Shell Script Job Trends in Bristol

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Shell Script skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 108 117
Rank change year-on-year +32 +9 +70
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 5 21 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.45% 0.86% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.20% 2.96% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3 21 13
10th Percentile £85,500 £71,250 -
25th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £52,700
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +51.80% -12.17%
75th Percentile £102,500 £87,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - - £64,500
South West median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £52,700
% change year-on-year +18.75% +51.80% +18.76%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 227 709 707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 20.45% 28.90% 41.49%
Number of salaries quoted 171 514 629
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £38,950
25th Percentile £42,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +6.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in Bristol

Shell Script
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) AMQP
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (60.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (20.00%) DB2
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Law
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
2 1 (20.00%) webMethods Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Logistics
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Matrix Management
2 1 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Go
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Cognos
2 1 (20.00%) Software AG
2 1 (20.00%) webMethods