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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 536 591
Rank change year-on-year -76 +55 -64
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 61 102 235
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.075% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.43% 0.80% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 40 60 172
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £48,438 £40,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £74,688 £71,563 £85,625
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,750 £96,125
UK median annual salary £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.08% - -

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 14,130 12,688 27,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.39% 32.62% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9,913 9,165 22,439
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,850 £35,225
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,683 £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 £112,500 £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 6 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 6 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 -62 26 £75,000 +13.21% 24
South East -39 19 £60,000 -4.00% 15
North of England -54 9 £42,500 -4.49% 9
North West -31 4 £46,250 +3.93% 4
Yorkshire -48 3 £42,500 - 4
West Midlands -32 2 - - 2
Midlands -48 2 - - 4
South West -49 2 - -
North East - 2 £42,500 - 1
East of England -13 1 £70,000 +3.70% 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 1 (1.64%) Apache
1 1 (1.64%) Confluence
1 1 (1.64%) nginx
1 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) SPSS
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.64%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.23%) AWS
2 11 (18.03%) Azure
3 8 (13.11%) GCP
3 8 (13.11%) Serverless
4 7 (11.48%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (6.56%) GitHub
7 3 (4.92%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.28%) Algolia
8 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.28%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (3.28%) Firebase
8 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.28%) SaaS
8 2 (3.28%) Sentry
8 2 (3.28%) Stripe
9 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (21.31%) Firewall
2 7 (11.48%) DNS
3 4 (6.56%) SpaceWire
4 3 (4.92%) Network Security
4 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.64%) DHCP
5 1 (1.64%) LAN
5 1 (1.64%) NAS
5 1 (1.64%) SAN
5 1 (1.64%) SSL
5 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.03%) SQL Server
2 10 (16.39%) MySQL
3 7 (11.48%) Oracle Database
3 7 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (9.84%) Relational Database
5 5 (8.20%) RDBMS
6 4 (6.56%) KDB
7 3 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.92%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (4.92%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (4.92%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (3.28%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.64%) Power BI
9 1 (1.64%) SAP HANA
9 1 (1.64%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (1.64%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 16 (26.23%) Git
2 10 (16.39%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.20%) JMeter
4 4 (6.56%) GitLab
4 4 (6.56%) JIRA
4 4 (6.56%) JUnit
4 4 (6.56%) Mockito
5 3 (4.92%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.28%) Storybook
7 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.64%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.64%) Selenium
7 1 (1.64%) Subversion
7 1 (1.64%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.48%) Finance
2 7 (11.48%) Law
3 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.56%) Front Office
5 3 (4.92%) Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.28%) German Language
7 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Electronics
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (19.67%) DBA
2 11 (18.03%) Administrator
3 8 (13.11%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Support Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Developer
4 7 (11.48%) Senior
4 7 (11.48%) SQL DBA
5 5 (8.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (6.56%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (4.92%) Automation Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Database Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Linux Support
7 3 (4.92%) Linux Support Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (4.92%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Senior DBA
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 3 (4.92%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) JSON
2 8 (13.11%) XML
3 7 (11.48%) REST
4 6 (9.84%) HTML
5 5 (8.20%) Spring
6 4 (6.56%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (6.56%) Apache Camel
6 4 (6.56%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (6.56%) Hibernate
6 4 (6.56%) jQuery
6 4 (6.56%) JSON Schema
6 4 (6.56%) LDAP
6 4 (6.56%) Qt
6 4 (6.56%) Regular Expression
6 4 (6.56%) Spring Boot
6 4 (6.56%) Web Services
6 4 (6.56%) WireMock
7 3 (4.92%) 802.1X
7 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.28%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Replication
2 6 (9.84%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (9.84%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.56%) Fixed Income
4 4 (6.56%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.92%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.28%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.28%) Video on Demand
6 2 (3.28%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.64%) Clustering
7 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.64%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 44 (72.13%) Linux
2 11 (18.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (18.03%) Unix
3 8 (13.11%) CentOS
4 6 (9.84%) Ubuntu
5 5 (8.20%) Windows
5 5 (8.20%) Windows Server
6 4 (6.56%) VxWorks
7 3 (4.92%) AIX
7 3 (4.92%) Apple iOS
7 3 (4.92%) Mac OS
7 3 (4.92%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (3.28%) Debian
9 1 (1.64%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) CI/CD
2 17 (27.87%) High Availability
2 17 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (19.67%) SDLC
5 11 (18.03%) Agile
5 11 (18.03%) DevOps
6 10 (16.39%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (14.75%) ITIL
7 9 (14.75%) Microservices
7 9 (14.75%) Runbook
7 9 (14.75%) Test Automation
8 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (13.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (11.48%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (11.48%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (11.48%) Incident Response
9 7 (11.48%) Migration
9 7 (11.48%) Security Hardening
9 7 (11.48%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (47.54%) Python
2 20 (32.79%) Bash
3 17 (27.87%) SQL
4 8 (13.11%) Java
4 8 (13.11%) Korn
5 7 (11.48%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.48%) PL/SQL
6 6 (9.84%) C++
6 6 (9.84%) Perl
7 4 (6.56%) C
8 2 (3.28%) Groovy
8 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.28%) Rust
8 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.75%) DV Cleared
3 7 (11.48%) Degree
4 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.92%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (3.28%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.64%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.64%) RHCE
7 1 (1.64%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) ECSS
1 4 (6.56%) QA
2 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (27.87%) Docker
2 7 (11.48%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.56%) vSphere
4 3 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.28%) KVM
6 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.64%) Xen
Systems Management
1 15 (24.59%) Kubernetes
2 12 (19.67%) Ansible
3 8 (13.11%) Terraform
4 6 (9.84%) Nagios
4 6 (9.84%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (8.20%) Data Guard
5 5 (8.20%) Puppet
6 4 (6.56%) Kibana
6 4 (6.56%) Prometheus
7 3 (4.92%) Grafana
7 3 (4.92%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.28%) Oracle Flashback
8 2 (3.28%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.64%) Argo
9 1 (1.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (1.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Oracle
2 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) Splunk
2 7 (11.48%) VMware
3 5 (8.20%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.56%) Dynatrace
5 3 (4.92%) Apple
5 3 (4.92%) IBM
6 2 (3.28%) Google
6 2 (3.28%) SendGrid
7 1 (1.64%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.64%) Delphix
7 1 (1.64%) Intel
7 1 (1.64%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.64%) Pure Storage
7 1 (1.64%) SAP
7 1 (1.64%) Sybase