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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 527 583
Rank change year-on-year -91 +56 -60
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 72 103 248
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.088% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.49% 0.81% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 46 62 175
10th Percentile - £38,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £47,500
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 £95,750
UK median annual salary £61,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -

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 14,550 12,686 27,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.70% 32.20% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,297 8,850 22,385
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 20 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 20 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 -38 34 £75,000 +7.14% 18
South East -24 19 £67,000 +24.65% 15
North of England -37 13 £42,500 -4.49% 6
North West -5 5 £42,500 -4.49% 3
Yorkshire -42 5 £42,500 - 2
Midlands -43 3 £61,500 +2.50% 1
North East - 3 £42,500 - 1
West Midlands -43 2 - -
South West -61 2 - - 2
East of England -19 1 £70,000 +79.49% 3
East Midlands -31 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 3 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (6.94%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (4.17%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.00%) AWS
2 12 (16.67%) Azure
2 12 (16.67%) Serverless
3 10 (13.89%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (11.11%) GCP
6 7 (9.72%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.56%) GitHub
8 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.78%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (2.78%) Algolia
9 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.78%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (2.78%) Firebase
9 2 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.78%) Sentry
9 2 (2.78%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 14 (19.44%) Firewall
2 6 (8.33%) DNS
3 3 (4.17%) Network Security
3 3 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (2.78%) SpaceWire
5 1 (1.39%) DHCP
5 1 (1.39%) FTP
5 1 (1.39%) LAN
5 1 (1.39%) MQTT
5 1 (1.39%) NAS
5 1 (1.39%) SAN
5 1 (1.39%) SSL
5 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (26.39%) SQL Server
2 14 (19.44%) MySQL
3 10 (13.89%) Oracle Database
3 10 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (13.89%) Relational Database
4 6 (8.33%) RDBMS
5 5 (6.94%) KDB
6 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (4.17%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (4.17%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (2.78%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.39%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.39%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (1.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (20.83%) Git
2 13 (18.06%) Jenkins
3 8 (11.11%) JMeter
4 7 (9.72%) JUnit
4 7 (9.72%) Mockito
5 5 (6.94%) GitLab
6 4 (5.56%) JIRA
7 3 (4.17%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (2.78%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (2.78%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.78%) Storybook
9 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.39%) LabVIEW
9 1 (1.39%) LSMW
9 1 (1.39%) Selenium
9 1 (1.39%) Subversion
9 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.67%) Law
3 11 (15.28%) Finance
4 9 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.94%) Banking
6 5 (6.94%) Front Office
6 5 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.17%) Retail
8 2 (2.78%) German Language
9 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Electronics
9 1 (1.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (27.78%) DBA
2 16 (22.22%) Administrator
3 12 (16.67%) SQL DBA
4 11 (15.28%) Senior
5 8 (11.11%) Developer
6 7 (9.72%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (8.33%) Oracle DBA
7 6 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) IT Support
8 5 (6.94%) Senior DBA
8 5 (6.94%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 5 (6.94%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Java Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) IT Assistant
10 3 (4.17%) IT Support Assistant
10 3 (4.17%) Java Developer
10 3 (4.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.89%) JSON
2 9 (12.50%) HTML
2 9 (12.50%) XML
3 8 (11.11%) Spring
4 7 (9.72%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (9.72%) Apache Camel
4 7 (9.72%) Hibernate
4 7 (9.72%) jQuery
4 7 (9.72%) REST
4 7 (9.72%) Spring Boot
4 7 (9.72%) WireMock
5 5 (6.94%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (6.94%) RESTful
5 5 (6.94%) Web Services
6 4 (5.56%) JSON Schema
6 4 (5.56%) LDAP
6 4 (5.56%) Regular Expression
7 3 (4.17%) 802.1X
7 3 (4.17%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.17%) FreeMarker
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.06%) Replication
2 8 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.94%) Fixed Income
4 5 (6.94%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (6.94%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.39%) Clustering
7 1 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.39%) IoT
7 1 (1.39%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 48 (66.67%) Linux
2 14 (19.44%) Unix
3 11 (15.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (11.11%) Windows
5 5 (6.94%) AIX
5 5 (6.94%) CentOS
5 5 (6.94%) Mac OS
5 5 (6.94%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (6.94%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.94%) Windows Server
6 3 (4.17%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.78%) Debian
7 2 (2.78%) tvOS
7 2 (2.78%) VxWorks
8 1 (1.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.94%) High Availability
2 22 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 19 (26.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (20.83%) Agile
6 14 (19.44%) DevOps
7 13 (18.06%) Microservices
7 13 (18.06%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (16.67%) ITIL
9 11 (15.28%) SDLC
10 10 (13.89%) Runbook
10 10 (13.89%) TDD
11 9 (12.50%) Containerisation
11 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (11.11%) BDD
12 8 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (11.11%) Incident Response
12 8 (11.11%) Migration
12 8 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (44.44%) Python
2 28 (38.89%) SQL
3 18 (25.00%) Bash
4 13 (18.06%) JavaScript
5 12 (16.67%) Java
6 10 (13.89%) Korn
7 9 (12.50%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.56%) C++
8 4 (5.56%) Perl
9 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.17%) Rust
10 2 (2.78%) C
10 2 (2.78%) Groovy
10 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.39%) ABAP
11 1 (1.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.50%) Degree
2 9 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 7 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.39%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.39%) RHCE
7 1 (1.39%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.78%) ECSS
2 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.78%) WCAG
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (29.17%) Docker
2 9 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.56%) vSphere
4 2 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.39%) KVM
5 1 (1.39%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (26.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.28%) Ansible
3 8 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
3 8 (11.11%) Terraform
4 7 (9.72%) Data Guard
4 7 (9.72%) Kibana
4 7 (9.72%) Nagios
5 6 (8.33%) Puppet
6 5 (6.94%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (5.56%) Prometheus
8 3 (4.17%) Grafana
8 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.78%) Oracle Flashback
9 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.39%) Argo
10 1 (1.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.39%) Podman
10 1 (1.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (29.17%) Oracle
2 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.50%) Splunk
4 7 (9.72%) Dynatrace
5 6 (8.33%) VMware
6 5 (6.94%) Apple
6 5 (6.94%) IBM
6 5 (6.94%) Red Hat
7 4 (5.56%) Google
8 2 (2.78%) Adobe
8 2 (2.78%) Cisco
8 2 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.78%) Juniper
8 2 (2.78%) Meraki
8 2 (2.78%) NVIDIA
8 2 (2.78%) Okta
8 2 (2.78%) SAP
8 2 (2.78%) SendGrid
8 2 (2.78%) SonicWALL
8 2 (2.78%) Sybase