Shell Script Job Trends in Cheshire

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 1 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.076% 0.35% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.80% 1.25% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
North West median annual salary £60,000 £46,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% -16.36% +46.85%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

Shell Script falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 125 160 204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.53% 28.22% 34.81%
Number of salaries quoted 103 94 170
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £63,375 £82,699
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Shell Script
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Macclesfield - 1 £60,000 -
Shell Script
North West

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform