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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 506 544
Rank change year-on-year -107 +38 -85
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 148 127 191
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.88% 1.09% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 89 64 106
10th Percentile - - £43,911
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -22.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £97,625 £107,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -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 16,875 11,646 20,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.48% 27.22% 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,292 7,680 13,223
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%
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 22 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 22 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 -26 50 £42,500 -4.49% 24
London -116 40 £75,000 +7.14% 68
South East -43 28 £65,000 +23.81% 18
North West -23 23 £42,500 -4.49% 14
Yorkshire - 14 £42,500 - 7
North East - 13 £42,500 - 3
Midlands -45 11 £61,500 +6.49% 21
East of England -30 9 £51,359 +31.69% 5
South West -74 8 £66,250 -30.26% 12
East Midlands -26 6 £61,500 +6.49% 4
West Midlands -51 5 - - 17
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 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.70%) Apache
3 3 (2.03%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.35%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.68%) JBoss
5 1 (0.68%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.35%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (7.43%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (3.38%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (37.84%) AWS
2 43 (29.05%) Azure
3 36 (24.32%) GCP
4 23 (15.54%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (11.49%) Serverless
6 13 (8.78%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (6.76%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.73%) GitHub
9 7 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.05%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.38%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.03%) SaaS
13 2 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 2 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (1.35%) Google Workspace
13 2 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.54%) Internet
2 14 (9.46%) Firewall
3 13 (8.78%) DNS
4 6 (4.05%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.70%) 5G
5 4 (2.70%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (2.03%) 4G
6 3 (2.03%) DHCP
6 3 (2.03%) HTTP
6 3 (2.03%) SSH
7 2 (1.35%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.35%) MQTT
7 2 (1.35%) Network Security
7 2 (1.35%) SSL
7 2 (1.35%) X.509
8 1 (0.68%) FTP
8 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.68%) VPN
8 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (28.38%) SQL Server
2 37 (25.00%) MySQL
3 16 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (10.14%) Oracle Database
5 14 (9.46%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.73%) RDBMS
7 6 (4.05%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.38%) KDB
9 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.03%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.03%) Redis
10 2 (1.35%) Big Data
10 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.35%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (1.35%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (1.35%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.68%) Db2
11 1 (0.68%) OLTP
11 1 (0.68%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 36 (24.32%) Git
2 20 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.76%) GitLab
4 8 (5.41%) JMeter
4 8 (5.41%) JUnit
4 8 (5.41%) Mockito
5 4 (2.70%) JIRA
5 4 (2.70%) Selenium
6 2 (1.35%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.35%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (1.35%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.68%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.68%) LSMW
7 1 (0.68%) Maven
General
1 40 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.62%) Finance
3 31 (20.95%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (20.27%) Law
5 12 (8.11%) Banking
5 12 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.73%) Front Office
6 7 (4.73%) Legal
7 5 (3.38%) Retail
8 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.35%) Automotive
11 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.68%) Avionics
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Electronics
11 1 (0.68%) German Language
11 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (20.27%) Senior
2 28 (18.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (18.24%) DBA
4 23 (15.54%) Trainee
5 20 (13.51%) Administrator
5 20 (13.51%) Database Engineer
6 12 (8.11%) Developer
6 12 (8.11%) IT Support
6 12 (8.11%) SQL DBA
7 11 (7.43%) Linux Engineer
7 11 (7.43%) Oracle DBA
7 11 (7.43%) Senior DBA
8 10 (6.76%) Senior Oracle DBA
9 8 (5.41%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Applications Support
10 6 (4.05%) Support Assistant
11 5 (3.38%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.38%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.38%) Support Team Leader
11 5 (3.38%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.19%) Terraform
2 12 (8.11%) HTML
2 12 (8.11%) JSON
2 12 (8.11%) REST
3 10 (6.76%) XML
4 9 (6.08%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (6.08%) Spring
5 8 (5.41%) Apache Camel
5 8 (5.41%) Hibernate
5 8 (5.41%) jQuery
5 8 (5.41%) Spring Boot
5 8 (5.41%) WireMock
6 7 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (4.73%) RESTful
6 7 (4.73%) Web Services
7 6 (4.05%) Kafka
8 5 (3.38%) FastAPI
8 5 (3.38%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (3.38%) FreeMarker
8 5 (3.38%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (21.62%) Replication
2 31 (20.95%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.08%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.05%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.38%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.38%) PKI
7 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.35%) CUDA
8 2 (1.35%) Derivative
8 2 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.35%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.68%) Molecular Biology
9 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 118 (79.73%) Linux
2 29 (19.59%) Unix
3 19 (12.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (10.81%) Windows
5 12 (8.11%) AIX
6 10 (6.76%) Oracle Linux
7 6 (4.05%) CentOS
8 5 (3.38%) Windows Server
9 4 (2.70%) Mac OS
9 4 (2.70%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.03%) Debian
10 3 (2.03%) Solaris
11 2 (1.35%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.35%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (1.35%) OpenWrt
11 2 (1.35%) Rocky
11 2 (1.35%) tvOS
12 1 (0.68%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (37.16%) CI/CD
2 49 (33.11%) High Availability
3 48 (32.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 47 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (30.41%) DevOps
6 43 (29.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (24.32%) Configuration Management
8 35 (23.65%) Containerisation
9 34 (22.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 31 (20.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 30 (20.27%) Platform Engineering
11 30 (20.27%) SDLC
12 29 (19.59%) Continuous Integration
12 29 (19.59%) Mentoring
13 28 (18.92%) Cloud Security
14 27 (18.24%) DevSecOps
15 26 (17.57%) Continuous Delivery
16 25 (16.89%) Analytical Thinking
16 25 (16.89%) Incident Management
16 25 (16.89%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 67 (45.27%) SQL
2 56 (37.84%) Python
3 34 (22.97%) Bash
4 22 (14.86%) Java
5 19 (12.84%) JavaScript
6 14 (9.46%) Korn
7 12 (8.11%) PL/SQL
8 8 (5.41%) C
9 6 (4.05%) Rust
10 5 (3.38%) C++
10 5 (3.38%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.03%) Fortran
11 3 (2.03%) Perl
12 2 (1.35%) Go
12 2 (1.35%) Groovy
12 2 (1.35%) Scala
13 1 (0.68%) C#
13 1 (0.68%) COBOL
13 1 (0.68%) PHP
13 1 (0.68%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 23 (15.54%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.78%) Degree
3 9 (6.08%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.38%) HNC
5 5 (3.38%) HND
6 3 (2.03%) RHCE
6 3 (2.03%) RHCSA
7 2 (1.35%) IBM AIX Certification
7 2 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.05%) QA
2 3 (2.03%) GDPR
3 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) DO-254
4 1 (0.68%) JTAG
System Software
1 55 (37.16%) Docker
2 12 (8.11%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (4.05%) vSphere
4 5 (3.38%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.68%) Ceph
7 1 (0.68%) Firmware
7 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.68%) KVM
7 1 (0.68%) Lustre
7 1 (0.68%) NFS
7 1 (0.68%) QEMU
7 1 (0.68%) Samba
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (14.19%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.84%) Ansible
3 12 (8.11%) Data Guard
3 12 (8.11%) Oracle RMAN
4 10 (6.76%) Nagios
5 9 (6.08%) Puppet
6 8 (5.41%) Kibana
6 8 (5.41%) Prometheus
7 7 (4.73%) Grafana
8 4 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (2.70%) Podman
9 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.35%) Oracle Flashback
9 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.68%) Control-M
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 37 (25.00%) Oracle
2 33 (22.30%) Microsoft
3 27 (18.24%) Google
4 12 (8.11%) IBM
5 11 (7.43%) Splunk
6 10 (6.76%) Red Hat
7 8 (5.41%) Dynatrace
8 7 (4.73%) VMware
9 5 (3.38%) Apple
10 3 (2.03%) McAfee
10 3 (2.03%) Sybase
11 2 (1.35%) Adobe
11 2 (1.35%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.35%) Cisco
11 2 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.35%) Juniper
11 2 (1.35%) New Relic
11 2 (1.35%) Okta
11 2 (1.35%) SAP
11 2 (1.35%) SonicWALL