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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 518 558
Rank change year-on-year -119 +40 -117
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 122 130 194
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.73% 1.10% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 88 66 112
10th Percentile - - £43,911
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £58,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% -22.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £84,125 £96,875 £106,750
UK median annual salary £54,500 £58,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.03% -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 16,697 11,804 21,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.59% 27.35% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,214 7,778 13,531
10th Percentile £39,818 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -35 40 £42,500 -4.49% 35
London -105 38 £75,000 +7.14% 110
South East -56 25 £65,000 +23.81% 28
North West -9 18 £42,500 -4.49% 19
Yorkshire - 11 £42,500 - 11
North East - 11 £42,500 - 5
East of England -36 8 £51,359 +31.69% 17
South West -71 5 £66,250 -30.26% 12
Midlands -38 4 £61,500 +6.49% 22
East Midlands -32 3 £61,500 +6.49% 6
West Midlands -46 1 - - 16
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 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.46%) Apache
2 3 (2.46%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.64%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.82%) JBoss
4 1 (0.82%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.64%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (9.02%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (4.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.82%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (26.23%) AWS
2 20 (16.39%) Azure
3 17 (13.93%) Serverless
4 13 (10.66%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (10.66%) GCP
5 12 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (5.74%) GitHub
7 7 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.92%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.10%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.64%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 2 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.64%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.64%) Google Workspace
11 2 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.66%) Firewall
2 12 (9.84%) DNS
3 6 (4.92%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.28%) 5G
5 3 (2.46%) 4G
5 3 (2.46%) HTTP
5 3 (2.46%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (2.46%) SSH
6 2 (1.64%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.64%) DHCP
6 2 (1.64%) Internet
6 2 (1.64%) MQTT
6 2 (1.64%) Network Security
6 2 (1.64%) SSL
6 2 (1.64%) X.509
7 1 (0.82%) FTP
7 1 (0.82%) LTE
7 1 (0.82%) VPN
7 1 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (33.61%) SQL Server
2 36 (29.51%) MySQL
3 15 (12.30%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (11.48%) Oracle Database
5 13 (10.66%) Relational Database
6 7 (5.74%) RDBMS
7 6 (4.92%) MongoDB
8 5 (4.10%) KDB
9 3 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.46%) Redis
10 2 (1.64%) Big Data
10 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.64%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (1.64%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (1.64%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.82%) Db2
11 1 (0.82%) OLTP
11 1 (0.82%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 19 (15.57%) Jenkins
2 15 (12.30%) Git
3 9 (7.38%) GitLab
4 8 (6.56%) JMeter
4 8 (6.56%) JUnit
4 8 (6.56%) Mockito
5 4 (3.28%) JIRA
5 4 (3.28%) Selenium
6 2 (1.64%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.64%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (1.64%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.82%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.82%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.82%) LSMW
7 1 (0.82%) Maven
General
1 38 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 31 (25.41%) Finance
3 30 (24.59%) Law
4 12 (9.84%) Banking
4 12 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.74%) Front Office
6 7 (5.74%) Legal
7 5 (4.10%) Retail
8 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.46%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.64%) Automotive
10 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.82%) Avionics
11 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.82%) Electronics
11 1 (0.82%) German Language
11 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (22.95%) Senior
2 27 (22.13%) DBA
3 20 (16.39%) Administrator
3 20 (16.39%) Database Engineer
4 12 (9.84%) Developer
4 12 (9.84%) IT Support
4 12 (9.84%) SQL DBA
5 11 (9.02%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (9.02%) Oracle DBA
5 11 (9.02%) Senior DBA
6 10 (8.20%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 7 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.74%) Security Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Applications Support
8 6 (4.92%) Support Assistant
9 5 (4.10%) IT Support Assistant
9 5 (4.10%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Support Team Leader
9 5 (4.10%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.75%) Terraform
2 12 (9.84%) HTML
2 12 (9.84%) JSON
2 12 (9.84%) REST
3 10 (8.20%) XML
4 9 (7.38%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (7.38%) Spring
5 8 (6.56%) Apache Camel
5 8 (6.56%) Hibernate
5 8 (6.56%) jQuery
5 8 (6.56%) Spring Boot
5 8 (6.56%) WireMock
6 7 (5.74%) RESTful
6 7 (5.74%) Web Services
7 6 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (4.92%) Kafka
8 5 (4.10%) FastAPI
8 5 (4.10%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (4.10%) FreeMarker
9 4 (3.28%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (26.23%) Replication
2 10 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.20%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (7.38%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.92%) Fixed Income
5 5 (4.10%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.10%) PKI
6 3 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.64%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.64%) CUDA
7 2 (1.64%) Derivative
7 2 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.64%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.82%) Life Science
8 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.82%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 94 (77.05%) Linux
2 26 (21.31%) Unix
3 19 (15.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (11.48%) Windows
5 12 (9.84%) AIX
6 10 (8.20%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (4.10%) CentOS
7 5 (4.10%) Windows Server
8 4 (3.28%) Mac OS
8 4 (3.28%) Ubuntu
9 3 (2.46%) Solaris
10 2 (1.64%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.64%) Debian
10 2 (1.64%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (1.64%) OpenWrt
10 2 (1.64%) Rocky
10 2 (1.64%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (40.16%) High Availability
2 47 (38.52%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (37.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 32 (26.23%) CI/CD
5 23 (18.85%) DevOps
6 22 (18.03%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (17.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (15.57%) Disaster Recovery
9 18 (14.75%) Agile
10 17 (13.93%) ITIL
10 17 (13.93%) Runbook
11 16 (13.11%) Incident Response
12 15 (12.30%) Configuration Management
13 14 (11.48%) Containerisation
13 14 (11.48%) Microservices
14 13 (10.66%) Change Management
14 13 (10.66%) Software Engineering
14 13 (10.66%) Test Automation
15 12 (9.84%) Root Cause Analysis
15 12 (9.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (53.28%) SQL
2 52 (42.62%) Python
3 33 (27.05%) Bash
4 21 (17.21%) Java
5 19 (15.57%) JavaScript
6 14 (11.48%) Korn
7 12 (9.84%) PL/SQL
8 7 (5.74%) C
9 6 (4.92%) Rust
10 5 (4.10%) C++
10 5 (4.10%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.46%) Perl
12 2 (1.64%) Fortran
12 2 (1.64%) Go
12 2 (1.64%) Groovy
13 1 (0.82%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 1 (0.82%) PHP
13 1 (0.82%) Scala
13 1 (0.82%) SystemVerilog
13 1 (0.82%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 22 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.84%) Degree
3 9 (7.38%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.92%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.10%) HNC
5 5 (4.10%) HND
6 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.46%) RHCE
7 3 (2.46%) RHCSA
8 2 (1.64%) IBM AIX Certification
8 2 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.82%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.92%) QA
2 3 (2.46%) GDPR
3 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.82%) DO-254
4 1 (0.82%) JTAG
System Software
1 32 (26.23%) Docker
2 12 (9.84%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (4.92%) vSphere
4 4 (3.28%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.82%) Firmware
6 1 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.82%) KVM
6 1 (0.82%) QEMU
6 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (15.57%) Kubernetes
2 18 (14.75%) Ansible
3 12 (9.84%) Data Guard
3 12 (9.84%) Oracle RMAN
4 10 (8.20%) Nagios
5 8 (6.56%) Kibana
5 8 (6.56%) Puppet
6 7 (5.74%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.92%) Grafana
8 4 (3.28%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (3.28%) Podman
9 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.64%) Oracle Flashback
9 2 (1.64%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.82%) Control-M
10 1 (0.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 36 (29.51%) Oracle
2 12 (9.84%) IBM
2 12 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.20%) Splunk
4 9 (7.38%) Red Hat
5 8 (6.56%) Dynatrace
6 7 (5.74%) VMware
7 5 (4.10%) Google
8 4 (3.28%) Apple
9 3 (2.46%) McAfee
9 3 (2.46%) Sybase
10 2 (1.64%) Adobe
10 2 (1.64%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.64%) Cisco
10 2 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.64%) Juniper
10 2 (1.64%) Meraki
10 2 (1.64%) Okta
10 2 (1.64%) SAP
10 2 (1.64%) SonicWALL