Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 55 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.20% - 1.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.79% - 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £413 - -

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 127 82 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.45% 34.02% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 62 30
10th Percentile £355 £325 £347
25th Percentile £400 £357 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £452
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -9.29% -20.00%
75th Percentile £556 £490 £500
90th Percentile £596 £575 £555
North East median daily rate £475 £425 £465
% change year-on-year +11.76% -8.50% -17.42%
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 - - -
North East median hourly rate £65.00 £52.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% +9.47% -3.06%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Shell Script.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Shell Script.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 23 April 2026. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £413 - 1
Shell Script
North East

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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