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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 94 110
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing Shell Script 42 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.72% 0.73% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.05% 2.40% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 8 4
10th Percentile £454 £460 £401
25th Percentile £465 £462 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £537 £588
90th Percentile £610 £599 -
England median daily rate £500 £510 £535
% change year-on-year -1.96% -4.67% -2.73%

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 522 459 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 33.81% 30.52% 23.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 333 333
10th Percentile £339 £357 £363
25th Percentile £400 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 6
10th Percentile - £29.25 £18.32
25th Percentile - £34.38 £21.31
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £24.05
Median % change year-on-year - +66.35% -7.52%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £43.43
90th Percentile - £63.75 £50.55
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +16 38 £500 +5.26% 1
West Yorkshire -7 3 £500 -23.08% 1
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (11.90%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) GitHub
2 8 (19.05%) GCP
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (7.14%) CloudBees
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (4.76%) AWS KMS
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (4.76%) dbt
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.76%) Serverless
5 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) DNS
2 6 (14.29%) NAS
2 6 (14.29%) SAN
3 5 (11.90%) Firewall
4 3 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.76%) Network Security
5 2 (4.76%) SSL
5 2 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) Oracle Database
2 10 (23.81%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.52%) BigQuery
3 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.14%) Apache Hive
4 3 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 3 (7.14%) HBase
4 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.76%) Bigtable
5 2 (4.76%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (66.67%) Git
2 20 (47.62%) Jenkins
3 8 (19.05%) GitLab
4 2 (4.76%) JIRA
5 1 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 24 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.38%) Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Automation Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (7.14%) Hadoop Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Architect
4 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Data Architect
4 2 (4.76%) DBA
4 2 (4.76%) Developer
4 2 (4.76%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) GCP Architect
4 2 (4.76%) GCP Data Architect
4 2 (4.76%) Lead
4 2 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Migration Specialist
4 2 (4.76%) Server Migration Specialist
4 2 (4.76%) Server Specialist
4 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) FastAPI
2 7 (16.67%) Middleware
3 6 (14.29%) .NET
4 3 (7.14%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 21 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (16.67%) Windows
3 6 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.76%) Unix
4 2 (4.76%) VMS
5 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (61.90%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (50.00%) Agile
3 20 (47.62%) DevOps
4 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
5 10 (23.81%) API Integration
5 10 (23.81%) Task Automation
6 9 (21.43%) Scrum
7 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (16.67%) Design Patterns
8 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 6 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (14.29%) Configuration Management
9 6 (14.29%) Kanban
9 6 (14.29%) Migration
9 6 (14.29%) Observability
10 5 (11.90%) Architectural Design
10 5 (11.90%) Containerisation
10 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (9.52%) Business Impact Analysis
11 4 (9.52%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 38 (90.48%) Python
2 9 (21.43%) Java
3 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.52%) Perl
5 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.14%) Kotlin
6 2 (4.76%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (4.76%) Bash
6 2 (4.76%) Groovy
6 2 (4.76%) Scala
6 2 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (4.76%) GDPR
1 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.76%) NIST
1 2 (4.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (21.43%) Docker
3 8 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (16.67%) vSphere
5 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 6 (14.29%) VMware NSX
6 5 (11.90%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (7.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (69.05%) Ansible
2 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
3 10 (23.81%) Data Guard
3 10 (23.81%) yum
4 6 (14.29%) Puppet
4 6 (14.29%) vCenter Server
4 6 (14.29%) vRealize
5 5 (11.90%) Grafana
5 5 (11.90%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.14%) Hadoop YARN
6 3 (7.14%) Terraform
7 2 (4.76%) Control-M
7 2 (4.76%) Kustomize
8 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (2.38%) SCCM
8 1 (2.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) Oracle
2 8 (19.05%) VMware
3 6 (14.29%) Splunk
4 4 (9.52%) Google
4 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.52%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.76%) Commvault
5 2 (4.76%) F5
6 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.38%) Sybase