Shell Script Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 145 159
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 47 19 28
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.01% 0.53% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.49% 2.10% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 12 18
10th Percentile £355 £356 £371
25th Percentile £427 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £496 £470
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +5.53% -12.51%
75th Percentile £600 £593 £539
90th Percentile £613 £623 £588
England median daily rate £478 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -4.50% -6.54% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £64.38
90th Percentile - - £64.75
England median hourly rate £68.00 £80.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -15.26% +28.40% -14.38%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,348 906 1,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.10% 25.03% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 585 872
10th Percentile £325 £350 £325
25th Percentile £383 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £575
90th Percentile £626 £650 £650
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 51
10th Percentile £40.25 £34.10 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.84 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £49.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +24.49% +6.11% +11.28%
75th Percentile £73.20 £81.75 £50.13
90th Percentile £74.26 £97.99 £66.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.97% +1.99% -0.79%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in the North of England

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Shell Script.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the North of England

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Shell Script.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Yorkshire -21 34 £506 -15.45% 1
North West -15 13 £453 +25.83% 8
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (23.40%) Apache
2 8 (17.02%) IIS
2 8 (17.02%) iPlanet
2 8 (17.02%) JBoss
2 8 (17.02%) WebSphere
2 8 (17.02%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (8.51%) Apache Spark
4 3 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) OpenShift
2 12 (25.53%) AWS
3 4 (8.51%) GCP
3 4 (8.51%) GitHub
4 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.02%) Kerberos
2 3 (6.38%) Firewall
3 2 (4.26%) DNS
3 2 (4.26%) NAS
3 2 (4.26%) SAN
4 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (44.68%) Oracle Database
2 10 (21.28%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.51%) Hadoop
3 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.38%) Apache Hive
4 3 (6.38%) HBase
4 3 (6.38%) MySQL
5 1 (2.13%) Big Data
5 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.13%) DataStage
5 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.13%) OLTP
5 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (59.57%) Git
2 17 (36.17%) Jenkins
3 8 (17.02%) Bitbucket Server
3 8 (17.02%) CA Release Automation
3 8 (17.02%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (12.77%) GitLab
5 1 (2.13%) JIRA
5 1 (2.13%) Postman
General
1 17 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Finance
4 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (17.02%) Automation Engineer
2 7 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Senior
4 5 (10.64%) DBA
4 5 (10.64%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (8.51%) Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Hadoop Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Platform Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Administrator
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Migration Specialist
7 2 (4.26%) Server Migration Specialist
7 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) FastAPI
2 8 (17.02%) LDAP
2 8 (17.02%) OAuth
2 8 (17.02%) OpenID
2 8 (17.02%) SAML
3 4 (8.51%) .NET
4 3 (6.38%) Node.js
4 3 (6.38%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (4.26%) AWS CDK
5 2 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.26%) Middleware
6 1 (2.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
1 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.13%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (53.19%) Linux
2 12 (25.53%) Unix
3 11 (23.40%) Windows
4 8 (17.02%) Windows Server
5 5 (10.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (51.06%) DevOps
2 19 (40.43%) CI/CD
3 17 (36.17%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (31.91%) Agile
4 15 (31.91%) Task Automation
5 10 (21.28%) API Integration
5 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
6 8 (17.02%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (14.89%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (10.64%) Migration
9 4 (8.51%) AI
9 4 (8.51%) Configuration Management
9 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (8.51%) ITIL
9 4 (8.51%) ITSM
9 4 (8.51%) Observability
9 4 (8.51%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (8.51%) Service Management
9 4 (8.51%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (61.70%) Python
2 8 (17.02%) Groovy
3 7 (14.89%) Perl
4 5 (10.64%) Java
5 3 (6.38%) Bash
5 3 (6.38%) Go
5 3 (6.38%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.13%) ProC
7 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.38%) AWS Certification
1 3 (6.38%) OCP
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle Certification
1 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (27.66%) Docker
2 10 (21.28%) Active Directory
2 10 (21.28%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (17.02%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 6 (12.77%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (6.38%) HDFS
5 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (4.26%) KVM
6 2 (4.26%) VMware NSX
6 2 (4.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (51.06%) Ansible
2 10 (21.28%) Data Guard
2 10 (21.28%) yum
3 9 (19.15%) Tivoli
4 8 (17.02%) CA Single Sign-On
4 8 (17.02%) CA Wily
4 8 (17.02%) Progress Chef
5 7 (14.89%) Terraform
6 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
6 5 (10.64%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
7 4 (8.51%) Puppet
8 3 (6.38%) Grafana
8 3 (6.38%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (6.38%) Packer
9 2 (4.26%) vCenter Server
9 2 (4.26%) vRealize
10 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (2.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (46.81%) Oracle
2 12 (25.53%) Splunk
3 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
4 8 (17.02%) AppDynamics
4 8 (17.02%) Broadcom
4 8 (17.02%) IBM
5 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.38%) Dell
6 3 (6.38%) Pure Storage
6 3 (6.38%) VMware
7 2 (4.26%) F5
7 2 (4.26%) Google
8 1 (2.13%) Ab Initio
8 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.13%) Informatica
8 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.13%) Sybase