Shell Script Contracts in the North West

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 115 122
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 +35
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 22 8 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.00% 0.34% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.94% 1.53% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 11
10th Percentile £312 £368 £322
25th Percentile £358 £431 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.19% +5.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £520 £606 £581
90th Percentile £625 - £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -1.82%
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
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% -7.14% +64.71%

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 558 524 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.42% 21.95% 27.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 370 608
10th Percentile £313 £350 £362
25th Percentile £364 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £517
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -10.54% +0.39%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £600
90th Percentile £622 £610 £675
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 22 30
10th Percentile £27.12 £37.55 £36.79
25th Percentile £48.75 £46.39 £45.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +19.10% +26.87%
75th Percentile £86.63 £74.00 £52.30
90th Percentile £91.25 £96.05 £65.08
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Shell Script in the North West

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 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Shell Script in the North West

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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 6 August 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 -8 14 £358 -39.06%
Manchester +6 8 £402 -10.67% 6
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (40.91%) JBoss
2 7 (31.82%) Tomcat
3 6 (27.27%) WebSphere
3 6 (27.27%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (9.09%) Apache
4 2 (9.09%) IIS
4 2 (9.09%) iPlanet
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) OpenShift
3 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) IBM Cloud
3 4 (18.18%) npm
4 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Calico
2 2 (9.09%) Kerberos
3 1 (4.55%) DHCP
3 1 (4.55%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) HTTP
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (68.18%) Git
2 14 (63.64%) Jenkins
3 11 (50.00%) Maven
4 9 (40.91%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (31.82%) Gradle
5 7 (31.82%) JIRA
5 7 (31.82%) JUnit
6 6 (27.27%) GitLab
7 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (9.09%) CA Release Automation
General
1 9 (40.91%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Banking
4 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Developer in Test
6 1 (4.55%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) REST
1 7 (31.82%) SOAP
1 7 (31.82%) Spring
1 7 (31.82%) Spring Boot
2 6 (27.27%) Spring Cloud
3 3 (13.64%) Node.js
3 3 (13.64%) Spring MVC
4 2 (9.09%) AWS CDK
4 2 (9.09%) LDAP
4 2 (9.09%) OAuth
4 2 (9.09%) OpenID
4 2 (9.09%) SAML
5 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.55%) Insider Threat
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (86.36%) Linux
2 10 (45.45%) Unix
3 5 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (18.18%) Android
4 4 (18.18%) Apple iOS
5 2 (9.09%) Windows
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
2 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (31.82%) Design Patterns
3 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (31.82%) Microservices
3 7 (31.82%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (13.64%) Agile
5 3 (13.64%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
5 3 (13.64%) MVC
5 3 (13.64%) SDLC
6 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
6 2 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 2 (9.09%) Mobile Application Development
6 2 (9.09%) Problem Management
6 2 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) Java
3 5 (22.73%) Ruby
4 3 (13.64%) Perl
5 2 (9.09%) Go
5 2 (9.09%) Groovy
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.55%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) RHCE
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 4 (18.18%) Istio
4 2 (9.09%) Ansible
4 2 (9.09%) CA Single Sign-On
4 2 (9.09%) CA Wily
4 2 (9.09%) Packer
4 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
4 2 (9.09%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle
2 6 (27.27%) IBM
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 5 (22.73%) Red Hat
4 3 (13.64%) Splunk
5 2 (9.09%) AppDynamics
5 2 (9.09%) Broadcom