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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 69 91
Rank change year-on-year -53 +22 +29
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 18 15 12
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.83% 1.69% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.73% 5.14% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 7
10th Percentile £356 £453 £360
25th Percentile £407 £525 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £588 £485
Median % change year-on-year -21.70% +21.13% -9.77%
75th Percentile £530 £623 £500
90th Percentile £591 £650 £560
England median daily rate £460 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -12.38% - -3.67%

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 659 292 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 30.37% 32.85% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 206 321
10th Percentile £358 £351 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +13.06% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £627 £650 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £28.34 £27.80
25th Percentile £49.25 £31.47 £40.35
Median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +45.83% -0.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £102.00 £62.88
90th Percentile - - £63.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -59 17 £480 -18.30%
West Yorkshire -30 1 £447 -25.50% 2
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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) OpenShift
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (16.67%) AWS KMS
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) GCP
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) DNS
2 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 3 (16.67%) Firewall
4 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
4 2 (11.11%) SAN
5 1 (5.56%) BIG-IP
5 1 (5.56%) DHCP
5 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 3 (16.67%) MySQL
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (22.22%) GitLab
2 4 (22.22%) JIRA
3 3 (16.67%) CircleCI
3 3 (16.67%) Git
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Banking
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Law
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.56%) Private Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) DBA
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (16.67%) Platform Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Quality Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.56%) JSON
3 1 (5.56%) LDAP
3 1 (5.56%) OpenID
3 1 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) PKI
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 8 (44.44%) Unix
3 6 (33.33%) Windows
4 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (16.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (38.89%) Observability
4 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (27.78%) Migration
5 5 (27.78%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) Secrets Management
6 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
6 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Change Management
7 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 3 (16.67%) Key Management
7 3 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
7 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) Bash
2 4 (22.22%) Go
3 3 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Perl
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) Ruby
5 1 (5.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) OCP
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (27.78%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (11.11%) KVM
3 2 (11.11%) SRDF
3 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Ansible
2 8 (44.44%) Terraform
3 7 (38.89%) Grafana
3 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
4 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
5 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
5 2 (11.11%) Puppet
6 1 (5.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
1 6 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 6 (33.33%) Splunk
2 5 (27.78%) Dell
3 3 (16.67%) Pure Storage
4 2 (11.11%) Broadcom
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco
4 2 (11.11%) HP
4 2 (11.11%) TOWER Software
4 2 (11.11%) VMware
5 1 (5.56%) AppDynamics
5 1 (5.56%) F5
5 1 (5.56%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.56%) Red Hat