Shell Script Job Trends in Central London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 172 165
Rank change year-on-year +28 -7 +75
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 7 8 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.24% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.74% 0.60% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile - £70,625 £48,800
25th Percentile £43,375 £81,250 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £48,406 £113,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £56,113 £119,375 -
London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% -10.00% +15.38%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 944 1,325 1,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 32.15% 43.24% 47.14%
Number of salaries quoted 750 933 1,482
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - +3.23% -

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Central London

Shell Script
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in Central London over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Shell Script in Central London

Shell Script
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the Central London region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
City of London +16 7 £43,750 -46.97% 3
Shell Script
London

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
General
1 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Automation Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Linux Support
1 3 (42.86%) Linux Support Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (42.86%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Unix
3 3 (42.86%) CentOS
3 3 (42.86%) Rocky
3 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
4 1 (14.29%) AIX
4 1 (14.29%) Debian
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Analytics
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
1 3 (42.86%) Runbook
1 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Nagios
3 1 (14.29%) Podman
3 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat