Shell Script Job Trends in the City of London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 149 143
Rank change year-on-year +22 -6 +86
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 5 15 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.56% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% 1.20% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 8
10th Percentile - £54,000 £58,775
25th Percentile £43,375 £60,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £92,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -52.70% +17.46% -1.56%
75th Percentile £48,406 £107,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £56,113 £140,000 £112,250
Central London median annual salary £43,750 £98,750 £78,750
% change year-on-year -55.70% +25.40% -1.56%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 791 1,250 1,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 34.08% 47.08% 50.85%
Number of salaries quoted 640 913 1,290
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,175
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in the City of London

Shell Script
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Shell Script in the City of London

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Support
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Support Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) CentOS
2 3 (60.00%) Rocky
2 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (40.00%) Unix
4 1 (20.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) Debian
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Nagios
3 1 (20.00%) Podman
3 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk