Shell Script Job Trends in England

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 515 600
Rank change year-on-year -102 +85 -73
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 74 105 246
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.089% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.50% 0.87% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 46 61 172
10th Percentile - £38,500 £42,288
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £96,125
UK median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,709 12,085 27,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 31.79% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 10,469 8,204 22,494
10th Percentile £36,450 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in England

Shell Script
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in England over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the England region over the 6 months to 26 May 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
London -47 37 £75,000 +7.14% 16
South East -19 19 £67,000 +24.65% 15
North of England -37 12 £42,500 -4.49% 7
Yorkshire -46 5 £42,500 - 2
North West -15 4 £42,500 -4.49% 4
Midlands -52 3 £61,500 +2.50% 3
North East - 3 £42,500 - 1
West Midlands -55 2 - - 2
South West -61 2 - - 3
East of England -26 1 £70,000 +79.49% 5
East Midlands -33 1 £61,500 - 1
Shell Script
UK

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.35%) Apache
2 1 (1.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.05%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (8.11%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (5.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.97%) AWS
2 13 (17.57%) Azure
3 12 (16.22%) Serverless
4 10 (13.51%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (12.16%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (10.81%) GCP
7 7 (9.46%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.41%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.41%) GitHub
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.70%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (2.70%) Algolia
10 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.70%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.70%) Firebase
10 2 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.70%) Google Workspace
10 2 (2.70%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.92%) Firewall
2 6 (8.11%) DNS
3 3 (4.05%) Network Security
3 3 (4.05%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.70%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (2.70%) SpaceWire
5 1 (1.35%) DHCP
5 1 (1.35%) FTP
5 1 (1.35%) LAN
5 1 (1.35%) MQTT
5 1 (1.35%) NAS
5 1 (1.35%) SAN
5 1 (1.35%) SSL
5 1 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (27.03%) SQL Server
2 14 (18.92%) MySQL
3 11 (14.86%) Oracle Database
4 10 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (13.51%) Relational Database
5 6 (8.11%) RDBMS
6 5 (6.76%) KDB
7 3 (4.05%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.05%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (4.05%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (4.05%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (2.70%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.35%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (1.35%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (1.35%) SAP HANA
9 1 (1.35%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 14 (18.92%) Git
2 13 (17.57%) Jenkins
3 8 (10.81%) JMeter
4 7 (9.46%) JUnit
4 7 (9.46%) Mockito
5 5 (6.76%) GitLab
6 4 (5.41%) JIRA
7 3 (4.05%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (2.70%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.70%) Storybook
9 1 (1.35%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.35%) LabVIEW
9 1 (1.35%) LSMW
9 1 (1.35%) Selenium
9 1 (1.35%) Subversion
General
1 21 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.57%) Finance
3 12 (16.22%) Law
4 9 (12.16%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.46%) Banking
6 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (6.76%) Front Office
7 5 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (5.41%) Retail
9 2 (2.70%) German Language
10 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.35%) Electronics
10 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (28.38%) DBA
2 16 (21.62%) Administrator
3 13 (17.57%) Senior
4 12 (16.22%) SQL DBA
5 9 (12.16%) Developer
6 7 (9.46%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Oracle DBA
7 6 (8.11%) IT Support
7 6 (8.11%) Senior DBA
7 6 (8.11%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 5 (6.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (5.41%) IT Assistant
9 4 (5.41%) IT Support Assistant
9 4 (5.41%) Java Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Support Assistant
10 3 (4.05%) Database Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Oracle Database Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.51%) JSON
2 9 (12.16%) HTML
2 9 (12.16%) XML
3 8 (10.81%) REST
3 8 (10.81%) Spring
4 7 (9.46%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (9.46%) Apache Camel
4 7 (9.46%) Hibernate
4 7 (9.46%) jQuery
4 7 (9.46%) Spring Boot
4 7 (9.46%) WireMock
5 6 (8.11%) RESTful
6 5 (6.76%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (6.76%) Web Services
7 4 (5.41%) FreeMarker
7 4 (5.41%) JSON Schema
7 4 (5.41%) LDAP
7 4 (5.41%) Regular Expression
8 3 (4.05%) 802.1X
8 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.57%) Replication
2 8 (10.81%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.76%) Fixed Income
4 5 (6.76%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (6.76%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.05%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.05%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.35%) Clustering
7 1 (1.35%) Derivative
7 1 (1.35%) IoT
7 1 (1.35%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.35%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 49 (66.22%) Linux
2 16 (21.62%) Unix
3 12 (16.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (10.81%) Windows
5 6 (8.11%) AIX
5 6 (8.11%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (6.76%) CentOS
6 5 (6.76%) Mac OS
6 5 (6.76%) Ubuntu
6 5 (6.76%) Windows Server
7 3 (4.05%) Apple iOS
8 2 (2.70%) Debian
8 2 (2.70%) tvOS
8 2 (2.70%) VxWorks
9 1 (1.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.43%) High Availability
2 21 (28.38%) CI/CD
2 21 (28.38%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (25.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (20.27%) Agile
5 13 (17.57%) DevOps
5 13 (17.57%) ITIL
5 13 (17.57%) Microservices
5 13 (17.57%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (14.86%) Runbook
6 11 (14.86%) SDLC
7 10 (13.51%) TDD
8 9 (12.16%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (12.16%) Incident Response
8 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (10.81%) BDD
9 8 (10.81%) Change Management
9 8 (10.81%) Containerisation
9 8 (10.81%) Migration
9 8 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (45.95%) Python
2 31 (41.89%) SQL
3 20 (27.03%) Bash
4 14 (18.92%) JavaScript
5 12 (16.22%) Java
6 11 (14.86%) Korn
7 10 (13.51%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.41%) C++
8 4 (5.41%) Perl
8 4 (5.41%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.05%) Rust
10 2 (2.70%) C
10 2 (2.70%) Groovy
10 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.35%) ABAP
11 1 (1.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.16%) Degree
2 9 (12.16%) DV Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.05%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.35%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.35%) RHCE
7 1 (1.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.70%) ECSS
2 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.70%) WCAG
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (28.38%) Docker
2 10 (13.51%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.41%) vSphere
4 2 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.35%) KVM
5 1 (1.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.51%) Ansible
3 9 (12.16%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (10.81%) Data Guard
5 7 (9.46%) Kibana
5 7 (9.46%) Nagios
5 7 (9.46%) Terraform
6 6 (8.11%) Puppet
7 5 (6.76%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (5.41%) Prometheus
9 3 (4.05%) Grafana
9 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (2.70%) Oracle Flashback
10 2 (2.70%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (1.35%) Podman
11 1 (1.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (31.08%) Oracle
2 12 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.16%) Splunk
4 7 (9.46%) Dynatrace
5 6 (8.11%) IBM
5 6 (8.11%) VMware
6 5 (6.76%) Apple
6 5 (6.76%) Red Hat
7 4 (5.41%) Google
8 2 (2.70%) Adobe
8 2 (2.70%) Cisco
8 2 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.70%) Juniper
8 2 (2.70%) Meraki
8 2 (2.70%) NVIDIA
8 2 (2.70%) Okta
8 2 (2.70%) SAP
8 2 (2.70%) SendGrid
8 2 (2.70%) SonicWALL
8 2 (2.70%) Sybase