Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 37 31
Rank change year-on-year -9 -6 +11
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.64% 0.40% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.74% 1.02% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £283 - -
25th Percentile £295 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% - -
75th Percentile £347 - -
90th Percentile £361 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £360 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -30.77% -5.45% +13.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.82
Median hourly rate - - £22.28
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Programming Languages
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 115 98 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 36.74% 38.89% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 72 26
10th Percentile £260 £327 £377
25th Percentile £314 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £461
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -13.28% -3.91%
75th Percentile £440 £451 £569
90th Percentile £488 £536 £606
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £425 £464
% change year-on-year -2.94% -8.40% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.82
Median hourly rate - - £22.28
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £13.84 £22.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -38.49% -57.55% +169.51%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Northampton -12 2 £318 -10.67% 2
Shell Script
East Midlands

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle