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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 519 553
Rank change year-on-year -113 +34 -104
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 117 139 197
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.32% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.70% 1.13% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 87 76 122
10th Percentile - £38,500 £44,243
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,188 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -22.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £84,250 £95,000 £110,556
UK median annual salary £52,500 £58,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.48% -22.67% +7.14%

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 16,727 12,346 21,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.28% 28.16% 29.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,250 8,239 14,919
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 29 August 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 29 August 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
North of England -25 40 £42,500 -4.49% 27
London -104 38 £75,000 +7.14% 70
South East -41 26 £65,000 +58.54% 16
North West -8 18 £42,500 -4.49% 16
Yorkshire - 11 £42,500 - 7
North East - 11 £42,500 - 4
East of England -19 7 £51,359 +31.69% 7
Midlands -44 3 £61,500 +6.49% 10
South West -67 3 - - 9
East Midlands -29 2 £61,500 +6.49% 6
West Midlands -27 1 - - 4
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 5 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.56%) Apache
3 2 (1.71%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.85%) JBoss
4 1 (0.85%) nginx
4 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.56%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (9.40%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (4.27%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.37%) AWS
2 18 (15.38%) Azure
3 14 (11.97%) Serverless
4 12 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (9.40%) GCP
6 9 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.13%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.27%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.42%) GitHub
9 4 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.71%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 2 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.71%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (1.71%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.71%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.68%) Firewall
2 13 (11.11%) DNS
3 4 (3.42%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.71%) 5G
5 2 (1.71%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (1.71%) DHCP
5 2 (1.71%) MQTT
5 2 (1.71%) Network Security
5 2 (1.71%) SSL
5 2 (1.71%) X.509
6 1 (0.85%) 4G
6 1 (0.85%) FTP
6 1 (0.85%) HTTP
6 1 (0.85%) LTE
6 1 (0.85%) SSH
6 1 (0.85%) VPN
6 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (35.90%) SQL Server
2 34 (29.06%) MySQL
3 14 (11.97%) Oracle Database
4 12 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (10.26%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.13%) RDBMS
6 5 (4.27%) KDB
7 4 (3.42%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.71%) Big Data
9 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (1.71%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.85%) Db2
10 1 (0.85%) OLTP
10 1 (0.85%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.85%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.85%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 16 (13.68%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.40%) Git
3 7 (5.98%) GitLab
3 7 (5.98%) JMeter
3 7 (5.98%) JUnit
3 7 (5.98%) Mockito
4 4 (3.42%) JIRA
5 2 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (1.71%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (1.71%) Selenium
5 2 (1.71%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.85%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.85%) LSMW
6 1 (0.85%) Maven
General
1 38 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 31 (26.50%) Finance
3 30 (25.64%) Law
4 12 (10.26%) Banking
5 9 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.98%) Front Office
6 7 (5.98%) Legal
7 5 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.27%) Retail
8 2 (1.71%) Automotive
8 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) German Language
9 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (23.93%) DBA
2 25 (21.37%) Senior
3 20 (17.09%) Administrator
3 20 (17.09%) Database Engineer
4 12 (10.26%) IT Support
4 12 (10.26%) Oracle DBA
4 12 (10.26%) SQL DBA
5 11 (9.40%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (9.40%) Senior DBA
6 10 (8.55%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 9 (7.69%) Developer
8 6 (5.13%) Applications Support
8 6 (5.13%) Security Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Support Assistant
9 5 (4.27%) IT Assistant
9 5 (4.27%) IT Support Assistant
9 5 (4.27%) Lead
9 5 (4.27%) Support Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Support Team Leader
9 5 (4.27%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.97%) JSON
1 14 (11.97%) Terraform
2 12 (10.26%) XML
3 9 (7.69%) HTML
3 9 (7.69%) REST
4 8 (6.84%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (6.84%) Spring
5 7 (5.98%) Apache Camel
5 7 (5.98%) Hibernate
5 7 (5.98%) jQuery
5 7 (5.98%) JSON Schema
5 7 (5.98%) LDAP
5 7 (5.98%) Regular Expression
5 7 (5.98%) Spring Boot
5 7 (5.98%) WireMock
6 6 (5.13%) Web Services
7 5 (4.27%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (4.27%) FreeMarker
7 5 (4.27%) RESTful
8 4 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 32 (27.35%) Replication
2 9 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.84%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (6.84%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (5.13%) Fixed Income
5 5 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.27%) PKI
6 4 (3.42%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.71%) CUDA
8 2 (1.71%) Derivative
8 2 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.71%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.85%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.85%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 93 (79.49%) Linux
2 27 (23.08%) Unix
3 22 (18.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (14.53%) Windows
5 12 (10.26%) AIX
6 10 (8.55%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (6.84%) Windows Server
8 5 (4.27%) CentOS
8 5 (4.27%) Mac OS
9 4 (3.42%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
10 3 (2.56%) Solaris
11 2 (1.71%) Debian
11 2 (1.71%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (1.71%) OpenWrt
11 2 (1.71%) Rocky
11 2 (1.71%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.74%) High Availability
2 48 (41.03%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (19.66%) CI/CD
5 22 (18.80%) Performance Tuning
6 19 (16.24%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (15.38%) DevOps
7 18 (15.38%) ITIL
8 15 (12.82%) Agile
9 14 (11.97%) Incident Response
9 14 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (11.97%) Runbook
10 13 (11.11%) Change Management
10 13 (11.11%) Microservices
11 12 (10.26%) Configuration Management
11 12 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (9.40%) Capacity Planning
13 10 (8.55%) Containerisation
13 10 (8.55%) Root Cause Analysis
13 10 (8.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (53.85%) SQL
2 44 (37.61%) Python
3 29 (24.79%) Bash
4 20 (17.09%) Java
5 16 (13.68%) JavaScript
6 15 (12.82%) Korn
7 12 (10.26%) PL/SQL
8 6 (5.13%) C
8 6 (5.13%) Rust
9 5 (4.27%) C++
9 5 (4.27%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.56%) Perl
11 2 (1.71%) Fortran
11 2 (1.71%) Go
11 2 (1.71%) Groovy
12 1 (0.85%) C#
12 1 (0.85%) COBOL
12 1 (0.85%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 1 (0.85%) PHP
12 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.11%) Degree
2 13 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 7 (5.98%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.27%) HNC
4 5 (4.27%) HND
5 4 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.56%) RHCE
6 3 (2.56%) RHCSA
7 2 (1.71%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.85%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.42%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) GDPR
3 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.85%) JTAG
System Software
1 26 (22.22%) Docker
2 13 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (7.69%) vSphere
4 7 (5.98%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.85%) Firmware
6 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.85%) KVM
6 1 (0.85%) QEMU
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (15.38%) Ansible
1 18 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
3 12 (10.26%) Data Guard
4 10 (8.55%) Nagios
5 8 (6.84%) Puppet
6 7 (5.98%) Kibana
7 5 (4.27%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (4.27%) Prometheus
8 4 (3.42%) Grafana
8 4 (3.42%) Podman
9 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (1.71%) Oracle Flashback
10 2 (1.71%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.85%) Control-M
Vendors
1 37 (31.62%) Oracle
2 12 (10.26%) IBM
2 12 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.55%) VMware
4 9 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 8 (6.84%) Splunk
6 7 (5.98%) Dynatrace
7 5 (4.27%) Apple
8 3 (2.56%) Google
8 3 (2.56%) McAfee
8 3 (2.56%) Sybase
9 2 (1.71%) Adobe
9 2 (1.71%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.71%) Cisco
9 2 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.71%) Juniper
9 2 (1.71%) Meraki
9 2 (1.71%) Okta
9 2 (1.71%) SAP
9 2 (1.71%) SonicWALL