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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 540 586
Rank change year-on-year -68 +46 -50
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 66 101 245
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.082% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.46% 0.79% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 45 59 175
10th Percentile - £38,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,500 £95,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 14,304 12,805 27,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.86% 32.96% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,075 8,979 22,382
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,475
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 £87,500 £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 13 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 13 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 -48 28 £75,000 +7.14% 24
South East -24 16 £62,500 +4.17% 17
North of England -23 14 £42,500 -4.49% 7
North West -6 6 £42,500 -4.49% 3
Yorkshire -56 5 £42,500 - 3
Midlands -45 3 £61,500 +2.50% 3
North East - 3 £42,500 - 1
West Midlands -33 2 - -
South West -47 2 - -
East of England -13 1 £70,000 +3.70% 2
East Midlands -23 1 £61,500 - 3
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 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.52%) Apache
2 1 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) SPSS
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (3.03%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.73%) AWS
2 11 (16.67%) Azure
3 8 (12.12%) Serverless
4 7 (10.61%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (10.61%) GCP
5 6 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (6.06%) GitHub
7 3 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.03%) Algolia
8 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.03%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.03%) Firebase
8 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.03%) SaaS
8 2 (3.03%) Sentry
8 2 (3.03%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.70%) Firewall
2 6 (9.09%) DNS
3 3 (4.55%) Network Security
4 2 (3.03%) SpaceWire
4 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.52%) DHCP
5 1 (1.52%) LAN
5 1 (1.52%) NAS
5 1 (1.52%) SAN
5 1 (1.52%) SSL
5 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 14 (21.21%) MySQL
3 8 (12.12%) Oracle Database
4 7 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (10.61%) Relational Database
5 5 (7.58%) KDB
5 5 (7.58%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.55%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (4.55%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (4.55%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (3.03%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.52%) Power BI
8 1 (1.52%) SAP HANA
8 1 (1.52%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Git
2 10 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.58%) JMeter
4 4 (6.06%) GitLab
4 4 (6.06%) JIRA
4 4 (6.06%) JUnit
4 4 (6.06%) Mockito
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (3.03%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.03%) Storybook
7 1 (1.52%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.52%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.52%) Selenium
7 1 (1.52%) Subversion
7 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Law
3 9 (13.64%) Finance
4 6 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.58%) Front Office
6 4 (6.06%) Banking
6 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.03%) German Language
7 2 (3.03%) Retail
8 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Electronics
8 1 (1.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (28.79%) DBA
2 16 (24.24%) Administrator
3 12 (18.18%) SQL DBA
4 9 (13.64%) Senior
5 8 (12.12%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Developer
6 6 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Support Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Oracle DBA
8 4 (6.06%) Senior DBA
8 4 (6.06%) Senior Oracle DBA
9 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Database Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) IT Support
9 3 (4.55%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Linux Administrator
9 3 (4.55%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 3 (4.55%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.64%) JSON
2 8 (12.12%) XML
3 7 (10.61%) REST
4 6 (9.09%) HTML
5 5 (7.58%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (7.58%) Spring
6 4 (6.06%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (6.06%) Apache Camel
6 4 (6.06%) Hibernate
6 4 (6.06%) jQuery
6 4 (6.06%) JSON Schema
6 4 (6.06%) LDAP
6 4 (6.06%) Regular Expression
6 4 (6.06%) Spring Boot
6 4 (6.06%) Web Services
6 4 (6.06%) WireMock
7 3 (4.55%) 802.1X
7 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.03%) Express.js
8 2 (3.03%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) Replication
2 5 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.58%) Fixed Income
2 5 (7.58%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.03%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.52%) Clustering
5 1 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.52%) IoT
5 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.52%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 47 (71.21%) Linux
2 12 (18.18%) Unix
3 11 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (10.61%) Windows
5 6 (9.09%) CentOS
6 5 (7.58%) Ubuntu
6 5 (7.58%) Windows Server
7 4 (6.06%) AIX
7 4 (6.06%) Mac OS
7 4 (6.06%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (4.55%) Apple iOS
9 2 (3.03%) Debian
9 2 (3.03%) VxWorks
10 1 (1.52%) Solaris
10 1 (1.52%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.85%) High Availability
2 22 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (28.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (25.76%) CI/CD
5 12 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (16.67%) Agile
6 11 (16.67%) DevOps
6 11 (16.67%) ITIL
7 10 (15.15%) SDLC
8 9 (13.64%) Microservices
8 9 (13.64%) Runbook
8 9 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (12.12%) Test Automation
10 7 (10.61%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (10.61%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (10.61%) Incident Response
10 7 (10.61%) Migration
10 7 (10.61%) Security Hardening
10 7 (10.61%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (42.42%) Python
2 25 (37.88%) SQL
3 19 (28.79%) Bash
4 9 (13.64%) Korn
5 8 (12.12%) Java
5 8 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.12%) PL/SQL
6 5 (7.58%) Perl
7 4 (6.06%) C++
8 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.03%) C
9 2 (3.03%) Groovy
9 2 (3.03%) Rust
9 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.64%) DV Cleared
3 8 (12.12%) Degree
4 5 (7.58%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.52%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (1.52%) RHCE
8 1 (1.52%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.03%) ECSS
2 2 (3.03%) WCAG
3 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (25.76%) Docker
2 8 (12.12%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.06%) vSphere
4 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.52%) KVM
5 1 (1.52%) Xen
Systems Management
1 15 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 10 (15.15%) Ansible
3 7 (10.61%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (10.61%) Terraform
4 6 (9.09%) Data Guard
4 6 (9.09%) Nagios
5 5 (7.58%) Puppet
6 4 (6.06%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (6.06%) Kibana
6 4 (6.06%) Prometheus
7 3 (4.55%) Grafana
7 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.03%) Oracle Flashback
8 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.52%) Argo
9 1 (1.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (1.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (27.27%) Oracle
2 9 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.09%) Splunk
3 6 (9.09%) VMware
4 5 (7.58%) Red Hat
5 4 (6.06%) Apple
5 4 (6.06%) Dynatrace
5 4 (6.06%) IBM
6 3 (4.55%) Google
7 2 (3.03%) SendGrid
7 2 (3.03%) Sybase
8 1 (1.52%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.52%) Delphix
8 1 (1.52%) Juniper
8 1 (1.52%) Meraki
8 1 (1.52%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.52%) Okta
8 1 (1.52%) Pure Storage
8 1 (1.52%) SAP