Shell Script Job Trends in Berkshire

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 100 120
Rank change year-on-year -15 +20 +37
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 11 23 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.56% 1.39% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.07% 3.91% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 0 8 5
10th Percentile - £53,688 £53,750
25th Percentile - £58,422 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £62,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.76% +37.00%
75th Percentile - £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile - £69,125 £88,250
South East median annual salary £53,750 £59,563 £58,503
% change year-on-year -9.76% +1.81% +17.01%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

Shell Script falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 270 588 817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.82% 35.66% 39.05%
Number of salaries quoted 181 347 571
10th Percentile £40,000 £44,400 £38,130
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,188 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +14.41% -5.60%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £91,250
South East median annual salary £56,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% -4.35%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Shell Script
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +17 11 - - 3
Shell Script
South East

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 11 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 11 (100.00%) JMeter
1 11 (100.00%) JUnit
1 11 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 11 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
1 11 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 11 (100.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 11 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 11 (100.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 11 (100.00%) Apache Camel
1 11 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 11 (100.00%) HTML
1 11 (100.00%) jQuery
1 11 (100.00%) JSON
1 11 (100.00%) REST
1 11 (100.00%) Spring
1 11 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 11 (100.00%) Web Services
1 11 (100.00%) WireMock
1 11 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
1 11 (100.00%) BDD
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 11 (100.00%) Microservices
1 11 (100.00%) Process Management
1 11 (100.00%) SDLC
1 11 (100.00%) TDD
1 11 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 11 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kibana
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 11 (100.00%) Splunk