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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 79 99
Rank change year-on-year -12 +20 +19
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 34 12 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.89% 0.94% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.73% 3.20% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 6 7
10th Percentile £377 £486 £345
25th Percentile £459 £534 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £599 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +19.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £613 £661 £613
England median daily rate £454 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -9.30% -5.66% -1.85%

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 593 375 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.93% 29.41% 22.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 253 297
10th Percentile £345 £356 £328
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile £49.25 £31.25 £19.91
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -59.41%
75th Percentile £49.75 £96.64 £25.58
90th Percentile - £102.00 £44.39
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.92
% change year-on-year - +4.97% -0.93%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 -19 34 £506 -13.09%
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 (8.82%) Apache
1 3 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) OpenShift
2 4 (11.76%) GCP
2 4 (11.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) NAS
2 2 (5.88%) SAN
3 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (38.24%) Oracle Database
2 10 (29.41%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.82%) Apache Hive
4 3 (8.82%) Hadoop
4 3 (8.82%) HBase
4 3 (8.82%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (50.00%) Git
2 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.88%) GitLab
4 1 (2.94%) Postman
General
1 17 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) DBA
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (8.82%) Architect
3 3 (8.82%) Hadoop Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Platform Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Administrator
4 2 (5.88%) Developer
4 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Migration Specialist
4 2 (5.88%) Server Migration Specialist
4 2 (5.88%) Server Specialist
4 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Splunk Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) GCP Software Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Python Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Senior
5 1 (2.94%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (29.41%) FastAPI
2 4 (11.76%) .NET
3 3 (8.82%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
1 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) VMS
3 3 (8.82%) Unix
3 3 (8.82%) Windows
4 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (41.18%) Agile
3 13 (38.24%) DevOps
4 10 (29.41%) API Integration
4 10 (29.41%) Task Automation
5 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
6 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
6 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (14.71%) Migration
7 4 (11.76%) AI
7 4 (11.76%) Business Impact Analysis
7 4 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 4 (11.76%) Design Patterns
7 4 (11.76%) Impact Analysis
7 4 (11.76%) ITIL
7 4 (11.76%) ITSM
7 4 (11.76%) Observability
7 4 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (11.76%) Service Management
7 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (76.47%) Python
2 4 (11.76%) Java
2 4 (11.76%) Perl
3 3 (8.82%) Bash
4 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) OCP
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (14.71%) Docker
4 3 (8.82%) HDFS
4 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
5 2 (5.88%) KVM
5 2 (5.88%) VMware NSX
5 2 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (61.76%) Ansible
2 10 (29.41%) Data Guard
2 10 (29.41%) yum
3 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
4 4 (11.76%) Puppet
4 4 (11.76%) Terraform
5 3 (8.82%) Grafana
5 3 (8.82%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.88%) vCenter Server
6 2 (5.88%) vRealize
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 4 (11.76%) Splunk
3 3 (8.82%) Dell
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) Pure Storage
3 3 (8.82%) VMware
4 2 (5.88%) F5
4 2 (5.88%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.94%) Sybase