Shell Script Job Trends in Birmingham

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 113 130
Rank change year-on-year +10 +17 +23
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 1 8 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.051% 0.47% 0.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.28% 1.46% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - £54,750 £44,295
25th Percentile - £56,875 £44,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,000 £44,600
Median % change year-on-year - +34.53% -6.11%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £44,738
90th Percentile - £63,000 £44,745
West Midlands median annual salary - £60,000 £44,600
% change year-on-year - +34.53% +10.12%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 354 548 647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.98% 31.86% 32.53%
Number of salaries quoted 286 254 600
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £82,575
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Shell Script
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle