 £575
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £410 £452
% change year-on-year +15.85% -9.29% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 9
10th Percentile £54.63 - -
25th Percentile £59.19 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.47% -
75th Percentile £70.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £52.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% +9.47% -

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Shell Script.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Shell Script.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) cloud-init
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Consul
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk