Shell Script Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > Yorkshire

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 71 97
Rank change year-on-year -35 +26 +23
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 25 10 16
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.24% 1.06% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.88% 3.38% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 9
10th Percentile £362 £486 £360
25th Percentile £447 £534 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £599 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% +19.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £539 £623 £588
90th Percentile £603 £661 £600
England median daily rate £475 £515 £529
% change year-on-year -7.77% -2.65% -3.82%

All Programming Languages
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 645 296 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.07% 31.52% 25.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 202 336
10th Percentile £355 £359 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £473
Median % change year-on-year - +5.82% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £587 £587
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
England median daily rate £511 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.53% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £26.25 £16.97
25th Percentile £49.25 £27.56 £19.44
Median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +130.07% -57.15%
75th Percentile £49.75 £100.66 £62.00
90th Percentile - £102.00 £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Shell Script
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Shell Script
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Shell Script in Yorkshire

Shell Script
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Shell Script
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
South Yorkshire -44 24 £490 -15.88%
West Yorkshire -20 1 £447 -31.23% 1
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (12.00%) Apache
1 3 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (12.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) GCP
1 7 (28.00%) GitHub
2 6 (24.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (12.00%) AWS KMS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) DNS
1 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (12.00%) Firewall
3 1 (4.00%) BIG-IP
3 1 (4.00%) DHCP
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (12.00%) Apache Hive
3 3 (12.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (12.00%) HBase
3 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (12.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Git
1 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.00%) GitLab
2 4 (16.00%) JIRA
3 3 (12.00%) CircleCI
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Private Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Architect
2 3 (12.00%) DBA
2 3 (12.00%) Hadoop Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (12.00%) Platform Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Administrator
3 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Developer
4 1 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) GCP Software Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Quality Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Site Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) .NET
2 3 (12.00%) Kafka
2 3 (12.00%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.00%) JSON
4 1 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (4.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Linux
2 6 (24.00%) Unix
3 4 (16.00%) Windows
4 3 (12.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (36.00%) Containerisation
3 8 (32.00%) Observability
3 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (28.00%) DevOps
4 7 (28.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (20.00%) Agile
6 5 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (20.00%) Service Management
6 5 (20.00%) Task Automation
7 4 (16.00%) AI
7 4 (16.00%) Business Impact Analysis
7 4 (16.00%) Impact Analysis
7 4 (16.00%) ITIL
7 4 (16.00%) ITSM
7 4 (16.00%) Service Delivery
7 4 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) Python
2 7 (28.00%) Java
3 6 (24.00%) Bash
4 4 (16.00%) Go
4 4 (16.00%) Perl
5 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (12.00%) SQL
6 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.00%) Ruby
6 1 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) OCP
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
2 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (12.00%) HDFS
4 2 (8.00%) KVM
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Ansible
2 8 (32.00%) Terraform
3 7 (28.00%) Grafana
3 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (12.00%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (12.00%) Puppet
6 1 (4.00%) Data Guard
6 1 (4.00%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Splunk
2 7 (28.00%) Oracle
2 7 (28.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (12.00%) Dell
3 3 (12.00%) Pure Storage
4 2 (8.00%) Google
5 1 (4.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.00%) F5
5 1 (4.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat