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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 65 96
Rank change year-on-year -69 +31 +13
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 12 25 9
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.46% 2.38% 0.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.60% 7.76% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 9
10th Percentile £412 £460 £400
25th Percentile £438 £484 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £500 £602 £498
90th Percentile - £638 £530
England median daily rate £475 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -9.52% +0.96% -5.45%

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 749 322 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.93% 30.61% 28.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 225 338
10th Percentile £356 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £405 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% -7.62%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £588
90th Percentile £615 £600 £632
England median daily rate £513 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.37% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile - £31.53 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 £61.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% -47.02% -
75th Percentile £25.00 £66.51 £63.75
90th Percentile - £85.74 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.20% -

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
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 26 May 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 -66 11 £500 - 1
West Yorkshire -31 1 £447 -18.73%
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 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) GitHub
1 5 (41.67%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (25.00%) AWS KMS
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (25.00%) Firewall
4 2 (16.67%) iSCSI
4 2 (16.67%) SAN
5 1 (8.33%) BIG-IP
5 1 (8.33%) DHCP
5 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) DataStage
2 1 (8.33%) DB2
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) GitLab
2 4 (33.33%) JIRA
3 3 (25.00%) CircleCI
3 3 (25.00%) Git
4 2 (16.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Advertising
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Architect
1 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Lead
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Quality Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) JSON
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) LDAP
2 1 (8.33%) OpenID
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) EMC VMAX
1 2 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Unix
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (66.67%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Observability
5 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Secrets Management
5 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (25.00%) Key Management
6 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
6 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
6 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Go
3 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) Bash
4 3 (25.00%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) COBOL
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) Ruby
5 1 (8.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) OCP
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) SRDF
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Ansible
2 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (58.33%) Terraform
3 5 (41.67%) Grafana
4 2 (16.67%) Control-M
4 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
4 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 2 (16.67%) Puppet
5 1 (8.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 4 (33.33%) Splunk
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) Broadcom
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Dell
3 2 (16.67%) HP
3 2 (16.67%) TOWER Software
3 2 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) Ab Initio
4 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
4 1 (8.33%) BMC
4 1 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (8.33%) IBM
4 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat