Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Shell Script skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 54 62
Rank change year-on-year -24 +8 +35
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 1 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.13% 0.46% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.39% 1.21% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% +33.33% -16.28%
75th Percentile - - £500
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £447 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -25.50% +33.33% -16.28%

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 255 165 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 33.29% 37.93% 26.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 111 171
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £405 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £594
90th Percentile £625 £725 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £476 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.46% +2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £28.34 £23.70
25th Percentile - £31.47 £30.08
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £41.35
Median % change year-on-year - +118.64% -40.93%
75th Percentile - £102.00 £51.99
90th Percentile - - £58.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £61.61 £41.35
% change year-on-year - +48.99% -40.93%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Leeds

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk