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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 523 463
Rank change year-on-year +14 -60 +73
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 107 193 240
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.32% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.98% 1.00% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 55 85 184
10th Percentile £38,500 £43,911 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,780 £52,500 £51,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £109,334 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £71,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -19.30% +1.79% +16.67%

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 10,965 19,372 19,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.15% 31.94% 41.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,652 11,549 16,245
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,125 £112,300 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +1.77%

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025. 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 +34 72 £68,750 -16.67% 35
South East +26 23 £57,500 +21.05% 37
East of England +30 12 £39,000 -42.22% 4
Midlands +38 8 £57,750 +5.00% 12
North of England -15 6 £27,500 -43.31% 5
South West +23 5 £95,000 +18.75% 5
West Midlands +39 4 - - 9
East Midlands +25 4 £57,750 +12.14% 3
North West -2 4 £43,500 - 3
Yorkshire -7 2 £27,500 -43.31% 2
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 (4.67%) Anypoint
1 5 (4.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (3.74%) Confluence
2 4 (3.74%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.87%) JBoss
3 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.87%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.93%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Shopify
2 4 (3.74%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 56 (52.34%) AWS
2 30 (28.04%) Azure
3 27 (25.23%) Amazon EC2
4 26 (24.30%) Serverless
5 25 (23.36%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (21.50%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (8.41%) OpenShift
8 7 (6.54%) GCP
8 7 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (5.61%) SaaS
10 5 (4.67%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.67%) BlazeMeter
10 5 (4.67%) Boomi
10 5 (4.67%) GitHub
10 5 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.67%) iPaaS
10 5 (4.67%) Power Automate
10 5 (4.67%) Workato
11 4 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.54%) Firewall
2 5 (4.67%) DNS
3 4 (3.74%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.74%) VPN
4 3 (2.80%) AMQP
4 3 (2.80%) DHCP
4 3 (2.80%) SSL
5 2 (1.87%) Network Security
5 2 (1.87%) SAN
5 2 (1.87%) SSH
6 1 (0.93%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.93%) HTTP
6 1 (0.93%) RTP
6 1 (0.93%) VLAN
6 1 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (37.38%) Relational Database
2 28 (26.17%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (20.56%) RDBMS
4 16 (14.95%) MySQL
5 7 (6.54%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.67%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.74%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (3.74%) KDB
7 4 (3.74%) Kdb+
7 4 (3.74%) MS Access
7 4 (3.74%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (2.80%) InfluxDB
8 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.80%) Redis
9 2 (1.87%) Big Data
9 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.87%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 42 (39.25%) Jenkins
2 26 (24.30%) JUnit
3 24 (22.43%) Mockito
4 23 (21.50%) JMeter
5 18 (16.82%) Git
6 10 (9.35%) JIRA
7 8 (7.48%) GitLab
8 7 (6.54%) Maven
9 4 (3.74%) Gradle
9 4 (3.74%) Toad
10 3 (2.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.80%) Subversion
11 2 (1.87%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.93%) Postman
12 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.93%) Xcode
12 1 (0.93%) XCTest
General
1 29 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 28 (26.17%) Finance
3 26 (24.30%) Public Sector
4 22 (20.56%) Law
5 16 (14.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (10.28%) Marketing
7 9 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (8.41%) Legal
8 5 (4.67%) Banking
9 4 (3.74%) Advertising
9 4 (3.74%) Local Government
9 4 (3.74%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.87%) Aviation
11 2 (1.87%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (1.87%) Front Office
11 2 (1.87%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.87%) Retail
12 1 (0.93%) Electronics
12 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (24.30%) Developer
2 25 (23.36%) Java Developer
3 23 (21.50%) Support Engineer
4 19 (17.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (16.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 15 (14.02%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 15 (14.02%) Senior
6 15 (14.02%) Software Engineer
7 12 (11.21%) Lead
8 11 (10.28%) Applications Support
8 11 (10.28%) Linux Engineer
8 11 (10.28%) Linux Support
8 11 (10.28%) Linux Support Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Database Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Administrator
11 6 (5.61%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Site Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (39.25%) REST
2 28 (26.17%) JSON
2 28 (26.17%) Spring
2 28 (26.17%) Spring Boot
2 28 (26.17%) XML
3 27 (25.23%) Web Services
4 26 (24.30%) HTML
5 24 (22.43%) Hibernate
6 23 (21.50%) ActiveMQ
6 23 (21.50%) Apache Camel
6 23 (21.50%) jQuery
6 23 (21.50%) WireMock
7 9 (8.41%) SOAP
8 8 (7.48%) OAuth
8 8 (7.48%) OpenID
8 8 (7.48%) React
9 7 (6.54%) RESTful
10 5 (4.67%) Middleware
11 4 (3.74%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (3.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.50%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (11.21%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (7.48%) Algorithms
3 8 (7.48%) Data Structures
3 8 (7.48%) Private Cloud
3 8 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.48%) Public Cloud
4 7 (6.54%) Replication
5 5 (4.67%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.74%) Derivative
6 4 (3.74%) Equities
6 4 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.87%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.87%) Tandem
8 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (48.60%) Linux
2 35 (32.71%) Unix
3 13 (12.15%) Windows
4 8 (7.48%) Mac OS
4 8 (7.48%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.74%) CentOS
6 4 (3.74%) Solaris
6 4 (3.74%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.80%) AIX
8 2 (1.87%) Rocky
8 2 (1.87%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (1.87%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.93%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (53.27%) Agile
2 47 (43.93%) CI/CD
3 36 (33.64%) TDD
4 33 (30.84%) SDLC
5 30 (28.04%) Microservices
5 30 (28.04%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (27.10%) Workflow
7 23 (21.50%) BDD
8 21 (19.63%) DevOps
8 21 (19.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (19.63%) Process Management
9 20 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (18.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (17.76%) Software Engineering
10 19 (17.76%) Test Automation
11 17 (15.89%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (14.02%) Problem Management
13 13 (12.15%) Configuration Management
13 13 (12.15%) Containerisation
13 13 (12.15%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 62 (57.94%) Python
2 46 (42.99%) Java
3 32 (29.91%) SQL
4 30 (28.04%) JavaScript
5 20 (18.69%) Bash
6 14 (13.08%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.41%) Go
7 9 (8.41%) TypeScript
8 8 (7.48%) PL/SQL
9 7 (6.54%) C#
10 4 (3.74%) VB
11 3 (2.80%) Perl
12 2 (1.87%) Korn
13 1 (0.93%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.93%) C
13 1 (0.93%) C++
13 1 (0.93%) C-shell
13 1 (0.93%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (21.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.21%) Degree
3 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.67%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) OCA
7 1 (0.93%) OCP
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.61%) QA
2 5 (4.67%) GDPR
3 2 (1.87%) SLA
4 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 57 (53.27%) Docker
2 6 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.87%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.87%) KVM
4 2 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.87%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.87%) vSphere
5 1 (0.93%) Corosync
5 1 (0.93%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 50 (46.73%) Kubernetes
2 30 (28.04%) Ansible
3 25 (23.36%) Kibana
4 17 (15.89%) Grafana
5 15 (14.02%) Terraform
6 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (9.35%) Prometheus
7 9 (8.41%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.80%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (2.80%) Nagios
9 2 (1.87%) Argo
9 2 (1.87%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.87%) logstash
9 2 (1.87%) Plesk
9 2 (1.87%) Puppet
9 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.87%) SCCM
9 2 (1.87%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.93%) Podman
10 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (30.84%) Dynatrace
2 32 (29.91%) Splunk
3 26 (24.30%) Oracle
4 13 (12.15%) SAP
5 12 (11.21%) Google
5 12 (11.21%) Microsoft
6 9 (8.41%) VMware
7 8 (7.48%) Apple
8 7 (6.54%) IBM
8 7 (6.54%) Red Hat
9 6 (5.61%) Dell
9 6 (5.61%) Software AG
10 5 (4.67%) Epicor
10 5 (4.67%) Infor
10 5 (4.67%) Informatica
10 5 (4.67%) Jitterbit
10 5 (4.67%) MuleSoft
10 5 (4.67%) SnapLogic
10 5 (4.67%) Talend
10 5 (4.67%) TIBCO