Shell Script Contract Job Trends in the North West

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 125 116 127
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 13 7 15
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.53% 0.31% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 1.37% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 11
10th Percentile £316 £348 -
25th Percentile £370 £357 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £360 £470
Median % change year-on-year +25.83% -23.40% +34.29%
75th Percentile £492 £428 £471
90th Percentile £600 £515 £553
England median daily rate £475 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% -1.85%
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 £63.75
% change year-on-year -15.26% +25.88% -12.67%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 656 512 716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.75% 22.79% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 320 541
10th Percentile £310 £350 £325
25th Percentile £358 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £453 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% -7.18% -5.11%
75th Percentile £525 £549 £575
90th Percentile £606 £610 £663
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 42
10th Percentile £35.97 £44.31 £45.88
25th Percentile £59.80 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% +40.75% +20.26%
75th Percentile - £86.00 £51.19
90th Percentile £83.75 £92.50 £73.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
% change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in the North West

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the North West

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire -14 9 £446 -23.10% 4
Manchester -10 4 £600 +66.67% 4
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (69.23%) JBoss
2 8 (61.54%) Apache
2 8 (61.54%) IIS
2 8 (61.54%) iPlanet
2 8 (61.54%) WebSphere
2 8 (61.54%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 9 (69.23%) OpenShift
3 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) DataStage
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) Git
2 9 (69.23%) Jenkins
2 9 (69.23%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (61.54%) Bitbucket Server
3 8 (61.54%) CA Release Automation
4 3 (23.08%) GitLab
5 2 (15.38%) JIRA
6 1 (7.69%) Gradle
6 1 (7.69%) JUnit
6 1 (7.69%) Maven
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Developer in Test
5 1 (7.69%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) LDAP
1 8 (61.54%) OAuth
1 8 (61.54%) OpenID
1 8 (61.54%) SAML
2 3 (23.08%) Node.js
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) SOAP
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Spring MVC
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Unix
2 9 (69.23%) Linux
3 8 (61.54%) Windows
4 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
1 11 (84.62%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (53.85%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
5 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
6 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
6 3 (23.08%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (23.08%) Problem Management
6 3 (23.08%) Static Application Security Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Microservices
7 2 (15.38%) SDLC
8 1 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
8 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
8 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
8 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Groovy
2 3 (23.08%) Go
2 3 (23.08%) Perl
2 3 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
1 8 (61.54%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Tivoli
2 8 (61.54%) CA Single Sign-On
2 8 (61.54%) CA Wily
2 8 (61.54%) Progress Chef
3 5 (38.46%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (23.08%) Ansible
4 3 (23.08%) Packer
4 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
1 9 (69.23%) Oracle
2 8 (61.54%) AppDynamics
2 8 (61.54%) Broadcom
2 8 (61.54%) IBM
2 8 (61.54%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Ab Initio
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica